Archive for November, 2009
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Monday, November 30th, 2009There’s no denying the holidays are approaching and that if you’re getting or giving presents this year you’ll need to get shopping. (I did say IF. See the Money Saving Expert’s PRE-No Unncessary Presents campaign. Ideal for those of us who are students or poorly paid academics!) If you’re shopping at Amazon.co.uk this year, I’d [...]
CFP: Revenge, 1st Global Conference, Oxford July 2010
Friday, November 27th, 2009Revenge: 1st Global Conference Thursday 15th July 2010 – Saturday 17th July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Papers Revenge, so we are told, is a dish best served cold: a ‘sweet’ wreaking of vengeance on those who have – either in reality or in our minds – slighted, wronged or in some way ‘injured’ [...]
Shakespeare: From Rowe to Shapiro Symposium
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Shakespeare: From Rowe to Shapiro Symposium Saturday, 28 November, 2009 Globe Education ‘Some little account of the man himself may not be thought improper’ Nicholas Rowe, 1709 A one day symposium on the function and critical value of Shakespeare biographies to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first biography of William Shakespeare by Nicholas Rowe. [...]
Early Science: A Historical Perspective
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Early Science: A Historical Perspective Speaker(s): Professor Tim Connell, Professor Allan Chapman, Professor Robin Wilson Date/Time: 25 Nov 2010, 11am – 5pm Venue: Wadham College, Oxford Early Science: A Historical Perspective A Symposium to mark the 350th anniversary of The Royal Society, examining the early days of Wadham College, Gresham College and The Royal Society, [...]
Quentin Skinner: ‘Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes’
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Prof. Quentin Skinner, ‘Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes’, Thursday 10 December, 6.30 pm, Malet St, Room B35 We are delighted to invite you to our end of term lecture. Prof. Quentin Skinner returns to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society, having given us a very stimulating evening three years ago on Machiavelli. Prof. [...]
‘A fair bird suited with goodly borrowed plumage?’ The economic and cultural contribution of Southern Netherlanders to Holland’s Golden Age, c. 1585-1630.
Monday, November 23rd, 2009“A fair bird suited with goodly borrowed plumage?” The economic and cultural contribution of Southern Netherlanders to Holland’s Golden Age, c. 1585-1630 A lecture by Dr. Alastair Duke (University of Southampton) Institute of Historical Research (Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU) 16 January 2010 2.00 pm Free to Historical Association (HA) members [...]
E-mail Updates: A Note for Subscribers
Saturday, November 21st, 2009Because of ongoing problems with our e-mail subscription service as well as security issues, I have decided to suspend the Early Modern Intelligencer’s e-mail alert service. Fortunately new technologies have come to the rescue and I’m happy to announce that the Birkbeck Early Modern Society now has its very own Twitter account! You can follow [...]
Conference: Music, Literature, Illustration, 1500-1700
Friday, November 20th, 2009Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700 An AHRC funded conference A conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers, hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton Chawton House Library, Hampshire, 16-17 February 2010 Keynote speaker: Dr Peter Beal FBA (Institute of English Studies, [...]
Call for Papers: From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World
Thursday, November 19th, 2009From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World One Day Colloquium at Birkbeck, University of London Friday 24 September 2010 As part of Birkbeck’s thriving research culture, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the purpose and reception of ritual and ceremony in the early modern [...]
Call for Papers: Universal Reformation
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Universal Reformation: Intellectual Networks in Central and Western Europe, 1560-1670 7 – 9 September 2010 St Anne’s College, Oxford Call for Papers For decades before the Thirty Years War, Protestant communities in Poland-Lithuania, the Czech lands, and Hungary-Transylvania, lacking fully functional local universities responsive to their needs, sent their sons westward to study in Germany’s [...]
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