1. Wednesday, 20 November: Professor Michele Bacci (University of Fribourg), The Invention of a Holy Site: the Lateran Church in the Middle Ages, 5.30pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre. Admission: Free and open to all. Organised in association with the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London.

Thursday, 21 November, Art History and Sound Lecture Series: Deborah Howard (University of Cambridge), Architecture and Music in Renaissance Venice, 6.00pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre.

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/calendar.shtml

 

2. Women’s Study GroupSeminar

Senate House, Malet Street, University of London on Saturday 30 November at 2.00pm. Room 234, second floor.

www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk

The seminar is open to all. The format is informal and friendly, with lively debate and an opportunity to network with others.

 

3. The seventh annual student conference of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society will be held on Saturday 15 February, with the theme of ‘Vice and Virtue in any aspect of life in the Early Modern Period ( 1500-1800)’.

Call for papers deadline is 6 December. For more info: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/current-students/societies-student-groups/early-modern-society

 

4. Call for papers: Colloquium on Dialects in Italian Literature and Culture, 1500-1800. Dartmouth Colle (Hanover, NH), September 4-6, 2014. Please submit an abstract of 300 words, a short bio, and your contact information (name, affiliation, and email address) to Nancy Canepa Nancy.L.Canepa@Dartmouth.edu and Courtney Quaintance Courtney.Quaintance@Dartmouth.edu by March 1, 2014.

 

5. The London Renaissance Seminar. Please join us for an informal discussion of religion on the early modern stage. Dr. Alison Shell and Dr. Emma Smith will lead discussion starting from Shakespeare’s Unreformed Fictions/(OUP, 2013) by Dr. Gillian Woods Friday 29th November 2013 6 -7.30pm, Birkbeck,43 Gordon Square Birkbeck College, University of London. Contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk

 

6. CFP for Writing Britain: 500-1500. University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 30 June – 2 July 2014. Please visit our conference web site in order to submit an abstract (300 words or fewer) for a twenty-minute paper. Please send your abstract by 20 February 2014. Abstracts from postgraduate students are welcome and graduate rates will be provided. For further information please visit the website

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain

 

7. Tuesday 19th November 2013, Gordon Room (G34), Ground Floor, Senate House, University of London, 5:15pm: Reclothing the churches:  sensory religious re-investment in the early modern English parish church, Jude Jones (Southampton)

http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/learning/seminar

 

8. The archives of the Irish College in Paris are in the process of being digitised, and some very interesting documents are already available:

http://primary-sources.eui.eu/website/collection-irish-college-paris

 

9. The Irish Jesuit Archives is now online: http://www.jesuitarchives.ie/

 

10. Deadline for the first Renaissance Society of America and Text Creation Partnership (TCP) Article Prize in Digital Renaissance Research awards http://www.rsa.org/?page=Awards

 

11. GEMELA invites abstracts for its biennial conference in Lisbon, Portugal, September 8-10, 2014. http://www.gemela.org

 

12. Antiquity in a World of Change: Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Sir Thomas Smith (1513-77). To book, please email Executive Assistant Jola Zdunek (admin@sal.org.uk) or call 020 7479 7080. Please contact the Communications Officer Renée LaDue (rladue@sal.org.uk) if you have any questions.

 

13. Call for papers: Defending the Faith Conference taking place 15-17 September, 2014. It is being held in celebration of the 450th anniversary of the English translation of John Jewel’s Apology of the Church of England. Abstracts of 500 words by 1^st March, 2014 to Angela Ranson ransoang@gmail.com or Sarah Bastow s.l.bastow@hud.ac.uk

 

14. CREMS study day in the liturgy in history. Please see the following for details of this exciting event: http://liturgyinhistory.wordpress.com/

 

15. Early Modern Jarman 2014 event: 1 February 2014, Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King’s College London. Call for papers http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_bulletin/calls.html

 

16. Dürer and Warburg: Interpreting Antiquity. A two-day conference which will take place at The Warburg Institute (Friday 22 November) and The Courtauld Institute of Art (Saturday 23 November.)

Book online: http://ci.tesseras.com/internet/shop

Further information: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2013/autumn/nov22-23_DurerandWarburgInterpretingAntiquity.shtml

 

17. Please find below details of Renaissance Art History seminars, lectures and related events taking place in London in November.

Book online: http://ci.tesseras.com/internet/shop

 

18. Saint Louis University, a Catholic, Jesuit institution dedicated to student learning, research, health care, and service is seeking applicants for a full time tenure-track position at the level of assistant or associate professor to begin Fall 2014 in Early Modern European History. All applications must be made online at http://jobs.slu.edu and should include a cover letter and curriculum vitae.

 

19. Call for papers for the 2014 ACLA Annual Meeting on “Capitals” hosted by NYU in New York City, March 20-23rd.  The deadline for submission of papers is November 15th (midnight, Pacific Standard Time). To submit a paper visit the ACLA website here: http://acla.org/acla2014/propose-a-paper/

 

20. Thomas Browne Seminar, 2014 ‘Classical Philosophers in 17th century English Thought’ – Call for papers, Wed 28^th May 2014. Abstracts by 15th December (c. 250 words) to: 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/

 

21. ‘Time and Early Modern Thought’ – Call for papers. Sat 10^th May 2014 – York Minster Old Palace Library. Please send abstracts (c. 250 words) by Dec 15^th to Kevin Killeen kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk and Liz Oakley-Brown e.oakley-brown@lancaster.ac.uk

 

22. Heather Dalton (University of Melbourne), ‘A Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in fifteenth-century Mantua: Rethinking symbols of sanctity and patterns of trade’

5.15pm on Tuesday 12 November in the Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College, Oxford. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rest.12042/abstract

 

23. Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar, 2014 ‘Time and Early Modern Thought’ Call for papers. Sat 10th May 2014 – York Minster Old Palace Library

Please send abstracts (c. 250 words) by Dec 15th to Kevin Killeen kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk and Liz Oakley-Brown e.oakley-brown@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/

 

24. New collection of essays about the influence of ladies-in-waiting within early modern European courts: http://www.brill.com/products/book/politics-femalehouseholds

 

25. 16 November 2013: HERA-funded collaborative research project “Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship” with a one-day symposium on The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe. The symposium will take place at the Leemanszaal, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden.

Speakers are Asaph Ben-Tov (Erfurt), Alexander Bevilacqua (Princeton), Mordechai Feingold (Caltech), Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid), Aurélien Girard (Reims) and Arnoud Vrolijk (Leiden). Please find the detailed programme here: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/images/events/colloquia/2013-14/Learning_and_Teaching_of_Arabic_Leiden__2_.pdf

 

26. 2014 BSA Fellowship Program Announcement Application Deadline: December 15, 2013 http://bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm

 

27. THE EDITION AS ARGUMENT, 1550-1750. 16-17 July 2014, Queen Mary, University of London. Call for Papers Abstracts should be no more than 300 words long and should be sent to Harriet Phillips h.phillips@qmul.ac.uk and Claire Bryony Williams c.b.williams@qmul.ac.uk by 1^st December 2013.

 

29. Registration is now open for The Blood Conference, an interdisciplinary forum to discuss early modern and medieval theories of blood. Wednesday 8^th to Friday 10^th January 2014, St Anne’s College, Oxford. Find out more and book in for the conference: www.thebloodproject.net Join the conversation on Twitter: @bloodproject

 

30. Call for Papers: ‘Early Modern Soundscapes’, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th April 2014, Bangor University. To include the Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Welsh Lecture, given by Professor Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University) and Professor Richard Wistreich (Royal Northern College of Music). Abstracts of no more than 250 words for twenty-minute papers, or proposals for panels comprising three papers, are to be sent to Rachel Willie (r.willie@bangor.ac.uk) by December 1, 2013.

 

31. Second Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium; call for papers – deadline 4 November 2013. Event to take place: Saturday 18 January 2014, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Please send proposals of no more than 250 words and your academic CV by 4 November 2013 to renaissanceartandmusic@gmail.com

 

32. CFP for conference on perceptions of pregnancy from medieval to modern times at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, next July. http://perceptionsofpregnancy.wordpress.com/

 

33. November 21, 2013 Wolfgang Adam, Universitat Osnabruck, Faire reviver Montaigne. Contact Concetta Cavallini : concetta.cavallini@uniba.it and Giovanna Devincenzo: giovanna.devincenzo@uniba.it

34. Call for Papers: Drama and Pedagogy. Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 2014 Conference, 12-13 September, 2014, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

For further details, please see our website: http://samemes2014.wordpress.com/

For further information on the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, please visit http://www.unil.ch/samemes

 

35. Migration and Mission in Christian History (3-5 April, Oxford), deadlines 21 October 2013 and 20 January: http://www.history.ac.uk/ehsoc/content/migration-and-mission-christian-history-joint-asch-ehs-conference

 

Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 (7 December, Queen Mary, London), deadline 25 October: http://writingandreligion.wordpress.com/

 

Religions of the Book (17-21 September, Antwerp), deadline 30 November: http://dighum.ua.ac.be/ocs/index.php/sharp/sharp2014/schedConf/cfp

 

Collegial Communities in Exile (19-20 June, Limerick), deadline 17 January:  http://colleges2014.wordpress.com/

 

Gender and Sexuality in the Reformation (9-11 April Westminster College, Cambridge), deadline 31 January: http://reformationstudies.org/2013/09/10/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-reformation/

 

Reassessing Women’s Travel Writing, 1660-1900 (10-12 July, Chawton House Library, Hampshire), deadline 1 March: http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?p=57800

 

Godly Governance: Religion and Political Culture in the Early Modern World (27-28 June, York), deadline 1 March: http://godlygov2014.wordpress.com/

 

36. Call for Papers: Godly Governance: Religion and Political Culture in the Early Modern World, c. 1500-1750. University of York (UK), 27^th-28^th June 2014.

Please send abstracts and panel proposals to Christine Knaack, Jonas van Tol and Emma Kennedy by 1 March 2014 at godlygov2014@gmail.com.

 

For more information, please visit http://godlygov2014.wordpress.com/.

 

37. Speaking with the Dead: Histories of Memory in Sacred Space. 1-2 November at Exeter Cathedral and the Devon and Exeter Institution. Please contact Professor Philip Schwyzer (p.a.schwyzer@ex.ac.uk) by Friday 25 October to register for the symposium. Those wishing to attend the public lecture by Professor Douglas Davies only should contact Sarah Grainger (sarah.grainger@exeter-cathedral.org.uk).

‘The Many Faces of a Mediaeval Fenland Church’, a study day to be held at St Clement’s Church, Outwell, on 26th April 2014. Places are limited and early booking is encouraged. http://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/Outwell_Study_Day_-_26_April_2014.pdf

 

38. Open University Book History Research Group seminars (nine Monday evenings from November to May) at Senate House, London. The topic is Paper, Pen and Ink: Manuscript Cultures in Early Modern England and the full programme is at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/english/book-history/paper-pen-ink.shtml

For further information, please contact the organiser, Jonathan Gibson (jonathan.gibson@open.ac.uk).

 

39. 26 November, 2013, Ruth Ahnert, ‘Social Networking – Tudor Style’, Senate House, 5pm: http://blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/

 

40. A Conference on Early Modern Identity at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, Saturday 23^rd November, 10.30 – 17:00 http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/events/women_and_war

 

41. The First Annual Bardies Awards. bardies@theshakespearestandard.com

For more info: http://www.theshakespearestandard.com/?s=global+shakespeare