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Monday, October 19th, 2009‘Go-Betweens, Translations, and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries’ 13-14 November 2009 Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, The Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE Organizers: Harold Cook (UCL) and Sven Dupré (Ghent University) Programme pdf Friday, 13 November 9:30 – 9:55 Registration and Refreshments [...]
Renaissance Seminars at Queen Mary
Monday, October 19th, 2009The first seminar in the 2009/10 Renaissance Seminar Series at Queen Mary, University of London will take place on 6 November 2009 at 6.30pm. Stephen Greenblatt will speak on ‘Utopian Pleasure’ in a seminar chaired by Quentin Skinner. The seminar will take place in the Skeel Lecture Theatre, People’s Palace, Queen Mary, University of London, [...]
Research Officer Needed, ‘Life in the Suburbs’, University of London
Sunday, October 18th, 2009058/09 Research Officer, ‘Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London’ UNIVERSITY OF LONDON School of Advanced Study Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research £30,973 to £37,603 pa inc LW Fixed term until 31 May 2011 Applications are invited for the post of Research Officer on the ESRC-funded project, [...]
‘Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800′ seminars at the IHR
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 The programme for the academic year 2009-10 concludes a series on The Senses, with the theme: Sound and Hearing Convenors: Surekha Davies (Birkbeck), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), Adam Sutcliffe (KCL). Seminars will take place in the Ecclesiastical History Room at the Institute [...]
Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’
Friday, October 16th, 2009Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’, 7 pm, 22 Oct 09, Malet St, room 633. You are warmly invited to our first event of the new academic year. Dr Roger Mettam is a distinguished historian of early modern France, the author of Government and Society in Louis XIV’s France [...]
Call for Papers: Controversy, Protest, Ridicule, Laughter, 1500-1750
Thursday, October 15th, 2009The University of Reading Early Modern Studies Conference 9-11 July 2010 Controversy, Protest, Ridicule, Laughter, 1500-1750 Call for Papers The annual Reading Early Modern Studies Conference invites research-based proposals in any field or discipline of early modern studies, but this year particularly aims to draw together scholars working on areas related to the themes of [...]
Call for Papers: BSHS Conference, 2010 in Aberdeen
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Call for Papers: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 2010 Thursday 22 – Sunday 25 July 2010, University of Aberdeen The BSHS Annual Conference will take place at the University of Aberdeen from 22 – 25 July 2010. The conference will start late in the afternoon of 22 July with a plenary [...]
Mary Rose: Museum and Appeal
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Winston Churchill reputedly summed up naval tradition as “nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash”, but a trove of objects discovered in the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose suggests that one could also add “the latest fashions and personal grooming”. Artefacts recovered from the remains of the vessel but never put on display [...]
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 [...]
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