Newsletter 54

Conference Notices

1. Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Aberystwyth/Bangor) Biennial Conference. Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World, 3rd-5th September 2015, Bangor University. Registration is now open: http://travelandconflict.bangor.ac.uk/register.php.en
2. Creating and Re-creating Shakespeare. The 2016 World Shakespeare Congress – four hundred years after the playwright’s death – will celebrate Shakespeare’s memory and the global cultural legacy of his works. For more information, or to register for the event, please visit: www.wsc2016.info
3. Women, Land and the Making of the British Landscape, 1300-1900. A two-day interdisciplinary conference, 29th-30th June 2015, University of Hull. Please book via the University of Hull’s online shop  http://shop.hull.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=90&prodid=204 Further details are available via the Women and Land blog: https://womenandland.wordpress.com/

4. Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess (1624). A symposium and script-in-hand performance of the play. Canterbury Christ Church University, Saturday 4th July 2015. Please register through the CCCU online shop: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/shop/Thomas-Middleton-Symposium
5. National Boundaries in Early Modern Literary Studies. Early Career Symposium, supported by a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA), at Queen Mary University of London on Friday 18 September 2015. Expressions of interest in speaking at the event (including giving a 15-20 minute paper) are welcome; see website for more details. For more information about the event and how to register please visit http://www.earlymodernboundaries.com.
6. Piero della Francesca and disegno, will take place on Friday 19 June 2015, 12.45 – 19.30 (with registration from 12.15) and Saturday 20 June 2015, 10.00 – 17.30 (with registration from 9.30) in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre at The Courtauld Institute of Art, and at the Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, London. BOOK ONLINE: http://courtauld-institute.digitalmuseum.co.ukFor further information, email ResearchForum@courtauld.ac.uk.
7. Emblems in Everyday Life, 2 – 4 September 2015, Glasgow University Library. A two day conference on emblems to mark the launch of the Great Britain and Ireland Branch of the Society for Emblem Studies, including a round table on the recent important acquisition to the Stirling Maxwell Collection in the University Library from the Yates Tompson and Bright sale. For more information and to register for this event, contact Alison Adams alison.rawles@btinternet.com or http://www.emblemstudies.org/gbi-ses-2015meeting/
8. Johnson and Shakespeare, 7–9 August 2015, Pembroke College Oxford. A Conference to Mark the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Samuel Johnson’s The Plays of William Shakespeare. For more information, and to book places please visit https://johnsonandshakespeare2015.wordpress.com
9. WEMLO is a British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project created to support researchers of early modern women letter writers. This site provides a scholarly meeting place for such researchers and offers an array of resources, including bibliographies, links to related resources, an image gallery of female letter writers, calls for papers, news, and a blog where scholars can communicate with each other about their work. The project also holds workshopsthat encourage scholarship in the area of early modern women’s epistolary culture. They are organising a colloquium on “New Directions in Early Modern Women’s Letters”, taking place on 14-15 August 2014.  Please see the events page on their website for further details: http://blogs.plymouth.ac.uk/wemlo/

 

Research Seminars, Training, and Workshops

1. Drayton in London London Renaissance Seminar at The Royal Geographical Society. For further information, contact Mandy Bedford University of Exeter hums-conferences@ex.ac.uk
2. The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service. Saturday 18th July 2015, 2pm-6.30pm. Room 538, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX. Please email emma.whipday@magd.ox.ac.uk with any queries.
3. Lope and the European Theatre of his Time. 8th Lope de Vega Conference. December 10th , 11th and 12th, 2015. Prolope Research Group. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona. For more info: lopeeuropeo@hotmail.com
4. Centres of Diplomacy, Centres of Culture I: The Habsburg and Papal Courts c.1450 to c.1630. The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities 21-22 September 2015. A conference exploring the role of diplomatic processes and personal in cultural exchanges at early modern courts. Early career academics are particularly welcome. For more details see: http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/centres-diplomacy-centres-culture-i

 

Calls for Papers

1. Call for papers from the Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London). The group will be meeting at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. WSG  membership is open to men and women, graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars. Our website on www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk provides more information. All meetings are on Saturdays: in the 2015-2016 sessions, the dates are as follows: Saturday 26th  September, 2015; Saturday 28th November, 2015; Saturday 30th January, 2016. Please reply to Carolyn D. Williams on cdwilliamslyle@aol.com
2. In response to the lively conversation on EMW-L last spring on films, EMWJ is soliciting proposals for reviews of films that highlight the historical presence of early modern women. Please send us abstracts of 200 words by July 1 that include the names of the films to be reviewed and the theme(s) that connect them. We will respond promptly. The completed essays will be due October 1, 2015. The cluster of reviews will be published in volume 10, issue 2 in April, 2016. Our next forum for 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 welcome. Please send us an abstract of 300 words by July 1. We will respond promptly. The completed forum essays, of 3000-3500 words, will be due January 15, 2016. For more info: http://www.humanities.miami.edu/humanities/about/staff/msuzuki/
3. Authority Revisited: Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516. Lectio International Conference. 30 November to 3 December 2016. University of Leuven (Belgium). Papers may be given in English or French and the presentation should take 20 minutes. To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of approximately 300 words (along with your name, academic affiliation and contact information) to lectio@kuleuven.be by January 15, 2016. For more info: www.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio

4. Call for Papers for the First Interdisciplinary Historical Fictions Research Network Conference. Anglia Ruskin University. Cambridge, 27th and 28th February 2016. This is a key moment for the study of historical fictions: there is a rising critical recognition of the texts and the convergence of lines of theory in the philosophy of history, narratology, popular literature, historical narratives of national and cultural identity, and cross-disciplinary approaches to narrative constructions of the past. Paper proposals consisting of a title and abstract of no more than 250 words should be submitted to: historicalfictionsresearch@gmail.com by September 1st 2015. Follow us: Twitter: @HistoricalFic http://historicalfictionsresearch.org
5. News, Secrecy and Foreign Policy in Early Modern England, Bath Spa University, 24^th October 2015, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. Paper proposals should be sent to d.coast@bathspa.ac.uk by 31^st July 2015.

 

Jobs and Studentships

1. One Year Post at University of Strathclyde. Following the award of an AHRC Research Fellowship to Professor Erica Fudge, the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde invites applications for the post of Teaching Associate in English Studies. We are looking to appoint an individual at an early stage of their career with experience in undergraduate teaching. The potential to contribute to research activities would be advantageous along with a PhD in a related subject.
   The appointment is for twelve months, beginning 1 September 2015. English Studies at the University of Strathclyde covers all areas of the literary curriculum from the Renaissance to the present, and we would welcome applications from candidates who could contribute to existing core or optional classes in Renaissance Literature as well as to dissertation supervision in a range of areas. Further details can be found on www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ATV970/teaching-associate-19611/
2. Fully-funded PhD studentships are available at Leeds Beckett University, including one prospectively in History, Heritage and Sexuality. Please follow the following link for details: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/research-studentships-and-fees-only-bursaries/ Scroll down to the Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology, then click on History, and it’s the second project. Closing date for applications is 30 June. Please don’t hesitate to email Alison Oram if you’d like to discuss it further: a.oram@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
3. Lectureship in Early Modern History, University of Liverpool. For further details see: http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/academic/a-588119/

 

Announcements of Projects / Publications

1. In the English-speaking world, the history of modern philosophy—roughly, the period from 1600 to 1800—has traditionally been focused on a few great canonical figures, especially the “rationalists” Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, and the “empiricists” Locke, Berkeley and Hume. For generations, students have learned about these figures, but have very rarely heard about any philosophical achievements of early modern women. This website helps us to transcend traditional narratives shaping the canon. The website will be the virtual hub for an international network of scholars to work together in expanding our research and teaching beyond the traditional philosophical “canon” and beyond traditional narratives of modern philosophy’s history. Members may be interested in the following link, which was posted on C18-List yesterday – an interesting and important initiative: http://projectvox.library.duke.edu/pg/

 

Other Events

1. Two Noble Kinsmen: Script in Hand performance. Saturday, 27 June 2015 from 16:00 to 19:00 (BST) Canterbury, United Kingdom. Come and see one of Shakespeare’s rarely performed plays, The Two Noble Kinsmen in one of Canterbury’s hidden medieval gems, St Mildred’s Church. Co-written with John Fletcher, this story of a love triangle and unrequited love is based on ‘The Knight’s Tale’ from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which makes it the perfect play to bring to Canterbury! The play will last for 2 hours, after which there will be a Q&A session with the director, actors, and the editor of the Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen, Professor Lois Potter. Reserve your ticket here! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/two-noble-kinsmen-script-in-hand-performance-tickets-17004557088
2. Script-in-Hand Performance of The Scornful Lady (Saturday 25th July 2015, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon). As the final event of John Fletcher: A Critical Reappraisal, co-convened by Steve Orman and José A. Pérez Díez, the Shakespeare Institute Players will be presenting a script-in-hand performance of one of Beaumont and Fletcher’s funniest collaborations: The Scornful Lady (1610). Elder Loveless has made a big mistake. He’s forced his mistress to kiss him in public. For penance, she orders him to travel abroad for one year. Elder Loveless must leave his house and goods in the possession of his brother, Young Loveless, who sets about spending his elder brother’s money on wine and women, much to the disgust of the faithful steward, Savil. But tragedy strikes – it is reported that Elder Loveless has died. Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scornful-lady-by-francis-beaumont-and-john-fletcher-tickets-16811416399
3. Music in the Early Modern Indoor Playhouse. Thursday 2 July, 6pm. Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe. With Dr Simon Smith (The Queen’s College, Oxford) and Dr Will Tosh. Join the Globe’s Early Modern Music Research Associate Simon Smith as he explores music and space in the early modern indoor playhouse. We might assume that seventeenth-century musicians kept to the gallery as the action unfolded below, but as Simon will reveal, early musicians were much more mobile than we have thought. This workshop will feature excerpts from plays including the little-staged The Insatiate Countess, and live musical performances by Globe musicians including a lutenist, cornett- and sackbut-players. To book tickets, please visit https://tickets.shakespearesglobe.com/eventlist.asp?shoid=603