Archive for May, 2009
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Friday, May 29th, 2009The Wellcome Collection is offering a series of free guided walks on the theme of ‘Medical London’ this summer. The walks cover a variety of themes – plague, pox, physic gardens, and port life all feature – and all start and end at a Tube station. You can find a list of available walks on [...]
CELL Conference: Call for Papers
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, will host a one-day postgraduate conference on 18 September, 2009. “Footprints in the butter: looking for the elephant in the archives” is the latest in a series of successful postgraduate conferences that have been organised by CELL staff and students. This conference [...]
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award at Roehampton
Friday, May 22nd, 2009In collaboration with the Friends of Historic Essex, the Essex Record Office and The National Archives, Roehampton University invites applications for doctoral research to explore and develop new understandings of poverty in early modern Essex, through the application of comparative and/or interdisciplinary methods, with a focus upon rural and urban communities in Essex. The student [...]
Birkbeck Medieval Seminar: Rethinking Medieval Marriage
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Birkbeck Medieval Seminar: Rethinking Medieval Marriage 23rd May 2009, 10am-5pm Place: Rooms 152 and 153, Main Building, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury. London. WC1E 7HX 10-10.30 coffee 10.30-11.30- Emma Lipton (University of Missouri), John Gower’s Politics of Marriage 11.30-12.00 coffee 12.00-1.00 Shannon McSheffrey (Concordia University, Montreal), Marriage by Ravishment in Fifteenth-Century England [...]
Tonight: Dr Eliane Glaser ‘Rethinking Anglo-Jewish History: Cromwell’s Readmission of the Jews and English Law’
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Our next academic event will take place on 21 May 09. Dr Eliane Glaser (Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck) will speak on ‘Rethinking Anglo-Jewish History: Cromwell’s Readmission of the Jews and English Law’, 6:30 pm, room B30, Malet Street. You are warmly invited to our May paper, which will be followed by refreshments and discussion. Dr Glaser’s [...]
Revolution and Evolution: Our 3rd Student Conference
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s Third Student Conference: ‘Revolution and Evolution’ Saturday 25 July 2009, 10.00-16.30 Room 532, Malet St CALL FOR PAPERS The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce our third annual student conference. We aim to provide a safe and constructive space for students to present their research and to network [...]
Historical Horses Conference at Roehampton
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009The Renaissance and Early Modern Horse Roehampton University Provisional Programme Friday 19 June 2009 10.00-11.0 Registration and Welcome 11.00-12.45 Cultural Horses Esther Münzberg: Images of horses in the illustrated book of H.R.E. Charles V and the baroque Viennese book Sarah Cantor: Caravaggio’s horses: conflicting ideals in the two versions of the conversion of St. Paul [...]
Birkbeck Arts Week: 11-16 May
Monday, May 11th, 2009Birkbeck, University of London, has an enviable reputation for the quality and liveliness of its Arts and Humanities research. In History, Theatre Studies, Literature, Film, Politics, Creative Writing, Law, Philosophy, History of Art, Anthropology, Languages, Sociology, and Linguistics, Birkbeck academics engage with the important intellectual, social, and cultural issues of our time. Birkbeck is offering [...]
Newton and Milton Conference at Sussex
Monday, May 11th, 2009Newton:Milton, Two Cultures? is co-hosted by the Newton Project, the Centre for Early Modern Studies, the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, and the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex. The international conference aims to bring together experts in the fields of English Literature, History of Science and general History to consider a number [...]
Burns Fundraiser: Art for £10?
Thursday, May 7th, 2009The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum is raising funds by offering anyone who buys an unseen part of a portrait of Burns by Peter Howson the chance to win the painting. The museum hopes to raise £4 million and the winner of the prize draw will walk away with a painting worth an estimated £50,000. Find [...]
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