Archive for October 6th, 2008
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 [...]
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and History of Science) Seminars
Monday, October 6th, 2008All meetings: Saturdays, 2.00-4.00pm: Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square Refreshments provided. Programme, 2008-2009 4 October 2008: Room ST273 Sven Dupré (University of Ghent) ‘Material culture and the pursuit of natural knowledge in early-seventeenth century Antwerp’ 25 October 2008: Room ST273 Ian Hunter University of Queensland, Australia) ‘Cosmos and Jurisdiction in Kant’s Cosmopolitanism’ 1 [...]
Society, Culture and Belief, 1400-1800: Senses Series Continues
Monday, October 6th, 2008Society, Culture and Belief, 1400-1800 The programme for the academic year 2008-9 continues our series on The Senses, with the theme: Touch Convenors: Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary), Adam Sutcliffe (KCL). Seminars will take place in the Ecclesiastical History Room at the Institute of [...]