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Saturday, September 17th, 2011From H-Net academic announcements: Early Modern Studies Journal (EMSJ) formerly Early English Studies (EES) is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in early modern period. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission. The 2012 [...]
CFP: Preternature 2.1 Weird Tools and Strange Investigations
Saturday, September 17th, 2011Preternature 2.1 Weird Tools and Strange Investigations Objects of all sorts have a long history of serving as bridges to the preternatural world, whether that be in terms of some intrinsic power, or as things possessed or haunted. The shaman’s beads, the saint’s bones, the astrologer’s charts, the conjurer’s circle, the scryer’s stone, the spiritualists’ crystal [...]
CFP: ‘Historicizing Performance’, Manchester, January 2010 – Proposal Deadline Approaching!
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, [...]
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 [...]
Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Biennial Conference, Manchester, 2012
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Biennial Conference University of Manchester, UK, 9-11 July 2012 The 5th Biennial conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies will be held at the University of Manchester. Accompanying events are being planned in the Whitworth Gallery, Chetham’s Library, the John Rylands Library, the People’s History Museum, the Royal Northern College [...]
CFP: Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy
Friday, July 22nd, 2011CFP: Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy Bath Spa University The institution of Monarchy was absolutely central to the political developments and events of the medieval and Early Modern world. This conference aims to celebrate monarchy in all of its various aspects, from examining the institution itself [...]
CFP: Reading Conference in Early Modern Studies, 12-14 July 2012
Monday, July 18th, 2011Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading Reading Conference in Early Modern Studies, 12-14 July 2012 The Reading Early Modern Conference continues to establish itself as the place where early modernists meet each July for stimulation, conversation and debate. As in previous years, proposals of individual papers and panels are invited on research in any [...]
CFP: Louis XIV Outside In, Oxford, May 2012
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011From The Williamite Universe: Louis XIV: Outside In: Reactions and Responses to the Sun King beyond France A conference at the Maison française d’Oxford, 3-4 May 2012 Sponsored by the Williamite Universe and the Maison française Prospectus and call for papers Louis XIV has always been a great figure of European history, and considerable scholarly [...]
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