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 [...]
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 [...]
Queen Mary, University of London, 26-28 July 2013 Registration deadline: 19 July http://newscom.english.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/83801.html This major news history event features 40 speakers from across Europe and the Americas. As the final stage in the Leverhulme international project News Networks in Early Modern Europe, this conference will contribute to a new, pan-European history of news. Join us [...]
A new online symposium will be running throughout July on the theme ‘The Future of History from Below’. It emerges from a recent colloquium held at Birkbeck, University of London. The participants’ work was not done at the end of the colloquium and the online symposium will consider some of the themes and questions raised [...]
Proposals are sought for a one-day colloquium on ‘New directions in the study of Jacobitism’ at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 20 August 2013 Proposals covering any aspect of Jacobite Studies are desired, including the military, political, diplomatic, religious and social history of Jacobitism, the history of Jacobite historiography, as well as the movement’s [...]