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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.

Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar: Exile Cambridge University

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

    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.

    • 1 hr 42 min
    Roundtable: Exile in/and the Ottoman Empire

    Roundtable: Exile in/and the Ottoman Empire

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

    • 1 hr 55 min
    Nil Palabiyik: Byzantine Exiles and Venetian Printers

    Nil Palabiyik: Byzantine Exiles and Venetian Printers

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

    • 38 min
    Penny Roberts: Adversity and Opportunity in the Huguenot Exile Experience

    Penny Roberts: Adversity and Opportunity in the Huguenot Exile Experience

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

    • 51 min
    Marc Saperstein: Aspects of Jewish Exile

    Marc Saperstein: Aspects of Jewish Exile

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

    • 1 hr 53 min

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