Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown
2–4 April 2020
Conference hashtag: #RenSA20
Submission deadline: 15 August 2019
The submission website will open later this month (June 2019). The link will be posted in this space. A current RSA membership will be required to enter the submission website.
Conference details:
Conference submission process
Calls for papers
Seminar sessions
Conference hotel
Teaching the conference
Travel, diversity, and on-site care grants
Annual meeting policies
Professional conduct policy
Conference submission process
The submission period for RSA 2020 Philadelphia will open in June 2019 and close in mid-August. Acceptance decisions will be conveyed to submitters in early November 2019.
The RSA Program Committee solicits proposals for both individual papers and organized sessions, which may take the form of a panel, roundtable discussion, or workshop. For more information on the types of proposals accepted, see the Submission guidelines page.
Calls for papers
Calls for papers can be found on the 2020 Philadelphia CfP Blog. Session organizers may post a call for papers by using the "Add New Post" link above the most recent entry (you must be logged in to a current rsa.org membership to create a post).
Seminar sessions
The RSA Program Committee invites proposals for topics for seminar sessions to be held at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Each seminar session will be moderated by one or two conveners and will feature discussion of a set of papers circulated in advance of the conference. Seminar topics may address any theme of relevance to Renaissance studies (1300–1700). Seminars that encourage dialogue across disciplines and/or open up new fields are especially welcome.
Find more information and the link to the seminar proposal form on the Philadelphia 2020 Seminars page.
Conference hotels
We have booked accommodations and meeting rooms at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown and the nearby Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown, both of them a short walk from the famed Reading Terminal Market and City Hall. The Philadelphia Historic District, which was the first World Heritage city in the US, is also within walking distance or accessible by a short cab, bus, or subway ride. The Library Company of Philadelphia houses collections on American society and culture dating from the seventeenth century. The majestic Philadelphia Museum of Art, originally chartered for the Centennial Exposition in 1876, with its main building on Fairmont Hill completed in 1928, has pay-as-you-wish evening hours on Wednesdays and evening hours on Fridays as well.
Teaching the conference
Attending the conference can be a useful educational tool for undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested in learning about Renaissance studies or the academic profession generally. Professor Christopher Carlsmith wrote about his experience bringing undergraduates to the 2016 Annual Meeting in Boston.
Please contact rsa@rsa.org to request more information on bringing students to the Annual Meeting as a pedagogical tool.
Travel, diversity, and on-site care grants
RSA members are invited to apply for travel, diversity, and on-site care grants for the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Each grant has a separate application with different requirements. The deadline for all grant applications will fall in November 2019 (precise date TBA). For more information on eligibility and the grants application process, see the Conference grants page.
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Wellcome Collection: “Finding Lost Science in Early Modern Poetry”
Wellcome Collection, 22 November.
We are hosting an afternoon workshop here at Wellcome Collection on ‘Finding Lost Science in Early Modern Poetry’. The workshop is free to attend and open to all. We would be delighted to see you there! To register, please contact Prof. Gesine Manuwald: g.manuwald@ucl.ac.uk
The workshop will be followed by a public event with viewings of early printed books, forming part of the Being Human festival: https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/finding-lost-science-in-early-modern-poetry/
We are hosting an afternoon workshop here at Wellcome Collection on ‘Finding Lost Science in Early Modern Poetry’. The workshop is free to attend and open to all. We would be delighted to see you there! To register, please contact Prof. Gesine Manuwald: g.manuwald@ucl.ac.uk
The workshop will be followed by a public event with viewings of early printed books, forming part of the Being Human festival: https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/finding-lost-science-in-early-modern-poetry/
Didactic poetry of the early modern period can reveal fascinating insights about what people of the time thought about science and how they expressed these ideas in poetic form. Texts of this literary genre, however, tend to be neglected because they are regarded neither as ‘proper scientific texts’ nor as ‘proper poetry’. This workshop, organised by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Wellcome Collection and the Department of Greek & Latin at University College London, aims to bring this type of literature into focus again. Specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds will present case studies, looking at a variety of English and Latin texts, and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion. The day will conclude with a public event as part of the Being Human festival.
Programme
12.45–1.00 pm: Registration
1.00–1.15 pm: Welcome and introduction
1.15–2.00 pm: Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London), ‘The gallery, the eye, and the rhetoric of observation in some 17th-century descriptions’
2.00–2.45 pm: David McOmish (University of Glasgow), ‘Teaching the Scientific Revolution in verse: when poetry ruled the cosmos’
2.45–3.15 pm: Coffee/tea
3.15–4.00 pm: Victoria Moul (King’s College London), ‘Latin poetry and medicine’
4.00–4.15 pm: Closing discussion
4.30–6.00 pm: Public event as part of the Being Human festival
Location: Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
The workshop and public event are free to attend. To register to attend the workshop, contact Gesine Manuwald. No registration is needed to attend the public event.
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
Programme
12.45–1.00 pm: Registration
1.00–1.15 pm: Welcome and introduction
1.15–2.00 pm: Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London), ‘The gallery, the eye, and the rhetoric of observation in some 17th-century descriptions’
2.00–2.45 pm: David McOmish (University of Glasgow), ‘Teaching the Scientific Revolution in verse: when poetry ruled the cosmos’
2.45–3.15 pm: Coffee/tea
3.15–4.00 pm: Victoria Moul (King’s College London), ‘Latin poetry and medicine’
4.00–4.15 pm: Closing discussion
4.30–6.00 pm: Public event as part of the Being Human festival
Location: Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
The workshop and public event are free to attend. To register to attend the workshop, contact Gesine Manuwald. No registration is needed to attend the public event.
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS: Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World
The University of Leeds will be hosting a Northern Renaissance Seminar on 12-13th May 2016.
We are now inviting submissions from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, art history, archaeology, languages, and drama. It is a commonplace that the advent of printing in Europe revolutionised communication and the transmission of ideas. This Northern Renaissance Seminar event seeks to complicate and move beyond the “printing revolution” narrative to consider the messy and multiplicitous facets of communication, correspondence and transmission in the early modern world. How was it conceptualised, theorised or deployed as metaphor? What were its geographical, temporal or linguistic limits? How might it be transgressive or disruptive, and who might try to circumscribe it?
Please email proposals of no more than 300 words to nrsleeds2016@gmail.com by Friday 15th January 2016. All queries should also be directed to this address. Please also include biographical information detailing your name, research area, institution and level of study (if applicable).
Further details can be found on our website:
CALL FOR PAPERS: Rowlandson and After: Rethinking Graphic Satire
Proposals due by 25 September 2015 | A collaborative study-day organised by Royal Collection Trust and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The prints, drawings and watercolours of Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), which are to be showcased in the forthcoming exhibition High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, have long been recognised as offering a remarkable combination of satirical invention and artistic brilliance.This study-day, which has been co-organised by Royal Collection Trust and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, uses Rowlandson’s work as the starting-point for a broader art-historical examination of British graphic satire—whether drawn, engraved or painted on paper—between the later years of the 18th century and today.
Rowlandson and After is inspired by the recent upsurge in ambitious scholarship on the pictorial satires of the Georgian and Victorian periods, and by a desire to explore graphic satire’s long-standing identity as a fluid, hybrid form that seems always to straddle different worlds—art, journalism, literature and politics—rather than belonging fully to any one particular cultural sphere. Accordingly, submissions are invited that engage with examples of graphic satire dating from any point across the last 250 years and that address the following questions, among others:
The day will be split between The Paul Mellon Centre and The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Please send proposals (of no more than 250 words) for 20-minute papers to Ella Fleming, Events Manager, events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk by 5.00pm on 25 September 2015.
Rowlandson and After is inspired by the recent upsurge in ambitious scholarship on the pictorial satires of the Georgian and Victorian periods, and by a desire to explore graphic satire’s long-standing identity as a fluid, hybrid form that seems always to straddle different worlds—art, journalism, literature and politics—rather than belonging fully to any one particular cultural sphere. Accordingly, submissions are invited that engage with examples of graphic satire dating from any point across the last 250 years and that address the following questions, among others:
- What can Rowlandson’s work tell us about the broader workings of graphic satire in his period, and how has it helped shape the practice of his successors?
- What have been the distinctive formal, iconographic, technical and textual characteristics of this particular strand of artistic practice at different historical moments, and how and why have they changed?
- What is the relationship between graphic satire and other forms of visual art?
- What kind of artistic persona is associated with this form of practice—how has the figure of the satirist been defined and imagined?
- How has the history of graphic satire been shaped by developments in print technology?
- What is the relationship between graphic satire and journalism; or graphic satire and literature; or graphic satire and political discourse?
- How might histories of graphic satire be related to histories of British humour?
- How does graphic satire operate today—and how might contemporary examples of the genre be compared to the work of artists such as Rowlandson?
The day will be split between The Paul Mellon Centre and The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Please send proposals (of no more than 250 words) for 20-minute papers to Ella Fleming, Events Manager, events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk by 5.00pm on 25 September 2015.
The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, 22 November 2013 — 2 March 2014
The Holburne Museum, Bath, 27 September 2014 — 8 February 2015
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, 13 November 2015 — 14 February 2016
University of Amsterdam Seminar on Embroidered Bindings
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 August 2015
During the summer school, there will also be a three-day seminar about embroidered bindings. The seminar will be held in English. The seminar is being organised in collaboration with the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, in conjunction with Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, University of Leuven, the Leiden University Library and the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague.
Day 1: Theory and practice of research - papers on this topic or on related topics, including
- experience and practicalities in research on embroidered bindings (Claire Canavan)
- history and practice of European embroidery and needlework (Marike van Roon)
- history of European textiles related to bindings; relationships between embroidered books and other objects (Claire Canavan)
- practice of conservation; diversity of attitudes on conservation, use, and consultation (Renate Mesmer)
- questions of methodology - what frameworks do we use to approach bindings and relationships between books, bindings, collections (Lieve Watteeuw)
- hands-on research of embroidered bindings of Special Collections UvA
Day 2: Exploring other collections of embroidered bindings in the Netherlands
- visit to Leiden University Library (Karin Scheper)
- visit to National/Royal Library The Hague (Rens Top)
Day 3: Summary of topics learned
- reports of the research performed the days before
- comparing the Amsterdam bindings with the results of 3D-scanning (Lieve Watteeuw)
- discussion of future research plans and possibilities
Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam Oude Turfmarkt 129 (Rokin)
1012 GC Amsterdam
020–5257300
summerschool-bc@uva.nl
The Marginalisation of Astrology
Utrecht, 19-20 March 2015; Deadline 30 September 2014
The Descartes Centrum for history of science of the University of Utrecht, in collaboaration with the department of philosophy of the Radboud University at Nijmegen, will host an international conference on the problem of the marginalization of astrology in the early modern period.
Astrology has been a well-established and respected part of scholarship for centuries, practiced in many cultural and geographical settings. However, in the modern world, astrology, though still very much present, has lost its scientific status and is relegated to the fringes of serious learning. In the history of the sciences, this must be regarded as a momentous shift. The definite step in the “marginalization” of astrology appears to have been taken in the seventeenth century and should therefore be regarded as an important element (rather than as a consequence) of the so-called Scientific Revolution.
The reasons for this development are far from clear. Actually, even the development itself (when, where and by whom did astrology become disavowed) has so far been only poorly documented. The conference therefore aims at bringing together specialists from various fields to throw light on this intruiging question.
It is the aim of the conference to study the subject from various different angles:
· History of astrology. Although the project is about people NOT practising astrology rather than about astrologers, the history of astrology proper remains of course central. At the very least, an attempt should be made to compare differences in astrological practice (and their marginalization) between various local, cultural and religious contexts. Other relevant questions concern criticisms and apologies of astrology and attempts at astrological reform.
· History of science. The idea that astrology was discredited directly because of new scientific discoveries is no longer regarded as credible; on the other hand, it does not appears believable that there was no connection at all. The dismissal of astrology implied a transformation of the work and the identity of astronomers. In natural philosophy, it implied a rejection of the idea of celestial influence, which had become an integral part of scholastic philosophy.
· History of medicine. Medicine was a major application of astrology. Medieval physicians would routinely cast horoscopes for diagnostic and other purposes. The question is when and how this changed. Obviously, both the supply and the demand sides have to be taken into account.
· Court culture. Important on the side of demand were princely and noble courts. In the sixteenth century, princes would regularly employ court mathematicians/astronomers, whose task it was to cast horoscopes. In the seventeenth century, on the other hand, Louis XIV spent a fortune on the Paris Observatory, while casting horoscopes was not among the tasks of this institution. Again, the reasons behind this change are not clear.
· Print culture. Almanacs, ephemerides, and prognostics, in conjunction with information on their makers, editions, and distribution, should enable us (at least) to get some idea of the popularity, or lack of popularity, of astrological ideas and practices. This is a field wherein some work has already been done.
· History of religion. The era of the Reformation and Counter Reformation saw important developments in the field of theology, Church discipline and organization, which may have affected the status of astrology. One should also look to what one might call religious anthropology: shifting attitudes toward the supernatural and a changing definition of “superstition”, more or less identifiable with Weber’s “disenchantment of the world”. It is not clear to what extent astrology (as a learned practice) was placed in the same category as other superstitions, but the question should be asked.
· Finally, the question to what extent this development remained limited to Western Europe, and whether similar things happened elsewhere (and when), should not be forgotten, even if it is probably hard to answer at this stage.
People who are interested to give a paper at this conference are invited to send a title and abstract (300 words maximum) by the end of September to the organizers:
· Rienk Vermij, history of science, University of Oklahoma (rienk.vermij@ou.edu)
· Hiro Hirai, department of philosophy, University of Nijmegen (hhirai2@gmail.com)
For all other information, please also contact the organizers mentioned above.
The Descartes Centrum for history of science of the University of Utrecht, in collaboaration with the department of philosophy of the Radboud University at Nijmegen, will host an international conference on the problem of the marginalization of astrology in the early modern period.
Astrology has been a well-established and respected part of scholarship for centuries, practiced in many cultural and geographical settings. However, in the modern world, astrology, though still very much present, has lost its scientific status and is relegated to the fringes of serious learning. In the history of the sciences, this must be regarded as a momentous shift. The definite step in the “marginalization” of astrology appears to have been taken in the seventeenth century and should therefore be regarded as an important element (rather than as a consequence) of the so-called Scientific Revolution.
The reasons for this development are far from clear. Actually, even the development itself (when, where and by whom did astrology become disavowed) has so far been only poorly documented. The conference therefore aims at bringing together specialists from various fields to throw light on this intruiging question.
It is the aim of the conference to study the subject from various different angles:
· History of astrology. Although the project is about people NOT practising astrology rather than about astrologers, the history of astrology proper remains of course central. At the very least, an attempt should be made to compare differences in astrological practice (and their marginalization) between various local, cultural and religious contexts. Other relevant questions concern criticisms and apologies of astrology and attempts at astrological reform.
· History of science. The idea that astrology was discredited directly because of new scientific discoveries is no longer regarded as credible; on the other hand, it does not appears believable that there was no connection at all. The dismissal of astrology implied a transformation of the work and the identity of astronomers. In natural philosophy, it implied a rejection of the idea of celestial influence, which had become an integral part of scholastic philosophy.
· History of medicine. Medicine was a major application of astrology. Medieval physicians would routinely cast horoscopes for diagnostic and other purposes. The question is when and how this changed. Obviously, both the supply and the demand sides have to be taken into account.
· Court culture. Important on the side of demand were princely and noble courts. In the sixteenth century, princes would regularly employ court mathematicians/astronomers, whose task it was to cast horoscopes. In the seventeenth century, on the other hand, Louis XIV spent a fortune on the Paris Observatory, while casting horoscopes was not among the tasks of this institution. Again, the reasons behind this change are not clear.
· Print culture. Almanacs, ephemerides, and prognostics, in conjunction with information on their makers, editions, and distribution, should enable us (at least) to get some idea of the popularity, or lack of popularity, of astrological ideas and practices. This is a field wherein some work has already been done.
· History of religion. The era of the Reformation and Counter Reformation saw important developments in the field of theology, Church discipline and organization, which may have affected the status of astrology. One should also look to what one might call religious anthropology: shifting attitudes toward the supernatural and a changing definition of “superstition”, more or less identifiable with Weber’s “disenchantment of the world”. It is not clear to what extent astrology (as a learned practice) was placed in the same category as other superstitions, but the question should be asked.
· Finally, the question to what extent this development remained limited to Western Europe, and whether similar things happened elsewhere (and when), should not be forgotten, even if it is probably hard to answer at this stage.
People who are interested to give a paper at this conference are invited to send a title and abstract (300 words maximum) by the end of September to the organizers:
· Rienk Vermij, history of science, University of Oklahoma (rienk.vermij@ou.edu)
· Hiro Hirai, department of philosophy, University of Nijmegen (hhirai2@gmail.com)
For all other information, please also contact the organizers mentioned above.
Symposium on the History of Newspapers and Serials during the 17th and 18th Centuries
The editors of the journal Media History are holding a one day symposium at which issues relating to the history of newspapers and other serials, during the 17th and 18th centuries, will be discussed. The event will be held on Tuesday 9th September at King’s College, London and will provide an opportunity for specialists in a range of areas to discuss ideas and strategies with an invited audience of not more about twenty-five people who themselves have some relevant research experience.
The papers, with their provisional titles will be given by:
The purpose of the day is to encourage discussion about the subject in a group of specialists small enough for the exchanges to be detailed and productive.
There is no registration fee for the event, and tea and coffee will be provided. Registration will be from 9.30 and the papers will start at 10.am. The day will be finished by 4.30pm. The venue is:
Kings College London, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NR. The room details will be forwarded nearer the date.
If you can attend, please email Tom O’Malley, at tpo@aber.ac.uk. by 18th of August.
We would very much like to have your input at the event. We would be grateful if you could let us know whether you can attend.
Organised by the Media History Journal - http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13688804.asp
The papers, with their provisional titles will be given by:
- Dr Michael Harris, Birkbeck College, University of London: ‘A structure for research in London newspapers ca. 1680-1720’.
- Dr Jason McElligott, Marsh’s Library, Dublin: ‘The poor relation? Writing the history of the Irish newspaper in the long eighteenth century.'
- Dr Noah Moxham, University of St Andrews: ‘Science in 17th century serials’.
- Professor Joad Raymond, Queen Mary College, University of London: ‘17th-century news networks’
The purpose of the day is to encourage discussion about the subject in a group of specialists small enough for the exchanges to be detailed and productive.
There is no registration fee for the event, and tea and coffee will be provided. Registration will be from 9.30 and the papers will start at 10.am. The day will be finished by 4.30pm. The venue is:
Kings College London, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NR. The room details will be forwarded nearer the date.
If you can attend, please email Tom O’Malley, at tpo@aber.ac.uk. by 18th of August.
We would very much like to have your input at the event. We would be grateful if you could let us know whether you can attend.
Organised by the Media History Journal - http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13688804.asp
Creativity and Commerce in the Age of Print
Registration is now open for the Edinburgh Centre for the History of the Book's one-day conference titled "Creativity and Commerce in the Age of Print"!
Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh
Saturday, 26 July 2014 from 09:00 to 19:00 (BST)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Saturday, 26 July 2014 from 09:00 to 19:00 (BST)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The programme includes a range of papers from a very diverse group of postgraduates and early-career researchers on topics including authorship, publishing, and professionalisation from the Early Modern period to today, as well as keynotes by Dr. Jason Scott-Warren (Director of the Centre for Material Texts, University of Cambridge) and Professor Iain Stevenson (Centre for Publishing, UCL).
Full programme information can be found at our Eventbrite page, where you can register to attend:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creativity-and-commerce-in-the-age-of-print-tickets-12040963847
Thanks to generous funding, attendance is free (including lunch and wine reception), but spaces are limited.
Full programme information can be found at our Eventbrite page, where you can register to attend:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creativity-and-commerce-in-the-age-of-print-tickets-12040963847
Thanks to generous funding, attendance is free (including lunch and wine reception), but spaces are limited.
CALL FOR PAPERS: "Creativity and Commerce in the Age of Print"
University of Edinburgh (26 July 2014)
Hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh, this interdisciplinary conference will explore the sometimes-fraught connections between the ‘art’ and ‘trade’ of books from the Western invention of printing to today. Are the interests of authors and publishers always opposed, or can they lead to productive forms of collaboration? Does work undertaken for the marketplace necessarily compromise its moral and cultural standing? How does literature become property, and how has authorship evolved between the starving writer of ‘Grub Street’ and the modern book festival circuit? Can the requirements of the printing and bookselling industries constitute a form of de-facto censorship, determining the types of work that are published and circulated?
We are currently seeking papers from postgraduate and early career researchers interested in questions such as these, with potential topics including (but not limited to):
‘What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support!...
To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.’
- George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891)
Hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh, this interdisciplinary conference will explore the sometimes-fraught connections between the ‘art’ and ‘trade’ of books from the Western invention of printing to today. Are the interests of authors and publishers always opposed, or can they lead to productive forms of collaboration? Does work undertaken for the marketplace necessarily compromise its moral and cultural standing? How does literature become property, and how has authorship evolved between the starving writer of ‘Grub Street’ and the modern book festival circuit? Can the requirements of the printing and bookselling industries constitute a form of de-facto censorship, determining the types of work that are published and circulated?
We are currently seeking papers from postgraduate and early career researchers interested in questions such as these, with potential topics including (but not limited to):
- Authorship and other creative professions
- The printing and bookselling industries
- Author-publishers relationships
- Dissemination networks
- Subscription and patronage
- Book advertising, illustration
- Serial publication
- ‘Tie-ins’, merchandise, and material culture
- Libraries and book collecting
- Commerce and censorship
- Originality, copyright, and intellectual property
- Book piracy and its national boundaries
- Creative work and gender
- The impact of new technologies for production and dissemination
- The ‘rise’ or ‘death’ of print.
Proposals in all relevant subject areas and historical periods post-1450 are welcome. Please send a 200-word abstract to Natasha by 5 May 2014. Limited travel bursaries may be available; indicate if you would require one to attend. The conference will take place in Edinburgh on 26 July 2014, with registration opening in June.
Dr. Natasha Simonova
4.03, 18 Buccleuch Place
Career Development Fellow
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh
Dr. Natasha Simonova
4.03, 18 Buccleuch Place
Career Development Fellow
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh
The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750
16-17 July 2014, Queen Mary University of London
From the philology of Lorenzo Valla to twentieth-century debates over copy-text to the new frontier of digital humanities, textual scholars have always argued over the making of meaning. Indeed, argument is integral to the practice of editing: to privilege one reading is to demote another. Bibliographical, historical, and textual choices: these ineluctably and often invisibly inform our larger understanding of the text, the author, and the culture from which they emerge. They can destabilise or confirm our most basic assumptions, from a single word – what is "blew"? – to the nature of the book: what is a text? what is an author? what is an edition?
This landmark two-day conference will draw together experienced and new editors, to analyse and to celebrate editions in progress and to inspire a new generation of editors and editions. Hosted by the AHRC-funded Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne (forthcoming, OUP), the event will explore the future of editing in universities and offer perspectives from curators and publishers. Confirmed speakers include Cathy Shrank, Leah Marcus, Jessica Wolfe, David Colclough, Kate Bennett, Christopher Burlinson, Daniel Carey, Richard Serjeantson, Alice Eardley, Valerie Rumbold, Nicholas McDowell, and Henry Woudhuysen.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
2 days £85/£65 (postgraduate students/unwaged)
1 day £43/£33 (postgraduate students/unwaged)
This includes tea/coffee, lunch on both days and a drinks reception on the evening of Wednesday 16th July. There will also be a conference dinner, charged separately.
Book your place at here. If you have any questions, please contact h.phillips@qmul.ac.uk or c.b.williams@qmul.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
Day 1
8.45-9.15 Registration
9.15-9.30 Welcome
9.30-10.30 Keynote 1 Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)
10.30-10.45 BREAK
10.45-12.30 Panel 1
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-15.00 Panel 2
15.00-15.15 BREAK
15.15-17.00 Panel 3
17.00-18.30 DRINKS RECEPTION
19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
DAY 2
9.00-10.45 Panel 4
10.45-11.00 BREAK
11.00-12.30 Panel 5
12.30-13.15 LUNCH
13.15-14.45 Panel 6
14.45-15.00 BREAK
15.00-16.00 Roundtable: Pitching and planning an edition
16.00-17.00 Keynote 2 Professor Henry Woudhuysen (University of Oxford)
From the philology of Lorenzo Valla to twentieth-century debates over copy-text to the new frontier of digital humanities, textual scholars have always argued over the making of meaning. Indeed, argument is integral to the practice of editing: to privilege one reading is to demote another. Bibliographical, historical, and textual choices: these ineluctably and often invisibly inform our larger understanding of the text, the author, and the culture from which they emerge. They can destabilise or confirm our most basic assumptions, from a single word – what is "blew"? – to the nature of the book: what is a text? what is an author? what is an edition?
This landmark two-day conference will draw together experienced and new editors, to analyse and to celebrate editions in progress and to inspire a new generation of editors and editions. Hosted by the AHRC-funded Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne (forthcoming, OUP), the event will explore the future of editing in universities and offer perspectives from curators and publishers. Confirmed speakers include Cathy Shrank, Leah Marcus, Jessica Wolfe, David Colclough, Kate Bennett, Christopher Burlinson, Daniel Carey, Richard Serjeantson, Alice Eardley, Valerie Rumbold, Nicholas McDowell, and Henry Woudhuysen.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
2 days £85/£65 (postgraduate students/unwaged)
1 day £43/£33 (postgraduate students/unwaged)
This includes tea/coffee, lunch on both days and a drinks reception on the evening of Wednesday 16th July. There will also be a conference dinner, charged separately.
Book your place at here. If you have any questions, please contact h.phillips@qmul.ac.uk or c.b.williams@qmul.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
Day 1
8.45-9.15 Registration
9.15-9.30 Welcome
9.30-10.30 Keynote 1 Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)
10.30-10.45 BREAK
10.45-12.30 Panel 1
- Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt University), 'A Man Who Needs No Introduction'
- Jessica Wolfe (UNC), 'Annotating Browne's
- Pseudodoxia: sources versus conversations'
- David Colclough (QMUL), 'A Well Wrought Urn? Editing John Donne's final sermon'
- Joe Moshenska (University of Cambridge), 'Insignificant space in manuscript letters: the case of Kenelm Digby'
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-15.00 Panel 2
- Kate Bennett, (University of Oxford), '"My original minutes": Editing Aubrey's Brief Lives'
- Ruth Connolly (University of Newcastle), 'Agency versus Authority: Editing Herrick's poems from print and manuscript'
- Tom Charlton (University of Stirling), 'A faith 'kindled' or 'sharpened'? Editing Richard Baxter's life'
15.00-15.15 BREAK
15.15-17.00 Panel 3
- Megan Heffernan (DePaul University), 'Elizabethan Metaphors, Victorian Miscellanies: Editing Sixteenth-Century Poetry Collections'
- Joel Grossman (QMUL), 'Unediting Tottel: Editorial mythologies and the Tudor miscellany'
- Christopher Burlinson (University of Cambridge), 'Poems and News: Textual Editions and Information Networks'
- Alison Searle (University of Sydney), ''...a Connaturality of Spirit in the Saints that will work by Sympathy': Constructing Richard Baxter as a Letter Writer in the Context of His Correspondence Networks'
19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
DAY 2
9.00-10.45 Panel 4
- Daniel Carey (NUI Galway), 'To Edit the Editor: Protocols and Possibilities for an Edition of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations...of the English Nation (1598-1600)'
- David Atkinson, 'Editing without Authority: Representing the Ephemeral in a Folklore Collection'
- Dianne Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania), 'A Forest of Variants: the strange case of Dudley North'
- Richard Serjeantson (University of Cambridge), 'Editing manuscript drafts of early modern philosophical texts: problems of principle and practice'
10.45-11.00 BREAK
11.00-12.30 Panel 5
- Alice Eardley (University of Southampton), 'Making the "Unreadable" Readable: A Digital Edition of Henry Cogan's Translation of Madeleine de Scudéry's Ibrahim (1652)'
- Sukanta Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University), 'Renaissance drama as a very large textual object: the possibilities of a full-text database'
- Rebecca Barr and Justin Tonra (NUI Galway), 'For the sake of argument: crowdsourcing annotation of Macpherson's Ossian'
13.15-14.45 Panel 6
- Valerie Rumbold (University of Birmingham), 'Textual apparatus and reader engagement'
- Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter), 'Revising Republicanism? Political Argument and Copy Text in Milton's Regicide Writings'
- Jeffrey Miller (Montclair State University) and Tom Roebuck (University of East Anglia), 'Editing the Table Talk of John Selden'
15.00-16.00 Roundtable: Pitching and planning an edition
16.00-17.00 Keynote 2 Professor Henry Woudhuysen (University of Oxford)
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Marginalisation of Astrology
Utrecht, 19-20 March 2015; Deadline 30 September 2014
The Descartes Centrum for history of science of the University of Utrecht, in collaboaration with the department of philosophy of the Radboud University at Nijmegen, will host an international conference on the problem of the marginalization of astrology in the early modern period.
Astrology has been a well-established and respected part of scholarship for centuries, practiced in many cultural and geographical settings. However, in the modern world, astrology, though still very much present, has lost its scientific status and is relegated to the fringes of serious learning. In the history of the sciences, this must be regarded as a momentous shift. The definite step in the “marginalization” of astrology appears to have been taken in the seventeenth century and should therefore be regarded as an important element (rather than as a consequence) of the so-called Scientific Revolution.
The reasons for this development are far from clear. Actually, even the development itself (when, where and by whom did astrology become disavowed) has so far been only poorly documented. The conference therefore aims at bringing together specialists from various fields to throw light on this intruiging question.
It is the aim of the conference to study the subject from various different angles:
People who are interested to give a paper at this conference are invited to send a title and abstract (300 words maximum) by the end of September to the organizers:
Rienk Vermij, history of science, University of Oklahoma (rienk.vermij@ou.edu)
Hiro Hirai, department of philosophy, University of Nijmegen (hhirai2@gmail.com)
For all other information, please also contact the organizers mentioned above.
The Descartes Centrum for history of science of the University of Utrecht, in collaboaration with the department of philosophy of the Radboud University at Nijmegen, will host an international conference on the problem of the marginalization of astrology in the early modern period.
Astrology has been a well-established and respected part of scholarship for centuries, practiced in many cultural and geographical settings. However, in the modern world, astrology, though still very much present, has lost its scientific status and is relegated to the fringes of serious learning. In the history of the sciences, this must be regarded as a momentous shift. The definite step in the “marginalization” of astrology appears to have been taken in the seventeenth century and should therefore be regarded as an important element (rather than as a consequence) of the so-called Scientific Revolution.
The reasons for this development are far from clear. Actually, even the development itself (when, where and by whom did astrology become disavowed) has so far been only poorly documented. The conference therefore aims at bringing together specialists from various fields to throw light on this intruiging question.
It is the aim of the conference to study the subject from various different angles:
- History of astrology. Although the project is about people NOT practising astrology rather than about astrologers, the history of astrology proper remains of course central. At the very least, an attempt should be made to compare differences in astrological practice (and their marginalization) between various local, cultural and religious contexts. Other relevant questions concern criticisms and apologies of astrology and attempts at astrological reform.
- History of science. The idea that astrology was discredited directly because of new scientific discoveries is no longer regarded as credible; on the other hand, it does not appears believable that there was no connection at all. The dismissal of astrology implied a transformation of the work and the identity of astronomers. In natural philosophy, it implied a rejection of the idea of celestial influence, which had become an integral part of scholastic philosophy.
- History of medicine. Medicine was a major application of astrology. Medieval physicians would routinely cast horoscopes for diagnostic and other purposes. The question is when and how this changed. Obviously, both the supply and the demand sides have to be taken into account.
- Court culture. Important on the side of demand were princely and noble courts. In the sixteenth century, princes would regularly employ court mathematicians/astronomers, whose task it was to cast horoscopes. In the seventeenth century, on the other hand, Louis XIV spent a fortune on the Paris Observatory, while casting horoscopes was not among the tasks of this institution. Again, the reasons behind this change are not clear.
- Print culture. Almanacs, ephemerides, and prognostics, in conjunction with information on their makers, editions, and distribution, should enable us (at least) to get some idea of the popularity, or lack of popularity, of astrological ideas and practices. This is a field wherein some work has already been done.
- History of religion. The era of the Reformation and Counter Reformation saw important developments in the field of theology, Church discipline and organization, which may have affected the status of astrology. One should also look to what one might call religious anthropology: shifting attitudes toward the supernatural and a changing definition of “superstition”, more or less identifiable with Weber’s “disenchantment of the world”. It is not clear to what extent astrology (as a learned practice) was placed in the same category as other superstitions, but the question should be asked.
- Finally, the question to what extent this development remained limited to Western Europe, and whether similar things happened elsewhere (and when), should not be forgotten, even if it is probably hard to answer at this stage.
People who are interested to give a paper at this conference are invited to send a title and abstract (300 words maximum) by the end of September to the organizers:
Rienk Vermij, history of science, University of Oklahoma (rienk.vermij@ou.edu)
Hiro Hirai, department of philosophy, University of Nijmegen (hhirai2@gmail.com)
For all other information, please also contact the organizers mentioned above.
Error and Print Culture, 1500-1800
A one-day conference at the Centre for the Study of the Book, Oxford University
Saturday 5 July 2014
Recent histories of the book have replaced earlier narratives of technological triumph and revolutionary change with a more tentative story of continuities with manuscript culture and the instability of print. An abstract sense of technological agency has given way to a messier world of collaboration, muddle, money, and imperfection. Less a confident stride towards modernity, the early modern book now looks stranger: not quite yet a thing of our world.
What role might error have in these new histories of the hand-press book? What kinds of error are characteristic of print, and what can error tell us about print culture? Are particular forms of publication prone to particular mistakes? How effective were mechanisms of correction (cancel-slips; errata lists; over-printing; and so on), and what roles did the printing house corrector perform? Did readers care about mistakes? Did authors have a sense of print as an error-prone, fallen medium, and if so, how did this inform their writing? What links might we draw between representations of error in literary works (like Spenser's Faerie Queene), and the presence of error in print? How might we think about error and retouching or correcting rolling-press plates? What is the relationship between engraving historians' continuum of difference, and letter-press bibliographers' binary of variant/invariant? Was there a relationship between bibliographical error and sin, particularly in the context of the Reformation? How might modern editors of early modern texts respond to errors: are errors things to correct, or to dutifully transcribe? Is the history of the book a story of the gradual elimination of error, or might we propose a more productive role for slips and blunders?
Proposals for 20-minute papers are welcome on any aspect of error and print, in Anglophone or non-Anglophone cultures. Please email a 300-word abstract and a short CV to Dr Adam Smyth (adam.smyth@balliol.ox.ac.uk) by 14 April 2014.
Saturday 5 July 2014
'Pag. 8. lin. 7. for laughing, reade, languishing.'
Richard Bellings, A Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1624), ‘Errata’
Recent histories of the book have replaced earlier narratives of technological triumph and revolutionary change with a more tentative story of continuities with manuscript culture and the instability of print. An abstract sense of technological agency has given way to a messier world of collaboration, muddle, money, and imperfection. Less a confident stride towards modernity, the early modern book now looks stranger: not quite yet a thing of our world.
What role might error have in these new histories of the hand-press book? What kinds of error are characteristic of print, and what can error tell us about print culture? Are particular forms of publication prone to particular mistakes? How effective were mechanisms of correction (cancel-slips; errata lists; over-printing; and so on), and what roles did the printing house corrector perform? Did readers care about mistakes? Did authors have a sense of print as an error-prone, fallen medium, and if so, how did this inform their writing? What links might we draw between representations of error in literary works (like Spenser's Faerie Queene), and the presence of error in print? How might we think about error and retouching or correcting rolling-press plates? What is the relationship between engraving historians' continuum of difference, and letter-press bibliographers' binary of variant/invariant? Was there a relationship between bibliographical error and sin, particularly in the context of the Reformation? How might modern editors of early modern texts respond to errors: are errors things to correct, or to dutifully transcribe? Is the history of the book a story of the gradual elimination of error, or might we propose a more productive role for slips and blunders?
Proposals for 20-minute papers are welcome on any aspect of error and print, in Anglophone or non-Anglophone cultures. Please email a 300-word abstract and a short CV to Dr Adam Smyth (adam.smyth@balliol.ox.ac.uk) by 14 April 2014.
Early Career Research Network Symposium: Editing
University of Sussex and British Academy
April 11th, 2014 at the University of Sussex.
Keynote speaker: David McKitterick, F.B.A. (University of Cambridge)
Registration is free and inclusive of lunch and refreshments, but places are limited.
Contact Simon Davies (S.F.Davies@sussex.ac.uk) for more information.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed.
A British Academy funded networking event for early career researchers, hosted by the University of Sussex, focussing on the issue of editing. The day will consider: questions of editing manuscripts; editions of literary works; editions of letters; editions of documentary sources; collation; annotation; digital editions; organising collaborative projects; and any other relevant issues.
April 11th, 2014 at the University of Sussex.
Keynote speaker: David McKitterick, F.B.A. (University of Cambridge)
Registration is free and inclusive of lunch and refreshments, but places are limited.
Contact Simon Davies (S.F.Davies@sussex.ac.uk) for more information.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed.
A British Academy funded networking event for early career researchers, hosted by the University of Sussex, focussing on the issue of editing. The day will consider: questions of editing manuscripts; editions of literary works; editions of letters; editions of documentary sources; collation; annotation; digital editions; organising collaborative projects; and any other relevant issues.
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