Archive for September, 2010
Bristol Brass Consort, 2 Oct, St George’s, Bristol
Thursday, September 30th, 2010Bristol Brass Consort: 25th Birthday Concert Saturday 2 October 7.30pm Eiron Baily conductor Sir Arthur Bliss Antiphonal Fanfare for Three Brass Choirs Strauss Festmusik der Stadt Wien Michael Tilson Thomas Street Song Liz Lane ‘Anniversary Fanfare‘ (Premiere) Bernstein (arr. Crees) Suite from West Side Story Playing with vivid expertise and immense authority, Bristol’s premier brass [...]
Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar, IHR, Autumn 2010
Saturday, September 25th, 2010Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Thursdays, 5 pm, Various locations, see lectures for details Convenors: Trevor Dean (Roehampton), Kate Lowe(Queen Mary), Serena Ferente (KCL) 28 October Jill Moore (Birkbeck), Shoe repairs and stabbings: the daily life of a medieval Italian inquisitor Please note: this session takes place in G37 11 November Helena Sanson (Cambridge), [...]
Global Connections: Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800, IHR, 2010-2011
Saturday, September 25th, 2010Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 Thursdays, 5:30 pm, Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research Convenors: Surekha Davies (Birkbeck College, London), Laura Gowing (King’s College London), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London), and Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, London) The programme for the academic year 2010-11 is on the theme of GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Autumn 2010 7 [...]
Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500 – 1800 Seminar, IHR, Autumn 2010
Saturday, September 25th, 2010Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500 – 1800 Fridays, 5:15 pm, Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research Convenors: Negley Harte (UCL), Julian Hoppit (UCL), Anne Murphy(University of Hertfordshire), David Ormrod (University of Kent), Patrick Wallis (LSE), and Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh) 8 October Steve Hindle (University of Warwick), Agricultural work, reward [...]
British History in the 17th Century Seminars, IHR, Autumn 2010
Saturday, September 25th, 2010British History in the 17th Century Seminars, Autumn 2010 Thursdays, 5:15 pm, Germany Room, Institute of Historical Research Convenors: Justin Champion (RHUL), John Miller (QMUL), Dr Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths), Dr Jason Peacey (UCL) 14 October Andrew Starkie (Independent scholar), High Church Anti-Popery 28 October Justin Champion (Royal Holloway), Hobbes and the Bible 11 November Leif [...]
Seminar on Low Countries History, IHR, 2010-2011
Saturday, September 25th, 2010Seminar on Low Countries History, 2010-2011 session Fridays, 5 pm, Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research Convenors: Raingard Esser (University of the West of England), Anne Goldgar (King’s College London), Benjamin Kaplan (UCL) Autumn Term 22 October David van der Linden (Utrecht),`Preaching Identities: Huguenot Refugee Ministers and Religious Identity in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1695’ [...]
CFP: ‘Emotions’ at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40th Annual Conference
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010From the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Wednesday 5th – Friday 7th January 2011 St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK ‘Emotions’ The annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe’s largest and most prestigious annual conference dealing with all aspects of the history, literature, and culture of the long eighteenth century. We invite [...]
From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World. A Colloquium to be Held at Birkbeck, University of London, 23-24 Sep 2010
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010As part of Birkbeck’s thriving research culture, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the purpose and reception of ritual and ceremony in the early modern period. Early modern life was shaped by ritual and ceremony. These rites had many functions, such as marking time, denoting power, place and order, and defining the sacred. [...]