CFP: Third Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, Dublin, August 2013 Proposals for papers and panels (of three speakers) are invited for the third Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, to be held in University College Dublin on 30 and 31 August 2013. Papers relating to any aspect of Irish society during the Tudor and Stuart eras [...]
Educating Women: An Interdisciplinary Conference Thursday 18 July 2013 Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent There have been issues around women and education since before Christine de Pizan wrote in 1404 that Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very [...]
INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS IN THE LONG SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Durham University, 30 June-2 July 2013 Durham’s Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies – now part of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies – has, since its foundation in 1985, organized over a dozen high-profile international conferences. Next year’s event, which both continues that tradition and celebrates the [...]
Poetics and Prose Theory in Early Modern English call for papers 29 May 2013, CREMS, University of York A day symposium – Speakers include Gavin Alexander (Cambridge), Jennifer Richards (Newcastle) Papers are invited (c. 20 minutes) on any aspect of early modern poetics and prose theory, in (or relating to) English writing of the period. [...]
Symposium on Reading and Health in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 Medieval and Early Modern Research Group, Newcastle University 5-6July 2013 Keynote speakers Katharine Craik Helen Smith Richard Wistreich This symposium will explore how early modern texts engage with the regulation of the body and mind through reading. It will investigate the connections between reading and [...]