Call for Contributions: Literary & Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

General Editors: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College, and Henry S. Turner, Rutgers University

For more than a decade now, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, http://www.ashgate.com/LITSCI, has provided a forum for groundbreaking work on the relations between literary and scientific discourses in Europe, during a period when both fields were in a crucial moment of historical formation. We welcome proposals that address the many overlaps between modes of imaginative writing typical of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—poetics, rhetoric, prose narrative, dramatic production, utopia—and the vocabularies, conceptual models, and intellectual methods of newly emergent 'scientific' fields such as medicine, astronomy, astrology, alchemy, psychology, mapping, mathematics, or natural history. In order to reflect the nature of intellectual inquiry during the period, the series is interdisciplinary in orientation and publishes monographs, edited collections, and selected critical editions of primary texts relevant to an understanding of the mutual implication of literary and scientific epistemologies.

As the series continues to evolve, we particularly seek submissions to do with:

· alchemy
· science in the New World
· meteorology
· knowledge networks
· global science
· machines
· poetics and science
· navigation/mapmaking

To submit a proposal, or for more information, please contact: Erika Gaffney, Publishing Manager with Ashgate: egaffney@ashgate.com

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London Renaissance Seminar Summer Programme

London Renaissance Seminar Summer Programme

Summer Lecture given by Professor Jyotsna Singh
Anglican Global Crossings and the Specters of Islam in the Early Modern Period
13 July 2015 5.30pm, Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1
Wine will be served.

The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service
Organiser: Dr. Emma Whipday
Saturday 18th July 2015, 2pm-6.30pm
Room 538, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX

The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service

(London Renaissance Seminar)

In early modern England, domestic conduct literature, legal treatises, and state-sanctioned homilies propagated the ideal of the home as a self-contained system of government; the loyalty of domestic servants was therefore of political significance. Performances of domestic service onstage explored early modern anxieties and fantasies concerning the interference, surveillance, and potential insubordination of the early modern servant, and the conflicts of loyalty and illicit knowledge that domestic service entailed. This half-day symposium brings together historians, literary scholars, and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage. Talks will be illustrated by performances of depositions from church court records and scenes from plays.

2pm Welcome

2.05pm Laura Gowing (King’s College London), ‘Performing Service: Stories from the London Church Courts’ (with performances of depositions)

3.10pm Coffee break

3.25pm Catherine Richardson (Kent), ‘Work and Leisure: Domestic Behaviour and the Quotidian Spaces of Service’ (with performances of depositions)

4.30pm Performances of scenes from domestic tragedies

4.45pm Drinks

5pm Roundtable discussion, with all speakers and actors

5.45pm Final remarks

This event is organised by Emma Whipday (Oxford); please email emma.whipday@magd.ox.ac.uk with any queries.



The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck, University of London to discuss topics in the culture of the Renaissance. Anyone with an interest in the Renaissance is welcome to attend. London Renaissance Seminar contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk; mailing list contact: t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk


All welcome. Any queries please contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk

The Social History of Knowledge: Encylopédie to Wikipedia

The Institute of Historical Research, and the University of Notre Dame present a series of seminars in GLOBAL HISTORY at the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame, 1 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HG (off Pall Mall East, west of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery) on Wednesdays at 5.30 p.m.

Registration essential; please email Charlotte Parkyn (cparkyn@nd.edu).
Forthcoming Programme for 2012

1st February: Peter Burke (Cambridge) with Steve Fuller (Warwick) and Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Notre Dame) in a panel on Professor Burke´s The Social History of Knowledge: Encylopédie to Wikipedia (There will be a reception after the seminar. )

Professor Burke is one of the most influential and admired living historians. He joins the Auguste Comte Professor at Warwick University, whose books include Science vs Religion and New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies.

The University of Notre Dame invites seminar-goers to wine at or after the seminars. Seminar-goers who would like to dine with the speaker should send a cheque for £40 to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, UND, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG at least a fortnight in advance. Men wear suit and tie to the dinner parties and women are kindly asked to dress accordingly. Steering group: William Clarence-Smith (SOAS), Surekha Davies (Birkbeck), Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Notre Dame), Geoffrey Hosking (SEES, UCL). N.B: Seminar-goers should register with cparkyn@nd.edu. Enquiries to FELIPE.FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO@nd.edu.