UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: History of the Book

Wednesdays at 4.30pmFoster Court 243


15th December: History of the Book

William Sherman (York, English), Mapping the World of Knowledge: Hernando Colon and the Biblioteca Colombina

Henry Woudhuysen (UCL, English), Continental Books in late 16th- and 17th-century England: Gabriel Harvey and Ben Jonson

All welcome. For more information, see www.ucl.ac.uk/eme, or contact Helen Hackett (h.hackett@ucl.ac.uk) or Alexander Samson (a.samson@ucl.ac.uk).
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Erasmus Mundus Fellowships available for PhD projects in early modern studies

TEEME - Text and Event in Early Modern Europe - is an international doctoral programme in early modern studies funded by the European Union. It is structured around a unique collaboration between university-based researchers in the Humanities and the cultural and creative sector in four EU countries (United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic).

For the first edition of the programme, to be launched in September 2011, nine generously funded Fellowships are being offered for both EU and non-EU students. The deadline for applications is 16th January 2011.

Further details about the programme and the Fellowships are available on the TEEME website:http://www.teemeurope.eu/index.html

The Society for Court Studies:



UK Seminars
2011

Seminars are held at 6pm at The Georgian Group, 6 Fitzroy SquareLondon W1T 5DX. The Annual General Meeting will take place at 5.45 pm on 20 June, immediately preceding the seminar paper.

14 February
Edward Town (Sussex University and the National Trust) and
Olivia Fryman (Kingston University and Historic Royal Palaces)
Fabricating a Courtier House: Lionel Cranfield at Chelsea, 1619-1624

14 March
Professor Miles Taylor (Institute of Historical Research)
The Diamond Jubilee of 1897: The Making and Unmaking of a Royal Event

4 April
Professor J. R. Christianson (Luther College Iowa)
Science and Religion at the Court of Denmark, 1550-1596

9 May
Dr Marika Keblusek (Leiden University)
Three 'First Ladies' in The Hague: Rivalries and Alliances at the Courts of Mary Stuart, Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms

20 June
Dr Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Another Charles Restored in 1660?: The Re-establishment of the Court of Charles IV of Lorraine

3 October
Dr Barrie Cook (British Museum)
“The King offereth but only Gold”: Coins and Royal Ceremony in Tudor and early Stuart England

14 November
Dr Gordon Higgott (St Paul’s Cathedral) and Dr A. V. Grimstone (Pembroke CollegeCambridge)
Edward Pearce senior (fl. 1630-d.1658): Decorative Artist, Landscape Painter and Collaborator of Inigo Jones

12 December
Dr Erin Griffey (University of Auckland)
Behind Closed Doors: Storing Household Goods at the Stuart Courts

History in Travel Narratives 1589-1826, Paris > December 2010

Joint conference organised by PRISMES (CREA XVIII, Epistémè), Sorbonne nouvelle, and CIERL, Quebec 

Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, 11-12 December, 2010 

Call for papers 

This conference will examine the representation of history in travel 
narrative. A European's perception of countries and peoples with no «history » is not the same as that of « civilised » nations. What model of 
historical change do travel narratives project?history as a decline from 
some mythical or mythicised origin, cyclical history, history as the 
unfolding of a providential design, as progress ? The evolution of those 
categories over the period considered will be investigated ; this period 
stretches from 1589, which saw the publication of Richard Hakluyt's 
Principal Navigations, to 1826, when William Ellis's Narrative of a Tour 
through Hawaii came out. 

What is the influence of historiography at any given time on the 
representation of history as experience in travel literature ? How does 
travel narrative validate its status as historiography ? 

>From a more anthropological viewpoint, does the discovery of new or 
different spaces or places shape the perception and construction of time 
? Is there any interaction between the conception of space and that of 
time, between the depiction of spaces and that of time, especially of the 
time needed for the evolution of manners, customs and institutions which 
differ from those familiar to the traveller ? Does this entail a 
relativisation of time ? How does a European (or Europeanised) nation?s 
past constrain the analysis of the fabric and customs of the areas 
visited ? Is the historicisation of lived experience limited ? What is 
the impact of measuring instruments on this experience and the account 
thereof. 

Those are some of the questions which will be addressed in this conference. 

Voyages from and to Great-Britain will be of particular, but not 
exclusive, interest. 

Please send proposals?200-250 words for papers not exceeding 30 minutes 
before 15 June 2010 to Isabelle Bour (Isabelle.Bour@univ-paris3.fr), Line 
Cottegnies (Line.Cottegnies@univ-paris3.fr) and Thierry Belleguic 
(Thierry.Belleguic@lit.ulaval.ca). 

L. Cottegnies 
Professor 
Institut du Monde anglophone 
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3



Shakespeare's Globe: PG Seminar on Early Modern Gender

9 December 6-8pm

Shakespeare’s Globe will be hosting a seminar that assembles a small group of postgraduate scholars to examine gender in early modern England. How was gender constructed throughout this period? And how was it represented in early modern drama? The seminar is open to research students, theatre practitioners and academics.


Papers include:

Helen Barker (Shakespeare Institute): Reviewing Rape in Early Modern England

Sarah Lewis (King’s College London): Ophelia “in russet mantle clad”: the delayed daughters of Hamlet and Patient Grisill

Claire Waters (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford): Shakespeare’s Other Women: Approaching Female Ageing in Shakespeare’s Drama

This is a free event, but please register by sending your name and institution affiliation to globeresearch@hotmail.co.uk.


UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: History of the Book

***REVISED DATE***
The UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges is delighted to invite you to a
series of seminars for the autumn term. Seminars will take place at 4.30pm
on Wednesdays in Foster Court 243. For maps and directions, please see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/

Details are as follows:

8th December. History of the Book

William Sherman (York, English), Mapping the World of Knowledge: Hernando
Colon and the Biblioteca Colombina
Henry Woudhuysen (UCL, English), Continental Books in late 16th and 17th
century England: Gabriel Harvey and Ben Jonson


Information can also be found athttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/eme/Events  or by
contacting Helen Hackett (h.hackett@ucl.ac.uk) or Alexander Samson
(a.samson@ucl.ac.uk). All welcome; we hope you can join us.


UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: Renaissance Virtues: Privation and Manipulation



Wednesdays at 4.30pmFoster Court 243

8th December: Renaissance Virtues: Privation and Manipulation

Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, History), Machiavelli and the Manipulation of Virtue

Angus Gowland (UCL, History), European Melancholy

Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh, Spanish), The Place of Virtue in Baltasar Gracián's Aphorism



All welcome. For more information, see www.ucl.ac.uk/eme, or contact Helen Hackett (h.hackett@ucl.ac.uk) or Alexander Samson (a.samson@ucl.ac.uk).
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UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges - Renaissance Virtues: Privation and Manipulation

The UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges is delighted to invite you to a
series of seminars for the autumn term. Seminars will take place at 4.30pm
on Wednesdays in Foster Court 243. For maps and directions, please see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/

Details are as follows:


17th November. Renaissance Virtues: Privation and Manipulation

Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary), title to be confirmed.
Angus Gowland (UCL, History), European Melancholy
Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh), The Place of Virtue in Baltasar Gracián's
Aphorism


Information can also be found athttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/eme/Events  or by
contacting Helen Hackett (h.hackett@ucl.ac.uk) or Alexander Samson
(a.samson@ucl.ac.uk). All welcome; we hope you can join us.


Seminars in Early Modern Preaching: King David


6 November 2010

Old Whiteknights House, University of Reading


11.00-11.30     Registration and Welcome

11.30-13.00     Panel 1: King David and Exemplary Penance

                        Chair: Dr Mary Morrissey (University of Reading)


‘with one worde spekynge his herte was chaunged’: John Fisher on the  penitence of King David and King Henry VII
                        Dr Cecilia Hatt (University of Oxford)

King David as a model for Penitence: Hildersham on Psalm 51 and Psalm 35
Dr Lesley Rowe (University of Warwick)


13.00-14.00     Lunch

14.00-15.30     Panel 2: John Donne

                      Chair: Dr Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham)


           Reading King David at Lincoln’s Inn: Donne’s Sermon Series on Psalm 38
                      Dr. Emma Rhatigan (University of Sheffield)

                      King David in John Donne’s Psalm 32 sermon series
                      Dr Mary Ann Lund (University of Leicester)

15.30-16.00     Tea/Coffee

16.00-17.30     Panel 3: King David and the Politics of Kingship
                      Chair: Mary Anne Lund (University of Leicester)

                      King David and the Restoration 1660-1685
Dr David Appleby (University of Nottingham)

                       ‘Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son’:
                       William Laud’s Accession Day sermon, 1631.
Professor Alan Cromartie (University of Reading)

17.30               Closing Remarks

A registration fee of £10 includes colloquium fee, morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea.  Please book by Friday 29 October.  For details of registration, travel and further information, please email Dr Mary Morrissey (m.e.morrissey@reading.ac.uk<mailto:m.e.morrissey@reading.ac.uk>) or Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk<mailto:h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk>).


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Seminars in Early Modern Preaching: King David, at the University of Reading

Seminars in Early Modern Preaching: King David

6 November 2010

Old Whiteknights House,  University of Reading


11.00-11.30    Registration and Welcome

11.30-13.00    Panel 1: Sixteenth Century

                        Chair: Dr Mary Morrissey (University of Reading)


‘with one worde spekynge his herte was chaunged’: John Fisher on the  penitence of King David and King Henry VII
                        Dr Cecilia Hatt (University of Oxford)

George Peele's The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe (written ca. 1588, printed 1599)

                        Dr Lyndsay Croft (University of Loughborough)


13.00-14.00    Lunch

14.00-15.30    Panel 2: The 1620s

                        Chair: Dr Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham)

                        King David as a model for Penitence: Hildersham on Psalm 51 and Psalm 35
                        Dr Lesley Rowe (University of Warwick)

                        King David in John Donne’s Psalm 32 sermon series
                        Dr Mary Ann Lund (University of Leicester)

15.30-16.00    Tea/Coffee

16.00-17.30    Panel 3: Civil War and Restoration
                        Chair: Mary Anne Lund (University of Leicester)

                        King David and the Restoration 1660-1685
Dr David Appleby (University of Nottingham)

                        ‘Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son’: William
                        Laud’s Accession Day sermon, 1631.
Professor Alan Cromartie (University of Reading)

17.30               Closing Remarks

A registration fee of £10 includes colloquium fee, morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea.  Please book by Friday 29 October.  For details of registration, travel and further information, please email Dr Mary Morrissey (m.e.morrissey@reading.ac.uk<mailto:m.e.morrissey@reading.ac.uk>) or Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk<mailto:h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk>).




<mailto:h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk>



Kafka at the Borders - Between the Quick and the Dead

Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Autumn Events

Kafka at the Borders - Between the Quick and the Dead - the first in a series of workshops presented by Gregorio Kohon.This workshop will address a number of questions related to the predicament of borderline patients. Kohon will use one of Kafka's short stories (The Burrow) to illustrate some of the subjects' existential difficulties and the clinical complexities presented by them. In psychoanalysis, the diagnosis of “borderline” is problematic. Gregorio Kohon is a psychoanalyst at the British Psycho-Analytical Society and visiting professorial fellow at Birkbeck, 2010-11.

Tuesday 2nd November 1pm - 3pm Room G16, Birkbeck Main Building
Free and open to all

Shakespeare: Puzzles, Mysteries, Investigations

SHAKESPEARE: PUZZLES, MYSTERIES, INVESTIGATIONS 29 October 2010

Programme

1pm (Mitre Lecture Theatre) Welcome

1.15pm Keynote Lecture

Prof. Katherine Duncan-Jones (Somerville, Oxford)

‘Two Hobbies and a Purge: three Shakespearian puzzles'.

2.15pm Twenty Minute Papers

Panel A: Room E124

Nick de Somogyi ‘"Shakespeare and the Three Bears"

This paper seeks to correct a pervasive misunderstanding about the identity of one (or two) of Shakespeare's celebrity contemporaries.

Dr. Annaliese Connolly (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory’. (20 mins)

This paper argues the play is a product of the 1590s and situates The Tragical History in the context of the repertorial strategies employed by companies such as the Admirals’ Men involving foreign wars and character types such as Turkish Sultans.

Patrick Ashby (Bristol) ‘Othello and the invisible Turk’ (20 mins)

The paper suggests that the Venetian sense of collective identity, as depicted in this play, is based largely upon oppositional values, and that this opposition is paradigmatically illustrated in the city-state’s antagonistic relationship with the Ottoman Levant.

Panel B: Cloisters Chamber

Dr. John Lyon (Bristol) ‘Fat Ladies Never Sing: Henry James and the endless Tempest’

There are Shakespearean puzzles and mysteries. Why do readers, critics and editors make fools of themselves in trying to solve them?

Dr. Edward Chaney (Southampton Solent) ‘Shakespeare and Egypt’

The French were far ahead of the English in their interest in obelisks, but their scale and emphasis in England seems to have been inspired by Sixtus V’s projects.

Dr. Ann Kaegi (Hull) ‘Nicks, Cuts, and Henry V’

In this paper I examine the extent to which landmark productions of Henry V, from the Vietnam War to the present day, have continued to cut the play in a manner that suppresses the alignment between sexual and martial discourses (nicks and cuts) within the long Folio version.

3.15pm Tea, coffee and biscuits

3.30pm Keynote Lecture

Prof. Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford)

‘A New Shakespeare Play? The Story of Cardenio’s Double Falsehood’.

Lewis Theobald's eighteenth-century play The Double Falsehood has recently been heralded as a Shakespeare play in disguise. Inside it are said to be fragments of Shakespeare's lost play Cardenio. But is this true? Did Theobald have any Shakespeare manuscripts? And was there a Shakespeare play called Cardenio in the first place?

4.30pm Buffet Tea

5.30pm Twenty Minute Papers

Panel C: Room E124

Prof. Simon Barker (Gloucestershire) Shakespeare at ‘HK’: 1939 – 1945

This paper will describe this wartime context for the short seasons of plays staged at the Memorial Theatre, in order to show how the war years irreversibly transformed the relationship between Stratford and Shakespeare.

Dr. Paul Quinn (Chichester/Sussex) ‘How many children had Lady Macbeth?’: How L. C. Knights asked the right question for the wrong reason.

By constructing a text that turns on the violent deaths of fathers and children, Shakespeare positions his play within the polemical matrix spawned by James I within days of the discovery of Fawkes in the cellars under Parliament.

Dr. Cathy Parsons (Sussex) ‘Gods and Monsters’: The search for religious and national identity in Cymbeline

The use of conventional early-modern anti-Papist tropes of Roman Catholic depravity and evil are set against the construction of innate but endangered Protestant virtue in such a way as to subtly manifest Shakespeare’s unease with James I’s political and religious policies, and the danger to national safety and wellbeing from his seemingly pro-Papist stance.

Panel D: Cloisters Chamber

Barbara Kennedy (Sussex) ‘The belching whale and humming water: efficacious music in Pericles’

As an emblematic symbol of the entire universe, the musical references in Pericles have a thaumaturgic value: music has the power to work marvels or miracles evident in the revival of Thaisa and the healing of Pericles.

Dr. Julie Sutherland (British Columbia/Durham University) Shakespeare’s “Bromance” – Hollywood and Homosociability in Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet.

This paper proposes to trace filmic representations of homosociability in Shakespearean drama in an effort to understand how far we have (or have not) come in our understanding of male-male love.

Dr. Duncan Salkeld (Chichester) Shakespeare, the Clerkenwell madam and Rose Flower

This paper elucidates details in the 1594 Gesta Grayorum entertainment that point towards Shakespeare’s acquaintance with a prostitute, Lucy Negro, alleged to have been the ‘dark lady’ of the Sonnets.

6.45 pm Keynote Lecture

Prof. Stanley Wells and Dr. Paul Edmondson [Title TBC]

8pm Close


Conference Fee: £25 (Concessions, £15)
To register, contact Lorna Sargent, Administrator,
Department of English, University of Chichester,
College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6PE,
email: l.sargent@chi.ac.uk, telephone 01243 816163
or Duncan Salkeld at d.salkeld@chi.ac.uk,
or 01243 816184.

The Governance of Nature


The Governance of Nature
CPNSS Seminar Room T206 , LSE   
27-28 October 2010




Day One

1              Historical Views of Governance and Order
Chair:     Peter Harrison, Oxford

10.15-11.30     Eleonora Montuschi (LSE)
Order of Man, Order of Nature: Francis Bacon’s idea of a ‘dominion’ over nature

11.30-12.45     Dennis DesChene (Washington UniversitySt Louis)
Law, Order, and Formal Conditions of Wisdom in the late 17th Century

12.45-13.45     Lunch Break

14.00-15.15     Jon Hodge (Leeds)
Forms, Laws and Order from Plato to Darwin: what were decisive transitions?


2              Laws of Nature and their Alternatives
Chair:     Nancy Cartwright, LSE and UCSD

15.30-16.45     Jonathan Cohen (UCSD)
Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Lawhood

16.45-17.15          Tea – CPNSS common room

17.15-18.30 Robin Hendry  (Durham)
Dependence and Novelty

18.30               Drinks Reception – CPNSS common room












Day Two

2              Laws of Nature and their Alternatives
Chair:     Rom Harre (LSE and Georgetown)

10.00-11.15     Stephen Mumford  (Nottingham
A Powerful Theory of Nature

11.15-12.30     Towfic Shomar (Philadelphia University and Jordan)
Causation and Order in Islamic Kalam

12.30-13.30     Lunch Break


3              Laws and Evolutionary Science
Chair:     Eric Martin, LSE

13.45-15.00     John Brooke (Oxford)
Darwin on Law and Order – and God

15.00-16.30     Chris Haufe (University of Chicago
Darwin’s Laws

16.30-17.00     Tea – CPNSS common room

17.00-18.15     Eric Desjardins (University of Western Ontario)
Is there a Role for Stability and Laws in Managing Imbalanced Ecosystems?





Registration: R.Robinson1@lse.ac.uk
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