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WEMP | postgrad workshop supported by the Faculty of History, Cambridge | forum for research on every aspect of early modern history

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We hope you are all having a wonderful start to the holiday season! It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces in Michaelmas, as well as meet so many new students - In case you can't et enough WEMP in your life, we are thrilled to announce our Call for Papers for our Lent Workshops, themed on 'Exchanging Knowledge'! The Workshop for the Early Modern Period (WEMP) invites submissions for papers to be presented during Lent Term (February-March 2025). The theme of this term is Exchanging Knowledge, c. 1450-1800. All current graduate students at the University of Cambridge and any other institutions are encouraged to apply. Possible topics may include but are not restricted to: Methods and sources of knowledge exchange Transnational vs. local knowledge Microhistorical knowledge Knowledge in trade and commerce People, knowledge, and writing Goods and ideas Authority and censorship Boundaries and borders The workshop provides a forum for graduate students (MPhil/MA and PhD) to present their research on any aspect of early modern history in a friendly and welcoming environment. WEMP aims to provide a platform to present new ideas, receive feedback on your work-in-progress, and gain experience presenting in front of an audience of fellow early modernists. The format consists of two twenty-minute papers followed by a joint Q&A, refreshments, and the opportunity to mingle and socialise. In Lent Term 2024, WEMP will be running fortnightly on Mondays at 5 pm (UK time). The workshop will also run in a hybrid format. Non-Cambridge-based speakers and members of the audience will be welcome to join us on Zoom. If you do not want to miss any updates, do not forget to subscribe to our mailing list: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-early-modern-period-wemp. If you are interested in presenting your work, please send a provisional title, an abstract (300 words max.), and a short bio to the convenors at camwemp2024@gmail.com by 13 January 2025.
A beige poster with the following details in a speech bubble: The Workshop for the Early Modern Period (WEMP) invites submissions for papers to be presented during Lent Term (February-March 2025). The theme of this term is Exchanging Knowledge, c. 1450-1800. All current graduate students at the University of Cambridge and any other institutions are encouraged to apply. Possible topics may include but are not restricted to:   Methods and sources of knowledge exchange  Transnational vs. local knowledge Microhistorical knowledge Knowledge in trade and commerce People, knowledge, and writing Goods and ideas  Authority and censorship Boundaries and borders The workshop provides a forum for graduate students (MPhil/MA and PhD) to present their research on any aspect of early modern history in a friendly and welcoming environment. WEMP aims to provide a platform to present new ideas, receive feedback on your work-in-progress, and gain experience presenting in front of an audience of fellow early modernists. The format consists of two twenty-minute papers followed by a joint Q&A, refreshments, and the opportunity to mingle and socialise.  In Michaelmas Term 2024, WEMP will be running fortnightly on Mondays at 5 pm (UK time). The workshop will also run in a hybrid format. Non-Cambridge-based speakers and members of the audience will be welcome to join us on Zoom.  If you do not want to miss any updates, do not forget to subscribe to our mailing list: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-early-modern-period-wemp. If you are interested in presenting your work, please send a provisional title, an abstract (300 words max.), and a short bio to the convenors at camwemp2024@gmail.com by 6 January 2025
A poster for the next session of the Early Modern Workshop, occurring at 5pm in Trinity College, Cambridge on the 25 November It features the following speakers Lola Stakenburg (Cambridge): “Masculine Identities in Narratives of Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in London, 1690–1800" Caitlin Starkey (University of Liverpool): “Constructing Identity in Early Modern English Witch Trial Executions” Jessica Becker (University of Kent): “Your Loving Father’: Charles I’s Masculine Domestic Identity and the Cult of St Joseph”
WEMP Session 13 May (5-6:30pm), Gender and Space, the Teams link will be circulated through the mailing list only.
Call for the 2024-25 convenors of the Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period. Expressions of interest (350 words max.) can be sent via email by: 3 June.
Easter Term 2024 Programme of the Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period
Call for Papers for the Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period. Please send abstracts (300 words) by 15 April 2024.
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