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Newsletter 51

By Alexander Samson, on 30 January 2015

  1. The Places of Early Modern Criticism, 23-24 March 2015 at CRASSH. Click here for Full details and online registration. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
  2. Four AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentships, Centre for Studies of Home. Queen Mary, University of London and The Geffrye Museum of the Home.  Applications are invited for four doctoral studentships commencing on 1 October 2015 based in the Schools of Geography, History and English and Drama at QMUL in collaboration with The Geffrye Museum of the Home via the Centre for Studies of Home. Click here for more information. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 23 February and interviews will be held at Queen Mary, University of London in March. For further information, please contact Alison Blunt a.blunt@qmul.ac.uk.
  3. Between Heaven and Earth: Ecclesiastical Patronage in Europe, 1400-1600 which will be held on Saturday 9 May 2015, at The Courtauld Institute of Art. 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. Successful applicants will be notified by 12 February 2015. Further information here: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2015/summer/may15_RenaissancePostgradSymp_BetweenHeavenandEarth.shtml
  4. Call for papers: Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC), October 22-25, 2015, Vancouver. Intimacy in Early Modern Art: Abstracts of up to 250 words in length by April 1, 2015, topearson@american.edu.
  5. British Milton Seminar: http://britishmiltonseminar.wordpress.com/ Saturday 14 March 2015. Birmingham and Midland Institute. There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Please follow this link for a map of the BMI’s location, and for further information about the BMI and its Library: http://bmi.org.uk/location.html. For further information about the British Milton Seminar, please contact either: Dr Hugh Adlington h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk or Dr Sarah Knight sk218@leicester.ac.uk.
  6. Call for papers (in Spanish, Portuguese, and English): «Culturas globalizadas: del Siglo de Oro al siglo XXI» 6-8 de julio de 2015. El plazo para proponer ponencias y paneles estará abierto hasta el próximo 6 de junio de 2015. Se admitirán ponencias en español, portugués e inglés. Toda la información sobre el congreso, así como el formulario para proceder a la inscripción de las comunicaciones, se encuentra disponible en la web: http://www.unav.edu/congreso/culturas-globalizadas/
  7. Call for papers: ‘War and Peace in Early Modern Literature and Culture’. 26th – 28th November 2015. The deadline for submission of abstracts (300 words maximum for twenty minute presentations) is 1st of June 2015. Submissions for panels are also invited. A small registration fee of £20 is requested, which covers lunch and refreshments for duration of the conference. Some funding for PG bursaries will be available. Please email submissions to: wandpconference@qub.ac.uk. Please direct any other queries to: Sonja Kleij: skleij01@qub.ac.uk Romano Mullin: rmullin02@qub.ac.uk and M. Williamson: mwilliamson11@qub.ac.uk @QubWarAndPeace * http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/wandp
  8. Call for papers: Reconfiguring Empires: Spain’s Trastámara-Habsburg Transition in its Local, Regional, and Global Contexts. Please send a short abstract (title + about 250 words), along with their name and affiliation, to Luis_Morera@baylor.edu. Please note that I will have to submit the full dossier through the AHA’s CFP portal by FEBRUARY 15, 2015—so an indication of interest and submission a few days prior to this would be much appreciated. 
  9. Call for papers: ‘Women, land and the making of the British Landscape, 1300-1900’. 29-30 June 2015, University of Hull. Please send titles and abstracts (of up to 400 words) to Briony McDonagh B.McDonagh@hull.ac.uk by 31 January 2015, along with details of any special audio-visual or mobility requirements. Twitter: @women_and_land    *  Blog: womenandland.wordpress.com
  10. Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Hull in historical geography/women’s history. ‘Maid, wife and widow: women’s life-course and property ownership, 1550-1800’. More info is available at: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/scholarships/science/maidwifewidow.aspx  Deadline 2nd Feb 2015. 
  11. Call for papers: Sixteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History, University of Texas at Arlington, September 17-19, 2015. Deadline for Abstract Submissions: April 1, 2015. Submission of individual paper abstracts should be approximately three hundred words in length and should be accompanied by an abbreviated, maximum one-page, curriculum vita.  Panel proposals (3-4 people) should include titles and abstracts of panel as a whole as well as each individual paper.  Deadline for submission is April 1, 2015. Please direct submissions and questions to Christopher Malmberg  christopher.malmberg@mavs.uta.edu. For information on our previous conference: http://transatlantic-history.org. Follow us on Twitter: TransatlanticHistory #THSO2015
  12. Call for papers: ‘Voicing Dissent in the Long Reformation’. The 8th Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society. Aix-en-Provence (France). 6–9 July 2016. Topics might include: preaching, singing and praying; public and private devotion; conferences and disputations; epistolary conversation; religion and politics; rumour and defamation; reading and publishing Dissent; the representation of emotion. Please send proposals (300 words and a one-page CV) for 30-minute papers or panels of three papers to: voicingdissentconference@gmail.com (Word documents only). Bursaries are available for doctoral students and young researchers. To apply, explain your need for support, your likely travel costs, and include a reference letter (from e.g. a supervisor). Deadline : 31 May 2015. Further information: http://johnbunyansociety.org
  13. Call for papers: Nosce te ipsum / Know Thyself A Conference on Early Modern Images Department of History of Art, UCL. Saturday 2nd May 2015. The conference aims to explore the role of visuality in the early modern pursuit of self-knowledge in a broad sense. As such, it invites approaches to visual material by which the Delphic maxim is evoked knowingly, or otherwise. Focusing on images from the period c.1500-c.1800, proposals for papers may include, but are by no means limited to: mortality and bodily materiality, cultural identity and difference (race, religion, gender…), subjectivity and self-fashioning, and encounters with the new world and new technologies. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Sophie Morris sophie.morris@ucl.ac.uk and Nathanael Price n.price.12@ucl.ac.uk by 2nd February 2015.
  14. Jan Kott Our Contemporary: Contexts, Legacies, New Perspectives. An international one-day conference, Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thameshttp: www.rosetheatrekingston.org/getting-here Thursday 19 February 2015. The full programe will be available shortly but please be advised that the conference will start at 09.00 am and will finish at 20.30 pm. In case of any questions contact kott.london2015@gmail.com.
  15. Book Launch: The Uses of Space in Early Modern History, 17 March, Tuesday, 18.30, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE. The Uses of Space in Early Modern History, edited by Paul Stock, explores how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history, and how spaces and spatial ideas were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods. It contains pioneering essays from an array of renowned historians: Lauren Benton, Amanda Flather, Michael Heffernan, Matthew Johnson, Paul Keenan, Beat Kümin, Robert Mayhew, Jeppe Mulich, Claire Norton, and Andrew Rudd. For more information about the book click here http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-uses-of-space-in-early-modern-history-paul-stock/?isb=9781137490032. The launch will be followed by a wine reception.  All are welcome.
  16. Speaking and Writing Aztec (Nahuatl). The Second London Nahuatl Study Day and Workshops. Institute of Latin American Studies at Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU. Friday, 20th February 2015. For registration please contact Olga Jimenez at Olga.Jimenez@sas.ac.uk Tel: 0207 862 8871 and for further information Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano at e.baquedano@ucl.ac.uk
  17. KCL: The next meeting of Early Modern Forum will take place on Wednesday, February 25th, 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm, in VWB 4.01. ‘Sound & Noise,’ three 10-minute presentations & discussion: Emily Butterworth (French), ‘Noise in Narrative,’ Emma Dillon (Music), ‘Sound and Emotion,’ Lucy Munro (English), ‘Sound on Stage.’ 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).
  18. The London Shakespeare Seminar. Monday 23 February, 17:00-19:00. Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London. This week, our theme is Shakespeare, Religion, and Usage. To discuss this, we will hear papers from Brian Cummings (Mortal Thoughts: Religion, Secularity and Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture; The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, AND 1662) and Michael Silk (The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature and Thought; Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy). This will be followed by a Q&A. There will also be an opportunity to go out for dinner and continue the conversation.
  19. Monday 16 March, 17:00-19:00. Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London. In March, our topic is stanza forms in Shakespeare’s narrative poems. Delivering papers this week will be Sarah Ross (Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain; Katherine Austen’s Book M) and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture, 1640-1680; The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680). This will be followed by a Q&A. There will also be an opportunity to go out for dinner and continue the conversation.
  20. Reconsidering Donne. 23- 24 March 2015. Lincoln College, Oxford. http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne/
  21. The University of Oxford’s Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries invites applications for the Humfrey Wanley fellowships. Closing date 27 February, 2015. Details: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships
  22. The University of Oxford’s Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries invites applications for the David Walker memorial fellowships in early modern history. Closing date 27 February, 2015. Details: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships   
  23. London Renaissance Seminar Book Discussion 13 February, 2015 at Birkbeck. Please join us for an informal discussion of two recent books on early modern drama. For more info: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/london-renaissance-seminar-book-discussion.
  24. On the Road, London Renaissance Seminar, 21 February, 10.30am-1.30pm. For more info: http://www.academia.edu/10234694/London_Renaissance_Seminar_21_February_10.00am-2.00pm. London Renaissance Seminar: contacts.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk
    London Renaissance Seminar mailing list: t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk
  25. Call for Papers: Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700. A Postgraduate Conference at the University of Sussex. Please submit your abstract along with your institution, paper title and a brief biography to litphilconference@sussex.ac.uk by 16th February 2015. For more info: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cemms/
  26. Crossroads of Knowledge: Literature and Theology in Early Modern England. 14 February 2015. A one day colloquium of the ERC funded Crossroads of Knowledge project. Details and Online registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26037
  27. Consider submitting an essay to EMSJ by March 1, 2015. Volume 7, Art, Design, Science and Literature in Early Modernity. The Early Modern Studies Journal is soliciting essays for a special volume whose subject concerns the intersection(s) between and among art, design, science, and literature. Essays may focus more particularly on two or more of the above topics in the context of the 16th and 17th centuries. The essays should be between 7,000-9,000 words, should be part of thehistorical and scholarly conversation (therefore we expect somewhere in therange of 30-50 primary/secondary sources, depending on the subject), andshould follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Essays lacking those criteria will not be reviewed. For more information about submissions or about the journal generally please seehttp://www.earlymodernstudiesjournal.org/submission-guidelines/
    Contact Dr. Amy Tigner with article queries: atigner@uta.edu
  28. The School of English, University of Kent wishes to appoint a new lecturer in Early Modern Literature. Research interests in one or more of the following topics will enable the successful candidate to complement existing strengths in the School and in MEMS: global interests; comparative literature; political culture; book and print history; material culture; Restoration literature; early 16th-century writing. This is a vibrant, collegiate department, and we look forward to appointing someone interested in collaborative teaching and thinking and working across and between disciplines. For full details of the role and the selection criteria please refer to the job specification. Closing Date: 11 Feb 2015. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ATS345/lecturer-in-early-modern-literature/
  29. Oxford is organising a symposium on Catholic and Protestant challenges to the early modern Papacy on 7 February, with keynote speaker Alison Shell, and a really exciting further line-up as well. For more information:  https://emcoxford.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/register-now-for-our-graduate-and-early-career-symposium-7-february/
  30. 2015 spring term programmes for the Early Modern Research Seminars and Renaissance Research Seminars. All seminars are free and open to all. For more info: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/calendar.shtml
  31. We are delighted to announce the second term of UCL Translation in History Lectures for 2014-15. Further details of the speakers and lectures are available on our website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/translation-studies/translation-in-history/2014-15-series All events take place from 6 to 7.30 pm at the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY. Events are free and open to all. Registration is recommended via http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ucl-translation-in-history-lecture-series-3036457450
  32. Call for papers: Nosce te ipsum / Know Thyself. A Conference on Early Modern Images, Department of History of Art, UCL. Saturday 2 May 2015
    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/staff-research/call_for_papers/nosce-te-ipsum For more information, please contact Nathanael Price n.price.12@ucl.ac.uk or Sophie Morris sophie.morris@ucl.ac.uk in the UCL History of Art Department.
  33. Birkbeck Early Modern Society Student Conference, Saturday 21 February 2015: Feast or Famine in the Early Modern Period. Please find the programme for our Spring conference below. If you wish to attend the conference then please complete the registration form on the link here. Our Blog: http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk
  34. Sussex Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies, Early Modern Sussex, Events and Research Seminars, Spring 2015 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cemms/events
  35. Birkbeck Early Modern Society Events, 2015: http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk/2014/12/04/birkbeck-early-modern-society-events-2015/ If you would like to join our mailing list, please email bbkems@gmail.com  
  36. Miriam Usher Chrisman Travel Fellowship. Applicants should provide a 3-5 pp. description of their research projects, which must include when and where they plan to use the fellowship. (This description should be double-spaced with 1″ margins and 12-point type.) Applicants should keep in mind that just sending in a dissertation prospectus is insufficient, as the selection committee wants to know more specifically how the fellowship will be used and how the funds will help the applicants complete their dissertations. Applicants should also provide a curriculum vitae and ask their dissertation advisers to submit a letter of recommendation. All materials should be sent directly via email as attachments (in MS Word or as a pdf) to Beth Plummner beth.plummer@wku.edu. The Recording Officer must receive all materials by Monday, March 2, 2015.
  37. Call for papers: Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, Conference in Early Modern Studies, 6-8 July 2015. As in previous years, proposals of individual papers and panels are invited on research in any aspect of early modern literature and theatre, history, politics, art, music and culture relating to Britain, Europe and the wider world. Proposals for panels should consist of a minimum of two and a maximum of four papers. Each panel proposal should contain the names of the session chair, the names and affiliations of the speakers and short abstracts (200 word abstracts) of the papers together with email contacts for all participants. A proposal for an individual paper should consist of a 200-word abstract of the paper with brief details of affiliation and career. Proposals for either papers or panels should be sent by email to the chair of the Conference Committee, Prof. Helen Parish: h.l.parish@reading.ac.uk
  38. Call for papers: ‘Women, land and the making of the British Landscape, 1300-1900.’ A two-day interdisciplinary conference, 29-30 June 2015, University of Hull. Contributors may address these themes in rural or urban contexts in any period from the high medieval to c. 1900 and in any region of England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland. Comparative papers exploring women’s experience in Britain and Ireland in relation to other places would also be welcomed. Please send titles and abstracts (of up to 400 words) to both convenors by 31 January 2015, along with details of any special audio-visual requirements or mobility requirements. Briony McDonagh B.McDonagh@hull.ac.uk and Amanda Capern A.L.Capern@hull.ac.uk. Twitter: @women_and_land and Email enquiries: womenandland@outlook.com
  39. ‘The Beaumont and Fletcher Project’ – Mailing List. ‘The Beaumont and Fletcher Project’ aims to stage every play in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon – more details can be found here:  http://thebeaumontandfletcherproject.wordpress.com/ If you are interested in joining the mailing list to keep updated on event details, announcements, or casting information, please send an email to Steve Orman at thebeaumontandfletcherproject@gmail.com.
  40. Call for papers: ‘Ecclesiastical Patronage in Europe, 1400-1600.’ London, 9 May, 2015. The Courtauld Institute of Art, Deadline: Feb 2, 2015. Between Heaven and Earth: Ecclesiastical Patronage in Europe, 1400-1600. Third Annual Renaissance Postgraduate Symposium. 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 2nd February 2015.
  41. Reimagining ‘the Cavalier’: Origins, Meaning and Afterlives Percy Building, Newcastle University 3rd-5th of August 2015. Deadline for abstracts: 14 February, 2015. Please email them to Christopher Burlinson cmb29@cam.ac.uk and Ruth Connolly ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk #cavalier2015
  42. ‘James VI and Noble Power 1578 to 1603,’ University of Glasgow, 10-11 April, 2015. See http://jamesvi450.wordpress.com/ to register.
  43. Call for papers: Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, Durham University. Ninth Annual Postgraduate Conference, 15-17th July 2015. “Darkness and Illumination: the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Medieval and Early Modern World.” Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to emsaconference2015@gmail.com for papers no longer than 20 minutes by Friday 17th April 2015. For more information, please visit our blog, website, or sponsor’s pages: durhammemsa.wordpress.com * dur.ac.uk/imems/memsa * dur.ac.uk/imems

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