Spatial History Workshop | Spaces and Identity
Image credit: Joseph M. W. Turner, “Christ Church College, Oxford” (1832–1833), Ashmolean Museum https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/item/ash-object-90695
Friday 22 May 2025, 9.30am - 5pm
Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
All welcome
Keynote Lecture: Professor Beat Kümin (University of Warwick) | ‘Social Sites: Reflections on Early Modern Approaches’
The Spatial Methodologies Working Group's 'Spatial History Workshop: Spaces and Identity’ brings together postgraduate presenters who employ spatial approaches in their historical research across regions and time periods. We seek to create an informal and supportive environment where presenters can share their research, receive feedback, and engage in conversation with leading scholars in the field. The workshop will feature a keynote lecture by leading early modernist Professor Beat Kümin (Warwick) provisionally titled ‘Social Sites: Reflections on Early Modern Approaches’. We will also provide complementary catering. Please contact spatialmethodologies@torch.ox.ac.uk with any questions. We will be accepting abstract submissions until 15 March. Call for papers details can be found here.
Professor Beat Kümin (Department of History, University of Warwick) is an early modernist whose research has played a leading role in introducing the Spatial Turn to the historical discipline. Publications include 'At home and in the workplace: A historical introduction to the spatial turn', in: History & Theory 52 (2013, co-authored with Cornelie Usborne); 'Sacred church and worldly tavern: Reassessing an early modern divide', in Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (ed. Will Coster & Andrew Spicer, 2005); the monograph Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (2007); edited collection Political Space in Pre-Industrial Europe (2009) and textbook The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History (4th ed., 2023). He currently researches tower capsule deposits in the German lands and coordinates the Warwick Network for Parish Research with its online platform My-Parish.
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