Archive for June, 2010
Annual Ecclesiastical History Colloquium, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Annual Ecclesiastical History Colloquium, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2010 Time: 15:30 – 20:00 Programme 3.30 Panel: ‘Samuel Wesley: Family, Theology and Mission’ ‘None but Presbyterian Baptism: Samuel Wesley and the Lay Baptism Controversy.’ Professor William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University ‘A Critical Analysis of the Theology [...]
Bulletin No. 15 – Out Now!
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Our latest edition of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society Bulletin is here: For Summer 2010 you’ll find: Reports on our most recent events by John Croxon (Michael Hunter on ‘The Decline of Magic: The Paradoxical Role of the Royal Society’), Timothy Alves (Richard Williams on ‘Culture Clash? World and Image in Reformation Europe’), and Jackie [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Society ‘Restorations’ Conference Programme
Monday, June 21st, 2010The Birkbeck Early Modern Society AGM and ‘Restorations’ Conference Saturday 3 July 2010, Room B20, Birkbeck, Malet St 10.00 Registration, tea and coffee in room B02 10.30 AGM 11.00 Robin Rowles: welcome to conference, introductions, opening comments 11. 10 Session 1: Frank Ferrie, ‘Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto (The Expectant Virgin Mary): A History [...]
CFP: Last Orders? Art & Architecture of the Religious Orders in England
Monday, June 21st, 2010Call for papers: Last Orders? The Art and Architecture of Religious Orders in England, c.1350–1540 Tuesday, 17 May 2011 The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2 In contrast to the arts of the so-called ‘golden age’ of English religious life during the High Middle Ages, the visual culture of subsequent generations of [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Society: Julian Swann Lecture & End of Year Party
Saturday, June 12th, 2010Prof. Julian Swann, ‘Despotism, Public Opinion and the Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy’, 6.30 pm, Thursday 24 June, Malet St, Room B35, followed by our end of year party in B04 Julian Swann is an expert on old regime France and has published widely on subjects such as the parlement of Burgundy, power and provincial [...]
Angles 2: Another interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on cultural history
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Although this is not strictly speaking an early modern event, I’ve posted it in the interest of promoting Birkbeck evets, especially those run by and for students. The aim of the conference is to bring together a range of postgraduate perspectives on cultural history from across the disciplinary spectrum. The focus is on unusual topics [...]
CFP: Readings and Representations of the 17th Century, Manchester
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010‘Such Total and Prodigious Alteration’ / ‘The Wounds May Be Again Bound Up’: Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century An academic conference to be held in Chetham’s Library, Manchester 28 -29 January 2011 During the restoration and eighteenth century, the civil war period was consistently represented as a traumatic break in the history of [...]
Power & the State: Early Modern Perspectives at Birkbeck
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Dr Laura Stewart has kindly forwarded details of her forthcoming conference, ‘Power and the State: Early Modern Perspectives’ to be held at Birkbeck on 13-14 July 2010. Details about registration will soon be available on the conference website: www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/powerandstate. Keynote lecture: Prof. Jim Collins, Georgetown, USA Speakers: Dr Catherine Casson (Newnham, Cambridge), Dr D’Maris Coffman [...]
Postgraduate conference CFP: Education and learning in early modern Britain
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Postgraduate conference call for papers: Education and learning in early modern BritainTrinity Hall, Cambridge, 24 September 2010 This event, generously funded by the Royal Historical Society, the Society for Renaissance Studies and the University of Cambridge, invites postgraduate and early career scholars to present papers for a conference on education and learning in early modern [...]