The Uses of Space In Early Modern History 1500-1850, Seminar Series

International History Department, LSE

The study of space and place is an increasingly important research-field in the humanities and social sciences. This series explores how spatial ideas and approaches can be used to understand the societies, cultures and mentalities of the past. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines will reflect on the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history; and how particular spaces were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods

Series Organiser: Dr Paul Stock p.stock@lse.ac.uk

Place: LSE New Academic Building, room 2.14 Time: 18.00 All welcome

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalHistory/events/theUsesOfSpaceinEarlyModernHistory1500-1850/homeTheUsesOfSpaceInEarlyModernHistory1500-1850.aspx

26 January 2012: Prof Robert Mayhew (Bristol) "Relocating Malthus's 'Essay': Reflections on spatio-temporal contexts and narrative history"

Graduate Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History: ‘Scientific and Other Mentalities in Early Modern Europe'

Convenors: Prof. Maclean and Dr Malcolm; All Souls (Hovenden Room), Wednesdays 5.00 p.m.

25 Jan: Prof. Antonio Clericuzio (Cassino): ‘The Organical Motions of Body Fluids: Robert Boyle on Physiology and the Mechanical Philosophy’

Literature, Ideas & Society: Seminar Programme 2011-2012

All sessions held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB.
Admission free, no need to book. Reception follows each session.

Session 2:  Credit, Value and Honour - Wednesday 25 January 2012, 5.15pm 

Anne Goldgar (KCL), Credit and Value in the 17th-Century Netherlands

Craig Moyes (KCL), La gloire à crédit: Redeeming Roman Values in 17th-Century Salon Society

"Policia and the Plaza: Utopia and Dystopia in the Colonial City"

Special Guest Lecture by Professor Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 24 January 2012

The Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is delighted to invite you to a special guest lecture by Richard L. Kagan, Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University:

"Policia and the Plaza: Utopia and Dystopia in the Colonial City"

"The Spanish American colonial city is often distinguished by its central plaza or square. These spaces still serve as the focus of urban life. But how did they come into existence? What purposes did they serve? Using maps and city views dating from the colonial era, this lecture explores the various meanings attached to the plaza, the differing ways they were used, together with their representation in both literature and art of the colonial era."

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, and start at 5.15pm in the Boardroom (no.104), Department of History, 9 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool, L69 7WZ. Refreshments will be available beforehand.

All welcome! It would be a great help, though, if we were able to gauge numbers. Please, be so kind as to notify the convenor if you intend to attend Professor Kagan’s lecture: h.e.braun@liv.ac.uk.

Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period

‘When our first Mother […] stept out of her place but to speak a good 
Word of Worship, you see how she was baffled, and befooled therein; 
she utterly failed in the performance’ 

- John Bunyan, A Case of Conscience Resolved (1683)

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Quince.

A louer that kils himselfe, most gallant, for loue.

Bottom.

That will aske some teares in the true performing of it.

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1.2.21-2)

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Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period
at The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, January 20, 2012

Plenary Speakers:

Professor Julie Sanders (Nottingham)

Professor Tiffany Stern (Oxford)

This one-day academic conference aims to bring together scholars working on all aspects of performance in the early modern period (taken broadly to include the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries). We intend to interrogate what performance and its related terminologies and practices might have meant to early modern readers, playgoers, and congregations; how performance shaped and/or undermined distinctions between private/public bodies and selves. Although drama is an essential point of reference for this discussion, we encourage that “historicizing performance” be taken as broadly as possible. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

- Plays and play-going
- Music and singing
- Public spectacles, ceremonies and architecture
- Ritual, devotional expression, spirituality / the sermon as performance
- Autobiography and Performative Texts

- Performing gender/ sexuality/ the domestic
- Performance and the performative in theory

Please email abstracts (400 words max.) for a 20 minute paper to Michael Durrant and
Naya Tsentourou at: Historicizing.Performance@manchester.ac.uk
Deadline for abstracts: September 23th, 2011
Notifications of acceptance to be sent out by October 14th, 2011

Updated: Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period

The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
January 20, 2012

09.00 – 09.45 Registration and coffee

09.45 – 10.00 Welcome

10.00 – 11.00 Panel 1: Death and Ritual

• Maggie Vinter (John Hopkins University), ‘How to do things while dying: Volpone and the ars moriendi’
• Stephen Gordon (University of Manchester), ‘The Performance of Bad Death: The Strange Tale of the Shoemaker of Breslau’

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.15 Panel 2: Music

• Liam Haydon (University of Manchester), ‘Performing Perfection: Milton and the Music of the Spheres’
• Dolly MacKinnon (University of Queensland), ‘If ever beene where bels have knell’d to Church’: The performance of parish bells in early modern England

12.15 – 12.30 Convenience Break

12.30 – 1.30 Keynote Lecture

• Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham), ‘Within the Castle Walls: Historical Sites as Performance at Kenilworth and Ludlow’

1.30 – 2.30 Lunch

2.30 – 3.30 Panel 3: Space

• Catherine Clifford (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), ‘From Wood to Stone: Whitehall Palace, the Banqueting House, and the Performance of Architecture in Court Drama, 1581-1621’
• John Peacock (University of Southampton), ‘Architectural Performance: Inigo Jones and Bernini’

3.30 – 3.45 Convenience Break

3.45 – 4.45 Panel 4: Theatre and Ritual

• Alison Findlay (University of Lancaster), ‘The State of Ceremony in Macbeth’
• Brian Schneider (University of Manchester), ‘Extra –dramatic’ performance in early modern Prologues, Epilogues and Inductions

4.45 – 5.00 Coffee Break

5.00 – 6.00 Keynote Lecture

• Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford), ‘Bitter, Black and Tragical’: Tragic Peformance on the Shakespearean Stage

6.00 – 6.30 Drinks.

Registration: £10
Speakers and guests are invited to join us for dinner at a local restaurant; to book a place please let us know when registering (dinner not included in the registration fee).

The Society for Renaissance Studies has granted us bursaries to help postgraduate students with the costs of travel and accommodation. If you want to be considered for one of the bursaries, please let us know.

To book a place at this event please contact Michael Durrant and Naya Tsentourou at Historicizing.performance@manchester.ac.uk by 7th January 2012.

The event will be taking place at the Seminar Room of the historic building of the John Rylands Library at Deansgate. Due to limited space, please register early to avoid disappointment.

We hope to see you there!

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Graduate Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History: ‘Scientific and Other Mentalities in Early Modern Europe'

Convenors: Prof. Maclean and Dr Malcolm; All Souls (Hovenden Room), Wednesdays 5.00 p.m.

18 Jan: Dr Frédérique Aït-Touati: ‘Narrative, Fiction and Hypothesis in Seventeenth-Century Cosmological Writing, from Kepler to Huygens’

EMPHASIS Seminar: Timon's spade and the Queen of Hearts: medicine and anatomy in Nathaniel Highmore's emblematic title page

The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) is to provide a London forum for scholars working in the history of philosophy, intellectual history and the history of science of Europe in the period 1400-1650. The term 'philosophy' is interpreted in its fullest Renaissance sense, and includes such themes as: Neoplatonism, scholasticism and late Aristotelian philosophy, Epicureanism, stoicism, scepticism, cosmological theories, the classification of the disciplines, encyclopaedism, Lullism, the art of memory, the philosophy of mathematics, theories of the soul, theories of language and signs, etc.

Saturday 14th January, 2.00-4.00pm: Room G37, 1st Floor, Senate House south block

PLEASE NOTE: THESE SEMINARS ARE VERY POPULAR AND THE MEETING ROOM IS OFTEN VERY FULL.  Refreshments provided.

Karin Ekholm (HPS, University of Cambridge): 'Timon's spade and the Queen of Hearts: medicine and anatomy in Nathaniel Highmore's emblematic title page'

Collaboration, Authorship and the Renaissance: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives

Queen’s University, Belfast, January 13-14, 2012

Timetable:

Friday 13th January (Seminar Room 2, International & Postgraduate Student Centre)

09.00 — 10.00 Registration/tea and coffee

10.00 — 11.15 Opening Plenary

• ‘Collaboration or Adaptation? Macro or Micro Authorship’ (Professor Gary Taylor, Florida State University) 

11.30 — 12.45 Session 1: Ambiguities and Attributions

• ‘“Cursed Locrine, looke vnto thy selfe”: The Ambiguous Labour of “W.S.”’ ( Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham)
• ‘Collaboration and Attribution in Two Middleton-Dekker City Comedies’ (Eilidh Kane, University of Glasgow)

13.45 — 15.00 Plenary Paper 2

• ‘The Taming of the Shrew, the Coming of Sound and Authenticity’ (Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University)

15.00 — 16.00 Session 2: Collaboration in Elsinore

• ‘Tampering with Hamlet: a model and example of collaborative negotiations’ (Maciej Piątek)
• ‘Intersubjectivity, Memory, and Hamlet’ (Rob Carson, Hobart and William Smith College)

16.15 — 17.15 Session 3: Collaboration and/in Print

• ‘“Ay, that’s the point”: punctuation and speculation in early modern printed drama’ (Ian Burrows, University of East Anglia)
• ‘Edmund Spenser’s Complaints and Paratextual Collaboration’(Rachel J. Stenner, University of Bristol)

17.30 Book launch/ Wine Reception [Venue: Old Staff Common Room]

Launch of The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts (eds. Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray, Edinburgh University Press, 2011). Opening remarks by Gary Taylor.

Saturday 14th January (Seminar Room, Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green)

09.30 — 10.00 Registration/tea and coffee
10.00 — 11.15 Plenary Paper 3

• ‘“The play of mr fletcher & owrs”: Writing and Rewriting the Early Modern Play’ (Professor Grace Ioppolo, University of Reading)

11.30 — 12.45 Session 4: Politics and Practices on the Collaborative Stage

• ‘Thomas Nashe as Dramatic Collaborator’(John Pendergast, Southern Illinois University)
• ‘“The play has no true centre”: Collaboration and Politics in Sir John van Olden Barnavelt’ (Conor Smyth, Queen’s University Belfast)

13.45 — 15.00 Session 5: Authors and Auteurs

• ‘Author and Auteur in Queer Edward II’ (John Blakeley, The University College Plymouth St Mark & St John)
• ‘Thor and back again: Kenneth Branagh and the evolution of the Shakespearean auteur’ (Kevin Murray, Queen’s University Belfast)
• ‘Shakespearean Authorship and Authority: Conjunctions Between Early Modern Enchantment in Dryden and Davenant’s Enchanted Island and Postmodern Disillusion in Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet’ (Thea Buckley, University of Birmingham)

15.15 — 16.30 Session 6: Collaboration in Modernity

• ‘Sharing Shakespeare? Authorship from a Theatre Perspective’ (Varsha Panjwani, University of York)
• [Final title tbc] (Elizabethan Reyes, University of Dallas)
• ‘From Song to Screen: Rewriting Shakespeare’s Sonnets in the Music of Henry Lawes and the Scripts of Star Trek’ (Faith Acker, University of St. Andrews)

16.45- 18.oo Session 7: Collaboration and Digital Media

• ‘Collaborative Theatre in the Fable Universe: Choices in Gameplay’ (Jonathan Malone, Queen’s University Belfast)
• ‘“fuckyeahshakespeare”: Re-Authorising Shakespeare in the Digital Commons’ (Conor Smyth, Queen’s University Belfast

6.00 p.m. Conference Dinner

Villa Italia (39 University Rd, Belfast). Approx. cost: £25-£30

For further information (e.g. re: travel, accommodation) and to book a place, contact the organisers (Conor Smyth and Kevin Murray) at: collaboration2012@qub.ac.uk as soon as possible.

Worlds of Paper Writing Natural History from Gessner to Darwin

A Linnean Society of London meeting supported by the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy

This international conference aims to bring scholars together to discuss how practices of processing written information have shaped conceptions of the natural world in the past. From the sixteenth century until well into the nineteenth century, naturalists strove to collect, observe and classify animals, plants and minerals, often with their medical and economical use in mind. The printing “revolution” and the discovery of America profoundly transformed literacy and scholarly practices of reading and writing. The day‐to‐day practices of assembling information on natural objects and their medical properties can be glimpsed through the numerous marginalia, commonplace books, notebooks, files and index cards that naturalists, physicians, and apothecaries have left to us. The conference will investigate how these practices acted as powerful tools which changed conceptions of the order of nature. Early modern writing practices ultimately influenced taxonomical procedures, the developing idea of relationships within nature, and, in the long run, concepts of biodiversity and bioprospecting.

For more information about the conference, details of accommodation and directions to the Linnean Society, please contact:

Events, The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF Tel.: +44 (0)20 7434 4479 Fax: +44 (0)20 7287 9364 Email: events@linnean.org

For registration please visit www.linnean.org and visit our upcoming events page to download your registration form.

Charity Reference No. 220509

The Uses of Space In Early Modern History 1500-1850, Seminar Series

International History Department, LSE

The study of space and place is an increasingly important research-field in the humanities and social sciences. This series explores how spatial ideas and approaches can be used to understand the societies, cultures and mentalities of the past. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines will reflect on the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history; and how particular spaces were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods

Series Organiser: Dr Paul Stock p.stock@lse.ac.uk

Place: LSE New Academic Building, room 2.14 Time: 18.00 All welcome

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalHistory/events/theUsesOfSpaceinEarlyModernHistory1500-1850/homeTheUsesOfSpaceInEarlyModernHistory1500-1850.aspx

12 January 2012: Dr Andrew Rudd (Open University) 'Geographical morality on trial: Edmund Burke and the impeachment of Warren Hastings'

Call for papers for panels on 'Ethnography, Ethnology and Science, 1400- 1800' (AHA, Chicago, Jan 2012).

Abstracts are invited for papers towards linked panel sessions at the
American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, January 5-8,
2012). The panels will explore the overarching theme of 'Ethnography,
Ethnology and Science, 1400-1800.'

The historiography of science leaves ethnography and ethnology before the
nineteenth century largely unexploited. This distorts earlier knowledge-
making practices, particularly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
European observers in distant regions often integrated discussions of human
societies, flora, fauna, climate and natural resources within an all-
encompassing natural history rooted in the traditions of classical antiquity.

These panels will seek to contextualize European attempts to understand
distant peoples within broader investigations of natural history and
cosmography. They might investigate the interconnections between, for
example, the following:

* ethnological ideas and theories of climate;
* animals and humans by way of monstrous peoples;
* practices of empirical ethnographic observation and methods for collecting, describing, organizing and analysing new plants and animals;
* communities and networks of practitioners working on ethnology, natural
history, cosmography and other branches of knowledge.

Also of interest are such issues as the authority of eyewitness testimony, the
changing status of different practitioners, and the part played by scientific
knowledge in shaping ethnology. The overall aim of these panels will be to
re-think the relation between the histories of ethnography and ethnology,
and the history of science, in order to better explain European attempts to
understand the wider world c. 1400-1800.

Scholars who would like to submit an abstract to these sessions should get in
touch with the organizer (Dr Surekha Davies, Birkbeck, University of London,
ats.davies@bbk.ac.uk), to express their interest and to discuss possible
submissions, by 1 December 2010. Abstracts and short biographies in line
with the AHA submission requirements would be needed by around 10
January 2011. The deadline for submitting the panels to the AHA is 15
February 2011.

Dr Surekha Davies

Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 24-5 June, 2011
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/news/global-dimensions-of-knowledge