Archive for the 'Conferences' Category

Poetics and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Oxford, 23 May

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

 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, Newcastle, July 2013

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

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

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

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. [...]

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s 6th Annual Students’ Conference

Monday, January 21st, 2013

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 [...]

CFP: Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

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 [...]

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