The Jacobean Printed Book: Authors, Printers, and Readers
Conference at Queen Mary, University of London
1st ?3rd September, 2006
Speakers include: Sharon Arnoult, Cyndia Clegg, Elizabeth Evenden, David Gants,
Carter Hailey, Pete Langman, David Lawrence, Graham Rees, Stijn Van Rossem,
Richard Serjeantson, Helen Smith
Contact: Prof Graham Rees g.c.rees@qmul.ac.uk
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Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1685
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 July 2006
Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London
For further information and registration please visit:
www.sas.ac.uk/ies/events/confs/exile or phone the Institute of English Studies
on + 44 (0)20 7862 8675
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READING AND TEXTUAL EXCHANGE IN EARLY
MODERN EUROPE
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Keele University 7th - 8th April 2006
Keynote Speakers: Professor Mark Greengrass, Professor James McLaverty, Professor Joad Raymond
For further details of the programme email either Ann
(a.c.mcgruer@engl.keele.ac.uk) or Geoff (hid08@keele.ac.uk), or visit the
conference website
http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/humanities/news/conferences.htm#earlymodern
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Call for papers on EEBO
Since 1998, Early English Books Online (EEBO) has given scholars and students
'instant access' to over 125,000 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English
books. Books in research libraries across the world can now be read at any time
and in any place; moreover, it reaches readers who, because of their status or
their geography, have traditionally found it difficult to access these rare
book collections. By bringing early printed books into any library, into the
academic office, into the classroom, even into the home, EEBO has changed how
scholars and students study these texts.
But how much impact has EEBO had on research and on teaching? What have
scholars and students gained? What have they lost? How does EEBO fit with the
renewed attention to the materiality of the early modern text and the
increasing interest in the history of early printing and publishing? Just how
scholarly are the technologies and structures underlying EEBO? What kind of
relationship should there be between EEBO and academia? How should EEBO
develop?
Following on from a successful international conference on EEBO held in Bath,
UK, in September 2005, we invite proposals from scholars engaged in any area of
early modern studies (e.g., literature, philosophy, political science, history,
history of science, of medicine, etc.) for 10-15 papers on the effect of EEBO
on scholarship outlining personal techniques or on methods and experiences of
using EEBO as a teaching tool.
Please send proposals (max. 250 words), along with a brief biography and any
audio-visual requirements, to Tracey Hill (t.hill@bathspa.ac.uk), Ian Gadd (i.gadd@bathspa.ac.uk)
and Peter C. Herman (herman2@mail.sdsu.edu) by April
21st. Please note that in order to present a paper at the RSA Convention, you
must be a member of the RSA at the time of the convention.
