Archive for October, 2008
« Previous EntriesRediscovering the Cheapside Hoard: 11 November
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008You are warmly invited to attend our second paper of this academic year. The Cheapside Hoard is the greatest hoard of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery ever found. Now displayed in the Museum of London, it was uncovered in the cellar of a building demolished in 1912. The hoard includes a wide range of high quality necklaces, [...]
Research seminar: ‘Francis Bacon and the politics of attribution’: change of room
Monday, October 27th, 2008Dr Alan Stewart, ‘Francis Bacon and the politics of attribution’, 6.00pm, Thursday 30 Oct, is now taking place in Malet St room 509, and not the UCL engineering building as previously advertised. Hope to see you there!
Autumn 2008 Bulletin – Out Now!
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The latest edition of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society Bulletin is now available. Inside you’ll find all our usual reviews (and at least one lucky EMSer was able to get a coveted RSC Hamlet ticket!), articles, and events listings – and even information on London’s oldest pubs!
Medicine and Art
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Michael Baum, emeritus professor of surgery at University College London, and his students have been exploring art galleries to solve the puzzles artists have left in pictures. The results are illuminating and compelling. One of their major findings it the theory that one of the most famous faces in the National Gallery, in the portait called ’An Old [...]
Life-Writing Tonight!
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s first event of this academic year will take place tonight. We are delighted to welcome Dr Adam Smyth (Reading University) who will be speaking about ‘Life-Writing in Early Modern England: the Case of the Almanac’, 6.30pm, Malet St, room B18. We will begin at 6.30 prompt. Admission: Members free (Membership [...]
Nero & Aubrey with the Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group
Monday, October 20th, 2008The next meeting of the Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group will be on Monday November 10th 6-7.30pm in the Tillotson Room (502), 30 Russell Square. This month, the group will be exploring biographical writings: first we will look at some chapters of Suetonius’s colourful biography of the Emperor Nero (Suetonius, Nero 26-31), and then John [...]
Friday Film Night
Monday, October 20th, 2008The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce our first Friday Film Night for the new term! We normally run two of these nights a term showing films with an early modern theme. On Halloween we will present the suitably witchy classic ‘The Crucible’ starring the lovely Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder. The screening will take place [...]
Black Georgians Study Day
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Black Georgians Study Day Wednesday 22 October 10am – 4pm A team of experienced speakers will examine some of the dramatically different experiences of black people in Georgian London, such as black street children, some of whom were admitted to the Foundling Museum; the life of Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson’s Jamaican servant; and George Alexander [...]
Life Writing in Early Modern England
Monday, October 6th, 2008You are warmly invited to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s first event of this academic year. We are delighted to welcome Dr Adam Smyth who will be speaking about ‘Life-Writing in Early Modern England: the Case of the Almanac’, 6.30pm, Malet St, room B18, on 21 October. If you haven’t yet joined the Society or [...]
The British Printed Images to 1700 Second International Conference, 12-13 September 2008, held at the V&A
Monday, October 6th, 2008The British Printed Images to 1700 project (http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/index.html) has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2006-09 to provide a searchable internet database of over 10,000 printed images from early modern Britain. The majority of these images will come from the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, with material [...]
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