The Early Modern Intelligencer

Proposals covering any aspect of Jacobite Studies are desired, including the military, political, diplomatic, religious and social history of Jacobitism, the history of Jacobite historiography, as well as the movement’s influence on contemporary and subsequent art, literature and culture. We are particularly interested in papers that suggest new approaches and forms of collaboration, that interrogate the notion of ‘Jacobite Studies’ as a discipline and its status in academia and wider culture, or that respond to the new challenges and opportunities for research brought about by the digitisation of archival material.

Professor Daniel Szechi (ManchesterUniversity) will be providing a keynote address and a roundtable discussion will be chaired by Dr Eveline Cruickshanks (Chair of The Jacobite Studies Trust).

To register your interest to attend or to send an abstract (of no more than 300 words, also including your name, current level of study/employment, institution and email address) for a 20 minute paper, please email jacobitestudies@gmail.com by 19^th July 2013.

Suggested topics for the roundtable discussion and statements (of maximum 250 words) stating why you would like to be considered as a participant at the roundtable discussion should also be sent to jacobitestudies@gmail.com by 19^th July 2013.

This Colloquium is supported by the generosity of:

-          The Instituteof Historical Research(http://www.history.ac.uk/)

-          The Jacobite Studies Trust (http://www.jacobitestudiestrust.org/)

-          The Anglo-Catholic History Society (www.achs.org.uk)

-          The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (http://www.bsecs.org.uk/)

The British Institute of Florence’s annual Shakespeare Graduate Conference is a one-day interdisciplinary and bilingual English-Italian forum open to PhD students and researchers who have obtained their doctorates within the past 5 years. This year’s conference theme is Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Forms of Nationhood. Contributions are welcomed on the topic of national identity and representations of Elizabethan England in the literary production of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries (playwrights, poets and others) across different disciplines (not limited to): literature, comparative studies, history, art history, cinema and theatre history.
Candidates are invited to send a description of their proposed contribution according to the following guidelines:

• the candidate should provide name, institution, contact info, title and a short abstract of the proposed contribution (200-300 words for a 20-minute paper), explaining the content and intended structure of the paper, and including a short bibliography.
• abstracts are to be submitted by Wednesday 30 October 2013 by email to Sofia Novello.
• all proposals will be blind-vetted. The list of selected papers will be available by the end of November 2013.
• each finished contribution is to last no longer than 20 minutes and is to be presented in English (an exception will be
• made for Italian candidates of departments other than English, who can present papers in Italian). Candidates whose first language is not English will need to have their proposals and final papers checked by a mother-tongue speaker.
• participants will be asked to present a final draft of the paper a week before the Conference.
• participants must be members of the Harold Acton Library, choosing between a 3, 6 or 12 month membership.
• Memberships can be paid for on the day of conference. For details on Library Membership rates and benefits please visit the website www.britishinstitute.it.
• The British Institute cannot reimburse any travel or accommodation expenses.
• papers submitted will be considered for publication in the online proceedings edition of the ‘Shakespeare and His Contemporaries’ Graduate Conference (see the website www.britishinstitute.it for previous volumes of the proceedings).

Deadline for abstracts Wednesday 30 October 2013.
For more information contact Sofia Novello.

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Registration open: http://newscom.english.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/83801.html

How did news cross Europe, and how did news make Europe? News in early modern Europe was a distinctively transnational phenomenon; its topics were international in scope; the forms and terminologies of news, as well as the news itself, crossed national boundaries; practices of news-gathering relied on networks of international agents; it was widely translated; it travelled along commercial routes, or through postal networks that were designed to be mutually connected; and the forces attempting to control the press operated (or attempted to operate) well outside of their actual jurisdiction. The spread of news and the appetite for it reflect changes in the geopolitical and confessional maps of Europe, spreading through ethnic and religious diasporas as well as diplomatic, mercantile, and scholarly networks. It helped forge communities on a local, national and international scale. This three-day conference will explore ways in which this history can be written, and features speakers from across Europe and the Americas.

News and the Shape of Europe is the final stage of the Leverhulme international network, News Networks in Early Modern Europe, a two-year investigation of news communication laying the groundwork for a European history of news.

Prof. Lyndal Roper

‘Love, Anger and Envy: Emotions and the Early Reformation’

Thursday 6 June, 6:30

Malet St B20, followed by our end of year party in B04

Members free, non-members £4

We are delighted to be inviting you to our end of year event. Lyndal Roper is a Fellow and Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, Oxford, where she teaches courses on witchcraft and on the Reformation. Her publications include Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe (1994), Witchcraze (2004), and The Witch in the Western Imagination (2012).  Her talk for us promises to be fascinating as it incorporates her work on the Reformation with her interest in the history of the emotions.

Afterwards we have out summer party which we also hope you’ll be able to attend.

A one day interdisciplinary colloquium on early modern approaches to the imagination is to be held at the University of Warwick on 17 July 2013. Themes will include (among others) the imagination and dreams, the poetic imagination, imagination and trauma in literature, conversion and the imagination, the demonic imagination, the musical imagination, theological approaches to the imagination, and the imagination and health.

This one day interdisciplinary colloquium seeks to bring together scholars working on literature, history, and philosophy to examine early modern ideas about imagination in various, overlapping spheres.

Further details, including how to register, can be found here: http://warwick.ac.uk/earlymodernimagination