Archive for April, 2008
Journeys and Encounters – Call for Papers!
Monday, April 28th, 2008OUR SECOND STUDENT CONFERENCE: JOURNEYS AND ENCOUNTERS Saturday 12 July 2008, 10.00-16.30, Room 538, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX CALL FOR PAPERS The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce our second student conference. We aim to provide a safe and constructive space for students to present their research and to network [...]
Locke and Port Royal: From Logic to Ethics
Monday, April 28th, 2008Friday 2 May 2008 9.30 am – 5.30 pm Maison Frangaise d’Oxford 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford Early Modern Philosophy Seminar organized by Martine Picharman : Martine Picharman Speakers : Andreas Blank (Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenb|ttel) Jean-Pierre Cliro (University of Rouen), John Rogers (University of Keele), Paul Schuurman (University of Rotterdam), Luisa Simonutti (ISPF-CNR, University of [...]
1759 : Call for Papers from Queen’s University Belfast
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008The Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’s University Belfast will host a conference next year (15-17 April 2009) to mark the 250th anniversary of the events and publications of 1759. The conference will be interdisciplinary. 300 word proposals are invited for 20 minute papers. Download the flyer here for more information and further details.
Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies 1500-1700 : A Conference
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies 1500-1700 : A Conference 17/09/2008 to 19/09/2008 University of Kent at Canterbury The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (University of Kent) and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (QMUL) are pleased to co-sponsor a 3-day conference to be held at the University of Kent on 17-19th September [...]
Bulletin Volume Six!
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Our new Bulletin is out now! Click Bulletin Volume 6 for reviews of events, visits, music, exhibitions and more!
Bad news if you were planning to publish your thesis with Weidenfeld &Nicolson
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008The publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson is to slash its non-fiction contracts and concentrate on celebrity biographies. The Guardian has the details here: History out, celebrities in. Of course, you could become a celebrity academic and then you’d be set!
Amazing Rare Things at the Queen’s Gallery
Friday, April 4th, 2008An exhibition called ‘Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery’ has opened at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace. The official site says: ‘The works in this exhibition have been selected, in collaboration with Sir David Attenborough, from six remarkable and diverse groups of natural history drawings and watercolours [...]
Williams on Cranach – Tonight!
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Dr Richard Williams, who delivered our Christmas lecture on Holbein, will return to talk to us about Lucas Cranach at the Court of Saxony. The event takes place tonight at 6:30pm in Room B36, Malet Street. As always there will be refreshments and time for a Q&A discussion. The event is free to members. Please [...]