Newsletter 47

 

 

1. Call for book manuscripts, MAPS, SPACES, CULTURES. Authors are cordially invited to write to either of the series editors, Surekha Davies (surekha.davies@gmail.com) and Asa Simon Mittman (asmittman@mail.csuchico.edu), or to the publisher at Brill, Arjan van Dijk (dijk@brill.com), to discuss the submission of proposals and/or full manuscripts.

2. Registration is now open for the conference of the international Leverhulme Network ‘Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100–1600’. The conference aims to promote comparative, cross-disciplinary scholarship on Islamic and European cartography by bringing together experts in these two fields. For further information and to register, see http://www.cartography.qmul.ac.uk/.

3. CALL FOR PAPERS: Fourteenth Round Table on Tudor Theatre: Folly’s Family, Folly’s Children (Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université de Tours); 3-4 September 2015. Proposals (200 words) for thirty-minute papers in English should be directed to Richard Hillman (rhillman@sfr.fr) by 15 September 2014.    

4. The Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School announces its 2015-16 search.  Five scholars will be appointed to spend a year working on a book-length research project advancing our knowledge of religion and gender.  Please email nominations to Tracy Wall, WSRP Program Coordinator, atwsrp@hds.harvard.edu or feel free to forward the link to the online application (http://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/apply). 

5. AD VIVUM? Friday 21 and Saturday 22 November 2014 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Please send proposals of no more than 250 words by 15 August 2014 to joanna.woodall@courtauld.ac.uk and thomas.balfe@courtauld.ac.uk

6. The Afterlife of Classical Latin Satire, 10 October 2014. A conference organised by the Department of Greek and Latin and the Department of English at UCL and the Warburg Institute. The conference will be held at the Warburg Institute. To register, please go to:
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2014-15/satire-ancient-and-modern/

7. Collecting Texts & MSS, 1660-1860 is a scholarly conference covering all aspects of book collecting, manuscript and archive conservation, libraries and private collections, and associated areas of interest from the Restoration to the high Victorian period. It is hosted by Plymouth University and the Cottonian Collection.
More information can be found in the links below. Please do contact one of the organizers, Dr Bonnie Latimer (bonnie.latimer@plymouth.ac.uk) or Dr Annika Bautz (annika.bautz@plymouth.ac.uk<mailto:annika.bautz@plymouth.ac.uk>) with any queries. http://collectingbooks2015.wordpress.com/ and http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/humpa/news/Pages/default.aspx

8. Hester Pulter, No longer ‘shut up in a country grange.’ Evening Talk, Thursday 23rd October. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hester-pulter-evening-talk-thursday-23rd-october-tickets-12088857097

9. Two Global Shakespeare Research Fellows through Warwick. http://bit.ly/1qKtTDkhttp://bit.ly/1qKtTDk​

For more info: www.globalshakespeare.ac.uk 

10. Registration is now open for the Edinburgh Centre for the History of the Book’s one-day conference titled “Creativity and Commerce in the Age of Print”! The programme includes a range of papers from a very diverse group of postgraduates and early-career researchers on topics including authorship, publishing, and professionalisation from the Early Modern period to today, as well as keynotes by Dr. Jason Scott-Warren (Director of the Centre for Material Texts, University of Cambridge) and Professor Iain Stevenson (Centre for Publishing, UCL).

Full programme information can be found at our Eventbrite page, where you can register to attend:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creativity-and-commerce-in-the-age-of-print-tickets-12040963847

11. COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 19-20 septembre 2014 / 19-20 September 2014. Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris, Grand Amphi.
La nuit des sens: Rêves et illusions des sens en Angleterre et en Europe à  la période moderne. / The Night of the Senses : Dreams and Sensory Illusion  in Early-Modern England and Europe.
Contact: line.cottegnies@univ-paris3.fr miller-blaise.am@wanadoo.fr http://epistemeparis3.wordpress.com/

12. Diplomacy and Culture in the Early Modern World. The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities 31 July to 2 August 2014. For more info, please visit www.textualambassadors.org.

13. Call for papers from the Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London). The Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 is a small, informal multi-disciplinary group formed to promote women’s studies in the early modern period and the long eighteenth century. The group was established to enable those interested in women’s studies to keep in touch with each other, to hear about members’ interests and relevant publications, and to organise regular meetings and an annual workshop (see membership application form) where members can meet and discuss women’s studies topics. We can also offer advice and opportunities to engage in activities that increase opportunities for publication, or enhance professional profiles in other ways. The group meets in Senate House, Malet Street, University of London.

www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk provides more information.

14. The Fifteenth Century Conference 2014. A draft programme is now available, as are links to travel information. Online registration will open shortly, closing on 31 July 2014. Please register early. We look forward to welcoming you to Aberdeen.

www.abdn.ac.uk/nsw/fifteenthcenturyconference

15. Early Modern Commons website: http://commons.earlymodernweb.org/

EMC is an aggregator for blogs covering the period c.1500-1800. It is intended as a resource to help readers to keep up with early modern blogging, and to connect with people who share their interests. There are several interesting sites dedicated to the early modern period and gender. If you visit the blogroll you will find a list of the sites:

http://commons.earlymodernweb.org/blogs And if you are a Twitter user, please come and follow us (@WSGUK)

16. Moveable Types: People, Ideas, and Objects. Cultural exchanges in early modern Europe, 27-29 November, 2014, University of Kent. Call for Papers Abstracts should be sent to moveabletypesconference@gmail.com before 1st of August 2014 and should not be longer than 300 words. Please include affiliation and contact information, as well as a short biographical note, on a separate document. For more information please visit http://moveabletypes.wordpress.com/ or e-mail moveabletypesconference@gmail.com.

17. Take part in the World Shakespeare Congress “Creating and Re-creating Shakespeare” from 31 July – 6 August 2016, London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Proposals of 500 words for seminars, panels, and workshops may be submitted towsc2016@contacts.bham.ac.uk by 30 September 2014. Click here to download further details http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/centres/lsc/Documents/World-Shakespeare-Conference-2016.pdf 

18. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has added entries of early modern nuns to their database. Links to all of the articles have been collected on one webpage:http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/online_products/ODNB_May_Update_Flyer_FINAL.pdf

The religious women are: Joanne Berkely, Mary Browne, Anne Cary (and her sisters), Margaret Clement, Mary Dennett, Francis Dickinson, Catherine Gascoigne, Catherine Holland, Margaret and Elizabeth Mostyn, Elizabeth Sander, Margaret Throckmorton, Anne Worsley.

19. AHRC network meeting for ‘Voices and Books’ Monday 8 September, 2014, Strathclyde University, Glasgow. This event is free and open to anyone who would like to come. If you are interested in attending, however, please contact the Network Co-ordinator: Helen.Stark@ncl.ac.uk.

20. Renaissance Cardinals: Diplomats and Patrons in the Early-Modern World. Location: Saint Mary’s University, Twickenham, London Dates: 13-14 March 2015

Enquiries and Proposals for 20 minute papers or panels of 3-4 papers should be sent to Glenn.Richardson@smuc.ac.uk or Eugenia.Russell@smuc.ac.uk by 15 September 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more than 300 words. Panel proposals should include abstracts of all papers (max 300 words) and a brief rationale (max 100 words) for the panel. All proposals should be accompanied by a short statement of affiliation and career. Delegates will be notified by 15 October 2014.

21. Conference: New Directions in Early Modern Women’s Letters. Conference to be held at History Faculty, Oxford University, Thursday 14 August – Friday 15 August 2014. Registration and programme details are available on the IHR events website: http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/13038?ref=email

22. The Spiritual Geopolitics of the Early Modern World (1500-1800). March 13, 2015 – Service Historique de la Défense, Château de Vincennes (France). Proposals, which should not exceed 500 words, should be sent by September 15, 2014 to lauric.henneton@uvsq.fr. Papers, which will be precirculated, are due by Feb. 15, 2015. They may be in French or English. http://redehja.hypotheses.org/263