Archive for March, 2011
CFP: Shakespeare and the Great War
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011Call for Papers: ‘Shakespeare and the Great War’ Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, is inviting contributions for a special issue on ‘Shakespeare and the Great War’. It is to be published in 2014, coinciding with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Articles of up to 6,000 words might [...]
CFP: Early English Studies Journal
Monday, March 21st, 2011Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission. Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submissions for [...]
London Maze 2011
Thursday, March 17th, 2011This year’s London Maze is being held on Saturday 16 April 2011, from 10.00am until 4.00pm. The London Maze is a free local history fair devoted to London and its past and is probably the biggest history fair in the capital and takes place roughly every two years. For one day the City of London open [...]
Prof. William Doyle on ‘Revolutionary Napoleon?’
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s next event is Prof. William Doyle on ‘Revolutionary Napoleon?’, Thurs 31 March, 6.30 pm, Clore Building, room 101. Prof. Doyle is a leading expert on 18th C France and the French Revolution, so this paper promises to be spectacular! Folllowed by the usual alcoholic refreshments, discussion and general debauchery.
CFP: ‘Beauty’ at Durham University
Thursday, March 10th, 2011The Medieval and Renaissance Postgraduate Discussion Group at Durham University invites abstracts for its fifth annual conference on 23 and 24 June 2011 addressing the theme of ‘Beauty’. The interdisciplinary conference aims to offer a broad ranging forum, and will be followed by a display of Durham’s medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, introduced by staff from [...]
Francis Lodwick & the Royal Society: Dr William Poole, 11 March
Monday, March 7th, 2011‘Free-thinking and language-planning in the 17th century Royal Society’ Speaker: Dr William Poole, New College, Oxford Friday, 11 March 2011 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Francis Lodwick was an unusual 17th century Fellow of the Royal Society. At the time the Society consisted mainly of gentleman-philosophers, but he was a London cloth-merchant who never [...]
Some Upcoming Early Modern Events
Saturday, March 5th, 2011Our Secretary has found some interesting upcoming early modern events. European History 1500-1800 Seminar Institute of Historical Research Monday, 7 March, 5pm, Low Countries Room, Senate House Dr Stephen Bowd (Edinburgh) Ex-votos, Ethnographies, and Enthusiasm: Humanists, Jews, and the Tale of Simon of Trent Early Modern Philosophy Workshop Institute of Philosophy Tuesday, 8 March 2011 [...]
Is the King James Bible really so special? – RSC Event in London
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011The word for all time: Is the King James Bible really so special? Wednesday 9 March, 6.30pm at Stationers’ Hall On its 400th birthday, the King James Bible has been lavished with praise. Alongside Shakespeare’s works, it is credited with inventing the very language that we speak. But is the contribution of this one book [...]