Archive for October 12th, 2009
EMPHASIS Seminars 2009-2010
Monday, October 12th, 2009EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and History of Science Seminar), 2009-2010 Venue: Room G34 [Ground Floor] Senate House, South Building, Malet Street, London WC1E. Time: Saturday, 2-4pm. Refreshments provided. 3 October 2009 Steven Walton (Pennsylvania State University and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Leeds), ‘Practical Mathematics and the Military Gentleman’. 7 November 2008 Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Warburg Institute), ‘Pomponazzi [...]
Bess of Hardwick Letters Project at Glasgow
Monday, October 12th, 2009AHRC Postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate Needed Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project University of Glasgow – Department of English Language, Faculty of Arts Ref: 00084-2 Salary: £25,623 – £28,839 (grade 6) / £31,513 – £35,469 (grade 7) per annum The successful candidate will be required to carry out high-quality research in the AHRC Letters of Bess [...]
Sir Brian Proves Shakespeare Authorship of Edward III
Monday, October 12th, 2009From The Times: The 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer program designed to detect plagiarism. Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, believes that a comparison of [...]