'Beyond Macbeth: Shakespeare in Scottish Collections' is an exhibition at the National Library of Scotland which tells the stories behind Edinburgh's two world-class collections of Shakespearean and other early printed drama.
The exhibition explores the lives of the writers, readers, critics and patrons who helped bring together these collections of Shakespeare's plays and works about him. Prominent among these are figures as various as William Drummond, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Halliwell-Phillipps and John Dover Wilson. In exploring their lives as readers, writers and collectors, the exhibition sheds light on some of the ways in which Shakespeare has been published, adapted, invoked and exchanged over four centuries.
The lives and activities of these collectors also reveal something of the range of Scottish responses to Shakespeare over the centuries, and the exhibition asks what his work means in and to Scotland today.
'Beyond Macbeth' runs to 29 April.
For more information, see http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/shakespeare
EMPHASIS Seminar: Mathematical Practitioners in Early Modern England
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 10th March, 2.00-4.00pm: Room G35, 1st Floor, Senate House south block (Note room change)
PLEASE NOTE: THESE SEMINARS ARE VERY POPULAR AND THE MEETING ROOM IS OFTEN VERY FULL. Refreshments provided.
Mathematical Practitioners in Early Modern England:
Saturday 10th March, 2.00-4.00pm: Room G35, 1st Floor, Senate House south block (Note room change)
PLEASE NOTE: THESE SEMINARS ARE VERY POPULAR AND THE MEETING ROOM IS OFTEN VERY FULL. Refreshments provided.
Mathematical Practitioners in Early Modern England:
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (V&A): 'Mastering crafts: the mathematic text and artisanal epistemology in seventeenth-century England'
Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford): 'Confessions of a Mathematical Practitioner: Richard Norwood's Spiritual Autobiography'
Intersections Conference
“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique … point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.” - Herman Hesse
• Literary influence
• Collaborative authorship
• Interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies
• Cross-cultural exchange
• Polyglot studies
• Interactions between authors and their readers, publishers and editors
• The intersection as an image in literature
Friday 9 March 2012
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London
The UCL English Graduate Society invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for this year's Intersections conference. The day will be a forum for discussion of cultural and ideological exchange, both within literature and between literature and other disciplines. Proposals are invited for contributions that deal with any of the following:
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London
The UCL English Graduate Society invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for this year's Intersections conference. The day will be a forum for discussion of cultural and ideological exchange, both within literature and between literature and other disciplines. Proposals are invited for contributions that deal with any of the following:
• Literary influence
• Collaborative authorship
• Interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies
• Cross-cultural exchange
• Polyglot studies
• Interactions between authors and their readers, publishers and editors
• The intersection as an image in literature
The Intersections conference aims to solicit a range of papers united by a common view of literature as built upon collaboration, influence, and interchange. Unique literary experiences occur at 'point[s] at which the world's phenomena intersect': these points might be located in the confrontation between literature and science, at a crossroads in a literary landscape, or on a page annotated by its readers. We
hope that delegates will relish this opportunity to interrogate such diverse types of intersection both with and within English literature.
The conference will take place at the Institute of English Studies at Senate House, and will occur in conjunction with a Royal Holloway sponsored lecture by Jacques Rancière, whose work on intercultural exchange has changed scholarly understanding of the intersection between politics and art.
Please submit 300-word proposals for 20-minute papers by 13 January 2012 to: uclgraduateconference@gmail.com.
Proposals for panels of three 20-minute papers are also welcome. We welcome panels that include researchers from a variety of institutions or disciplines.
“I give away myself to you, and dote upon the exchange.” - William Shakespeare
“For me, a poem is the crossroads of my thoughts, my feelings, my imaginings, my wishes, & my verbal sense: normally these run parallel.” - Philip Larkin
hope that delegates will relish this opportunity to interrogate such diverse types of intersection both with and within English literature.
The conference will take place at the Institute of English Studies at Senate House, and will occur in conjunction with a Royal Holloway sponsored lecture by Jacques Rancière, whose work on intercultural exchange has changed scholarly understanding of the intersection between politics and art.
Please submit 300-word proposals for 20-minute papers by 13 January 2012 to: uclgraduateconference@gmail.com.
Proposals for panels of three 20-minute papers are also welcome. We welcome panels that include researchers from a variety of institutions or disciplines.
“I give away myself to you, and dote upon the exchange.” - William Shakespeare
“For me, a poem is the crossroads of my thoughts, my feelings, my imaginings, my wishes, & my verbal sense: normally these run parallel.” - Philip Larkin
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
8 March 2012: Prof Beat Kumin (Warwick) 'Value added? The spatial turn in the historiography of the Holy Roman Empire'.
LSE SU Philosophy Society's philosophy and food night : Why the world does not exist
Monday the 5th of March, 7pm, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Prof Markus Gabriel (Bonn) will give a talk on "Why the world does not exist".
The talk will be followed by drinks and food at the German Pub "Bierschenke"http://goo.gl/XhHGb just 2 minutes away.
All welcome!
Prof Markus Gabriel (Bonn) will give a talk on "Why the world does not exist".
The talk will be followed by drinks and food at the German Pub "Bierschenke"http://goo.gl/XhHGb just 2 minutes away.
All welcome!
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