Archive for May, 2011
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Third Early Modern Symposium: Art against the Wall Saturday 19 November 2011 The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN CALL FOR PAPERS Art against the Wall is the third symposium of The Courtauld’s Early Modern department. The symposium will provide an occasion for established and emerging scholars to present and discuss [...]
IHR History Booksale, 16-18 June
Thursday, May 26th, 2011The Friends of the IHR are arranging a sale of new and second hand books to be held in the IHR Common Room on 16-18 June. Prices from £1! See the poster below for details…
Opportunity: PHP/SQL Software Developer
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011Job Opportunity: PHP/SQL Software Developer – Stevenage, UK From Alexander Street Press: Alexander Street Press is an award winning electronic publisher, providing innovative products to academic and public libraries worldwide. Highly regarded in our field, we produce online collections of textual, audio and video materials, and create tools to enable academics to find, use and [...]
Exhibition: Story of the English Bible, All Hallows by the Tower
Monday, May 23rd, 2011The Story of the English Bible Friday 13 May – Wednesday 15 June To tie in with the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, All Hallows by the Tower is pleased to present a brand new exhibition tracing the origins and development of the Bible in the English language. This display of artefacts and bibles through the centuries [...]
CFP: The Senses in Early Modern England, Birkbeck and Shakespeare’s Globe
Monday, May 23rd, 2011Call for Papers The Senses in Early Modern England, 1485-1668 21-22 October 2011 A conference hosted by the London Renaissance Seminar, Shakespeare’s Globe and Birkbeck, University of London Keynote Speakers: Prof. Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare’s Globe ‘Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect /By your eyes’ anguish’ (King Lear, 4.5.5-6) [...]
CFP: Historicizing Performance, Manchester, 2012
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester 20 January 2012 This one-day academic conference aims to bring together scholars working on all aspects of performance in the early modern period (taken broadly to include the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries). The conference is intended to interrogate what performance [...]
CFP: Capturing Witches, Lancashire, August 2012
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images – 400 years after the Lancashire Witches Lancaster University 17-19 August 2012 Confirmed Keynote speakers: Diane Purkiss (UWE); Robert Poole (Cumbria) CALL FOR PAPERS In 2012, a year-long programme of events in Lancaster and the surrounding area will mark the 400th anniversary of the trial and execution of the first [...]
Birkbeck EMS Event: Dr Carmen Fracchia, ‘Slavery and Visuality in Imperial Spain’
Monday, May 16th, 2011Dr Carmen Fracchia, ‘Slavery and Visuality in Imperial Spain: The Miracle of the Black Leg’, 20 May, 6.30 pm, Clore 101 Dr Fracchia lectures in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, and is an expert on early modern Spanish art. She is the Director of the Centre for Iberian and Latin [...]
Memorial for Prof. Barry Coward at Birkbeck, 28 June 2011
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Dear colleague and fellow early modernist, I am writing to invite you to a memorial and celebration in honour of Professor Barry Coward, who died in March. As you will know, Barry was a much admired figure amongst his colleagues, students and the wider historical profession and the event will be an opportunity to pay [...]
CFP: ‘Aspiration’: Birkbeck Early Modern Society 5th Student Conference
Saturday, May 7th, 2011The Birkbeck Early Modern Society 5th Student Conference ‘Aspiration’ Saturday, 10 September 10 2011, 10-4:30 Birkbeck College Call for Papers The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its 5th annual student conference on the theme of ‘Aspiration’. We aim to provide a stimulating event at which students can network, present their research and [...]
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