Archive for January, 2012
History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the ‘New Science’
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the ‘New Science’ 27 April 2012 9am -5:30 pm The Royal Society, London A conference organised by Dr Anna Marie Roos and sponsored by Cultures of Knowledge, University of Oxford and the Mellon Foundation; the Royal Society; and the Wellcome Trust. Registration for this event is [...]
State Papers Talk at The National Archives, 8 Mar 2012
Saturday, January 21st, 2012‘There is no aspect of government activity on which the State Papers may not throw light’: The papers of the secretaries of state 1509-1782 A talk by Dr Adrian Ailes and Dr Katy Mair (TNA) Thursday, 8 March 2012, 2pm Talks Room, The National Archives, Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU (tel: 020 876 3444) The [...]
Fools and Folly in EM Europe: One Day Conference at Chawton House, 18 Feb 2012
Saturday, January 21st, 2012Registration is now open for: ‘All is folly that I can see’: Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe Saturday 18 February 2012, 9.30am-6.00pm University of Southampton and Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire Please download the registration form. Registration: £40 (£30 for students, and there are a few postgraduate bursaries left…) This one-day symposium on [...]
EM Scholarship Opportunity: University of Sydney
Thursday, January 19th, 2012This one’s for Australian citizens or residents only – an interesting project! University of Sydney Postgraduate Scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Humanities & Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Description: A full-time postgraduate scholarship is available for a suitably qualified candidate with a good Honours degree in any aspect of medieval or early modern studies [...]
Jacobean Indoor Playing Symposium, KCL
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Jacobean Indoor Playing Symposium London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College, Saturday 4th February 2012 – 10.00 – 18.30 Following the announcement by Shakespeare’s Globe of their plans to construct an Indoor Jacobean Theatre on the London Bankside, the London Shakespeare Centre invites you to a one day symposium on recent research in to the London theatres [...]
Reading the First Folio: Dr Emma Smith, 20 Jan 2012
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its first event of 2012. Dr Emma Smith will give a talk on ‘Reading Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) on 20 January, 6:30 pm, Room B02 Malet Street. Dr Smith has written widely on Shakepeare: her books include The Cambridge Introdution to Shakespeare and the forthcoming Cambridge [...]
Queen Mary Principal’s Studentship: Early modern textual cultures of western Europe
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Queen Mary Principal’s Studentship Each year Queen Mary offers PhD studentships to highly qualified applicants. Queen Mary Principal’s Studentships cover tuition fees and a maintenance allowance of around £15,000 per year. Applicants from the UK, European Union and overseas are eligible to apply. We are pleased to announce that we will offer one Principal’s Studentship [...]