For Melb folks attending, a room change:
Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building

Text of poster reads: The Early Modern Circle is an interdisciplinary seminar open to students, academics and researchers. The Circle meets on the third Wednesday of the month during semester at 6.15pm. The meetings will be in person at a location to be confirmed at a later date. Wednesday 15 April: Two PhD Candidates Showcase their Research Projects Jenny Smith (Monash University): Seeing the future in 1590s English popular print: mirrors in conjuring and mirrors of conscience Isabelle Moss (University of Melbourne): Witchcraft Belief in Fifteenth-Century Zurich: Intersections Between Learned and Popular Demonologies Wednesday 20 May: Dr Claudio Passera (Sapienza University of Rome) From the Republic to the Streets of Celebration: Florentine Stagecraft Masters and their Conquest of Fifteenth-Century Italian Courts Wednesday 19 August: Professor Dolly Mackinnon (University of Queensland) Material Culture, Scottish Eighteenth-century Music, and its Transmission by both Enslaved and Free people Wednesday 16 September: Dr Volodymyr Mezentsev (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies ) History and Culture of Baturyn, the Capital of the Cossack State in Early Modern Ukraine Wednesday 21 October: Dr Jessica O’Leary (Monash University) Echoes of Women in Early Colonial Brazil

🎉The Melbourne EMC is excited to present the full list of speakers for the 2026 seminar series 🎉

All Melbourne staff/students welcome!

See schedule here
or DM for details ⬇️

Presenter 1:Jenny Smith Seeing the future in 1590s English popular print: mirrors in conjuring and mirrors of conscience The future was hard to see in 1590s England, clouded by an imminent succession crisis, religious war, and widespread famine, and subject to the intervention of providence. Speculation and prognostication were outlawed, and ‘conjuring’ including scrying was also condemned on theological grounds, by Puritan preachers and popular playwrights alike. But mirrors retained authority as way to engage with the future in popular texts. News from Europe was reported as a mirror of what might happen at home. Jenny Smith is a PhD student at Monash University, writing a history of the mirror as a metaphor in sixteenth-century England. Presenter 2: Isabelle Moss Witchcraft Belief in Fifteenth-Century Zurich: Intersections Between Learned and Popular Demonologies This paper explores the richness and plurality of fifteenth-century witchcraft belief in the early modern city of Zurich. It examines community accusations of flying wolves, magical milking, bewitching, weather magic, and yet, this paper will argue that it is the sexual activity of witches with their demonic accomplices which proves most concerning for the Council. This exploration is used to consider the ways in which both the Zurich Council and the wider community processed the emerging threat of witchcraft in the city. In doing so, it complicates existing expectations of demonological belief and the role of demonic copulation in early witchcraft prosecutions. Isabelle Moss is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines witchcraft in early modern Zurich, focused on the ways in which demonic copulation was conceptualised and its implications for trial proceedings.

We are delighted to share the first seminar in the 2026 Early Modern Circle series!

Two wonderful PhD candidates from Melbourne surrounds, Jenny Smith and Isabelle Moss, will present their research 💫

When: April 15, 6.15pm, UniMelb Campus

DM for details or see poster below ⬇️
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We hope to see you there!

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Students and researchers in Melbourne all welcome to attend!