The 2014 conference of CILIP’s Library and Information History Group will have the theme ‘Medieval and Renaissance Lost Libraries’. It will be held at Senate House in London on Saturday 12 July 2014. The guest speaker is Dr Raphaële Mouren, Librarian and Deputy Director of the Warburg Institute. Papers are welcome on such topics as [...]
The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its 7th annual student conference on the theme of ‘Vice and Virtue in the Early Modern Period’ to take place on Saturday 15 February 2014. This conference provides an ideal forum to showcase student research as well as opportunities to develop presentation skills. We are interested [...]
10 June 2014 The National Archives, Kew SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE: Dr Angela McShane (V&A Museum), Dr Mark Jenner (University of York CREMS) & Dr Nick Barratt (TNA) The archives are an essential tool for researchers of the early modern period. This one-day conference will focus on the vast manuscript collection of The National Archives in [...]
6th Annual Postgraduate Conference 10th April 2014 The British Institute of Florence’s annual Shakespeare Graduate Conference is a one-day interdisciplinary and bilingual English-Italian forum open to PhD students and researchers who have obtained their doctorates within the past 5 years. This year’s conference theme is Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Forms of Nationhood. Contributions are welcomed [...]
Submission deadline: 1 December 2013 Estimated date of publication: September 2014 Early modern books are full of numbers, representing both practicality and mystery. The Journal of the Northern Renaissance invites contributions for a special issue exploring numbers in early modern literature and textual culture. How were numbers and numerical techniques used in drama, dance, [...]