Archive for October, 2011
Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR
Saturday, October 29th, 2011Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR Mondays at 17.00 in the Holden Room (Room 20 Boardroom 103), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Autumn Term 2011 31 October Dr Emma Barker (Open University) ‘Il n’y a point de tableau plus charmant que celui de la famille: Constructing domesticity in eighteenth-century France’ 14 November [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Events, 2011-12
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011The Birkbeck Early Modern Society presents our academic programme for 2011-12: Thurs 20 October 2011: Dr Jenny Wormald, ‘Godly myth, ungodly reality: the Scottish Reformation’, 43 Gordon Sq, room G03. Fri 16 Dec: The Barry Coward Memorial Lecture. Prof. John Morrill, ‘What do we really know about Oliver Cromwell?’, Malet St B35, followed by Xmas [...]
Samuel Pepys Award to Michael Hunter
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011From The Bookseller: Samuel Pepys Award to Michael Hunter 26.10.11 | Katie Allen Academic Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his “fascinating” biography of 17th-century scientist Robert Boyle. Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale) was awarded the £2,000 prize and a specially commissioned medal at a special dinner held at St [...]
Third Early Modern Symposium: Art Against the Wall – Courtauld Institute of Art
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Third Early Modern Symposium: Art Against the Wall The Courtauld Institute of Art Saturday, 19 November 2011 10.00 – 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 9.30 am) Speakers: Gerry Abalone (Tate), Adriano Aymonino (independent scholar), Susannah Brooke (Queens’ College, Cambridge), Rodrigo Cañete (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Kevin Childs (British School at Rome), [...]
‘Family Life Makes Tories of is All’: Amanda Vickery Lecture
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011‘Family Life Makes Tories of us All’: Love and Power at Home in Georgian England Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History The First Annual Lecture of the Centre for Studies of Home Date: 6:00PM, 22 November 2011 Venue: Cocktails and Live Jazz Band at the Octagon, Queens’ Building, Mile End Road. The lecture will [...]
Our First Two Events of 2011-12
Monday, October 10th, 2011The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its first two events of the academic year. Thurs 20 October 2011: Dr Jenny Wormald, ‘Godly myth, ungodly reality: the Scottish Reformation’, 43 Gordon Sq, room G03. This promises to be a memorable night as Dr Wormald is an expert on early modern Scotland who is [...]
Careers in the Early Modern
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Careers in the Early Modern 2 November 2011 UCL, Galton Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place 4:30 pm An event for anyone interested in working with early modern culture — books, textiles, houses — but not in a traditional academic way. A perfect session for students from undergrad to PhD. Lucy Worsley (Historic Royal Palaces) and [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Bulletin 20
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011The 20th Issue of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s official journal, the Bulletin – and the last under the red pen of our long standing Editor, John Croxon – is available now. Some members may remember the early editions of the Bulletin – they were handed out at our events on whatever paper we could [...]