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Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

Cambridge University

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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Marc Saperstein: Aspects of Jewish Exile

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

10/27/15 • 113 min

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

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

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

02/18/16 • 102 min

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.

Elizabeth Evenden: Printers, exiles, and exchanges between England and Iberia

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

02/20/16 • 54 min

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

Penny Roberts: Adversity and Opportunity in the Huguenot Exile Experience

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

11/12/15 • 51 min

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

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

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

10/13/15 • 100 min

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

Roundtable: Exile in/and the Ottoman Empire

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

01/20/16 • 115 min

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

Nil Palabiyik: Byzantine Exiles and Venetian Printers

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile

11/24/15 • 38 min

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

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