Archive for September, 2011
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Tuesday, September 13th, 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: University of Sheffield Early Modern Group
Monday, September 12th, 2011The Early Modern Group at the University of Sheffield Run by members of the postgraduate community, the group aims to provide an informal and friendly opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion between people from all levels of study and research. Postgraduates and staff from History, English and Archaeology meet every month around a central theme or topic. [...]
CFP: Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Issue 4
Monday, September 12th, 2011Call for Papers Journal of the Northern Renaissance Issue 4: The Legacy of the Will Submission deadline: March 2012. Expected date of publication October 2012 This special issue of JNR will seek to explore the slippery notion of the ‘will’ and its various semantic permutations in the context of such issues as subjectivity, power, logic, [...]
History in the Pub with London Historians
Monday, September 12th, 2011From the London Historians Events Page: History In the Pub Learn about the history of London over a pint after work! Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 7pm – 9pm. Doors open, 6:30pm The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, Spitalfields. London Historians presents… the inaugural History in the Pub Featuring Jerry White, Lucy Inglis, Ruairidh Anderson, Matt Brown (MC). [...]
CFP: Memory before Modernity: Memory cultures in EM Europe
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Memory before Modernity. Memory Cultures in Early Modern Europe Leiden University, The Netherlands 20-22 June 2012 In the ‘memory boom’ that has emerged in the humanities and social sciences since 1990, five major themes have captured most attention: (a) the relationship between politics and memory, (b) trauma and memories of violence, (c) the ‘mediatization’ of [...]
Reminder: Our 5th Student Conference, 10 September 2011
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011‘Aspirations’ The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s Fifth Student Conference Saturday 10 September 2011 Birkbeck Malet Street Building Room B20 10.00 Registration, coffee* 10.30 Birkbeck Early Modern Society AGM 11.00 Conference ‘Aspirations’ Opening Remarks: Karen Chester Session 1: Chair: Timothy Alves 11.15 Susan Gane, Birkbeck The Aspirations of Common Soldiers in the Early Eighteenth Century 11.45 [...]
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