Postdoctoral Research Associates: “Metropolitan Science: Places, Objects and Cultures of Practice and Knowledge in London, 1600-1800”

The Centre for the History of the Sciences within the School of History at the University of Kent seeks two qualified postdoctoral researchers to work as part of a three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded project, “Metropolitan Science: Places, Objects and Cultures of Practice and Knowledge in London, 1600-1800”, led by Dr Rebekah Higgitt.

In this role, you will conduct object-based and archival research, particularly in the collections of the Science Museum and among the papers of London’s Livery and Trading Companies. You will participate fully in the activities of the project, attending workshops and conferences, publishing results of research, feeding into the development and interpretation of the Science Museum’s “London, Science City” gallery (opening 2019), and assisting Dr Higgitt’s research and public engagement agendas.

If you have specialist knowledge of the history of early modern London, experience in archival work and publishing research articles and a keen interest in contributing to this project, this is a great chance to join a unique working environment that offers excellent training, benefits and future opportunities.

Further Information
Start date for applications: 15 December 2016
Closing date for applications: 22 January 2017
Interviews are to be held: 6 February 2017

Informal enquiries about the roles and the project can be made to Dr Rebekah Higgitt by email at r.higgitt@kent.ac.uk

News and the Shape of Europe, 1500-1750

Queen Mary, University of London, 26-28^th July

Registration open: http://newscom.english.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/83801.html

How did news cross Europe, and how did news make Europe? News in early modern Europe was a distinctively transnational phenomenon; its topics were international in scope; the forms and terminologies of news, as well as the news itself, crossed national boundaries; practices of news-gathering relied on networks of international agents; it was widely translated; it travelled along commercial routes, or through postal networks that developed in express imitation of one another and were designed to be mutually connected; and the forces attempting to control the press operated, or attempted to operate, well outside of their actual jurisdiction. 

The spread of news and the appetite for it reflect changes in the geopolitical and confessional maps of Europe, spreading through ethnic and religious diasporas as well as diplomatic, mercantile and scholarly networks. It helped forge communities on a local, national and international scale. The purpose of the conference is to explore ways in which this history can be written. 

News and the Shape of Europe is the final stage of the Leverhulme international network, News Networks in Early Modern Europe, a two-year investigation of news communication laying the groundwork for a European history of news.

Dr. Elizabeth Williamson

Network Facilitator

News Networks in Early Modern Europe

The Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700

An international interdisciplinary conference sponsored by The Leverhulme
Trust, the Society for Renaissance Studies, the Royal Historical Society, the
Journal of Early Modern History and Birkbeck, University of London.

24-5 June, 2011
Birkbeck, University of London

Registration for the Global Dimensions conference is now open. To book your
place, please visit

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/news/global-dimensions-of-knowledge

The approximate start and end times for each day are:
Friday 24 June:
0900 Coffee and registration
0945 Welcome and Keynote lecture
to
1800 Keynote lecture
1900-2100 Drinks reception

Saturday 24 June:
0900 Coffee and registration
0930 Panel sessions
to
1700 End of roundtable session

A provisional timetable will be mounted on the website in due course. For
further enquiries, or to be added to the mailing-list, please contact the
conference organizer, Dr Surekha Davies, ats.davies@bbk.ac.uk

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