Archive for April, 2010
CFP: Women, Image and Identity in the European Courts
Friday, April 30th, 2010Call for Papers Women, Image and Identity in the European Courts Renaissance Society of America Conference Montreal, 24 – 26 March 2011 This panel aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines who work on women at all levels of court society. Women at court were forced to confront conflicting expectations of appropriate female behaviour [...]
Tonight! Richard Williams on ‘Culture Clash: Word and Image in Reformation Europe’
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Dr Richard Williams, ‘Culture Clash: Word and Image in Reformation Europe’, Thursday 29 April, 6.30 pm, Malet St, Room 320 The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is delighted to invite you to our next event. Dr Richard Williams returns to the society due to popular demand! Having spoken to us about Holbein and Cranach, next week [...]
CFP: Birkbeck EMS Summer Student Conference: Restorations
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010The Birkbeck Early Modern Society Fourth Student Conference RESTORATIONS Saturday 3 July 2010, 10.00-16.30 Birkbeck College, Malet Street CALL FOR PAPERS The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce our fourth annual student conference. We aim to provide a safe and constructive space for students to present their research and exchange ideas with peers [...]
Richard Williams, ‘Culture Clash: Word and Image in Reformation Europe’
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Dr Richard Williams, ‘Culture Clash: Word and Image in Reformation Europe’, Thursday 29 April, 6.30 pm, Malet St, Room 320 The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is delighted to invite you to our next event. Dr Richard Williams returns to the society due to popular demand! Having spoken to us about Holbein and Cranach, next week [...]
Geffrye Museum Almshouse Visits
Monday, April 19th, 2010The Geffrye Museum in London is offering special access to one of its almshouses this spring and summer. You can visit one of the Geffrye’s 18th-century almshouses which has been fully restored to its original condition, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of London’s poor and elderly in former times. Visitors will have a [...]
Call for Papers: Seminars on Early Modern Preaching: King David
Saturday, April 17th, 2010Call for Papers: Seminars on Early Modern Preaching: King David A One-Day Colloquium, University of Reading, Saturday 6 November, 2010 No biblical figure provided early modern preachers with such various material for their sermons as King David: from the young champion to the king ‘old and full of days’, David was the loyal subject who [...]
Happy Birthday to Sir Hans Sloane!
Friday, April 16th, 2010One of my favourite people from history, Hans Sloane, was born 350 years ago today on 16 April 1660. He went on to have a varied and successful career as a physician, botanist, collector, and traveller. The immense collection of objects and books which he left to the nation after his death in 1753 was [...]
Call for Papers: Early Modern Exclusions
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Call for Papers: Early Modern Exclusions 14 September 2010, University of Portsmouth Plenary speaker: Dr Naomi Tadmoor (University of Sussex) The Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL) and the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR) at the University of Portsmouth are pleased to announce a one-day, multi-disciplinary conference on “Early Modern Exclusions” to [...]
CFP: Tudor and Jacobean Painting: Production, Influences and Patronage
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Tudor and Jacobean Painting: Production, Influences and Patronage Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th December 2010 To be held at the National Portrait Gallery (Thursday and Friday) and the Courtauld Institute of Art (Saturday) This conference is part of a collaborative research project between the National Portrait Gallery, the Courtauld Institute of Art and [...]
The Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700
Thursday, April 8th, 2010The Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700 Birkbeck, University of London 24-5 June 2011 An international conference organised with support from The Leverhulme Trust, the Society for Renaissance Studies and Birkbeck, University of London Confirmed speakers KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Notre Dame), Professor Pamela Smith (Columbia), Dr Joan-Pau Rubiés (London School of Economics) PLENARY [...]