> Cambridge, Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Workshop (M&EM)
CRASSH
14 November 2007

The second Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Workshop (M&EM) will take place on Wednesday 14 November, from 5.00 to 7.00 pm, at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Dr John Marenbon (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge) will deliver a paper on

'How Not to Write About Medieval Philosophy.'

There will be ample opportunity for both formal and informal discussion following the paper, and refreshments will be served. Participants are also invited to join us for a pay-as-you-go meal at a local restaurant after the workshop.

Medievalists, early-modernists and interested others from all disciplines and departments are warmly invited to attend.

Wednesday 30 January 2008

5.00 – 7.00 pm

Dr Howard Hotson

Tutor and Lecturer in Modern History, St Anne's College, Oxford

‘Intellectual Geography: Territorial Fragmentation and Intellectual Activity in the Holy Roman Empire’

Wednesday 27 February 2008

5.00 – 7.00 pm

Professor Quentin Skinner

Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge

(title tbc)

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M&EM is a new, informal, inter-departmental forum based at CRASSH and supported by the Society for Renaissance Studies. It provides a common resource and point of contact for all those working on the medieval and early modern periods, in particular postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers, with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and offering practical and positive support.

Meetings are scheduled for Wednesdays of:

• 24 October 2007 at 2.30-4.30pm
• 14 November 2007 at 5.00-7.00pm
• 30 January 2008 at 5.00-7.00pm, and
• 27 February 2008 at 5.00-7.00pm

Workshop Format
Each workshop is structured around a presentation on a key topic by a senior scholar, with ample opportunity for discussion and junior participation. In particular, workshops will emphasise the research challenges shared by medievalists and early-modernists, both practical and methodological. Alongside formal papers, we hope to explore other discussion formats, including accounts of personal research experience, and conversations between the representatives of different periods, disciplines, and methodologies. As the series develops, we will provide opportunities for participants to act as respondents, or to deliver complementary papers of their own.

For more information please contact the convenors:
Jenny Rampling: jmr82@cam.ac.uk and Felicity Green: fmg26@cam.ac.uk

Click here to visit the M&EM webpage

> The Denys Hay Seminar
University of Edinburgh

The Denys Hay Seminar is a prestigious, weekly seminar series fostering interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary debate. Invited speakers, both established academics and younger scholars, from Britain, continental Europe and America deliver papers on various historical, literary, linguistic, art-historical, musicological and theological subjects within broadly understood medieval and renaissance studies. It provides a friendly forum maintaining high intellectual standards for discussing new and on-going research. The Seminar welcomes participants from across the whole university, honours undergraduates as well as postgraduates and staff, from the greater Edinburgh area and from other Scottish and UK universities, who are active researchers or simply interested in studying Europe and its relationships with the wider world in the period circa AD 300 to 1550.

Programme for Semester 2, 2005/06

Tuesday, 10 January
Professor Peter Garnsey (Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity, Jesus College, Cambridge):
'Jones the Method: A Retrospective on The Later Roman Empire'
Conference Room, David Hume Tower, 16.30

Tuesday, 17 January
Helen Brown (Scottish History, Edinburgh):
'Southern Scotland or Northern Britain? Lothian and her saints in Scottish ecclesiastical history'
Conference Room, David Hume Tower, 17.00

Tuesday, 24 January
Erin McGibbon Smith (University of Cambridge):
'Reflections of reality in the manor court: Sutton-in-the-Isle (Cambs.), 1308-91'
Room G01, William Robertson Building, 16.30

Tuesday, 31 January
Dr Jan Veenstra (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Netherlands):
'Fascinatio and Imaginatio: the efficacy of magic and witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance thought'
Conference Room, David Hume Tower, 16.30

Tuesday, 7 February
Dr Emma Campbell (Department of French Studies, University of Warwick):
'The experience of limits in Marie de France's Espurgatoire Seint Patriz'
Conference Room, David Hume Tower, 16.30

Tuesday, 14 February
Dr Gavin Kelly (Classics, Edinburgh):
'Rome, Constantinople, and the Emperor in Late Antiquity'
Room G01, William Robertson Building, 16.30

Tuesday, 21 February
Dr Sarah Hamilton (Department of History, University of Exeter):
'Going beyond the "scaffolding of the church": the local community and the Church, 900-1200'
Room G01, William Robertson Building, 16.30

Tuesday, 28 February
Dr M. Michèle Mulchahey (Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews): 'Dominican teaching in Dantes Florence: Remigio de Girolami and the Schools of Santa Maria Novella'
Room G01, William Robertson Building, 16.30

Tuesday, 7 March
Professor Guy Halsall (Department of History, University of York):
'Who cared about the Barbarian Migrations?'
Conference Room, David Hume Tower, 16.30

Tuesday, 14 March
Dr Brigitte Resl (History Department, Goldsmiths University of London):
'Out of the Ark: changing representations of animals around 1300'
Room G01, William Robertson Building, 17.00

Tuesday, 21 March
Dr Marios Costambeys (School of History, University of Liverpool):
'Louis the Pious, Lothar, and the papacy'
Conference Room, David Hume Tower, 17.00

For more information on the Denys Hay Seminar, please contact:
Dr John Davies (Scottish History) email john.davies@ed.ac.uk;
Kirsten Fenton (History) email kfenton@staffmail.ed.ac.uk.

> London Renaissance Seminar
The London Renaissance Seminar meets four to five times a year on Saturdays between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. at Birkbeck College. It explores social, intellectual and wider cultural issues, with each session normally devoted to a broad theme. Seminars are grouped thematically on a termly basis, with additional special lectures, symposia, and conferences. There are usually three to four papers followed by discussion. All are welcome.

The London Renaissance Seminar meets regularly during the academic year. It runs seminars on Saturdays, conferences and lectures and usually meets in Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street. WC1. Events are usually free and everyone with an interest in the Renaissance is welcome.

The steering committee are Margaret Healy (University of Sussex), Tom Healy (Birkbeck, University of London), Gordon MacMullan (King’s College, University of London), Lucy Munro (Keele University), Michelle O’Callaghan (University of Reading), Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London).

The London Renaissance Seminar e-list is run by Tom Healy: t.healy@bbk.ac.uk

For further information about 2007-8 please contact Sue Wiseman: s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk

Programme 2007-08

October 13, 2007: Tolerance and Intolerance’

Speakers include:
> Justin Champion,
> Sue Mendus,
> Blair Worden.
Organiser: Eliane Glaser
2.00pm-5.30 pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street.  

November 3: ‘Performance’

Speakers include:
> Pascale Aebischer,
> Bridget Escolme.
Organisers: Lucy Munro & Gordon McMullan
2.00pm-5.30 pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street.  

November 23-4:
Conference: ‘Britain's Icons: Writing, Images, and other Cultural Signs 1450-1670’
Organisers: Tom Healy & Sue Wiseman  

January 19, 2008: ‘Colonialism and Travel’
Speakers include:
> Susan Castillo,
> Jesse Edwards,
> Peter Hulme,
> Gerald MacLean.
Organisers: Gordon MacMullan & Sue Wiseman
2.00pm-5.30 pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street.  

March 15:  ‘Life Writings’
Speakers include:
> Marie-Louise Coolahan,
> Kate Hodgkin,
> Adam Smyth.
Organiser: Michelle O’Callaghan.
2.00pm-5.30 pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street.  

May 17: Summer Panel:  ‘The Renaissance in the Twenty-first Century’
Organiser: Tom Healy.
2.00pm-4.30pm Birkbeck, Malet Street

> London Shakespeare Seminar
Institute of English Studies and King's College London

Spring Term 2007

Monday 26 February, 17.30-19.30

Shakespeare's Properties

> David Armitage (Harvard): Shakespeare's Properties
> Tiffany Stern (Oxford): The Text as Property on the Early Modern Stage'

Chair: Gordon McMullan (King's)

All welcome!
NG16 (North Block)
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
Russell Square
Wine will  be served after the seminar.


Autumn Term 2006

Monday 16th October, 5:30

room tba (please check nearer the time on the events page and/or turn up at Senate House reception beforehand)

> Ed Pechter (University of Victoria, BC/Concordia University, Montreal)
'Crisis in Editing? Crisis in the Humanities?'

> Kathryn Prince (SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Birkbeck)
'Landmark Productions of Much Ado About Nothing'

> Fiona Ritchie (King's, but soon to be McGill University)
"Characteristical Skill": the Shakespearean acting of Hannah Pritchard'

Wine afterwards.

> The Globe Research Seminar
Sunday, 19 March 2006, 12-2pm

'Soules are  hells Subiects, and their grones our mirth'
[Thomas Dekker, If It Be Not  Good, The Devil Is In It, 1610-11]

Postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars are invited to attend the spring meeting of the Globe Research Seminar, a unique opportunity to workshop in depth the practical and theoretical issues which arise from the  plays performed in Globe Education's 'Read Not Dead' season of staged readings.

The play under examination will be Thomas Dekker's If It Be Not Good, The Devil Is In It, a satiric comedy focusing on the mission of three devils to plunder souls on earth and featuring guest appearances from Francois Ravillac and Guy Fawkes. To enable discussion, an e-text of the first quarto edition will be available prior to the seminar. Discussion  will be accompanied by a glass of wine, and participants are encouraged to attend the professional-cast 'Read Not Dead' performance of the play at the Globe Education Centre Theatre in Bear Gardens, which follows the seminar at 3pm.

For further information about the seminar please contact the organisers:
Farah Karim-Cooper (farah@shakespearesglobe.com), and
Lucy Munro (l.munro@engl.keele.ac.uk). 

The seminar will be held in Inigo Jones Studio Two, Shakespeare's Globe.  Admission  is free to bona fide researchers and scholars but does not include a ticket to the staged reading of If It Be Not Good The Devil Is In It.  Tickets for the staged reading cost £10  (£6 for students).  Please contact conted@shakespearesglobe.com if you are interested in attending the seminar.

> Shakespeare's Globe Theatre History Seminar
Wednesday 5 April, 6pm

Material Practices on the Renaissance Stage: Textiles, Hangings and Clothes

> Dr Nathalie Rivère de Carles (Université Paul-Valéry- Montpellier III)
> Jenny Tiramani (Shakespeare‘s Globe)

The Shakespeare's Globe Theatre History Seminar was launched in 2005 in order to enable scholars from around the world to share their work-in-progress on all aspects of early modern theatre history, including the material practices of theatre companies.

Dr Rivère de Carles will examine what curtains were made of, where they were hung on stage and why they were needed in certain scenes. How did hangings help structure the playing space and how did they affect the audience‘s imaginative involvement in the scene?

Jenny Tiramani will share her knowledge of early modern textiles and shed light on the practical uses of fabrics on the Shakespearean stage.

Venue:
Nancy W. Knowles Lecture Theatre,
Shakespeare‘s Globe

Places are limited.
Please contact Susie Walker at conted@shakespearesglobe.com

For more information about Globe Research activities please contact
Farah Karim-Cooper: farah@shakespearesglobe.com

Click here for information about the Globe's public lectures.

> Early Modern English Literature Reading Group

> Religious History of Britain 1500-1800

Institute of Historical Research, London

Convenors: David Crankshaw (KCL); Liz Evenden (Newnham College, Cambridge); Kenneth Fincham (University of Kent); Tom Freeman (University of Sheffield); Susan Hardman Moore (University of Edinburgh); Lucy Kostyanovsky (KCL); Nicholas Tyacke (UCL); Dr Arnold Hunt (The British Library); and Brett Usher (University of Reading)

Venue: International Relations Room, IHR

Time: Tuesday, 5.00pm

Summer Term 2006

25 April
> John McDiarmid (New College of Florida, emeritus):
Sir John Cheke and the restoration of true religion: the decade at Court, 1544-1553

9 May
> Alice Hunt (King's College London):
The monarchical republic of Mary I

23 May
> Andrew Cambers (Oxford Brookes University):
Reading spiritual diaries and memoirs in England, c.1580-1720

6 June
Jacqueline Rose (University of Cambridge):
'Kings shall be thy nursing fathers': Royal ecclesiastical supremacy and the Restoration Church

20 June
Lori Ann Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University, California):
Early Modern 'How-To' Books and the Early Modern English Bible

> The Thomas Browne Seminar

The Thomas Browne Seminar examines aspects of royalist society and the intellectual culture in the mid-seventeenth century.  Papers are invited on aspects of mid-century culture, the history of science and scholarship, religious and antiquarian thought, natural history and the history of trivia, in particular, but not restricted to, those related to Browne.  As the seminar will involve an ongoing series of meetings, ideas for future seminars are also invited. The Thomas Browne Seminar will consider publications of its proceedings and the website will continue to grow.  In particular, the bibliography of scholarly work will be expanded.

Contact: Dr Kevin Killeen

> London, Queen Mary: Renaissance Witnessed Seminar
Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary, University of London

This series will review what the Renaissance now means to scholars across the disciplines, and consider how new interdisciplinary methods and approaches have refigured our understanding of developments traditionally associated with the term and period Renaissance.

Over the last twenty years or so scholarship has revolutionised our understanding of the Renaissance not only in details but in approaches and methods. Even scholars remain less than well informed about developments in other disciplines while a wider community of curators and librarians and the interested public is often uninformed of the latest scholarship.

Queen Mary's new series aims to address these issues by covering a range of themes and topics, delivered and commented on by leading experts from within the college and the international scholarly community. The seminars bring new approaches to the Renaissance, to scholars and students, the museums, galleries, libraries and archives sector, and the broader public.

Seminars

All seminars start at 6.30pm

Thursday 24 November 2005

'Empires in General, or is there any such thing?'
> Speaker: Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
> Commentator: Professor Sir John Elliott

Tuesday 13 December 2005

'History of the Book, Sociology of the Text, and Literature'
> Speaker: Professor Roger Chartier
> Commentator: Professor Henry Woudhuysen

Thursday 26 January 2006

'Forms of learning in Renaissance Europe: Humanism, Science, Technology'
> Speaker: Professor Anthony Grafton
> Commentator: Dr Warren Boutcher

Thursday 23 February 2006

'The Material Cultures of Renaissance Italy'
> Speaker: Professor Evelyn Welch
> Commentator: Dr Ulinka Rublack

Thursday 16 March 2006

'Monarchies, Republics and Liberties'
> Speaker: Professor Quentin Skinner (Cambridge)
> Commentator: Dr David Colclough (Queen Mary)

Thursday 30th March 2006

'''In search of inner lives': Subjects and Sentiments 1600-1800'
> Speaker: Professor Lisa Jardine CBE
> Commentator: Dr Stella Tillyard

Click here for a Booking Form

Please send the form to:
Andrea Posnett
Innovation and Enterprise
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
Tel: 020 7882 7005
E-mail: a.f.posnett@qmul.ac.uk

> London Seminar for Early Modern Visual Culture
Courtauld Institute of Art and Department of History of Art, University College London

> Monday 23 January 2006

''Something rich and strange': Thinking about Coral and its Representation'

Marcia Pointon (University of Manchester)

> Monday 30 January 2006

'Sharing in Campaspe's Favours: Portrayal and Beauty in Francisco de Holanda's Da Tirar polo Naturale, c.1550'

Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute of Art)

> Monday 13 February 2006

Reading Group: On Materiality (texts to be announced on websites below)

> Tuesday 21 February 2006

'The Social Life of the Late King's Goods: The Commonwealth Sale, 1649-1654'

Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London)

> Monday 6 March 2006

'Paper-work: Fabricating Identity in Revolutionary France'

Richard Taws (UCL)

All begin at 6pm, Seminar Room 3, History of Art Department, University College London, 39-41 Gordon Square, London WC1.  We hope you will be able to join us!

For more information, please contact Maria Loh (m.loh@ucl.ac.uk), Sarah Monks (sarah.monks@courtauld.ac.uk), Rose Marie San Juan (r.sanjuan@ucl.ac.uk), Katie Scott (katie.scott@courtauld.ac.uk), Richard Taws (r.taws@ucl.ac.uk)

The University of Manchester School of Arts, Histories and Cultures with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIDRA)

> 3 May 2007

Sharon Achinstein ( Oxford)

Subject tbc

> 9 May 2007

Blair Worden ( Oxford)

‘John Milton and the English Republic'

> 16 May 2007

Ann Hughes (Keele)

‘Gendering the English Revolution’

> 23 May 2007

Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway)

‘Milton and Sir Henry Vane’

All events take place in Humanities Lime Grove A7 at 5pm

There are also postgraduate classes associated with this programme

For further information please contact:

Dr. Jerome de Groot
CIDRA: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
English and American Studies
S1.16
Humanities Lime Grove
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 2753170
E-mail: Jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk

> Renaissance Research Group
Middlesex University, Trent Park Campus
Tuesday 2nd May 2006, 4:30pm

Speaker:
> Ton Hoenselaars: 'Shakespeare Translation Futures'

Ton Hoenselaars is the Chair of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries, and contributed the chapter on 'Shakespeare and Translation' to Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide (OUP, 2003). His recent books include Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (Arden, 2004) and Shakespeare's History Plays: Production, Translation and Adaptation (Cambridge, 2004).

The seminar is jointly organised by the Renaissance Research Group and the Centre for Research in Translation, Middlesex University.

For further information, please contact Sarah Hutton: S.Hutton@mdx.ac.uk

> Oxford: Aspects of the History of Science in Early Modern Europe

The following seminars will be held at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Hovenden Room, All Souls College.

Convenors: Professor I. W. F. Maclean and Dr N. R. Malcolm

Dr Peter Forshaw (Birkbeck, University of London)
Wed. Jan 16: 'Composition or Mixture? The fusions and confusions of Early Modern Cabala and Alchemy'

Dr Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Wed. Jan 23: 'Medieval and Early modern uses of imaginary experiments on motion'

Professor John Heilbron
Wed. Jan 30: 'Pneumatics and diplomatics: parallel developments in the physical and historical sciences'

Professor Rob Iliffe (University of Sussex)
Wed. Feb 6: 'Nice men: Locke, Newton, retirement and the scholarly life'

Professor Peter Harrison
Wed. Feb 13: 'God and Early Modern Natural Philosophy'

Professor Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
Wed. Feb 20: 'The cognitive practices of observation in Early Modern Europe'

Professor Theo Verbeek (University of Utrecht)
Wed. Feb 27: 'Descartes on demonstration'

Dr Benjamin Wardhaugh
Wed. Mar 5: 'Mathematical authority in Restoration England'

> Renaissance Studies Seminar: Oxford Brookes University and St. Hilda's College, Oxford

> Sussex, Centre for Early Modern Studies: Visiting Speakers

Spring Term (2006)

17 January: Lorna Hutson (St. Andrews), '"Even so suspicious is this tragedy: What has tragedy to do with suspicion?''. Room RB 30

7 February: Lauren Kassell (Cambridge), 'Thomas Vaughan's Alchemy and the Reform of Ritual Magic in Seventeenth Century England'. Room TBA

16 February - Sussex/CEMS Lecture: Jim Shapiro (Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), ‘Seven Weeks in Shakespeare's Life'. Brighton and Sussex Medical School lecture theatre, 6:30pm. RSVP Essential

21 February: Helen Hills (York), 'The Interiorities of Architecture and Spirituality in Early Modern Europe' Room TBA

22 March: David Loewnstein (University of Madison, Wisconsin), 'Writing and Persecuting Heresy in Early Modern England'. Room RB30

Summer Term (2006):

9 May: Kevin Sharpe (Queen Mary), title tbc

30 May: William Sherman (York), ‘The Marginal History of the Manicule’ Room TBA

> Sussex, Centre for Early Modern Studies: Postgraduate Reading Group
Contact: Andrew Hadfield and Matthew Dimmock

STVDIO: Seminars of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

Meetings take place at 5:00 on selected Tuesdays on the fourth floor of the Humanities Building (either 403 or 450).

For further information, contact David Lines: d.a.lines@warwick.ac.uk

16 October 2007:
Demmy Verbeke (postdoctoral fellow, Warwick),
‘An Untruthful Renaissance: The Humanist Revival of Comus and Its Reception in English Literature and Popular Culture’

30 October 2007:
Maude van Haelen (RCUK fellow, Warwick),
‘Savonarola and Ficino on Prophecy’

9 November 2007: Mellon Workshop,
'Gender and Belief in the Early Modern World'

4 December 2007:
Rhiannon Daniels (Leeds),
‘Rethinking the History of the Decameron’

22 January 2008:
Professor Peter Mack (Warwick),
‘Renaissance Rhetoric: The Requirements of a History and the Implications of a Theory’

5 February 2008:
Dr Howard Hotson (St Anne’s College, Oxford),
‘Between Ramus and Comenius: Reformation and Educational Reform in the German and English-Speaking Worlds, 1543-1642’

19 February 2008:
Professor Marc Laureys (Bonn):
‘Erasmus and the Limits of Toleration’

4 March 2008:
Dr Ita MacCarthy (Birmingham),
‘The Life and Liaisons of Renaissance Grace’

22 April 2008:
Professor Michael Reeve (Pembroke College, Cambridge), ‘The Italian Reception of Pliny’s Natural History’

STVDIO talks are supported by Warwick’s Humanities Research Centre

The Early Modern Studies in Scotland seminar, or EMSIS for short, is a new venture founded to provide a forum for research on the Renaissance period for staff and postgraduates based in Scotland. The series was launched with a seminar which took place at the University of Aberdeen in May 2005 entitled 'Locating change in the Early modern environment'. (Click on the title to see the full programme) Future seminars will be held at a different university in Scotland each term.

There are two seminars so far planned for this academic year

Saturday 18 November 2006:
Venue: University of Edinburgh

Saturday 17 February 2007: 'Fiction and law in pre-modernity'
Venue: University of St Andrews

The seminar has an advisory board with representatives from universities around Scotland and will meet regularly to discuss subjects for future seminars. If you have a paper you are interested in offering, or would like to suggest a possible topic please contact either your local representative, or email emsis@abdn.ac.uk.

• University of Aberdeen - Andrew Gordon a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk
• University of St Andrews - Lorna Hutson lmh10@st-andrews.ac.uk
• University of Dundee - Marion Wynne-Davies m.wynnedavies@dundee.ac.uk
• University of Edinburgh - Dermot Cavanagh Dermot.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk
• University of Glasgow - Robert Maslen R.Maslen@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk
• University of Stirling - John Drakakis john.drakakis@stir.ac.uk
• University of Strathclyde - Jonathan Sawday jonathan.sawday@strath.ac.uk

SEMINARS IN THE US

> Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
This seminar serves as a forum for the discussion of articles, works in progress, dissertation chapters and presentations by a mix of Brown History graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars.