Archive for May, 2008
« Previous EntriesIHR Early Modern European History Seminar
Saturday, May 31st, 2008The IHR Early Modern European History seminar will be held on Monday 2 June at 5pm in the Low Countries Room when Professor Robert Evans (Oxford) will give a paper on ‘”Extra Hungariam Non Est Ita”: Eighteenth-Century Hungary in Comparative Perspective’. http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/seminar.php?series=115 The seminar will take place at the Institute of Historical Research , Senate [...]
Sacred Gold and Silver on Display at The Goldsmiths’ Hall
Friday, May 30th, 2008The Goldsmiths’ Company is holding a major exhibition of English Church silver, under the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. ‘Treasures of the English Church: Sacred Gold and Silver from 800-2000′ opens at Goldsmiths’ Hall on Friday May 30 and runs until Saturday July 12. Admission is free. This will be the first such exhibition [...]
Walk London for Free this Weekend
Friday, May 30th, 2008As part of Transport for London’s ‘Walk London’ initiative, there are 40 free guided walks happening all over London this weekend. The Early Modern Society’s Karen Chester will be guiding the Central London City Walks 1 & 2 on the Jubilee Walkway: City Walk 1 (from the Tower to St Paul’s Cathedral) is on Saturday [...]
Bach Festival at St Anne’s
Friday, May 30th, 2008St Anne’s Lutheran church has announced its Bach programme for July 2008. The last concert is timed for Bach’s Death Day, 28 July. You can find the programme at http://www.stanneslutheranchurch.org/upcoming%20music.htm. Tickets: £5 (lunchtime), £10 (Friday and Saturday evening), Season Ticket £45 Tickets will be available June-July 2008
30 June: Natalie Zemon Davis
Monday, May 26th, 200830 June 08: Prof Natalie Zemon Davis, ‘Pursuing “Leo Africanus” and other Enigmas: Some Thoughts on Historical Method’, 6.30 pm, room B01, Clore Management Centre. I am delighted to send you details of our last event for this academic year. Natalie Zemon Davis is an eminent social and cultural historian who has pioneered cross-disciplinary history [...]
Remaindered Books News!
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Sadly, the Euston Road branch of Unsworths has bitten the dust, but the good news is that in their shop on the top floor of Foyles the following early modern gems are remaindered: John Hurt, Louis XIV and the Parlements: the Assertion of Royal Authority, pbk, £4.99 Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions, hdbk, £7.99 D. W. Carr, [...]
Film Night – La Reine Margot – 30 May
Friday, May 23rd, 2008A message from our Secretary… Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to present ‘La Reine Margot’, 1993 (cert. 18). This excellent film, directed by Patrice Chereau, stars Isabelle Adjani as Margot (Marguerite de Valois) daughter of Catherine de’ Medici (Virna Lisi). Margot marries the Protestant Henri of Navarre (Daniel Auteuil) and has a steamy affair [...]
Early Modern Reading Group, 9 June
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Please the Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group on Monday 9th June 6-7.30pm in the Tillotson Room (Room 503) Department of English and Humanities. They will be discussing medicine and surgery in the Renaissance, with the focus on the work of Pare and Vesalius. Please note, the work of Vesaluis does cover vivisection in a graphic [...]
Roger Morrice and his World: a workshop
Friday, May 9th, 2008NEW DIRECTIONS IN LATE STUART HISTORY Roger Morrice and his World: a workshop The Breakfast Room, Merton College, Oxford. Saturday 14 June 2008, 10.30am – 5pm. The recent publication of Roger Morrice’s Entring Book was an important milestone in the study of late-seventeenth century Britain. This one-day workshop is designed to assess the impact of [...]
Our First Summer Event – Don’t Miss
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Reminder: Don’t miss our first summer term talk. Historian Dr Laura Stewart will be speaking to us on ‘Serving God and Mammon : The Anglo Scottish Relationship in the mid 17th- Century’ on Wednesday 7 May , 6.30 pm, Room 538, Birkbeck Building, Malet St, London, WC1 This promises to be a fascinating evening and [...]
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