Collecting & Display

in collaboration with The British Institute of Florence & Florence University of the Arts

Summer Conference*

Collecting East & West

*25-29 June 2009, Florence, Italy*

*Preliminary Programme*

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*Thursday 25 June, *

1930* *Aperitivo at *St Mark’s English church in Via Maggio 16*

*Friday 26 June, *

9.30* *Registration at *The British Institute of Florence, Lungarno Guicciardini 9*

10.00 Welcome

10.30 Introduction to the conference theme East & West

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11.00* East meets West: Antiquity and Antiquities*

· Allison Karmel Thomason: /Occidentalism in Ancient Assyria/ (title tbc)

· William Stenhouse: /Greek Antiquities between East and West in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century/

· Patrick Michel: /Le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier ou la quete de l’antique/

13.00 Lunch break

1430 *The West: New Worlds of Knowledge*

· Adriana Turpin /Exotica and their role in the display of the Tribuna/

· Angela Catalina Ghionea: /Products of American Arid and Semi-arid Lands in the Italian Renaissance: Trading Knowledge, Herbs, Food, and Drugs/

· Silvia Davoli: /East and West in the Cernuschi Museum and the influences of Giambattista Vico/

1530 Tea

1600* The East in the West: Oriental Collections in France*

· Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset: /The Exotic at the Court of Louis XIV/ (title tbc)

· Constance Bienaime: /From Curiosity to Knowledge: Bertin’s Chinese Collection/

*Saturday 27 June, *

*0930 Florence University of the Arts*

*The East in English Collections *

· Helen Hughes: /Displaying the Oriental in Jacobean England, c. 1616/

· Andrew Moore: /The Paston Treasure/

· Michelle Ying-Ling Huang: /Early Collections of Chinese Painting at the British Museum/

· Francesco Civita: /Japanese Armour in the Stibbert Collection/ (title tbc)

· Robert Elgood: /Edward VII and the collecting of Islamic weapons in the late 19^th century/

1300 Lunch break

*1430 The East in the North: Oriental Collections in the Netherlands and Sweden*

· Lisa Skogh: “/Exotica” in the Collection of Hedwig Eleonore of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (1636-1715) and the Influence of Adam Olearius (1603-1671)/

· Joy Kearney: /Influences of Asia on Dutch Culture and Society in the 17th Century /

*2000 *Conference Dinner

*Sunday 28 June*

09.00 Visit to the *Bargello*

15.00 Visit to the *Stibbert Collection*

*Monday 29 June*

10.00 Visit to *Villa I Tatti*

1500 Visit to the exhibition /Galileo. Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope/ at *Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi*

With thanks to St. Mark’s English Church of Florence, The National Sculpture Museum at the Bargello, The Stibbert Collection, Villa I Tatti, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, and the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco for their collaboration.

Details: collecting_display@hotmail.com

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

[these details via the LRS list]

University of Warwick

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: An Analytical and Annotated
Catalogue of Translations, 1473-1640

Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

*£27,183 pa
Fixed Term Contract for 11 months*

You will collaborate in the preparation of a web-based catalogue of all the translations into and out of all languages printed in Britain between 1473 and 1640, as well as those into English in the same period. The project is funded by and subject to the terms of a three-year Leverhulme Trust award, entitled Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: An Analytical and Annotated Catalogue of Translations, 1473-1640', made to Professor Brenda Hosington, Associate Fellow in the Centre. Catalogue entries, which now number over 6000, contain not only bibliographical data but also other information concerning (whenever possible) the translator, translation and source text. It is this supplementary data that will be entered in the third and final phase of research starting September 2009.

You will also participate in organising an international conference at the University of Warwick in May 2010 to mark the near completion of the project and assist in preparing the subsequent volume of essays.

There will also be opportunities for publishing sole-authored individual articles.

You will have a 2:1 or higher honours degree in the Humanities and a PhD or equivalent in one of the following disciplines: Renaissance Studies, History of the Book, Bibliography. You will have a developing research profile and the ability to produce high-quality publications. You will have a working knowledge of at least two foreign languages and basic computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Sitebuilder or other web design). An interest in, or some knowledge of, Translation Studies would be an advantage.

For more information about the project, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/projects/culturalcrossroads/. Informal enquiries about the post may be addressed to the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, Dr Ingrid De Smet (I.de-Smet@warwick.ac.uk ).

Interview date: *w/c 13 July 2009

Postgraduate Futures

*Academics and publishers tell it like it is: what do you need to know to complete your dissertation? how do you publish your thesis? is there still a job market for early modern and Shakespeare academics, and how do you get a permanent post when you finish your dissertation?*
** The Globe Postgraduate Research Seminar on postgraduate futures will be held on Monday 6 July 2009 from 6-8 pm at Shakespeare's Globe.


Chairing the discussions: Dr Christie Carson (Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London)
'Completing the Dissertation': Professor Ann Thompson (Professor of English at King's College London)
'The Book Proposal and Publishing the Thesis': Sarah Stanton (Commissioning Editor, Cambridge University Press)
'The Job Market': Professor Russ McDonald (Professor of English, Goldsmiths College London)

for more information and to register please contact edevents@shakeseparesglobe.com

Job!

Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture

University of Exeter
School of Arts, Languages and Literatures
Department of English on the Cornwall Campus

Details: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/AI28/Lecturer_in_Renaissance_Literature_and_Culture/r

John Lilburne: Life, Thought, Legacy

London Renaissance Seminar

24 October 2009

On 25 October 1649, the charismatic Leveller leader, John Lilburne, was
dramatically acquitted of treason following a high profile trial at
London’s Guildhall. The decision was greeted by jubilant crowds and
celebratory bonfires, and was quickly commemorated by a medal which
explained that Lilburne had been ‘saved by the power of the Lord and the
integrity of the jury’. In the 360 years since that trial, Lilburne has
become one of the seventeenth century’s most well-known characters, and
one of few contemporaries who have been capable of taking centre stage
in both academic and popular histories of the civil wars. However,
Lilburne was a flagrant self-publicist, who did much to mythologize his
own story, while since his death ‘Freeborn John’ has been made into a
hero for a range of more or less incompatible political causes. For
Lilburne, more than for most of his contemporaries, it is vital to try
and separate myth from reality, and to explore how his reputation has
been made and moulded since the 1640s. This event will contribute to
this process by reconsidering Lilburne’s 1649 trial, and by thinking
about its importance for enhancing our understanding the life and times
of this most controversial character.

Speakers:

Ted Vallance, Phil Baker, Rachel Foxley, Jason Peacey, Jerome de Groot

Details: Jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk

Authority and Authorities

... an international conference organised by the Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading

6-8 July 2009

Programme: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/emrc/Authority_Conference_2009.htm

A 100% FULL OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

The Faculty of Letters of the University of Lausanne, English Department.

Starting date: 01.08.2010

Percentage: 100%

Location: Dorigny, Lausanne

Employer: UNIL, Faculty of Letters, English Department

Profile:

The appointee will be able to cover English litterature from the modern period (including early modern). He/She will have published and have carried out research projects in this field. The appointee will be teaching in English, but working knowledge of French is expected within two years following the appointment. Experience in advanced academic-level English teaching is required ; experience in research, supported by publications, is equally required.

Required qualification: a PhD (or a corresponding title) in the field of early modern or

modern English literature is required.

Job description:

The appointee will be expected to teach 6 hours per week within the Bachelor and Master programme. He/She will be expected to take part in post-graduate teaching and to supervise graduate and doctoral dissertations. The appointee will be expected to pursue his/her own research and publish at an international level. He/She will be required to take on some of the administrative tasks of the Department and of the Faculty.

Applications:

For more information about the specificities of the application, please refer to the ad posted

on the Faculty website : www.unil.ch/angl.

Further information: Juliette Vuille (Juliette.Vuille@unil.ch), Graduate Assistant.

Closing date for the application: 1 September 2009

The University of Lausanne especially encourages applications from female candidates.

MA Students: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

In collaboration with the Friends of Historic Essex, the Essex Record Office
and The National Archives, Roehampton University invites applications for
doctoral research to explore and develop new understandings of poverty in
early modern Essex, through the application of comparative and/or
interdisciplinary methods, with a focus upon rural and urban communities in
Essex. The student will be encouraged to test and develop suitable
methodologies by drawing upon the hearth tax returns, exemption
certificates, and parish and other local records relating to the experiences
of poverty in the period c. 1660 to c. 1690. An interest in economic and
social history and/or local and regional studies in the early modern period
is desirable, as is an interest in outreach activities. The successful
candidate will have an exceptional level of access to the archives in the
Essex Record Office in Chelmsford and The National Archives in Kew (London),
and will benefit from the resources, experience and support of the School of
Arts. The project will be supervised by Dr. Andrew Wareham (Roehampton
University), Dr. Chris Thornton (Friends of Historic Essex), Professor Peter
Edwards (Roehampton University), Dr. Sara Pennell (Roehampton University)
and Peter Seaman (The National Archives).
Closing date for the applications is Friday 5 June at 5.00pm.
Interviews will take place in the week commencing 29 June or 6 July.

Further details and application forms are available at
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/graduateschool/finance/index.html
Contact Andrew Wareham (a.wareham@roehampton.ac.uk ) to discuss the project.
Some information on AHRC CDAs can be found on
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/CollaborativeDoctoralAwards
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Birkbeck Medieval Seminar: Rethinking Medieval Marriage

23rd May 2009, 10am-5pm
Place: Rooms 152 and 153, Main Building, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury. London. WC1E 7HX

10-10.30 – coffee

10.30-11.30- Emma Lipton (University of Missouri)

‘John Gower’s Politics of Marriage’.

11.30-12.00 – coffee

12.00-1.00 – Shannon McSheffrey (Concordia University, Montreal)

‘Marriage by Ravishment in Fifteenth-Century England’.

1.00-2.00 lunch (delegates to find their own lunch)

2.00-3.00 – Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College, and Graduate Center, City University of New York)

‘Embodied Meaning in Images of the Married Life of Mary and Joseph’.

3.00-3.30 – coffee

3.30-4.30 – Glenn Burger (Queens College, and Graduate Center, City University of New York)

‘In the Merchant’s Bedchamber’.

4.30 – 5.00 – response by Isabel Davis (Birkbeck College, University of London) and discussion.

This event is free and all are welcome.

Coffee will be provided; delegates must find their own lunch.

To reserve a place please email your name and affiliation to: i.davis@bbk.ac.uk

Bad Behaviour in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury
Postgraduate Colloquium, Thursday, 3rd December, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Malcolm H. Jones
(University of Sheffield, author of The Secret Middle Ages)

This is an inter-disciplinary postgraduate colloquium which considers the

broad spectrum of bad behaviour: from mischief and misdemeanours to

transgression, criminality and violence. We invite proposals for papers

which will look beyond the received notion of good versus evil as

circumscribed by the Christian tradition. This will be an opportunity to

look at bad behaviour in all in its varied forms and situations. Rather than

consider how transgression was dealt with and controlled by society, the

colloquium will seek to make bad behaviour per se central to discussions.
Please send your 250 word abstract to bad-behaviour@kent.ac.uk by 30th

September, 2009. Papers will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. Organisers: Emma Rose Barber, Krista Bonello, Edina Eszenyi and Diane Heath. Please see the MEMS website for full details: http://www.kent.ac.uk/mems/

Shylock in the 20th and 21st centuries: Global Perspectives

*British Shakespeare Association*
*11th-13th September 2009
King's College, London and Shakespeare's Globe*

Shakespeare’s plays change over time and acquire new meanings in the specific cultural and medial contexts in which they are read, performed, or adapted. In this process, some plays even change genre. This is particularly true for /The Merchant of Venice/. After the Second World War, many directors have found it no longer possible to stage the play as a comedy. The conflict between Venetian society and the Jewish moneylender as well as Shylock’s cruel revenge and his final punishment evoke uncanny associations with the long tradition of European anti-Semitism and, in particular, the Holocaust. There have been heated debates as to whether the play should be banned from schools and theatres altogether, so that when it is staged, productions often turn into political events and aesthetic concerns seem to be of secondary importance at best. Despite these general problems raised by /The Merchant of Venice/ at the beginning of the 21st century, it should not be ignored that there are considerable differences between e.g. German, American, Israeli or Taiwanese /Merchants /as well as between productions by Jewish and non-Jewish directors. It thus seems crucial to pay close attention to the cultural or national contexts of the respective productions since it is these localizations that give the play its respective meaning. Shylock has entered the stage as a tragic hero and a villain; his Jewishness has been stressed or ignored; and he has been played as a victim of the Holocaust, a modern businessman or a migrant. Taking its point of departure from these multifaceted representations of Shylock, the seminar seeks to address the various and contradictory responses of directors, filmmakers, and critics worldwide to Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’.

*Please send your proposal (200 word max) to: Sabine Schuelting* (sabine.schuelting@fu-berlin.de )
/Proposals should be submitted by 31 May 2009./

*The John Dee Quatercentenary Conference*

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*St John’s** **College**, **Cambridge***
*21 – **22 September 2009***

2009 marks the quatercentary of the death of the great Elizabethan polymath, John Dee (1527–1609). This interdisciplinary conference will commemorate the occasion by bringing together scholars and students from a range of fields, including intellectual and cultural history, history of science and mathematics, literature, and history of the book, to consider the extraordinary range of Dee’s interests and enterprises. The conference is hosted by Dee’s first Cambridge college, St John’s, and provides a unique opportunity to examine some of Dee’s own books in the Old Library under the guidance of Julian Roberts, co-editor of /John Dee’s Library Catalogue/. Confirmed speakers include Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London) and Nicholas Clulee (Frostburg State University).

The John Dee Quatercentenary Conference welcomes papers investigating any aspect of Dee’s rich intellectual life, including his interest in mathematics, astronomy and astrology, navigation, and calendar reform; his fascination with alchemy, magic, and divination; his achievement in building Renaissance England’s greatest library, and the importance of this library in serving a wider intellectual community in early modern Europe. We are particularly keen to invite contributions from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and bursaries are available to support students attending and giving papers.

300 word abstracts should be sent via email to Jennifer Rampling, jmr82@cam.ac.uk , by *30 June 2009*. Presentations will last no longer than 30 minutes.

The conference is organised by Jennifer Rampling and Katie Taylor, and supported by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (University of Cambridge) and the Society for Renaissance Studies. Please contact jmr82@cam.ac.uk for further details.

The conference will also be preceded by a half-day colloquium on “Western Esoteric Traditions in the Renaissance” at Anglia Ruskin University, as part of a programme of Cambridge-based events celebrating the intellectual legacy of the Renaissance. Details of the colloquium are available from Professor Sarah Annes Brown, sarah.brown@anglia.ac.uk .

The Landscape of Poverty in Later Stuart Essex

In collaboration with the Friends of Historic Essex, the Essex Record Office and The National Archives, we invite applications for doctoral research to explore and develop new understandings of poverty in early modern Essex, through the application of comparative and/or interdisciplinary methods, with a focus upon rural and urban communities in Essex. The student will be encouraged to test and develop suitable methodologies by drawing upon the hearth tax returns, exemption certificates, and parish and other local records relating to the experiences of poverty in the period c. 1660 to c. 1690. An interest in economic and social history and/or local and regional studies in the early modern period is desirable, as is an interest in outreach activities. The successful candidate will have an exceptional level of access to the archives in the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford and The National Archives in Kew (London), and will benefit from the resources, experience and support of the School of Arts.

The project will be supervised by Dr. Andrew Wareham (Roehampton University), Dr. Chris Thornton (Friends of Historic Essex), Professor Peter Edwards (Roehampton University), Dr. Sara Pennell (Roehampton University) and Peter Seaman (The National Archives).

Closing date for the applications is Friday 5th of June at 5.00pm.

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 29th June or 6th July.

Further details and application forms are available at http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/graduateschool/finance/index.html

The Queen’s House at Greenwich: the material cultures of the courts of Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria (1603-1669)

The School of Arts at Roehampton University is pleased to offer two 3 year AHRC-funded doctoral studentships to outstanding candidates in Early Modern and Renaissance studies.

In collaboration with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, we invite applications for doctoral research to contextualise the Queen’s House at Greenwich within the court cultures of the Stuart queens. This project would suit well-qualified students (typically with a BA and an MA completed or near completion) in literature, art history, history, drama, theatre studies or a related subject. Enthusiasm for interdisciplinary, archival, visual and / or theatrical research is essential, and experience with such work, as well as an interest in early modern gender and culture may be advantageous. The successful candidate will have an exceptional level of access to the Queen’s House in the Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site and will benefit from the resources, experience and support provided by staff at Roehampton. The project may include opportunities to contribute to a conference and exhibition, and will provide outstanding opportunities for those seeking an academic or curatorial career.

The project will be supervised by Dr. Clare McManus (Reader, English Literature, Roehampton University), Dr. Richard Johns (Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) and Dr. Aislinn Loconte (Senior Lecturer, Art History, Roehampton University).

Globe Research Internships

Shakespeare's Globe is seeking research interns to help with the volume of research projects and dramaturgical support for the theatre productions currently in rehearsal. If you are working on a PhD and you can spare one to two days a week to work with Globe Education staff and the research team, Globe Theatre artists and actors, please send a cv and cover letter to Rob Norman, Personnel Manager, at robert.n@shakespearesglobe.com or contact Farah Karim-Cooper, Head of Courses and Research, farah.k@shakespearesglobe.com

Revolution and Evolution

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s Third Student Conference
Saturday 25 July 2009, 10.00-16.30
Room 532, Malet St

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce our third annual student conference. We aim to provide a safe and constructive space for students to present their research and to network and exchange ideas with peers from a range of disciplines. The day promises to be an ideal forum to showcase student research and to provide opportunities to practice presentation skills. Our theme this year is ‘Revolution and Evolution’. We are interested in revolutionary and evolutionary change during the early modern period (roughly 1500-1800), whether it be in the field of politics, art, science, religion, music, literature, philosophy, belief, medicine, consumption, etc. Briefly, we have taken ‘revolution’ to imply a greater, more immediate change, and ‘evolution’ to imply a small series of incremental changes. We are looking for a diverse collection of papers, based on subjects that can be connected to our conference theme.
Here are some points which you may wish to consider but please do carry out your own interpretation too:
• What different types of revolution are there and what impact do they have? Political, social, cultural, ideological, intellectual, and religious revolutions can all be considered.
• How did the early moderns define a ‘revolution’? Has this changed over time? What makes a revolution ‘revolutionary’?
• Is a revolution the culmination of an evolutionary process that has reached the end of its natural life? Does evolution need the ‘big event’ of a revolution to restart the process on a new level?
• Evolution typically refers to a process of development by small, incremental steps. Are these changes planned or unplanned?
• ‘History is a process, not an event’. Given that premise, is evolution a series of tiny, but distinct, revolutions?
You are invited to submit a proposal for a paper lasting 20 minutes (approximately 2,000 words).
Please email your proposal for a paper in the form of a synopsis of about 250 words, to Laura Jacobs, Secretary of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society: l.jacobs@english.bbk.ac.uk
The deadline for proposals is Monday 22 June 2009.

Job!

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics is looking to appoint an outstanding scholar and teacher to a lectureship in the area of seventeenth-century literature and culture. This is an excellent opportunity for a promising individual to contribute to the development of an area of long-standing research excellence in the School. Applicants must have a PhD by the time of taking up the post, relevant teaching experience at undergraduate level, and evidence of exceptional research achievement and potential.

The post will be formally advertised and further particulars published on the University website and in the press in the week beginning May 18. Applications must be submitted via the University website.

Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of English Literature, Professor Kate Chedgzoy: Kate.Chedgzoy@ncl.ac.uk.

Closing date: 8th June 2009

*Theatrical Exchanges: The Stage in Early Modern **Europe***

*University** of **Sussex**, Centre for Early Modern Studies, One-Day Symposium, *


*Tuesday 19 May, 10-30-17.00, Room E419*

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*!0.30 Coffee and Welcome *

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*11.00 *

*Claire McManus (Roehampton), ‘”He that deserves my favour/ …must travel for me”: the English Travel Play and the Hispanic Geographies of John Fletcher’s **Island** Princess (1621)’*

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*Stephan Schmuck (Aberystwyth), ‘Theatrical Imitations: Jakob Ayrer, “Machumetis” and the English Comedians’*

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*13.0 **LUNCH*

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*14.15*

*M.A.Katritzky (Open University), ‘Who was Zan Bragetta? The French Career of an Italian Commedia dell’arte Troupe Leader Reconsidered’ *

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*Jan Clarke (**Durham**), ‘Relations Between the French and Italian Actors in **Paris**, 1658-1680’*

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*Adriana Bontea (**Sussex**), ‘Masks on Stage’*

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*16.15 Questions and Round Table Discussion*

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*17.00 Drinks*

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*18.45/ 1900 Dinner in Lewes (we can organise lifts to the restaurant for speakers)*

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Lecturer in early modern English literature (Fixed term)

Salary range: £32,458 - £35,469
Fixed term, full time

The School of English at the University of Sussex seeks to appoint a three year fixed-term lecturer in early modern English literature (c1500 - c1680) from 1st October 2009. This post will act as cover for Prof Brian Cummings who has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. The successful candidate will possess a completed doctorate, teaching experience in the period, and demonstrate a commitment to research publication.

*Further particulars * *http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/staffing/personnl/vacs/vac555.shtml ***

REVIEWING SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE: THE STATE OF THE ART

CONFERENCE: 5 AND 6 SEPTEMBER 2009, STRATFORD UPON AVON [this via the LRS]

Join a gathering of distinguished international speakers from the world of the theatre, media and academia to explore what happens when we review a production of a Shakespeare play. The conference combines short paper sessions and seminars, and includes an opportunity to 'review' the RSC's production of As You Like It. This weekend is a chance for dialogue and collaboration between directors, journalists, students, actors, educators, and the Shakespeare enthusiast. Speakers include: theatre reviewer Michael Billington (The Guardian), Andrew Dickson (The Guardian), Shakespeare specialist Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame), Shakespeare Survey theatre reviewer Carol Rutter (University of Warwick), and Janet Suzman (actor and director). Contributions are invited for a subsequent publication (Shakespeare: Journal of the British Shakespeare Association) and are welcome even if you are unable to attend the conference in person. For full details and a registration form please go to: http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/907/648/

Thomas Browne Seminar Schedule

The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York will be hosting the 3rd Thomas Browne Seminar on Wednesday 3rd June. All welcome

2.00-3.00 Classical scholarship Iain McClure (Kings College, London): 'Milton's "cany wagons light", automata and the vacuity of invention.' Edward Paleit (Exeter): 'English classical scholarship and the merces literarum: the case of Thomas Farnaby'

3.00-4.00 Seventeenth Century Medical History Simon Howes (Oxford): "By these Means and Helps, the excellent Hippocrates arriv'd at the top of Physick": Thomas Sydenham and the politics of the Observationes Medicae. Mark Jenner (York): 'Country Tastes and a Chinese Touch? Sir John Floyer's Senses'

4.30 Followed by CREMS paper Angus Gowland (University College, London): 'Burton, Browne, and Renaissance dream theory'

Classical Rome in the Renaissance Imagination

The London Renaissance Seminar
Organiser: Linda Grant
Saturday, May 16th 2009, Birkbeck, Room 403, Malet Street

1.30 Registration


1.50 Introduction (Linda Grant)


Panel One



Chair: Professor Catharine Edwards, Professor of Classics
and Ancient History, Birkbeck



2.00 The reception of /fama/ in Sannazaro's /De Partu Virginis/,
Vida's /Christiad/, and Milton's /In Quintum Novembris/



Professor Philip Hardie

Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College and Honorary
Professor of Latin

University of Cambridge



2.30 The Politics of Roman History in Late Elizabethan England:
Henry Savile's Tacitus



Dr Paulina Kewes

Fellow and Tutor in English Literature,

Jesus College

University of Oxford



3.15 tea/coffee




3.30 Panel Two


Chair: Professor Tom Healy

3.30 (Paper title to be confirmed)



Dr Dorigen Caldwell

Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art

Birkbeck


4.00 'Roman ruins: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Du Bellay


Dr Bart van Es

Fellow and Lecturer

St Catherine's College

University of Oxford


5.15 wine

'Food and Medicine 1650-1820'

ALL-DAY SYMPOSIUM

Friday 22 May 2009 from 1020
The Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE (Fifth Floor) UK

Registration required. To download the programme and registration form in
pdf format, please click here:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/downloads/EMM09-prog.pdf

The Mental World of a Country House

The Library of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle and the Building of Castle Howard

This Collaborative Doctoral Award (supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) is an exciting opportunity to pursue a fully funded PhD on one of Europe's grandest country houses in one of Britain's leading universities. It will provide extensive access to the archives at Castle Howard, regular contact with its curator and other experts in the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, and full participation in the research culture of the University of York's Department of English & Related Literature and Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies. The successful applicant will come away from the award with original research that sheds new light on this important old house along with training in the skills needed to move between universities, libraries and the heritage sector.

Further details here: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/gsp/AHRC_CDA_09.htm

Job!

The Faculty of Arts of Ghent University announces a possible
tenure-track professorship in the field of English literature of the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a starting date of
1 February 2010. Candidates for such a position should have earned the
PhD degree no earlier than 1 February 2003. They should have a strong
research record, with an emphasis on peer-reviewed articles in
international journals and in books with international publishers that
likewise use peer review.

These professorships involve an appointment for an initial period of
five years, in the rank of lecturer. Upon successful review of the
dossier at the end of this period, tenure is offered, in the rank of
senior lecturer. Promotion to full professor is possible after a further
eight years, on a competitive basis. The positions carry a limited
teaching load.

Candidates who meet the criteria and who would consider moving to Ghent
are asked to contact the coordinator of the English literature section,
Professor Gert Buelens, by e-mail (Gert.Buelens@UGent.be) as soon as
possible.

Early Modern Dis/Locations. An Interdisciplinary Conference

On 15-16 January 2010, Northumbria University in Newcastle (UK) will
host an interdisciplinary conference on /*Early Modern Dis/Locations*/.
*Confirmed Plenary Speakers include*:
Tim Cresswell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)
Bernhard Klein (University of Kent)
Greg Walker (University of Edinburgh)
The organisers invite scholars and students working in literary and
cultural studies, history, geography, philosophy, and related
disciplines to submit 200 word abstracts for 20-25 minute papers
relating to any of the following themes and questions by *July 31*^*st*
* 2009 (please note this is an extended deadline)*. Contributors are
free to interpret and address these as broadly as they deem appropriate:

* What were the significant locations for and of early modern
cultures, and why? How might we re-think and problematise
constructions of court, city (or particular cities, real and
imagined), ‘suburbs’, ‘country’, the ‘nation’, the ‘home’,
‘private’, ‘public’, the marketplace, the streets, ‘landscape’,
colonies and plantations?
* To what extent were locations conceived and constructed as
gendered, rank-specific, desirable, or disgusting?
* How were all such locations experienced (and by whom), and
represented in literature, art, and philosophy?
* In what ways did locations condition, inhibit, or compel political
agency and cultural production and consumption?
* How were locations demarcated, policed, transgressed and
jeopardised in the period?
* How was /dis/location caused, theorized and represented in the
period? What were the realties and representations of
placelessness, homelessness, and dispossession? Where, how and why
did ‘mobilities’ occur, and in what forms?
* How have early modern cultural products and locations – like The
Globe –been /re/located into and appropriated by later historical
and cultural positions?
* How can modern theories of ‘space’, ‘place’, and ‘placelessness’
develop our understanding of early modern locations and dislocations?

*Please submit 200 word abstracts for 20-25 minute papers by email to Dr
Adam Hansen* (_adam.hansen@northumbria.ac.uk_
) *by* _*July 31*_^_*st*_ _*
2009*_. Please note this is an extended deadline.
If you have any questions please contact Dr Hansen by email or at this
address:
Division of English and Creative Writing
126, Lipman Building
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Northumbria University
City Campus
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
Tel: 0191 243 7193

'Henry VIII and the Tudor Court, 1509-2009'

... runs from 13-15 July 2009 at Hampton Court Palace. It features keynote addresses from G.W. Bernard, Susan Brigden, Eamon Duffy, Maria Hayward, Greg Walker, Dale Hoak, John N. King, Tatiana String and Tarnya Cooper.

Other speakers include Steven Gunn, Thomas S. Freeman, Kristen Post
Walton, Glenn Richardson, Felicity Heal, Tracey Sowerby, David Humphrey,
Elizabeth Hurren, Susan Wabuda, Aysha Pollnitz, Janet Pollack, Charles
Beem, Carole Levin, Anne McLaren, Mark Rankin, Christopher Highley,
Judith M. Richards and Peter Marshall.

For further details and how to register see
www.hrp.org.uk/henryconference2009

Globe Research Internships

Shakespeare's Globe is seeking research interns to help with the volume of research projects and dramaturgical support for the theatre productions currently in rehearsal. If you are working on a PhD and you can spare one to two days a week to work with Globe Education staff and the research team, Globe Theatre artists and actors, please send a cv and cover letter to Rob Norman, Personnel Manager, at robert.n@shakespearesglobe.com
or contact Farah Karim-Cooper, Head of Courses and Research, farah.k@shakespearesglobe.com

Rethinking Anglo-Jewish History: Cromwell's Readmission of the Jews and English Law

Dr Eliane Glaser (Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck)
21 May, 6.30 pm, room B30, Malet St.

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