Conference Notices

 

The Importance of Being Earnest. Ethics, Politics and Law in Relation to Dante

Common Ground Room, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London,

9th July 2016, 09.00-18.30

A Plenary Conference, Marking the 140th Anniversary of the Barlow Bequest for Dante Studies at UCL (Henry Clark Barlow † 1876)

Further Details about Venue and Registration: UCL Online Store http://tinyurl.com/zfzwovp

 

Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship

Keynes Lecture Theatre, no. 4 (KLT 4), Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury.

1-2 July 2016

A conference to celebrate the drawing to an end of the HERA project on ‘Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship’ will be held at the University of Kent on Friday and Saturday, July 1 and 2, 2016. It will bring together all the scholars, from several European Universities, who have been engaged on the project, and who will present some of the results of their research over the last three years. Their number will be augmented by further scholars who have made valuable contributions to the fields covered by the project.

www.kent.ac.uk/ewto/projects/Final%20Conference/final_conference.html

“Life of the Muses’ day, their morning star!” The Cultural Influence of Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford

11–12 August 2016, Lincoln College, Oxford

Please see https://ladybedford.wordpress.com/ for conference information, a draft schedule, and full registration details. Please direct any enquiries to daniel.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk

 

Early Modern Wales: Space, Place and Displacement

An interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the National Library of Wales, 7 July 2016

For further information, please contact the symposium organisers, Bryn Williams and Rachel Willie (emwales@bangor.ac.uk) Registration for the symposium is free, to include beverages during the coffee breaks, but delegates are asked to purchase their own lunch. Please register online at http://bit.ly/1Tjuqf5

 

Representing Sovereignty, 1485-1714: Interdisciplinary Early Career Symposium at Warwick.

Warwick, Wednesday 13th July 2016

The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick is delighted to welcome two Institute for Advanced Studies Visiting Fellows this summer. Professor Carole Levin and Dr Elizabeth Goldring will participate in a variety of events from 7th July until 14th August. Early career scholars are invited to apply to take part in the symposium Representing Sovereignty, 1485-1714. All details, including the booking form, can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/news_and_events/conferencesannouncements/carolelevin/representingsovereignty/

 

 

Calls for Papers

 

CfP: Space, Place and Image in Early Modern English Literature

Lausanne, Switzerland, 11-13 May 2017

In the wake of the recent visual and spatial turns in literary criticism, we would like to explore how revolutions in social, political and religious practice in the Renaissance have translated into new uses and understandings of space and images in the poetry and prose of the period. We welcome abstracts for 20 minute-papers addressing ways in which early modern English authors engage with the spatial and visual paradigms of their times. We warmly invite you to send your paper title along with a 300-word proposal (in Word format) and a short biography (100 words) containing your academic affiliation to both conference organisers, Sonia.Pernet@unil.ch and Kader.Hegedus@unil.ch, by Monday 19 September 2016

http://wp.unil.ch/johndonne-space/2017-conference/call-for-papers/

 

CfP: Early Modern Rome 3 (1341-1667)

5-7 October 2017, University of California, Rome, Italy

Early modern Rome was contradictory and complex; its vernacular and high culture animated and rich. From Petrarch’s crowning as Poet Laureate on the Capitoline in 1341 to the pontificate of Alexander VII Chigi in 1667, this conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to investigate the city proper as well as the campagna romana through a variety of different approaches and methods. The resounding response to both previous Early Modern Rome conferences in May 2010 and October 2013—76 papers from 9 different countries and 119 papers from 12 countries, respectively—mirrored the complex mix of the city itself and the changing face of early modern studies. We encourage papers from a range of disciplines—history, art and architectural history, literature, music, dance, religious studies, philosophy, history of medicine or science, diplomacy, gender, or others—to bring together in a single venue those whose research focuses on the city of Rome and the Roman countryside.

 

Given that the organizers wish to foster dialogue with other researchers, we encourage the submission of single papers rather than complete sessions. Complete sessions will be accepted, although we reserve the right to reconfigure them on the basis of other proposals. Please send a one-page CV and an abstract of 150 words to Julia L. Hairston (jlhairston@eapitaly.it) by August 30, 2016. Participants will be notified by September 30, 2016. Conference papers should be 20-minutes (approximately 10 double-spaced pages) and may be in either English or Italian.

 

CfP: Shakespeare and the Jews

University College London, 28-30 March, 2017

The relationship between Shakespeare and the Jews is a rich and multifaceted one with an extensive history dating back to the Elizabethan era. Attitudes to Jews in Shakespeare’s England comprise a complex topic with religious, racial, and cultural components that has been explored in detail in James Shapiro’s seminal 1996 work Shakespeare and the Jews. Jewish elements within Shakespeare’s work extend far beyond the infamous and well-studied figure of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and the history of critical and interpretative approaches to such elements is extremely variegated, including shifting perceptions of Shylock on the page and stage over the centuries, different ways of addressing Jewish themes within the plays in writing and performance, and the various representations of Jews and Judaism in translations of Shakespeare into other languages, both in Europe and globally.

 

The conference will be interdisciplinary and will explore issues relating to Shakespeare and the Jews from numerous perspectives, including those of literary criticism, translation studies, history, drama, and cultural studies. The conference aims to bring together a diverse range of researchers and to serve as a unique and fruitful platform for discussion and exchange on Shakespeare and the Jews between established scholars and early career researchers, as well as to help shape the future research agenda on the topic. The conference will include a keynote address by Professor Avraham Oz (University of Haifa) and will coincide with a UCL student-staff performance of Isaac Salkinson’s Ram and Jael, the first Hebrew translation of Romeo and Juliet (Vienna, 1878), which conference participants will be invited to attend.

Proposals are invited for papers of approximately 20 minutes. Please submit abstracts (300 words) together with a brief CV (and, for PhD students, indication of whether you would like to be considered for a bursary) by 15 September 2016 to Lily Kahn (l.kahn@ucl.ac.uk).

 

CfP: a new series from Medieval Institute Publications, Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture

This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that investigate the material culture, broadly conceived, of theatre and performance in England from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (c. 1550–1650). The editors invite proposals for book-length studies engaging in the material vitality of the dramatic text, political culture, theatre and performance history, theatrical design, performance spaces, gendering court entertainments, child- and adult-actors, music, dance, and audiences in London and on tour. We are also interested in the discursive production of gender, sex, and race in early modern England in relation to material historical, social, cultural, and political structures; changes to and effects of law; monarchy and the republic in dramatic texts; theatre and performance, including performance spaces that are not in theatres. Further topics might include the production and consumption of things and ideas; costumes, props, theatre records and accounts, gendering of spaces and geographies (court, tavern, street, and household, rural or urban), cross-dressing, military or naval excursions, gendered pastimes, games, behaviours, rituals, fashions, and encounters with the exotic, the non-European, the disabled, and the demonic and their reflection in text and performance. To submit a proposal, please contact Erika Gaffney, Senior Acquisitions Editor, at Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org

 

CfP: Shakespeare & Counterfeiting, SAA Atlanta, 2017

Registration now open via the SAA website – No abstract necessary

“Counterfeit” Shakespeare is the inverse of the First Folio’s claim to be “published according to the true original copies.” This seminar examines counterfeiting as cultural practice, literary motif, and theoretical framework in relation to Shakespeare. In early modern England, “counterfeiting” had both positive and negative connotations, inflecting how people understood artistic creation. Meanwhile, discourses of counterfeiting and authenticity have been central to the policing of Shakespeare’s canon. For more information please contact Derek Dunne (dunnede@gmail.com) and Harry Newman (harry.newman@rhul.ac.uk)

 

CfP: Special Issue of http://episteme.revues.org, Profane Shakespeare: Perfection, Pollution, and the Truth of Performance

For its 33rd issue (Spring 2018), the online peer-reviewed journal Etudes Epistémè seeks articles examining Shakespeare’s treatment of the notions of perfection (or “purity”) and pollution (or “impurity”), understood not only along traditional moral and religious lines, but also, more “profanely”, in aesthetic and hermeneutic terms. Etudes Epistémè is DOAJ- and MLA- listed.

In recent years, much attention has been devoted to the question of Shakespeare’s religious beliefs, leading to a polarization of opinions. Though Shakespeare belonged to a deeply Christian culture and though his language is in part shaped by all-pervasive Christian texts, evidence of Shakespeare’s “true faith” remains necessarily inconclusive. The playwright and poet situates his own truth elsewhere, in his art of poetry and drama, and in the time and act of performance, rather than in any sort of religious canon or eschatological horizon, implying the notions of completion and perfection. If Shakespeare so broadly and keenly “speaks to us” to this day, it is perhaps because of how profane his art is. Detailed abstracts of 600 to 1000 words of proposed articles are to be sent to the editors of the issue, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Karen Britland and Line Cottegnies by December 15th, 2016: anne-marie.miller-blaise@univ-paris3.fr, britland@startmail.com and line.cottegnies@univ-paris3.fr. Notifications of acceptance: March 31, 2017. Full articles due September 1st, 2017. The articles will then be peer-reviewed before publication in Spring 2018.

 

CfP: 5th London Summer School in Intellectual History

5-8 September 2016 at Queen Mary, University of London

Organised by UCL and Queen Mary, the event is aimed at graduate students (current MA and PhD candidates) working in intellectual history and related disciplines: history of philosophy, literature, politics, law, science, and classics. Keynote lectures will be delivered by David Armitage (Harvard) and Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary). The deadline for applications is 30 June.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/history-events-publication/intellectual-history-summer-school

 

Other Events

 

Civilisation in Time & Space: The City in the Early Islamic World

1 and 2 July 2016

Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground Space, , University College London

Using the perspective of the longue durée, this two-day workshop will explore the impact of religious and secular administration, and cultural traditions, on early Islamic urban planning. Debate is framed over the latter half of the first millennium and early second millennium CE: a period that encompasses Late Antiquity, the rapidly expanding Islamic world, and its subsequent fractious division into multiple polities, all set within the context of interactions with empire systems beyond its boundaries. The workshop thus seeks to re-establish a civilisational scale for the analysis of Islamic urbanism.

View the programme and abstracts at www.ucl.ac.uk/research-frontiers/civilisation/events/index

Register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-islamic-urbanism-the-shaping-of-a-civilization-tickets-24833823635

 

Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Drama

Location               Canterbury, University of Kent

Contract Type    For fixed term maternity cover to 30 June 2017

Salary (£)             £32,600 – £46,414 per annum pro rata

Closing date       28 June 2016

Interviews          18 July 2016

 

You will teach and convene first and second year undergraduate core modules in Early Modern Literature, and be in a position to teach one of a range of final-year special modules such as EN668 Discovery Space: New Theatres in Early Modern England (2016/17 modules to be confirmed). You will also be expected to teach postgraduate modules in the area and to contribute to the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. With a PhD or equivalent in a relevant subject area, you will be able to demonstrate successful teaching of relevant literature and/or drama modules at all undergraduate levels, evidence of interdisciplinary interests and a willingness to play a full and active part in the development of Early Modern Literature and Drama at Kent.

Further Info: https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/fe/tpl_kent01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=40157,6140127269&key=47702191&c=357671572599&pagestamp=seajwbhjvqdchuikog

 

Shakespeare: Metamorphosis

Senate House, London. Variety of dates

William Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616. Four hundred years later, he is revered around the world as a literary superstar. The metamorphosis of Shakespearean text and scholarship over seven ages is showcased in our exhibition and programme of events. A range of events throughout July, August and September: http://shakespeare.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events

 

Society for Renaissance Studies – Major Conference Grant

The Society for Renaissance Studies intends to make a grant of up to £1,500 support a conference or colloquium within the field of Renaissance studies, planned for calendar year 1 January – 31 December, following the June 30 deadline and held in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. The awards will be made to the conference organizers to provide assistance with organizational support and/or the travel and subsistence costs of certain participants, including postgraduate students. Please note the eligibility criteria, at: www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-and-prizes/major-conference-grants

 

End of year lecture by Professor Marina Warner

Birkbeck, London

15 July, 6.30 – 8pm

We are thrilled that Professor Marina Warner has agreed to give our end of year lecture on the topic of Sanctuary. Title and venue tbc. For more information about Professor Marina Warner please see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/marina-warner

 

Three new 5-year full-time post-doctoral positions

European Research Council funded ‘Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England, c. 1550-1700’ (TIDE) project. The advert is www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANW525/3-postdoctoral-research-associates/

Colleagues in the UK may also want to point suitable applicants towards the 0.5fte 5-year lectureship www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANW519/lecturer-in-english-literature-grade-7-05-fte/

 

A PhD Studentship Bursary (3 years) in Renaissance Studies

Roehampton English and Creative Writing

In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), English and Creative Writing were ranked 15th in their panel for the strength of the research outputs produced during the assessment period. The department, and the university, continue on an ambitious trajectory, providing a fully funded PhD studentship to work alongside the Before Shakespeare project, engaging in PhD study full time and integrating into the life of Roehampton’s School of English and Creative Writing working with academic colleagues. This fully funded PhD studentship also provides you with the opportunity to work with our project partners, Dolphin’s Back, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Museum of London Archaeology, to develop important networks and develop the impact of your own research. Details of the Before Shakespeare project can be found at beforeshakespeare.com

 

This fully funded scholarship will cover home/EU fees of £4,121 for Home/EU students and maintenance of £16,296 p.a. in 2016/17 for 3 years full-time subject to satisfactory progress. Accommodation will be available at Spring Mews. If you take up this accommodation, the cost of the rent will be deducted from the stipend. The rent rate for 2016-17 is £175 per week. Your research study will be supervised by Dr Andy Kesson and Prof Clare McManus.

 

Applications are invited from bold, innovative postgraduates with a record of achievement to undertake a project on a subject of their choice within the field of dramatic, literary or theatre history between the years 1565 and 1595. Candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Andy Kesson (andy.kesson@roehampton.ac.uk) for informal discussion of potential projects before applying. The closing date for completed applications is 25 July 2016

www.roehampton.ac.uk/uploadedFiles/Pages_Assets/PDFs_and_Word_Docs/Graduate_School/ECW%20Studentship%20advert.docx

 

Teaching Associate (Fixed Term)

Cambridge, UK

The Faculty of English wishes to appoint a Teaching Associate in Renaissance Literature from 1 October 2016. Teaching Associates are expected to conduct small-group teaching of undergraduates and taught postgraduate students and to examine for the English Tripos. The successful candidate may also be asked to undertake supervision of Tripos students by some colleges in addition to these University duties, although this is not guaranteed. Applicants should have a good first degree and a doctorate in a relevant subject area. It is also expected that applicants will have experience of successfully delivering and developing teaching at University level, including lectures, seminars and small group teaching, and the ability to work as part of a team. Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months in the first instance. Further particulars and how to apply at http://ww.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/10398/

 

Exhibition: ‘O rare Ben Jonson!’

Bodleian Libraries, 18 June–4 September 2016. A display of Jonson material from the Bodleian’s collections to celebrate the anniversary of Ben Jonson’s Workes. Please see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/upcoming-events/2016/jun/ben-jonson

Enquiries to daniel.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk

 

Intertextual Shakespeare Seminar

British Shakespeare Association conference, Hull

8 to 11 September 2016

Central to both early modern critical study and the theory of intertextuality are concepts such as the plurality of discourse, the mutually informing relationship between cultural ideologies and texts, and the instability of texts. The employment of intertextuality as critical methodology in analysing early modern texts has great potential, not yet fully explored. The theory of intertextuality can be applied to early modern literature in a variety of specific ways that surpass the identification of references: in the exploration of mythology as a system of meaning; in allegory; in the manipulation and imitation of narrative models and forms; and in satire and parody. The proposed seminar will be an opportunity to explore some of the potential areas of applying intertextual theory to Shakespearean or early modern texts and facilitate discussion of the benefits and possible limitations of this methodology. Please email 200-word abstracts / proposals to sarah.carter@ntu.ac.uk and peter.smith@ntu.ac.uk. Deadline for abstracts: 10 July 2016. Deadline for complete papers: 15 August 2016. NB – all conference participants are required to be members of the BSA. Please see the BSA conference website for further details.

Conference Notices

Iberian Literature and Culture in Early Modern England

14-16 July, Newcastle, UK

Registration is now open: https://iberian-tudorconference2016.com/

Registration is free, but please make sure that you do register/ book your place at the conference dinner by July 12th. Travel bursaries are available.

 

‘The idea of a life, 1500-1700’

17th June 2016, MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, 9am-5pm

A one-day conference organised by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Oxford University

Niall Allsopp, Merridee L. Bailey, Kate Bennett, Laura Casella, Lotte Fikkers, Felicity Heal, Lucy Munro, Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Olivia Smith, Will Tosh, Victoria Van Hyning, Steven Zwicker

‘Rituals of Transition’ – ‘The Meek Life’ – ‘Brief lives and eccentricity’ – ‘Individual and family life in the diary of Venere Bosina’ – ‘Finding lives in legal records’ – ‘The diaries of Richard Stonley, Teller in the Elizabethan Exchequer’ – ‘Beaumont and Fletcher in the Archive’ – ‘A Book Collector Writing Her Life’ – ‘Controlling experience? Early modern science writing’ – ‘A hidden romance in Elizabethan public life’ – ‘Convent autobiography’ – ‘Dryden Dwells Among the Ancients’

£35 (£20 students / unwaged), including coffee, lunch and wine reception

Book a place at http://tinyurl.com/jugseg8 Questions to adam.smyth@balliol.ox.ac.uk

 

“Life of the Muses’ day, their morning star!” The Cultural Influence of Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford

11–12 August 2016, Lincoln College, Oxford

Conference registration now open. Please see https://ladybedford.wordpress.com/ for conference information, a draft schedule, and full registration details. Please direct any enquiries to daniel.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk

 

‘Italy and the Classics’ conference

10 June, from 9.45am to 5pm, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Please register for the conference online at: http://tinyurl.com/Italy-and-Classics

Registration is £25 (or £20 for students), including refreshments and lunch as well as confirming your place at the evening’s drinks reception and Bellissima Maria event. We will relocate to the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, at St Hilda’s, for 6pm for the drinks reception and a talk (chaired by Marina Warner, with playwright Roberto Cavosi, translator Jane House, and the actors Marco Gambino and Sasha Waddell), before the rehearsed-reading of Bellissima Maria. Please note: You do not need to attend the conference in order to attend the evening’s events at St Hilda’s; the evening’s events are free and open to all, but please do book your free place at: http://tinyurl.com/BellissimaMaria-Oxford

 

Early Modern Wales: Space, Place and Displacement

7 July 2016, National Library of Wales

The symposium will be followed by the Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Annual Welsh Lecture, in the Drwm, National Library of Wales 17:45-18:45: Andrew Hadfield (Sussex), William Thomas (d. 1554): A Welsh Traitor in Italy. For further information, please contact the symposium organisers, Bryn Williams and Rachel Willie (emwales@bangor.ac.uk). Registration for the symposium is free, to include beverages during the coffee breaks, but delegates are asked to purchase their own lunch. Please register online at http://bit.ly/1Tjuqf5

 

Representing Sovereignty Interdisciplinary Early Career Symposium at Warwick.

13th July 2016, Warwick, UK

The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick is delighted to welcome two Institute for Advanced Studies Visiting Fellows this summer. Professor Carole Levin and Dr Elizabeth Goldring will participate in a variety of events from 7th July until 14th August. Early career scholars are invited to apply to take part in the symposium Representing Sovereignty, 1485-1714 which will take place at. All details, including the booking form, can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/news_and_events/conferencesannouncements/carolelevin/representingsovereignty/

 

“Cultural Encounters through Reading and Writing: New Approaches to the History of Literary Culture”, 9-11 June, Glasgow Women’s Library

To mark the closure of the collaborative research project “Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women’s Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain)” (Sept 2013-Aug 2016). The conference will look at women’s writing from a broad European and comparative perspective but there are several interesting papers about Spain, and Andrew Ginger will give one of the keynotes. If you want to attend the event, please register through the website of Glasgow Women’s Library: http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/cultural-encounters-through-reading-and-writing-day-1/

 

Remapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Context, 1500–2000

UCL, 23–24 June 2016

Organised jointly by the HERA-funded research project Asymmetrical Encounters (UCL Dutch) and the UCL Centre for Transnational History, this two-day symposium examines historical mechanisms of cultural and intellectual exchange across the globe. Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge, leading to the establishment of intellectual and political hierarchies between centers and peripheries. Instead, this workshop investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of these encounters within Europe as well as in global context.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/asymmetrical-encounters/events/remapping-centre-and-periphery

 

Calls for Papers

CfP: ‘Networks and Connections’ – The British Legal History Conference 2017

In tracing the way that legal ideas emerge and expand, historians have become increasingly interested in exploring the way that networks are developed and connections made. Legal history is full of connections – between people and places, jurisdictions and ideas. The way that the law develops may be influenced by particular social, professional or political groups, or by wider national, imperial or transnational networks. The law may change direction because of new connections made, whether in the form of the transplantation of legal concepts from one forum to another, or in the form of the influence of new ways of thinking or acting. These connections or networks may be simple or complex, transitory or enduring, ad hoc or accidental. The aim of this conference is to explore the wide range of networks and connections which influence the development of law and legal ideas over time, in a variety of different scholarly contexts. We welcome proposals from historians interested in exploring these themes in all fields of legal history, whether doctrinal or contextual, domestic or transnational. Proposals concerning any epoch or part of the world are welcome and proposals from postgraduate and early career researchers are encouraged. Proposals for papers (maximum 300 words) should be sent to blhc2017@ucl.ac.uk by 26 August 2016 http://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/event/british-legal-history-conference/

 

CfP: a new series from Medieval Institute Publications

Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture

Series Editors: Cristina León Alfar, Hunter College, CUNY, and Helen Ostovich, McMaster University

This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that investigate the material culture, broadly conceived, of theatre and performance in England from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (c. 1550–1650). The editors invite proposals for book-length studies engaging in the material vitality of the dramatic text, political culture, theatre and performance history, theatrical design, performance spaces, gendering court entertainments, child- and adult-actors, music, dance, and audiences in London and on tour. We are also interested in the discursive production of gender, sex, and race in early modern England in relation to material historical, social, cultural, and political structures; changes to and effects of law; monarchy and the republic in dramatic texts; theatre and performance, including performance spaces that are not in theatres. To submit a proposal, please contact Erika Gaffney, Senior Acquisitions Editor, at Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org

 

CFP: Shakespeare & Counterfeiting, SAA Atlanta, 2017

Registration now open via the SAA website – No abstract necessary

“Counterfeit” Shakespeare is the inverse of the First Folio’s claim to be “published according to the true original copies.” This seminar examines counterfeiting as cultural practice, literary motif, and theoretical framework in relation to Shakespeare. In early modern England, “counterfeiting” had both positive and negative connotations, inflecting how people understood artistic creation. Meanwhile, discourses of counterfeiting and authenticity have been central to the policing of Shakespeare’s canon. We encourage papers on the following topics: How do Shakespeare and contemporaries such as Jonson and Middleton engage with the idea of the counterfeit? What is the value of considering Shakespeare as a counterfeiter (imitator/plagiarist/actor, etc.)? How was the concept of counterfeiting used to construct/contest notions of authorship and publication in the early modern period? How productive/misleading is counterfeiting as a critical idiom in Shakespeare studies today? To what extent is Shakespeare’s cultural value predicated on the exclusion of reproductions that are ‘counterfeit’, ‘debased’ or ‘spurious’? Is there such a thing as a counterfeit Renaissance? For more information please contact Derek Dunne (dunnede@gmail.com) and Harry Newman (harry.newman@rhul.ac.uk)

 

CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, Clothes, and bodies, 1600-1800′, PG & ECR Symposium.

10th November, University of York, York Medical Society.

This one-day interdisciplinary symposium takes ‘first impressions’ as a starting point, focusing on the many different ways in which appearances were understood, described, or depicted in early modern Europe, 1600-1800. We welcome submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers working within any discipline. Proposals are for 20 minute individual papers. Proposed topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: Appearance and the social hierarchy – establishment or confusion of social hierarchy, regulation; Disseminating appearances – altered appearances, clothing, fashion, cosmetics, appearance as a social or political tool; Disguise and deception; Criminal appearances – criminals, prostitutes, the ‘lower sort’, the criminal body, trials; Health and medicine – appearance of health, physical marks of illness, complexion, posture, the body; Appearing different – social, racial, national, gender; Public and private appearances – domestic sphere, public sphere, gender; Beauty – ideal beauty, ugliness, representations; ‘First impressions’ – first meetings, friendship, love, attraction. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in length and an accompanying 100 word biography to firstimpressionsconference@gmail.com by Monday 29th August. www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/firstimpressionsconfnov2016/

 

Call for Articles: Special Issue of http://episteme.revues.org

Profane Shakespeare: Perfection, Pollution, and the Truth of Performance

For its 33rd issue (Spring 2018), the online peer-reviewed journal Etudes Epistémè (www.episteme.revues.org) seeks articles examining Shakespeare’s treatment of the notions of perfection (or “purity”) and pollution (or “impurity”), understood not only along traditional moral and religious lines, but also, more “profanely”, in aesthetic and hermeneutic terms. Etudes Epistémè is DOAJ- and MLA- listed. We welcome papers focusing on the different ways in which Shakespeare recounts and stages the failure of purity (or perfection), embracing the impure (or the polluted) as a lively, creative material. This special Shakespeare issue of Etudes Epistémè is open to essays adopting a variety of methodological approaches, whether more materially- or philosophically-oriented. In all cases the issue especially invites proposals that attempt to “re-textualize” Shakespeare by favoring close examination of the text over religious or biographical speculation, to bring out the complex interplay between the notions of perfection, pollution and performance. Detailed abstracts of 600 to 1000 words of proposed articles are to be sent to the editors of the issue, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Karen Britland and Line Cottegnies by December 15th, 2016: anne-marie.miller-blaise@univ-paris3.fr, britland@startmail.com and line.cottegnies@univ-paris3.fr

 

CfP: Protestantism and Political Rebellion in Early Modernity

http://congresos.ugr.es/protestantismrebellion/

This international conference explores theoretical notions on rebellion as understood in early modernity, as well as case-studies of actual uprisings and revolts either encouraged and justified or suffocated and crushed by Protestant authorities. Further suggested topics for discussion include Catholic discourses that understand Protestantism as a rebellious and subversive religious and political ideology (and the policies ensuing from this belief), as well as the representation in early modern literature of the connections between political rebellion and Protestantism. The conference welcomes scholars and doctoral students working in the fields of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Literature and Translation in early modernity. The languages of the conference are English and French. The organisers intend to publish an edited volume with a selection of papers.

Please submit 200-word abstracts for twenty-minute presentations in English to Dr. Rocío G. Sumillera (sumillera@ugr.es), or in French to Dr. Águeda García-Garrido (manuela-agueda.garcia-garrido@unicaen.fr), by 31 July, 2016. Notification of acceptance: 7 August, 2016. Registration

More details on the conference and on how to register will soon be posted on

http://congresos.ugr.es/protestantismrebellion/

 

Proposals for reviews of websites that focus on early modern women: for example, WWP, BIESES, SIEFAR, The Recipes Project, etc. The spring 2017 (11.2) issue of Early Modern Women will feature a cluster of reviews of websites, following our earlier clusters of performance reviews and film reviews. Deana Shemek’s SSEMW keynote at the 2015 SCSC on her website on Isabella d’Este will head the cluster. If you are interested, please write to us as soon as possible, but no later than June 30. Completed reviews will be due on September 1. The fall 2018 issue (12.1) will feature a forum on play, games, and performance (see attached cfp). Please send abstracts of 350 words to the editors by June 30. Completed essays of 3000-3500 words will be due on January 30.

 

CfP: “Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures”: NORTH VS SOUTH?

Gender, law and economy in early modern and modern Europe (15th-19th century).

The aim of the 8th conference of the network Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures will be to analyse the consequences of different European juridical systems on the development of specific economic roles for men and women. At the core of the comparative analysis, at the European scale, there will be the different economic evolutions of European regions in the early modern and modern times. Customary laws characterized Northern Europe and Roman law characterized Southern Europe, but at the local level there were many differences, depending on urban statutes, craft rules, family structures, political and economic systems. Please, send suggestions for contributions in the form of an abstract in English or in French (3000 characters max) by July 30th 2016 to : anna.bellavitis@univ-rouen.fr and to beatrice.zucca@gmail.com

 

CfP: Expanding Visions: Women in the Medieval and Early Modern World

University of Miami, March 2-4, 2017

The keynote speaker will be Merry Wiesner-Hanks. The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium at the University of Miami and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite papers and three-paper sessions on new research on women’s activities—their literary, cultural, social, and/or political interventions in the medieval and early modern world. We encourage papers with interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the period 1400–1750. The presentations, in English, should not exceed twenty minutes. Please send 350-word abstracts and a scholarly biography of 200 words by October 15, 2016 to emwj@miami.edu

 

Shakespeare’s Londons/London’s Shakespeares

To tie in with the forthcoming Literary London Conference (6-8 July 2016) on the theme of ‘London and the Globe’, The Literary London Journal invites contributions for a special issue on Shakespeare’s Londons/London’s Shakespeares’. The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2016 and articles (between 5-7,000 words) might broadly address one or more of the following topics or questions: How are ‘Londoners’ (Henry VIII, 1.2.155) constructed in Shakespeare’s plays? What role did – or do – London audiences play in constructing Shakespeare? In what ways can we rethink Shakespeare’s anatopism, i.e. his staging of London as other cities? Can we see evidence of ‘Global Shakespeares’ in the refracted Londons he represented? What urban locations – in London or beyond – matter in

Shakespeare’s plays, and our current understanding of them? What contributions can contemporary spatial theory make to understanding Shakespeare’s staging of cities such as London? Do Shakespeare’s staged cities cultivate or curtail the ambiguities (linguistic, spatial, sexual and social) of urban life? In what ways can we see The Globe Theatre – past and present – as a microcosm of a changing and conflicted London? How does the reconstructed Globe Theatre offer a venue for staging modern urban experience? What role does the reconstructed Globe Theatre play in

(re)conceptualising Shakespeare’s relationship with London? All submissions should be sent to either Adam Hansen (adam.hansen@northumbria.ac.uk) or Adele Lee (a.lee@gre.ac.uk)

 

Other Events

Workshop: Working with a list of books

15 June, 15:30-17:00, ArtsOne 3:17

In this practical workshop Line Cottegnies and Joad Raymond will look at the usefulness of a particular list of books, and how we can extrapolate significance from its content and organisation. There’s a Shakespeare angle. It should be interesting and useful to all early-modern students and scholars. All are welcome.

 

Lecture: « Katherine Philips and French Poetry: Experimenting with Epicureanism and pastoral »

15 June, 18:00-20:00, ArtsTwo 3:20

Wine will be served.

 

Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture 2016

“The Shakespeare First Folio of Saint-Omer and the Jesuits: the Bibliographical Evidence” and “Shakespeare, the London Theater, and the Origins of Globalization”

7 June 2016, 18:15 – 20:30, 3.20, ArtsTwo (Queen Mary University of London)

 

Dr Paul Taylor, ‘Den gheest leert het maken: painting after life, from the spirit’

Friday 10 June 2016, 6.30pm, Birkbeck Malet Street room 541

Members free (membership £7) non members £4.

For more information about the art historian, Dr Taylor, please see http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/home/staff-contacts/academic-staff/paul-taylor/

 

Exhibition: ‘O rare Ben Jonson!’

Bodleian Libraries, 18 June–4 September 2016

A display of Jonson material from the Bodleian’s collections to celebrate the anniversary of Ben Jonson’s Workes. Please see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/upcoming-events/2016/jun/ben-jonson Enquiries to daniel.smith@ell.ox.ac.uk

 

Postdoctoral Researcher for ‘The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (RECIRC) School of Humanities / Moore Institute NUI Galway

The National University of Ireland, Galway is seeking to fill 1 full-time, fixed-term Postdoctoral Researcher position for the project “The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700‟ (RECIRC), led by Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan, Principal Investigator (School of Humanities). The position is a 13-month contract, funded by the European Research Council, under the Consolidator Grant Scheme, 2013. The position is allocated to Work Package 1: Transnational Religious Networks, and will be expected to start by October 2016. Closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00 pm Friday 17th June 2016. Interviews are planned for early July 2016.For further details on the RECIRC project, see www.recirc.nuigalway.ie

 

SHAKESPEARE’S SISTERS: SHORT FILMS SCREENING + PANEL DISCUSSION

12 June at 2.30pm, Curzon Soho

It’s a very affordable £7 and will include a screening + a panel discussion on Shakespeare, film and women with Prof Carol Rutter, two young female filmmakers and a programmer from the female-centric film festival Bechdel Test Fest.

Booking link: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/qas/shakespearessistersshorts

More info: http://www.curzonblog.com/all-posts/2016/5/13/shakespeares-sisters

 

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) is calling for submissions for its travel grant program for graduate students whose proposals for conference papers have been accepted either at the upcoming annual conference of the Sixteenth Century Society or at other conferences.

The information needed for the application may be found here:

http://ssemw.org/opportunities/graduate-student-travel-funds/

Although applicants need not be members of the SSEMW at the time of application, if the application is successful, the candidate would be expected to join the Society

 

Women’s Studies Group, 1558-1837, Speaker Sessions 2016-17

Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. 1-4 pm

**Saturday 17th September, 2016. Chair: Angela Escott Brianna Robertson-Kirkland: Venanzio Rauzzini (1746 – 1810) and his female operatic students. Judith Page: Austen and Shakespeare: Mansfield Park, Shylock, and the “exquisite acting” of Edmund Kean. Lucy Gent: What is becoming in Mansfield Park? Jane Austen and Cicero’s De Officiis.

**Saturday 19th November, 2016. Chair: Miriam Al Jamil Valerie Schutte: Celebrating the 500th Birthday of Queen Mary I in Manuscript Images. Emma Newport: Interplay and Interpretation: Lady Banks’s “Dairy Book” and the collection and collation of Chinese Porcelain. Chrisy Dennis: “We were born to grace society: but not to be its slaves”: Chivalry and Revolution in Mary Robinson’s Hubert de Sevrac, A Romance of the Eighteenth Century (1796).

**Saturday 21st January, 2017.C hair: Lois Chaber Charlotte Young: “Our Wives you find at Goldsmiths Hall”: Women and sequestration during the English Civil War. Helen Draper: Mary Beale and the Performance of Friendship. Mascha Hansen: Beyond Marriage: Envisioning the Future in Women’s Writings, 1660-1830.

**Saturday 18th March, 2017 (work in progress invited for this session). Chair: Gillian Williamson Madeleine Pelling: “That Noble Possessor”: The Pursuit of Virtuous Knowledge and its Materials in the Collection of Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785). Erica Buurman: Dancing the Waterloo Waltz: Responses to the Napoleonic Wars in Regency Social Dance. Angela Escott: Hannah Cowley’s “dramatic talents” employed in her epic poem of the Napoleonic Wars, The Siege of Acre (1801).

Find out more www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/ or Carolyn D. Williams on cdwilliamslyle@aol.com

 

The 5th London Summer School in Intellectual History

5-8 September 2016 at Queen Mary, University of London

Organised by UCL and Queen Mary, the event is aimed at graduate students (current MA and PhD candidates) working in intellectual history and related disciplines: history of philosophy, literature, politics, law, science, and classics. Keynote lectures will be delivered by David Armitage (Harvard) and Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary). We would be grateful if you could circulate the call for applications among potential participants: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/history-events-publication/intellectual-history-summer-school The deadline for applications is 30 June.

 

The James Plays Debates, June 10, University of Nottingham

On June 11th and 12th, the National Theatre of Scotland brings Rona Munro’s The James Plays to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal. To celebrate, the School of English at the University of Nottingham is hosting a day of conversations about the staging of Scottish history. This event brings together academics, historians and theatre professionals, as well as members of the James Plays creative team, with the aim of unpacking the unique achievement of the trilogy and the broader questions it raises for performing Scotland’s history today. The day begins with a buffet lunch and round-table discussions at the University, followed in the evening by a special event featuring Rona Munro in conversation at the Theatre Royal. All events are free, but please reserve a place at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/events/events/2015-2016/the-james-plays-debates.aspx

Please contact peter.kirwan@nottingham.ac.uk or Nicola.royan@nottingham.ac.uk for more information, or visit the event page.

 

Van Dyck in London

1–1.45pm, 7 July, Sainsbury Wing Theatre, National Gallery

Karen Hearn. During the 1630s, the Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck lived and worked in London. Supported by his studio, he produced many remarkable portraits. This lecture considers some of Van Dyck’s British works, and examines the influence of his art collection on them.

 

Samuel Pepys and the Remains of Restoration Collecting

7 June, Warburg Institute (Lecture room) – Dr. Kate Loveman, University of Leicester

Lecture, 5.30 pm. History of Libraries seminar series. Free; registration not required.

 

Renaissance Latin Course

12-23 September: Warburg Institute (Lecture room)

Course leader: Guido Giglioni. 3 hours per weekday, 11.00 am – 1.00 pm and 2.00 – 3.00 pm

http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/research/research-training/reading-classes/arabic-philosophy/warburg-renaissance-latin-course

 

New scholarly book series, Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World.

The General Editors of this series editors are Victoria Burke, University of Ottawa; James Daybell, Plymouth University; Svante Norrhem, Lund University; and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. This series provides a forum for studies that investigate the themes of women and gender in the late medieval and early modern world. The editors invite proposals for book-length studies of an interdisciplinary nature, including but not exclusively, from the fields of history, literature, art and architectural history, and visual and material culture. Consideration will be given to both monographs and collections of essays. Chronologically, we welcome studies that look at the period between 1400 and 1700, with a focus on Britain, Europe and Global transnational histories. We invite proposals including, but not limited to, the following broad themes: methodologies, theories and meanings of gender; gender, power and political culture; monarchs, courts and power; construction of femininity and masculinities; gift-giving, diplomacy and the politics of exchange; gender and the politics of early modern archives and architectural spaces (court, salons, household); consumption and material culture; objects and gendered power; women’s writing; gendered patronage and power; gendered activities, behaviours, rituals and fashions. For more information, or to submit a proposal, visit http://en.aup.nl/series/gendering-thelate-medieval-and-early-modern-world or contact Erika Gaffney, Senior Acquisitions Editor, at Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org

 

Blogging Before Shakespeare

beforeshakespeare.com

The Before Shakespeare website is now live and we would be pleased to hear of any proposals for 500-1000 word blog posts on the early years of the playhouses (up to around 1595). Inquiries or proposals can be sent to andy.kesson@roehampton.ac.uk

 

Conference Notices

 

1. Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: in Honour of Anne Laurence

4th June 2016 at the Institute of Historical Research in London. Speakers include Amy Erickson, James Daybell, Gemma Allen, Mary O’Dowd, Frances Nolan, Rosalind Carr, Jane Humphries, Judith Spicksley and Amanda Capern. Please follow this link for the complete programme and for registration details: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/history/

 

2. ‘The Making of a Female Memory – Texts, Rituals’

University of Basel, May 20-21 2016. ‘The Making of a Female Memory – Texts, Rituals’ will discuss a variety of ways in which medieval and early modern nuns created, constructed and, at times, even fabricated memory. https://ordensgeschichte.hypotheses.org/10585

 

3. Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture, 1516-2016

Thursday 28 & Friday 29 April 2016, 9.30am – 5.00pm, The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH. Translated into English in the 1590s by Sir John Harington, godson of Elizabeth I, the influence of Ariosto’s poem can be traced in literature, music and the visual arts, from Spenser and Milton to modern media adaptations. To celebrate this landmark centenary, the conference aims to celebrate the influence of this text on English culture, and to appraise its current position in the English-speaking world. http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2016/Ariosto_the_Orlando_Furioso_and_English_culture.cfm

 

4. 2016 World Shakespeare Congress: Creating and Recreating Shakespeare

31 July and 6 August, 2016. This year’s Congress marks 400 years of popular, artistic and scholarly enthusiasm for Shakespeare’s life and works through events in both Stratford-Upon-Avon and London. The week is co-hosted by Shakespeare’s Globe, King’s College London, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

It will celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds as well as the ways in which scholars, thinkers, writers, artists and performers from around the globe have recreated him. Deadline for registration is Sunday 1 May. http://www.wsc2016.info/

 

5. In the Age of Giorgione

Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London; 10 May 2016 – 12-7pm

Organised in connection with the Royal Academy’s exhibition ‘In the Age of Giorgione’, this study day will focus on the revolution that took place in Venetian art in the early sixteenth century when a new type of painting was developed by the elusive artist, Giorgione.

http://courtauld.ac.uk/event/in-the-age-of-giorgione

 

6. Alcoran: The idea of an Early Modern English Qur’an

A Symposium at The Keep, University of Sussex, 14 June, 2016, from midday.

The first complete translation of the Qur’an into English, The Alcoran of Mahomet, appeared in the immediate aftermath of the execution of King Charles I in early 1649. Derided by George Sale and subsequent translators it is nonetheless ‘one of the most extraordinary documents of the entire period’ and initiates a long, colourful and contentious sequence of English Qur’ans that continues into the twenty-first century. Building on recent developments, this afternoon symposium will explore the contexts in which the Qur’an was understood in early modern England (from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries), with particular emphasis placed on the idea of an English Qur’an. There is no charge for attendance but numbers are limited. If you would like to take part, email Professor Matthew Dimmock at m.dimmock@sussex.ac.uk  before 27 May.

7. James Shirley And Caroline Comedy: A One-Day Symposium

Saturday 11 June 2016, 10-4.30, Dept Of Theatre, Film And Television, University Of York

The Department of Theatre, Film and Television, and Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, at the University of York, are joining with the general editorial team of the OUP Complete Works of James Shirley, to hold a symposium to explore the riches of Shirley’s playwriting achievements. The symposium offers an opportunity to analyse and celebrate Shirley’s distinctive achievements, on the occasion of a production of Hyde Park, on the state-of-the-art main stage of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Shirley’s death. (This is the latest in a series of productions there of early modern comic masterpieces by Michael Cordner, the Department’s founding head of theatre. Its predecessor – Vanbrugh’s The Provoked Wife – can be viewed online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXnHB5d5lXI.)

Those attending the conference will thus also have the rare opportunity to see one of Shirley’s greatest plays in performance, either on the Friday or Saturday evening. We are interested in hearing from colleagues who would like to offer a paper or wish to attend the symposium (there is no fee). Please contact t.grant@warwick.ac.uk by the deadline of Monday 2nd May 2016.

 

Calls for Papers

 

8. CfP: “Translation Theory and Practice during the Renaissance: A Medium, a Genre, a Risk”

Sessions sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Chicago, 30 March-1 April 2017. The proposed sessions seek to explore the different ways translations affirmed their status in the languages and literatures of Renaissance Europe. Possible topics include both the theoretical reflections of early modern authors and their concrete works (c. 1300-1700): to wit, versions of classical texts and Holy Scriptures as well as of contemporary texts into Latin, Hebrew, Arab, and the various European vernaculars. Please send an abstract (150 words maximum) with relevant keywords and a 300-word maximum curriculum vitae to johnny.bertolio@mail.utoronto.ca by 1 June 2016. Please note: once the sessions will have been approved, presenters will need to be members in good standing of the RSA, and will need to pay the conference fee through the RSA website. For more information, please consult the RSA submission guidelines at: http://www.rsa.org/?page=submissionguidelines#prop

 

9. CfP: The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women – RSA Chicago 2017

www.ssemw.org/ extends sponsorship to as many as five panels of 3 papers each at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (2017 in Chicago, 30 March – 1 April). The Society promotes study and scholarly exchange in all disciplinary fields, with a focus on women/female gender/women’s sexuality in the early modern period. Sponsorship of panels by the SSEMW signifies that the panels are pre-approved and automatically accepted for the RSA annual meeting. Proposals are due by 24 May 2015 to Molly Bourne, SSEMW liaison with the Renaissance Society of America: mhbourne@syr.edu The SSEMW requires that scholars whose panels are accepted for sponsorship be/become members of the Society. Please note that there are only few travel grants available to members of the Renaissance Society of America (visit www.rsa.org/). As in most North American conferences, participants are expected to be members of the Society, and to fund their own travel and lodging.

 

10. CfP:    Cultural Encounters: Tensions and Polarities of Transmission from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Proposals for papers should be sent to warburg.postgrad@gmail.com by 31 May 2016. Maximum 300-word abstract, in English, for a 20-minute paper, in PDF or Word format, plus one-page CV, including full name, affiliation, contact information. All candidates will be notified by 31 July 2016. Limited funding to help cover travel expenses is available. Attendance is free of charge. For more information and news visit https://warburgpostgrad.wordpress.com/ or  http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2016-17/cultural-encounters/

 

11. CfP: Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800

Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, 22-25 March 2017

This international conference will bring together scholars working on the reception of texts, the reputations of authors and individuals, and the circulation of people and things in the early modern world. We invite proposals (max. 200 words) for 20-minute papers. To submit an abstract, complete the webform at http://recirc.nuigalway.ie/conference2017/ by Monday 18 September 2016.

 

12. CfP 2016-2017 Womens Studies Group seminar series

Due to popular demand, we have extended our seminar series for 2016/17 to include a fourth date! This is scheduled for March 18 2017.  All sessions will take place once again at The Foundling Museum. Work in progress is encouraged for the March session.  A revised CFP can be found online http://www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/cfp-wsg-seminars-2016-2017/  Only a few spaces are left on next year’s programme, so please contact Carolyn if you wish to offer a paper or work in progress: cdwilliamslyle@aol.com

 

13. CfP: Strangeness in Early Stuart Performances, 1603-1649

Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 3-5 Nov. 2016

This conference proposes to discuss how performative practices explore notions of strangeness in and for early Stuart society. We invite papers of 30 minutes that engage with any aspect of strangeness across the range of performative practices from 1603 to 1649. Papers could deal with, but are by no means limited to, the following topics: How is strangeness constructed in various early Stuart performative practices such as plays, masques, closet drama, ballads, and pamphlet plays?  What are the ideological functions of settings and characters that are marked as strange? How do strange characters, objects, locales, and spaces serve to express and contain the cultural anxieties of early Stuart England? Which other categories beyond the established trinity of class, ethnicity and gender lend themselves to the negotiation of strangeness? If you are interested in giving a paper at our conference, please send an abstract of no more than 200 words and a short biographical note to Joachim Frenk, Christine Moyrer, and Lena Steveker at strangeness-conference@uni-saarland.de The deadline for abstracts is 17 May 2016. Information about the conference can be found online at www.uni-saarland.de/strangeness

 

14. CfP: The Language of Reform, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 2017

The sessions that the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies will sponsor in at the 2017 meeting of the RSA in Chicago will create a broad, interdisciplinary umbrella under which to gather papers that take up “language” and “reform,” broadly conceived.

The organizers of these sessions solicit proposals for papers from every discipline represented at the Renaissance Society of America. Scholars of history, literature, art history, translation, musicology, church history, and others are invited to submit 500-word abstracts for 20-minute papers that take up the question, “What is the language of reform?” At least five interdisciplinary sessions will be

organized around this question. Please submit abstracts to Andrew Fleck (ajfleck@utep.edu) and Mark Rankin (rankinmc@jmu.edu) by May 9 2016.

 

15. CfP: Early Modern Women: Texts and Objects (Renaissance Society of America, 30 March-1 April 2017 in Chicago

Proposals are invited for presentations on early modern women as writers and creators of objects, texts, and artifacts, such as glass engravings, paper cuttings, calligraphy, decorated letters, and alba amicorum. Those who explore texts should take into account the materiality of the textual object; conversely, those who look at aesthetic objects should investigate their textuality. Questions to be addressed may include the following: how did pastime offer opportunities for women to express themselves as authors and artists? Under what circumstances did pastime cross the boundaries between amateurism and professionalism? How are objects made as paid labor different from those made as products of leisure time? How did textual and non-textual objects made by women function as gifts, to announce social status, or to enhance networks? How does the materiality of objects and texts relate to their purpose or content? Please send proposals to martine.vanelk@csulb.edu Include in your proposal: name and affiliation, paper title (max. 15 words), abstract (max. 150 words), and a brief CV (max. 300 words; in ordinary CV format). Email proposals as soon as possible, but no later than May 20, 2016. This session will be sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

 

16. The Before Shakespeare website is now live and we would be pleased to hear of any proposals for 500-1000 word blog posts on the early years of the playhouses (up to around 1595). Inquiries or proposals can be sent to kesson@roehampton.ac.uk

 

17. Shakespeare’s Londons/London’s Shakespeares

To tie in with the forthcoming Literary London Conference (6-8 July 2016) on the theme of ‘London and the Globe’, The Literary London Journal invites contributions for a special issue on Shakespeare’s Londons/London’s Shakespeares’. The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2016 and articles (between 5-7,000 words) might broadly address one or more of the following topics or questions: How are ‘Londoners’ (Henry VIII, 1.2.155) constructed in Shakespeare’s plays? What role did – or do – London audiences play in constructing Shakespeare? In what ways can we rethink Shakespeare’s anatopism, i.e. his staging of London as other cities? Can we see evidence of ‘Global Shakespeares’ in the refracted Londons he represented? What urban locations – in London or beyond – matter in Shakespeare’s plays, and our current understanding of them? What contributions can contemporary spatial theory make to understanding Shakespeare’s staging of cities such as London? Do Shakespeare’s staged cities cultivate or curtail the ambiguities (linguistic, spatial, sexual and social) of urban life? In what ways can we see The Globe Theatre – past and present – as a microcosm of a changing and conflicted London? How does the reconstructed Globe Theatre offer a venue for staging modern urban experience? What role does the reconstructed Globe Theatre play in (re)conceptualising Shakespeare’s relationship with London?

 

All submissions should be sent to either Adam Hansen (adam.hansen@northumbria.ac.uk) or Adele Lee (a.lee@gre.ac.uk) The Literary London Journal is fully peer-reviewed. It is published twice a year, and is indexed by the MLA International Bibliography and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

For further details, including the style guide, please visit http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/submission.html

 

18. ‘Indigenous Languages and Cultures: Then and Now’. Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 12 and 13 September 2016

This two-day conference will bring together researchers with diverse interests in indigenous cultures, languages and histories from a range disciplinary backgrounds with the aim of exploring research findings, concepts and methodologies. Proposals are welcome for 20-minute papers, or panels of three speakers, exploring indigenous cultures and languages from a range of methodological approaches and geographical contexts. As the name suggests, our conference welcomes submissions across a range of time periods, from historical to contemporary times.

https://indigenousculturesconference.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

 

Other Events and Notices

 

1. London Renaissance Seminar: Animal Lives in Early Modern Culture

Saturday April 30th, 2016

12-5pm, Room 114, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD

How can we understand the intersection of human and animal lives in early modern culture? Examining literary, archaeological and archival evidence of human relationships with wild and domestic animals, our five speakers explore the politics of the hunt, bear-pit, and farmyard.

 

2. John Dee late: inside Dee’s miraculous mind

Monday 9 May 2016, 6pm

Join the Royal College of Physicians for a special late evening event exploring the world of Tudor polymath John Dee. Experts Bill Sherman, Deborah Harkness and Katie Birkwood discuss Dee’s extraordinary life and times, his book collecting and annotations as part of our exhibition season ‘Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee’.

Tickets £10 per person. Book online: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/dee-late-inside-dees-miraculous-mind

 

3. Workshop: Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion

10-11 May 2016, University of Warwick

http://bit.ly/EMExper

 

4. Dacre Lecture 2016: Susan Brigden, ‘Reformation Diplomacy: Henry VIII and the Ambassadors’.

Friday 13 May, 5 p.m., Corpus Christi College Oxford.

 

5. WSG Workshop: Women and the Bible, with a keynote by Emma Major

11 June 2016, Senate House, http://www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/annual-workshop/

Please register early, as places will be limited.  The keynote will be followed by lively discussion and sharing of contributions: all delegates are asked to bring a 5 minute presentation on the workshop themes: Gender, the public and the private * Women, publication and anonymity * Women and religion * Women, violence and revolution * Gender and genre * Women and the nation * Preaching women * Women and the Bible * Dissent. Contributions can be from any discipline or period covered by the group.

 

6. WSG Outing

Wednesday June 15^th, Geffrye Museum in Hoxton, East London, http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/ The museum comprises 11 ‘family’ rooms, each furnished in the style of a different period, from 1600 to the present. There are also period gardens, a museum shop and 18th-century almshouses which show how the poor and elderly lived in the 1780s and 1880s. Our visit will include time for coffee on arrival and lunch and a visit to the museum galleries. Material from their archives will be made available for us to view, as well as a rare portrait of Mary Beale, which one of our members will briefly introduce. The visit will take place between 10.00am and 3.00pm. Cost £4 (cash on the day) and lunch and coffee costs. Additional small donations will be welcome for viewing archive material, on a voluntary basis. Please reply by 1st June to Angela Escott: angelaescott@virginmedia.com

 

7. Shakespeare in Shoreditch Walk

Saturday 30th April, 17.00 – 18.15, Starting at BL-NK, 27 Curtain Road, EC2A 3LT

Back in the 1570s Shoreditch was London’s first theatre district. The sites of those first theatres can still be glimpsed under the modern city. This walk follows in the footsteps of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, the Burbages, and William Shakespeare. The walk is led by Jeremy Mortimer, a radio producer who has made a special study of Shoreditch’s theatre history.

 

8. Shoreditch: Shakespeare’s Hidden London

Wednesday 27th April 2016, 21.00, A post show discussion at BL-NK, 27 Curtain Road, EC2A 3LT

A first glimpse of a forthcoming documentary about sixteenth-century and present-day Shoreditch. We’ll be screening selected scenes from the documentary interspersed with discussion led by Julian Bowsher (Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London; author of ‘Shakespeare’s London Theatreland) and Robert Stagg (Wolfson Scholar in the Humanities).

 

9. Quixotic translation ‘joust’

On 9 May the British Library is staging a stupendous contest between two fearless translators, who will do battle over a fearsomely difficult extract from the Quijote. Margaret Jull Costa and Peter Bush will engage in (friendly) competition.   Daniel Hahn will preside. For more information and to book place, go to http://www.bl.uk/events/don-quixote-translation-joust

 

10. Lecturer in Spanish and / or Latin American History required

Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University College London

Salary £37,524 to £40, 716 per annum (Grade 7) and £41,844 to £49,362 per annum (Grade 8)

UCL invites applications for a Lectureship in Spanish and / or Latin American History. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the position on 1 September, 2016, or as soon as possible thereafter. The postholder will be expected to contribute to the Department’s and Faculty’s teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to contribute to the running of the Department, the School and the University generally. The postholder will be encouraged to develop their individual research interests and to lead or participate in collaborative research projects. Applicants who have recently completed their PhDs as well as established scholars are equally welcome to apply.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANK756/lecturer-in-spanish-and-or-latin-american-history/

Closing date: 13 May 2016

 

11. New MA in Renaissance Latin Culture

University College Cork, a constituent of the National University of Ireland, is offering a new one-year MA in Renaissance Latin Culture, which will be commencing for the first time in September 2016. Grounded in the research and pedagogy at the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies in Cork, the new programme is specifically focused upon the revival of Classical Latin language and culture during the Renaissance (c.1300-1600). The MA programme is ideal for students who wish to pursue research into renaissance history and literature while gaining a thorough grounding in the Latin language and the cultural issues pertaining to it in the early-modern period. The programme is also designed to cater for students with advanced prior knowledge of Latin who wish to pursue specific studies in Neo-Latin language, literature and scholarship. The MA is available both full-time and part-time (i.e. over one or two years. https://www.ucc.ie/en/history/graduatestudies/mainrenaissancelatinculture/

 

12. guitarrísimo: Cervantes and his Bigüela

A precursor of the classical guitar, the vihuela rose to prominence in 16th-century Spain to become one of the most popular classical instruments of its day. It also features conspicuously in the work of the great Spanish Golden Age writer, Miguel de Cervantes, whose father is reported to have been an avid fan of the instrument.In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, the eminent vihuelist, Alfredo Fernández, will perform a choice selection of 16th-century Spanish vihuela music by its greatest composers, Luis de Milán, Luis de Narváez, Enríquez de Valderrábano, Diego Pisador, Miguel de Fuenllana, and Esteban Daza, interspersed with selected readings from Cervantes Sonnets and Epitaphs. PLUS Join us after the concert for a complimentary glass of Spanish wine! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2511989

 

13. ‘Let me slip into something less comfortable’: Gothic Textualis by Accident and by Design. The John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2016

11/05/2016 – 17:30 – 19:00, The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU

Professor Daniel Wakelin (Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Palaeography, University of Oxford) is a leading expert in the palaeography and reading culture of the later Middle Ages. He is the author of numerous studies, among them Humanism, Reading and English Literature 1430-1530 (2007) and Scribal Correction and Literary Craft: English Manuscripts 1375-1510 (2014), which was joint winner of the DeLong Prize for book history in 2015. His John Coffin Memorial lecture concerns the supposed ‘decadence’ of late gothic textualis. It considers whether the more formal grades entailed effort or conscious design and also examines instances where individuals misunderstood or misread the script. http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-palaeography-2016

 

14. Illustrating Love Poetry in the Italian Renaissance: From Miniatures to Portraits

Wed 4 May 2016, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London

Moving from the practical and theoretical issues involved in the process of ‘illustrating’ lyric poetry as opposed to narrative poetry or prose, this talk will focus on the evolution of visual paratexts from miniatures in Medieval chansonniers to woodcuts and engravings in printed editions of Petrarch and 15th-century poets such as Antonio Tebaldeo and Olimpo da Sassoferrato. These images will be discussed alongside a relevant selection of poems and a number of early 16th-century paintings that are sometimes identified as ‘lyric portraits’ (Koos 2006; Macola 2007). The ambiguous and highly debated status of the latter will be explored in the light of poetic tropes and motifs.

http://courtauld.ac.uk/event/illustrating-love-poetry-italian-renaissance

 

15. Art and Anatomy in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Fri 13 May 2016, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London

The developments in art in the 15th and 16th centuries brought with them a new interest in proportion, perspective and the accurate depiction of the human body. How did this affect the science of anatomy? This talk discusses the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius and Fabricius and looks at how the nature of the new art inspired and shaped a new wave of research into the structure of the human body and how such knowledge was transmitted in visual form. This ultimately led to a revolution in our understanding of anatomy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. http://courtauld.ac.uk/event/art-and-anatomy-in-the-15th-and-16th-centuries

 

16. KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, Launch Party: The Early Modern Everyday: Ballads and Street Life

Wednesday 18 May, 6-8pm, Anatomy Lecture Theatre and Museum, KCL, Strand

Speakers: Angela McShane and Catherine Richardson, with singers from the KCL Music Department

Wine reception

 

17. 16th century family portraits at risk of leaving UK

 

A group of the earliest non-royal family portraits is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £350,000. To provide an opportunity to keep the 16th century paintings in the UK , Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a set of nine portraits of the Smythe Family by Cornelis Ketel. Experts believe this group of paintings is the earliest surviving British example of a collection of family portraits who are not members of the royal or aristocratic family. The father of the group, Thomas Smythe, was part of the merchant elite and served as collector of the customs on all goods imported into London, helping to expand English international trade. Experts say the set of portraits are an important example of the power of merchants and the influence of Dutch artists at the time. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/16th-century-family-portraits-at-risk-of-leaving-uk

 

18. Senior Fellows Programme 2017-2018 at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel

 

The Herzog August Bibliothek is an independent research centre offering a wide range of scholarly and cultural programmes http://www.hab.de/en/home.html . The library has rich resources of books manuscripts and is able to award fellowships to promote research in the areas of medieval and early modern cultural history. Applications for the years 2017-2018 should be sent by June 1st 2016 by letter, including a short project description, to the Director: Professor Peter Burschel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, 38299 Wolfenbuttel, or to: forschung@hab.de