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Newsletter 45

By Alexander Samson, on 3 April 2014

1. CECS Colloquium to celebrate the work of Harriet Guest: Saturday 17th May 2014 ‘Sound Words, Strange Tattoos and Unbounded Attachments: Celebrating the Works of Harriet Guest’ at the King’s Manor, organised by Emma Major.  For more info: http://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/

2. Call for Proposals: Attending to Early Modern Women: It’s About Time. June 18-20, 2015, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A detailed description of the conference and the call for proposals is now available at:www.atw2015.uwm.edu Proposals for workshops that address the conference themes may now be submitted, to atw-15@uwm.edu. Deadline: September 30, 2014.

 3. Kingston Shakespeare Seminar, Spring 2014, by Johann Gregory. SHAKESPEARE AND LAW. For more info: http://cardiffshakespeare.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/kingston-shakespeare-seminar-spring-2014/.

4. The Place of Spenser / Spenser’s Places, Dublin, 18-20 June 2015. The Fifth International Spenser Society Conference. The International Spenser Society invites proposals for their next International Conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will address Spenser’s places – domestic, urban, global, historical, colonial, rhetorical, geopolitical, etc. – but also the place of Spenser 
in Renaissance studies, in the literary tradition, in Britain, in Ireland, in the literary and political cultures of his own moment. Abstracts should be submitted directly to the conference website: 
www.spenser2015.com. The closing date for submissions is 15 September 2014. We also invite proposals for poster-board demonstrations of relevant digital and other projects. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/iss/ 

5. CFP ‘Missionaries, Materials and the Making of the Modern World’ in Cambridge 15-17 September. For more information contact Dr Chris Wingfield cw543@cam.ac.uk, Senior Curator (Archaeology) Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology,University of Cambridge. To submit an abstract email, ga343@cam.ac.uk.

6. Applications are invited for one-month Visiting Fellowships at Chawton House Library (CHL) to be taken up between October 2014 and the end of August 2015. Deadline for applications: 7 April 2014. For more information please see www.chawtonhouse.org  

7. Registration is now open for our annual workshop, which will take place on Saturday 10 May 2014.  This year’s title is ‘Uncapable of her freedom’: Trading as a woman in the late 17th-Century City of London.  We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker is Professor Laura Gowing, Professor of Early Modern British History at King’s College, London. All queries should be directed to Yvonne Noble, workshop organiser, at : yn@noblesse.demon.co.uk  www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk

8. Announcing the Fifth Annual FEMINIST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE at American University in Washington, DC, Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 2, 2014. CFP on subjects spanning the chronological spectrum, from the ancient world through the present, to foster a broad dialogue on feminist art-historical practice. To be considered for participation, please provide a single document in Microsoft Word. It should consist of a one-page, single-spaced proposal of unpublished work up to 500 words for a 20-minute presentation, followed by a curriculum vitae of no more than two pages. Please name the document “[last name]-proposal” and submit with the subject line “[last name]-proposal” to fahc5papers@gmail.com. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2014. Invitations to participate will be sent by July 1.

9. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in New Orleans, Oct 16-19, 2014: “Did Early Modern Women Have a Youth?” I would love to hear from others who would like to offer papers on girls and young women as yet unmarried to God or man, on their activities, their letters and other expressions, their aspirations, their senses of constraint or autonomy, their collaboration with other family members, female and male, and whatever else you may have discovered. I myself will propose a paper on the seduction of young women as these culpable efforts turn up in the criminal courts of Rome. Please respond to Libby Cohen at: ecohen@yorku.ca with a paper title, 150-word abstract and a one-page CV.

10. We are accordingly issuing a call for editors of NeoLatin texts to be included in the DLL. If you are interested in this prospect, please contact Dr. Michael Ullyot, RSA’s representative to the DLL, at ullyot@ucalgary.ca.

11. Call for Papers: 18th Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Conference: “Bending the mind”: Attention and Instruction in the Long Eighteenth Century 26th-27th April, 2014 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/eighteenth/?page_id=26

12. University of Sussex and British Academy: Early Career Research Network Symposium:  Editing April 11th, 2014 at the University of Sussex. contact Simon Davies (S.F.Davies@sussex.ac.uk) for more information. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cems/newsandevents/events?id=23367

13. Call for papers – Teaching Shakespeare in Japan. Articles are short, 500-1000, words but we welcome a range of formats: interviews, vox pops, lesson plans, reviews and storyboards. Please do get in touch with ideas (approx. 150-word abstract) or questions ator sarah.olive@york.ac.uk by April 30th, It is envisaged that accepted articles would be submitted by August 30th 2014. Past issues are freely available to read online or download athttp ://www . britishshakespeare . ws/education/teaching-shakespeare/

14. Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company, Cultures of Play, 1300-1700. Series Editor:  Bret Rothstein, Indiana University. The series publishes original research written in English, including both single author volumes and collections of original essays. Proposals should take the form of either 1) a preliminary letter of inquiry, briefly describing the project; or 2) a formal prospectus including:  abstract; brief statement of critical methodology, table of contents; sample chapter; estimate of length; estimate of the number and type of illustrations to be included; a c.v. Please email your letter or proposal to the Ashgate contact for this series: Erika Gaffney, Publishing Manager, egaffney@ashgate.com

15. We invite proposals for papers that consider any aspect of the life, writings, and activities of Cheke and the other members of the group surrounding him at Cambridge and their impact on Tudor England. Topics might include (but are not limited to): art and architecture, communities and networks, education and universities, gender and society, government and political reform, humanism and scholarship, ancient and vernacular languages, mathematics and the natural sciences, religious controversy and reform, translation and rhetoric. We especially welcome proposals from PhD students and other early career academics and expect to have bursaries available to cover some of the expenses of attending the conference. Please send proposals (250 words) by 1 May 2014 to Alan Bryson (a.bryson@sheffield.ac.uk), John McDiarmid (diarmid@starpower.net), or Fred Schurink (fred.schurink@northumbria.ac.uk).

16. Keble College, Oxford is looking for a fellow to teach and research Reformation history and theology: http://bit.ly/1fZC2uW

17. The Place of Spenser / Spenser’s Places. Dublin, 18-20 June 2015. The Fifth International Spenser Society Conference  www.spenser2015.com

18. Heythrop College is celebrating its 400th anniversary with a two-day conference at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London. The conference will reflect on the history of the College and explore the nature and character of Jesuit education over the past 400 years. For further details, full programme and registration please see For the Greater Glory of God and the More Universal Good: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/Heythrop400. Early registration is essential to ensure a place.

19. Call for Papers: Special Issue of Shakespeare on “Shakespeare and Jonson”. Please send expressions of interest or abstracts for papers of 6500-7000 words to james.loxley@ed.ac.uk and fionnuala.oneill@soton.ac.uk by Friday 16th May 2014.

20. The long-standing Reformation Studies Colloquium will set up its tents in Cambridge in September. It always is an exciting event, and the lineup of keynote speakers this year is fantastic: Alec Ryrie, Ben Kaplan, and Mary Laven. If you wish to participate, please see the Call for Papers on the website (http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/reformation-studies), or don’t hesitate to email reformationstudies@hist.cam.ac.uk with any questions. Hoping to welcome many of you in Cambridge!

21. Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at UCL. If you have any enquiries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact the Departmental Administrator, Mr. Stephen Cadywold, s.cadywold@ucl.ac.uk. Further information about the Department is available on www.ucl.ac.uk/english.

22. Eleventh International Milton Symposium. Call for Papers. The Eleventh International Milton Symposium will be held at the University of Exeter, England, 20-24 July, 2015. Proposals for papers (500 words maximum, preferably in the form of an email attachment) should be submitted by 10 June 2014 to Karen Edwards (k.l.edwards@exeter.ac.uk) and Philip Schwyzer (p.a.schwyzer@exeter.ac.uk), English Department, Queen’s Building, 
Exeter University, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK. 

23. Editing Tudor Literature. Newcastle University, 10-11 May 2014. If you would like to attend please contact Jennifer Richards (Jennifer.Richards@ncl.ac.uk) by May 1st at the very latest.

24. Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance: Call for Papers
5th-7th September 2014, University of Kent. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dr Sarah Dustagheer (s.dustagheer-463@kent.ac.uk) and Dr Clare Wright (c.wright-468@kent.ac.uk) by Monday 14th April 2014.

25. Early Modern Studies Journal is soliciting essays for a special volume whose subject concerns women’s writing and its connection to women’s work, broadly interpreted. Essays might focus more particularly on either the writing or the work of women, or they might show the intricate ways in which writing and work are related in the female sphere of the 16th and 17th centuries. Though the journal primarily focuses on the literature and culture of England, we encourage articles concerning women’s literary and material production in other geographical contexts in the early modern period, though essays need to be written in English. You can visit our website for more information: http://www.uta.edu/english/emsjournal/.

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