The Edward Worth Library 2014
Seminar Series.
Unless otherwise stated, seminars take place in the
Worth Library at 3.00pm.
Friday 28 February 2014: Dr Hannah Murphy (Oriel College, Oxford) ‘Worth Collecting?’ Strategies of acquisition, connoisseurship and the importance of medical libraries in early modern Ireland.
Tuesday 8 April 2014: Dr Charles Nelson (Honorary editor of Archives of Natural History): ‘Botany and Horticulture in Dr Worth’s Ireland.’ Booking is advisable for this lecture.
Thursday 1 May 2014: Dr Maria Cruz de Carlos (Museo Nacional del Prado. Dept. of Prints and Drawings ): ‘Giving birth at the Spanish Habsburg Court, 1570-1644’. Note: This joint lecture between the Worth Library and the Department of History, TCD, will take place in the Neill-Hoey Theatre of the Long Room Hub, TCD at 5.00pm.
Tuesday 27 May 2014: Dr Alun Withey: Medicine, Charity and the Infirmary in Eighteenth-Century Britain?
Friday 20 June: Professor Ole Peter Grell (Open University): ‘Medical Travel and Medical Education in early modern Europe.’ This is the Grizelda Steevens’ Annual Memorial Lecture in Medical History. Booking is essential for this lecture. This lecture is now fully booked.