Archive for March, 2010
« Previous EntriesCFP: College Art Association Conference: Early Modern Arts in Europe
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010CFP: College Art Association Conference, New York, February 2011 Session: Dissemination: prints, publishing and the early modern arts in Europe The publication of artists’ biographies across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries changed forever the relation between artists and their posterity, between innovation and the emulation of past art, as well as relations between individual works [...]
Sir John Narbrough’s Journal Saved for the Nation!
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010A Press Release from the British Library: Sir John Narbrough’s Journal Saved for the Nation! PRESS RELEASE 30 March 2010 British Library successfully stops English naval explorer’s journal from sailing abroad The British Library has acquired a previously unknown journal of British naval pioneer, Sir John Narbrough, thanks to a £200,000 grant from the National [...]
Bulletin 14: Now Available Here!
Monday, March 29th, 2010The latest edition of our offical journal is here: For Spring 2010 you’ll find: Reports of our most recent events by Anne Byrne and John Croxon John Croxon’s visit to the gorgeous moated Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk Arts Reports – King Lear at the RSC and Bristol Brass at Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton Art Exhibition [...]
April Events at the Hunterian Museum
Sunday, March 28th, 2010The Hunterian Museum will continue its series of events that reveal the connections between microscopy and medicine. The Lens of Life programme has been organised as part of the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary celebrations in 2010. Lunchtime Lecture: Blood under the microscope: William Hewson, an 18th-century anatomist Thursday 20 April, 1pm Join Tania Kausmally, historian [...]
John Selden Conference, Oxford, June 2010
Friday, March 26th, 2010John Selden, 1584-1654: Scholarship in Context Thursday 24th – Saturday 26th June 2010 Magdalen College, Oxford Keynote Speakers Professor G.J. Toomer • Mordechai Feingold • Peter Miller • Jason Rosenblatt • Richard Tuck Speakers Sharon Achinstein • Sir John Baker • Mark Bland • Hans Blom • Elizabethanne Boran • Christopher Brooks • Alan Coates [...]
CFP: The Bible in the 17th Century at York, July 2010
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010The Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quatercentenary (1611-2011) 7 – 9 July 2011 Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: University of York *** Call for papers deadline: 1 June 2010 *** Please see: http://www.york.ac.uk/projects/bible/ Contact: Dr Kevin Killeen This conference, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the 1611 King [...]
Review of Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain
Monday, March 15th, 2010The following is my report in the Paul Sandby exhibition which appeared in the last Birkbeck Early Modern Society Bulletin. I saw the show in Edinburgh but as it’s now in London. You can see the original review – which includes pictures – at http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk/2010/01/02/bulletin-13-out-now/. Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh [...]
Prof Michael Hunter, ‘The Decline of Magic: The Paradoxical Role of the Royal Society’
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Prof Michael Hunter, ‘The Decline of Magic: The Paradoxical Role of the Royal Society’ You are warmly invited to our next paper. Prof. Michael Hunter returns to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society, having last spoken to us almost four years ago when we were a fledgling society. His biography of Robert Boyle was published last [...]
A Declaration of Indulgence: Assessing the Stuart Restoration and its Legacy
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010A Declaration of Indulgence: Assessing the Stuart Restoration and its Legacy A Lecture Series at the National Maritime Museum Dates: 25 March-29 April, Thursdays Times: 11.00-13.00 Fee: £48/£36 or £8/£6 per lecture Event type: Lectures & talks Booking: Booking required This year marks the 350th anniversary of the restoration of the Stuart monarchy. To mark [...]
Volunteers required for ‘British Printed Images to 1700′ website appraisal
Friday, March 5th, 2010Many of you will be aware of the British Printed Images to 1700 website (www.bpi1700.org.uk), an online library of printed images from early modern Britain that has been built under the directorship of Professor Michael Hunter of the History department at Birkbeck with funding from the AHRC. There are now plans to carry out an [...]
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