Archive for March, 2009
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009From the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society: 16 April 2009 Friends in the City: The Quakers in 17th and early 18th Century London Dr Simon Dixon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London Refreshments will be available from 6 pm and the Lecture will begin at 6:30 pm in the Terrace Room of the [...]
Portraits in London: British Museum and NPG
Monday, March 30th, 2009Two exhibitions featuring portraiture are running in London. The British Museum has The Intimate Portrait: drawings, miniatures and pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence which has transfered from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and will be on until 31 May in Room 90. Portraits were displayed in public at the Royal Academy exhibitions but behind the [...]
News Round Up
Saturday, March 28th, 2009Here are some links to news stories related to early modern themes. Matthew Shaw on the Act of Settlement and Royal Reform: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/takingliberties/2009/03/a-good-day-for-princess-anne.html ‘Elizabethan figure’ stumps experts:The science of ghosts http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5983612.ece Burns’ Book Found in Museum: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7966027.stm Scotland’s First Smokers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7966261.stm And this year’s Edinburgh Festival will feature an ‘Enlightenment’ theme: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7963367.stm
Tonight! ‘Artemisia’ with the Birkbeck Early Modern Society
Friday, March 27th, 2009We will be showing the film ‘Artemisia’ (dir. Agnes Merlet) about Artemisia Gentileschi the 17th Century Italian artist. Time: 18:30 – 21:30 Location: Birkbeck College, Room B36 Street: Malet Street Town/City: London, United Kingdom Usual refreshments, free of charge, non-members welcome. Find out more about Artemisia Gentileschi The Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi which [...]
Handel the Philanthrophist
Thursday, March 26th, 2009The Foundling Museum is marking the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death (14 April 1759) with an exhibition focusing on the composer’s philanthropy. The exhibition will draw on the rich holdings of the Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum, which includes Handel’s will, with a loan from the Royal Society of Musicians of manuscript [...]
Call for Papers: ‘Handle with Care’ at Liverpool Hope
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Handle with Care: Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Spenser Liverpool Hope University, 4-5 July 2009 Keynote Speaker: Professor John Watkins (University of Minnesota) Proposals are invited for a conference which will examine the interrelated roles of the author and the diplomat in the late medieval, early modern and Renaissance periods. Many of the key [...]
Electronic Journals with Intute
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009About Intute Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database. With millions of resources available on the Internet, it is difficult to find relevant and appropriate material even [...]
Thinking with Spinoza: Conference at Birkbeck
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Thursday 7th May and Friday 8th May Room B35, Birkbeck Main Building Does religious pluralism undermine political co-operation? Does religion differ from superstition? What is the scope of philosophical knowledge? Can it live alongside religious faith? How can states combine pluralism with solidarity? How deeply does political co-operation depend on imagined narratives? These and other [...]
News Round Up
Friday, March 20th, 2009Here are some links to stories in the news from the last week or so with early modern connections. On Henry VIII’s relationship with women: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4996880/Henry-VIII-emotionally-dependent-on-women.html The London flood of 1791 (with a mock up of what it would look like in the 2009 version of the city): http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/03/london-swamped.html Was Caravaggio a photographer?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/4968509/Caravaggio-used-photography-to-create-dramatic-masterpieces.html Some [...]
Tonight! William Brooks, ‘French, German and Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Madame Palatine’
Thursday, March 19th, 2009You are warmly invited to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s next event: Prof. William Brooks (University of Bath), ‘French, German and Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Madame Palatine, Sister-in-Law of Louis XIV; or, The Case of the Shat Upon Carrot’, 6.30 pm, 19 March, Room B36, Malet St. Madame Palatine’s correspondence with her friends and relations described [...]
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