Shakespearean Performance in Dublin and Belfast, 1660-1900

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway

A vacancy exists for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a research project on Shakespeare and Ireland, which is funded by The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). This project will create a record of performances of Shakespeare's plays in Dublin and Belfast, from the Restoration to the foundation of the Abbey Theatre.

The successful candidate will carry out research on Shakespearean performance in Dublin and Belfast, 1660-1900, and will undertake other related tasks. Candidates should have been awarded the degree of PhD on or before August 2009. Proven expertise in at least two of the following areas is desirable for the position:

. Irish theatre history
. Shakespeare in performance
. Archival research
. Critical editing
. Web-authoring and design

The postdoctoral researcher will be paid ?31,745 per annum. Provision will be made for some travel and research expenses, subject to terms and conditions. The researcher will be expected to participate in and contribute fully to the activities of NUI Galway on a full-time basis during the course of their funding. The post is tenable for one year.

START DATE 1st September 2009

APPLICATION
To apply, please send a letter of application (outlining your qualifications for the position), an academic CV, two academic references, and a writing sample to Dr Patrick Lonergan.

Applications and references may be sent via e-mail to Patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie
Postal applications may be sent to Dr. Patrick Lonergan, English, School of Humanities, NUI Galway, Ireland.

For informal enquiries about this post please contact Dr. Patrick Lonergan via e-mail or by phone at + 353 91 49 5609

Closing date for receipt of applications is 5 pm on Monday 4th May 2009.

National University of Ireland, Galway is an equal opportunity employer.

Further information about this post is available on www.nuigalway.ie/vacancies

Dr Patrick Lonergan
Room 301, Tower Block 1
English Department
NUI Galway
Ireland
patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie

Blackface Theatre in the Renaissance

Ian Smith
Lafayette College

April 17, 2009, 6pm
707 International Affairs Building
118th St., between Amsterdam and Morningside Drive
New York, NY

Details: Adam Hooks at ColumbiaShakespeareSeminar@gmail.com

Great opportunity for prospective PhD students

Please find below details of two AHRC-funded studentships, which offer a great
opportunity for prospective PhD students with an interest in manuscript culture
and/or sixteenth-century poetry. Please do pass on details to your MA students.
An advert will be appearing on jobs.ac.uk, but further details and an
application form can be downloaded from the web address at the end of the
message below.

2 AHRC studentships on Early Modern Manuscript Poetry, University of Sheffield

The two PhD studentships, based in the School of English, are tenable for three
years from 1 October 2009 as part of the AHRC-funded research project on Early
Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage, led by Professor
Steven W. May (PI) and Cathy Shrank (Co-I). The two successful candidates will
complete a PhD thesis by producing a scholarly edition of one of two
manuscripts: Victoria and Albert MS Dyce 44 or British Library Harleian MS
7392(2), which between them contain works by some of our best-known Renaissance
writers, including John Donne, Thomas Nashe, Walter Ralegh, Philip Sidney, and
Elizabeth I.

Candidates should fulfil the AHRC eligibility criteria of being normally
resident in the UK and having completed, or be completing, an MA or equivalent
postgraduate degree. A good general knowledge of Renaissance literature is
desirable; preference may be given to those who have, or are studying for, a
Masters degree in Renaissance/Early Modern studies. Applicants should have good
IT skills.

Further information and application forms can be obtained from
http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/prospectivepg/fundingopps/emstudents.html

Queries can also be directed to steven_may@georgetowncollege.edu or
c.shrank@shef.ac.uk.

Closing date for applications: 1 May 2009.

Local / Global Shakespeares

[this via the LRS]
4th British Shakespeare Association Conference
King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe
11-13 September 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS and REGISTRATION

BSA 2009 is a high-profile, international conference. Its aim is to address the following key issues:


1. the place of Shakespeare in contemporary debates about origin, authenticity and national identities

2. the role of Shakespeare in fostering (or hindering) productive exchanges between communities and cultures

3. the role of Shakespeare in contemporary performance theories and practices

4. the place of Shakespeare in contemporary accounts and uses of the past (past practices – theatrical and textual – and histories about the past)

5. the place of Shakespeare in secondary and tertiary education, in the UK and beyond

6. the place of Shakespeare within cultural and creative industries in present-day London and worldwide

BSA 2009 has a worldwide reach. Confirmed speakers and session leaders come from Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, China, Japan, India, US, Canada, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK.

Keynote speakers include:

Michael Attenborough (Almeida)
Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick)
Rustom Bharucha (Theatre Director and Critic)
Janette Dillon (University of Nottingham)
Greg Doran (RSC)
Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director, Shakespeare’s Globe)
Paul Edmondson (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Andrew Gurr (University of Reading)
Edward Hall (Artistic Director, Propeller)
Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario)
Sonia Massai (King’s College London)
Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths)
Gordon McMullan (King’s College London)
Jonathon Neelands (Drama & Theatre Education, University of Warwick)
Helen Nicholson (Drama & Theatre Education, Royal Holloway)
Patrick Spottiswoode (Globe Education)
Ann Thompson (King’s College London)
Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Robert Weimann

Registration is now open.

To register, please follow the link below:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/news/conferences/localglobal/

Call for Papers

Paper proposals for eleven seminars can be submitted to the seminar leaders by following the link below:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/news/conferences/localglobal/paper.html

Workshops

There are places available for two workshops. For further details, please follow the link below:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/news/conferences/localglobal/workshops.html

For further details about this event, please contact:

Dr Sonia Massai (Reader in Shakespeare Studies, King’s College London) at BSA2009@kcl.ac.uk

Friends and Enemies

Durham University

Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies

Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT, England.

Director: Professor Richard Maber

Tel: 0191-334 3431 Fax: 0191-334 3421 e-mail: R.G.Maber@durham.ac.uk

TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

DURHAM CASTLE

13-16 JULY 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

Friends and Enemies: Collaboration and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century

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 30 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. 200 words, and should be sent to the Director, Prof. Richard Maber (email: r.g.maber@durham.ac.uk) as soon as possible, but no later than 28 March 2009. Proposals for themed panels are also welcomed. The programme will be announced within the following fortnight.



The conference will take place in the magnificent setting of Durham Castle, from Monday 13 to Thursday 16 July. Residential delegates will depart after lunch on 16 July; it will also be possible to book overnight accommodation for nights before and after the conference if required. Generous bursaries will be available for postgraduates attending the conference, whether or not they are presenting a paper.

Medieval/Renaissance: Continuity and Change

THE LONDON RENAISSANCE SEMINAR

Council Room, Birkbeck College, Malet St, London WC1 7HX

Saturday March 28, 2-5


Convenor: Gordon McMullan


2-2.30 Sarah Salih (King's): 'Performing Conversion: the Digby Play of
St Paul's'

2.30-3 Anke Bernau (Manchester): '"More meruaylous than trewe": Thomas
Elyot's Albion'

3-3.20 shared questions

3.20-3.40 coffee/tea

3.40-4.10 Muriel Cunin (Limoges): '"The monstrous Babels of our Moderne
Barbarisme' Elizabethan Architecture and the Gothic'

4.10-4.40 David Matthews (Manchester): 'Chaucer's Sixteenth-Century
Disguises: Reconsidering the Evidence'

4.40-5 shared questions

5 onwards wine

All Welcome

For further information contact Prof Gordon McMullan, gordon.mcmullan@kcl.ac.uk

Journal of the Northern Renaissance

... www.northernrenaissance.org is a new peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to the study of early modern Northern European cultural production. The journal will be alert to the full variety of early modern cultural practice, publishing articles on literature, the visual arts, philosophy, theology, political theory and the scientific technologies of the Northern Renaissance. It places a special emphasis upon interrogating the Southern European derivation of our inherited paradigms and delineating the significance of alternative cultural geographies. Although it is anticipated that attention will converge upon the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the journal is particularly open to attempts both to challenge existing periodizations of the Renaissance in the North and to establish continuities with earlier and later epochs.

Issue 1 contents:

Andrew Hadfield (Sussex) on Olaus Magnus and The Idea of the North

Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Texas) on Durer, Nuremberg and the Topographies of Expectation

Jane O. Newman (California) on Walter Benjamin Between Renaissance and Baroque

Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson (Aberdeen) on Ficino in Aberdeen and the Continuing Problem of the Scottish Renaissance

Adrian Streete (Queens University, Belfast) on Francis Quarles and the Discourses of Jacobean Spenserianism

Kathryn Murphy (Jesus College, Oxford) on Robert Burton's Response to the Gunpowder Plot

R. W. Maslen (Glasgow) on Dreams, Freedom of Speech and the Demonic Affiliations of Robin Goodfellow

Issue 1 also features reviews from Willy Maley, Shona McIntosh and Andreas Dahlem. JNR will publish book, performance and exhibition reviews on a rolling basis, so make sure to check back regularly.

Amity in Early Modern Literature and Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce that the third Annual English Literature Symposium at the University of Portsmouth will be on Amity in Early Modern Literature and Culture and will take place on September 17th 2009. We are delighted that Professor Lorna Hutson will be the plenary speaker at this event.

In recent years, discussions about early modern human relationships have been dominated by the topic of sexuality and eroticism, with the result that non-erotic relationships have been reductively misunderstood within this theoretical approach. This has meant that the complexity, diversity and importance of non-erotic relationships have not been given due scholarly attention; and this neglect has limited our understanding of the connection between such relationships and other important cultural phenomena in this period such as selfhood, individuality and freedom, virtue, formality, intimacy and privacy.

The term 'amity' provides a more specifically Renaissance definition of affectionate relationships, incorporating a wider range of types of relationship than just friendship, including loving-friendship, benevolence, affection and relationships connected by the soul. This will become a means of examining Early Modern, intimate, non-sexual relationships in a more sophisticated way.

To that end, the symposium organisers would welcome papers that include,
but are not limited to, the following themes: the literary representations of amity, the relationship between amity and self-fashioning, amity within literary communities or coteries, the relationship between amity and reading, and the influence of classical philosophy, renaissance humanism or Christian theology on the conceptualization of amity.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in length. If you are interested
in presenting a paper, please submit a 100 word abstract to Dr Bronwen Price (bronwen.price@port.ac.uk) and Dr. Paraic Finnerty (paraic.finnerty@port.ac.uk) before June 20th 2009.

Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows

Professor John Kerrigan
University of Cambridge

Thursday, 23 April 2009
5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH

Free Admittance

The language-world of early modern England was thick with oaths and vows, ranging from casual profanity in taverns to the solemn undertakings of those marrying or accepting public office. Moralists urged the seriousness of oaths; casuists advised on how to undo them. There were religious, legal and philosophical debates about what it meant to swear and how firmly one should keep a promise. The literature of the time reflects the prevalence of oaths and vows and the arguments about their status. But Shakespeare was exceptional in the density, depth and subtlety with which he explored these issues. His plays and poems are full of oaths and vows doing structural, psychological and verbally minute, inventive work. This lecture will seek to rectify scholarly neglect of the topic, highlighting Shakespeare's awareness of the paradoxes of oath-taking and vowing and their potency in performance. The aim is not just to elucidate a key element of his artistry but to understand more fully his general construction of human experience.

About the speaker
John Kerrigan is University Professor of English 2000 in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of St John ’s College, and one of the leading critics of English literature. In 1998 he won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for: Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, an ambitious study in comparative literature. His research covers Shakespeare, early modern literature, and modern British and Irish poetry. His latest book is Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603–1707 (2008).

Shakespeare Lecture
In 1910, Mrs Frida Mond requested that an annual lecture be delivered ‘on or about 23 April on some Shakespearean subject, philosophical, historical, or philological, or some problem in English dramatic literature or histrionic art, or some study in literature of the age of Shakespeare’.

A poster for your notice board can be downloaded here:

Please visit our website for full details of our forthcoming events.
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 / Email: lectures@britac.ac.uk

Please note our ticketing and seating policy:
British Academy Lectures are freely open to the general public and everyone is welcome; there is no charge for admission, no tickets will be issued, and seats cannot be reserved. The Lecture Room is opened at 5.00pm, and the first 100 audience members arriving at the Academy will be offered a seat in the Lecture Room; the next 50 people to arrive will be offered a seat in the Overflow Room, which has a video and audio link to the Lecture Room. Lectures are followed by a reception at 6.30pm, to which members of the audience are invited.

The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Tel: 020 7969 5200, Fax: 020 7969 5300, Web: www.britac.ac.uk

On Book Format: What Small Means

Joseph Loewenstein (Washington University in St. Louis)
Overseers Room, Huntington Library
10am-12n (coffee and scones from 9:30am)

Please send questions to Heather James (hjames@usc.edu) or Heidi Brayman Hackel (heidib@ucr.edu)

Madame Palatine, Sister-in-Law of Louis XIV

Prof. William Brooks (University of Bath), ' French, German and Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Madame Palatine, Sister-in-Law of Louis XIV; or, The Case of the Shat Upon Carrot', 6.30 pm, 19 March, room B36, Malet St.

Stephen Brogan
President, Birkbeck Early Modern Society
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/current/societies/index_html/#earlymodern
http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk/

SRS BURSARIES FOR THE GASCOIGNE SEMINAR

The second Gascoigne Seminar will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford, on
Friday 18th September 2009. The Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS)
has very kindly offered funding for two postgraduate/early career
bursaries of up to #100 for people wishing to present papers and two
bursaries of up to #60 for postgraduates wishing to participate as
session chairs. The bursaries will be used to help with the
participants' expenses. Papers will be published in a peer-reviewed
collection of new essays, but on the day they should be 20 minutes long.
Each paper has a 30-minute slot to allow for questions and discussion.

The SRS bursaries will provide a great opportunity for postgraduates and
early career academics to present new work on Gascoigne and to be
published alongside some very distinguished names in the field. The
speakers for the Gascoigne Seminar 2009 now include:

Prof Susan C Staub (Appalachian State University)
Prof Alan Stewart (Columbia University)
Dr Robert Maslen (University of Glasgow)
Dr Jayne Archer (University of Wales at Aberystwyth)
Dr Elizabeth Heale (University of Reading)
Dr Syrithe Pugh (University of Aberdeen)
Dr David Trim (Newbold College)

Session chairs and other participants include:

Prof Arthur Kinney (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Prof David Norbrook (University of Oxford)
Prof Mike Pincombe (University of Newcastle)
Dr Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)
Dr Roger Pooley (Keele University)
Dr Raphael Lyne (University of Cambridge)
Dr Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick)
Dr John Lee (University of Bristol)

The day will include a private viewing of some of the Bodleian's
collection of 16th-century Gascoigne volumes, including Gabriel Harvey's
copy of The Posies. This session is being repeated from the 2007 seminar
as it was so popular.

Anyone interested in applying for a Society for Renaissance Studies
bursary should email the organiser, Gillian Austen, in the first
instance, outlining what aspect of Gascoigne's work you would like to
write on (g.austen@bristol.ac.uk, off-list please). Enquiries about
attending the seminar are also welcome: the fee for the day will be #35,
to cover all sessions and refreshments, including an excellent buffet
lunch and all refreshments. A discount applies to members of the Society
for Renaissance Studies. The day will run from 9.30am until about 6pm.

Doctoral Studentships (17th-Century Intellectual and Literary History)

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
FACULTY OF HISTORY

Two Doctoral Studentships are advertised by the Humanities Division of the

University of Oxford, both to be held for the three consecutive academic years 2009-

12. They are fully funded, covering all college and university fees and providing a

maintenance grant at current AHRC rates (£12,940 per year at 2008/09 rates). These

studentships are a part of the ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ project, funded by the Andrew

Mellon Foundation, which has been established to explore the history of seventeenthcentury

intellectual life through the study of correspondence networks in the British

Isles and northern/central Europe. Drawing on the unrivalled collections of Oxford’s

museums and libraries, the project will bring these resources to scholars throughout

the world, variously through the construction of catalogues, editions, and the

establishment of modern international collaborations.

The first studentship will be attached to a subdivision of the ‘Cultures of Knowledge’

concerned with editing in printed form the correspondence of the antiquary and

natural philosopher John Aubrey. The second studentship will be attached to a

complementary subdivision of the project, producing a calendar of the correspondence

of Aubrey’s contemporary, the physician and naturalist Martin Lister. In Oxford,

these two subdivisions are both directed by Dr. Rhodri Lewis (St. Hugh’s College)

and Dr. William Poole (New College).

Applicants are welcome from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including – but in

no sense limited to – literature, history and history of science. Experience in working

with early modern manuscripts is essential. Further, the successful candidates will

have attained BA and Master’s degrees, and will have proposed thesis topics that

relate directly to the concerns of the ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ project.

The individuals will be supervised in their doctoral research by a member (or

members) of the ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ team, who – in addition to Lewis and Poole

– include Prof. Pietro Corsi, Prof. Howard Hotson, Prof. Peter Harrison, Dr Jim

Bennett and Dr Noel Malcolm. The Aubrey studentship will be held within the

English Faculty; the Lister studentship will be held within the English or the History

Faculty, depending on the student’s own disciplinary background, needs and

intentions. Successful candidates will be expected to dedicate one day per week to

assisting in the construction of the aforementioned edition and calendar. Office space

and IT equipment will be provided for this work.

For further information about either the positions or the “Cultures of Knowledge”

project, contact Dr Rhodri Lewis (rhodri.lewis@ell.ox.ac.uk) or Dr William Poole

(william.poole@new.ox.ac.uk).

TEXTUAL REVOLUTIONS

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
University of Stirling, Scotland.
Friday 8 May – Saturday 9 May 2009
http://textualrevolutions.wikidot.com

Plenary speakers:
Professor Catherine Belsey
Professor Christopher Norris
Dr John Lavagnino

‘All revolutions, whether in the sciences or of world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner’
G.W.F. Hegel

Hegel’s belief in the redemptive power of revolution – that revolution is part of an essentially benign process of history – is at odds with Friedrich Nietzsche’s position that revolution is a ‘source of energy in mankind grown feeble but never a regulator, architect, artist, [or] perfector of human nature’. This tension over the nature of revolution constitutes our point of departure in an interdisciplinary forum that seeks to explore ‘revolutions’ and the language of revolution, with the aim of fostering discussion and understanding of both bloody and bloodless revolutions throughout the history of the arts. How will the revolution in digital media affect the future of the book? Has Marxism been swept aside by the competing claims of racial, ethnic and gender groups? How is language itself overturned in the pursuit of revolutionary aims? Has ‘the subject’ really been liberated by postmodernity and poststructuralist theory?

While the overall focus of the conference is textual, the organisers welcome papers from a breadth of research areas, which may include, but are not limited to:

Book History and Textual Culture
Modern Languages and Translation
Publishing Studies
Film and Media Studies
Religious Studies
Medieval Studies
The Gothic
Queer and Feminist Studies
Popular Culture
Postcolonial Studies

Papers that present problems and questions rather than absolute conclusions are particularly welcome. The organisers are looking for contributions from fellow postgraduate students and early-career academics. Please send abstracts of 300 words for a 20-minute presentation plus brief biographical details to Gary Cape and Steven Craig at textual.revolution@stir.ac.uk by Friday 20 March 2009. (Please note the singular form of ‘revolution’ given in the conference email address)

" 'A priestly farewell': Pericles and the Transformation of the Catholic Past"

Brian Walsh, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University
at The Columbia Early Modern Seminar
Tuesday March 10, 6:30 PM
612 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, New York

For further information, please contact Molly Murray (mpm7@columbia.edu) or Alan Stewart (ags2105@columbia.edu)

Shakespeare and 1590s drama

CFP for a panel at the Renaissance Society of America, Venice, 2010

This is a call for papers that consider Shakespeare's plays in relation to other drama staged in 1590s England. One way of approaching this topic might be through examining the influence of dramatists such as Marlowe or the early Jonson or Chapman on Shakespeare (or vice versa), but other possibilities might be:
- the place of Shakespeare's plays in the repertory of the Lord Chamberlain's Men
- the ongoing influence of earlier plays such as _The Spanish Tragedy_ that maintained a place in 1590s repertories
- different ways of conceiving the relationship between Shakespeare's output and other companies' repertories: competition? partnership? derivativeness? political/religious debate?

Please email an abstract (200 words max.), details of any audio-visual requirements, and a brief CV including contact details to Dr Tom Rutter of Sheffield Hallam University by 1 May 2009.

Contact: t.rutter@shu.ac.uk
See also: http://www.shu.ac.uk/english/staff/rutter.html

Paradise Lost and the Question of Ireland

Dr. Eric Song of Queens College
The CUNY Graduate Center's Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group
Friday, March 13 at 2pm
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, Room 5414
A reception will follow.

Gina Grimaldi and
Jennifer Holl, EMIG co-chairs

Van Dyck and Seventeenth Century Britain

A one day colloquium in conjunction with Tate Britain to celebrate the opening of the Van Dyck and Britain exhibition, 18 February-17 May.

Queen Mary, University of London, Friday 6 March 2009, from 9.15am.
Speakers include: Karen Hearn, John Peacock, Simon Turner, Julia
Alexander, Laura Knoppers, James Loxley, Diana Dethloff, Catharine
Macleod, Malcolm Smuts

To book online, please email: www.qmul.ac.uk/events

[this and the previous via the LRS]

The Thomas Browne Seminar, 2009

Wednesday 3rd June 2009

Papers are invited for the 2009 Thomas Browne Seminar, on the history of science and scholarship, religious and antiquarian thought, natural history, politics and the history of trivia, all of which may or may not be related directly to Browne.

The Seminar will be held in CREMS (the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies), the University of York

Please send abstracts by 1st April, 2009
Contact: Kevin Killeen (KK536@york.ac.uk)

Coats and Conduct: The Materials of Military Obligation in Shakespeare's Henry Plays

Vimala Pasupathi, Hofstra University
March 13, 2009

Respondent: Richard McCoy, Queens College

The talk will begin at *6:00pm*

707 International Affairs Building

118th St., between Amsterdam and Morningside Drive

If you have any questions, please contact Adam Hooks at ColumbiaShakespeareSeminar@gmail.com

FORMS OF EARLY MODERN WRITING

2nd Annual Conference and Exhibition
"Inside the Archive"

April 3, 2009
Butler Library
Columbia University

http://formsofearlymodernwriting.wikispaces.com/

The Columbia Early Modern Seminar, in conjunction with the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University, will be hosting the 2nd Annual Forms of Early Modern Writing Conference on April 3, 2009. This year's conference asks scholars from an array of disciplines two crucial questions: What is your archive? And how do you work inside the archive? The speakers will present papers that discuss how they use archival evidence to foster a productive interdisciplinary dialogue.

In addition, each paper will be accompanied by an exhibit in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which will be available for viewing the day of the conference and beyond.

The conference is free to all who attend.

Details: Adam G. Hooks

John Fletcher, on DVD

DVDs of the Progress Theatre performance of John Fletcher's *The Tamer Tamed*, co-directed by John Goodman and Carolyn Williams, are now available from Carolyn Williams of the Department of English Literature, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AA, for £10 each.

More details: CDWILLIAMSLYLE@aol.com