Early Modern Events
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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), [...]
Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR
Saturday, October 29th, 2011Early Modern Europe Seminars at the IHR Mondays at 17.00 in the Holden Room (Room 20 Boardroom 103), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Autumn Term 2011 31 October Dr Emma Barker (Open University) ‘Il n’y a point de tableau plus charmant que celui de la famille: Constructing domesticity in eighteenth-century France’ 14 November [...]
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), [...]
‘Family Life Makes Tories of is All’: Amanda Vickery Lecture
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011‘Family Life Makes Tories of us All’: Love and Power at Home in Georgian England Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History The First Annual Lecture of the Centre for Studies of Home Date: 6:00PM, 22 November 2011 Venue: Cocktails and Live Jazz Band at the Octagon, Queens’ Building, Mile End Road. The lecture will [...]
Careers in the Early Modern
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Careers in the Early Modern 2 November 2011 UCL, Galton Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place 4:30 pm An event for anyone interested in working with early modern culture — books, textiles, houses — but not in a traditional academic way. A perfect session for students from undergrad to PhD. Lucy Worsley (Historic Royal Palaces) and [...]
1611 & All That: All Hallows by the Tower and Clio’s Company Event
Monday, August 15th, 2011All Hallows by the Tower and Clio’s Company will present 1611 and All That – an evening of words, medley and song from the age of King James – on 15 September 2011. The proceeds from the event will go to support an Arts in Education project and will help fund the church’s Relighting Project. [...]
Thomas Paine in Lewes and London, 1768-1774
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Lecture at Benjamin Franklin House: Thomas Paine in Lewes and London, 1768-1774 Paul Myles 28 February: 12:00 – 15:00 Benjamin Franklin’s support was the key to Thomas Paine’s success in America. The radical’s incendiary pamphlet Common Sense helped unify the American colonists and galvanise support for the War of Independence. During the war, Paine’s 13 [...]
Georgian 12th Night at Dr Johnson’s House, 6 Jan 2011
Saturday, December 4th, 2010An appealing early modern event at Dr Johnson’s House: A GEORGIAN TWELFTH NIGHT Thursday 6th January 2011, 6-9pm All too often in the twenty-first century early January is marked only by gloom and short-lived resolutions and Twelfth Night passes by uncelebrated. In Samuel Johnson’s day it was often the greatest occasion of the winter season. [...]
All Go at the Globe: Winter Events and a New Season Announcement
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010It may be an open air theatre but that’s not stopping Shakepeare’s Globe from celebrating the winter season in style. The Globe’s Winter Wassail will run from 1-3 January 2011. It will feature the Gabrieli Consort & Players – many of whom are regular musicians and singers at Globe productions. Gabrieli will present a choral [...]
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