Archive for January, 2011
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Monday, January 24th, 2011The Royal Touch in Tudor England: Revival and Reformation Saturday 19th February 2011 2.00 pm Stephen Brogan (Birkbeck and President of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society) Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, Senate House WC1 Historical Association members free Visitors £3 – no need to pre-book – join as a branch member (£10 p.a.) on [...]
The History Blogging Project
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011A new project has been launched to help postgraduate historians set up and run blogs to promote their work. Blogging technology has created new opportunities for postgraduate historians to engage with specialist and non-specialist audiences, and to demonstrate the impact of their work by creating and informing new, virtual, public spheres and spaces. While there [...]
Birkbeck EMS Event: ‘The Knot and the Pentacle’: Frances Harris, 20 Jan
Thursday, January 20th, 2011The Society is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2010-2011 series: 20 Jan 2011: Dr Frances Harris, ‘The Knot and the Pentacle: Sir Robert Moray and His Anglo-Scottish Networks at the Stuart Courts’, Malet St room 538, 6.30 pm. Sir Robert Moray (1608 or 1609 – 4 July 1673) was a soldier, statesman, [...]
Public Lecture: Julian Swann, ‘From the Servant of the King to the Idol of the Nation’
Saturday, January 15th, 2011On 2 February 2011 Birkbeck’s Eighteenth Century Research Group will be hosting a public lecture by Prof. Julian Swann: ‘From Servant of the King to the Idol of the Nation: the Birth of the Politician in Eighteenth-Century France’ When? 2 February at 6pm (lecture followed by an informal drinks reception). Where? Room 629, Birkbeck, Malet [...]
Our Next Event: Dr Frances Harris, ‘The Knot & the Pentacle’
Friday, January 14th, 2011The Society is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2010-2011 series: 20 Jan 2011: Dr Frances Harris, ‘The Knot and the Pentacle: Sir Robert Moray and His Anglo-Scottish Networks at the Stuart Courts’, Malet St room 538, 6.30 pm. Sir Robert Moray (1608 or 1609 – 4 July 1673) was a soldier, statesman, [...]
Editing Donne Conference, Oxford, 26 March 2011
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Conference: Editing Donne Lincoln College, University of Oxford EPA Centre, Museum Road The editors of the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne are delighted to announce that on 26 March 2011, they will host the first of three AHRC-funded events: Editing Donne. This conference will appeal to scholars and students of the writings [...]
Hunter Paper Published in Notes and Records of the Royal Society
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Michael Hunter’s paper ‘The Royal Society and the decline of magic’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society (January 2011), which he presented presented to the Society last year in an earlier form, is now available online. We’re even mentioned in the acknowledgements! Abstract Whereas some have asserted that the early Royal Society actively sought [...]
CFP: Early Modern Exchanges Conference, UCL, 15-17 Sept
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: Inaugural Conference, Sep 2011 15 – 17 September 2011 Call for Papers The Centre is seeking proposals for panels or individual papers that address the theme of intercultural exchanges 1450 – 1800. Contributors are encouraged to focus on Centre’s themes: travel, exile and migration in early modern Europe and [...]
Bulletin No. 17 – Out now!
Monday, January 10th, 2011It’s Birkbeck Early Modern Society Winter Bulletin! In this issue John Croxon experiences the riches of early modern culture in Vienna, Timothy Alves reviews Salvator Rosa at Dulwich, and Karen Baston reports on several Scottish things (and one London exhibition). You’ll also find reports on our recent events (lectures by Andrew Hopper and David Starkey), [...]
CFP: Marprelate Tracts Conference, Stratford, 9 April 2011
Monday, January 3rd, 2011The Marprelate Tracts: A one day conference to be held at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon, 9 April 2011 (closing date for proposals: 17 Jan 2011) With an opening lecture from Dr Joseph L Black (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), editor of The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition Inspired by the recent [...]
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