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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Science not stamp collecting – the importance of botany from 1759 to 2059 1 December 2009 6:30-7:30 pm The Royal Society, London Professor Stephen Hopper Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Professor Hopper will consider the vital role that the study of plant taxonomy and systematics has played in plant science. He will consider, [...]
Call for Papers: Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Networks, Knowledge and Form 8 – 10 July 2010 Royal Society, 6-9, Carlton House Terrace, London Keynote speakers: Mark Greengrass, Margaret Ezell, and Richard Serjeantson The seventeenth century in Europe was an age of turmoil. As wars, revolutions, and exploration redrew the boundaries of the physical world, a tumult of [...]
Call for Papers: Sir Hans Sloane’s 350th Birthday Conference
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Sir Hans Sloane, The Greatest Physician-Naturalist of his Era 7 – 8 June 2010 British Library, London An International Conference Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of his Birth Call for Papers The year 2010 marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of the physician Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Well-known as one of the greatest collectors of [...]
The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: Panizzi Lectures
Monday, November 16th, 2009This year’s series of Panizzi lectures will explore the ways in which texts were prepared for publication in Renaissance Europe. Professor Anthony Grafton will recreate the practices of professional correctors—poor devils of literature whose work extended far beyond the specific task of proof correction—and the printers and authors who worked with them. Both great houses [...]
The Conways of Ragley: London Renaissance Seminar
Sunday, November 15th, 2009London Renaissance Seminar 5 December 2009 Room 152 Malet Street, Birkbeck College The Conways of Ragley: Courtiers and Collectors, 1564-1655 In 1623 the Earl of Kellie noted that a closed cabal had emerged at court over certain confidential matters, consisting of King Charles, the all-powerful George Villiers, and ‘Secreterrye Connowaye, whoe is my Lord of [...]
Scribal Culture in Italy, 1450-1650
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Scribal Culture in Italy, 1450-1650 (workshop 6): The Cataloguing of (Political) Manuscripts 20 November 2009 – 2pm-5pm British Library, London Details of the sixth and final workshop in the AHRC-funded series, planned to shed light on the still under-researched topic of scribal culture in Italy, are given below. These workshops are open to all and [...]
Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research Events
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research: Reading Group session Date: 17 November 2009 From: 13:00 to 14:30 Location: Room 630 Malet Street Free entry; first come, first seated. Speaker: Dr Ann Lewis, Dept of European Cultures and Languages ‘Julie and her father: text and image’ Rousseau’s bestselling novel Julie was illustrated many times over. In this reading group [...]
Lectureship in British History 1450-1600 at the University of Kent (Canterbury)
Friday, November 13th, 2009Lectureship in British History 1450-1600 at the University of Kent (Canterbury) Contract Type Open Ended Salary Type Per Annum Salary (£) 30594 – 43622 HUM0107, School of History, Closing date: 11 Dec 2009 The Role The School of History and the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies seek a Lecturer in Early Modern [...]
Tonight! Karen Hearn on Pregnancy Portraits: An EMS Event
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Karen Hearn (Curator of 16th- and 17th- Century English Art, Tate Britain), ‘Tudor and Jacobean Pregnancy Portraits’, 6.30 pm, 12 Nov 09, Malet St, room 509 You are warmly invited to our second event of the new academic year. Karen Hearn is an expert on early modern English art, and has organised exhibitions at Tate [...]
Conference Funding from the Society for Renaissance Studies
Monday, November 9th, 2009The Society for Renaissance Studies has launched a new scheme for conference funding, in addition to their previous provision. They are now offering two grants of up to £1,500 each to support conferences or colloquia within the field of Renaissance Studies planned for calendar year 1 January 2011-31 December 2011 and held in the United [...]
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