10.00 Registration, tea and coffee in room B02

10.30 AGM

11.00 Robin Rowles: welcome to conference, introductions, opening comments

11. 10 Session 1:
Frank Ferrie, ‘Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto (The Expectant Virgin Mary): A History of Decline and Restoration’

Liam Haydon, ‘Christopher Wase and the Promise of Restoration in Royalist Translation 1649-60’

Discussion

12.40 Lunch Room B02

13.40 Session 2:
Marilyn Lewis, ‘Cambridge Platonist networks in Restoration London’

Harman Bhogal, ‘The Idea of Restoration in Demonological Thought: Deacon and Walker and the Doctrine of the Cessation of Miracles’

Discussion

15.10 Concluding remarks

15.20 Wine reception, room B02

Attendance at our conference is free, including lunch, refreshments and post-conference reception, but it would be helpful if you complete a registration form so we can gauge numbers. You can download a registration form here (Word):Birkbeck Early Modern Society Conference Registration 2010. Please send your registration details to the Conference Organiser, Robin Rowles.

Julian Swann is an expert on old regime France and has published widely on subjects such as the parlement of Burgundy, power and provincial politics, and the nobility. He is currently working on a history of political disgrace in early modern France. This promises to be a really memorable end to our 2009-10 programme of lectures! Afterwards, we are having a party to celebrate the end of the academic year in room B04. There is no charge to attend either event, and all are welcome.

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society Fourth Student Conference
RESTORATIONS
Saturday 3 July 2010, 10.00-16.30
Birkbeck College, Malet Street

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce our fourth annual student conference. We aim to provide a safe and constructive space for students to present their research and exchange ideas with peers from a range of disciplines. The day offers an ideal forum to showcase research and also provides an excellent opportunity to practice presentation skills.

Our theme this year is ‘Restorations’

A restoration is a process or a series of events that results in something being returned to its former state.

We are looking for papers based on subjects connected to our conference theme. We define the early modern period as being roughly 1500-1800. We are an interdisciplinary society and we welcome papers from a range of disciplines.

Here are some points which you may wish to consider:

• 2010 marks both the 350th anniversary of the restoration of the British monarchy after the British Civil Wars of the 1640s and the Interregnum of the 1650s
• 2010 is also the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society – one of the key events of the Restoration.
• How was the Restoration era different from the first half of the seventeenth century?
• Restorations may be interpreted as the processes of renovations or repairs such as those carried out on furniture, books, paintings, printed images, household goods, tools, etc.
• When something is restored, it displaces the previous state. Is this always an improvement?
• Political, social, cultural and intellectual restorations may be met with resistance from those who are unlikely to gain from the new state of affairs. How does this resistance manifest itself? How is it met?

You are invited to submit a proposal of 250 words maximum for a paper lasting 20 minutes (approximately 2,000 words) to the Conference Organiser, Robin Rowles, by Monday 31 May 2010.

You can down load the CFP (as a Word Document) here:
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Summer Conference CFP 2010

A reminder about tomorrow’s lecture. Dr Malcolm Jones is an expert on early modern English printed images, having been responsible for the ‘print of the month’ on the British Printed Images to 1700 website: http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/index.html. His most recent book was published last month, The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight (Yale, 2010), and he contributed to Printed Images in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Interpretation, ed. Michael Hunter (Ashgate, 2010) which has also just been published.

Plus, Dean Bright will be selling some ‘early modern’ bags priced £10 each, pictures attached. You’ll see that they feature images from the 17th century and come in pristine white or ‘vintage’ off white.

We are delighted to invite you to our next event. Dr Malcolm Jones is an expert on early modern English printed images, having been responsible for the ‘print of the month’ on the British Printed Images to 1700 website: http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/index.html.

His most recent book was published last month, The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (Yale, 2010), and he contributed to Printed Images in Early Modern Britain, ed. Michael Hunter (Ashgate, 2010) which has also just been published.

Membership is £5 and can be obtained at any of our lectures, alternatively it costs £3 to attend a single event.

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is delighted to invite you to our next event. Dr Richard Williams returns to the society due to popular demand! Having spoken to us about Holbein and Cranach, next week he turns his attention to the status of images during the Reformation. It promises to be a very informative and stimulating evening.

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce our fourth annual student conference. We aim to provide a safe and constructive space for students to present their research and exchange ideas with peers from a range of disciplines. The day offers an ideal forum to showcase research and also provides an excellent opportunity to practice presentation skills.

Our theme this year is ‘Restorations’

A restoration is a process or a series of events that results in something being returned to its former state.
We are looking for papers based on subjects connected to our conference theme. We define the early modern period as being roughly 1500-1800. We are an interdisciplinary society and we welcome papers from a range of disciplines.

Here are some points which you may wish to consider:

• 2010 marks both the 350th anniversary of the restoration of the British monarchy after the British Civil Wars of the 1640s and the Interregnum of the 1650s
• 2010 is also the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society – one of the key events of the Restoration.
• How was the Restoration era different from the first half of the seventeenth century?
• Restorations may be interpreted as the processes of renovations or repairs such as those carried out on furniture, books, paintings, printed images, household goods, tools, etc.
• When something is restored, it displaces the previous state. Is this always an improvement?
• Political, social, cultural and intellectual restorations may be met with resistance from those who are unlikely to gain from the new state of affairs. How does this resistance manifest itself? How is it met?

You are invited to submit a proposal of 250 words maximum for a paper lasting 20 minutes (approximately 2,000 words) to the Conference Organiser, Robin Rowles, by Monday 31 May 2010.

You can down load the CFP (as a Word Document) here:
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Summer Conference CFP 2010

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is delighted to invite you to our next event. Dr Richard Williams returns to the society due to popular demand! Having spoken to us about Holbein and Cranach, next week he turns his attention to the status of images during the Reformation. It promises to be a very informative and stimulating evening.

Membership is £5 and can be obtained at any of our lectures, alternatively it costs £3 to attend a single event.

Prof Michael Hunter, ‘The Decline of Magic: The Paradoxical Role of the Royal Society’

You are warmly invited to our next paper. Prof. Michael Hunter returns to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society, having last spoken to us almost four years ago when we were a fledgling society. His biography of Robert Boyle was published last year, and now Michael Hunter is working on the decline of magic, the subject of one of his MA courses. It promises to be a fascinating paper!

Please note that this event has been moved from room B30 to the Council Room.

Membership is £5 and can be obtained at any of our lectures, alternatively it costs £3 to attend a single event.

You are warmly invited to our next paper on the architect Sir John Soane, which will be out first foray into the end of the early modern period and possibly beyond. Tim Knox speaks regularly about all facets of Soane’s life and house, and has recently published Sir John Soane’s Museum (Merrell, 2009) which will be available to buy for £24.95 (cash or cheque) on the night. For more details on the book see here: Sir John Soane’s Museum, London

Membership is £5 and can be obtained at any of our lectures, alternatively it costs £3 to attend a single event.

You can download our latest poster here: