Programme: Book Launch and Symposium
Book Launch and Symposium on “Popular Print, Politics and Communication in Early Modern Europe”
University of St Andrews, 6 December 2024.
Old Class Library, 10:15-18:00.
10:15-11:00 Welcome and Coffee
11:00-12:30 Panel 1
Nina Lamal, ‘Chronicling the news in Ducal Modena (1597-1636)’
Barnaby Cullen, ‘“We wish and weep, weep and wish… as we are obliged and willing to do”: The Reporting of Swedish Political News in the Stralsundischer Relations Courier during the Swedish Great Power Era’
Basil Bowdler, ‘The Battle of Beachy Head (1690): News Management and Diplomacy in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere’
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:45 Panel 2
Laura Incollingo, ‘How (not) to survive a plague. Popular print and government communication during an epidemic’
Chloe Akers, ‘The Speaker and the Summoner: Announcing Death in Early Modern Europe’
14:45-15:15 Coffee and Tea Break
15:15-16:45 Panel 3
Maria Gloria Tumminelli, ‘Legislation Against Gypsies in the Spanish Empire During the Early Modern Period: A Comparative Study of Castile, Duchy of Milan, and Kingdom of Naples’
Sara Barker, ‘Why translate a pamphlet? Insights from early modern England and France’
Christophe Gillain, ‘“A machine trained to carry trouble & revolt”: Printed propaganda and the spectacle of the religious Fronde, 1654-1662’
16:45-18:00 Book Launch
Laura Incollingo, Political Engagement and Popular Print in Spanish Naples (1503-1707) (Leiden: Brill, 2024), followed by a reception