1. AHRC Network ‘Voices and Books 1500-1800’ Public Workshop

Tuesday 11 November, 2014 at The Conference Centre at the British Library. 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.

 

2. 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: http://store.london.ac.uk/browse/department.asp?compid=1&modid=5&deptid=179

 

3. Call for Proposals: Attending to Early Modern Women: It’s About Time
June 18-20, 2015, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Please send in your workshop proposals! The conference website has a list of people seeking co-organizers for workshops. Check there if you are looking for a possible workshop. If you are seeking a co-organizer, send a message with your idea and contact info to the conference e-mail address and it will be posted there. A detailed description of the conference and the call for proposals is now available at: www.atw2015.uwm.edu

 

4. Hakluyt Society Essay Prize

From 2015, the Hakluyt Society will award an annual essay prize (or more than one, if the judges so decide) of up to a total of £750. Winners will be invited to publish their essays in the online Journal of the Hakluyt Society (www.hakluyt.com) if they wish to do so. For a conspectus of the Society’s history, aims and publications, visit www.hakluyt.com. Submission procedures and deadline: Essays should be submitted as email attachments in Word.doc format to Dr Surekha Davies, Chair of the Essay Prize Committee, at surekha.davies@gmail.comand to Richard Bateman, Administrator of the Hakluyt Society, at office@hakluyt.com by 1 November 2014. The entrant’s name, address (including preferred email address), institutional affiliation (if any, with date of admission), and degrees (if any, with dates of conferment) should appear within the body of the email, together with a note of the title of the submitted essay. The subject line of the email should include the words ‘HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE’ and the author’s name. By submitting an essay, an entrant certifies that it is the entrant’s own original work.

 

5. Seventeenth-Century Journalism in the Digital Age.

Saturday 22 November, 10AM – 5.30 PM, University of Sheffield, Jessop West Building. This one-day conference brings together scholars from the Digital Humanities, English Literature, History and Linguistics to reflect upon their research into early printed news (their results, their methods and search practices) and interrogate the ways in which current digital search interfaces might be thought to shape, enhance or constrain research in this area. This conference is part of Sheffield’s ‘Participating in Search Design’ AHRC project http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/newsbooks-project. Places at this conference can be reserved online at: http://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=5&catid=16&prodid=296

 

6. CFP: Magic and Intellectual History.

Thursday 5th March 2015 – CREMS, University of York. This symposium will explore the place of magic in the intellectual culture of early modern England and Europe. It will focus on how magic was perceived and understood in philosophical, religious and scientific thought, and the ambivalence that surrounded it as topics of scholarship. Abstracts by 15th October (c. 250 words). Contact: Kevin Killeen, kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk. This symposium is part of a diffuse and ongoing Thomas Browne Seminar that has digressed quite far:  http://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/browne/

 

7. Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought: The Second Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar.

May 8^th and 9^th, 2015. Run jointly by the universities of Lancaster and York, this interdisciplinary seminar takes up and develops Joseph Amato’s trans-historical investigation of how ‘humans, ourselves a body of surfaces, meet and interact with a world dressed in surfaces’ (2013: xv) in the early modern period. Please send abstracts (c. 250 words) and a brief CV to Kevin Killeen (kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk) and Liz Oakley-Brown (e.oakley-brown@lancaster.ac.uk): deadline 30 November 2014).

 

8. Call for papers: Social Networks 1450-1850.

16/17 July 2015, University of Sheffield. Proposals for 20-minute papers or panels of three speakers are welcome from a wide chronological and geographical reach, exploring social network concepts, methodologies and findings. Deadline for submission of proposals: 31 January 2015. For individual paper proposals, please submit a title and 200-word abstract, along with contact details. For panel proposals, please include a title and 200-word abstract for each paper and contact details for one speaker on the panel. For more information, please contact the conference organizer, Kate Davison (kate.davison@sheffield.ac.uk)

 

9. The Warburg’s complete Annual Programme is now available at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/images/events/AnnualProgramme2014_15.pdf

Further details about all our events are available on our website at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/nc/events/

 

10. Registration is now open for the second conference of the ‘Dissenting Experience’ programme at Dr Williams’s Library, on Saturday 8th November 2014. The 2014 conference focuses on the forms of dissenting expression available to dissenters and their congregations, on both sides of the Atlantic, throughout the seventeenth century, and examines the wealth and variety of written materials, both in print and from archival sources, related to the experience of dissent across a wide spectrum of genres. More information and registration on: http://dissent.hypotheses.org

 

11. Women and Healthcare in Early Modern Europe, a special issue of Renaissance Studies (Vol. 28, no. 4, September 2014; Guest editor: Sharon T. Strocchia), is
now available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rest.2014.28.issue-4/issuetoc

 

12. CFP: Femmes à la cour de France. Statuts et fonctions (Moyen Âge-XIXe siècle).

Institut d’études avancées, Paris, 8–9 October 2015. Proposals due by 31 January 2015. Ce colloque international, pluridisciplinaire et transchronologique a pour objet le statut et les fonctions des femmes de la cour de France : les dames des suites d’honneur, les épouses des grands officiers et ministres, les officiers féminins des maisons royales, les marchandes et autres femmes qui ont séjourné de manière régulière ou irrégulière à la cour. Nous vous prions de nous faire parvenir un dossier de 2 à 3 pages qui présente la thématique de votre intervention (avec quelques informations sur les archives/sources utilisées) et une courte présentation de vous-même avant le 31 janvier 2015 à : zumkolk@cour-de-france.fr ou kathleen.wilson-chevalier@wanadoo.fr

 

13. CFP: Early Modern Women and the Book: Ownership, Circulation, and Collecting.

Proposals are sought for a panel to be proposed for the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) in Montreal and Longueuil, Quebec, July 6-11, 2015. By Oct. 1, 2014, please send a file containing a 350 word abstract and a 50-word biographical statement to Leah Knight (lknight@brocku.ca), Micheline White (micheline.white@carleton.ca), and Elizabeth Sauer (esauer@brocku.ca) for consideration.

 

14. CFP: Early Modern Women’s Libraries: Collections, Habits, Experiences

Proposals are sought for panels to be proposed for the annual meeting of Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences to take place at the University of Ottawa, Canada, from 30 May-2 June, 2015. The panels will be jointly sponsored by ACCUTE and the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies.  By Nov. 1, 2014, please send to lknight@brocku.ca, micheline.white@carleton.ca, and esauer@brocku.ca the following: A 300- to 500-word proposal (with NO identifying marks of any kind), a 100-word abstract, a 50-word bio, a 2015 Proposal submission information sheet (required by ACCUTE).  The information sheet can be found at http://accute.ca/accute-conference/accute-cfp-jointly-sponsored-sessions/

 

15. Winterthur Research Fellowship Program, 2015–16.

Wilmington, Delaware; applications due by 15 January 2015. Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2015. For more details and to apply visit: winterthur.org/fellowship or e-mail Rosemary Krill at rkrill@winterthur.org.

 

16. Seventeenth-Century Journalism in the Digital Age

Saturday 22 November, 10AM – 5.30 PM, University of Sheffield, Jessop West Building. This conference is part of Sheffield’s ‘Participating in Search Design’ AHRC project (http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/newsbooks-project). Places at this conference can be reserved online at: http://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=5&catid=16&prodid=296

For further information contact Marcus Nevitt m.nevitt@shef.ac.uk

 

17. The International Christopher Marlowe

A 2-day conference at the University of Exeter, 7th – 8th September 2015. We invite proposals for papers of up to 30 minutes on any aspect of the “international” content or contexts of Marlowe and his work. Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words by 14th November 2014 toInternationalMarlowe@exeter.ac.uk. We are also happy to answer any queries relating to the conference.

 

18. Poly-Olbion and the Writing of Britain

10-11 September 2015, Royal Geographical Society, London. Hosted by the Poly-Olbion Project, the conference will explore Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion within the wider context of early modern British discourses of space, place, nationhood, and regional identity. The conference will coincide with the opening of a major exhibition and series of public-facing events devoted to Poly-Olbion, derived from the AHRC-funded project and the associated HLF-funded‘Children’s Poly-Olbion’. Papers dealing with aspects of Michael Drayton’s poem, John Selden’s commentary, William Hole’s maps, or the wider context of chorography and cartography in early modern Britain will be welcome.  Please send abstracts or full papers to Andrew McRae (a.mcrae@exeter.ac.uk) and Philip Schwyzer (p.a.schwyzer@exeter.ac.uk) by 5 January 2015.

 

19. The Oxford Traherne: Research Assistant in Early Modern European Bibliography.

The closing date for applications is 1 October 2014. There is no application form; please send applications, including a CV, an account of relevant experience, and the name of one referee to Dr Julia Smith at julia.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk. Applicants should also arrange for their referee to submit a reference by the closing date. Interviews will be held in Oxford, probably in the week beginning 13 October 2014, and shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a short bibliographical exercise in preparation for the interview. For further information, please contact Dr Julia Smith at julia.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk or Dr Sarah Apetrei at sarah.apetrei@keble.ox.ac.uk.

 

20. The Third Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions. The deadline for all submissions is December 31. Decisions will be made in January and the final program will be published in February. For more information or to submit your proposal online go to: http://smrs.slu.edu

 

21. ABOPublic Has Launched: http://www.aphrabehn.org/ABO/

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (ISSN 2157-7129) is an open access, interactive, scholarly journal, launched in 2011 by the Aphra Behn Society. The journal is supported by the University of South Florida Tampa Library. The journal focuses on gender and women¹s issues, and all aspects of women in the arts in the long eighteenth century, especially literature, visual arts, music, performance art, film criticism, and production arts. Its public scholarship blog, ABOPublic, publishes shorter articles and interactive content geared toward a public audience. It also houses Ask Aphra, a professional advice column.

 

22. CFP: UNL Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Conference

The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is holding a conference on material culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance October 1-3, 2015 on the UNL City Campus to celebrate twenty years of our major. We welcome 250 word abstracts on any aspect of this topic. Please send abstracts by October 15 via e-mail to Carole Levin clevin2@unl.edu and Andrea Nicholsandrea.nichols@huskers.unl.edu

 

23. Call for Papers – Shakespeare Jahrbuch / Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society
The 2016 volume of Shakespeare Jahrbuch will be a special issue devoted to “Heroes and Heroines”. Papers to be published in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch should be formatted according to our style sheet, which can be downloaded from the website of the German Shakespeare Society at http://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/en/jahrbuch/note-on-submission.html.
Please send your manuscripts (of not more than 6,000 words) to the editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting, email: sabine.schuelting@fu-berlin.de, by 31 March 2015.

 

24. The Oxford-Globe Forum for Medicine and Drama in Practice

4 October 2014 at the University of Oxford, 10.00am-4.30pm. The theme for October 2014 is Anatomy and Dissection. Papers are informal and are limited to 12-15 minutes; the aim is to enable discussion among different constituencies of interest. To register, go to the calendar at www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/whats-on-calendar.

 

25. CFP: Anglo-Iberian Relations, 1500-1850

Mértola, Portugal, 9-11 April 2015. We are now accepting individual papers, panels, and roundtables by academics and heritage professionals for what is hoped to be the first of a biennial conference in this vibrant field of European History. The conference will also launch a new, interdisciplinary academic-heritage network: ‘Anglo-Iberian Relations, from the Medieval to the Modern.’ Papers should be 20 minutes in length. English is the preferred language of the conference, but papers will be considered in Portuguese and Spanish if a detailed summary can be provided in English. Panelists may talk only on England or Portugal or Spain if so desired; organisers will team them up with panelists covering the other countries on a similar timeframe or topic. Abstracts of up to 300 words for individual papers, and panel/roundtable descriptions, together with details of affiliation and career, should be sent to: anglo.iberian2015@gmail.com no later than 30 October 2014.

 

26. CFP for the fifth RefoRC.

Leuven, 7-9 May 2015, and deadline for paper proposals is 15 February 2015. The overall theme of plenary lectures is transregional reformations, and communications are encouraged to think about this topic, but not confined to it. The line-up of plenary speakers is spectacular, with amongst others Barbara Diefendorf talking about her current research project on religious orders, Alex Walsham talking about translations, and Grazyna Jurkowlaniec discussing international circulation of printed images. For more information, see: http://bit.ly/1ooelUo.

 

27. CFP: The 11^th International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference

18 TO 21 June, 2015, Nicosia Museum (Centre for Visual Arts and Research), Cyprus
Host: Centre for Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) with the support of the Cornaro Institute, Cyprus College of Art. Theme: Mediterranean and cross-cultural influences upon Cavendish’s writings. Registration form due by November 15th, 2014. Paper proposals: 20-minute papers are invited on topics related directly or indirectly to the theme of the conference. Abstracts of 150 to 200 words should be emailed to the conference organizers.

Lisa Walters: Elizabeth.walters@ugent.be (President, MCS)
Sara Mendelson: Mendelso@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
Brandie Siegfried: Brandie_Siegfried@byu.edu
Jim Fitzmaurice: j.fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk
Alexandra G. Bennett: abennet1@niu.edu

 

28. CFP: Difficult Women in the Long Eighteenth Century: 1680-1830

Saturday 28th November, 2015, University of York, Berrick Saul Building.

http://difficultwomenconference.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

Please send abstracts/panel proposals of no more than 500 words todifficultwomenconference@gmail.com by July 1st 2015.
Panel proposal submissions should include the full name,
affiliation, and email addresses of all participants.

 

29. Radical Women: 50 Years of Feminism at Kent “Austerity, Gender and Household Finances” University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent. 27-28 June 2015

Submission of abstracts: Interested scholars are kindly asked to send an abstract of 200-300 words to: Kentausterityconference@kent.ac.uk by 15 October 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent in mid-November 2014.

 

30. CFP ‘Early Modern Catholics in the British Isles and Europe: Integration or Separation?’ 1-3 July 2015 Ushaw College, Durham

We invite proposals for 20 minute communications on any related theme from any field. The organziers plan to publish a volume of essays drawn from the conference papers. Please send proposals (c. 200 words) by email to James Kelly (james.kelly3@durham.ac.uk) by 16 January 2015 at the latest.

 

31. Criminal Law and Emotions in European Legal Cultures: From 16th Century to the Present 21-22 MAY 2015
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Center for the History of Emotions. If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send us a proposal of no more than 300 words and a short CV by 1 October 2014 to cfp-emotions@mpib-berlin.mpg.de. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes, in order to allow time for questions and discussion.

 

32. The 2015 Queen Elizabeth I Society Annual Meeting will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 12-14, 2015, in conjunction with the South Central Renaissance Conference. Scholars of sixteenth-century history and culture are encouraged to submit a 400–500 word abstract by December 1, 2014. For more info, please visit: http://www.scrc.us.com/

 

33. Memory, Emotion and Nationalism, Friday October 10^th, 5.30-7.30, Institute of Historical Research, Wolfson Room I

Naomi McAreavey:  ‘The Border between Memory and Forgetting: Northern Ireland and the 1641 depositions project’ Respondents: Rosalind Carr, on Scottish nationalism and the early modern; Katharine Hodgkin, on history and trauma

Conversations and Disputations

Raphael Samuel History Centre/ Memory and Community in Early Modern Britain event