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By Alexander Samson, on 7 June 2016
Conference Notices
Iberian Literature and Culture in Early Modern England
14-16 July, Newcastle, UK
Registration is now open: https://iberian-tudorconference2016.com/
Registration is free, but please make sure that you do register/ book your place at the conference dinner by July 12th. Travel bursaries are available.
‘The idea of a life, 1500-1700’
17th June 2016, MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, 9am-5pm
A one-day conference organised by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Oxford University
Niall Allsopp, Merridee L. Bailey, Kate Bennett, Laura Casella, Lotte Fikkers, Felicity Heal, Lucy Munro, Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Olivia Smith, Will Tosh, Victoria Van Hyning, Steven Zwicker
‘Rituals of Transition’ – ‘The Meek Life’ – ‘Brief lives and eccentricity’ – ‘Individual and family life in the diary of Venere Bosina’ – ‘Finding lives in legal records’ – ‘The diaries of Richard Stonley, Teller in the Elizabethan Exchequer’ – ‘Beaumont and Fletcher in the Archive’ – ‘A Book Collector Writing Her Life’ – ‘Controlling experience? Early modern science writing’ – ‘A hidden romance in Elizabethan public life’ – ‘Convent autobiography’ – ‘Dryden Dwells Among the Ancients’
£35 (£20 students / unwaged), including coffee, lunch and wine reception
Book a place at http://tinyurl.com/jugseg8 Questions to adam.smyth@balliol.ox.ac.uk
“Life of the Muses’ day, their morning star!” The Cultural Influence of Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford
11–12 August 2016, Lincoln College, Oxford
Conference registration now open. Please see https://ladybedford.wordpress.com/ for conference information, a draft schedule, and full registration details. Please direct any enquiries to daniel.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk
‘Italy and the Classics’ conference
10 June, from 9.45am to 5pm, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford
Please register for the conference online at: http://tinyurl.com/Italy-and-Classics
Registration is £25 (or £20 for students), including refreshments and lunch as well as confirming your place at the evening’s drinks reception and Bellissima Maria event. We will relocate to the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, at St Hilda’s, for 6pm for the drinks reception and a talk (chaired by Marina Warner, with playwright Roberto Cavosi, translator Jane House, and the actors Marco Gambino and Sasha Waddell), before the rehearsed-reading of Bellissima Maria. Please note: You do not need to attend the conference in order to attend the evening’s events at St Hilda’s; the evening’s events are free and open to all, but please do book your free place at: http://tinyurl.com/BellissimaMaria-Oxford
Early Modern Wales: Space, Place and Displacement
7 July 2016, National Library of Wales
The symposium will be followed by the Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Annual Welsh Lecture, in the Drwm, National Library of Wales 17:45-18:45: Andrew Hadfield (Sussex), William Thomas (d. 1554): A Welsh Traitor in Italy. For further information, please contact the symposium organisers, Bryn Williams and Rachel Willie (emwales@bangor.ac.uk). Registration for the symposium is free, to include beverages during the coffee breaks, but delegates are asked to purchase their own lunch. Please register online at http://bit.ly/1Tjuqf5
Representing Sovereignty Interdisciplinary Early Career Symposium at Warwick.
13th July 2016, Warwick, UK
The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick is delighted to welcome two Institute for Advanced Studies Visiting Fellows this summer. Professor Carole Levin and Dr Elizabeth Goldring will participate in a variety of events from 7th July until 14th August. Early career scholars are invited to apply to take part in the symposium Representing Sovereignty, 1485-1714 which will take place at. All details, including the booking form, can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/news_and_events/conferencesannouncements/carolelevin/representingsovereignty/
“Cultural Encounters through Reading and Writing: New Approaches to the History of Literary Culture”, 9-11 June, Glasgow Women’s Library
To mark the closure of the collaborative research project “Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women’s Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain)” (Sept 2013-Aug 2016). The conference will look at women’s writing from a broad European and comparative perspective but there are several interesting papers about Spain, and Andrew Ginger will give one of the keynotes. If you want to attend the event, please register through the website of Glasgow Women’s Library: http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/cultural-encounters-through-reading-and-writing-day-1/
Remapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Context, 1500–2000
UCL, 23–24 June 2016
Organised jointly by the HERA-funded research project Asymmetrical Encounters (UCL Dutch) and the UCL Centre for Transnational History, this two-day symposium examines historical mechanisms of cultural and intellectual exchange across the globe. Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge, leading to the establishment of intellectual and political hierarchies between centers and peripheries. Instead, this workshop investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of these encounters within Europe as well as in global context.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/asymmetrical-encounters/events/remapping-centre-and-periphery
Calls for Papers
CfP: ‘Networks and Connections’ – The British Legal History Conference 2017
In tracing the way that legal ideas emerge and expand, historians have become increasingly interested in exploring the way that networks are developed and connections made. Legal history is full of connections – between people and places, jurisdictions and ideas. The way that the law develops may be influenced by particular social, professional or political groups, or by wider national, imperial or transnational networks. The law may change direction because of new connections made, whether in the form of the transplantation of legal concepts from one forum to another, or in the form of the influence of new ways of thinking or acting. These connections or networks may be simple or complex, transitory or enduring, ad hoc or accidental. The aim of this conference is to explore the wide range of networks and connections which influence the development of law and legal ideas over time, in a variety of different scholarly contexts. We welcome proposals from historians interested in exploring these themes in all fields of legal history, whether doctrinal or contextual, domestic or transnational. Proposals concerning any epoch or part of the world are welcome and proposals from postgraduate and early career researchers are encouraged. Proposals for papers (maximum 300 words) should be sent to blhc2017@ucl.ac.uk by 26 August 2016 http://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/event/british-legal-history-conference/
CfP: a new series from Medieval Institute Publications
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
Series Editors: Cristina León Alfar, Hunter College, CUNY, and Helen Ostovich, McMaster University
This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that investigate the material culture, broadly conceived, of theatre and performance in England from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (c. 1550–1650). The editors invite proposals for book-length studies engaging in the material vitality of the dramatic text, political culture, theatre and performance history, theatrical design, performance spaces, gendering court entertainments, child- and adult-actors, music, dance, and audiences in London and on tour. We are also interested in the discursive production of gender, sex, and race in early modern England in relation to material historical, social, cultural, and political structures; changes to and effects of law; monarchy and the republic in dramatic texts; theatre and performance, including performance spaces that are not in theatres. To submit a proposal, please contact Erika Gaffney, Senior Acquisitions Editor, at Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org
CFP: Shakespeare & Counterfeiting, SAA Atlanta, 2017
Registration now open via the SAA website – No abstract necessary
“Counterfeit” Shakespeare is the inverse of the First Folio’s claim to be “published according to the true original copies.” This seminar examines counterfeiting as cultural practice, literary motif, and theoretical framework in relation to Shakespeare. In early modern England, “counterfeiting” had both positive and negative connotations, inflecting how people understood artistic creation. Meanwhile, discourses of counterfeiting and authenticity have been central to the policing of Shakespeare’s canon. We encourage papers on the following topics: How do Shakespeare and contemporaries such as Jonson and Middleton engage with the idea of the counterfeit? What is the value of considering Shakespeare as a counterfeiter (imitator/plagiarist/actor, etc.)? How was the concept of counterfeiting used to construct/contest notions of authorship and publication in the early modern period? How productive/misleading is counterfeiting as a critical idiom in Shakespeare studies today? To what extent is Shakespeare’s cultural value predicated on the exclusion of reproductions that are ‘counterfeit’, ‘debased’ or ‘spurious’? Is there such a thing as a counterfeit Renaissance? For more information please contact Derek Dunne (dunnede@gmail.com) and Harry Newman (harry.newman@rhul.ac.uk)
CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, Clothes, and bodies, 1600-1800′, PG & ECR Symposium.
10th November, University of York, York Medical Society.
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium takes ‘first impressions’ as a starting point, focusing on the many different ways in which appearances were understood, described, or depicted in early modern Europe, 1600-1800. We welcome submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers working within any discipline. Proposals are for 20 minute individual papers. Proposed topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: Appearance and the social hierarchy – establishment or confusion of social hierarchy, regulation; Disseminating appearances – altered appearances, clothing, fashion, cosmetics, appearance as a social or political tool; Disguise and deception; Criminal appearances – criminals, prostitutes, the ‘lower sort’, the criminal body, trials; Health and medicine – appearance of health, physical marks of illness, complexion, posture, the body; Appearing different – social, racial, national, gender; Public and private appearances – domestic sphere, public sphere, gender; Beauty – ideal beauty, ugliness, representations; ‘First impressions’ – first meetings, friendship, love, attraction. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in length and an accompanying 100 word biography to firstimpressionsconference@gmail.com by Monday 29th August. www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/firstimpressionsconfnov2016/
Call for Articles: Special Issue of http://episteme.revues.org
Profane Shakespeare: Perfection, Pollution, and the Truth of Performance
For its 33rd issue (Spring 2018), the online peer-reviewed journal Etudes Epistémè (www.episteme.revues.org) seeks articles examining Shakespeare’s treatment of the notions of perfection (or “purity”) and pollution (or “impurity”), understood not only along traditional moral and religious lines, but also, more “profanely”, in aesthetic and hermeneutic terms. Etudes Epistémè is DOAJ- and MLA- listed. We welcome papers focusing on the different ways in which Shakespeare recounts and stages the failure of purity (or perfection), embracing the impure (or the polluted) as a lively, creative material. This special Shakespeare issue of Etudes Epistémè is open to essays adopting a variety of methodological approaches, whether more materially- or philosophically-oriented. In all cases the issue especially invites proposals that attempt to “re-textualize” Shakespeare by favoring close examination of the text over religious or biographical speculation, to bring out the complex interplay between the notions of perfection, pollution and performance. Detailed abstracts of 600 to 1000 words of proposed articles are to be sent to the editors of the issue, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Karen Britland and Line Cottegnies by December 15th, 2016: anne-marie.miller-blaise@univ-paris3.fr, britland@startmail.com and line.cottegnies@univ-paris3.fr
CfP: Protestantism and Political Rebellion in Early Modernity
http://congresos.ugr.es/protestantismrebellion/
This international conference explores theoretical notions on rebellion as understood in early modernity, as well as case-studies of actual uprisings and revolts either encouraged and justified or suffocated and crushed by Protestant authorities. Further suggested topics for discussion include Catholic discourses that understand Protestantism as a rebellious and subversive religious and political ideology (and the policies ensuing from this belief), as well as the representation in early modern literature of the connections between political rebellion and Protestantism. The conference welcomes scholars and doctoral students working in the fields of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Literature and Translation in early modernity. The languages of the conference are English and French. The organisers intend to publish an edited volume with a selection of papers.
Please submit 200-word abstracts for twenty-minute presentations in English to Dr. Rocío G. Sumillera (sumillera@ugr.es), or in French to Dr. Águeda García-Garrido (manuela-agueda.garcia-garrido@unicaen.fr), by 31 July, 2016. Notification of acceptance: 7 August, 2016. Registration
More details on the conference and on how to register will soon be posted on
http://congresos.ugr.es/protestantismrebellion/
Proposals for reviews of websites that focus on early modern women: for example, WWP, BIESES, SIEFAR, The Recipes Project, etc. The spring 2017 (11.2) issue of Early Modern Women will feature a cluster of reviews of websites, following our earlier clusters of performance reviews and film reviews. Deana Shemek’s SSEMW keynote at the 2015 SCSC on her website on Isabella d’Este will head the cluster. If you are interested, please write to us as soon as possible, but no later than June 30. Completed reviews will be due on September 1. The fall 2018 issue (12.1) will feature a forum on play, games, and performance (see attached cfp). Please send abstracts of 350 words to the editors by June 30. Completed essays of 3000-3500 words will be due on January 30.
CfP: “Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures”: NORTH VS SOUTH?
Gender, law and economy in early modern and modern Europe (15th-19th century).
The aim of the 8th conference of the network Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures will be to analyse the consequences of different European juridical systems on the development of specific economic roles for men and women. At the core of the comparative analysis, at the European scale, there will be the different economic evolutions of European regions in the early modern and modern times. Customary laws characterized Northern Europe and Roman law characterized Southern Europe, but at the local level there were many differences, depending on urban statutes, craft rules, family structures, political and economic systems. Please, send suggestions for contributions in the form of an abstract in English or in French (3000 characters max) by July 30th 2016 to : anna.bellavitis@univ-rouen.fr and to beatrice.zucca@gmail.com
CfP: Expanding Visions: Women in the Medieval and Early Modern World
University of Miami, March 2-4, 2017
The keynote speaker will be Merry Wiesner-Hanks. The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium at the University of Miami and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite papers and three-paper sessions on new research on women’s activities—their literary, cultural, social, and/or political interventions in the medieval and early modern world. We encourage papers with interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the period 1400–1750. The presentations, in English, should not exceed twenty minutes. Please send 350-word abstracts and a scholarly biography of 200 words by October 15, 2016 to emwj@miami.edu
Shakespeare’s Londons/London’s Shakespeares
To tie in with the forthcoming Literary London Conference (6-8 July 2016) on the theme of ‘London and the Globe’, The Literary London Journal invites contributions for a special issue on Shakespeare’s Londons/London’s Shakespeares’. The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2016 and articles (between 5-7,000 words) might broadly address one or more of the following topics or questions: How are ‘Londoners’ (Henry VIII, 1.2.155) constructed in Shakespeare’s plays? What role did – or do – London audiences play in constructing Shakespeare? In what ways can we rethink Shakespeare’s anatopism, i.e. his staging of London as other cities? Can we see evidence of ‘Global Shakespeares’ in the refracted Londons he represented? What urban locations – in London or beyond – matter in
Shakespeare’s plays, and our current understanding of them? What contributions can contemporary spatial theory make to understanding Shakespeare’s staging of cities such as London? Do Shakespeare’s staged cities cultivate or curtail the ambiguities (linguistic, spatial, sexual and social) of urban life? In what ways can we see The Globe Theatre – past and present – as a microcosm of a changing and conflicted London? How does the reconstructed Globe Theatre offer a venue for staging modern urban experience? What role does the reconstructed Globe Theatre play in
(re)conceptualising Shakespeare’s relationship with London? All submissions should be sent to either Adam Hansen (adam.hansen@northumbria.ac.uk) or Adele Lee (a.lee@gre.ac.uk)
Other Events
Workshop: Working with a list of books
15 June, 15:30-17:00, ArtsOne 3:17
In this practical workshop Line Cottegnies and Joad Raymond will look at the usefulness of a particular list of books, and how we can extrapolate significance from its content and organisation. There’s a Shakespeare angle. It should be interesting and useful to all early-modern students and scholars. All are welcome.
Lecture: « Katherine Philips and French Poetry: Experimenting with Epicureanism and pastoral »
15 June, 18:00-20:00, ArtsTwo 3:20
Wine will be served.
Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture 2016
“The Shakespeare First Folio of Saint-Omer and the Jesuits: the Bibliographical Evidence” and “Shakespeare, the London Theater, and the Origins of Globalization”
7 June 2016, 18:15 – 20:30, 3.20, ArtsTwo (Queen Mary University of London)
Dr Paul Taylor, ‘Den gheest leert het maken: painting after life, from the spirit’
Friday 10 June 2016, 6.30pm, Birkbeck Malet Street room 541
Members free (membership £7) non members £4.
For more information about the art historian, Dr Taylor, please see http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/home/staff-contacts/academic-staff/paul-taylor/
Exhibition: ‘O rare Ben Jonson!’
Bodleian Libraries, 18 June–4 September 2016
A display of Jonson material from the Bodleian’s collections to celebrate the anniversary of Ben Jonson’s Workes. Please see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/upcoming-events/2016/jun/ben-jonson Enquiries to daniel.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researcher for ‘The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (RECIRC) School of Humanities / Moore Institute NUI Galway
The National University of Ireland, Galway is seeking to fill 1 full-time, fixed-term Postdoctoral Researcher position for the project “The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700‟ (RECIRC), led by Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan, Principal Investigator (School of Humanities). The position is a 13-month contract, funded by the European Research Council, under the Consolidator Grant Scheme, 2013. The position is allocated to Work Package 1: Transnational Religious Networks, and will be expected to start by October 2016. Closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00 pm Friday 17th June 2016. Interviews are planned for early July 2016.For further details on the RECIRC project, see www.recirc.nuigalway.ie
SHAKESPEARE’S SISTERS: SHORT FILMS SCREENING + PANEL DISCUSSION
12 June at 2.30pm, Curzon Soho
It’s a very affordable £7 and will include a screening + a panel discussion on Shakespeare, film and women with Prof Carol Rutter, two young female filmmakers and a programmer from the female-centric film festival Bechdel Test Fest.
Booking link: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/qas/shakespearessistersshorts
More info: http://www.curzonblog.com/all-posts/2016/5/13/shakespeares-sisters
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) is calling for submissions for its travel grant program for graduate students whose proposals for conference papers have been accepted either at the upcoming annual conference of the Sixteenth Century Society or at other conferences.
The information needed for the application may be found here:
http://ssemw.org/opportunities/graduate-student-travel-funds/
Although applicants need not be members of the SSEMW at the time of application, if the application is successful, the candidate would be expected to join the Society
Women’s Studies Group, 1558-1837, Speaker Sessions 2016-17
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. 1-4 pm
**Saturday 17th September, 2016. Chair: Angela Escott Brianna Robertson-Kirkland: Venanzio Rauzzini (1746 – 1810) and his female operatic students. Judith Page: Austen and Shakespeare: Mansfield Park, Shylock, and the “exquisite acting” of Edmund Kean. Lucy Gent: What is becoming in Mansfield Park? Jane Austen and Cicero’s De Officiis.
**Saturday 19th November, 2016. Chair: Miriam Al Jamil Valerie Schutte: Celebrating the 500th Birthday of Queen Mary I in Manuscript Images. Emma Newport: Interplay and Interpretation: Lady Banks’s “Dairy Book” and the collection and collation of Chinese Porcelain. Chrisy Dennis: “We were born to grace society: but not to be its slaves”: Chivalry and Revolution in Mary Robinson’s Hubert de Sevrac, A Romance of the Eighteenth Century (1796).
**Saturday 21st January, 2017.C hair: Lois Chaber Charlotte Young: “Our Wives you find at Goldsmiths Hall”: Women and sequestration during the English Civil War. Helen Draper: Mary Beale and the Performance of Friendship. Mascha Hansen: Beyond Marriage: Envisioning the Future in Women’s Writings, 1660-1830.
**Saturday 18th March, 2017 (work in progress invited for this session). Chair: Gillian Williamson Madeleine Pelling: “That Noble Possessor”: The Pursuit of Virtuous Knowledge and its Materials in the Collection of Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785). Erica Buurman: Dancing the Waterloo Waltz: Responses to the Napoleonic Wars in Regency Social Dance. Angela Escott: Hannah Cowley’s “dramatic talents” employed in her epic poem of the Napoleonic Wars, The Siege of Acre (1801).
Find out more www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/ or Carolyn D. Williams on cdwilliamslyle@aol.com
The 5th London Summer School in Intellectual History
5-8 September 2016 at Queen Mary, University of London
Organised by UCL and Queen Mary, the event is aimed at graduate students (current MA and PhD candidates) working in intellectual history and related disciplines: history of philosophy, literature, politics, law, science, and classics. Keynote lectures will be delivered by David Armitage (Harvard) and Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary). We would be grateful if you could circulate the call for applications among potential participants: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/history-events-publication/intellectual-history-summer-school The deadline for applications is 30 June.
The James Plays Debates, June 10, University of Nottingham
On June 11th and 12th, the National Theatre of Scotland brings Rona Munro’s The James Plays to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal. To celebrate, the School of English at the University of Nottingham is hosting a day of conversations about the staging of Scottish history. This event brings together academics, historians and theatre professionals, as well as members of the James Plays creative team, with the aim of unpacking the unique achievement of the trilogy and the broader questions it raises for performing Scotland’s history today. The day begins with a buffet lunch and round-table discussions at the University, followed in the evening by a special event featuring Rona Munro in conversation at the Theatre Royal. All events are free, but please reserve a place at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/events/events/2015-2016/the-james-plays-debates.aspx
Please contact peter.kirwan@nottingham.ac.uk or Nicola.royan@nottingham.ac.uk for more information, or visit the event page.
Van Dyck in London
1–1.45pm, 7 July, Sainsbury Wing Theatre, National Gallery
Karen Hearn. During the 1630s, the Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck lived and worked in London. Supported by his studio, he produced many remarkable portraits. This lecture considers some of Van Dyck’s British works, and examines the influence of his art collection on them.
Samuel Pepys and the Remains of Restoration Collecting
7 June, Warburg Institute (Lecture room) – Dr. Kate Loveman, University of Leicester
Lecture, 5.30 pm. History of Libraries seminar series. Free; registration not required.
Renaissance Latin Course
12-23 September: Warburg Institute (Lecture room)
Course leader: Guido Giglioni. 3 hours per weekday, 11.00 am – 1.00 pm and 2.00 – 3.00 pm
New scholarly book series, Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World.
The General Editors of this series editors are Victoria Burke, University of Ottawa; James Daybell, Plymouth University; Svante Norrhem, Lund University; and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. This series provides a forum for studies that investigate the themes of women and gender in the late medieval and early modern world. The editors invite proposals for book-length studies of an interdisciplinary nature, including but not exclusively, from the fields of history, literature, art and architectural history, and visual and material culture. Consideration will be given to both monographs and collections of essays. Chronologically, we welcome studies that look at the period between 1400 and 1700, with a focus on Britain, Europe and Global transnational histories. We invite proposals including, but not limited to, the following broad themes: methodologies, theories and meanings of gender; gender, power and political culture; monarchs, courts and power; construction of femininity and masculinities; gift-giving, diplomacy and the politics of exchange; gender and the politics of early modern archives and architectural spaces (court, salons, household); consumption and material culture; objects and gendered power; women’s writing; gendered patronage and power; gendered activities, behaviours, rituals and fashions. For more information, or to submit a proposal, visit http://en.aup.nl/series/gendering-thelate-medieval-and-early-modern-world or contact Erika Gaffney, Senior Acquisitions Editor, at Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org
Blogging Before Shakespeare
beforeshakespeare.com
The Before Shakespeare website is now live and we would be pleased to hear of any proposals for 500-1000 word blog posts on the early years of the playhouses (up to around 1595). Inquiries or proposals can be sent to andy.kesson@roehampton.ac.uk