Conferences
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the ‘New Science’ 27 April 2012 9am -5:30 pm The Royal Society, London A conference organised by Dr Anna Marie Roos and sponsored by Cultures of Knowledge, University of Oxford and the Mellon Foundation; the Royal Society; and the Wellcome Trust. Registration for this event is [...]
Fools and Folly in EM Europe: One Day Conference at Chawton House, 18 Feb 2012
Saturday, January 21st, 2012Registration is now open for: ‘All is folly that I can see’: Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe Saturday 18 February 2012, 9.30am-6.00pm University of Southampton and Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire Please download the registration form. Registration: £40 (£30 for students, and there are a few postgraduate bursaries left…) This one-day symposium on [...]
Jacobean Indoor Playing Symposium, KCL
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Jacobean Indoor Playing Symposium London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College, Saturday 4th February 2012 – 10.00 – 18.30 Following the announcement by Shakespeare’s Globe of their plans to construct an Indoor Jacobean Theatre on the London Bankside, the London Shakespeare Centre invites you to a one day symposium on recent research in to the London theatres [...]
Conference: Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period
Saturday, November 12th, 2011Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester 20 January 2012 09.00 – 09.45 Registration and coffee 09.45 – 10.00 Welcome 10.00 – 11.00 Panel 1: Death and Ritual Maggie Vinter (John Hopkins University), ‘How to do things while dying: Volpone and the ars moriendi’ Stephen Gordon (University of Manchester), [...]
Third Early Modern Symposium: Art Against the Wall – Courtauld Institute of Art
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Third Early Modern Symposium: Art Against the Wall The Courtauld Institute of Art Saturday, 19 November 2011 10.00 – 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 9.30 am) Speakers: Gerry Abalone (Tate), Adriano Aymonino (independent scholar), Susannah Brooke (Queens’ College, Cambridge), Rodrigo Cañete (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Kevin Childs (British School at Rome), [...]
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 [...]
Reminder: Our 5th Student Conference, 10 September 2011
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011‘Aspirations’ The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s Fifth Student Conference Saturday 10 September 2011 Birkbeck Malet Street Building Room B20 10.00 Registration, coffee* 10.30 Birkbeck Early Modern Society AGM 11.00 Conference ‘Aspirations’ Opening Remarks: Karen Chester Session 1: Chair: Timothy Alves 11.15 Susan Gane, Birkbeck The Aspirations of Common Soldiers in the Early Eighteenth Century 11.45 [...]
Aspriations: Birkbeck Early Modern Society Annual Student Conference and AGM
Saturday, August 20th, 2011‘Aspirations’ The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s Fifth Student Conference Saturday 10 September 2011 Birkbeck Malet Street Building Room B20 10.00 Registration, coffee* 10.30 Birkbeck Early Modern Society AGM 11.00 Conference ‘Aspirations’ Opening Remarks: Karen Chester Session 1: Chair: Timothy Alves 11.15 Susan Gane, Birkbeck The Aspirations of Common Soldiers in the Early Eighteenth Century 11.45 [...]
Intellectual Geography Conference, St Anne’s, Oxford, 5-7 September 2011
Monday, July 25th, 2011Online booking is now open for the interdisciplinary conference ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’ (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 5-7 September 2011). The event brings together studies and conceptual papers exploring the roots of local, regional and national intellectual traditions within concrete features of political, economic, confessional, and physical geography. There is an exciting [...]
Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference: Culture, Identity and Power, 2-3 Sept 2011
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011The Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference: ‘Culture, Identity and Power’ will take place in the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland and UCD School of History and Archives on 2 – 3 September 2011. The full conference programme, with paper abstracts and speaker biographies, is available online at www.tudorstuartireland.com/home/programme. Registration is now open. The conference fee [...]
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