● Colloquium on the Teaching of Post-Classical Latin and Latin to Non-Classicists, Cambridge (23 September 2006)

● Religious interaction in post-reformation England, Oxford (23 September 2006)

● CFP Recovering Renaissance Drama: 100 Years of Malone Society Publications, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (23 September 2006)

● Displaced Identities: Exile in Early Modern Europe 1550-1730, York (21-22 September 2006)

● Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1685, London (28-29 July 2006)

● Rediscovering radicalism in the British Isles and Ireland, c.1550-c.1700: movements of people, texts and ideas, London (21-23 June 2006)

● Renaissance Greek, Trinity College, University of Dublin (16 September 2005)

> The Thomas Harriot Seminar
St John's College, Durham
18 - 20 December 2006

Monday 18 December

2:00-3:00  Registration (St. John’s; lectures take place in Leech Hall)

3:15          Russell Smith (Oxford):
‘Light Mechanics: The Optical Context of Thomas Harriot’s Doctrine of Reflexions’. 

4:30           Tea and biscuits                                  

5:00           Ayesha Mukerjee (Trinity College, Cambridge):
‘Dearth science 1580-1608: the writings of Hugh Plat.’            

6:30           Sherry and soft drinks                        

7:00           Dinner

8:00           Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University):
‘Thomas Harriot and William Gilbert on the Vacuum’.

Tuesday 19 December

8:00           Breakfast

9:30           Robert Goulding (University of Notre Dame):
‘Optical powers: Harriot on the efficacy of burning glasses’

10:45         Coffee/tea and biscuits

11:15         Pascal Briost ( CSER, Tours):
‘Thomas Harriot : Reader of Niccolò Tartaglia’

12:30         Photo-call

12:45         Lunch

2:00           Special Visit to University Library

4:15           Coffee/tea and biscuits

4:45           C P Mayers (Devon):
Stephen Borough and Tudor Exploration’

6:30           Sherry and soft drinks.

7:00           Conference Dinner

8:30           Musical Entertainment: AK Chorale; A Christmas Concert

Wednesday 20 December

8:00           Breakfast 

9:30           Tim Wilkes (Southampton Solent University):
‘Harriot and the court of Prince Henry’

10:45         Coffee/tea and biscuits.

11:15         Peter J. Forshaw (Birkbeck, University of London):
‘Ritual Magic in Elizabethan England’

12:30         Close of Conference. A short business meeting will be held.

Further details are available from Prof. G. R. Batho and Dr. Stephen Clucas.

> Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas
13-16 December 2006
Salamanca

Durante los días 13 al 16 de diciembre de 2006 tendrá lugar en la Universidad de Salamanca el primer Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas (SEMYR). En esta primera edición del Congreso se propone un enfoque abierto a cualquier tema medieval o renacentista. No obstante, se preferirán aquellas comunicaciones que presenten un enfoque metodológico o teórico, sobre el desarrollo futuro de los estudios en los dos ámbitos de trabajo.

Ponencias plenarias. El Congreso contará con seis ponencias plenarias, encargadas a personas de renombre internacional en los estudios medievales y renacentistas.

Comunicaciones. Además de las ponencias plenarias, podrán presentarse comunicaciones, cuya exposición no superará los 20 minutos. Quienes estén interesados en proponer una comunicación deberán enviar un resumen antes del 30 de mayo de 2006 a la siguiente dirección:

Congreso Internacional de la SEMYR
SEMINARIO DE ESTUDIOS MEDIEVALES Y RENACENTISTAS
Departamento de Literatura Española e Hispanoamericana
Facultad de Filología
Pza. Anaya s/n
37008 SALAMANCA
E-mail: eco@usal.es

> CFP Preaching and Politics in Early-modern Britain
3-4 November 2006
University of Cambridge

A two-day international conference at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, 3-4 November 2006.  

‘The sermon properly considered – as theatrical, as fundamentally occasional, as literary art inextricably engaged in the public sphere – stands poised to take a wholly new place in literary study, and a better understood one in historical study.’
(Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough, 2000)

How far have we come in the six years since Ferrell and McCullough’s prediction?

This conference seeks to gauge the current state of studies in early-modern British sermons by providing a forum for the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary, historical, and religious studies. Focussing on sermons ‘as literary art inextricably engaged in the public sphere’, potential areas of interest will include: the occasional nature of sermons; pulpit censorship; preaching and ecclesiology; types of auditory (e.g. the royal court, the universities, assizes, Paul’s Cross, country parishes, sermons commissioned by trading companies); women and sermons; varieties of exegetical method; allusion to current affairs via scriptural typology; links with continental European preaching; sermon preparation, delivery, publication, and reception; rhetorical and oratorical traditions of homiletic prose; the literary representation of preachers in plays, poems and pamphlets; the historiography of sermons.

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

> Dr Peter McCullough (Oxford University)
> Professor Jeanne Shami (University of Regina, Canada)
 
Prospective speakers are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers by 1 July 2006 to the conference organisers, Dr Hugh Adlington and Dr Emma Rhatigan, either by e-mail (hugh@adlingtonc.freeserve.co.uk or emma.rhatigan@magd.ox.ac.uk), or by post:

Dr Hugh Adlington
CRASSH
17 Mill Lane
Cambridge CB2 1RX

Dr Emma Rhatigan
Magdalen College
Oxford OX1 4AU

The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst will host our annual graduate student conference on Saturday, November 4, 2006. Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for a ten to fifteen minute paper on any range of topics or approaches, including textual studies, new theoretical applications, performance history, Renaissance philosophy, print culture, religious studies, material studies, and Renaissance classicism. The purpose of the conference is to provide graduate students in the New England area with an opportunity to share their work and place it in a greater context of interests and concerns. The conference is designed to foster conversation among students who share similar challenges and construct a space where participants may expect serious feedback on their work.

Please send an abstract no longer than 250 words by email or email attachment to:
Kevin Petersen (petersen@english.umass.edu) by October 15, 2006.

For more information, click here to visit the conference website

> Renaissance Endings
28 October 2006
Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies, Roehampton University

And all our beauty, and our trimme, decayes,
Like courts removing, or like ended playes.
John Donne

Papers are invited for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies. The conference theme is ‘Renaissance Endings’.

Keynote Speaker: Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe and author of Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life (Allen Lane, 2006) will give the Turner Lecture in Renaissance Studies.

Invited speakers will include Christie Carson (Royal Holloway London), Tobias Döring (Ludvig Maximilians University Munich) and Gordon McMullan (Kings College London).

Papers are invited from academic staff, independent researchers and postgraduate students on the following or related topics:

Representations of Death: epitaphs, funerary arts, relics; Death as spectacle; Death as actor; 'sad stories of the death of kings'

Textual and Theatrical Endings: strategies of closure, epilogues, and postscripts; theatrical endings, including final speeches, final silences, final exits; closed and open bodies on the early modern stage

Avoiding Closure: famously unfinished texts; adaptations and sequels; rewriting Shakespearean endings in theatre and film

Periodicity: 'courts removing'; dynastic endings; the end of the 'Renaissance' (contemporary and modern perspectives)

Interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives will be particularly welcome.

Proposals (250-300 words) for short papers (maximum 2,500 words) should be submitted by 3 August 2006 to Jane Kingsley-Smith (j.kingsley-smith@roehampton.ac.uk). Accepted papers – to be submitted by 18 September – will be circulated by Seminar Chairs before the conference, and participants will be invited to speak briefly to their papers.

Registration: to register for the conference please complete a registration form.
Click here for a credit card payment form.

If you have any queries about the conference or would be interested in chairing a session please write to:

Robin Headlam Wells (r.headlam_wells@roehampton.ac.uk), or

Jane Kingsley-Smith (j.kingsley-smith@roehampton.ac.uk), or

Clare McManus (c.mcmanus@roehampton.ac.uk)

Venue: the conference will be held in Grove House, Froebel College, Roehampton University, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PJ.

Click here for details of train, bus and car access and a printable campus map.

> CFP Shakespeare and the Queen's Men
24-29 October, 2006
Toronto and Hamilton, Canada

This major international conference at the University of Toronto is being organized by the SSHRC-funded "Shakespeare and the Queen's Men" project in association with Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS).

The project, a joint venture led by Alexandra Johnston (REED, University of Toronto) and Helen Ostovich (McMaster University), aims to recreate the staging conditions of a sixteenth-century touring company in order to study and test scholarly theories about acting styles and repertory through performance practice.

The conference will feature keynote addresses followed by thematically organized seminars on the Queen's Men and their theatrical contemporaries, including questions of repertory, acting styles, and touring, as well as ensemble and casting issues.

Participants will have a rare opportunity to see three Queen's Men plays (King Leir, Three Ladies of London, and The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth) in different venues in Toronto and Hamilton reflecting the range of playing spaces available to touring companies.

We invite papers dealing with theatrical practice in the plays of the Queen's Men and other companies of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries or addressing theatre-historical questions pertaining to the works of Shakespeare, his contemporaries and collaborators, and their borrowings from or transformations of theatrical material of the 1580s and 90s.

Related concerns might include the social history of playing, the history of censorship, provincial and metropolitan conditions of performance, or early dramaturgy, including but not limited to questions of staging, clowning, extemporization, jigs, etc. Submissions from graduate students and theatre practitioners doing work in these fields would be particularly welcome.

Proposals of 250 words for papers (maximum length 3000 words) should be submitted by February 15, 2006 to reed@chass.utoronto.ca.

For more information on the 'Shakespeare and the Queen's Men' project, please click here to visit our website.

> 31st International Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference
Structure, Space, and Meaning: The Walls and Portals of Premodern Worlds
13-15 October 2006
Villanova University, Philadelphia

How does space structure meaning? How do the spaces we inhabit shape our habits of thought? And why do we imagine our thought itself in terms of space, from ‘mystical arks’ to ‘interior castles’ and ‘memory palaces’?  We invite papers that will reflect on architecture and space as ‘meaning-making’  AND/OR on the use of structural or architectural metaphors in premodern cultures.

Guest Speakers include:
> Annabel J. Wharton (William B. Hamilton Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University)
> Richard Kieckhefer (Professor of Religion and History, Northwestern University)

Please submit an abstract of one double-spaced page, bearing Name, Academic Affiliation, and complete contact information in upper right hand corner.  Only one paper per person will be accepted.  Proposals for panels or sponsored sessions should be submitted together with paper abstracts.  Please indicate precisely on your abstract any audio-visual needs.

We need your help! Would you be willing to chair a session? Please indicate this in note attached to your abstract or under separate cover. Please include your area of interest/expertise, affiliation, and complete contact information on this note. 

Send all abstracts and panel proposals to:

P M R
c/o Anna Misticoni
The Augustinian Institute
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085-1699

OR as a Word or WordPerfect attachment to: pmr.conference@villanova

Click here to see the conference programme

> Colloquium on the Teaching of Post-Classical Latin and Latin to Non-Classicists
23 September 2006
Clare College, Cambridge

Funded by the Classics Subject Centre (CSC) of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

For further information, contact

Dr Jacqueline Glomski: Jacqueline@Glomski.demon.co.uk
Vice-President, Society for Neo-Latin Studies
History Dept
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
T: 020 7848 1078
F: 020 7848 2052

Click here for the SNLS Colloquium poster: WORD or PDF

Click here for the SNLS Colloquium Registration Form: WORD or PDF

England's reformation remains a watershed in history - it divided a people from their ancestors, a nation from much of Europe, and set regions, communities, and individuals against one another. This workshop seeks to build upon recent work on the ways in which was the reformation was worked out and to discuss the dynamic of religious interaction in post-reformation England (to c. 1700). It is concerned to explore how communities intersected, how ideas were exchanged, and to outline the processes of accommodation. Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of this process, from any discipline or perspective.

Workshop organisers: George Southcombe and Andrew Cambers

Contact George Southcombe: george.southcombe@history.ox.ac.uk
Lincoln College, Turl Street, Oxford. OX1 3DR

> Recovering Renaissance Drama: 100 Years of Malone Society Publications
23 September 2006
Corpus Christi College, Oxford

The Malone Society is celebrating its centenary with a one-day conference to be held in the New Music Room, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 10.0-7.0. on Saturday, 23rd September 2006.

The programme will consist of up to a dozen short presentations, each followed by brief discussion. Among those who have already agreed to speak are:

• Professor Henry Woudhuysen
• Dr. John Jowett (on Thomas More)
• Dr.Sonia Massai (on the Pavier Quartos)
• Dr Martin Wiggins (‘A Midsummer Night’s Apocalypse’-related to Malone Society Collections Volume III and the year 1535)
• Dr Eugene Giddens

Chairpersons will include Professor Richard Proudfoot, Mrs. Leah Scragg and Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones.

The day will conclude with a staged reading of the short and farcical Christmas play Gigantomachia (see Malone Society Collections Volume XIV, Jacobean Academic Plays, edited by Suzanne Gossett).

We would welcome offers of short papers (no more than ten minutes) on topics related either to material available in Malone Society editions, including Collections volumes (for a full list of Malone Society publications, please see the Malone Society Website); or to other Tudor and early Stuart play-texts; or to material illustrative of theatrical practices within the same period. Discussion of textual issues will be particularly welcome.

Preliminary enquiries, with or without offers of papers, should be made to katherine.duncan-jones@some.ox.ac.uk. It would be helpful if paper bids could be made before 1st May 2006.

The basic fee, to cover actual costs, including coffee, lunch and tea, is £35. However, the Society’s Council has agreed to subsidize the conference out of its reserves. We are therefore able to offer a reduced fee of £25 to conference members who are members of the Society. It has also agreed a heavily discounted fee of £15 for students (defined as those who are either working for a doctoral or other higher degree, or who completed such a degree no more than two years ago), with a further reduction to £10 for students who are members of the Society. However, because a large number of participants will be paying fees that do not cover the costs, we must ask all conference members, including speakers, to pay the appropriate fee.

> The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court
14–16 September 2006
Courtauld Institute, London

The conference will focus on various aspects of the early modern Inns, particularly the visual arts, music, architecture, and the function of the Inns as performance spaces. Religious, political and social currents at the Inns, literary production, formal and informal modes of pedagogical and professional instruction, relations between the Inns and other educational, social and vocational institutions, and their function and significance within the cityscape of early modern London will also be featured.

Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick.

For further information contact the organizers:
Dr Jayne Archer (jayne.archer@warwick.ac.uk)
Dr Elizabeth Goldring (elizabeth.goldring@warwick.ac.uk)
Dr Sarah Knight (sk218@le.ac.uk )

Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies

> Astrology and the Body 1100-1800
8-9 September 2006
Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Astrology makes sense of the past and guides the future, positing a systematic link between man and the cosmos. It is one of the longest-standing intellectual traditions in history. It reached the heights of its sophistication in Renaissance Europe, an age that also generated profound questions about its credibility. Astrology, as, for instance, an explanatory system, a political discourse, and a source of theological controversy, is crucial to our understanding of the history of medieval and early modern Europe.

In the past three decades increasing numbers of scholars have studied aspects of the history of astrology. They have adopted a variety of historical approaches, falling broadly into three groups: technical accounts of astrological methods and the texts that document them; intellectual histories that position astrology in relation to natural philosophy and theology; and social histories of beliefs in astrology. This conference will convene scholars working on all aspects of the history of astrology 1100-1800 to confront questions about ‘Astrology and the Body’, a theme which draws attention to the body as presumed recipient of astral influences. It will provide a forum for historians to discuss the continuities and differences in various astrological traditions, to consider the common features of their approaches and to explore the centrality of astrology to histories of natural philosophy, medicine, mathematics, other occult arts, theology, and politics.

Speakers:

> Dr Monica Azzolini (University of New South Wales)
> Dr Claudia Brosseder (LMU, Munich, and Stanford, 2006-2007)
> Professor Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
> Professor Hilary Carey (University College Dublin)
> Professor Brian Copenhaver (UCLA)
> Dr Patrick Curry (University of Kent)
> Professor Darin Hayton (Haverford College, Pennsylvania)
> Dr Rob Ralley (University of Cambridge)
> Dr Darrel Rutkin (University of Oklahoma)
> Dr Steven vander Broeke (The Catholic University of Brussels)
> Professor Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)
> Professor Laura Smoller (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Commentators:

> Mr Patrick Boner (University of Cambridge)
> Professor Jean-Patrice Boudet (Université d'Orléans)
> Dr David Juste (University of Sydney)
> Dr Lauren Kassell (University of Cambridge)
> Mr Martin Kjellgren (Lund University and Malmö University)
> Dr Alisha Rankin (University of Cambridge)

Click here for the provisional programme

Click here for the registration form

Click here to download the PDF of the conference poster

For more details contact Dr Lauren Kassell (ltk21@cam.ac.uk) or Dr Rob Ralley (rcr23@cam.ac.uk).

> CFP Women and poetry in the 21st Century
6-7 September 2006
University of the West of England, Bristol

Keynote Address: Medbh McGuckian

Participating speakers:
> Deryn Rees-Jones
> Robyn Bolam
> Kate Clanchy

This two-day event aims to bring poets, critics and readers  together with poetry publishers and editors. Topics for discussion might include the lyric voice, radical / experimental poetics, collaboration,  performance, influence,  myth, the long poem, class, race / ethnicity, sexuality,  the Muse, the history of the book,  the politics and economics of poetry publishing and anthologising.  Emphasis throughout will be on exchanging ideas and there will be plenty of time for discussion and debate.  The organisers are open-minded about the form  contributions might take.  We invite proposals for conventional  papers of 20-25 minutes duration, or offers from individuals or small groups for informal roundtable discussions on germane themes. Graduate students will be particularly welcome. 

Click here for the full CFP

Abstracts of c.350 words should be submitted by March 1st 2006 to the conference organisers:

Dr. Alice Entwistle,
School of English and Drama,
University of the West of England,
St. Matthias Campus,
Oldbury Court Road,
Fishponds,
Bristol BS16 2JP
womenandpoetry@uwe.ac.uk

Dr. Jo Gill,
School of English and Creative Studies,
Bath Spa University,
Newton Park,
Newton St. Loe,
Bath, BA2 9BN
womenandpoetry@bathspa.ac.uk

Conference steering group: Dr. Vicki Bertram (Manchester Metropolitan University), Dr. Jane Dowson (De Montfort University),  Dr. Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University).

To mark the centenary of the publication of the first volume of P.S. Allen's edition of the correspondence of Erasmus an international conference will be held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford during the first week of September 2006. The conference will cover all aspects of Erasmus' achievement and influence in the fields of education, literature, biblical studies, and theology.

Keynote speakers include Lisa Jardine, J.K. McConica, Hilmar M. Pabel, Jane E. Phillips, Erika Rummel, and Mark Vessey.

Click here to download the conference poster

Conference Programme

> Lisa Jardine (QMUL), ‘Yours Sincerely: Erasmus and the Printed Fortune of Familiar Letters’
> Christine Bénévent (Univ. de Paris XII), ‘De l’édition Allen aux recueils publiés par Erasme: enquête sur quelques stratégies de publication’
> Kathy H. Eden (Columbia Univ.), ‘Erasmus on Familiaritas in Writing, Handwriting and Letter-writing’
> J.K. McConica (PIMS, Toronto), ‘The Englishing of P.S. Allen’
> Mark Vessey (UBC), ‘Erasmus and Literary History’
> Isabelle Diu (Paris), ‘Enjeux de la traduction du grec en latin dans la République des lettres selon Erasme’
> Romano Ruggeri (Urbino), ‘Erasmus, Polydore Vergil and the Respublica Litteraria.’
> Erika Rummel (Emerita, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.), ‘Erasmus and Capito: the Background History of Erasmus’ Polemic with the Strasbourg Theologians’
> Paolo Sartori (PG, Sacro Cuore, Milan), ‘From Montaigu to Louvain: Biblical Philology and Spirituality in a Journey through Erasmus and his Quarrels with Petrus Sutor and Frans Titelmans’
> Marie Barral-Baron (PG, Univ. de Paris IV), ‘The Relationship between Erasmus and George, Duke of Saxony during the 1520s: Reformation of the Church and Theological Involvement’
> Catherine Pézeret (PG, Univ. de Paris IV), ‘Etienne Dolet and the Influence of Erasmus’
> Clare Murphy (Angers), ‘Erasmus as Biographer of Thomas More and his Family’
> Charles Fantazzi (East Carolina Univ.), ‘The Erasmus-Vives Correspondence’
> Michel Magnien (Univ. de Paris III), ‘Supplementunculum Allenianum: le début de Allen 2021 retrouvé’
> Stephen Ryle (Univ. of Leeds), ‘The Papacy in Erasmus’ Correspondence: an Overview’
> Silvana Seidel Menchi (Univ. di Pisa), ‘The Anti-Roman Paradigm: Julius, Erasmus, and Hutten’
> Phillips Salman (London), ‘Gnoseology and Epistemology in Erasmus’s Praise of Folly’
> Hilmar Pabel (Simon Fraser Univ.), ‘Editing Jerome Before Erasmus: A Little Known Anthology Printed in Antwerp (1515)’
> Vivienne Westbrook (National Taiwan Univ.), ‘Erasmus for Englishmen: Richard Taverner’s Translation of the Adagia, 1539’

> Jane Phillips (Univ. of Kentucky), ‘The Shaping of a Gospel: Further Reflections on the Paraphrase on Luke’
> Béatrice Perigot (Univ. de Nice), ‘Concordia and disputatio in Erasmus’ Colloquies’
> Hanan Yoran (Ben Gurion Univ.), ‘The Erasmian Republic of Letters and its Discontents’
> Alexandre Vanautgaerden (Brussels), ‘Les Lettres d’imprimeurs dans la correspondance d’Erasme’
> Aysha Pollnitz (Trinity Coll. Cambridge), ‘Erasmus’ Christian Prince in 16th-century England and Scotland’
> Gregory Dodds (Walla Walla Coll.), ‘Joseph Hall, Thomas Fuller, and the Erasmian via media’
> Dominic Baker-Smith (Emeritus, Amsterdam), ‘Tranquillitas animi: Erasmus and the Quest for Spiritual Reassurance’
> David Rundle (Oxford), Title to be announced
> Ari Wesseling (Univ. of Amsterdam), ‘Erasmus and Plagiarism’
> Farkas Kiss (ELTE, Budapest), ‘Dog-ears of Erasmus: the Adages in 16th-century Hungary’
> Letizia Panizza (RHUL), ‘Re-launching Erasmus’ papal Polemics in 17th-century Venice: the case of Ferrante Pallavicino’
> Jeanine De Landtsheer (Leuven), ‘Two Models of Humanist Letter Writing: Desiderius Erasmus and Justus Lipsius’

> The Jacobean Printed Book: Authors, Printers, and Readers
1-3 September 2006
Queen Mary, University of London

Speakers include:

> Sharon Arnoult (Midwestern State University)
> Cyndia Clegg (Pepperdine University)
> Elizabeth Evenden (Newnham College, Cambridge)
> David Gants (University of New Brunswick)
> Carter Hailey (College of William and Mary)
> Pete Langman (Queen Mary, London)
> David Lawrence (University of Toronto)
> Graham Rees (Queen Mary, London)
> Stijn Van Rossem (Universiteit Antwerpen)
> Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
> Helen Smith (University of York)

The first seminar will be held at Queen Mary, University of London, from Friday September 1 to Sunday 3, 2006. One theme of the seminar will be the financing, production, and politics of religious publications in the Jacobean period, a theme to which the organisers plan to contribute. This will not by any means be the exclusive or indeed the main focus of the seminar. We want to cast the net wide to draw in comparative studies, e.g. Continental publishing in the period, or British printing immediately before and after the Jacobean period, studies of the relationship between printed book and manuscript; analytical-bibliographical work, and studies of book-historical method; the politics and economics of book production; and, in short, any new or ground-breaking work that sheds light on the history of the early-modern book and book trade.

Click here for the provisional programme

Click here for the online registration form

For further information, contact: Prof Graham Rees: g.c.rees@qmul.ac.uk

> CFP The Ritual and Rhetoric of Queenship, 1250-1650
24-25 August 2006
Canterbury, Christ Church University, Kent

This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the ritual and rhetoric of queenship in late medieval and early modern England. We hope to encourage debate on the image and representation of queens, and on the cultural and political narratives of queenship.

Possible themes might include:
the ritual construction of queenship;
queenship, identity and power;
holy and sainted queens;
royal motherhood;
queens as intercessors and patrons;
queens in translation.

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be
> Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)

Our two plenary speakers will be
> Dr Joanna Laynesmith (author of The Last Medieval Queens) and
> Dr Jacqueline Eales (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Please email proposals for papers (approx. 250 words) and brief CV to the conference organisers:
Dr Liz Oakley-Brown, Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Writing
Email: ejo7@cant.ac.uk
Dr Louise Wilkinson, Lecturer in Medieval History
Email: ljw28@cant.ac.uk

Deadline: Submission of proposals: 24 March 2006

English Department
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU

Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies

> International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Thirteenth Congress
6-13 August 2006
Budapest

The Thirteenth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies is arranged by the IANLS and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Ministry of the National Cultural Heritage and with the universities of Szeged and Debrecen. The congress will take place 6-13 August 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. It will start in Budapest with registration on Sunday evening (6 August) and will formally close with the banquet on Friday evening (11 August), with an excursion to Szeged on the following day

Click here for further information.

> CFP Fifth International Conference of the Tudor Symposium
2-5 August 2006
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE), Faculty of Humanities, Piliscsaba, Hungary

Theme: "Humanity and Barbarism in Tudor Literature"

We expect most proposals to fall into two main camps:

1)  On the one hand, there will be papers exploring humanity and barbarism in quite general terms. Here, 'humanity' might be interpreted as 'human nature,' 'human kindness,' 'humans and animals,' 'humanity and divinity' - and so on. And 'barbarism' could be tackled as 'cruelty,' 'philistinism,' 'barbarism and civilisation'; and, given the location of our conference, I think there is scope here for papers which deal with Tudor attitudes to the Ottomans.  

2) On the other hand, people may well wish to explore the themes in the more narrowly cultural-historical terms of 'humanism.' Papers on any aspect of Tudor litterae humaniores are welcome.

Here is a list of some of the people who have put forward proposals so far:

> Agnes TANACS (Szeged): [Title TBC but on Macbeth]
> Don BEECHER (Carleton): Relentless Barbarity in the Garden of Humanism:
The Emblematics of Lodge's Marguerite of America
> Francis GUINLE (Lyon 2): Barbarous/Barbarian: The Ambiguity of b/Barbary in Peele's Battle of Alcazar
> Gunilla FLORBY (Gvteborg): Intertextual Sidelights on the Hero in George
Chapman's Byron Plays
> John N. KING (Ohio SU): The Humanistic Bases of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
> Mark RANKIN (Ohio SU): Humanity and Incoherence: Writing Early English
Protestantism in Foxe's Book of Martyrs
> Matt DeCOURSEY (Hong Kong): Did Thomas More Become a Barbarian?
> Mike PINCOMBE (Newcastle): Roger Ascham and 'The Turk'
> Pauline BLANC (Lyon 3): Barbarism in A Looking-Glass for England and
James IV
> Peter HAPPI (Southampton): Heywood and Humanism

The deadline for proposals is 1 May 2006

For further information, please contact:
Professor Michael Pincombe
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Percy Building,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)191 222 7621
Fax: +44 (0)191 222 8708
E-mail: Mike.Pincombe@newcastle.ac.uk

> Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1685
28-29 July 2006
Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London, UK

An interdisciplinary conference run by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. The conference will explore the experiences of and responses to exile and defeat in the years 1640-1685, with reference both to physical displacement and inner withdrawal, retreat and retirement. The time-frame allows for an examination of Royalists and also onetime Parliamentarians after 1660, such as exiled regicides, Milton, and radical political exiles of the early 1680s. Speakers include John Adamson, Ann Hughes, Annabel Patterson, Nigel Smith, Joad Raymond, Robert Wilcher, James Loxley, Julie Sanders, James Peacey, David Scott, Steven Zwicker, Martin Dzelzainis.

DRAFT PROGRAMME

Friday 28th July

09.30 - 10.00     Registration

10.00 - 10.15     Welcome, notices, introduction

10.15 - 11.30     Session 1: Sources and influences
> Tim Raylor (keynote): ‘The Intellectual History of the Royalist Exile: A Case for Caution’.

11.30 - 12.00     Tea / Coffee

12.00 - 1.15       Session 2: Elite exiles
> David Scott:  ‘The Exiles of Charles I and the Prince of Wales’.
> James Loxley: ‘Hobbes in a Hole: Enmity, Exile, Engagement’.        
> Gillian Darley: ‘John Evelyn: made in Paris’.
                        
1.15 - 2.15         Lunch

2.15 - 3.30         Session 3: Anglicans and royalists
> Sarah Mortimer: ‘Exile, Apostasy and Anglicanism’.
> Marika Keblusek: ‘A Tortoise in the Shell: Royalist and Anglican Experience of Exile in the 1650s’.
> Robert Wilcher: ‘Exile in Breconshire: The Double Displacement of Henry Vaughan’.

3.30 - 4.00         Tea / Coffee

4.00 - 5.15         Session 4: Royalist poetics
> Sue Clark: ‘Lovelace’s experience of defeat’ (tbc).
> Chris D’Addario: ‘Allegory and the Literature of the Royalist Exile’.
> Paul Davis: ‘Thomas Sprat, Cowley and self-exile in the Restoration’.

5.15 - 5.30         Comfort Break

5.30 - 6.45         Session 5: European literature
> Nigel Smith (keynote): ‘Exile in Europe during the English Revolution and its Literary Impact’.

6.45 - 7.30         Conference Reception (Senate House)

Saturday 29th July

09.30 - 11.00     Session 6: The experiences of women
> Ann Hughes, Julie Sanders (keynote): ‘Women Royalist Exiles in the Low Countries: Renegotiating Family Relations at home and Abroad’.
> John Cronin: ‘The Marchioness of Ormond’s return from exile and the Butler patrimony’.

11.00 - 11.30     Tea / Coffee

11.30 - 12.15     Session 7: Artists and musicians
> Karen Hearn: ‘“Nearly all the most famous artists left England...”?’
> Jane Clark: ‘A mode among the Monseurs’.

12.15 - 12.45     A performance by the Early Music group, ‘Janiculum’.

12.45 - 2.00       Lunch

2.00 - 3.15         Session 8: Milton and exile
> John Adamson: ‘Prophecies of Exile: Milton, Prelacy, and the Fall of the Regime of Charles I’.
> Laura Jacobs: ‘“Exiled from Light”: Samson Agonistes and Blindness’.
> Joad Raymond: ‘Milton’s internal exile’.                         

3.15 - 3.45         Tea / Coffee

3.45 - 5.00         Session 9: Regicides and residence
> Jason Peacey: ‘“The good old cause for which I suffer”: the life of a regicide in exile’.
> Philip Major: ‘“A poor exile stranger”: William Goffe in New England’.                       
> Martin Dzelzainis: ‘Extraterritoriality: the Earls of Clarendon and Castlemaine’.

5.00 - 5.15         Comfort Break

5.15 - 6.30         Session 10: Restoration literature
> Annabel Patterson (keynote): ‘The Print Legacy of the Restoration Exiles: Clarendon, Locke and John Starkey’.

Click here for further information and registration.

Click here for copies of the abstracts.

Alternatively, phone the Institute of English Studies on + 44 (0)20 7862 8675 or email the conference organiser: Philip Major (Birkbeck, University of London).

Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies

> Renaissance Paratexts: A Conference
27-28 July 2006
University of York, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

In Paratexts, Gérard Genette describes a preface as ‘a threshold, or – a word Borges used apropos of his – a “vestibule” that offers the world at large the possibility of either stepping inside or turning back’.  This conference invites participants to linger on the threshold, exploring the ways in which Renaissance Paratexts, broadly considered, shape the reader's approach to the text, and the text's approach to the surrounding world.  The conference will take place at the University of York on July 27th & 28th, 2006.

Speakers include: Christy Anderson, Tom Berger, Danielle Clarke, Mike Cordner, Juliet Fleming, Steven Galbraith, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Peter Lindenbaum, Sonia Massai, Randall McLeod, Neil Rhodes, Jason Scott-Warren, and Wendy Wall.

For further details, or to suggest a paper, please contact: 
Helen Smith (hs25@york.ac.uk) or Louise Wilson (elw107@york.ac.uk)

> Icons and Iconoclasts: The Long Seventeenth Century, 1603-1714
20-22 July 2006
Aberdeen Centre for Early Modern Studies

This international and interdisciplinary conference embraces the long Seventeenth Century in Britain, America, and Europe.

The plenary lectures are:

> Professor Catherine Belsey (Cardiff): 'Shakespeare as Icon'

> Professor Peter Burke (Cambridge): 'Was the 17th Century an Age of Crisis?'

> Professor Annabel Patterson (Yale) 'Swansong: The Human Voice of History'

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on any aspect of British, American, or Continental literature, science, philosophy, culture, and history during the period up to 1714. They should be sent by email to the conference organizer, Professor Derek Hughes (1603@abdn.ac.uk) by 31 March, 2006. Every effort will be made to accommodate early applicants who require a decision before that date.

The conference will be held in the King's College Centre, adjacent to the University’s beautiful early sixteenth-century chapel. King's College is one of the last Medieval universities; it amalgamated with Marischal College to form the University of Aberdeen. With its extensive collection of incunabula and manuscripts, it forms a perfect setting for a conference on the Early Modern period. There will be an optional excursion to Fyvie Castle on the afternoon of 21 July.

Aberdeen is situated on the North Sea coast, and a convenient point of departure for the Highlands and the Orkneys. The airport (with direct flights to London) is only five miles from the university, and there are direct trains to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other Scottish cities.