Poetics and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Thursday 23 May 2013, 10-6pm T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford In the early modern period, poetry was central to every aspect of learned culture: it was the object of study of lawyers, medics, scientists, and theologians, not just literary critics. How did those disciplines understand poetry? [...]
Symposium on Reading and Health in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 Registration Now Open Medieval and Early Modern Research Group, Newcastle University 5-6 July 2013 DAY 1: Mining Institute, Newcastle City Centre DAY 2: Herschel Building, Newcastle University Keynote speakers: Katharine Craik, Helen Smith, Richard Wistreich, Josie Billington, Phil Davis Find out more and register at [...]
Working it Out: A Day of Numbers in Early Modern Writing Saturday 18 May 2013 Birkbeck, University of London Keynes Library, 43-46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Registration Open Early modern books are full of numbers, representing both practicality and mystery. This multidisciplinary one-day conference explores numbers in British early modern literature and textual culture. [...]
SCIENCE, MAGIC and RELIGION A one day conference to mark the retirement from Birkbeck of Prof. Michael Hunter Saturday 2 February 2013, 10.45-16.30 Malet St, Room B33 There is no charge to attend this conference but if you are coming please e-mail our secretary Laura Jacobs to register at bbkems@gmail.com. Lunch is not provided [...]
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 [...]