The Shakespeare Institute The University of Birmingham 14-16 June 2012 Call for papers Deadline Friday 4 May 2012 The Shakespeare Institute invites graduate students with interests in both Shakespearean and Renaissance studies to join them in June for the Fourteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference. The interdisciplinary conference provides a friendly but stimulating academic forum [...]
A reminder that the call for papers for the Second Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference (University College Dublin, 31 August – 1 September 2012) closes on 27 April. Proposals for papers and panels on any aspect of society in Ireland during the Tudor and Stuart eras are welcome. Postgraduates are particularly encouraged to offer papers. [...]
Dr Helen Smith, ‘Materialising the Book: Print and Practice in Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises’ Friday 27 April, 6.30 pm, Malet Street, room B02 A warm invitation to our next event. Dr Helen Smith works at the University of York where she teaches early modern literature. Her research interests include the history of the book, women and [...]
Bonds, Lies, and Circumstances: Discourses of Truth-Telling in the Renaissance An International and Interdisciplinary Conference 21st – 23rd March, 2013 School of English, University of St Andrews If a lie had no more faces but one, as truth had, we should be in farre better termes than we are: For whatsoever a lier should say, [...]
Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC 27-29 September 2012 Schedule (abstracts are being added as they are received) How does the space of a city function as the figure or ground of scholarship, and what difference does it make? Folger Institute faculty weekend seminars on early modern cities [...]