Friendship, Politics, and the Uses of History

Early Modern Research Centre University of Reading, Thursday 12 May 2011
Colloquium
Keynote speaker: Professor Blair Worden

11.00–12.00

Jacqueline Rose (Newnham College, Cambridge):

Friendship and Flattery in the Politics of History and Counsel



12.00–1.00

Kate Loveman (University of Leicester):

Pepys, patronage and scholarly service



1.00–2.00 Lunch



2.00–3.00

Freyja Cox-Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford):

‘Et tu, Brute?’: friendship, betrayal and the uses of Roman history



3.00–4.00

Abigail Williams (St Peter’s College, Oxford):

Friendship and the intimacy of letters in Swift's Journal to Stella



4.00–4.30 Tea




4.30–5.45 Keynote lecture


Blair Worden (University of Oxford/Royal Holloway University of London):

Friendship, Politics, and the Uses of History: Clarendon and Ben Jonson



There will be a charge of £10 for refreshments (postgraduates free). If you wish to attend, please book a place by e-mailing Astrid House (a.house@reading.ac.uk), stating that you wish to attend the EMRC colloquium on 12 May 2011.