For further info. M.Dimmock@sussex.ac.uk
The Bible in Translation
A one-day conference at Birkbeck College
Saturday 28 May 9:30—6:00
Rm B36, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
For more information, contact:
Anthony Ossa-Richardson or Dennis Duncan
anthony.richardson@postgrad.sas.ac.uk
d.duncan@english.bbk.ac.uk
Saturday 28 May 9:30—6:00
Rm B36, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
For more information, contact:
Anthony Ossa-Richardson or Dennis Duncan
anthony.richardson@postgrad.sas.ac.uk
d.duncan@english.bbk.ac.uk
Dacre Lecture 2011 : The Humour of History and the History of Humour
ROBERT EVANS
Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, will give the 2011 Dacre Lecture, which will also be a valedictory lecture,
on MONDAY 23 MAY at 5 p.m.
in the OXFORD EXAMINATION SCHOOLS
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the building, to which all attending the lecture are welcome.
Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, will give the 2011 Dacre Lecture, which will also be a valedictory lecture,
on MONDAY 23 MAY at 5 p.m.
in the OXFORD EXAMINATION SCHOOLS
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the building, to which all attending the lecture are welcome.
Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: Call For Papers
Interdisciplinary conference, Jesus College Oxford, 21-22 May 2011
Speakers include David Norbrook and Blair Worden
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ancient Rome was a source of endless fascination to the early moderns.
Historians, politicians, divines, and imaginative writers looked to the
Roman example for models and inspiration. The aim of the conference is to
reassess the place of ancient Rome in the literary and political culture of
late Tudor and early Stuart England. In what ways did the translation and
reception of the Roman classics stimulate the native literary tradition or
influence its political outlook? What was the impact of the Roman precedent
on attitudes towards constitutional change, the rights and wrongs of empire,
and the law? How did it influence ecclesiastical policy and, more generally,
the views of the relationship between church and state? In what ways did
Roman historiography, political writings, and rhetoric shape the language
and substance of public argument? What was the trajectory of circulation in
manuscript and print of the Roman classics? What were the uses and topical
appeal of the Roman models in the wider public world and in education? How
did the Roman legacy compare with that of ancient Greece?
Our aim is to foster dialogue among literary scholars, classicists,
political and intellectual historians, historians of religion, specialists
in the history of the book, and historians of historiography. Bringing
together scholars representing diverse disciplines and approaches, the
conference will encourage reconsideration of much received wisdom about the
place of ancient Rome in early modern England's literature and political
imagination. It will, we hope, raise new questions about, inter alia, the
shaping influence of the Roman example upon formal properties and topical
undercurrents of imaginative literature, sermons, and polemical writings;
upon conceptions of public institutions and the individual's relationship to
them; upon views of foreign policy and international relations as also
military theory and practice; upon emergent confessional divisions and
incipient notions of religious toleration; and, finally, upon perceptions of
social relations in urban, above all metropolitan contexts. No less
important will be to assess the utility and pervasiveness of romanitas
before and after the union with Scotland, and compare the situation in
England with major European states, in particular, France, Spain, Italian
principalities, and the Netherlands.
We invite proposals for 30-minute papers. Please e-mail abstracts of no more
than 500 words to Felicity Heal (felicity.heal@jesus.ox.ac.uk) or Paulina
Kewes (paulina.kewes@jesus.ox.ac.uk) by 30 January 2011.
The Oxford gathering is a follow-up to the conference on 'Ancient Rome and
Early Modern England: History, Politics, and Political Thought' to be held
at the Huntington Library, 21-22 January 2011. For further information,
please contact Carolyn Powell (cpowell@huntington.org).
Speakers include David Norbrook and Blair Worden
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ancient Rome was a source of endless fascination to the early moderns.
Historians, politicians, divines, and imaginative writers looked to the
Roman example for models and inspiration. The aim of the conference is to
reassess the place of ancient Rome in the literary and political culture of
late Tudor and early Stuart England. In what ways did the translation and
reception of the Roman classics stimulate the native literary tradition or
influence its political outlook? What was the impact of the Roman precedent
on attitudes towards constitutional change, the rights and wrongs of empire,
and the law? How did it influence ecclesiastical policy and, more generally,
the views of the relationship between church and state? In what ways did
Roman historiography, political writings, and rhetoric shape the language
and substance of public argument? What was the trajectory of circulation in
manuscript and print of the Roman classics? What were the uses and topical
appeal of the Roman models in the wider public world and in education? How
did the Roman legacy compare with that of ancient Greece?
Our aim is to foster dialogue among literary scholars, classicists,
political and intellectual historians, historians of religion, specialists
in the history of the book, and historians of historiography. Bringing
together scholars representing diverse disciplines and approaches, the
conference will encourage reconsideration of much received wisdom about the
place of ancient Rome in early modern England's literature and political
imagination. It will, we hope, raise new questions about, inter alia, the
shaping influence of the Roman example upon formal properties and topical
undercurrents of imaginative literature, sermons, and polemical writings;
upon conceptions of public institutions and the individual's relationship to
them; upon views of foreign policy and international relations as also
military theory and practice; upon emergent confessional divisions and
incipient notions of religious toleration; and, finally, upon perceptions of
social relations in urban, above all metropolitan contexts. No less
important will be to assess the utility and pervasiveness of romanitas
before and after the union with Scotland, and compare the situation in
England with major European states, in particular, France, Spain, Italian
principalities, and the Netherlands.
We invite proposals for 30-minute papers. Please e-mail abstracts of no more
than 500 words to Felicity Heal (felicity.heal@jesus.ox.ac.uk) or Paulina
Kewes (paulina.kewes@jesus.ox.ac.uk) by 30 January 2011.
The Oxford gathering is a follow-up to the conference on 'Ancient Rome and
Early Modern England: History, Politics, and Political Thought' to be held
at the Huntington Library, 21-22 January 2011. For further information,
please contact Carolyn Powell (cpowell@huntington.org).
Final Agenda: Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England
The conference will be held on 21-22 May at Jesus College.
To register please go to
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/upcoming-events and follow
instructions on the conference webpage. Please note that it is possible to
register for one day only.
Saturday 21 May
To register please go to
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/upcoming-events and follow
instructions on the conference webpage. Please note that it is possible to
register for one day only.
Saturday 21 May
9-9.30 am Registration and coffee
9.30-9.40 Remarks (Paulina Kewes)
9.40-10.45am Circulation and Reception (Chair: Alex Gajda)
Freyja Cox Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford)
„After Peter Burke: A Survey of the Popularity of Roman Historians in England, 1500-1600‟
Daniel Andersson (Wolfson College, Oxford)
„Numquamne reponam? Forms of Reception of Juvenal in Seventeenth-Century England‟
Freyja Cox Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford)
„After Peter Burke: A Survey of the Popularity of Roman Historians in England, 1500-1600‟
Daniel Andersson (Wolfson College, Oxford)
„Numquamne reponam? Forms of Reception of Juvenal in Seventeenth-Century England‟
10.50am-12.40pm Early Modern Drama and the Roman Republic (Chair: Blair Worden)
Paulina Kewes (Jesus College Oxford)
„Constitutional Instability in Titus Andronicus‟
Warren Chernaik (University of London)
„Julius Caesar and Republicanism: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Some Contemporaries‟
Edward Paleit (University of Exeter)
„How Jacobean Dramatists Read their Lucan: Jonson, Stephens, May, and the Bellum Ciuile, c. 1605-1637‟
Paulina Kewes (Jesus College Oxford)
„Constitutional Instability in Titus Andronicus‟
Warren Chernaik (University of London)
„Julius Caesar and Republicanism: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Some Contemporaries‟
Edward Paleit (University of Exeter)
„How Jacobean Dramatists Read their Lucan: Jonson, Stephens, May, and the Bellum Ciuile, c. 1605-1637‟
12.45-1.45pm Lunch
1.50-3pm Plenary lecture
David Norbrook (Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
„Lucretius and Seventeenth-century Political Culture‟ (Chair: Felicity Heal)
David Norbrook (Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
„Lucretius and Seventeenth-century Political Culture‟ (Chair: Felicity Heal)
3.05-4.10 pm Scholarship and Intellectual Culture (Chair: David Norbrook)
Nick Hardy (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
„Roma Graecissans: Rome and Greek Identities in Early Modern British Erudition‟
Thomas Roebuck (Magdalen College, Oxford),
'Athenaeus and Macrobius in Early Modern England'
Nick Hardy (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
„Roma Graecissans: Rome and Greek Identities in Early Modern British Erudition‟
Thomas Roebuck (Magdalen College, Oxford),
'Athenaeus and Macrobius in Early Modern England'
4.10pm-4.30pm Tea
4.35-6.15 pm Greece, France, and Rome on the Renaissance Stage (Chair: Warren Chernaik)
Richard Hillman (Université de Tours, France)
„The “Frenchness” of Rome on the Early Modern English Stage‟
Richard Rowland (University of York)
„Framing Deianeira: Reading Ovidian and Senecan Husband-Killing in Early Modern England‟
Maria Del Sapio Garbero (Roma Tre University)
„Disowning the Bond: Ovid, Seneca, and Coriolanus‟
Richard Hillman (Université de Tours, France)
„The “Frenchness” of Rome on the Early Modern English Stage‟
Richard Rowland (University of York)
„Framing Deianeira: Reading Ovidian and Senecan Husband-Killing in Early Modern England‟
Maria Del Sapio Garbero (Roma Tre University)
„Disowning the Bond: Ovid, Seneca, and Coriolanus‟
6.15-7pm Reception
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Sunday 22 May
Sunday 22 May
8.55-9.10 am Registration
9.10-10.55am Editing, Appropriation, Influence (Chair: Richard Rowland)
Katie East (Royal Holloway, University of London)
„Constructing by Conjecture: Cicero in Early Modern England‟
Gesine Manuwald (University College London)
„Ancient Roman Literature in Thomas Campion‟s Poetry‟
Adam Swann (University of Glasgow)
„Hex Romana: The Curse of Roman Influence in Milton‟s History of Britain‟
Katie East (Royal Holloway, University of London)
„Constructing by Conjecture: Cicero in Early Modern England‟
Gesine Manuwald (University College London)
„Ancient Roman Literature in Thomas Campion‟s Poetry‟
Adam Swann (University of Glasgow)
„Hex Romana: The Curse of Roman Influence in Milton‟s History of Britain‟
10.55-11.15am coffee
11.15am-1pm The Contexts of Translation (Chair: Freyja Cox Jensen)
Fred Schurink (Univ. of Northumbria)
„Ancient Rome and Tudor Warfare: The Military Contexts of English Translations of the Classics, c. 1520-1580‟
Serena Connolly (Rutgers)
„Cato Englished‟
Sheldon Brammall (Trinity College, Cambridge)
„“A horrible Travesty in earnest”?: Parliament and Providence in John Vicars's The XII Aeneids of 1632‟
Fred Schurink (Univ. of Northumbria)
„Ancient Rome and Tudor Warfare: The Military Contexts of English Translations of the Classics, c. 1520-1580‟
Serena Connolly (Rutgers)
„Cato Englished‟
Sheldon Brammall (Trinity College, Cambridge)
„“A horrible Travesty in earnest”?: Parliament and Providence in John Vicars's The XII Aeneids of 1632‟
1-2 pm Lunch
2-3.10pm Blair Worden (Visiting Professor of History, University of Oxford)
„Clarendon, Ben Jonson, and the Conspiracy of Catiline‟ (Chair: Paulina Kewes)
„Clarendon, Ben Jonson, and the Conspiracy of Catiline‟ (Chair: Paulina Kewes)
3.15-4.20pm Political Culture (Chair: Felicity Heal)
Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
„Citizenship and Conquest: Francis Bacon and Rome after 1603‟
Tracey Sowerby (St Hilda‟s College, Oxford)
„The Roman Influence on English Diplomatic Thought‟
Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
„Citizenship and Conquest: Francis Bacon and Rome after 1603‟
Tracey Sowerby (St Hilda‟s College, Oxford)
„The Roman Influence on English Diplomatic Thought‟
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