Seminars/Lectures
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011British History in the 17th Century Convenors: Dr Jason Peacey (UCL): Dr Laura Stewart (Birkbeck): Professor Justin Champion (RHUL): Dr Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths) Venue: listed below Time: Thursday, 5.15pm In the absence of an IHR tearoom, members of the seminar are invited to gather at the RADA cafe on Malet Street from 4.30pm before each [...]
Frederick the Great Photo Competition: German Historical Institute
Monday, June 20th, 2011To mark the 300th birthday of the Prussian King Frederick II (Frederick the Great) on 18 October 2011 the German Historical Institute London will be holding an event (lecture and discussion) on the topic ‘Frederick the Great in the Visual Media of his Day’. In conjunction with this event the Institute is also holding a [...]
Prof. Michael Hunter to give the 2011 Roy Porter Lecture, 20 June at The Wellcome
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011The Wellcome Library invites you to the 2011 Roy Porter Lecture: ‘The Decline of Magic: Challenge and Response in Early Enlightenment England’, by Professor Michael Hunter, Birkbeck, University of London, on Monday 20 June 2011, 18.30-19.30, at Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. To be followed by a drinks reception in the Wellcome [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s End of Term Lecture and Party
Friday, May 6th, 2011Prof. Stuart Carroll, ‘The Duel’, Thurs 23 June, 6.30 pm, Room B36, Malet St. Followed by drinks in room B02.
Renaissance Seminars at Queen Mary
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011Queen Mary, University of London will be hosting two Renaissance Seminars in May. Thursday 12 May 2011, 6:30 pm How some of Spain’s Moriscos rewrote History Chair: Sir John Elliott Speaker: Trevor J Dadson FBA Venue: Drapers’ Lecture Theatre, Geography Building, Mile End To book: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/qmul/events/details.php?id=46663 Thursday 26 May 2011, 6:30 pm The Queen Is [...]
Francis Lodwick & the Royal Society: Dr William Poole, 11 March
Monday, March 7th, 2011‘Free-thinking and language-planning in the 17th century Royal Society’ Speaker: Dr William Poole, New College, Oxford Friday, 11 March 2011 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Francis Lodwick was an unusual 17th century Fellow of the Royal Society. At the time the Society consisted mainly of gentleman-philosophers, but he was a London cloth-merchant who never [...]
Some Upcoming Early Modern Events
Saturday, March 5th, 2011Our Secretary has found some interesting upcoming early modern events. European History 1500-1800 Seminar Institute of Historical Research Monday, 7 March, 5pm, Low Countries Room, Senate House Dr Stephen Bowd (Edinburgh) Ex-votos, Ethnographies, and Enthusiasm: Humanists, Jews, and the Tale of Simon of Trent Early Modern Philosophy Workshop Institute of Philosophy Tuesday, 8 March 2011 [...]
Is the King James Bible really so special? – RSC Event in London
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011The word for all time: Is the King James Bible really so special? Wednesday 9 March, 6.30pm at Stationers’ Hall On its 400th birthday, the King James Bible has been lavished with praise. Alongside Shakespeare’s works, it is credited with inventing the very language that we speak. But is the contribution of this one book [...]
Queen Mary Seminar Series: ‘Counterfeit Ritual’
Monday, February 28th, 2011QM Seminar Series: Medieval and Early Modern Texts and Contexts Tuesday 8 March 2011, 5-6.30pm, in Physics Building 602: Professor Brian Cummings (University of Sussex), will talk on ‘Counterfeit ritual’, in relation to funerals on stage in the plays of Shakespeare and others. Brian Cummings, Professor of English at the University of Sussex, is the [...]
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 [...]
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