British Society for the History of Mathematics: Research in Progress Meeting 2014

The British Society for the History of Mathematics is holding its annual Research in Progress meeting on Saturday 22nd February at The Queen's College Oxford. Registration and coffee is at 10.30am. The keynote speaker is Dr. Jackie Stedall, winner of the Neumann Prize in 2013. She will speak on 'Eighteen years of research in progress: working on the manuscripts of Thomas Harriot.'

For a full programme see:

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/meetings/BSHM-RIP2014-advertisement(Ver4).pdf

The cost is £20 payable on the day which includes lunch, tea and coffee.

Those wishing to attend should register by email to Terry Froggatt at bshm@tjf.org.uk, by Friday 14 February 2014.

The British Society for the History of Mathematics exists:

• to promote and encourage research in the history of mathematics and the dissemination of the results of such research; 
• to promote and develop for the public benefit, awareness, knowledge, study and teaching of the history of mathematics; 
• to promote the use of the history of mathematics at all levels in mathematics education in order to enhance the teaching of mathematics for the public benefit.

Jane Wess (meetings secretary)

Italy Made in England: Contemporary British Perspectives on Italian Culture

Provisional Programme 
Booking Form
Booking Form pdf

Directions and Maps / B&B on campus / B&B off campus

Special Discount - Members of Warwick Italian Society - registration fee only £7.50 Booking Form / Booking Form pdf

‘The Italy perceived by the British travellers is – at the least – “half-created” by them. Or, to put it in less romantic and more fashionable terms: it is a construction, an “Italy made in England”’

M. Pfister, The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers

Our proposal is to bring together scholars and specialists from a wide range of disciplines to answer the following critical questions: why are some aspects of Italian culture overlooked, given that an Anglophone, and indeed global, audience engages keenly with several others? What are the reasons for this selection? How is Italy perceived within global culture, and indeed, how many and what kinds of Italies circulate today? This will span from the Renaissance image of Italy as a pinnacle of culture to the modern-day ‘sick man of Europe’. By including experts from History, Philosophy, Film Studies and Art History, as well as Italianists, we hope to broaden our understanding of the subject we study as well as probe wider questions about the nature of audience reception and the (mis)fortunes of culture beyond national boundaries in today’s world.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Bill Emmott - former editor of the Economist, author ofGood Italy, Bad Italy
and co-creator of the documentaryGirlfriend in a Coma with Annalisa Piras.

Donald Sassoon - Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London

Organisers: Giacomo Comiati / Martina Piperno / Kate Willman

CALL FOR PAPERS: The British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) Research in Progress Meeting 2014

The British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) will hold its annual "Research in Progress" meeting at The Queen's College, Oxford on Saturday 22 February 2014. This meeting provides a forum for research students in the history of mathematics to talk about their work to a friendly, supportive and knowledgeable audience. Since there are relatively few students working in this area, such opportunities are not always easy to find.

The organising committee are Dr Jackie Stedall, Rosanna Cretney and Dr Peter M Neumann

We would welcome suggestions of possible speakers. If any student in your department is working on the history of mathematics we (any or all of the organising committee) would be very grateful to be put in touch with them.

The Northern Renaissance Seminar: ‘To set the word against the word’: new directions in early modern textual analysis’

The Northern Renaissance Seminar in association with CREME: http://creme.lancs.ac.uk/

‘To set the word against the word’: new directions in early modern textual analysis’, Lancaster University, Saturday 22 February 2014, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Building, Meeting Room 3

Programme

10.00-10.30 Jonathan Culpeper and Alison Findlay-Contemporary understandings of Welsh, Scottish and Irish identities: Celtic characters in Shakespeare’s Henry V

10.30-11.00 Helen Davies-The Digitisation of early modern ‘disability’: ways of reading bodily difference in Tudor literature.

11.00-11.30 Amanda Pullan-Locating the discourse surrounding ‘Hagar and Ishmael’ in early modern English texts

11.30-1.00 Brunch

1.00-2.00 Andrew Hardie-The affordances of corpus analysis software in approaching EEBO-TCP

2.00-2.30 Jake Halford-Everything goes with Bacon: The legacy of Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century

2.30-3.00 Break

3.00-3.30 Rachel White-Surly Areopagites and Poetic Reform

3.30-4.00 Liz Oakley-Brown-Thomas Churchyard’s Corpus: material body and digital text

NB There is no registration fee. Please contact Liz Oakley-Brown (e.oakley-brown@lancaster.ac.uk) to register

St. John Historical Society: The Red Bull Playhouse, Clerkenwell and the Revels Office at St. John's

The St. John Historical Society is hosting a talk about the Red Bull playhouse. This will be given at the Museum of the Order of St. John - the site of the Revels Office in Clerkenwell where the Master of the Revels monitored drama for performances at court. Visitors must have included Shakespeare and his associates and the actors of the Red Bull located nearby.

Title: 'The Red Bull Playhouse, Clerkenwell and the Revels Office at St. John's'
Speaker: Dr. Eva Griffith
Venue: The Chapter Hall at the Museum of the Order of St. John Clerkenwell (entrance in St. John's Gate)
Date and time: Thursday 20th February at 7pm
Hosts: St. John Historical Society
Cost: Free
Refreshments: Available

The talk will be illustrated with pictures, and actors will play scenes from Red Bull plays.