Archive for June, 2009
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009The future of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, Irish History Online and London’s Past Online The Royal Historical Society, Irish History Online and London’t Past Online will lose their charitible funding at the end of 2009. They will be switching to a subscription service on 1 January 2010. This is their message: The way in [...]
Summer Events at Dr Johnson’s House
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Curator’s talk on Samuel Johnson and London Saturday 27 June, 1pm Part of the Story of London, in partnership with London Shh… (Small Historic Houses) http://www.londonshh.org.uk. Free with admission, no booking required Music in the Age of Dr Johnson Thursday 16 July, 7pm Solo performance by cellist Annabel Gordon including selections from Handel’s Sonata in [...]
Tonight! Peter Burke on ‘The Rhetoric of Autobiography’
Wednesday, June 24th, 200924 June 09: Prof. Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘The Rhetoric of Autobiography in 17th-Century Europe’, 6.30 pm, room 532, Malet St. Followed by our end of year party in room 538. You are cordially invited to our last academic paper of this term. We are delighted to welcome Prof. Peter Burke to Birkbeck. He [...]
Walks with Early Modern Themes
Friday, June 19th, 2009Please note these walks are NOT organised by the Birkbeck Early Modern Society. Please follow the links below for more information about them. Big Smoke Walks with Karen Chester FRIDAY 19 JUNE at 2pm: Lost Churches of the City – rediscovering lost London Meet: Mansion House Station, Bow Lane exit 4,in the garden courtyard in [...]
Tonight! Early Modern Film Night
Friday, June 19th, 2009Birkbeck Early Modern Society Film Night Friday June 19th 2009, 6.30 room B36, Birkbeck Malet Street Building. We are pleased to be able to screen ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, a magnificent swashbuckling epic that will melt the heart, starring Gerard Depardieu. Usual refreshments, free of charge, all welcome.
Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley – Online
Thursday, June 11th, 2009The letters of Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, which relate to his diplomatic service in the years prior to his bibliographical activities offer a rich resource for Early Modern Studies. This Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) project, in partnership with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, will produce an online edition of [...]
Call for Papers: A Reminder
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009This is to remind you of the call for papers for our third annual students’ conference, ‘Revolution and Evolution’, to be held on Saturday 25 July. Please note that deadline for proposals for papers is Monday 22 June. Our last two conferences have been very stimulating events and this year we once again welcome creative [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Film Night, 19 June
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Birkbeck Early Modern Society Film Night Friday June 19th 2009, 6.30 room B36, Birkbeck Malet Street Building. We are pleased to be able to screen ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, a magnificent swashbuckling epic that will melt the heart, starring Gerard Depardieu. Usual refreshments, free of charge, all welcome.
Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group, 15 June
Monday, June 8th, 2009Birkbeck Early Modern Reading Group Monday 15th June, 2009 Room 502, the Tillotson Room, 30 Russell Square. 6.00pm to 7.30pm This month the group will be reading Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, cantos 1-4. A verse translation is available online at http://omacl.org/Orlando/. Alternatively, Oxford World Classics publish a good prose translation (tr. Guido Waldman) which is available [...]
Dynamics of Power in Early Modern France Conference, 4 July
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009A One-Day Conference on 4 July 2009 in Honour of Dr Roger Mettam’ s Contribution to Early Modern French History, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London. This conference brings together fifteen leading experts to re-examine the evolution of the Early Modern French State from the Renaissance to the Revolution. It [...]
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