1. University of Liverpool UK/EU PhD studentship connected to the ‘Envisioning the IndianCity’ project. Deadline 20 May 2013.

2. CFP: International Society for the Study of Women of the Old Regime International Symposium, ‘Birth: discourses, practices and representations of childbirth
in the France of the Ancien Régime’. January 31 – February 1, 2014, Reid Hall, rue de Chevreuse, Paris.

3. CFP: Early Modern Women and the Visual Arts: Open Session. College Art Association, Chicago, February 12-15, 2014.

4. Dacre Lecture, Oxford 2013. ‘Renewing the “New” British History’, Tony Barnard. Friday 17 May at 5pm, Corpus ChristiCollege.

5. New resource: Letters of Bess of Hardwick, University of Glasgow.

6. Postdoctoral Fellowship, MPIWG/Victoria and AlbertMuseum. One postdoctoral fellowship for three months between January 1 and December 31, 2014.

7. Auditor registration open for ‘Reanimating Playbooks: Editing for Performance, Performance for Editing’ symposium. Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, Friday 10 May, from 11am-5:30pm.

8. (a) CFP: The International Sidney Society invites abstracts for 2014 RSA

to be held 27-29 March in New York City ‘Sidney Books and Sidney Letters’.

8. (b) CFP:  The International Sidney Society invites abstracts for 2014 RSA

to be held 27-29 March in New York City ‘Wrothian Networks’.

9. Call for Panels only: Early Modern Women. RSA seeks panels for sessions on any area of women’s engagement between 1400-1700. Renaissance Society of America, New York, March 27-29, 2014.

10. Two-day symposium, ‘The Lure of the ‘Other’: religious conversion and reversion in the early modern Mediterranean and beyond’. 4th-5th June 2013 at St Mary’s UniversityCollege, Twickenham, UK.

11. Conference: ‘The Hand in the Text: Renaissance Acts of Writing and Printerventions’, hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Aberdeen, Saturday 25^th May 2013 at Sir Duncan Rice Library.

12. CFP: ‘The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference: Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland’, 3-5 July 2014. Hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York.

13. Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture 2013, Professor Anna Contadini, ‘”Cose Nuove Fantastiche e Bizzarre”: Art and Trade between the Middle East and Renaissance Italy’. Friday 3May, 5.30pm, The Warburg Institute.

14. Registration open for Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Science. The Warburg Institute, Friday 28 June 2013.

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La SIEFAR a le plaisir de vous annoncer 

l’appel à communication de son prochain colloque International

Enfanter : discours, pratiques et représentations de l’accouchement dans la France d’Ancien Régime les propositions sont à envoyer avant le 30 juin 2013

 Organisation:
Société internationale pour l’étude des femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR)

En partenariat avec :
– Université Columbia à Paris
– Reid Hall- Université de Liège
– FER ULg- Université de Nantes
– L’AMO

Dates : 31 janvier – 1er février 2014

Lieu : Paris, Reid Hall, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris

Comité organisateur
· Laetitia Dion (U. Lyon 2/Siefar)
· Adeline Gargam (U. Brest/Siefar)
· Nathalie Grande (U. Nantes/Siefar)
· Marie-Elisabeth Henneau (U. Liège/Siefar)

Les propositions sont à envoyer pour le 30 juin 2013 aux quatre adresses suivantes :
· laetitiadion@free.fr
· a_gargam@yahoo.fr
· nathalie.grande@univ-nantes.fr
· mehenneau@ulg.ac.be 

Appel à communication

L’accouchement fut, pendant de nombreux siècles, un art du ressort des femmes. Du Moyen Âge jusqu’au Grand Siècle, les femmes ont exercé leur monopole sur la pratique des accouchements en ville comme à la campagne. Mais dès le XVIIe siècle, la médicalisation de la science obstétricale a opéré un bouleversement des rôles et induit, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, une inversion faisant de ce territoire gynocentré un territoire désormais androcentré. Cette histoire de la mise au monde passionne depuis plusieurs décennies des historiens, comme Mireille Laget (Naissances : l’accouchement avant l’âge de la clinique, Paris, Le Seuil, 1982) et Jacques Gélis (L’arbre et le fruit, la naissance dans l’Occident moderne, XVIe-XIXe siècles, Paris, Fayard, 1984 ; La sage-femme ou le médecin, Paris, Fayard, 1988). Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, cette question de l’accouchement a principalement été envisagée d’un point de vue historique, anthropologique et sociologique, à travers les croyances, les rites, les pratiques, le vécu, la souffrance, ainsi qu’à travers les mutations survenues dans l’Europe moderne.
L’objectif de ce colloque est de traiter la question selon une nouvelle approche en envisageant l’accouchement du point de vue du « genre ». Il s’agit de déterminer s’il a existé en France une science obstétricale féminine et masculine et d’en définir les caractéristiques sexuées à la lumière des textes et de l’iconographie, notamment en explorant dans une perspective comparatiste les pratiques, les théories et les pédagogies mis en place par les sages-femmes, par les chirurgiens accoucheurs et par les autorités religieuses. Trois axes de réflexion peuvent être envisagés :
1. L’accouchement en tant qu’acte médical (perspective scientifique)
Il s’agit de confronter et de comparer les pratiques obstétricales des sages-femmes et des chirurgiens accoucheurs, d’en explorer les caractéristiques et les spécificités, d’en observer les éventuelles similitudes et différences pour chercher à déterminer s’il existait un art obstétrical typiquement féminin. À travers cette confrontation, on tentera de mettre en lumière l’apport des femmes à l’obstétrique. Dans cette perspective, on pourra s’intéresser aux :

a. Pratiques médicales de l’accouchement (rituels et gestes obstétricaux en usage, objets et instruments, préventions chirurgicales et sanitaires…)
b. Discours médicaux, traités et manuels d’obstétrique : les techniques et les pratiques médicales, l’instrumentation et la médecine de l’accouchement (pharmacopée en usage pour les maladies puerpérales).
c. Représentations littéraires et iconographiques de l’accouchement

2. La femme enceinte et la parturiente (perspective pédagogique)
On s’intéressera à la pédagogie de l’accouchement auprès de la femme enceinte et de la parturiente. On pourra confronter les pédagogies obstétricales et voir s’il existait, ou non, une pédagogie sexuellement différenciée à l’égard de la femme enceinte et de la parturiente.

a. Pédagogie destinée aux femmes enceintes en vue de la préparation à l’accouchement.
– Manuels et traités sur l’art des accouchements : typologie, contenu, destinataires …
– Méthodes, matériels et supports pédagogiques
b. Discours religieux à propos de et destinés aux femmes enceintes et accouchées
c. Représentations littéraires et iconographiques de la femme enceinte et de l’accouchée
3. Les maîtresses de l’art (perspective polémique)
Il s’agit de présenter quelques parcours exemplaires de l’art d’être sages-femmes, de leur formation et de leur « carrière », de leur difficile co-existence avec les représentants masculins de la science, d’interroger les discours qui leur sont adressés par les autorités (de la société, de la science ou de la religion) et les représentations diverses qu’elles ont pu susciter.

a. Représentations des maîtresses de l’art
– à travers les trajectoires de praticiennes méconnues ou laissées pour compte – sages-femmes de charité, sages-femmes libérales ou pensionnées et sages-femmes de prison – qui ont pratiqué l’accouchement en milieu urbain, campagnard et carcéral.
– à travers les représentations littéraires et iconographiques
b. Débats à propos du partage de la science obstétricale : les conflits d’intérêts entre médecins, chirurgiens et sages-femmes
c. Discours religieux (catholiques et protestants) destinés aux sages-femmes (avortement et contraception, baptême sous condition…).

Appel également en ligne sur le site de la SIEFAR

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CFP: Early Modern Women and the Visual Arts: Open Session

College Art Association, Chicago, February 12-15, 2014

Organizer: Andrea Pearson, American University, Washington, DC

Sponsor: The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women seeks papers for an open session that explores women’s engagement with the visual arts between 1400 and 1700. All subjects and approaches are welcome, including, for example, women’s contributions to art-making and art patronage, the deployment of the arts for social intervention and change, the gendering of pictorial representation and artistic practices, and the use and manipulation of architectural space.

Please send a one- to two-page double-spaced abstract and a two-page c.v. by June 1, 2013, to Andrea Pearson at pearson@american.edu. Notification by June 7.

Andrea Pearson

AmericanUniversity

Washington, DC20016

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DACRE LECTURE, OXFORD 2013

‘RENEWING THE “NEW” BRITISH HISTORY’

TOBY BARNARD

FRIDAY 17 MAY at 5 P.M.                                             CORPUS CHRISTICOLLEGE

All who attend the lecture are invited to a reception in Corpus after it.

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Subject: New resource: Letters of Bess of Hardwick

I have just seen the announcement today that a new resource developed by the University of Glasgow is now live. The site below has digitised the complete correspondence of Bess of Hardwick 1550-1608. 

www.bessofhardwick.org 

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP MPIWG/VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin  (Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe; Director: Prof. Dr. Sven Dupré) in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (contact: Dr. Marta Ajmar, Head of Postgraduate Programme, V&A/RCA History of Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London) announces one postdoctoral fellowship for three months between January 1 and December 31, 2014.
 
The tenure of the fellowship is to be divided between the two institutes: the first and third months will be spent at the MPIWG, the second month at the V&A. The fellow will be offered research facilities at both institutions.
 
Outstanding junior and senior scholars (including those on sabbatical leave from their home institutions) are invited to apply. Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science and technology, the history of art and art technology or a related field (junior scholars should have a dissertation topic relevant to the history of science) at the time of application and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications and other achievements.
 
Research proposals should address the history of knowledge and art up to the eighteenth century (with a preference for the period between 1350 and 1750), and may concern any geographical area within Europe, and any object of the visual and decorative arts. Projects related to on going projects at the Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe will receive preference. The proposal should make clear how the project would benefit from the resources and contribute to the research culture of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Visiting fellows are expected to take part in the scientific life of the Institute, to advance their own research project, and to actively contribute to the relevant project of the Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe.
 
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/index.html). The colloquium language is English; it is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in that language. Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 2.100 € and 2.500 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany), whereas senior scholars receive an honorary commensurate with experience. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science covers the round trip travel costs from the fellow’s home institution and a round trip Berlin-London.
 
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the United Kingdom’s national museum of art, craft and design. It offers an encyclopaedic resource in its collections of the visual arts from Europe and Asia, of both historical and contemporary importance, and is a powerhouse of skills and expertise. Research relating to the arts and humanities takes place across the institution and is expressed in the form of gallery development, temporary exhibitions, books which range from the popular to the highly academic, journal articles, website material, conferences and colloquia. It supports collections-based research in all areas of art and design, ensuring that exhibition, publication and gallery projects are enhanced by the most relevant and up-to-date scholarship and benefit from appropriate academic partnerships and funding opportunities. The V&A houses the National Art Library, a major public reference library for art and design. Further outstanding expertise and resources relevant to the joint fellowship can be found in the V&A’s curatorial collections and Conservation department.  In close scholarly proximity to the V&A are other key ‘Albertopolis’ institutions dedicated to science, technology, art and design – the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, Imperial College and the Royal College of Art.

Many research projects are located in the Research department, which supports a wide number of exhibition research teams, a further group of scholars and the V&A/RCA Postgraduate Programme in the History of Design. It produces a number of publications and web-based outputs (Online Journal, Research Report, Research Bulletins) and oversees seminars and workshops to support the development of staff research and subject expertise. The Visiting Fellow will be based in the Research department and be expected to participate to the vibrant research culture of the department and the V&A/RCA History of Design community. S/he will be expected to contribute a research seminar during the period of the fellowship.
 
Candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply; applications from women are especially welcome. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply.
 
Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae (including list of publications), a research proposal on a topic related to the project (750 words maximum), one sample of writing (i.e. article or book chapter), and names and addresses of two referees (including email) who have already been contacted by the applicant to assure their willingness to submit letters of recommendation if requested, to:
 
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Max Planck Research Group Dupré – postdoc fellowship Boltzmannstr. 2214195 Berlin Germany (Electronic submission is also possible: officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) by June 30, 2013. Successful candidates will be notified before July 31.
 
For questions concerning the Max Planck Research Group on Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe, please see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRGdupre or contact Sven Dupré (mailto:officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Claudia Paaß (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Head of Administration, or Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Research Coordinator.
 
For enquiries concerning the Victoria and Albert Museum’s component of the fellowship, please contact Dr. Marta Ajmar, Head of Postgraduate Programme, V&A/RCA History of Design, Victoria and Albert Museum (m.ajmar@vam.ac.uk).
 
For more information about the V&A and its resources, visit the website (http://www.vam.ac.uk/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/n/national-art-library/; http://collections.vam.ac.uk/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/conservation-department/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/research-department/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/ma-history-of-design/).

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8. a)

The International Sidney Society invites abstracts for 2014 RSA

to be held 27-29 March in New York City  

‘Sidney Books and Sidney Letters’

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney, The Sidney Library Catalogue, and The Correspondence of Rowland Whyte will be published in 2012/ 2013.  The International Sidney Society invites abstracts for RSA 2014 in New York that consider these primary sources, as well as the previously-published editions of Sidney family letters (including The Correspondence of Dorothy Percy Sidney and Domestic Politics and Family Absence).

• What do these newly edited documents tell us about the  Sidneys?
• How might we read them as texts in themselves?
• How might we  put them in dialogue with family members’ writing in other literary genres?
• How might we utilize them for more general literary and historical research?

Please send a 150-word abstract, a list of keywords, and a one-page cv to us by 15 May 2013 for distribution to the Sidney Program Committee.

Email attachments in Microsoft Word are preferred. 

jblack@english.umass.edu, hannay@siena.edu

Joseph Black, Chair of session

Margaret Hannay, Secretary

International Sidney Society

 

8. b)

 The International Sidney Society invites abstracts for 2014 RSA

to be held 27-29 March in New York City 

‘Wrothian Networks’

What might be gained from considering the life or writing of Lady Mary Wroth with an eye to networks? How might such an emphasis revise our understanding of how literary texts interact, or how they work, or of Wroth’s literary output? The International Sidney Society invites abstracts for RSA 2014 in New York that explore the idea of the network in the life and/or letters of Lady Mary Wroth. We encourage the broadest possible interpretation of “network,” so projects might address questions such as (but of course not limited to):

• ·      What personal and/or literary networks did Wroth’s writing address? Howso?
• ·      What are the useful tensions between “networks” and “influence” when considering Wroth’s relationship to other writers?
• ·      Where and how do “networks” supplant a “canon” when considering the place of Wroth’s writing?
• ·      How do networked media affect our reception or teaching of Wroth? Or, how might they?
• ·      In what kinds transhistorical networks does Wroth’s writing participate?

We invite proposals for a wide range of possible 20-minute presentations, from familiar historicist scholarship to presentist or even personal reflections, discussions of teaching, provocations toward larger digital humanities projects, or what you will. Given the decentralized nature of networks, proposals that include but do not exclusively consider Wroth are more than welcome.

Please send a 150-word abstract, a list of keywords, and a one-page cv to us by 15 May 2013 for distribution to the Sidney Program Committee.

Email attachments in Microsoft Word are preferred.

strychar@fiu.edu, hannay@siena.edu

Andrew Strycharski, Chair of session, Vice President

Margaret Hannay, Secretary

International Sidney Society

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Revised RSA 2014, Call for Panels–Early Modern Women
Forwarding revised call for panels:
 
Call for Panels only: Early Modern Women

Renaissance Society of America, New York, March 27-29, 2014.
New York, NY, The New York Hilton.

RSA seeks panels for sessions on any area of women’s engagement between 1400-1700. Submissions for panels in all fields concerning women and gender are welcome, including: science, medicine, religion, music, art, theater, architecture, literature, patronage, politics, the publishing industry, and entrepreneurship in any field. Panels on women’s intervention and leadership in new venues and arenas are especially sought.

Please send proposals for panels and brief cvs for all panel participants by June 1, 2013 to diana.robin@rcn.com. Each panel proposal should have a title, a chair, and three presenters each with an abstract of no more than 150 words. A commenter is optional.

Organizer: Diana Robin, Discipline Representative for Women and Gender, RSA

Sponsor: The Renaissance Society of America

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Symposium on conversion in the early modern Mediterranean 

The Lure of the ‘Other’: religious conversion and reversion in the early modern Mediterranean and beyond.

A two-day symposium on conversion in the early-modern Mediterranean world will be held on 4th-5th June 2013 at St Mary’s UniversityCollege, Twickenham, UK  

To register, and for more details including the programme please see our website

http://www.smuc.ac.uk/religious-conversion/

or contact claire.norton@smuc.ac.uk

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Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar

The Hand in the Text: Renaissance Acts of Writing and Printerventions

A one-day symposium exploring the agency of the hand in textual transmission

Hosted by Centre for Early Modern Studies, Aberdeen

Saturday 25^th May 2013

at

Sir Duncan Rice Library

12.30-1: Tea, Coffee & Welcome

1 – 2.45: Scribes and Scripts

Sebastiaan Verweij (Oxford), In Praise of Scottish Scribes

Steve W. May (Emory/Sheffield), Matching Hands in English Renaissance Manuscripts: A Case Study

Jonathan Gibson (Open University), Varieties of Italic

2.45-3.15: Tea and Coffee

3.15 – 4.30: Re-descriptions: the hand in the printed text.

Katherine Acheson (Waterloo), Writing in Bibles: The Example of Folger 2190 (1603)

Fred Schurink (Northumbria), Re-Reading Tudor Translation from the Margin: Gabriel Harvey’s Annotations to Richard Morison’s Stratagems (1539)

For further information please contact the organiser Andrew Gordon: a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk

Dr Andrew Gordon

Co-Director, Centre for Early  Modern Studies

School of Language  & Literature

TaylorBuilding

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen AB24 3UB

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 Call for Papers

The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference: Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland

3-5 July 2014

Hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York

Organised by Brian Cummings, Linne Mooney, Bill Sherman and Hanna Vorholt.

The York Manuscripts Conference has been held biennially or triennially since 1986 and, with about 50 papers, is amongst the largest conferences in Europe dedicated to manuscript studies. The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference, to be held from 3-5 July 2014 will have as its topic the Cathedral Libraries and Archives of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

The Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland comprise some of the most remarkable and least explored collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts. While predictably focused on theological, liturgical, and devotional books, they also contain many medical, scientific, and literary sources, as well as legal and administrative documents. In addition to the many collections that are still in situ, others are now being looked after elsewhere, or have been dispersed. The conference will include papers on medieval and early modern manuscripts which are or were once held by the cathedrals of Britian and Ireland, considering their varied contents, illumination, use, and provenance; paper topics might also explore the formation, development, and dissolution of the libraries themselves; connections between different collections; their location and cataloguing within the cathedrals; or the distinction between cathedral libraries and cathedral archives in a historical perspective. Papers which shed light on lesser known treasures and collections will be especially welcome. We invite papers from researchers in the fields of religion, history, art history, musicology, history of science, literature, codicology, conservation, and other cognate disciplines. Papers delivered at the conference may be considered for inclusion in a volume of selected essays.

The conference is organised in association with the Cathedrals Libraries and Archives Network (CLAN), which seeks to engender, co-ordinate, facilitate and promote research on the Cathedral collections, and to act as an interface between academic communities, church bodies, and the wider public.

Plenary lectures will be given by Nigel Morgan (Cambridge), Christopher Norton (York), Rodney Thomson (Tasmania), and Magnus Williamson (Newcastle).

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to YMC-2014@york.ac.uk. Deadline for submission of proposals is 1 July 2013.

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ANNUAL LECTURE 2013

THE WARBURG INSTITUTE, FRIDAY 3RD MAY 5:30 PM

PROFESSOR ANNA CONTADINI

(PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC ART)

(SOAS)

‘“ *Cose Nuove Fantastiche e Bizzarre*: Art and

Trade between the MiddleEast and Renaissance

Italy.

A WINE RECEPTION WILL BE HELD IN THE COMMON

ROOM AFTERWARDS. ALL WELCOME.

SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES 2013

HTTP://WWW.RENSOC.ORG.UK/

TWITTER @SRSRENSOC

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Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Science

The Warburg Institute, Friday 28 June 2013

Organised by Sietske Fransen (Warburg Institute) and Niall Hodson (DurhamUniversity)

With financial support from the Society for Renaissance Studies and DurhamUniversity

Keynote speaker: Sven Dupré (Berlin)

Speakers: Felicity Henderson (Royal Society), Charles van den Heuvel (The Hague), Niall Hodson (Durham), Ana Carolina Hosne (Heidelberg), Jan van de Kamp (Amsterdam), Margaret O. Meredith (Maastricht), José Maria Pérez Fernandez (Granada),

Iolanda Plescia (Rome) and Fabien Simon (Paris)

In recent decades, scholars have offered myriad new insights into the exchange and propagation of scientific ideas in the early modern Republic of Letters. Within this vibrant field, however, the part played by translation and translators remains little studied. This colloquium will explore the role of translation in early modern science, providing a forum for discussion about translations as well as the translators, mediators, agents, and interpreters whose role in the intellectual history of the period remains ill defined and deserves greater attention. 

Registration £25 (£12.50 for concessions)

Bursaries Available for Student Attendance

Programme and more information: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia/translation

Woburn Square, LondonWC1H 0AB

warburg.sas.ac.uk