Newsletter 56

By Alexander Samson, on 17 December 2015

Conference Notices

1. April 2016 will mark the fifth centenary of the publication of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, a seminal work of European literature. To mark this centenary and to draw attention to the continuing presence of the Orlando Furioso in English culture from the 16th century to the present, a conference will be held at the British Academy in London on April 28th and 29th 2016. For all details of the conference programme and how to register please see: http://rensoc.org.uk/news/ariosto-orlando-furioso-and-english-culture-1516-2016.
2. A Conference to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sir Herbert Grierson, 15-17 January 2016, hosted by the Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History, in association with the Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies, University of Aberdeen. The conference commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Herbert Grierson (1866-1960), Inaugural Chalmers Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, who was also a Classicist. The Subversions of Classical Learning project as a whole comprises a series of events (in 2015 and 2016) to consider some of the most dynamic and exciting transformations and subversions of Classical themes.
3. Register now for ‘Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Transnational Conversation’ symposium. Thursday, April 14, 2016 – Friday, April 15, 2016 at the Newberry Library​. For more details visit: https://www.newberry.org/04142016-cervantes-and-shakespeare-transnational-conversation.
4. 5th Scientiae Conference on ‘Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World (approx. 1400-1800)’. Scientiae Oxford 2016, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 5-7 July 2016. http://scientiae.co.uk/oxford-2016/.
5. Joint Annual Renaissance Early Modern Postgraduate Symposium: Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Print, 1400-1800 ­ which will take place on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 February 2016 at The Courtauld Institute of Art. More information: http://courtauld.ac.uk/event/placing-prints-new-developments-in-the-study-of-early-modern-print.
6. Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religion and Science Conference on 21-23 March 2016, University of Groningen. http://www.rug.nl/ggw/news/events/2016/early-modern-women-on-metaphysics-religion-and-science.
7. The research group Places of Amnesia at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the interdisciplinary conference Places of Amnesia: Interdisciplinary perspectives on forgotten pasts, Cambridge (UK), April 5-6, 2016. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Places-of-Amnesia/.
8. Registration open for the 6th New Insights into 16th-and 17th-Century British Architecture, organised by Dr Claire Gapper and Dr Paula Henderson. The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, Saturday, January 23, 2016.
9. ‘Religion and Medicine: Healing the Body and Soul From the Middle Ages to the Modern Day’, Birkbeck, University of London, 15-16 July 2016. https://religionandmedicine.wordpress.com/.
10. Spaces and Places of Leisure, Recreation and Sociability in Early Modernity (c. 1500-1800). German Historical Institute, London, 19-21 May 2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/GROUP_NID/announcements/82169/spaces-and-places-leisure-recreation-and-sociability-early.
11. The Spanish Book in London from the 16th to 19th centuries, 13 May 2016, British Library, Conference Centre, Eliot Room.
12. Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain (Leuven, 4-6 Feb 16)‏. https://netherlandishartinspain.wordpress.com/.
13. Women and the Canon Conference to be held at Christ Church (University of Oxford) on 22-23 January 2016. https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/.

Research Seminars, Training, and Workshops

1. Registration is now open for a one day workshop entitled ‘The Neapolitan Phoenix: Heritage and Renewal in Renaissance and Early Modern Naples (1442-1647)’. The one-day workshop is being held at Compton Verney, the very beautiful art gallery in Warwickshire, from approximately 10am – 6pm on the 26th May 2016. We currently have eight confirmed speakers, minibus travel is being arranged from campus, and there will also be a tour of the gallery after lunch.   More details, programme etc will be added to the website in due course. Costs for the workshop are £40 (external), £35 (Warwick staff), £30 (students) and numbers are very limited, so early registration is essential, by sending your enquiry to renaissance@warwick.ac.uk.
2. London Renaissance Seminar: Forests and Gardens in Early Modern Culture. Organiser: Dr Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Saturday 9 January 12-5, Room 114, 43 Gordon Square tbc. The School of Arts, Birkbeck College.
3. London Renaissance Seminar: Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern Drama; John Marston and others. Organisers: Prof. Martin Butler, Prof M.Steggle, Saturday 23 January Room 114. The School of Arts, Birkbeck College.
4. London Renaissance Seminar: Early Modern Vengeance; In and Out of Time. Organiser: Dr Kate Graham, Saturday 30th January 2016, Room: G10/112tbc. The School of Arts, Birkbeck College. This half-day symposium will interrogate the relationship between revenge and time in Early Modern drama, while also considering the performances of Early Modern revenge plays in our own time. Confirmed speakers include Will Tosh (Globe Theatre), Sarah Lewis (King¹s), Catherine Silverstone (QMUL), and Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster).
5. Shakespeare/Cervantes Centenary Event, A Centre for Translating Cultures seminar, 16 March 2016, 15:30, Raymond Calcraft (University of Exeter), Web link here: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=4879.
6. Seminar on Printed Books, manuscripts and Material Studies, ESSE Galway, August 22-26, 2016. For more information contact: Carlo Bajetta, Università della Valle d¹Aosta, Italy, bajetta@univda.it, and Guillaume Coatalen, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France, guillaumecoatalen@hotmail.com

Calls for Papers

1. Call for papers: Disability and Shakespearean Theatre Symposium to be held at Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, on Wednesday 20th April 2016. This symposium draws together growing research interest in disability studies and Shakespearean theatre. Please email an abstract of up to 300 words and a short bio to the symposium organisers (disabilityandshakespeare@gmail.com) by Friday 15th January 2016. Please indicate if your proposal is for a position paper. There are two small travel bursaries available for postgraduate/early career presenters; the recipients of these grants will be asked to write a short reflection on the symposium, which will be published on the BSA website, the Glasgow Medical Humanities Research Centre blog, and the symposium website.
2. Call for papers: The editorial board of Shakespeare Jahrbuch invites submissions for its 2017 issue, which will devoted to Shakespeare’s Green Worlds. Please send your manuscripts to the editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Sabine Schülting (email: sabine.schuelting@fu-berlin.de), by 15 April 2016. The length of articles should not exceed 6,000 words. Articles should be formatted according to our style sheet, which can be downloaded from http://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/en/jahrbuch/note-on-submission.html.
3. Call for papers: Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its 9th annual student conference on the theme of Sensing the Early Modern to take place on 20th February 2016. We invite proposals for papers that explore perceptions of the senses during the early modern period, 1500-1800 and we welcome proposals from post-graduate students from all institutions. Conference papers might address the five traditional senses ­ sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch ­ or those less defined areas, such as the sense of time or place; of common sense, pain or pleasure. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words for a paper lasting 20-25 minutes (about 2,000-2,500 words) to Sue Jones, President, Birkbeck Early Modern Society, bbkems@gmail.com by 5pm on 11th December 2015. The abstract should be in the Microsoft word document headed with your name, programme of study and institution.
4. Call for papers: Translating Petrarch’s sonnets (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, February 19, 2015). Please send proposals (up to 300 words) to carole.birkan-berz@univ-paris3.fr and sonnetintranslation@gmail.com before December 15, 2015. Our first study day will take place on Friday February 19 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. We will focus on translations, re-translations and adaptations of Petrarch’s Canzoniere in a transhistorical perspective. The 19 February study day will aim at exploring the various modalities, meanings and scope of translations, adaptations and imitations of Petrarch, especially in English and French language poetries but also in other languages.
5. Call for papers: Intimacy in Early Modern Art, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC), August 18-20, 2016, in Bruges, Belgium. This session will explore the social implications of intimacy in the production, reception, and circulation of early modern art. Deadline for submission: Monday, February 8, 2016. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a CV with contact information to Andrea Pearson at pearson@american.edu.
6. Call for papers: Cervantes+Shakespeare2016. Coinciding with the quatercentenary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, SEDERI (Spanish and Portuguese Association for English Renaissance Studies) is organising its annual conference in collaboration with the English and Spanish departments of the University of Valladolid. The organisers invite proposals for contributions that critically explore questions related to early modern Spanish and English literature, history and culture, language, Restoration English Studies, Early Modern Anglo-Spanish cross-cultural studies, and any aspect of the literary and cultural links between Cervantes and Shakespeare from their time to our own. Abstracts should be 200-300 words and can be in English or Spanish. Both languages will be used in the conference. Submit your proposal for 20-min papers, 90-min sessions or round tables using the web platform: Cervantes+Shakespeare2016. Deadline for submission of proposals: 10th January 2016. For further information, contact sederi2016@gmail.com.
7. Call for papers: John Rylands Research Institute Conference 2016: ‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands Library. Monday 27-Wednesday 29 June 2016 at The John Rylands Library, Manchester. Deadline 29 January 2016. For more details visit: http://www.jrri.manchester.ac.uk/conference-2016/.
8. Call for papers: Utopia for 500 Years’ A Conference on Thomas More’s Utopia to be held at St. Thomas More College, University Of Saskatchewan, 22-24 September 2016, in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the work’s publication. Deadline 8th January 2016. For further information: http://words.usask.ca/cmrsblog/2015/10/22/utopia-for-500-years-a-call-for-papers/.
9. Call for papers: ‘Dare to Tell’: Silence and Saying in Ben Jonson. 1st – 3rd April 2016, School of English, University of St Andrews.   A conference in the 400th anniversary year of the publication of Jonson’s 1616 first Folio of Works. Deadline: 26 February 2016. https://jonson16.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/jonson_1616_cfp_zoesutherland.pdf.
10. Call for papers for ‘Paratheatrical Entertainments in Shakespeare’s London and London’s Shakespeare’ ­ seminar at the World Shakespeare Congress 2016. Donald Hedrick (Kansas State University) and Edel Semple (University College Cork). Registration for this seminar can be found online at the World Shakespeare Congress 2016 website. Seminar places are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. Registration closes on 1st February 2016.
11. Call for papers: The Spring 2016 meeting of the British Milton Seminar will be held on Saturday 12 March 2016. Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute on 12 March 2016. Please send proposals to Professor Sarah Knight (sk218@leicester.ac.uk) and/or Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk) by no later than 15 January 2016. For more information visit: https://britishmiltonseminar.wordpress.com/.
12. Call for papers: ‘Transverberations: Iberian Mysticism in a Global Context’. 5th and 6th February, 2016, University of Manchester. Proposals for 20-minute papers in English by December 14th, 2015. Full details: https://transverberations.wordpress.com/.
13. Call for papers: ‘Texts & Contexts VII, The Influence of Vernacular Discourses on Neo-Latin Literature’. 21st – 23rd April 2016, Innsbruck, Austria. http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/news/texts-contexts-vii-influence-vernacular-discourses-neo-latin-literature.
14. Call for papers: ‘The Musical Humanism of the Renaissance and its Legacy’. A University of Warwick Conference to be held at Warwick in Venice (the Palazzo Papafava), Venice. 2-4 June 2016. In collaboration with the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. Please submit titles (along with an abstract of no more than 300 words) for 20-minute papers to the conference convener, Jacomien Prins (j.w.prins@warwick.ac.uk), by 15 December 2015. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/about_us/centrestaff/researchfellows/prins/musicalrenaissanceconf/musicalhumanismconferencecallforpapersdef.pdf.
15. Call for papers: La Corónica invites scholars to submit a paper for a cluster entitled “Redes Petristas: Networks and Memory of Pedro I of Castile”. This cluster will explore the persistence over the years and across Europe of Petrism, whose traces can be uncovered in historiographical, literary and artistic production. Those intending to submit articles should send an abstract and preliminary bibliography to the guest editors of the cluster, Rosa Rodríguez Porto (rosa.rodriguezporto@york.ac.uk) and Sacramento Roselló Martínez (srm@sdu.dk) by Feb 1st, 2016. For more information see: http://www.lacoronica.org/normas.htm.
16. Call for papers: Contributions are invited towards a volume of essays on the German friar, priest and professor of theology, Martin Luther. The book will reconsider Luther’s pivotal contribution to the Protestant Reformation, advancing the debate on the source of his theological opposition to the traditional beliefs and practices of the medieval church. Chapter proposals of c. 250 words on any literary or biographical aspect of Luther should be emailed to the editor, Philip Major, by 30 December 2015. Birkbeck, University of London.
17. Call for papers: ‘The Pre-Modern Book in a Global Context: Materiality and Visuality’. October 21-22, 2016, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CEMERS conference, Binghamton University, The state University of New York. https://www.binghamton.edu/cemers/.
18. Call for papers: ‘Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age’, 13th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson. April 28­May 1, 2016. http://medievalartresearch.com/2015/09/29/magic-and-magicians-in-the-middle-ages-and-the-early-modern-age-the-university-of-arizona-tucson-april-28-may-1-2016/.
19. Call for papers: Northern Renaissance Seminar, ‘Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World’. 12-13 May, 2016, Leeds. Dr Sara Barker (University of Leeds) is the event¹s keynote speaker. https://nrsleeds2016.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/.
20. Call for papers: 3-day conference on Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800¹, Plymouth University, 7-9 Apr 2016; http://www.slideshare.net/NadineAkkerman1/call-for-papers-a-3day-conference-79-april-2016-plymouth-university.
21. Call for papers: Voluntary Action History Society 25th Anniversary Conference, University of Liverpool, UK, between 13th and 15th July 2016. The theme is Thinking about the Past, Thinking about the future. http://www.vahs.org.uk/events/upcoming-events/.
22. Call for papers: Othello’s Island 2016, the 4th Annual Multidisciplinary Conference on Medieval and Renaissance art, literature, history, culture and society. Deadline: 4 January 2016, othellosisland.org.
23. Call for papers: The next forum for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal volume 11, issue 1, to be published October, 2016, will be on women and science. Topics to be considered may include any subject that addresses the activity of women in science (including medicine), natural philosophy, or natural history broadly conceived. Forum pieces may consider, for example, women as scientists in any field, the influence of women as patrons of scientists and academies, or the scientific study of gender. Proposals on other related topics are welcome. Please send us an abstract of 300 words to msuzuki@miami.edu. We will respond promptly. The completed forum essays, of 3000-3500 words, will be due January 15, 2016.

Announcements of Projects / Publications

1. Bainton Book Prizes for Warwick colleagues: four members of the CSR – past and present – were recognised by the international Sixteenth Century Society for their outstanding contributions to early modern studies. Dr Elizabeth Goldring was awarded the 2015 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Art History for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (Yale University Press, 2014). Congratulations are also due to the CSR-based John Nichols Research Project, the primary output of which, John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources (Oxford University Press, 2014), was awarded the 2015 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Reference. For more details: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/145landmark_publication146_and/.
2. Brian Cummings and Alex Walsham have been awarded a grant by the AHRC to fund a collaborative and interdisciplinary project on ‘Remembering the Reformation’. The project will run for three years from 1 January 2016 and will involve the appointment of two postdoctoral research assistants, one based in the Department of English and Related Literature at York and the other at the Faculty of History in Cambridge.
3. Jeanne Shami is pleased to announce a database of early modern sermon manuscripts (1530-1715): GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Sermon Manuscripts) the blogpost address http://www.gemmsproject.blogspot.com/

Other Events

1. Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. 12 March – 5 June 2016, ‘In the Age of Giorgione’. Trace the development of ideas that changed the course of art in this highly original exploration of the Venetian Renaissance. Bringing together iconic paintings by masters such as Titian and Giorgione, we shed new light on a pivotal yet little-understood moment in the history of art. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/in-the-age-of-giorgione.
2. Postgrads working on Library and Information history, and wishing to receive funding for relevant research or conferences, may be interested in the James Ollé Awards. Deadline: 31 December 2015. http://www.cilip.org.uk/library-information-history-group/james-oll-awards.
3. UCL Renaissance Latin Reading Group, from Thursday 14 January 2016, at 5.00 p.m. in the UCL Italian Seminar Room, Foster Court 351. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mars/seminars-lectures/latin-reading.
4. Dr Johnson’s Reading Circle, An intimate after-hours reading group led by a prominent 18th-century academic in the former home of Dr Samuel Johnson. http://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/ReadingCircle.html.
5. A visiting fellowship worth £1,500 is available to scholars working on women’s lives, identities and representations in the humanities (broadly defined). The fellowship is intended to cover some of the costs associated with undertaking research in Oxford and can be taken up at any time between 25 April 2016 until 21 June 2018. For more information: http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/women-humanities-visiting-fellowship.
6. Globe Research Internships accepting applications until 4 January, all details here: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/opportunities/internships.