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Newsletter 52

By Alexander Samson, on 13 March 2015

  1. The new WSG website is now live and includes a dedicated page for this year’s workshop event: http://www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/annual-workshop/ Registration documents can be accessed via the website. This year’s workshop theme is ‘What is the Place of Aphra Behn in Restoration Culture?’ and our keynote speaker is Professor Elaine Hobby. Date: Saturday 9 May at Senate House, University of London.
  2. Call for Submissions: “After Iconophobia.” Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2-3 July 2015. We would like to invite proposals for short papers, and are particularly keen to hear from postgraduate students and early career scholars.  Please send abstracts of 200-250 words to aftericonophobia@gmail.com. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 17 April. https://aftericonophobia.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/
  3. The next Early Modern Movies at the University of Warwick will be L’Œuvre au Noiron Monday 16 March at 4.30pm in H450.  All welcome. Drinks and nibbles provided.
  4. Registration now open for the Warwick/Warburg Doctoral Training Programme, 11-14th May 2015 at the Warburg, London. Full details here
  5. Registration now open for ‘Ruling Climate:  The theory and practice of environmental governmentality, 1500-1800’.  University of Warwick, Saturday 16 May 2015.   A one-day interdisciplinary conference, which aims to explore the relationship between cultural perceptions of the environment and practical attempts at environmental regulation and change between 1500 and 1800.   On-line registration onthis website.
  6. Registration now open for ‘Reassessing Courtliness in Medieval Literature‘.  International Courtly Literature Society Conference, British Branch.  14th – 15th April 2015, University of Warwick. Conference programme here. Conference registration here.
  7. Registration / call for project presentations now open for the Thirteenth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research, co-organized with the Warwickshire Local History Society, on the theme of ‘Warwickshire Parishes: History and Legacy’. It will be held in the Humanities Building, University of Warwick on Saturday 16 May 2015 – application forms should reach Sue Dibben at the Humanities Research Centre by 17 April. Further details appear on My-Parish.org
  8. Call for Papers: BAA Romanesque conference 2016: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage. Oxford, 4-6 April 2016. Deadline May 15. Details here
  9. FISIER are sponsoring 5 sessions on ‘Renaissance Feasts and Festivals‘ at the upcoming RSA conference, Berlin, 26-28th March. List available here
  10. Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present“, published online by Cambridge University Press at orlando.cambridge.org/is now on free access for March 2015 (Women’s History Month). The user id is womenshistory2015; the password is orlando2015
  11. The Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) project of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is happy to announce that a complete inventory of the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) is now part of their growing number of online catalogues of early modern correspondences. For an up-to-date listing of these inventories, including Scaliger’s, see website
  12. The Council of Constance: Europe in Conversation, Queen Mary, University of London. 13 May 2015.  The Council of Constance (1414–1418) was a momentous event which witnessed far-reaching debates about the reform of the Church. The colloquium will also address the literary influence of the council, evaluating its place in the European imagination and sixteenth-century political thought. Programme and registration (essential) accessible on website
  13. Microhistories: Social and Cultural Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1387-1795). An international conference at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW. Friday 20 March 2015: 2 pm-5.45 pm – Saturday 21 March 2015: 9 am-6.30 pm. Further details: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/centenary/centenary-events/microhistories-lithuania-conference Registration: http://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/browse/department.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=135
  14. The next meeting of EARLY MODERN FORUM at KCL will be Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 1.00 pm, in VWB 6.01. Gendered & Unruly Bodies: Miranda Fay Thomas (PhD Candidate, English, KCL) ‘Reading the Spaniard’s Thumb: The Fig Gesture from Henry V to Othello’ and Sarah Anne Bendall (PhD Candidate, History, University of Sydney) ‘”What use are these farthingales, If not to generate scandal?”: The Farthingale, Women, and Sexual (In)discretion in England and France, 1550-1620’. Come and meet your Early Modernist colleagues! Everyone welcome, especially postgraduate students.
  15. The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830 is pleased to announce its 2015 biannual conference ‘Women in the Global Eighteenth Century’ November 5-6, 2015. Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Please upload 1-2 page abstracts or panels to http://blogs.shu.edu/abs2015/by May 15, 2015. For more information, please see the conference website or contact the conference organizers, Dr. Kirsten Schultz at Kirsten.schultz@shu.eduor Dr. Karen Gevirtz at Karen.gevirtz@shu.edu.
  16. Attending to Early Modern Women 2015, “It’s About Time” will be held June 18-20 in Milwaukee. The conference features a keynote address by Prof. Fran Dolan, UC-Davis, “It’s about Time and Terroir: Gender and the Story of English Wine,” plus 12 plenary talks and 44 workshops.  There will also be a special pre-conference workshop at the Newberry Library, Wednesday June 17. The conference program, registration form, hotel reservation information, and materials for most of the workshops can all be found at http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/conferences/atw2015/registration.cfm
  17. Job opportunity: Digital Project Manager, Cultures of Knowledge. We are excited to announce that we are seeking a full-time project manager for Cultures of Knowledge, currently tenable for two years from April 2015. Please click here for further details and to apply: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=117413 The deadline for applications is noon on Wednesday 8th April. Project blog post: http://www.culturesofknowledge.org/?page_id=6
  18. CFP Anglo-French Information Exchange in the Long Sixteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Workshop. Friday 26 June 2015, IHR, London. We invite papers, discussion sessions and work-in-progress reports. Deadline: Friday, March 20th, 2015.  To submit a proposal or for more information, please contact the organisers at anglofrenchsymposium@gmail.com
  19. Call for papers: ‘Texts in times of conflict‘, a postgraduate conference. 7, 8 and 9 September 2015 (TBC), De Montfort University. We welcome papers on: textual, visual and verbal representations of conflict; adaptations which respond to past and present conflicts; conflictual relationships between artistic, critical and intellectual movements; conflicts surrounding the emergence of new media; censorship and prohibited textual production; and the evolution of media forms and their impact on conflict-based studies. Please submit abstracts of up to 250 online at https://gradcats.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/or email them to gradcats@outlook.comby 5 June. More details are available at https://gradcats.wordpress.com/.
  20. Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought, The Second Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar, 8–9 May 2015 at the University of Lancaster. There is no registration fee but places are limited. Please contact Liz Oakley-Brown (e.oakley-brown@lancaster.ac.uk) to book. Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (University of York): http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/ The Northern Renaissance Seminar: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/northern-renaissance-seminar/events/
  21. Call for Papers: Collective Identities: Stability and Change, Friday 26 June, 2015. Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, London, NW4 4BT. Please send abstracts (150 words) to L.Smyth@qub.ac.ukby 20th March 2015.
  22. Call for Papers: Meta-Play: Early Modern Drama and Metatheatre. University of Kent. 13-14 June 2015. Paper proposals of up to 300 words, accompanied by a short biographical statement, should be submitted to Harry Newman (h.r.newman@kent.ac.uk) and Sarah Dustagheer (s.dustagheer-463@kent.ac.uk) by Monday 4 May. There are three postgraduate bursaries available. Please specify in your proposal if you would like one of these. Early submissions will be preferred.
  23. Call for Papers: Consecrated Women and Their Archives: Towards the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland. 13 May 2015 Maynooth University. We welcome submissions from all disciplines with an interest in the topic. Please send abstracts of 200 words by Friday, 13 March 2015 to: Dr Jacinta Prunty, Department of History, Maynooth University <jacinta.prunty@nuim.ie>
  24. The fifth Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conferencewill take place at Maynooth University on 28 and 29 August 2015. Proposals for papers and panels on any aspect of society in the Tudor and Stuart eras are now welcome. Postgraduates are particularly encouraged to offer papers. The closing date for proposals is Monday, 20 April 2015. Please find attached the Call for Papers and see our website www.tudorstuartireland.comor contact the organisers at 2015@tudorstuartireland.com for further information.
  25. Lecturer in English Literature 1660-1780, Department of English. This is a full-time and permanent post, available from September 2015. This post is based in Egham, Surrey, where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Tim Armstrong at t.armstrong@rhul.ac.ukor +44 (0)1784 443747. Please quote the reference: 0215-066. Closing Date:  Midnight, 25th March 2015. Interview Date: Expected to take place in April 2015. https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=0215-066
  26. Topographies: Places to Find Something –interdisciplinary conference addressing literary and visual topographies, May 14th, 2015. This conference approaches the meaning and importance of topography or topographies in response to the in’ creased usage of this primarily geographic term in a variety of disciplines, ranging from the arts and humanities, to modern languages, to social, neurological and physical sciences. Contact course conveners Emily Derbyshire (emily.derbyshfre@bristol.ac.uk) and Andrew Giles (ag12981@bristol.ac.uk) with abstracts of no more than 200 words before 28 March 2015. https://placestofindsomething2015.wordpress.com/
  27. The Halved Heart: Shakespeare and Friendship’, 17-18 April 2015. Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe hosts ‘The Halved Heart: Shakespeare and Friendship’, an international conference featuring keynote addresses by Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University) and Cedric Brown (University of Reading). For information and tickets, please visit http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/events/symposia-conferences/halved-heart
  28. Piero della Francesca and Disegno. Friday, 19 June 2015, 13.15 – 19.30 (with registration from 12.45) and Saturday, 20 June 2015, all day. Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London. Sainsbury Wing Theatre, National Gallery, London. Ticket/entry details: £26, £16 concessions BOOK ONLINEA limited number of complimentary places will be available for research students: if you wish to apply for one, please email a brief description of your work (no more than 250 words) to Jocelyn.anderson@courtauld.ac.ukby 15 April 2015. For more information and updates on the conference, please see the website:  http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2015/summer/PierodellaFrancesca.shtml
  29. £10,000 bursaries available for 2015-16 PGT Study at the University of Warwick (all departments).  100+ Warwick Taught Masters Scholarships of £10,000 available for 2015 entrants and £1,200 from Warwick’s Renaissance Centre (Renaissance Taught Masters only). Further details available at bit.ly/1z7468B]bit.ly/1z7468B
  30.  Call for Papers:  ‘Visual Print Culture in Europe 1500-1850: techniques, genres, imagery and markets in a comparative perspective’. University of Warwick at: Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy. December 5-6, 2015.  The conference may be able to provide some financial assistance to those whose home institutions are unable to support their attendance, especially postgraduate students.  Closing date June 1, 2015.  Full details on website
  31. Call for Papers: ‘The Making of Measurement’. University of Cambridge, 23-4 July 2015. Proposals for individual papers and sessions are both welcome. The deadline for proposals is 28th February 2015. Full details on website
  32. Call for Papers: ‘Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700’.  The Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies at the University of Sussex is pleased to announce its forthcoming Postgraduate Conference, which will take place on the 14th-16th July 2015.  Deadline has been extended to 2nd March 2015.  Full details on website
  33. Call for Papers: BritGrad 2015, 4-6 June 2015, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.  Graduate students with interests in Shakespeare, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies, are invited to submit 200-word paper proposals for the Seventeenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference. Full details onwebsite 
  34. Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography. June 22 – July 16, 2015, at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Led by Marc Smith, École Nationale des Chartes, Paris. Deadline for applications March 1. Details here
  35. The archives of Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies are now available at JSTOR. All volumes since 1969 (Vol. XVIII) are digitized and can be accessed via jstor.orgwith a moving wall of three years.  See website
  36. Living and working together: England’s immigrants in the Middle Ages.  A major new research database revealing extraordinary data on immigration in England in the late medieval period is launched today by the University of York, in partnership with the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and The National Archives.  Details
  37. Religious Matters: Women, Worship and Artefacts.” The Society for Early Modern Women (www.ssemw.org/) invites proposals for a sponsored session at the Modern Language Association in Austin, Texas, January 7-10, 2016. This session approved by SSEMW (as an Affiliated Organization) is automatically accepted for the MLA convention. All participants must be members of both MLA and SSEMW by April 7, 2015. Please send proposals for the roundtable or the panel by March 15, 2015, to Patricia Phillippy, SSEMW liaison with the Modern Language Association, at p.phillippy@kingston.ac.uk.
  38. SSEMW Call for Panel Proposals – RSA Boston 2016. The Society for Early Modern Women http://www.ssemw.org/ extends sponsorship for as many as five panels of 3 papers each at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. The Society promotes study and scholarly exchange in all disciplinary fields with a focus on women/female gender/women’s sexuality in the Renaissance/early modern period. Sponsorship signifies that sessions pre-approved by the SSEMW are automatically accepted for the RSA annual meeting. Proposals due by 28 May 2015 to Sara Matthews-Grieco, SSEMW liaison with the Renaissance Society of America:  smatth01@syr.edu
  39. Shakespeare Teachers’ Conversations take place once a term at Birkbeck. They provide a space for teachers and lecturers to meet one another, discuss their methods, and share ideas and practical classroom/seminar tasks.  On Wednesday 18th March we will meet to talk about using critical sources. Lilla Grindlay (Sutton Valence School) and Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent) will start the conversation by exploring examples of how they have engaged students with critical material on Shakespeare. Time: 6pm-7.30pm, Wednesday 18th March 2015. Place: Keynes Library (room 114), 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck College, London WC1H 0PD. If you have any questions, please contact Gill Woods g.woods@bbk.ac.uk
  40. The IHR hosts a wide variety of stipendiary postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships, publication awards, and small prizes and bursaries for historians and postgraduate history students. Competition for all 2015-16 fellowships has now opened, as have competitions for some of the awards and prizes. For closing dates and further information please see http://www.history.ac.uk/fellowships.
  41. Opportunity: PhD Student Research Assistant: The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons Project. Applications will be accepted until April 1, 2015. We anticipate hiring to be completed by May and work to begin in July. For more information, please contact: jeanne.shami@uregina.caor anne.james@uregina.ca.
  42. The Catholic Record Society are delighted to announce a call for papers for their fifty-eighth annual conference, to be held at Downing College, Cambridge, 20-22 July 2015. The Society invites proposals on any topic relating to Reformation and post-Reformation Catholic History in the British Isles. Two types of paper are welcomed, either a Research Paper, expected to last approximately forty-five minutes, or a Short Communications paper, a fifteen minute paper to discuss ongoing research. To propose a paper, fill in the application form, including an abstract of 300 words, and submit to catholicrecordsociety@gmail.comno later than Friday 27 March 2015. 
  43. The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is now accepting proposals for individual presentation proposals and complete panels for its 2014 annual conference, to be held 22-25 October 2015 at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with brief biographical information (no more than 3 to 4 sentences, including affiliation, rank and one or two important publications or other evidence of scholarship) to Kathleen Comerford kcomerfo@georgiasouthern.edu, no later than March 16, 2015. For more information about this year’s conference, please see the SCSC web site: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference/
  44. Call for Contributors: Queenship, Colonization, Piracy, and Trade during the Early Modern Period (1500-1800). Please submit chapter proposals of 400-500 words and a short biography, including research interests and not exceeding 250 words, to queenshipcolonypiracytrade@gmail.comby 1 July 2015. Accepted authors will be notified by 1 October 2015 and first drafts will be due 1 July 2016. Completed essays will be in the 6000-8000 word range.
  45. The Beaumont and Fletcher Project. If you would like to reserve a ticket for ‘THE MAID’S TRAGEDY’, please email thebeaumontandfletcherproject@gmail.com Tickets costs £10. Cash on the day, please. See posters on website for details: https://thebeaumontandfletcherproject.wordpress.com/
  46. The next meeting of the neo-Latin reading group is: 17 March 2015 Maya Feile Tomes (Cambridge). 5.15pm in the Strand Campus at King’s College, London. Refreshments will be served, and all are very welcome to join the speaker for dinner afterwards.
  47. Scholarship, Print, and Polemics in Seventeenth-Century Germany. Call for Abstracts: abstracts or extracts of book chapters that explore scholarly practice in the Holy Roman German Empire of the seventeenth century. Abstracts may be up to one page in length, and final chapters should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, including notes. Please submit abstracts, extracts, or drafts to the editor, Christian Thorsten Callisen, via email (christian@callisen.net.au) by 31 March 2015. Successful submissions will inform a book proposal for consideration in Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History. It is anticipated that completed drafts of chapters will be required by the end of February 2016, with revisions to be completed thereafter, though final deadlines will be confirmed.
  48. Early books released by the Bodleian: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2015/jan-27
  49. Durham is looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to work with James Kelly on prosopographical study of the English and Welsh Benedictines in exile. Information below and more info on: https://ig5.igrasp.com/fe/tpl_durham01.asp?newms=jj&id=90713
  50. Women Writers Online will be freely available during the month of March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. We invite you to explore the collection at: 
    http://wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWO Women Writers Online now contains more than 350 texts published between 1526 and 1850, including new works by Aphra Behn, Charlotte Turner Smith, and Mercy Otis Warren.
  51. Entangled Trajectories: Integrating Native American and European Histories, Washington DC, April 9 – 10, 2015. This interdisciplinary symposium at George Washington University and the Mexican Cultural Institute will explore how the encounters between European and Amerindian cultures after 1492 contributed to the first age of globalization. Program details and free registration:  http://www.gwmemsi.com/2015/02/entangled-trajectories.html
  52. London Shakespeare Seminar, Monday 16 March, 17:15-19:00, Senate Room, Senate House. Sarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann will speak on stanza forms in Shakespeare’s narrative poems and the complaint genre. Sarah C. Ross (Victoria University of Wellington) will discuss the complaint tradition, from A Lover’s Complaint and Richard III to its adoption by the civil war poet Hester Pulter. Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL) will be discussing the history of the Venus and Adonis stanza and critical traditions of labelling poetic forms. The seminar will be charied by Russ McDonald. Wine will be served, and there will be an opportunity to continue the conversation over dinner afterwards.
  53. Greenwich University Literature and Drama Research Group,Wednesday 1 April, 18:00, Greenwich Maritime Campus, Stephen Lawrence Building, room 007. Dr Paul Frazer (Northumbria University) will deliver a paper entitled “Devotional Direction in Romeo and Juliet and its Source Texts: Pilgrimage, Persecution and Exile, c.1562-1594/5.”
  54. Epistolary cultures – letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe. Call for Papers. The University of York is pleased to announce Epistolary cultures – letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe, a two-day conference (Humanities Research Centre, 18-19 March 2016).  Applications: please send a 250-500 word abstract and short c.v. to: Kevin Killeen (kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk) and Freya Sierhuis (freya.sierhuis@york.ac.uk) before 27 April 2015. We welcome applications from early and mid-career researchers, as well as established scholars.