CALL FOR PAPERS: Reformation Studies Colloquium

This year’s Reformation Studies Colloquium will be held at the University of Essex, Colchester on Thursday 30 August to Saturday 1 September 2018.

The conference, which meets biannually, will bring together established as well as younger scholars studying all aspects of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in the British Isles and Europe. We invite papers showcasing all aspects of current research into the Reformations and new trends in the fields from all disciplinary backgrounds.

The plenary speakers for the conference will be:

Prof Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University)

Prof Alison Rowlands (University of Essex)

Prof Bill Sheils (University of York)

Contributions from current research students are especially welcomed. Papers should be about 20 minutes, additional time for discussion will be allowed in each session.

To propose a paper please submit a title and a short summary (no more than 300 words) by e-mail no later than Wednesday 25 April 2018.

Contact: Dr Tom Freeman Dr Justin Colson

The conference will be held at the Colchester Campus of the University of Essex, located in the beautiful grounds of Wivenhoe Park, around 60 minutes from central London. The conference will take advantage of the many medieval and early modern features of Colchester, including an exclusive evening private tour of, and wine reception at, Colchester Castle and its recently refurbished museum.

Please join the Reformation Studies Colloquium mailing list here

Beliefs Under Pressure: Religion, Community and Identity in the Early Modern World

Thursday 10 September 2015, Julian Study Centre, University of East Anglia

The School of History will be hosting a one day conference for graduate students and early career researchers to present papers and exchange ideas about the social and cultural history of religion and community, c. 1500-1800. The conference is intended to provide an informal forum for emerging researchers to discuss the varied modes of communication across the period, and different ways in which identities were formed, contested and transformed.

The event will run 9:30-17:00, with coffee and lunch provided. Please send all enquiries to Sarah Hall and Tory Lewis at beliefsunderpressure@gmail.com.

Registrations are via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beliefs-under-pressure-religion-community-and-identity-in-the-early-modern-world-tickets-17226421691

Registrations close at 9am on Monday 24 August. Please note: refunds cannot be guaranteed after this date.


Sarah Hall & Tory Lewis
'Beliefs Under Pressure' Organisers
School of History
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
NR4 7TJ
beliefsunderpressure@gmail.com



9:30 Registration

10:00 Panel 1 – chaired by Tory Lewis
“Deprived Cathedral Clergy and English Catholicism, 1553-1574” – Frederick Ernest Smith, University of Cambridge
“‘A Frogge of Your Owne Slime’: Seventeenth-Century English Baptists and the Struggle for Legitimacy” – Matthew Bingham, Queen’s University, Belfast
“Catholic or Protestant? James Cunningham and the mystics of Fife, c.1700” – Michael Riordan, University of Cambridge

11:30 Coffee

12:00 Panel 2 – chaired by Danny Buck
“Sir Edward Lake and the Ex Officio Oath: the Theory and Practice of Unlawful Ecclesiastical Discipline in Restoration England” – Jens Åklundh, University of Cambridge
“Religion and the Common Law in Taylor’s Case (1675)” – David Kearns, University of Sydney
“Protest, Magic and the Reformation” – Caitlin Philips, University of Durham

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Panel 3 – chaired by Sarah Hall
“‘The City of the Waters’: Representing the Sea and the Protestants of La Rochelle (1565- 1575)” – Rebecca Pillière, University of Warwick
“The Puritan Belief-Formation Process in Warfare” – Matthew Rowley, University of Leicester

15:20 Short break

15:30 Panel 4 – chaired by Sarah Hall
“‘I am Scotsman and a Presbyter’: Archbishop James Sharp and the Restoration Church Settlement” – Andrew Carter, University of St Andrews
“Uses and Abuses of Trust: Catholicism and Confessional Coexistence in England, c.1688- 1750” – Carys Brown, University of Cambridge

16:30 Final Thoughts
17:00 Drinks in the Square
19:00 Dinner at The Unthank Arms, Newmarket Street

Place and Preaching

6-7th September 2013, Place and Preaching

The Wren Suite, St Paul's Cathedral London

Sponsored by the AHRC in its support of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, this is a conference which will reassess the 'place' of preaching in Early Modern Europe in all its aspects.

Plenary Lecture: Brian Cummings (York)

Confirmed Speakers: Hugh Adlington (Birmingham); David Colclough (Queen Mary); Joshua Eckhardt (Virginia Commonwealth); Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge); Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont); Kenneth Fincham (Kent); Erica Longfellow (Oxford); Mary Ann Lund (Leicester); Peter McCullough (Oxford); Charlotte Methuen (Glasgow); Mary Morrissey (Reading); Jean-Louis Quantin (Sorbonne); Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield); Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes); Sebastiaan Verweij (Oxford); Philip West (Oxford)

All further conference details – including graduate bursaries to attend the conference - and information on booking will be posted on this site later: http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne

Call for Papers

The organisers welcome proposals (250-500 word abstracts) for further papers on any of the following aspects of sermon culture in Early Modern Europe: Roman Catholic preaching; architectural settings and auditories of preaching; sermons in manuscript and print; performance and delivery; sermon hearing, note taking, and commonplacing; production and reception of patristic and other theological works; rhetoric; and more.

Please send your proposals to Professor Peter McCullough and Dr Sebastiaan Verweij: peter.mccullough@lincoln.ox.ac.uk / sebastiaan.verweij@ell.ox.ac.uk

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 MAY 2013

Dr Sebastiaan Verweij || Fulford JRF, Somerville College, Oxford
Research Associate, The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
a: English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UL
t: 0044 (0)1865 271931 || skype: seb.macv

Popes and the Papacy in early modern English culture

The University of Sussex, June 24th – 26th 2013

Confirmed speakers include Peter Lake, Susannah Monta and Alison Shell

Proposals are still welcome for individual papers or panels on any subject associated with the theme of the conference. Suggested topics include:

• Anti-Catholic satire
• Literary and pictorial representations of Popes and the Papacy
• Pre-Reformation and recusant culture
• Diplomacy and correspondence
• English Cardinals
• Art and architecture
• Religious controversy/ Theological dispute.

Or any topic related to the theme of the conference.

Papers on the later 17th century are particularly welcome.

The conference will include a tour of the historic town of Lewes, from the scene of the burnings of the 17 Lewes Marian martyrs to the remains of Lewes Priory, one of England’s most important medieval religious houses.

300 word proposals for papers and panels should be sent to Paul Quinn (p.l.quinn@sussex.ac.uk) by March 15st 2013 (extended deadline). Papers should last for 20 minutes. Panels should include three papers.

Call for Papers: Popes and the Papacy in early modern English culture

An interdisciplinary conference
The University of Sussex, June 24th – 26th 2013

Confirmed speakers include Peter Lake, Susannah Monta and Alison Shell

Proposals are welcome for individual papers or panels on any subject associated with the theme of the conference. Topics may include:

· Anti- Catholic satire
· Pre-Reformation culture
· Literary representations of Popes and the Papacy
· Lives of the Popes
· English Cardinals
· Religious controversy
· Recusant culture
· Papal Bulls
· Excommunication
· Diplomacy/Ambassadors/Nuncios/Correspondence
· Architecture
· Ecclesiology
· Theology

300 word proposals for papers and panels should be sent to Paul Quinn (p.l.quinn@sussex.ac.uk) by March 1st 2013. Papers should last for 20 minutes. Panels should include three papers.

Religious Lives: Catholic Culture in the Early Modern World

Friday 18–Saturday 19 May 2012

St Edmund Hall and Queen’s College Chapel, Oxford

Written, spoken, painted, or performed, the life stories of Catholic men and women – particularly members of religious orders – dominated the culture of early modern Catholicism. This conference will address the growing body of scholarship devoted to understanding biographies and auto-biographies as they appeared in various forms within religious communities and Catholic society at large. These include institutional chronicles, canonization documents, festive decorations, images and pictorial cycles, and musical pieces, in addition to auto/biographical texts and spiritual testimonies – to name only a few. Many such narratives remained amongst a small audience, whilst others crossed national boundaries and were introduced in new, altered or translated forms. The conference will explore how life narratives were presented, interpreted and used to express confessional viewpoints and the corporate identities of religious orders. We seek to bring scholars from the disciplines of literature, history, theology, art history and music into conversation about the forms and functions of religious life stories in Asian, African, European and new world contexts.

The conference will include a period performance of Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier’s biographical oratorio ‘S. Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi’ by Oxford Baroque. The oratorio premiered at the Palazzo Pamphili, Rome in 1687. This piece will be placed in its historical context, opening discussion on the modes and purposes of articulating Catholic lives.

For further details of the conference and oratorio, and to reserve a place, please visit our website: http://religiouslives.wordpress.com/

Call for papers:

We would particularly like to encourage papers from graduates in the areas of art history and music and/or focusing on Asia or the new world. Papers addressing British, Irish or Continental subjects or from the disciplines of history, literature, and theology are also most welcome. Please email proposals of no more than 300 words to religiouslives@gmail.com by 10 April 2012. A number of graduate bursaries are available to fund graduate speakers thanks to the generosity of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

• What, if anything, was distinctive to the genres of biography and auto-biography in the post-Reformation period?
• How hagiographical were representations of religious lives?
• How collaborative was the process of constructing a life
• To what extent were auto/biographical lives imitative of lives in the same media or other media?
• In what ways were accounts of lives put to polemical uses?
• How were the identities of religious orders and their members expressed in or influenced by accounts of exemplary lives?
• How were life stories transmitted across national lines and how were they read/consumed/witnessed within different contexts?

With the generous support of the Society for Renaissance Studies:http://www.rensoc.org.uk/

Catholic Aesthetics

4.30pm, Wed 21st March, Roberts Building 110, UCL

Peter Davidson (Aberdeen), Rubens's design for the 1635 'Arch of the Mint' and the Virgin of the Andes?

Lilla Grindlay (University College London), ‘“Some out of vanity will call her the Queene of heauen”: polemical representations of the Virgin Mary in early modern religious discourse’

All welcome. For maps and a useful route finder, seehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps/. 

For more on the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/eme/.