Archive for November, 2010
« Previous EntriesAs You Like It, Camden Roundhouse – Ticket for Sale, 13 Jan 2011
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Plan ahead for Shakespeare in January! For Sale: Spare Ticket for As You Like It Roundhouse, Camden (Chalk Farm tube 3 minutes) 13 January 2011 at 7.30 p.m. Stalls Row F £25. Will accept £20. Update: The ticket has been sold.
Our Christmas Event: Dr David Starkey, ‘English Royal Ritual & the Reformation’
Monday, November 29th, 2010Thursday, 9 December, Dr David Starkey, ‘English Royal Ritual and the Reformation in the 16th and 17th Centuries’, 6.30 pm, Birkbeck, Clore B01 We are delighted to invite you to our Christmas event. Dr David Starkey CBE, FSA, is an Honorary Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and probably Britain’s best known public historian. He has [...]
Renaissance Research Seminar at Birkbeck, 30 Nov
Monday, November 29th, 2010Renaissance Research Seminar Surekha Davies (History), ‘Maps, monsters, marvels and Marco Polo: travel writing and ethnographic authority, 1450-1550′ Carmen Fracchia (Iberian Studies), ‘The visual formation of slave subjectivity in Spain’. Tuesday, 30 November 7.30pm, in Room 224, 43 Gordon Square. All welcome! Questions: adam.smyth@bbk.ac.uk
Tonight! Dr Andy Hopper, ‘The Role of Treachery and Turncoats!’, A Birkbeck EMS Event
Friday, November 26th, 2010Dr Andy Hopper, ‘The Role of Treachery and Turncoats in Shaping Military and Political Strategies During the Civil Wars’, 6.30 pm, Friday 26 Nov, Clore G01 You are warmly invited to our next paper, our first on the Civil Wars. Dr Andy Hopper is currently working on a book entitled Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing sides [...]
The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is an Amazon Associate: Shop & Support the Society
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010As you’ll have noticed by now, advertising is in full swing for the ‘perfect Christmas’, etc. The Intelligencer has also noted this and has thought ‘it’s time to get in on the action’! What you may not know is that, if you click on the banner below or use the Amazon search box to the [...]
Urban Economies: Pre-Modern Towns Conference 2011
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010PRE-MODERN TOWNS CONFERENCE 2011 Saturday, 29 January 2011 Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London WC1 URBAN ECONOMIES The 33rd annual meeting of historians, geographers, archaeologists and others working on the medieval and early modern town will be held on Saturday 29 January 2011 at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, WC1. Postgraduate [...]
Our Next Event: Dr Andy Hopper on the Role of Treachery, 26 November
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Dr Andy Hopper, ‘The Role of Treachery and Turncoats in Shaping Military and Political Strategies During the Civil Wars’, 6.30 pm, Friday 26 Nov, Clore G01 You are warmly invited to our next paper, our first on the Civil Wars. Dr Andy Hopper is currently working on a book entitled Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing sides [...]
All Go at the Globe: Winter Events and a New Season Announcement
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010It may be an open air theatre but that’s not stopping Shakepeare’s Globe from celebrating the winter season in style. The Globe’s Winter Wassail will run from 1-3 January 2011. It will feature the Gabrieli Consort & Players – many of whom are regular musicians and singers at Globe productions. Gabrieli will present a choral [...]
CFP: Conversion Narratives in the Early Modern World (York)
Monday, November 15th, 2010Call for Papers: Conversion Narratives in the Early Modern World 9-11 June 2011 University of York Keynote speakers: Irene Fosi (Chieti) and Nabil Matar (Minnesota) The period between 1550 and 1700 was one of widespread religious conversion, prompted by the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, encounters between European states and the Ottoman Empire, and the expansion [...]
Charles Schmitt Prize
Saturday, November 13th, 2010CHARLES SCHMITT PRIZE 2011 As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor, the Istanbul Bilgi University, and Routledge, the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of the late Charles Schmitt to intellectual history. The prize is £500, £50 worth of Routledge books, [...]
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