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Newsletter 59

By Alexander Samson, on 7 June 2016

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/

 

  1. ‘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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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/

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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.

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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/

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. ‘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.

 

  1. 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

 

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

10-11 May 2016, University of Warwick

http://bit.ly/EMExper

 

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

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

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. WSG Outing

Wednesday June 15th, 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

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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).

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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/

 

  1. 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

 

  1. ‘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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

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