Durham University, Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, DURHAM CASTLE, 19-22 JULY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposals are invited for the thirteenth Conference of the Durham Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, which will focus on the general theme:

Ideals and Values

It is expected that this theme will be approached from a very wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives; contributions which span national and disciplinary boundaries are, as always, particularly welcome. Papers should be of 20 minutes’ reading time. Each session will have ample time for discussion. Offers to chair sessions are welcomed from participants who are not reading papers.

Proposals for papers should be of approx. 100-200 words, and should be sent to Prof. Richard Maber (email: r.g.maber@durham.ac.uk) as soon as possible, but no later than 26 February 2010. Proposals for themed panels are also welcomed.

The conference will take place in the magnificent setting of Durham Castle, from Monday 19 to Thursday 22 July. Residential delegates will depart after lunch on 22 July; it will also be possible to book overnight accommodation for nights before and after the conference if required.

Studentships at Kent

In 2010/11, the School of English at the University of Kent is offering six scholarships for doctoral study.

* Two Arts and Humanities Research Council Block Grant Partnership awards (AHRC BGPs)
* Four Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) studentships

Please see the University of Kent’s postgraduate funding pages (http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/departmental/english.html) for financial details of the AHRC BGPs. The GTA studentships will be a grant of £16,000 over the period of registration, subject to satisfactory academic progress, including satisfactorily carrying out teaching and other duties. The grant will be paid in three instalments, £7,000 in year one, when the GTA will do no teaching, and two instalments of £4,500 in years 2 and 3, when teaching will be offered to the GTA to supplement their income. Tuition fees are to be paid by the student out of the grant element.

* Deadline for applications: 1st March 2010 (with interviews on 26th March)

For further details, please see the School of English postgraduate funding page: http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/fund.htm

Keele University Research Institute of Humanities PhD Studentship September 2010

A variety of UK/EU fees for three years full time and research studentship stipend for three year 2009/10 rate £13,290 pro-rota for part-time. A number of fee waivers for UK and international students are available.

Topic: Cultural and social history from the local to the global; International History, with particular interests in Africa, America, France, Ireland and Terrorism; Musicology since 1900 and creative applications of music technology; Film; Literature, science and environments; Literary and cultural theory; interdisciplinary approaches to life writing; American writing, 19th-21st centuries; Canadian writing; Early Modern and Modern England; Medical Humanities.

Reference Number: RHUM 2009-02

Closing Date: 28 February 2010 at 5pm

Further details can be found here: http://www.keele.ac.uk/gradschool/funding/keelefunding.htm.

The Perils of Print Culture

A conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin, 10-12 September 2010
Organised by Dr Jason McElligott and Dr Eve Patten

Over the past twenty years the study of print culture has become
prominent in the disciplines of history, literary studies and
languages. The study of print culture has many advantages, but there
is a growing sense among advanced practitioners that scholars need to
fine-tune or calibrate their understanding of this burgeoning field of
enquiry.

Papers presented at this conference will encourage scholars to think
more systematically about the conceptual, methodological and
technological problems associated with the study of print culture.
They will encompass a wide range of chronological periods,
geographical locations and genres of print. The topics under
consideration will include, but not be limited to:

- The tensions between the contrasting views of print as an agent of
social change and social cohesion.
- Case-studies of the ways in which print can create inaccurate,
distorted, or anachronistic accounts of the past.
- The usefulness (or otherwise) of theoretical models in the study of
print culture.
- The peculiarities of serial publication (newspapers and magazines)
and the relevance of print-culture theory to the study of journalism
history.
- The role of over-arching non-theoretical models (such as that put
forward by William St. Clair in The Reading Nation in the Romantic
Period).
- The specific problems of interdisciplinary work in print culture.
- The precise definition(s) of print culture across a range of
literary, historical and political source materials.
- The changing nature of print culture over time, and the differences
between print culture in urban and rural settings, in different
regions within the same country and between different countries.
- The opportunities created by (and limitations of) electronic
resources for academic researchers.
- Desirable future directions in electronic resource provision.
- The future of the library in the digital age.

Proposals (max. 300 words) for papers of 30 to 40 minutes duration
should be sent to the conference organisers at
perilsofprintculture@gmail.com by Friday 11 December 2009.

Time, Space and Vision in Early Modern Culture

London Shakespeare Centre
Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King’s College London, Saturday 27th February 2010

Keynote speaker: Professor François Laroque, Université de Paris III

The London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London, and the Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, are co-hosting an international postgraduate colloquium on ‘Time, Space and Vision in Early Modern Culture’. The event will take place on the afternoon of Saturday 27th February 2010 at the newly renovated Anatomy Theatre and Museum at King’s College London, Strand Campus (for further details of the venue please see www.kcl.ac.uk/english/events/timespace).

As well as postgraduate papers on temporal and spatial issues in early modern poetry, drama and culture, we expect there to be a live video panel discussion with members of the English department at the University of Pennsylvania, comparing the experience of pursuing doctoral research in early modern English literature and culture in the UK, the US and France.

The afternoon will conclude with a keynote address from François Laroque entitled ‘‘Infinite riches in a little room’: Time and space in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Richard II’.

This will be followed by a drinks reception. A detailed schedule will be published on the colloquium web page shortly (www.kcl.ac.uk/english/events/timespace).

If you would like to attend please RSVP to timespace@kcl.ac.uk, stating your name, institutional affiliation, and contact details. There is a £10 attendance fee for all those registering who are not affiliated to King's College London. Details of how to make this payment will be emailed to you once you have registered.

Sarah Dustagheer (King’s/Shakespeare’s Globe)
Sarah Lewis (King’s)
Professor Gordon McMullan (King’s)

Shakespeare Performance Research Seminar: Thursday 11 February

Hear Here: Shakespeare’s Sound and Collective Listening

This combined workshop and seminar will explore the ‘score’ of Shakespeare’s texts; how, for example, pitch, speed, meter and collisions of prose and verse influence our sensory reception, how this aural reception is integral to the making of meaning. We will be exploring sound and meaning through excerpts from a performance of a durational version of a scene from The Winter’s Tale. At the same time, the workshop will be a practical experiment in the culture of listening at the Globe (in February admittedly one a bit on the chilly side) and of cultures of listening both early modern and contemporary that form around the event of performance. While the seminar will reflect on the practical experiments in the theatre, those who cannot attend the workshop are welcome for the talk.

P. A. Skantze is a director, scholar and writer. Currently a Reader in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University, London, she is the author of Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre (Routledge 2003) and articles about sound, reception and the senses, gender, race, dance, gift exchange and performance practice. A founding member of the performance group Four Second Decay, her radio play All that Fell has been staged as an ‘experiment in physical radio’ at Glasgow and will be staged in New York City in April 2010. She has performed with the group in Rhode Island, Copenhagen, London and Zagreb. Her second book, Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle combines a methodology modeled on W.G. Sebald about staging memory, attentive wandering with the proposition that gathering ‘a body of spectating, listening and seeing’ might come to furnish something very like our more customary notions of accumulating a ‘body of knowledge.’ Her next project directing Get Thee to a Gallery, a durational performance of The Winter’s Tale, will be staged at a gallery in London in 2010.

The Theatre History Seminar provides a forum for theatre historians, actors, directors and postgraduates to share current research into early modern theatre.

Time: 18.00 – 20.00

Venue: Nancy W. Knowles Lecture Theatre

Tickets: This research seminar is open to research students, theatre practitioners and academics.

For further information and to reserve a place, please contact ed.events@shakespearesglobe.com.

Farah Karim-Cooper

Head of Research & Courses

020 7902 1439

Renaissance events in New York ...

Tuesday, January 26
Columbia University Seminar on Medieval Studies
MICHAEL SARGENT (CUNY Graduate Center)
"Organic Metaphors and Manuscript Relations: Stemma - Cladogram - Rhizome"
6 PM (NOT 5:30 PM)
523 Butler Library
Please note that if you do not have access to the library you must RSVP to
attend: Liam Moore (917) 847-0107 wrm2002@columbia.edu

Tuesday, January 26
The Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The 16th Annual Bibliography Week Lecture
MICHAEL SUAREZ, S.J. (Rare Book School)
"Learned Virtuosity, Virtuously Displayed: Cultural Elites and Deep
Purses in Restoration and 18th-Century Illustrated English Books"
6 PM
Faculty Room of Low Library (116th St. at Broadway)
The talk is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, January 27 [at Fordham]
The Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
CHRISTIANA SOGNO (Fordham)
"How Did Symmachus Become the 'Last Great Pagan'?"
12 NOON
O'Hare Collections, 4th Floor, Walsh Library, Rose Hill Campus
The lecture is free and open to the public. A Reception will follow the talk.
For more information, contact: Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
(718) 817-4655 medievals@fordham.edu
Directions:
http://www.fordham.edu/discover_fordham/maps_and_directions_26615.asp

Wednesday, January 27
The Dept. of Religion & the Rare Book and Manuscript Library
PETER LANDAU (Munich)
"Identifying the Archpoeta: Canon Law and Latin Poetry in
Twelfth-Century Cologne"
5PM
Room 523 Butler Library

Thursday, Februar 4
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
ANTHONY GRAFTON (Princeton)
"Race in the Renaissance"
6:15 PM
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Thursday, February 4 [at NYU]
NYU English Department Colloquium for Early Literature and Culture in
English (CELCE)
JOHN GUILLORY (NYU)
"Paris is Worth a Massacre: Marlowe and the Death of Ramus"
(pre-circulated paper; email the organizers for a copy)
6:30 PM
Room 222, 19 University Place
Visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into NYU buildings
Contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero
Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf,
sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu

Thursday, February 11 [at NYU]
NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center & The Department of French
SYLVIE LeFEVRE (Columbia)
"Nouvelles genevoises de Jean de Saintre"
6:30ñ8:30 PM
La Maison Francaise, 16 Washington Mews For more information please
contact MARC at: 212-998-8698 or mar.center@nyu.edu

Friday, February 12
Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar
JOHN ARCHER (New York University)
"Shakespeare's Keyboard"
Social hour, 5-6:00pm; Dinner, 6-7:00 pm; Meeting at 7:00pm
Faculty House

Colloquium on Early Modern Manuscript Poetry

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 12 noon-5.30 pm, Friday 11th June 2010

Key-note speakers: Prof Arthur Marotti (Wayne State), Prof Henry Woudhuysen
(UCL)

There will be a small charge for participants (£10 waged; £5 students and
unwaged) as a contribution towards lunch and refreshments.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis;
to
reserve a place, please send a cheque payable to ‘The University of Sheffield’
to:
Cathy Shrank
School of English
University of Sheffield
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA

Enquiries should be directed to c.shrank@shef.ac.uk

Job in Sheffield!

Lecturer in Early Modern Literature with Shakespeare
Job Reference Number: UOS000661
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Salary: Grade 8 - £36,715 to £43,840 per annum, with potential to progress to
£49,342. Closing Date: 18th February 2010

The School of English is seeking to appoint a lecturer in Early Modern
literature, and a specialist interest in any aspect of Shakespeare studies or
Renaissance Drama may be an advantage. This new position is a key part of the
expansion of Early Modern studies at Sheffield. The appointee will produce
published research, teach and supervise research in areas broadly appropriate
to their interests. You will participate in core teaching on the BA in English
Literature; devise and teach specialist options at undergraduate and MA levels
and play a key role in the ongoing development of the specialist Masters
pathway in Early Modern Studies. There will also be involvement in the
recruitment and supervision of postgraduate students. All staff are expected to
assist as required with the administration of the School, and to develop
research projects and related ventures. Applicants should be research active,
have a PhD (or equivalent experience) and a track record of publication. The
post is available from September 2010.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Cathy Shrank (c.shrank@shef.ac.uk);
tel: 0114 222 8485.

Further details, information about the University and an application form can
be
found here.

Re-mapping the Renaissance: Exchange between Early Modern Islam and Europe

NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers June 13 through
July 2, 2010 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
http://www.crbs.umd.edu/programs/re-mapping_the_renaissance/index.html

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 2, 2010

NEW THIS YEAR: Two seminar spaces are reserved for current full-time
graduate students in the humanities.

The Center for Renaissance& Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland
is pleased to announce "Re-mapping the Renaissance: Exchange between Early
Modern Islam and Europe," a 3-week summer seminar for college and
university teachers funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
From June 13 through July 2, 2010, selected scholars will explore the ways
in which the European Renaissance was shaped by interaction between Europe
and the rest of the world, in particular, the world of Islam.

In the course of this exploration of Islam's contribution to the shaping
of the European Renaissance, we will investigate networks of constant
exchange between Islamic and European courts, rulers, merchants,
travelers, diplomats, and artists during the early modern period. The
seminar will demonstrate that the trade conducted by the Italian
city-states was not exclusively an inheritance from the Roman Empire.
Rather, it also stemmed from the civilizations of the Mamluk and Ottoman
empires and their thriving systems of foreign trade. Those trading
networks, in turn, became conduits for the export not only of products but
also of ideas, scientific discoveries, and artistic exchange. This seminar
will investigate that legacy.

Participants will enjoy lectures, seminar discussions, and visits to the
Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art, both in Washington
DC. Time has been set aside each week so that participants may pursue
their own reading and research and consult with the directors on their own
projects. The seminar will model the use of scholarship to support
teaching.

The program will be co-directed by Judith Tucker, Professor in the
Department of History and Director of the Master of Arts in Arab Studies
Program at Georgetown University in Washington, and by Adele Seeff,
Director, Center for Renaissance& Baroque Studies, University of
Maryland. Tucker and Seeff have worked across disciplines and are aware of
the challenges this sort of endeavor presents for scholars. Both are
interested in cross-disciplinary research and teaching. Both are committed
to fostering scholarly communities in which seminar participants feel
supported and nurtured. In addition, three exceptional scholars will
present sessions on cartography, art history, material goods, and travel
narratives.

Complete details about eligibility and the application process are
available at the program's website,
http://www.crbs.umd.edu/programs/re-mapping_the_renaissance/index.html.

We hope that you will add your voice, your research, and your teaching
experiences as we embark upon this journey of discovery.

For additional information, contact the Center for Renaissance& Baroque
Studies atcrbs@umd.edu.

NYU English Department Colloquium for Early Literature and Culture in English (CELCE)

Unless otherwise noted, events are held Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in 19 University Place; rooms are noted below. Visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into NYU buildings. All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake,
elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos,
kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf,
sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

February 4
Paris is Worth a Massacre: Marlowe and the Death of Ramus
(pre-circulated paper; email the organizers for a copy)
John Guillory
(NYU)
Room 222

February 25
The Poetics of Praise
Cary Howie
(Cornell)
Room 222

March 12 (Friday)
The Untimely Mammet of Verona
Gil Harris
(GWU)
Room 222

April 8
Feeling Time: Prose Aesthetics in the Cloud of Unknowing
Eleanor Johnson
(Columbia)
Room 224

April 22
Keeping Things Still in Renaissance England
Julian Yates
(Delaware)
Room 224

Reformation Studies Colloquium 2010

September 7th - 9th, University of St Andrews

The Reformation Studies Colloquium is one of the leading conferences in
Britain on Reformation Studies, for both younger scholars and
established academics in the field. Plenary speakers for the 2010
Colloquium will be Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
and Ethan Shagan (Berkeley).

We are now inviting interested parties to submit proposals for 20-minute
papers (or for panels consisting of 2 or 3 related papers). Papers are
welcome on any aspect of the Reformation, Protestant or Catholic,
British or European. Paper abstracts should be approximately 300-500
words in length, and should be sent to the conference secretary, Dr John
McCallum, on rsc2010@st-andrews.ac.uk by 26th February 2010.

If you are a PhD supervisor, we would be very grateful if you could pass
this call for papers on to your graduate students.

Conference contacts:
Dr John McCallum, rsc2010@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Bridget Heal, bmh6@st-andrews.ac.uk

For further information on the conference please see our website,
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~rsc2010/