Archive for January, 2010
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Monday, January 18th, 2010Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society, will be giving a paper at the Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar at the IHR on Thursday 25 Feb entitled ‘The Royal Touch: Scrofula, Sin and the Restored Stuarts, 1660-88′. Venue: Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Time: 5:15 in [...]
Lecture Series: Art and Travel in the Mediterranean, 1600–1900
Sunday, January 17th, 2010In the history of British travel since the late sixteenth century, the Mediterranean has always played a prime role and inevitably captured the imagination like no other European region. Travel to the Mediterranean was stimulated by its art and architecture and in return inspired new art, architecture, collecting and art criticism. Images drawn, painted or [...]
The Indian Portrait, 1560-1860
Saturday, January 16th, 2010The Indian Portrait 1560 – 1860 11 March – 20 June 2010 National Portrait Gallery, London Porter Gallery The NPG says, This outstanding exhibition, the first of its kind in the UK, tells the story of the Indian portrait over three centuries, exploring the fascinating ways in which Indian artists have approached the depiction of [...]
Captain Kidd’s lost treasure ship: Lunchtime Lecture at Museum of Docklands
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Captain Kidd’s lost treasure ship Thursday, 4 February 2010, 13:10 – 14:00 The wreck of what is thought to be Captain Kidd’s lost treasure ship the Quedagh Merchant was discovered off the Dominican Republic in December 2007. The ship, which Kidd claimed was carrying thousands of pounds of valuables, was hidden by the pirate in [...]
Dissenting Studies Seminar Programme at Dr Williams’s Library
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Dissenting Studies Seminar Programme at Dr Williams’s Library Programme for Jan-July 2010 Large grant holder Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary) and collaborative studentship partner Dr David Wykes (Dr Williams’s Library) are co-directors of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissent Studies, which has announced its 2010 programme. Doctoral student on the collaborative studentship Mark Burden is [...]
IHR European History Seminars, Spring-Summer 2010
Monday, January 11th, 2010European History 1500-1800 Conveners: Philip Broadhead, Julian Swann, Peter Campbell, Filippo de Vivo, John Henderson, Joël Félix Mondays at 17.00 in the Low Countries Room of the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Spring 2010 18 January Professor Mark Greengrass (Sheffield), ‘Massacres and Elites: Antoine Caron’s Massacres [...]
‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: 30% Discount for EM Intelligencer Readers!
Monday, January 11th, 2010‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: Writing Women’s Identities Ulrike Tancke Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. VIII, 266 pp. (Costerus NS 180) ISBN: 978-90-420-2808-1 Paper ISBN: 978-90-420-2809-8 E-Book Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=COS+180 Readers of The Early Modern Intelligencer can claim a 30% discount on this title! Send an email to info@rodopi.nl ,and mention your postal address, [...]
Shakespeare’s Globe 2010 Season: Kings & Rogues
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010The Globe has announced its 2010 season which has the theme ‘Kings and Rogues’. Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole says: Shakespeare – something of a king and much of a rogue himself – understood that the world needs rogues, just as it needs kings. It needs the wildness, warmth and virtue of rogues, to balance against [...]
The British Milton Seminar
Monday, January 4th, 2010The British Milton Seminar Spring Meeting, 2010, Saturday 13 March 2010 PRELIMINARY NOTICE Venue: In Birmingham Central Library on Saturday 13 March 2010. There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. The conveners currently intend that each session will have two papers, for which proposals [...]
Bulletin 13 Out Now!
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Happy New Year! To celebrate the arrival of 2010, the Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to present a new edition of our official journal, The Bulletin. Our New Year edition features: A President’s Address from Stephen Brogan Reports on our autumn lectures which were delivered by Roger Mettam, Karen Hearn, and Quintin Skinner. Arts [...]
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