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By Alexander Samson, on 2 December 2014

  1. Between Heaven and Earth: Ecclesiastical Patronage in Europe, 1400-1600. Third Annual Renaissance Postgraduate Symposium. Saturday 9 May 2015 at the Courtauld Institute. Call for papers: Abstracts for 15-20 minute papers, not exceeding 250 words, should be sent with a brief academic CV (100 words) to Lydia Hansell lydia.hansell@courtauld.ac.uk and Joost Joustra joost.joustra@courtauld.ac.uk no later than 2 February 2015.
  2. The Beaumont and Fletcher Project seeks to organise script-in-hand performances of the entire dramatic works of Beaumont & Fletcher. Instigated and coordinated by Dr Steve Orman (Canterbury Christ Church University), the plan is to stage 4 plays a year (tentatively, March, June, September, December), in a variety of performance spaces around Canterbury with a whole host of different directors and different actors, each bringing something new to each play. A website is now live http://thebeaumontandfletcherproject.wordpress.com/ If you would like any further information, please get in touch with Steve at: thebeaumontandfletcherproject@gmail.com Steve will also be tweeting about the project: @Steve_Orman and you can get involved with the conversation by using the hashtag #beaumontandfletcherlive
  3. Early Modern Fiction Seminar, Thursday, December 4th, 6.00 pm, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London. Outreach Evening: Early Modern Fiction & the Emotions. Katherine Ibbett (SELCS, University College London) will reconstruct an early modern literary salon – ‘Playing the Game of Love: A Salon Evening’. Please register: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/playing-the-game-of-love-a-salon-evening-tickets-14041296897
    For more info: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/early-modern-fiction/
  4. Early Modern Forum, Wednesday, 3 December 2014, 1.00 pm, KCL Strand 8.08. ‘Sickness & Melancholy.’ Alice Marples: Managing Sickness in Eighteenth-Century Medical Correspondence. Matthew Bell: What is Early Modern Melancholia? Come and meet your Early Modernist colleagues! Everyone welcome, especially postgraduate students. Feel free to bring your own lunch. Tea & coffee will be provided (first come, first served).
  5. Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religion and Science, Conference on 21-23 March 2016, University of Groningen. Call for papers, please email an abstract – maximum 800 words – to Emily Thomas a.e.e.thomas@rug.nl The abstract should be anonymised for blind review, and the email should contain the author¹s details (name, position, affiliation, contact details). The deadline for abstract submission is 20th October 2015. More info: http://www.rug.nl/ggw/news/events/2016/early-modern-women-on-metaphysics-religion-and-science
  6. Open University / Institute of English Studies Book History Research Group seminars at Senate House, London. The topic is Paper, Pen and Ink 2: Manuscript Cultures in the Age of Print. Sessions are at 5.30 on Monday evenings. For further details about this year’s programme, see http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/book-history/research-seminar-series/paper-pen-and-ink-2For queries, please contact the organiser, Dr Jonathan Gibson jonathan.gibson@open.ac.uk
  7. 2014 Barry Coward Memorial Lecture on 12 December, Malet Street room B36, 6.30 pm: Professor Bernard Capp, University of Warwick, ‘My Brother¹s Keeper?: siblings and their families in early modern England’. For more information on Professor Capp please see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/bcapp/
  8. Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s 8th Student Conference: Call for Papers: ‘Feast or Famine in the Early Modern Period.’ Saturday 21 February 2015. Please email your abstract to Dr Laura Jacobs, Birkbeck Early Modern Society bbkems@gmail.comby 5pm on Friday 5 December 2014.
  9. Global and Local Marlowes: A Symposium sponsored by the London Shakespeare Centre and the Marlowe Society of America, 6 December 2014, 09.45-18:00. Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King’s College London. For further information visit: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/LSC/marlowes.aspx  To register visit: http://estore.kcl.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=18&catid=36&prodid=462
  10. Teaching Digital Humanities: Wednesday, 10 December 2014, 11am-4pm, Room 111, Palmer Building, University of Reading. To reserve a place or for further information, contact:  Michelle O¹Callaghan m.f.ocallaghan@reading.ac.uk
  11. Making Knowledge in the Renaissance, Thursday 19th March 2015 University of Liverpool. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of ‘making knowledge’ in the Renaissance, and would welcome contributions from any relevant discipline. Please send 200-word abstracts and 150-word bios to Maria Shmygol maria.shmygol@liverpool.ac.uk and Jonathan Day jonathanjmday@gmail.com by 10th January 2015.
  12. Call for papers: Festschrift Special Edition for Janet Todd. Editors: Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, University of Oxford and Ruth Perry, MIT, USA, emails: ros.ballaster@mansfield.ox.ac.uk and rperry@mit.edu Please submit for consideration abstracts of at least 250 words by January 5. Finished articles of between 4,000-7000 words must be received by 1 September 2015.
  13. International Academic Conference, Shakespeare and Scandinavia, Kingston University at the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames 8-11 October, 2015. Call for Panels and Papers Proposals, with abstracts (200 words) and brief cvs, should be sent by before March 31 2015 to Anne Sophie Refskou and Richard Wilson: shakespeareandscandinavia2015@gmail.com
  14. Travel and Writing in the Global Renaissance: Revisiting the Peregrination
    of Fernão Mendes Pinto (1614-2014.) December 5-6, 2014 (UCL & King’s College London.) A two-day conference bringing together experts in the cultures, literature
    and history of the early-modern Portuguese world to discuss the text of the
    Peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto (1614) from a multidisciplinary
    approach. Attendance is free. http://www.academia.edu/9128310/Travel_and_Writing_in_the_Global_Renaissance_Revisiting_the_Peregrination_of_Fern%C3%A3o_Mendes_Pinto_1614-2014_
  15. The deadline for submitting workshop applications for Attending to Women 2015 is approaching, and there are still a few ideas for workshops that have not yet found co-organizers. They are listed below. All of these are wonderful possibilities, and it would be great if they jelled as workshops. You could certainly have some extra time to get them together. If you do work on a topic that fits, and like the sharing of ideas that Attending to Women facilitates, please contact the co-organizer listed here: http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/conferences/atw2015/workshopideas.cfm
  16. Kingston Shakespeare Seminar, Call for papers: Jan Kott Our Contemporary: Contexts, Legacies, New Perspectives. An international one-day conference, Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames. Thursday 19 February 2015. If you are interested in participating in Jan Kott Our Contemporary, please send a 200-word abstract with a 50-word cv by December 5 2014 to Aneta Mancewicz and Richard Wilson: kott.london2015@gmail.com
  17. Call for paper proposals: ‘Beyond Leeches and Lepers: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Conference.’ Anatomy Lecture Theatre, The University of Edinburgh. Saturday 2nd May, 2015. Possible topics for exploration include: anatomy and dissection; plagues, pandemics and diseases; disability and impairment; hospitals and healthcare; surgery, physicians and medical manuscripts; bloodletting, and the bodily humors. Papers should be prepared with a non-expert audience in mind. Please send proposals up to 250 words for 15-20 minutes papers to Helen F. Smith and Jessica Legacy at beyondleechesconference@outlook.comby January 15th, 2015.​
  18. Call for papers: ‘Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800’ An Interdisciplinary Conference. July 9-11, 2015. University of Cambridge. Please email abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maya Corry at mc878@cam.ac.uk, Marco Faini at mf531@cam.ac.ukand Alessia Meneghin at am2253@cam.ac.ukby 31 December 2014. Along with your abstract please include your name, institution, paper title and a brief biography. Further details can be found on the project website: http://domesticdevotions.lib.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=3D809
  19. Johnson and Shakespeare, Pembroke College, Oxford, 7-9 August 2015.
    Final Call for Papers. This conference marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Samuel Johnson’s The Plays of William Shakespeare. Further information: http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/johnson-and-shakespeare
  20. British Milton Seminar, 14 March 2015: Call for Papers. The British Milton Seminar will be held on Saturday 14 March 2015. Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute on 14 March 2015. There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. We currently intend that each session will have two papers (of approx. 25-30 minutes each), for which proposals are invited. Please send proposals to Dr Sarah Knight sk218@leicester.ac.uk and/or Dr Hugh Adlington h.c.adlington@bham.ac.ukby no later than 16 January 2015. For more info: http://britishmiltonseminar.wordpress.com/
  21. Call for Papers: Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World. Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Aberystwyth-Bangor. Biennial conference, 3rd-5th September 2015, Bangor University. We invite abstracts of 200-250 words for individual papers of twenty minutes, or of up to 850 words for panels comprising no more than three papers, to be sent to travelandconflict@gmail.com by 25th January 2015. Please send your abstract in the text of your message, and not in an attached file. Further details are available via the conference website: travelandconflict.wordpress.com, or you can follow us on Twitter @Travel_Conflict
  22. John Fletcher: A Critical Reappraisal. Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2015
    Canterbury Christ Church University. Call for papers: Please send proposals of no more than 300 words for papers lasting 20 minutes in length to Dr Steve Orman (Canterbury Christ Church University) and José A. Pérez Díez (Shakespeare Institute), conference conveners, at the following email address: johnfletcherconference@gmail.com The deadline for sending proposals is Friday 9th January 2015.

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