State Papers Talk at The National Archives, 8 Mar 2012
By Karen | January 21, 2012
‘There is no aspect of government activity on which the State Papers may not throw light’: The papers of the secretaries of state 1509-1782
A talk by Dr Adrian Ailes and Dr Katy Mair (TNA)
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 2pm
Talks Room, The National Archives, Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU (tel: 020 876 3444)
The talk is free. You do not need a reader’s ticket but you should pick up a talks ticket on the day for entrance. General visitor details and a map are on http://www.nationalarchives.
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Fools and Folly in EM Europe: One Day Conference at Chawton House, 18 Feb 2012
By Karen | January 21, 2012
Registration is now open for:
‘All is folly that I can see’: Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe
Saturday 18 February 2012, 9.30am-6.00pm
University of Southampton and Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire
Please download the registration form.
Registration: £40 (£30 for students, and there are a few postgraduate bursaries left…)
This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent research. While the ‘wisdom’ of folly in the early modern period has become a familiar concept, it has lacked significant cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural investigation. This symposium will include papers on Erasmus’s character of Folly; the fools of Tudor interludes, French ‘soties’ and Shakespeare; king’s fools and court jesters; carnivals and festive folly; and the representation of folly in art. Speakers will examine and consider the many manifestations of folly in early modern Europe and consider its different political, religious and social purposes. The event will also, via roundtable discussions, invite contributions about other directions in research on folly, and related foolish things.
Speakers include:
Professor Luc Duerloo (Antwerp) on Hapsburg court culture
Dr Peter Happé (Southampton) on Ben Jonson
Professor Richard Hillman (Tours) on Mad Discourse
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb (UEA) on Tudor natural fools
Dr Alexander Samson (University College London) on Spanish folly and madness
Dr Peter Sillitoe (V&A) on Masques
Professor David Smith (New Hampshire) on Jan Steen
Professor Greg Walker (University of Edinburgh) on John Heywood
Dr Anna Whitelock (Royal Holloway) on Archie Armstrong
The symposium, hosted by the University of Southampton’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, will be held in the unique setting of Chawton House Library, an Elizabethan manor house and former home of Jane Austen’s brother. Lunch and drinks will be provided.
For further details, please contact:
Dr Alice Hunt
Lecturer in English
Faculty of Humanities
University of Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Tel: 023 8059 3210
www.soton.ac.uk/english/about/staff/ahunt.page
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EM Scholarship Opportunity: University of Sydney
By Karen | January 19, 2012
This one’s for Australian citizens or residents only – an interesting project!
University of Sydney
Postgraduate Scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Humanities & Social Sciences
Postgraduate Research
Description:
A full-time postgraduate scholarship is available for a suitably qualified candidate with a good Honours degree in any aspect of medieval or early modern studies to undertake research leading to a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The project is to investigate attitudes towards death expressed by medieval and/or early modern writers, with a particular focus on the writings of condemned prisoners facing execution.
The position forms part of a larger research project on medieval and early modern attitudes towards death being undertaken at the University of Sydney through the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions (CHE). Other aspects of death currently under consideration by postdoctoral research fellows within the project include medieval attitudes towards suicide and early modern attitudes towards public execution.
Eligibility:
Applicants should have an Honours degree with a major in some aspect of medieval and/or early modern studies. They must have a demonstrable understanding of how to read and interpret medieval and/or early modern texts. They must have a facility with one or more medieval and/or early modern languages. Applicants must be Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents.
Amount awarded:
Valued at $26,000 per annum for up to three years, plus a total of $13,500 research and travel funding over three years.
Alternatively, if the candidate has applied for and is successful in obtaining an APA, the scholarship can be offered as top-up funding of $5,500 per annum.
Application guide:
Further information can be obtained from Dr Juanita Ruys, Medieval and Early Modern Centre, Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney NSW 2006. Applications should be sent direct to Dr Ruys , and should include a curriculum vitae, copies of academic transcript, and the names and contact details of at least two referees.
Closing date:
27 January 2012
(Thanks to Una McIlvenna, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The Medieval and Early Modern Centre, School of Letters Arts and Media)
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Jacobean Indoor Playing Symposium, KCL
By Karen | January 12, 2012
Jacobean Indoor Playing Symposium
London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College, Saturday 4th February 2012 – 10.00 – 18.30
Following the announcement by Shakespeare’s Globe of their plans to construct an Indoor Jacobean Theatre on the London Bankside, the London Shakespeare Centre invites you to a one day symposium on recent research in to the London theatres and their cultural, architectural and political contexts.
Panels include papers on repertory, audience, costume and lighting in the indoor theatres, on Inigo Jones at the Queen’s House and Somerset House, and discussion of the Globe’s Indoor Jacobean Theatre Project.
Booking is now open (£25 waged/£15 unwaged), please click on the following link
For any queries please email: London Shakespeare Centre.
DRAFT PROGRAMME
10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:30 Welcome and introduction to IJT project
10:45 Panel 1 – Indoor Playing
12:30 Panel 2 – The Queens House
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Panel 3 – Geopolitics of Playing
15:05 Panel 4 – Engineering spectacle: Inigo Jones’ past and present performance at Somerset House
15:50 Coffee break
16:20 Keynote
17:20 Panel 5 – The Indoor Jacobean Theatre Project
18:20 Closing remarks
Found at London Shakespeare Centre’s Events Page
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Reading the First Folio: Dr Emma Smith, 20 Jan 2012
By Karen | January 3, 2012
The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its first event of 2012. Dr Emma Smith will give a talk on ‘Reading Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) on 20 January, 6:30 pm, Room B02 Malet Street.
Dr Smith has written widely on Shakepeare: her books include The Cambridge Introdution to Shakespeare and the forthcoming Cambridge Shakespeare Guide. Do join us for what promises to be a fascinating talk.
Free to members; Membership £5; £3 non-members.
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Queen Mary Principal’s Studentship: Early modern textual cultures of western Europe
By Karen | January 2, 2012
Queen Mary Principal’s Studentship
Each year Queen Mary offers PhD studentships to highly qualified applicants. Queen Mary Principal’s Studentships cover tuition fees and a maintenance allowance of around £15,000 per year. Applicants from the UK, European Union and overseas are eligible to apply. We are pleased to announce that we will offer one Principal’s Studentship shared between English and French, in the field of early modern textual cultures of Western Europe. This studentship will be awarded for study commencing in autumn 2012.
The field of the studentship
The successful candidate will be jointly supervised by Prof Adrian Armstrong (French) and Dr Warren Boutcher (English). S/he will undertake research in the area of western European textual cultures, in the period 1450-1600, engaging with cultural products in at least two vernacular languages (English, French, Dutch, Italian). Appropriate topics might include, for instance: polyglot emblem books; translations of particular literary genres; the transmission of particular authors or books across countries; or the multilingual output of a single publisher.
Charitable funding requirement
Applicants are required to demonstrate that they have secured, and/or that they have firm plans to apply for, funding from charitable bodies to support their doctoral research. It is not essential to have actually obtained such funding, but you must indicate your plans to do so in detail (naming charities to which you intend to apply, etc.). The successful candidate will be required to inform Queen Mary of any charitable funding that s/he secures for the period of the Principal’s Studentship, and the equivalent sums will be deducted from the studentship accordingly.
How to apply for funding
Applications for funding are made at the same time as applications for admission. In order to be considered for funding, you need to submit:
a) An application, including the following:
Online application form – you can submit this either to English or to French, depending on the academic school in which you wish to be located (School of English and Drama, or School of Languages, Linguistics and Film)
Curriculum vitae
Transcripts
Two references
TOEFL/IELTS scores (if applicable)
Research proposal (1200-1500 words plus bibliography if you are applying to French; 3000 words plus bibliography if you are applying to English)
A writing sample in English, only if you are applying to French (flexible word length, but maximum 10,000 words)
Personal statement (optional but recommended)
b) A funding statement, indicating amounts of charitable funding that you have already secured (supported by documentary evidence), and/or the charitable bodies to which you have applied or plan to apply for funding. The total amount of actual or prospective funding must be no less than £15,000 over a period of three years.
Criteria
The criteria for the appointment of the student will be:
The strength of the candidate’s academic profile and relevant professional experience;
The quality and appropriateness of the proposal;
The ability of the student to complete the project on time;
The credibility of the candidate’s plans to obtain charitable funding. (NB no preference will be given to candidates who have actually obtained funding, as against those who only have plans to do so at this stage.)
Deadline
The closing date for applications from candidates wishing to be considered for funding from September 2012 is 31 January 2012. All shortlisted candidates will be interviewed, either face to face or, in the case of overseas applicants, by telephone or Skype. Applicants must be available for interview between 6 and 24 February 2012 (specific dates will be confirmed).
For further information, please contact Prof Adrian Armstrong
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First Barry Coward Memorial Lecture, 16 Dec: Morrill, ‘What Do We Really Know About Oliver Cromwell’
By Karen | December 6, 2011
The First Barry Coward Memorial Lecture: Prof. John Morrill, ‘What do we really know about Oliver Cromwell?’
Friday 16 Dec, 6.30 pm, Malet St B35, followed by our Christmas party in G15
A reminder about Friday’s lecture and party. Prof. Morrill teaches at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and is very interested in the religious dynamics of early modern British History, and especially the religious psychology of the key people of the period, most notably Oliver Cromwell. This is evident in Prof. Morrill’s biography of Oliver Cromwell (2007) and in many papers including forthcoming essays on Cromwell and the Bible, and Cromwell’s massacre of the garrison of Drogheda. The 16th December should be a memorable evening, so be sure to arrive early so as to get a seat! After the lecture we have our Christmas party in G15, which should be a very enjoyable way to mark the end of term.
Membership remains £5 and is available at all of our academic events, alternatively you can attend single lectures for £3 each.
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Conference: Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period
By Karen | November 12, 2011
Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period
The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
20 January 2012
09.00 – 09.45 Registration and coffee
09.45 – 10.00 Welcome
10.00 – 11.00 Panel 1: Death and Ritual
Maggie Vinter (John Hopkins University), ‘How to do things while dying: Volpone and the ars moriendi’
Stephen Gordon (University of Manchester), ‘The Performance of Bad Death: The Strange Tale of the Shoemaker of Breslau’
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.15 Panel 2: Music
Liam Haydon (University of Manchester), ‘Performing Perfection: Milton and the Music of the Spheres’
Dolly MacKinnon (University of Queensland), ‘If ever beene where bels have knell’d to Church’: The performance of parish bells in early modern England
12.15 – 12.30 Break
12.30 – 1.30 Keynote Lecture
Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham),
‘Within the Castle Walls: Historical Sites as Performance at Kenilworth and Ludlow’
1.30 – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 3.30 Panel 3: Space
Catherine Clifford (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), ‘From Wood to Stone: Whitehall Palace, the Banqueting House, and the Performance of Architecture in Court Drama, 1581-1621’
John Peacock (University of Southampton), ‘Architectural Performance: Inigo Jones and Bernini’
3.30 – 3.45 Break
3.45 – 4.45 Panel 4: Theatre and Ritual
Alison Findlay (University of Lancaster), ‘The State of Ceremony in Macbeth’
Brian Schneider (University of Manchester), ‘Extra –dramatic’ performance in early modern Prologues, Epilogues and Inductions
4.45 – 5.00 Coffee Break
5.00 – 6.00 Keynote Lecture
Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford),
‘Bitter, Black and Tragical’: Tragic Peformance on the Shakespearean Stage
6.00 – 6.30 Drinks.
Registration: £10
Speakers and guests are invited to join us for dinner at a local restaurant; to book a place please let us know when registering (dinner not included in the registration fee).
The Society for Renaissance Studies has granted us bursaries to help postgraduate students with the costs of travel and accommodation. If you want to be considered for one of the bursaries, please let us know.
To book a place at this event please contact Michael Durrant and Naya Tsentourou by 7 January 2012.
The event will be taking place at the Seminar Room of the historic building of the John Rylands Library at Deansgate. Due to limited space, please register early to avoid disappointment.
We hope to see you there! For more details see:
historicizingperformance.wordpress.com
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Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR
By Karen | October 29, 2011
Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR
Mondays at 17.00 in the Holden Room (Room 20 Boardroom 103), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU
Autumn Term 2011
31 October
Dr Emma Barker (Open University) ‘Il n’y a point de tableau plus charmant que celui de la famille: Constructing domesticity in eighteenth-century France’
14 November
Dr Sabine Chaouche (Oxford Brooks) ‘The Business of the Comédie-Française in eighteenth-century France’.
28 November
Prof Leonhard Horowski (Berlin), ‘Le Duc de Noailles est le premier homme du monde. Dynastic thinking and the logistics of faction-building at the Court of Versailles’
12 December (Torrington Room, Room 104)
Anne Byrne (Birkbeck), ‘Three deathbeds and a funeral: the death rites of Louis XV’
Spring Term 2012
23 January
Charles Gregory, ‘The conspiracies against Cardinal Richelieu, 1636-1642′
6 February
Dr Stephen Brogan (IHR), ‘Marc Bloch and the royal touch revisited’
20 February
Dr Christelle Rabier (LSE), ‘A European Revolution of medical demand? The French case, 1600-1750′ (Provisional title)
5 March
Carmen Fraccia, title tbc
19 March
Prof Rafe Blaufarb, ‘The Politics of Noble Fiscal Privilege’
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Birkbeck Early Modern Society Events, 2011-12
By Karen | October 26, 2011
The Birkbeck Early Modern Society presents our academic programme for 2011-12:
Thurs 20 October 2011: Dr Jenny Wormald, ‘Godly myth, ungodly reality: the Scottish Reformation’, 43 Gordon Sq, room G03.
Fri 16 Dec: The Barry Coward Memorial Lecture. Prof. John Morrill, ‘What do we really know about Oliver Cromwell?’, Malet St B35, followed by Xmas party in G15.
Fri 20 Jan: Dr Emma Smith, ‘Reading Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)’, room tbc.
Fri 24 Feb: Dr Matthew Shaw, ‘Early modern time: the case of the French Republican Calendar’, room tbc.
Fri 23 March: Dr Laura Jacobs, ‘Writing about Blindness in Early Modern England: the case of John Milton (1608-1674)’, room tbc.
Fri 27 April: Dr Helen Smith, ‘Materialising the book: print and practice in Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises’, room tbc.
Fri 25 May: Dr Alice Hunt, ‘Oliver Cromwell and the rituals of the Republic’, room tbc.
Membership can be obtained at any of our events and remains unaffected by inflation — £5!
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