Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

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The Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar at Cambridge is a fortnightly seminar which has been running for decades. This year's theme is exile, building upon the current interest in the transformative and dynamic nature of dislocation, dispersion, and mobility.

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    • Feb 20, 2016 LATEST EPISODE
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    Elizabeth Evenden: Printers, exiles, and exchanges between England and Iberia

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2016 54:26


    Elizabeth Evenden discusses the early modern perceptions of historical relations between Britain, Portugal, and Spain.

    Nicholas Terpstra: Exile, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees: Early Modern Migrations and the Meaning of Reformation

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2016 102:00


    Professor Terpstra calls for an alternative history of the reformation, one which put the concerns with purification, expulsion, and exclusion at its heart. This opens up new avenues and moves the starting date of the reformation from 1517 to 1492.

    Roundtable: Exile in/and the Ottoman Empire

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2016 115:00


    Three key scholars working on the Ottoman empire discuss the impact of exile in its history.

    Nil Palabiyik: Byzantine Exiles and Venetian Printers

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2015 38:02


    Nil Palabiyik brings back to light the Greek figures who were active participants in Late Humanism.

    Penny Roberts: Adversity and Opportunity in the Huguenot Exile Experience

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2015 51:20


    What do the French Wars of Religion look like when we add the perspective of exile, both external and internal.

    Marc Saperstein: Aspects of Jewish Exile

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015 113:00


    Marc Saperstein discusses the complexities of Jewish exile through the medium of poems.

    Peter Burke: At the Crossroads: histories of exile, histories of knowledge

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2015 100:00


    Discussion of recent thinking about the history of exile, and prospect of future publications on the impact of exile on the creation of knowledge.

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