‘The Faerie Queene Now’

Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey in conjunction with poet and professor Jo Shapcott have won a grant from the AHRC / ESRC Religion and Society programme for a major new creative project which will investigate the spiritual possibilities of the present by rescuing from neglect one of the great epics of English literature, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. A poem of militant Protestantism contemporary with the original establishment of the national church, The Faerie Queene is remote from mainstream secular society, and from its relatively quiescent and marginalised official church. Paradoxically, in present-day England Spenser's poem has most in common with the insurgent religious intensity of other, 'minority' faiths. And yet, poetry itself has, since Spenser, lost much of its power to speak to and intervene in issues of fundamental social and religious concern.

‘The Faerie Queene Now’ responds by remaking religious poetry for today's world. Kicking off from April this year, it speaks to where we have come from and where we are going by exploring Spenser's foundational poem in various present-day religious, educational and cultural contexts. But it also aims to recreate and refunction Spenser's epic as a positive contribution to contemporary life. It hopes to bring some of the energy of Spenser's art and moment into official English religion, which it also hopes to open further to energetic and diverse elements not allowed for or even foreseen by the original national church. At the same time, it aims to bring official religion into creative dialogue with other groups in English society that are entirely beyond incorporation into any established church. In short, the project seeks via poetry and the imagination the greatest possible representation of religious and secular interests in relation to our shared inheritance and to those issues of religion and society which, one way or another, matter to us all.

The project splits into two main component projects. One is the The Faerie Queene Liturgy Project, which seeks to create new liturgical texts and solidarity-building rituals for contemporary society inspired by the quest for holiness in Book 1 of Spenser's epic. Here Fernie will work in conjunction with Shapcott and another major contemporary poet, Michael Symmons Roberts, as well as with the theologian Andrew Shanks, who has made a case for 'shaken poetry' as a source of religious renovation. This team will prepare two extraordinary, inclusive events for the two very different environments of Manchester Cathedral and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, working in each case with an impressive group of consultants including scholars, artists and theologians. The culminating event in Windsor will feature Andrew Motion and form part of the Windsor Spring Festival, 2011. The event in Manchester, on May the 8th, 2011, will be preceded by a procession, through the city streets, with Catalan-style 'gegants', giant puppet figures, representing Spenserian figures. Fernie and Andrew Taylor, the Project Administrator, have recently won further funding to commission new ‘*Faerie Queene* Canticles’ to be performed on these occasions from composer Tim Garland and jazz trio Acoustic Triangle and the Holloway College Choir.

The Liturgy Project will be complemented by the Fable and Drama Project, in which Palfrey will work with the director Elisabeth Dutton to evolve new stories and a play through intense collaboration with heterogeneous educational communities: two ethnically diverse comprehensive secondary schools, both from socially deprived wards; and the radically different students of Oxford University. This part of the project will come to fruition with a closed performance at Shakespeare’s Globe and, possibly, a new film. The two projects will come together in two events of reflection, dialogue and synthesis: a public arts event themed round Spenser and run by the Poet in the City charity at major London venue King's Place on the 7th of March 2011 and a two-day cross-sector conference on poetry and spirituality at Cumberland Lodge 26th-28th of January 2011.For more and up-to-date details of the project and these events, please see the project website http://www.rhul.ac.uk/English/faeriequeene/index.html.

**John Selden (1584-1654): Scholarship in Context**

24th-26th June, 2010, Magdalen College, Oxford

In association with: the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Oxford, and the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian.

This will be the first major international conference on John Selden (1584-1654), to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his first publications.

For full details see: http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/selden/

John Selden, 'the monarch in letters' (Jonson) and England's 'chief of learned men' (Milton) was Britain's leading scholar, antiquary and jurist. He was a key figure in the advance of Oriental learning in the West: his achievements in Hebraic studies were unparalleled, and he promoted the study of Arabic and Islamic culture. He was a renowned theorist of international law (with his *Mare Clausum*) and of natural law (with his *De Iure Naturali & Gentium*). He was also a leading Member of Parliament, especially during the Civil War, and an active member of the Westminster Assembly. His work provoked praise and polemic from scholars, theologians and philosophers. His correspondence ranged throughout the European Republic of Letters and reached to Aleppo in Syria. He was the greatest scholarly book collector in England; more than 8000 volumes of his library were deposited in the Bodleian, where he gave his name to the 'Selden End' of Duke Humfrey's library. This conference aims to build on G.J. Toomer's recent magnum opus, *John Selden: A Life in Scholarship* (OUP, 2009), to return Selden to the centre of the intellectual culture of his age.

Keynote speakers: G.J. Toomer, Mordechai Feingold, Peter Miller, Jason Rosenblatt, Richard Tuck

Speakers: Sharon Achinstein, Sir John Baker, Mark Bland, Hans Blom, Elizabethanne Boran, Christopher Brooks, Alan Coates, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Anthony Grafton, Simon Keynes, Vivienne Larminie, Jan Loop, Scott Mandelbrote, Anthony Milton, Sarah Mortimer, Martin Mulsow, Eric Nelson, Paul Nelles, Graham Parry, Annabel Patterson, Jean-Louis Quantin, Julian Roberts, Richard Sharpe, Harvey Shoolman, Colin Tite, Chad van Dixhoorn, Dirk van Miert, Joanna Weinberg

Sponsored by:
The John Fell OUP Research Fund; The Cultures of Knowledge Project; The Royal Historical Society; The English Faculty, University of Oxford

For full details and to register see: http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/selden/

Shakespeare and Wales

Public Lecture and Symposium, Friday April 23rd, 2010

The afternoon will include a lecture by the award winning theatre director, Michael Bogdanov, and a symposium led by scholars from around the world.

Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University

12pm Public Lecture:

Michael Bogdanov, “The Welsh in Shakespeare”

2.30-6pm Symposium: “Shakespeare and Wales”

Participants include:
David Baker (North Carolina)
Michael Bogdanov
Martin Coyle (Cardiff)
Katie Gramich (Cardiff)
Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam)
Chris Ivic (Bath Spa)
Margaret Jones-Davies (Sorbonne)
Willy Maley (Glasgow)
Stewart Mottram (Aberystwyth)
Philip Schwyzer (Exeter)
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (Neuchâtel)
Richard Wilson (Cardiff)

Admission is free, but please register your interest in attending by sending an email to encap-events2010@cf.ac.uk or by telephone on 029 2087 6049. The event will take place in Cardiff University’s Main Building, opposite the Students’ Union on Park Place, CF10 3AT.

Doctoral studentship at Warwick

[this news via The London Renaissance Seminar]

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Doctoral Studentship (three years)
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
£16,249 p.a. (£3,326 fees and £12,923 maintenance)

A doctoral studentship starting October 1st 2010 is being offered to work on a PhD within the framework of a five-year AHRC funded research project entitled “The Complete Works of James Shirley”. The General Editors of the Oxford University Press edition and the project investigators are Professor Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University, Dr Teresa Grant, University of Warwick and Dr Barbara Ravelhofer, Durham University. The studentship will be focused on one of the following: a) Shirley in print in the seventeenth century; b) Shirley’s cultural geographies, 1625-36 OR 1640-66; c) Shirley, Cavendish, and collaboration; d) Shirley on the Restoration stage; e) Shirley’s reception, 1700-1900. The student will be supervised by Dr Teresa Grant and based in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick.

Applicants should have a first or good upper second class honours degree in the Humanities and an M.A. in a field related to their PhD proposal. These fields might include Shakespeare and/or early modern drama, Renaissance or Restoration Studies, History of the Book, Bibliography. Applicants are not expected to be experts on Shirley yet but should have a strong grasp of and interest in his dramatic and literary milieux, something that they should demonstrate in their application.

To apply, please forward the application package by email to Mrs Cheryl Cave at c.a.cave@warwick.ac.uk.Your application should include a CV, the names and postal and email addresses of two referees, and up to 1000 words explaining which of the above topics interests you and why. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to send a sample (c. 5000 words) of relevant written work. Closing date for applications is Monday April 19th, 2010. Interviews will be held in May 2010.

Upcoming MedRen events at Columbia and beyond

This from Alan Stewart at Columbia ...

The following events may be of interest to those working in medieval,
Renaissance, and early modern studies. The full list is at
www.columbia.edu/cu/medren under "events". If you know of any other
events, please contact Alan Stewart on ags2105@columbia.edu.

Monday, March 29 [at Rutgers]
Rutgers' Program in Medieval Studies
KRISTIN BLIKSRUD AAVITSLAND (University of Oslo)
"Visual Orders? A discussion on ornament and iconography in Romanesque art"
4:30 p.m.
Voorhees Hall Graduate Student Lounge (basement), College Avenue Campus
(co-sponsored by the Department of Art History)
For directions or parking information, contact Samantha Kelly at
Samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu

Monday, March 29 [at NYU]
TOM PETTITT (University of Southern Denmark)
"In Quest of the Ballad: Anglo-Scandinavian Perspectives"
5:00PM
NYU, 19 University Place (just below 8th St), 1st floor, "Great Room"

Monday, March 29 [at Rutgers]
Rutgers' Program in Medieval Studies
SEETA CHAGANTI (University of California at Davis)
"Figure and Ground: Elene's Nails, Cynewulf's Runes, and Hrabanus Maurus's
Painted Poems"
6:00 p.m.
Murray Hall room 302, College Avenue Campus
(co-sponsored by the Department of English and Anglo-Saxon Studies)
For directions or parking information, contact Samantha Kelly at
Samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu

Monday, March 29
Columbia Early Modern Seminar
HEATHER DUBROW (Fordham)
"'Nor is here one single here": Lyric Immediacy and/or The Early
Modern Sonnet"
6:15PM
201D Philosophy Hall
Contact: Alan Stewart ags2105@columbia.edu

Tuesday, March 30 [at NYU]
NYU Medieval & Renaissance Center
TOM PETTITT (University of Southern Denmark)
"Folklore and Medieval Performance Culture: Confronting the Chapbook Barrier"
4:30-6:15 PM
13-19 University Place, room 228
Contact MARC at 212-998-8698 or mar.center@nyu.edu

Tuesday, March 30 [at Barnard]
Barnard Center for Translation Studies
MARKO MILETICH (Hunter College)
"Gender in Translation: Perspectives on Strong Women"
(concerning problems of translation in Cervantes' *Don Quixote*
6 pm
Ella Weed Room, 223 Milbank Hall, Barnard College.
Refreshments will be served.
For a map of the Barnard campus: http://www.barnard.edu/visitors/barnard.html

THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED:
Wednesday, March 31
A Medieval Conversation
JOEL KAYE (Barnard) and PAUL STROHM (Columbia)
6:00-7:30 PM
Room 208 of the Diana Center on the Barnard campus (to the left of the
2nd floor elevators)

Wednesday, Thursday, April 1
The Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art and Architecture
JUERGEN SCHULZ
"Communal Palaces of Northern Italy"
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn

Thursday, April 1 [at NYU]
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Forum of discussion with
EILEEN A. JOY (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
"Always Historicize?: Historicism, Post-Historicism, and Medieval Studies"
Panel includes: Patricia Dailey (Columbia), Daniel Remein (NYU) and
Karl Steel (CUNY-Brooklyn)
Reception 6:00 PM, Forum 6.30 PM
New York University, 13-19 University Place, room 222
For suggested reading and further information, contact Mo Pareles

Monday, April 5
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
PETER BURKE
"The Republic of Letters: Survival or Revival?"
6:15PM
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Tuesday, April 6
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
IVAN LUPIC (Columbia)
"Shakespeare, Milton, and the Battle of the Books
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)

Tuesday, April 6
The New York Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers and
the New York Academy of Medicine's Rare Book Room and Historical Collections
SYLVIE MERIAN (Morgan Library & Museum)
"Protection Against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian
Manuscript Bindings"
6:00PM - 8:30PM The New York Academy of Medicine Library, 1216 Fifth
Avenue and 103rd St
NYAM Library Reading Room, 3rd floor
This event sponsored by: The Guild of Book Workers, New York Chapter and
The New York Academy of Medicine Library Historical Collections
To register, please call Erin Albritton at 212-822-7364 or email
ealbritton@nyam.org
Suggested donation of $5.00 will be collected at the door

Thursday, April 8
The Robert Branner Forum
WILLIAM CLARK and TOM WALDMAN
"Rereading Abbot Suger on Saint-Denis"
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com

Thursday, April 8 [at NYU]
NYU English Department Colloquium for Early Literature and Culture in English
ELEANOR JOHNSON (Columbia)
"Feeling Time: Prose Aesthetics in The Cloud of Unknowing
6:30 PM
Room 224, 19 University Place, NYU; photo ID needed for visitors
Contact: Liza Blake elizabeth.blake@nyu.edu, Katie Vomero Santos
kathryn.vomero@nyu.edu
or Sarah Ostendrof sco229@nyu.edu

Friday, April 9
JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (University of Texas at Austin)
"Between the Heart of Christ and the Heart of Mary:
The Global Jesuit Mission in Quito ca. 1750"
4pm
622 Dodge Hall

Friday, April 9 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York
Twentieth Annual Russell Hope Robbins Lecture
ROBERT MILLS (King's College London)
"Vezelay, Counterpleasure, and the Sex Lives of Monks: Experiences in
Translation"
Respondent: CAROLYN DINSHAW (New York University)
7:30 PM, followed by reception
Room 4406 (English Program Lounge), CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Shakespeare and Sport

Shakespeare is accepting articles that are concerned with any aspect of Shakespeare and sports, athletics, or exercise for the 2011 issue, Shakespeare and Sport. We welcome articles of 6,000 words (including notes) that examine the presence and nature of sport in Shakespeare's works.

We are looking for a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches to Shakespeare and sport, which could include but is not limited to investigations of Shakespeare's use of sport, physical exercise, sporting events, physical fitness, and competitive games.

Shakespeare is a major peer-reviewed journal, publishing articles drawn from the best of current international scholarship on the most recent developments in Shakespearean criticism. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between the disciplines of Shakespeare in Performance Studies and Shakespeare in English Literature and Language. The journal builds on the existing aim of the British Shakespeare Association, to exploit the synergies between academics and performers of Shakespeare. Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents (.doc not .docx). Please visit the website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17450918.asp/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.

Send submissions to the guest editor: John J. Norton, john.norton@cui.edu

The Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700

CALL FOR PAPERS
Birkbeck, University of London, 24-5 June, 2011.

Confirmed speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Notre Dame),
Professor Pamela Smith (Columbia), Dr Joan-Pau Rubiés (London School of Economics)
PLENARY SPEAKERS: Professor Ricardo Padrón (Virginia), Professor Nicolás Wey-Gómez (Brown),
Dr Michiel van Groesen (Amsterdam)
AFTERWARD: Professor Peter Burke (Cambridge)

The period 1450-1700 saw the expansion of European seaborne reconnaissance of Africa, Asia, the
Americas and Oceania, which would lead to long-distance European empires in these regions. It also
witnessed changes in European knowledge-making practices that heralded what is often termed the
Scientific Revolution.
This conference will investigate the impact of European exploration and travel on the
structures, contents and sources of authority of European knowledge c. 1450-1700. It seeks to explore
connections between the making of knowledge and a broad range of intellectual, political, cultural,
religious and mercantile encounters between Europe and the wider world. It aims to bring together
scholars from different disciplines working on any aspect of European knowledge that included an
extra-European dimension. Forms of knowledge under consideration include ethnology, natural
history, botany, natural philosophy, geography, cartography, medicine and chronology.

Overarching questions
 In what ways was European knowledge re-shaped by exploration, imperialism and
colonialism?
 To what extent did indigenous knowledge systems influence European ‘science’?
 How did information about distant places circulate, and how was it changed by circulation?
 What was the nature of the exchanges of information and expertise between travellers,
missionaries, colonial administrators, indigenous informants, artisans, scholars, readers and
other groups from different countries? What challenges did these exchanges pose for
testimony and authority?
 What was the impact of colonial rivalries on the ways in which information was interpreted,
used and disseminated?

Possible panel themes might include:
first-hand testimony and authority; expectations and observations; circulation networks; artisans and
learned societies; cultural encounters and indigenous knowledge; gender and knowledge; empire and
knowledge; commerce and collecting; classification and the structures of knowledge; visual culture.

Proposals are welcomed for full panels and individual papers (25 mins). Individual submissions
should comprise a paper title, abstract (up to 300 words) and brief CV (max. one page) emphasizing
publications. For full panel proposals, please include an additional 300-word description of the panel
itself. Submissions should be sent to the conference organizer, Dr Surekha Davies (Birkbeck,
University of London) at s.davies@bbk.ac.uk, and to Prof. Ricardo Padrón (University of Virginia) at
padron@virginia.edu by 31 July 2010. A selection of papers will be published as an edited collection.

"Nor is here one single here": Lyric Immediacy and/or The Early Modern Sonnet

HEATHER DUBROW (Fordham)

The Columbia Early Modern Seminar

Monday, March 29 at 6.15 PM, in 201D Philosophy Hall, Columbia

All welcome.

Upcoming speakers:
Wednesday, April 14, 6.15PM: Maurizio Calbi (Salerno)
Friday, April 23, 4PM: Jonathan Gil Harris (George Washington)
Wednesday, May 5, 6:15PM: Bradin Cormack (Chicago)

Contact: Alan Stewart ags2105@columbia.edu

Shakespeare Lecture, British Academy

Enter Cælia, the Fairy Queen in her night attire: Shakespeare and the Fairies

Professor Michael Hattaway (New York University in London)

Thursday, 22 April 2010
6.00-7.00pm, followed by a drinks reception
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

Free Admittance

Do you believe in fairies? We all remember the fraught declaration made in
Peter Pan (1904): ‘Every time a child says “I don't believe in fairies,”
there's a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.’ When we turn further
back, to the age of Shakespeare, perhaps the beginning of an age of
disenchantment, can we ascertain either whether Shakespeare and other writers
‘believed in’ fairies, or what they thoughtabout them? The problem turns out to
be unsolvable, but we can examine how both writers of the English Renaissance
and Reformations and also modern theatre directors have thought with fairies,
used them to explore many aspects of life then and now. Fairy-lore was woven
into cultural debates over the proper roles for women, over masculine and
feminine sexuality – and fairies served as border-land figures in domestic and
rural life. In Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech) and A Midsummer
Night’s Dream the fairies may serve rather to signal mental states and power
the
machinery of the play than as figures of supernatural agency. We shall also
consider the ways in which the textual descriptions of the smallness of fairies
can be matched with theatrical images in selected productions.

On Paper

A symposium exploring the meanings of the material page in the era of the digital text

Saturday 3 April 2010
Canterbury Hall, Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EF

A day of short presentations and paper fondling followed by a response from Professor Leah Price (Harvard University).

For Senate House Library, financially beleaguered and facing spiraling costs for space and building maintenance, survival depends on embracing a digital future. Recent strategy documents, in line with a wider rebranding of libraries, signal a continuing move away from book storage towards a new ethos of 'information work'. Increasing use of electronic texts not only enable the library to 'cease investing in the superseded' but also place 'pre-digital' holdings under a process of 'ongoing review'. Such statements do not mean that paper's disappearance is imminent, of course, but they might reveal something about its altered status in the digital era: the printed matter that formerly constituted the library now mainly constitutes a threat to its efficiency and financial viability, in other words. Friedrich Kittler has argued that paper's monopoly as a storage medium once rendered it transparent. In the age of its supposed technological obsolescence, by contrast, it seems likely to re-emerge in all of its singularity, its quirks, its limitations, and above all its material presence.

On Paper is a one day symposium inviting reflections on the now- 'superceded', 'pre-digital' page. Via short, research-based presentations, participants are invited to consider what is lost in the transition from page to screen, and in what ways our practices of literacy have been dependent on the material surface of paper. What role do the physical inscriptions and marks of typography and illustration play in a text's meaning? Should reading and writing be understood in corporeal, tactile or sensual terms as well as visual ones, or does our interaction with the medium of paper involve emotional or psychological investments that are even more difficult to quantify? And if (as anxieties about its storage attest) the printed page has physical dimensions as well as semiotic ones, then how can critical practice account for both? What kind of methodologies allow us to approach texts in with a sensitivity to their matter as well as their meaning? Finally, in what ways has literature either reflected on its own material medium, or imagined the paper archive? By thinking these issue across different periods and genres, the intention is to spark debate and dialogue about the place paper occupies in the current disciplinary practice of Literature.
Attendance is free but places are limited. Contact Dr Gill Partington or Dr Heather Tilley to register: g.partington@bbk.ac.uk or h.tilley@bbk.ac.uk

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME:

10.00am Coffee and registration

10.20am WELCOME and opening remarks

10.30-12.00 PANEL 1: SERIALS / NEWSPAPERS / COMICS

Tony Venezia (Birkbeck College), 'Alan Moore and the Material Text: The Case of The Mirror of Love'
Maggie Gray (UCL), ' "Nothing but Flat Dead Wood": the Materiality of the Comics Page and the Impact of Digitisation'
Zara Dinnen (Birkbeck College), 'Object McSweeney's: Fetishising print in the Digital Age'
Laurel Brake (Birkbeck College), 'Paper Chains/Paper Dreams? Reading nineteenth-century serials online and on paper'

12.00-1.00pm Lunch (own arrangements)

1.00-1.20pm Book artist and graphic designer Linda Toigo will present some of her work

1.20-2.30pm PANEL 2: READING THE SURFACE

Heather Tilley (Birkbeck College), 'The "feeling reader": embossed books for blind people in the nineteenth century'
Ros Murray (Kings College), 'Scrapings of the Soul: Artaud's Cahier 395'
Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College), 'Words on and off the Page'

2.30-2.45pm Coffee

2.45- 4.00pm PANEL 3: MARKING THE SURFACE

Adam Smyth (Birkbeck College), 'Collage: Reconsidering Renaissance Writing'
Henderson Downing (Birkbeck College), ' "A modernist collage of found objects": The Second Education of Iain Sinclair'
Anthony Bale (Birkbeck College), 'Medieval graffiti, Digitization and the Emotional Archive'

4.00-5.00pm RESPONSE from Professor Leah Price, followed by roundtable discussion

5.00pm Wine reception

Supported by "In the Shadow of Senate House", Birkbeck College, and the National Research Training Scheme in English Language and Literature, Palaeography and the History of the Book administered by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Cambridge Centre for Material Texts

Inaugural Conference – 5-6 April 2010

The Centre will be holding its Inaugural Conference on 5-6 April 2010. With contributions from leading international scholars and postgraduate students from a variety of disciplines, the conference will explore a kaleidoscopic array of current approaches to many kinds of material text. Among the topics to be addressed are: maps from the middle ages to the Ordnance Survey; material modernism; literary decisions and revisions; the materiality (or not) of film; writers’ remains and their conservation; music, sound and urban space; the future of reading in the digital age; the printed image; publishing after death; border crossings in the history of the book; the current state of editing; and the relationship between writing and memory.

We are delighted to welcome Leah Price (Harvard) and Peter Stallybrass (Penn) as our plenary speakers. Other speakers include: Ardis Butterfield (UCL), Stefano Castelvecchi (Cambridge), Paul Chirico (Cambridge), Ian Christie (Birkbeck), Flora Dennis (Sussex), A.S.G. Edwards (De Montfort), Juliet Fleming (New York), Heather Glen (Cambridge), Hugh Haughton (York), Rachel Hewitt (Queen Mary), Alfred Hiatt (Queen Mary), Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge), Hester Lees-Jeffries (Cambridge), Samantha Matthews (Sheffield), David McKitterick (Cambridge), Molly Murray (Columbia), Paul Russell (Cambridge), Robin Schulze (Penn State), Sujit Sivasundaram (LSE), Andrew Thacker (De Montfort), Gary Tomlinson (Penn), David Trotter (Cambridge), Patrick Wildgust (Shandy Hall), Abigail Williams (Oxford), Henry Woudhuysen (UCL) and Andrew Zurcher (Cambridge).

The conference fee is £35 (waged)/£20 (unwaged). A number of bursaries, kindly sponsored by AMARC (the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research), are available for unwaged postgraduate students. Numbers are limited: please book now to avoid disappointment.

The Girls of Little Gidding: A Forgotten Masterpiece of Renaissance Feminism

Prof Debora Shuger (UCLA)
Tuesday 20th April, 5.30 pm
Berrick Saul Building,
Treehouse
CREMS
University of York

Contact: Kevin Killeenkk536@york.ac.uk

Job at Reading

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature

Application closing date : 23/04/2010
Salary : Grade 7/8 £33600 to £52347 p.a.
Department of English and American Literature, full-time, permanent

We are looking for an expert in Early Modern literature (1500-1750), to join our strong subject group in this large and successful department. You will be a recognized scholar and teacher with an excellent research record, looking to join an environment which strongly values the contribution you can make to Early Modern studies.

Contact: Professor Simon Dentith
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 7459
Contact email: s.dentith@reading.ac.uk

Alternatively, if you wish to apply using a hardcopy form please email recruitment@reading.ac.uk or contact Human Resources, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH or Telephone +44(0)118 378 6771 (voicemail).

Upcoming Med-Ren events at Columbia and beyond

The following are events that may be of interest to those working in
medieval, Renaissance and early modern studies. The full list is at
www.columbia.edu/cu/medren under "events".

Monday, March 22 [at NYU]
The Humanities Initiative/MARC, NYU
Book launch for PENELOPE D. JOHNSON "Negotiating Community and
Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage and the
Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom"
6:00-8:00 PM
20 Cooper Square

Tuesday, March 23
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
MARK DIMUNATION (Library of Congress)
"Forged In Fire: The Jefferson Collection at the Library of Congress"
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)

Thursday, March 25
The Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art and Architecture
KIRK AMBROSE (Colorado)
"Viollet-le-Ducís Interpolation of Judith at Vezelay: Fashioning
History through Sculptural Restoration"
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com

Thursday, March 25 [at NYU]
NYU Medieval & Renaissance Center/Department of History
KARL APPUHN (NYU)
"Bovine Boundaries: Zoonotic Diseases and the Origins of Veterinary
Medicine in Early Modern Italy"
6.30-8.30 PM
53 Washington Sq South, Room 527
Contact: MARC at 212-998-8698 or mar.center@nyu.edu

Monday, March 29 [at NYU]
TOM PETTITT (University of Southern Denmark)
"In Quest of the Ballad: Anglo-Scandinavian Perspectives"
5:00PM
NYU, 19 University Place (just below 8th St), 1st floor, "Great Room"

Monday, March 29 [at Rutgers]
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
SEETA CHAGANTI (UC Davis)
6 pm at Rutgers University

Monday, March 29
Columbia Early Modern Seminar
HEATHER DUBROW (Fordham)
"'Nor is here one single here": Lyric Immediacy and/or The Early
Modern Sonnet"
6:15PM
Room tbc
Contact: Alan Stewart ags2105@columbia.edu

Tuesday, March 30 [at NYU]
NYU Medieval & Renaissance Center
TOM PETTITT (University of Southern Denmark)
"Folklore and Medieval Performance Culture: Confronting the Chapbook Barrier"
4:30-6:15 PM
13-19 University Place, room 228
Contact MARC at 212-998-8698 or mar.center@nyu.edu

Wednesday, March 31
A Medieval Conversation
JOEL KAYE (Barnard) and PAUL STROHM (Columbia)
6:00-7:30 PM
Room 208 of the Diana Center on the Barnard campus (to the left of the
2nd floor elevators)

Wednesday, Thursday, April 1 [at NYU]
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Forum of discussion with
EILEEN A. JOY (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
"Always Historicize?: Historicism, Post-Historicism, and Medieval Studies"
Panel includes: Daniel Remein (NYU) and Karl Steel (CUNY-Brooklyn)
Reception 6:00 PM, Forum 6.30 PM
New York University, 13-19 University Place, room 222
For suggested reading and further information, contact Mo Pareles

Friday, April 2
Medieval Studies University Seminar
STEVEN VANDERPUTTEN (Ghent University)
title tbc
6:00 PM
523 Butler Library. If you do not have access to the library you must RSVP
to attend: Liam Moore, (917) 847-0107 or wrm2002@columbia.edu

Monday, April 5
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
PETER BURKE
"The Republic of Letters: Survival or Revival?"
6:15PM
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Tuesday, April 6
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
IVAN LUPIC (Columbia)
"Shakespeare, Milton, and the Battle of the Books
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)

Tuesday, April 6
The New York Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers and
the New York Academy of Medicine's Rare Book Room and Historical Collections
SYLVIE MERIAN (Morgan Library & Museum)
"Protection Against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian
Manuscript Bindings"
6:00PM - 8:30PM The New York Academy of Medicine Library, 1216 Fifth
Avenue and 103rd St
NYAM Library Reading Room, 3rd floor
This event sponsored by: The Guild of Book Workers, New York Chapter and
The New York Academy of Medicine Library Historical Collections
To register, please call Erin Albritton at 212-822-7364 or email
ealbritton@nyam.org
Suggested donation of $5.00 will be collected at the door

Thursday, April 8
The Robert Branner Forum
WILLIAM CLARK and TOM WALDMAN
title TBA
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com

Thursday, April 8 [at NYU]
NYU English Department Colloquium for Early Literature and Culture in English
ELEANOR JOHNSON (Columbia)
"Feeling Time: Prose Aesthetics in The Cloud of Unknowing
6:30 PM
Room 224, 19 University Place, NYU; photo ID needed for visitors
Contact: Liza Blake elizabeth.blake@nyu.edu, Katie Vomero Santos
kathryn.vomero@nyu.edu
or Sarah Ostendrof sco229@nyu.edu

Friday, April 9
JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (University of Texas at Austin)
"Between the Heart of Christ and the Heart of Mary:
The Global Jesuit Mission in Quito ca. 1750"
4pm
622 Dodge Hall

Staging Transgression in the Early Modern Period

Call For Papers

A two-day conference to be held on August 6th and 7th 2010 at Trinity College Dublin

Funded by The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, The School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, and The Society for Renaissance Studies.

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)
Dr. Thomas Rist (University of Aberdeen)
& Prof. Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)

Organisers:
Dr. Rory Loughnane (Trinity College Dublin) & Ms. Edel Semple (University College Dublin)

In recent years, early modern literary criticism has shown a marked interest in the concept of what constitutes transgression, the liminal and the marginal. Actions understood as transgressive were acted out on stage and described in sermons, conduct manuals, ballads, jest-books and other ‘cheap print’. Developing from this early modern literary fascination and building upon recent critical material on the subject, a two-day conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin on August 6th and 7th 2010 exploring the representation and performance of transgression in Tudor and Stuart literature. The conference is an inter-institutional collaboration organised between Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, and it aims to interrogate the early modern period’s insistent awareness of transgressive persons, places and things, deviant behaviours and communities. We invite papers that examine literary engagements with transgression in all its forms, from minor to severe violations of social, cultural, legal, political and religious norms and rules.

Papers are sought particularly in the following areas:
- transgressive individuals and communities such as criminals, witches, traitors, spies, malcontents, bawds, whores, usurers…
- deviant relationships such as those involving miscegenation, necrophilia, bestiality, infidelity or incest or those that defy boundaries of class, age, or gender…
- transgressive spaces, such as taverns, fairs, playhouses and brothels, and the violation of boundaries such as private/public, inside/outside, city/the Liberties…
- taboos and the construction and contravention of society’s norms…
- linguistic and political transgression through dissenting voices, sedition and rebellion…
- dramatic and literary transgression, such as deviations from generic conventions, pornography, controversial or libellous texts…
- rules and regulatory bodies, including but not limited to the Inns of Court, the guilds, ecclesiastical courts, and the Stationers’ company….
- heresy and orthodoxy, such as blasphemy, sacrilegious acts, desecration and the violation and subversion of religious commands….
- legal corruption and mitigating circumstances…

Please email proposals for papers to Dr. Rory Loughnane and Ms. Edel Semple at stagingtransgression@gmail.com by Monday 17th May 2010. Abstracts should be approximately 250 words in length and suggested papers should be no longer then 20 minutes.

The Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) has provided funding for several postgraduate travel bursaries. Please email the above address if you would like to apply for one of these £100 bursaries. For further information and updates please follow the link to the Staging Transgression conference blog: http://stagingtransgression.blogspot.com/

The Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quatercentenary (1611-2011)

*** Call for papers deadline: June 1st 2010 ***
7th - 9th July 2011
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: University of York

Please see: http://www.york.ac.uk/projects/bible/

Contact: Dr Kevin Killeen - bible@events.york.ac.uk

This conference, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the 1611 King James Bible, will look at the reception of the Bible in the early modern era. It will bring together an impressive range of scholars from a variety of disciplines, to assess the significance of the scriptures to cultural, political, theological and philosophical history throughout the long seventeenth century.

Papers are invited on any aspect of the reception and use of the Bible in the early modern era and might include: political, cultural or literary uses of the Bible; the history of reading and the early modern scriptures; the reception of biblical figures; the role of individual biblical books; translation and biblical scholarship in the era; theology and the Bible; Old Testament / New Testament reception; the Bible and other religions; women and the bible; anti-Catholicism and the Bible; the Radical Bible; the Bible and class.

Speakers Include: Sharon Achinstein, Hugh Adlington, David Appleby, Gordon Campbell, Elizabeth Clark, Karen Edwards, Lori Anne Ferrell, Christopher Haigh, Paul Hammond, Hannibal Hammlin, Tom Healy, Mark Knights, Peter Lake, Barbara Lewalski, Erica Longfellow, Judth Maltby, Scott Mandelbrote, Peter Marshall, Peter McCullough, Nick McDowell, David Norton, Roger Pooley, Joad Raymond, Anne Prescott, Jane Shaw, Jonathan Sheehan, Alison Shell, Yvonne Sherwood, Deborah Shuger, Nigel Smith, Peter Stallybrass, Alex Walsham, Helen Wilcox, Susan Wiseman, Blair Worden, Stephen Zwicker

Renaissance Platonism, the lost Eurydice, and Orphic Song

Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA)

Saturday 27 March 2010

EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)

The Institute of English Studies, London
STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00

NB: NOTE ROOM CHANGE FOR THIS MEETING.

Post-medieval crusades: languages, contexts, change c 1400-1700

Aberystwyth University, 7-9 June 2010

As an expression of Holy War, the notion of crusade has retained longevity still felt today. Originating as a military campaign sanctioned by the papacy in 1096 to further Christianity’s religious mission, the term crusade cannot be defined by its militant dimension alone. Devotion, penance, an ideal to inspire and the remission of sins are only some of the elements that inform the notion of crusade. A protean concept, crusade and its attendant rhetoric has pervaded much of the politics and religious zeal of those who employed it. Ideas and ideals of crusade thrived during the early modern period. Though admiration for crusade crossed the confessional divide, its subsequent appropriation and adaptation in many cultural guises across Europe also often developed along lines of nationalism, religious affiliation, ethnic/racial representations, uses of the past, military conflicts, narratives of legitimation and literary writings. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together a range of scholars from history and literary studies to identify and explore the diversity of contexts in which crusade and its language operated and was contested in the early modern period.

Confirmed speakers are Jonathan Burton, Matthew Dimmock, Almut Höfert, Kathryn Hurlock, Claire Jowitt, Stewart Mottram, Marco Nievergelt, Gregory O'Malley, Sabine Schülting, Christopher Tyerman.

There are also a number of bursaries available for postgraduate delegates

For further information, please contact:
Dr Stephan Schmuck
Department of European Languages
Hugh Owen Building
Aberystwyth University
SY23 2DY
sts@aber.ac.uk

The Decline of Magic: The Paradoxical Role of the Royal Society

Prof. Michael Hunter

25 March, 6.30 pm, Malet St, Room B30

Birkbeck Early Modern Society

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/current/societies/index_html/#earlymodern

Job!

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

RESEARCH FELLOW IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Language and Linguistic Evidence in the 1641 Depositions

In support of a major multidisciplinary Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Language and Linguistic Evidence in the 1641 Depositions, led by Dr Barbara Fennell, we are seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Early Modern English Language. You will work with the Principal Investigator (PI) and a team of other linguists, computer specialists and historians to develop a rule-system for English in 1640s Ireland which can be used to tag and analyze a digitized corpus of quasi-legal documents. You will also be responsible for interpreting the evidence yielded by the computational analysis regarding English variation in Ireland, and be responsible with the PI for publishing the results in a major peer-reviewed journal. You will be responsible with the PI for publishing the results in a major peer-reviewed journal.

Salary will be paid at £29,853 per annum on the Grade 6 scale.
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Barbara Fennell (b.a.fennell@abdn.ac.uk).

To apply online for this position visit www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively you may request an application pack by emailing your name and contact details to jobs@abdn.ac.uk or by telephoning our 24 hour answer service on (01224) 272727 quoting the job reference number LAN018R.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is Monday 22 March 2010.

It is anticipated that the first interviews will be held in Aberdeen on 25 March 2010.

The Jesuit Image of Japanese Civilisation in the Late Sixteenth Century

Dr Joan Pau Rubiés, LSE

Thursday 11 March 2010, 5:30-7pm

Venue change: Room G34, South Block, Senate House Building, University of London

The Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar, Global Japan Series

All welcome.

The Twelfth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference

17-19 June 2010
The Shakespeare Institute, The University of Birmingham

Call for papers

We invite graduate students with interests in both Shakespearean and Renaissance
studies to join us for this occasion. The interdisciplinary conference provides a
stimulating academic forum in which graduate students from all over the world can
present their research and meet together in an active centre of Shakespearean research
and theatre: Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Undergraduate students
in their final two years of study are also invited to attend the conference as auditors.

The conference will feature Shakespeare and Renaissance scholars Jonathan Bate
(University of Warwick), Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, Reno), David
Bevington (University of Chicago), and Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford). There
will also be the opportunity to attend the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of
King Lear!

Papers should be approximately twenty minutes long (3,000 words or less). Delegates
wishing to give papers must register by Friday 30th April 2010, sending in an abstract of approximately 200 words via email. We encourage early registration to ensure a place on the conference programme.
Please look at the website for more information about the event, including downloadable registration forms, plenary speakers, location and accommodation.
www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/BritGrad
Or email us at:
britgrad@yahoo.com
The Shakespeare
Graduate Conference

RE-CREATING EARLY MODERN FESTIVALS

6th and 7th JULY 2010, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM.
Second CALL FOR PAPERS

Important dates:

Deadline abstract submission- 1 April 2010.
Notification acceptance- 1 May 2010.
Early registration- from 15 March to 31 May 2010.
Late registration- from 1 June to 1 July 2010.
Full paper submission by 1 July 2010.

Further information here: http://www.recreatingearlymodernfestivals.com/

The Society of Renaissance Studies of Great Britain has kindly granted
funding a number of students' bursaries for this conference.

Further details about registration will be live soon.

Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez
PhD candidate Architecture
Teaching assistant Architectural History
The University of Edinburgh
room 4.18. Minto House
20, Chambers St. EH1-1JZ
Edinburgh, UK.

Mob: 07726705047

email: L.Fernandez-Gonzalez@sms.ed.ac.uk
laura.fernandezgonzalez@gmail.com

RICHARD BROME ONLINE: Researchers bring historical work into the digital age

March 1st 2010 marked the launch of a unique online edition of the
collected plays of dramatist, Richard Brome, the culmination of a
four-year project directed by researchers at Royal Holloway,
University of London and the University of Sheffield.

To view the online edition visit: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/brome

The project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, was
devised by Richard Cave, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Drama
and Theatre at Royal Holloway and completed under his General
Editorship by an international team of nine editors.

The aim behind the project was to provide wide-spread access to
Brome?s work for scholars, theatre practitioners, and members of the
public alike. Brome?s plays, which have not appeared in a complete
edition since 1873, are now made available through the
fully-searchable website which was the creation of HRI Digital at the
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield.

Brome, one-time secretary and assistant to Ben Jonson, wrote numerous
comedies in a range of styles that were popular from the late 1620s
until the closing of the theatres in 1642. Sixteen of these (fifteen
exclusively by him, and one written in collaboration with Thomas
Heywood) saw print in the seventeenth century. Till now they have not
been reissued in a scholarly collected edition, though several plays
have been individually edited. Each play is offered in Richard Brome
Online as a period text and in an annotated, modernised version and is
accompanied by both a critical and a textual introduction; there is a
full glossary, bibliography, stage history and search engine. Most of
the material contained in the site is printable; and access is free.

Two highly innovatory features of the edition are a result of the
online format. Both period and modernised texts can be viewed
independently or summoned on screen side-by-side for comparative
reading/viewing. Uniquely, the annotations to the plays give access to
a wealth of extracts explored in workshop by 22 professional actors,
drawn chiefly from the alumni lists of the Royal Shakespeare Company
and Shakespeare?s Globe. More than 30 hours of such performance work
is included on the site, divided into 640 episodes illustrating the
theatricality and stageability of the plays.

Professor Cave observed: ?Working with actors in the editing process
was, for the editorial panel, one of the most exciting aspects of the
collaboration. In our discussions together around meanings, tone,
actor-audience relations or characterisation, the actors?
contributions were fresh, informed, exploratory, and full of the
insights that come only from their particular kinds of experience.?

?Editors and actors developed a profound respect for Brome?s artistry
as they examined the plays together in workshops that were designed to
give the texts a theatrical life and dynamic. Repeatedly the actors
questioned why Brome?s comedies are not seen more regularly on our
stages. Richard Brome Online is designed to make Brome?s work better
known in the hope of restoring the plays to our current repertory,? he
added.

Any feedback on the editions to

R.Cave@rhul.ac.uk

Donne Manuscript Conference

15 April 2010
DRAFT Programme

9.30 Arrivals and Coffee

10.00 Welcome
Erica Longfellow, Kingston University

10.15 Donne’s Letters
Dennis Flynn, Bentley College
Chair: David Colclough, Queen Mary, University of London

11.30 Coffee

11.45 Manuscripts and the 1633 Poems
Gary Stringer, Texas A&M
Chair: Peter McCullough, Lincoln College, Oxford

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Sermon Manuscripts
Jeanne Shami, University of Regina
Chair: Emma Rhatigan, Queen’s University Belfast

3.15 John Donne the Younger and the Revision of the Sermon Manuscripts
Peter McCullough, Lincoln College, Oxford
Chair: Hugh Adlington, University of Birmingham

4.30 Closing Remarks


To register for the day please contact Erica Longfellow on e.longfellow@kingston.ac.uk or 020 8948 4112.
Cost for the day is £15 (£10 for post-graduates and unwaged).

This event is supported by the Kingston University Research Networking Fund.

SHAKESPEAREAN CONFIGURATIONS

University of Montpellier (France),
Wednesday 29 September to Friday 1 October 2010

Shakespearean Configurations is a follow-up from last year’s conference held at the
University of York (UK) during which participants took a fresh look at
configurations—and reconfigurations—of Shakespeare from the first quartos to the
most recent visual incarnations. They also offered new materials and new approaches
for studying the packaging of the plays and poems through time, between cultures and
across media.
The theme of last year’s conference was prompted by two sweeping
developments in Shakespeare studies: the sustained attack on the idea of an authentic,
original text produced by a single, isolated author; and a corresponding attention to
the reformulation and assimilation of Shakespeare’s texts in cultures very different
from the one in which they were created.
Participants in this year’s conference are invited to continue investigating
these themes. They are also encouraged to explore more specifically the relation
between the editing and/or configuring of Shakespeare’s works through time and the
various ways in which these works were appropriated by readers and audiences.
Participants may find it useful to consider the following questions:

* how did readers’ tastes influence editorial practices?

*alternatively: how did readers react to changes in editorial practice?

* how does the configuration of a text affect the way it is consumed by the public?

* how does the symbolic value or the physical and material dimension of a work alter
individuals’ sense of self and their relation to literature?

* more generally, how do the different agencies which configure a text relate?

* how far is the reconfiguration of a text a creative transformative process? Is
selectiveness synonymous with incompleteness?

*to what extent do our own scholarly frames reconfigure Shakespeare as we combine
the received text being treated with the historical moments of both the treatment and
our own study?

In addressing these and related questions, participants will employ a range of
materials, including early printed versions, bindings, illustrated editions and paintings,
editorial practices, library and museum collections, and later forms including silent
film and Manga Shakespeare.

The symposium will begin on the morning of Wednesday 29th September and
conclude in the afternoon of Friday 1 October, and will include a planning session for
the volume of proceedings.

PARTICIPANTS:

Ilaria Andreoli, Florida State
Erin Blake, Folger
Judith Buchanan, York
Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse
Lukas Erne, Geneva
Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont
Atsuhiko Hirota, Kyoto
Russell Jackson, Birmingham
Jeffrey Knight, Michigan
Sonia Massai, King’s College, London
Svenn-Arne Myklebost, Bergen
Andrew Murphy, St Andrews
Alan Nelson, Berkeley
Varsha Panjwani, York
Erica Sheen, York
Emma Smith, Oxford
Adam Smyth, Birkbeck
Sarah Stanton, CUP
Noriko Sumimoto, Meisei
Clive Wilmer, Cambridge

Agnès Lafont and
Jean-Christophe Mayer, Montpellier
Bill Sherman, York
Stuart Sillars, Bergen

Symposium organisers

Upcoming Med-Ren events at Columbia and beyond

The following events may be of interest to those working in medieval,
Renaissance, and early modern studies. The full list is at
www.columbia.edu/cu/medren under "events". If you wish to add to this
list, please contact Alan Stewart on ags2105@columbia.edu.

Tuesday, March 2
Medieval Studies University Seminar
KEES SCHEPERS (University of Antwerp)
"The Arnhem Mystical Sermons and the Sixteenth-Century Mystical
Renaissance in The Low Countries"
6:00 PM
523 Butler Library. If you do not have access to the library you must RSVP
to attend: Liam Moore, (917) 847-0107 or wrm2002@columbia.edu

Wednesday, March 3
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
THIERRY RIGOGNE (Fordham)
"Writing About Coffee, Reading in Cafes: Literature and Coffeehouses
in Early Modern France"
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)

Thursday, March 4 [at NYU]
NYU Early Modernities lecture series
BARBARA FUCHS (UCLA)
"Plotting Spaniards, Spanish Plots"
4-6 PM
19 University Place, Room 222, NYU
with light reception
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and NYUís
Humanities Initiative

Thursday, March 4
The Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art
SHEILA BONDE and CLARK MAINES
"New Excavations at the Cistercian Monastery at Ourscamp" (working title)
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com

Thursday, March 4
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
STEVEN SHAPIN
"The Ivory Tower: A History on an Idea about Knowledge and Politics"
6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Friday, March 5 [at Rutgers]
IMAGINING THE MEDIEVAL STAGE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
Keynote: Alan E. Knight (Pennsylvania State)
Speakers: Susannah Crowder (John Jay, CUNY); Olga Anna Duhl (Lafayette);
Laura Weigert (Rutgers); 9 AM-1 PM
Rutgers University, Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall (4th floor)
169 College Avenue, New Brunswick
Sponsored by the Transliteratures Project, the Programs in Medieval
Studies and
Early Modern Studies, and the Departments of Art History and French.
The symposium is free and open to the public. For directions to the
Teleconference Lecture Hall at Alexander Library, please see:
http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=17.
For further information, please contact Laura Weigert
(weigert@rci.rutgers.edu) or Ana Pairet (apairet@rci.rutgers.edu).

Monday, March 8
The Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art
MADELINE CAVINESS
"The Material Culture of the First Written Law: Evolving Spaces and
Communities in Medieval Saxony
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com

Tuesday, March 9
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
MICHAEL SUAREZ (Rare Book School, Virginia)
Title tbc
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)

Tuesday, March 9
Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance
LIN KELSEY (Yale)
"Meddling with Allegory: Spenser, Wordsworth and Coleridge"
RICHARD PETERSON (Connecticut-Storrs)
"The Influence of Anxiety: Spenser and Wordsworth"
Seminar at 7.30 PM; drinks at 5.45, dinner at 6.30
Faculty House
Contact: Ivan Lupic on il2177@columbia.edu

Thursday, March 11 [at Fordham]
Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University
MICHAEL STAUNTON (University College Dublin)
"Who was St Patrick? The 'Apostle of Ireland' in History and Legend"
4 PM
Leon Lowenstein Building, Room 519, Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham
Information: Insitute of Irish Studies, 718-817-4634, estack@fordham.edu
Directions:
http://www.fordham.edu/discover_fordham/maps_and_directions_26615.asp

Thursday, March 11 and Friday March 12
The Italian Academy, Columbia University
THE POWER OF SPACE: CITIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL/EARLY MODERN ITALY AND
NORTHERN EUROPE
To view program, register, or find out more information, please visit
http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/events_calendar.html
or email Joanna Dee at jdd2002@columbia.edu

How The Renaissance Gave Us the Modern World

Exhibition

Queens College
Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Flushing, New York

Until 27 March 2010

http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach/

Renaissance sovereignty at Stirling

[this via The London Renaissance Seminar]

SINRS ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM on RENAISSANCE SOVEREIGNTY
Saturday, 22 May, 2010.
AT UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
IRIS MURDOCH CENTRE
CALL FOR PAPERS
And England, if my love thou hold’st at aught –
As my great power may give thee sense,
Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
Pays homage to us – thou may’st not coldly set
Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
By letters conjuring to that effect,
The present death of Hamlet.
(Hamlet, 4.3.59-66) /
Sovereignty was a hotly debated topic in Renaissance England, in
Scotland and on the continent of Europe during the 16 and 17th
centuries. The issue has resurfaced in the renewed attention given to
the writintgs of Carl Schmidt, and in the work of Giorgio Agamben, as
well as in the work of scholars who have sought to augment and/or revise
the writing of Ernst Kantorowicz. Renaissance contemporaries from Bishop
John Ponet, through Sir Thomas Smith, John Knox, George Buchanan, Fulke
Greville, Jean Bodin, and others, all debated the issues of
‘sovereignty,’ sovereign ‘power’ and responsibility, comparing and
contrasting its procedures of governance with other forms of social and
political organisation. Moreover, many of these issues were dramatised
in the public and private theatres of the period.
Papers are invited for a one-day symposium on ‘Renaissance Sovereignty’
and Proposals should be submitted to the following address by Monday 29
March, 2010 , and papers should be no longer than 15 mins. duration
(10pp. double-spaced typed A4):
Professor J. Drakakis
Department of English Studies
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA
Scotland