ShBemss
This is an international seminar series, drawing speakers and participants from across the UK, Europe, North America, Australasia – and the network continues to grow! The series is administered by Professor Lisa Hopkins (Shefffield Hallam) and Professor Andrew Hiscock (Bangor) and typically offers a seminar event each month on a Tuesday at 5pm (GMT) during the academic year. We warmly welcome new members.
This series offers a positive environment to researchers at all levels in their careers for the presentation of their unpublished work. Research papers range over literary, historical and cultural topics for the period 1500-1800 and the coordinators are always willing to receive suggestions for future presentations.
SHBEMSS – Online Seminar Series
2025/26 Season – sessions beginning at 5pm (UK time) unless otherwise indicated
- Tuesday 14 October 2025 – Iman Sheeha (Brunel): ‘‘“Base Phrygian Turk!”: Falstaff as a Racialised Figure in The Merry Wives of Windsor’
- Tuesday 11 November 2025 - Edel Semple (UC Cork): 'Instructing the gentleman readers of Gervase Markham's The Famous Whore (1609)'
- Tuesday 16 December 2025 -Marion Wynne-Davies (Surrey): 'Early Modern Women Writers in London: Mary Wroth and the Thames'
- Tuesday 13 January 2026 - Tristan Burke (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich): TBA
- Tuesday 17 February 2026 - Michael Ullyot (Calgary): 'Awake Your Faith: How Shakespearean Filmed Theatre Saves What Cinema Destroys'
- Tuesday 10 March 2026 - Rory Loughnane (Kent): 'Shakespeare at Thirty'
- Tuesday 14 April 2026 - Silvia Bigliazzi (Verona): 'Shakespeare and the Politics of Roman Factionalism'
- Tuesday 12 May 2026 - Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne): TBA
- Tuesday 16 June 2026 - Imke Lichterfeld (Bonn): TBA
Previous SHBEMSS Seminar Series
- Oct 15 - Matthew Steggle (Bristol): 'The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A possible Shakespeare life-record'
- Nov 12 - Matthew Woodcock (Leeds): 'Robert Barret's The Sacred Warr (c.1610): Translating the Crusades into Early Modern Europe'
- Dec 10 - Tamsin Badcoe (Bristol): 'Inexorable as Seas/ Toth' prayers of Mariners': Maritime Devotion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture’
- Jan 14 - Fred Schurink (Manchester) ‘‘From Cleopatra to Quoniambec: Jacques Amyot’s Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romains and New Lives, 1559-1676’
- Feb 11 - Clare McManus (Northumbria) 'Editorial and embodied suspensions in Fletcher and Shakespeare's Two Noble Kinsmen'
- Mar 11 - Daniel Cook (Dundee) ‘Gulliver’s Further Travels’
- Apr 15 - Iman Sheeha (Brunel): ‘‘“Base Phrygian Turk!”: Falstaff as a Racialised Figure in The Merry Wives of Windsor’
- May 20 - John Drakakis (Stirling) ‘Oral Shakespeare’
24th October 2023: Adam Hansen (Northumbria) - 'Vision and Vengeance in The Changeling'
14th November 2023: Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin)/Duncan Salkeld (Chichester) - ‘Arden of Feversham: Round Table’
12th December 2023 (6pm UK time): Amy Saunders (Winchester) - ‘'Reconstructing early modern royal motherhood in heritage sites'
16th January 2024: Rama Friedlander (Sheffield) - 'Shakespeare's Histories and Holinshed's Latin Quotations'
13th February 2024: Marie-Claire Phélippeau (Pres. Amici Thomae Mori) - ‘Thomas More’
19th March 2024: Tom Corns (Bangor) - ‘Milton and Disability’
9th April 2024: Pierre Kapitaniak (Montpellier 3) - ‘Early Modern Ghosts’
14th May 2024: Tristan Burke (Bangor) - ‘Godwin’s St. Leon’
11th June 2024: Eoin Price (Swansea) - ‘The Deep Time of the Early Modern Repertory'
18th October 2022: Elaine Hobby (Loughborough): ‘News from The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn’
15th November 2022: Maddalena Repetto: ‘Not “discontented” after all: early evidence of Thomas May’s literary and political philosophy’.
13th December 2022: Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Montpellier 3): ‘Presentation of The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's World
17th January 2023: Declan Kavanagh (Kent): 'Reading as a Protective Practice: Venereal Disease, Medical Knowledge and Tobias Smollett'.
14th March 2023: Catherine Evans (Manchester): ‘Opening the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons’’
18th April 2023:Bill Engel (Sewanee), Grant Williams (Carleton), Rory Loughnane (Kent): ‘New Directions in the Renaissance Death Arts’
16th May 2023: John Gillies (Essex): ‘Holy Conversation in Shakespeare’
30th June 2023 at 3pm (UK time): Victoria Bladen (Queensland): ‘The Tree of Life in Early Modern English Literature’
11th July 2023: Janice Valls-Russell (Montpellier 3), Chloe Renwick (Northumbria): ‘Thomas Heywood’
October 12th: Anna Groundwater (National Museum of Scotland) ‘Materialising Mary Queen of Scots’
November 16th: Helen Wilcox (Bangor) ‘Metaphysical Harmonies: reading seventeenth-century English lyric poetry through music’
December 14th: Domenico Lovascio (Genoa) ‘Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One: Dating, First Performance and Classical Sources’
January 25th: Andrew Power (Sharjah) 'Love Notes, Hidden Sonnets, and Lost Sonnets in Early Modern Love Tragedy'. Unusually, for the series, this talk will begin at 5pm (UK time)
February 15th: Cora James (Sheffield) 'Elizabeth Currer as the Widow Ranter: Female transgression in the New World'
March 15th: Louise Marshall (Aberystwyth) ‘What can eighteenth-century theatre tell us about Culture Wars? - Elizabeth Griffith, The Times (1779)’
Rose Hilton (Sheffield Hallam): “A Nabob in the Wrong? Examining Elizabeth Griffith’s Presentation of National Identity in A Wife in the Right (1772)”
April 26th: Liam Semler (Sydney) - round table on Coriolanus
May 10th: Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores) ‘Knowledge, Doubt and The Man in the Moon’
June 7th: Bronwen Price (Ind. Scholar) ‘Mary Chudleigh’
17 November 2020
Daniel Yabut (Montpellier 3) ‘Early modern actors’ manuscript parts: what relevance might they have for actors, teachers and editors of early modern drama’
15 December 2020
Helen Newsome (Sheffield) and Jade Scott (Glasgow) ‘“for goddes sake kepe my writing secrete for it is my destruction”: Secret letters of the queens of Scots’.
19 January 2021
Michael Durrant (Bangor) ‘Old Books, New Beginnings: Recovering Lost Pages in Bangor's Early Modern Printed Books’
16 February 2021
David McInnis and other contributors to the Arden Early Modern Drama Guide to Tamburlaine, ‘New Perspectives on Tamburlaine’
16 March 2021
William E. Engel (Sewanee) ‘Emblems and Early Modern Visuality’
13 April 2021
Mary Peace (Sheffield Hallam), ‘“For a sofa is more dangerous than a bed”: Luxury, Britain and the Age of Discomfort’
18 May 2021
Vicki Kay (Bangor) ‘''This I make my teʃtmt': issues of trust in Lady Katherine Barnardiston's last will and testament'
If you are interested in joining the network or sharing your research, then please contact us on: shbemss@bangor.ac.uk
We look forward to hearing from you!
Lisa and Andrew.