27 April 2012

9am -5:30 pm
The Royal Society, London

Registration for this event is now open online.

This conference considers the interrelationships between medicine and the endeavour of natural history in the seventeenth-century.  It will be held to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Martin Lister (1639-1712), Royal Physician and the first arachnologist and conchologist. The meeting will not only address Lister’s work but will consider to what extent practices and technologies of natural history changed between the Renaissance and the seventeenth century. We will also explore how acquisition of natural history knowledge and new schemes of taxonomy affected perception and treatment of animals for medical and experimental use.

Speakers and session chairs include:
Prof. Tim Birkhead FRS, University of Sheffield
Dr Isabelle Charmantier, University of Exeter
Prof. Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University
Dr Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr Gillian Lewis, St. Anne’s College, Oxford
Dr Dániel Margócsy, Hunter College
Dr Brian Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dr Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford
Dr Charlotte Sleigh, University of Kent
Dr Alexander Wragge-Morley, University College, London

Download abstracts of papers

Download the full conference programme

Registration

The conference is open to all, but pre-registration online is essential. The conference fee is £40 (full fee), or £30 (student/retired/unemployed). The conference fee includes lunch and refreshments. An optional conference dinner will be organised at an extra cost of £35. Please indicate any special dietary requirements in the ‘special requirements’ section on the registration form.

In the event of a registration being cancelled, the Society can only refund the payment if the cancellation is received no later than five working days before the conference.

Student Bursaries

Thanks to the generosity of the John Fell OUP Research Fund and the British Society for the History of Science there are a limited number of student bursaries available to assist with conference fees and travel expenses. If you are a graduate student and would like to apply for a bursary please email the conference organiser, Dr Anna Marie Roos, with a statement of 400 words or less describing how attendance at the conference will benefit your course of study and research plans.

Please email Felicity Henderson with any queries about this event.

A talk by Dr Adrian Ailes and Dr Katy Mair (TNA)

Thursday, 8 March 2012, 2pm
Talks Room, The National Archives, Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU (tel: 020 876 3444)

The talk is free.  You do not need a reader’s ticket but you should pick up a talks ticket on the day for entrance.  General visitor details and a map are on http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/visit/where.htm .

‘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 Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent research. While the ‘wisdom’ of folly in the early modern period has become a familiar concept, it has lacked significant cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural investigation. This symposium will include papers on Erasmus’s character of Folly; the fools of Tudor interludes, French ‘soties’ and Shakespeare; king’s fools and court jesters; carnivals and festive folly; and the representation of folly in art. Speakers will examine and consider the many manifestations of folly in early modern Europe and consider its different political, religious and social purposes. The event will also, via roundtable discussions, invite contributions about other directions in research on folly, and related foolish things.

Speakers include:
Professor Luc Duerloo (Antwerp) on Hapsburg court culture
Dr Peter Happé (Southampton) on Ben Jonson
Professor Richard Hillman (Tours) on Mad Discourse
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb (UEA) on Tudor natural fools
Dr Alexander Samson (University College London) on Spanish folly and madness
Dr Peter Sillitoe (V&A) on Masques
Professor David Smith (New Hampshire) on Jan Steen
Professor Greg Walker (University of Edinburgh) on John Heywood
Dr Anna Whitelock (Royal Holloway) on Archie Armstrong

The symposium, hosted by the University of Southampton’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, will be held in the unique setting of Chawton House Library, an Elizabethan manor house and former home of Jane Austen’s brother. Lunch and drinks will be provided.

For further details, please contact:
Dr Alice Hunt
Lecturer in English
Faculty of Humanities
University of Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Tel: 023 8059 3210
www.soton.ac.uk/english/about/staff/ahunt.page

University of Sydney
Postgraduate Scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Humanities & Social Sciences
Postgraduate Research

Description:
A full-time postgraduate scholarship is available for a suitably qualified candidate with a good Honours degree in any aspect of medieval or early modern studies to undertake research leading to a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The project is to investigate attitudes towards death expressed by medieval and/or early modern writers, with a particular focus on the writings of condemned prisoners facing execution.

The position forms part of a larger research project on medieval and early modern attitudes towards death being undertaken at the University of Sydney through the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions (CHE). Other aspects of death currently under consideration by postdoctoral research fellows within the project include medieval attitudes towards suicide and early modern attitudes towards public execution.

Eligibility:
Applicants should have an Honours degree with a major in some aspect of medieval and/or early modern studies. They must have a demonstrable understanding of how to read and interpret medieval and/or early modern texts. They must have a facility with one or more medieval and/or early modern languages. Applicants must be Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents.

Amount awarded:
Valued at $26,000 per annum for up to three years, plus a total of $13,500 research and travel funding over three years.

Alternatively, if the candidate has applied for and is successful in obtaining an APA, the scholarship can be offered as top-up funding of $5,500 per annum.

Application guide:
Further information can be obtained from Dr Juanita Ruys, Medieval and Early Modern Centre, Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney NSW 2006. Applications should be sent direct to Dr Ruys , and should include a curriculum vitae, copies of academic transcript, and the names and contact details of at least two referees.

Closing date:
27 January 2012

(Thanks to Una McIlvenna, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The Medieval and Early Modern Centre, School of Letters Arts and Media)

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 and their cultural, architectural and political contexts.

Panels include papers on repertory, audience, costume and lighting in the indoor theatres, on Inigo Jones at the Queen’s House and Somerset House, and discussion of the Globe’s Indoor Jacobean Theatre Project.

Booking is now open (£25 waged/£15 unwaged), please click on the following link

For any queries please email: London Shakespeare Centre.

DRAFT PROGRAMME
10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:30 Welcome and introduction to IJT project
10:45 Panel 1 – Indoor Playing
12:30 Panel 2 – The Queens House
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Panel 3 – Geopolitics of Playing
15:05 Panel 4 – Engineering spectacle: Inigo Jones’ past and present performance at Somerset House
15:50 Coffee break
16:20 Keynote
17:20 Panel 5 – The Indoor Jacobean Theatre Project
18:20 Closing remarks

Found at London Shakespeare Centre’s Events Page

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its first event of 2012. Dr Emma Smith will give a talk on ‘Reading Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) on 20 January, 6:30 pm, Room B02 Malet Street.

Dr Smith has written widely on Shakepeare: her books include The Cambridge Introdution to Shakespeare and the forthcoming Cambridge Shakespeare Guide. Do join us for what promises to be a fascinating talk.

Free to members; Membership £5; £3 non-members.

Charitable funding requirement
Applicants are required to demonstrate that they have secured, and/or that they have firm plans to apply for, funding from charitable bodies to support their doctoral research. It is not essential to have actually obtained such funding, but you must indicate your plans to do so in detail (naming charities to which you intend to apply, etc.). The successful candidate will be required to inform Queen Mary of any charitable funding that s/he secures for the period of the Principal’s Studentship, and the equivalent sums will be deducted from the studentship accordingly.

How to apply for funding
Applications for funding are made at the same time as applications for admission. In order to be considered for funding, you need to submit:
a) An application, including the following:
Online application form – you can submit this either to English or to French, depending on the academic school in which you wish to be located (School of English and Drama, or School of Languages, Linguistics and Film)
Curriculum vitae
Transcripts
Two references
TOEFL/IELTS scores (if applicable)
Research proposal (1200-1500 words plus bibliography if you are applying to French; 3000 words plus bibliography if you are applying to English)
A writing sample in English, only if you are applying to French (flexible word length, but maximum 10,000 words)
Personal statement (optional but recommended)

b) A funding statement, indicating amounts of charitable funding that you have already secured (supported by documentary evidence), and/or the charitable bodies to which you have applied or plan to apply for funding. The total amount of actual or prospective funding must be no less than £15,000 over a period of three years.

Criteria
The criteria for the appointment of the student will be:
The strength of the candidate’s academic profile and relevant professional experience;
The quality and appropriateness of the proposal;
The ability of the student to complete the project on time;
The credibility of the candidate’s plans to obtain charitable funding. (NB no preference will be given to candidates who have actually obtained funding, as against those who only have plans to do so at this stage.)

Deadline
The closing date for applications from candidates wishing to be considered for funding from September 2012 is 31 January 2012. All shortlisted candidates will be interviewed, either face to face or, in the case of overseas applicants, by telephone or Skype. Applicants must be available for interview between 6 and 24 February 2012 (specific dates will be confirmed).

For further information, please contact Prof Adrian Armstrong

Friday 16 Dec, 6.30 pm, Malet St B35, followed by our Christmas party in G15

A reminder about Friday’s lecture and party. Prof. Morrill teaches at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and is very interested in the religious dynamics of early modern British History, and especially the religious psychology of the key people of the period, most notably Oliver Cromwell. This is evident in Prof. Morrill’s biography of Oliver Cromwell (2007) and in many papers including forthcoming essays on Cromwell and the Bible, and Cromwell’s massacre of the garrison of Drogheda. The 16th December should be a memorable evening, so be sure to arrive early so as to get a seat! After the lecture we have our Christmas party in G15, which should be a very enjoyable way to mark the end of term.

Membership remains £5 and is available at all of our academic events, alternatively you can attend single lectures for £3 each.

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), ‘The Performance of Bad Death: The Strange Tale of the Shoemaker of Breslau’

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.15 Panel 2: Music
Liam Haydon (University of Manchester), ‘Performing Perfection: Milton and the Music of the Spheres’
Dolly MacKinnon (University of Queensland), ‘If ever beene where bels have knell’d to Church’: The performance of parish bells in early modern England

12.15 – 12.30 Break

12.30 – 1.30 Keynote Lecture
Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham),
‘Within the Castle Walls: Historical Sites as Performance at Kenilworth and Ludlow’

1.30 – 2.30 Lunch

2.30 – 3.30 Panel 3: Space
Catherine Clifford (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), ‘From Wood to Stone: Whitehall Palace, the Banqueting House, and the Performance of Architecture in Court Drama, 1581-1621’
John Peacock (University of Southampton), ‘Architectural Performance: Inigo Jones and Bernini’

3.30 – 3.45 Break

3.45 – 4.45 Panel 4: Theatre and Ritual
Alison Findlay (University of Lancaster), ‘The State of Ceremony in Macbeth’
Brian Schneider (University of Manchester), ‘Extra –dramatic’ performance in early modern Prologues, Epilogues and Inductions

4.45 – 5.00 Coffee Break

5.00 – 6.00 Keynote Lecture
Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford),
‘Bitter, Black and Tragical’: Tragic Peformance on the Shakespearean Stage
6.00 – 6.30 Drinks.

Registration: £10
Speakers and guests are invited to join us for dinner at a local restaurant; to book a place please let us know when registering (dinner not included in the registration fee).

The Society for Renaissance Studies has granted us bursaries to help postgraduate students with the costs of travel and accommodation. If you want to be considered for one of the bursaries, please let us know.

To book a place at this event please contact Michael Durrant and Naya Tsentourou by 7 January 2012.

The event will be taking place at the Seminar Room of the historic building of the John Rylands Library at Deansgate. Due to limited space, please register early to avoid disappointment.

We hope to see you there! For more details see:
historicizingperformance.wordpress.com

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
Dr Sabine Chaouche (Oxford Brooks) ‘The Business of the Comédie-Française in eighteenth-century France’.

28 November
Prof Leonhard Horowski (Berlin), ‘Le Duc de Noailles est le premier homme du monde. Dynastic thinking and the logistics of faction-building at the Court of Versailles’

12 December (Torrington Room, Room 104)
Anne Byrne (Birkbeck), ‘Three deathbeds and a funeral: the death rites of Louis XV’

Spring Term 2012
23 January
Charles Gregory, ‘The conspiracies against Cardinal Richelieu, 1636-1642′

6 February
Dr Stephen Brogan (IHR), ‘Marc Bloch and the royal touch revisited’

20 February
Dr Christelle Rabier (LSE), ‘A European Revolution of medical demand? The French case, 1600-1750′ (Provisional title)

5 March
Carmen Fraccia, title tbc

19 March
Prof Rafe Blaufarb, ‘The Politics of Noble Fiscal Privilege’