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Newsletter 55

By Alexander Samson, on 8 September 2015

Conference Notices

  1. ‘Scandal, Controversy, Persecution: Shaping Dissenting Identities’, Saturday, 14 November 2015, Dr Williams¹s Library ­ 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR. As usual, the conference is free of charge but prior registration is essential either by mail (anne.page@univ-amu.fr) or by post: Dr Michael Davies Department of English 19-23 Abercromby Sq University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZG. For more information:  http://www.dissent.hypotheses.org
  2. Conference “Femmes a la cour de France: Charges et fonctions” in Paris, October 8-9. Programme and registration information at http://cour-de-france.fr/article3761.html?lang=fr
  3. ‘Poets of the New World: Literary and Cultural Transmission in Early Modern Spanish America’. 19th-20th November 2015, Clare College, University of Cambridge. Full details of the programme and free registration are available on the conference website: http://newworldpoets.wix.com/cambridge
    The deadline for registration is 10th November 2015. For more information, please contact Imogen Choi ics26@cam.ac.uk
  4. Registration is open for Centres of Diplomacy, Centres of Culture 1: The
    Habsburg and Papal Courts c.1450-1630 (21 and 22 September 2015 at TORCH,
    Oxford). Attendance at the conference is free, but registration is required.
    For details of the programme and information about how to register please
    visit http://torch.ox.ac.uk/centres-diplomacy-centres-culture-i-0
  5. A one-day conference looking at various cultural aspects of the reign of James V – titled ‘The Presence of Majestie: James V and Sir David Lindsay’. The conference is being held on Saturday 19 September at St Augustine’s Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL​ and costs just £15 to attend. The event is sponsored by the Heraldic Society of Scotland and can be booked through the HSS shop http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/conference.html or by contacting Alex Maxwell Findlater alex@findlater.org.uk
  6. ‘Reimagining the Cavalier’: A One-Day Symposium at Newcastle University, 11 September 2015, Percy Building, Room G.10. The symposium is free, but please email ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk to register your attendance. Further information available here: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems/reimaginingthecavalier/http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems/reimaginingthecavalier/

 

Research Seminars, Training, and Workshops

  1. Upcoming Birkbeck Early Modern Society Events: on 23 October Dr Stephen Brogan will talk about  ‘Rivals to Charles II?  Valentine Greatrakes, the duke of Monmouth and the royal touch in Restoration England, 1660-85’.  On 13 November, Dr Susan North of the V&A will speak to us about ‘Dress and hygiene in early modern England. For more information: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/about-us/societies-student-groups/early-modern-society Or visit our blog http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk
  1. The 4th London Summer School in Intellectual History. Both lectures are free and colleagues are very welcome, but we would kindly ask them to register beforehand at the relevant event webpages. In case of any practical queries, they can contact the event administrator, Ms Lucy Dow, at elspeth.dow.09@ucl.ac.uk Opening keynote lecture by Prof. Anthony La Vopa (North Carolina): “Specialization run amok? Contextualizing Denis Diderot” (Monday 7 September 2015, 5:00pm, Haldane Room, Wilkins Building, UCL) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/specialization-run-amok-making-sense-of-denis-diderot-tickets-18286569622 Concluding keynote lecture by Prof. Quentin Skinner (QMUL): “Thomas Hobbes and the iconography of the state” (Thursday 10 September 2015, 2:30pm, Haldane Room, Wilkins Building, UCL)  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thomas-hobbes-and-the-iconography-of-the-state-tickets-18286622781
  2. The 2015 Fifteenth Century Conference will be hosted at the University of Kent on 10-12 September this year, a conference with two major themes, Lancastrian political culture and social and economic history in the later Middle Ages. For more information, please visit: https://kenthospitality.kent.ac.uk/Register/Registration/Welcome.aspx?e=076160A7EA8AFA2B1E20EFBA06A1E773
  3. The Early Modern Line: A Symposium on Friday 18th September 2015 at Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. Free Registration  & Postgraduate Travel Bursaries Available. Keynote presentations from Dr Matthew Eddy (Durham University), Matthias Garn, Master Mason, and carver Kibby Schaefer, alongside an exhibition of items from the Library’s Special Collections. To register, please email earlymodernlines@york.ac.ukbefore Monday 14th September. Please indicate if you are a postgraduate student and would like to be considered for a travel bursary.
  4. ESSE Galway  August 22-26, 2016. Seminar on Printed Books, Manuscripts and Material Studies. Convenors:Carlo Bajetta, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy, carlo.bajetta@univda.it Guillaume Coatalen, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France, guillaumecoatalen@hotmail.com. The focus is on the physicality of English printed books and manuscripts, whether they be strictly literary or not.
  5. Online Paleography Course and Onsite Archival Studies Seminar in Florence, Italy. Part of the Medici Archive Project. For further details: www.medici.org/educational-programmes

 

 

Calls for Papers

  1. Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Early Modern Print ­ which will take place on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 February 2016  at The Courtauld Institute of Art. Click here for more information. Abstracts for 20-minute papers, not exceeding 250 words should be sent with a brief academic CV (100 words) by 22 November to: placingprints@courtauld.ac.uk
  2. Call for papers: Royal Studies Network at Kalamazoo, May 2016. ‘A Queen is Born: Celebrating the 500th Birthday of Queen Mary I of England. A Successor is Born: Contested Births and Unexpected Heirs.’ If you would like to participate in one of our sessions, please send a 250 word abstract for a 20 minute paper to the session coordinator, Valerie Schutte (veschutte@gmail.com) by 15 September. Please include a participant information form with your abstract.
  3. Call for papers for a two-day conference on ‘Women and the Canon’ to be held at Christ Church (University of Oxford) on 22-23 January 2016. Please send an abstract of 250 words with a brief biography by 15th September to the following email address: womencanonconference@gmail.com.
  4. Call for Papers: ‘The Opportune Moment and the Early Modern Theatre of Politics.’ An initiative of the Grasping Kairos Research Network on Thursday 12th November 2015, 13.00-20.00, Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck, University of London. To attend the seminar, please send an abstract of max. 300 words, accompanied by a one-page CV by 30thSeptember 2015 to the seminar organisers Dr Joanne Paul, Dr Kristine Johanson, and Dr Sarah Lewis at graspingkairos@gmail.com. We welcome abstracts from both established scholars and postgraduates. If you would like to audit the seminar, please email the network and hopefully we will be able to accommodate you. To attend the keynote address, please email graspingkairos@gmail.comto be added to the list of attendees. For more information, please visit the Grasping Kairos website: graspingkairos.wix.com/network
  5. Society for Neo-Latin Studies SNLS Early-Career Essay Prize. Submissions for the inaugural SNLS Early-Career Essay Prize are now invited. All PhD students and post-docs up to two years after their viva by the deadline (who are also members) are eligible to submit an essay of up to 7,000 words, including footnotes, but excluding bibliography and any appendixes (e.g. part of a chapter or a draft of an article or a  written version of a conference paper) by 1 September 2015 (as an email attachment to g.manuwald@ucl.ac.uk). All submissions will be judged by members of the Executive Committee, who may ask other experts to join them. The winner will be announced at the AGM in November and will receive a certificate, a small financial award and publication advice if required.
  6. Call for papers for ‘Paratheatrical Entertainments in Shakespeare¹s London and London¹s Shakespeare’ seminar at the World Shakespeare Congress 2016. For more info http://www.wsc2016.info/
  7. Call for papers for ‘Othello’s Island 2016’ The 4th Annual Multidisciplinary Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Art, Literature, History, Culture and Society. Please refer to the website before submitting for further information: www.othellosisland.org
  8. Call for papers for the session “Labyrinth as Paradigm in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures” we are organizing for the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (Harvard University, March 17-20). 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers are due September 23, 2015. Click here for more information.
  9. Call for papers: ‘Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature’ will be held at Durham University (UK) on 26-27 February 2016. For more info: https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/conferences/?eventno=25738
  10. Call for papers for a 3-day conference on ‘Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800’, Plymouth Uni, 7-9 Apr 2016. http://www.slideshare.net/NadineAkkerman1/call-for-papers-a-3day-conference-79-april-2016-plymouth-university
  11. Call for papers: Voluntary Action History Society 25th Anniversary Conference. University of Liverpool, UK,  between 13th and 15th July 2016. The theme is ‘Thinking about the past, thinking about the future.’ Papers are invited which explore subjects in a range of time periods, from the Middle Ages (or earlier) to the near-history of the twenty-first century. For more details see the call for papers here: http://www.vahs.org.uk/events/upcoming-events/ The organisers will welcome speakers and attendees working in women’s studies.
  12. Call for papers: EAUH 2016: Natural Disasters and Relocation of Cities in Spanish America, 16th ­-18th centuries. 13th International Conference on Urban History, Helsinki, 24th – 27th August 2016. For more information: https://eauh2016.net/programme/sessions/#session-content-25513. The next forum for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 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 to msuzuki@miami.edu. We will respond promptly. The completed forum essays, of 3000-3500 words, will be due January 15, 2016.
  13. The launch of the new book series titled “Spanish Golden Age Studies” http://www.peterlang.com/?SGAS welcomes proposals in English and Spanish, and are interested in both single-authored monographs and edited collections.

 

Jobs and Studentships

  1. Two PhD candidates in Renaissance and Golden Age Literature. Faculty of Humanities – Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies. For more information and applications, please visit: http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/content/2015/07/15-268_two-phd-candidates-in-renaissance-and-golden-age-literature.html

 

Announcements of Projects / Publications

  1. JournalLists, a free subscription service for reading historical fiction, periodicals, and diaries in e-instalments. It’s designed to be both an educational resource for undergraduates, to facilitate reading historical works in small doses, as well as a fun experiment in reading for graduates, academics, and anyone interested in early modern literature. The first JournalList went live on 14 August with James Boswell¹s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson: sign upand receive each entry of Boswell’s diary on the anniversary of the day it was written. Upcoming JournalLists include The Spectator, and Lord Byron’s Ravenna journal. Go to  www.journalists.wordpress.comto find out more.

 

Other Events

  1. A guided walk: Very Able Statuaries – Early Modern Sculptors in the City of London. Exploring the lives and works of the many talented ‘carvers’ and craftsmen working in the Early Modern City after the Great Fire of 1666. The walk looks at examples from such stars as Frances Bird, Gaius Gabriel Cibber, Grinling Gibbons, John Bushnell, Thomas Strong, Robert Bird and Edward Pearce. As usual, we will visit a pub or two en route. Wednesday, September 30, 2015. Meet for a 6:30pm start at the statue of Queen Anne in front of the main entrance/west steps of St Paul’s Cathedral. £10 per person payable on the evening of the tour. £8 for people on the Early Modern Society mailing list, who’ve booked their place in advance with Laura Jacobs by September 21 at bbkems@gmail.com.
  2. Maya-on-the-Thames workshop – UCL Institute of Archaeology. September 11-13, 2015. Attendance is free of charge and open to all, no prior knowledge necessary. Attend the lecture and the workshops or just the activity of your preference. More details on the event’s website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mayaglyphs
  3. Special Events at the Foundling Museum: Including two talks on Jane Austen’s Emma on the 11th and 13th September.  Please visit here for full details: http://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/special-events/

 

 

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