Environment and Identity Conference

20-21 July 2011, Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall

Hosted by Exeter University and English Heritage at Pendennis Castle, and also supported by the PPRE (Peninsula Partnership for the Rural Environment), this conference is part of a series of research networking events funded by the AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme. Previous workshops organised by the network were designed to explore early modern discourses of environmental change and sustainability. The conference will extend this scope and bring together scholars interested in a variety of time periods and subjects from across the humanities, social sciences, development studies and policy forums. Its purpose is to generate interdisciplinary, comparative thematic and cross-period collaborations to explore the ways in which individuals and groups express, negotiate and transform their identities in response to changing environmental conditions. The interdisciplinary panels address specific issues under the following broad themes: landscapes and communities, climates, identities, resources, and global narratives of environmental change.

http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/networks/emdecs/

Conference programme

http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/collegeofhumanities/ourresearch/documents/Conference_programme.pdf

Registration

Registration forms can be found at:
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/collegeofhumanities/ourresearch/documents/ConfPendennisRegForm.pdf

http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/collegeofhumanities/ourresearch/documents/ConfPendennisCreditCardAuthorisation.pdf

Completed forms should be sent to: Humanities Research Office, Queen’s Building, Queen’s Drive, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QH.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be available on our University campus (Tremough) in Cornwall and can be booked direct with Tremough Campus Services by telephoning 01326 370 466 or by emailing hospitality@tremoughservices.com. Further details can be found at http://www.tremoughservices.com/visitoraccommodation/ . When you book, please inform them you are booking for the Environment and Identity conference. Current rates are from £28.75 B&B single occupancy. Double occupancy is also available.

There are also many hotels and B&Bs in Falmouth which can be booked through Find Falmouth Hotels. The following are especially convenient for the conference venue: The Falmouth Hotel, The Greenbank Hotel, Wellington House B&B, The Westcott B&B.

Further information Dr Ayesha Mukherjee (a.mukherjee@exeter.ac.uk); Dr Nicola Whyte (n.m.whyte@exeter.ac.uk)

Job!

Lecturer in late seventeenth century English Literature - CD7083

University of St Andrews

Description
School of English £36,862 - £45,336 pa Start: 1 September 2011

View the vacancy online.

Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces

Call for Proposals, Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 21-June 23, 2012

Attending to Early Modern Women, which has been held seven times at
the University of Maryland since 1990, is moving to the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, thanks to the generous support of the College of
Letters and Science at UWM. The conference will retain its innovative
format, using a workshop model for most of its sessions to promote
dialogue, augmented by a keynote, and a plenary session on each of the
four conference topics: communities, environments, exchanges, and
pedagogies. It will be held at the UWM School of Continuing Education
Conference Center in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, within easy
walking distance of the lakeshore, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the
Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Amtrak station. Attendees will stay
in the near-by and newly renovated Doubletree Hotel. The conference
will run from Thursday June 21 through Saturday June 23, 2012, and
attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a special
pre-conference seminar on Wednesday June 20 at the Center for
Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Detailed instructions on submitting workshop proposals may be found
on the conference website:
www.atw2012.uwm.edu


Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces

How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how
did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How
did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner
space of the body to the outer spaces of the cosmos? How do new
disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways in which we
think, write, and teach about the early modern world? Taking as our
inspiration the move of Attending to Early Modern Women from Maryland
to Milwaukee, we will consider these issues in relationship to the
following topics:

Communities
Women’s actions in neighborhoods, villages, cities, states, and
empires; family and kinship networks; establishing and breaching
boundaries in sexual and gender expression; religious communities;
exclusions, exiles, and expulsions.

Environments
Gendered landscapes and soundscapes; the body and its borders; built
and invented realms and frontiers; cartographic spaces; gender and the
new cosmology and anatomy.

Exchanges
Travel, migration, and displacement; imagined spatial crossings; new
interdisciplinary connections; the circulation of manuscripts, books,
objects, and ideas; consumerism and material culture; transnational
and transoceanic links.

Pedagogies
Traveling new routes in teaching; the virtual spaces of technology and
teaching; early modern women in the realm of museums and galleries for
adults and children; issues in academic institutions and in publishing.

Detailed instructions on submitting workshop proposals may be found on
the conference website:
www.atw2012.uwm.edu

For further information, please contact:

Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Chair of the Organizing Committee
merrywh@uwm.edu

CHARTING THE FUTURE AND THE UNKNOWN IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE

The twenty-third Medieval and Renaissance Conference at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City.

Saturday December 1, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts sought for potential papers on topics related to “Charting
the Future and the Unknown” in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:

imagining the future in scientific/ literary discourses and ina rt
articulations of newness, the unexpected, the unforeseen
apocalyptic visions and eschatology
scientific approaches to the unknown
cartographic representations of terrae incognitae
divination
transcribing/representing new realities, languages, peoples.
prophecy in historiography
poets as vates (prophets)
astrological discourses
messengers in literature, e.g. in tragic theater

Please submit an abstract (1 page) and (short) CV to Professor Phillip
John Usher (MedRenConference@barnard.edu) by September 15, 2011.

Birkbeck Early Modern Society

Prof. Stuart Carroll (University of York), ‘The Duel’, Thursday 23 June, 6.30 pm, room B36, Malet Street, followed by end of year party in room B02.

Family in the Renaissance

Wheaton College is excited to host the 2011 New England Renaissance
Conference on "Expanding Relations: Family in the Renaissance" on Saturday,
November 12, 2011. Along with panels, Professor Anthony Grafton of
Princeton University and 2011 President of the American Historical
Association will give the keynote address.

Please send us a 250-word abstract and CV by August 15, 2011.

On-site registration of $15 will include light breakfast, lunch, and a
reception.

Wheaton College is conveniently located between Boston and Providence, at
the intersection of I-95 and I-495. More information, including directions
and lodging, can be found at out website:
http://wheatoncollege.edu/renaissance/. Please feel free to contact us with
any questions.

All are welcomed to attend and we look forward to seeing you in November.

Sincerely,
Touba Ghadessi
ghadessi_touba@wheatonma.edu

Gen Liang
ygliang@wheatonma.edu

Research Assistant/Associate: AHRC Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project

University of Glasgow
College of Arts
School Critical Studies
Ref: A60039
Salary: Grade 6 £25,584 - £29,099 / Grade 7 £31,798 - £35,788 per annum
You will carry out high-quality research in the AHRC funded Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project, particularly in relation to the editing and analysis of the original manuscript letters. Assisting the PI, you will make a substantial contribution to the creation and development of the online edition of c. 236 letters, hitherto practically unedited, written to and from Bess of Hardwick from the 1550s to 1608.
For informal enquires, please contact Dr Alison Wiggins (email: alison.wiggins@glasgow.ac.uk)
This post has funding for 7 months.

Apply online at www.glasgow.ac.uk/jobs

Closing date: 13th July 2011.

Dr Alison Wiggins
PI AHRC Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project
Senior Lecturer in English Language
School of Critical Studies
12 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel: 0141 330 3918
Email: alison.wiggins@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/englishlanguage/research/researchprojects/bessofhardwick/

THE GASCOIGNE SEMINAR 2011

The third Gascoigne Seminar will be held on Friday 23rd September 2011
at Lincoln College, Oxford. This year the programme includes a lute
recital and a paper on Gascoigne and music, a session which should set
Gascoigne firmly in context as a courtly poet-performer. The full
line-up of speakers and topics is:

Prof Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University, Illinois), "The animal
poems in The Noble Arte of Venerie"

Prof Mike Pincombe (University of Newcastle), "Gascoigne and his
Contemporaries"

Dr Gavin Alexander (University of Cambridge), "Gascoigne and Music"

Dr Jane Griffiths (University of Bristol), "Gascoigne and Skelton"”

Chris Goodwin (Lute Society), "Gascoigne's 'Gascoigne's lute,
Gascoigne's sparrow and Gascoigne's goodnight"

Dr Andy Kesson (University of Kent), "Gascoigne's Supposes"

Prof William Kerwin (University of Missouri), "Gascoigne and Marston"

Dr Gillian Austen (University of Bristol), "Gascoigne's Literary
Reputation since 1603"

Michael Hetherington (University of Cambridge), "Gascoigne and
Miscellanies"

This small international conference is supported by the Society for
Renaissance Studies, who have made funding available to encourage
postgraduates' participation. Any postgraduates or early career
academics who would like to take up a funded place should email Gillian
Austen as soon as possible.

The conference fee is just £35 (£30 to members of the SRS) and includes
an excellent lunch and refreshments throughout the day. The programme
will start at 9am (for registration) and the day will end at around
5pm. Spaces are very limited so please email g.austen@bristol.ac.uk as
soon as possible to reserve your place.

Adjunct instructor post

The Department of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz

For the fall 2011 semester and possibly beyond, we seek an adjunct instructor to teach one
section of our 4‐credit British literature survey course, part I (Beowulf through Milton) and up
to two 3‐credit sections of Shakespeare. All three are upper‐division classes for English majors,
and are therefore an excellent opportunity for an ABD or new PhD to gain crucial experience
teaching in these key content areas.
The fall semester begins August 25 and concludes December 20. These courses are already in
the fall schedule and are filled; they will meet Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Applicants are invited to send a cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information of
three referees to Professor Thomas G. Olsen, Chair of English, at the address below. Hard copy
or e‐mail attachments are acceptable. A brief portfolio of teaching materials is welcome but not
required. Review of materials will begin June 30, in the hopes of making an appointment in
early to mid July.

Professor Thomas G. Olsen, Chair
Department of English
SUNY New Paltz
JFT 714
600 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, New York 12561
english@newpaltz.edu
Deadline: Closing date for applications is June 30, 2011.

Objects in London

The next meeting of Birkbeck's Feeling Objects reading group will take place on Monday 20 June, 3-5pm, Keynes Library (room 114), 43 Gordon Square.

We'll talk about 'Description: objects and their afterlives'.

All the (short) readings are here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_seminars/feeling-objects/description-objects-and-their-afterlives

Do come!

Adam Smyth and Aoife Monks

'Public and Private Spaces in the Early Modern World (1485-1700)'

9 September 2011, Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street,
University of Sheffield

10.00-10.45 Registration and coffee

11.00-12.20 First Session

Panel 1: The Court (chaired by Jessica Edmondes)

Helen Graham-Matheson (Queen Mary, University of London) 'Elizabeth
Parr and female agency in Elizabethan foreign affairs.'

Courtney Cooke (University of Sussex) 'Video et taceo: the silent
language of the 1575 Kenilworth Entertainments.'

John McTague (Oxford University) ''To peep as it were under the
Queen's Cloaths': the veiled birth of James Francis Edward Stuart,
1688.'

Panel 2: Instruction and Decorum (chaired by Adam James Smith)

David Andrew Porter (University of Cambridge) 'Public and private
spaces in Scottish Renaissance satire.'

John Gallagher (University of Cambridge) 'Creating spaces through
language: the early modern phrasebook.'

Naya Tsentourou (University of Manchester) 'Performing devotional
retreat in the closet.'

12.20-13.20 Lunch

13.20-14.40 Second Session

Panel 3: Public Spaces, Private Enclaves (chaired by Gavin Schwartz-Leeper)

Stephanie Appleton (University of Birmingham) 'Locating privacy in
Stratford-upon-Avon, c. 1530-1650.'

Eoin Price (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) 'Drama in
dark corners: disguised duke plays and the politics of privacy.'

Kristen Klebba (University of Cambridge) 'Parochial authority and
civic green space in London, 1605-1720.'

Panel 4: Self-Fashioning Hands (chaired by Claire Bryony Williams)

Amritesh Singh (University of York) 'Sovereign mistress: the
'love-letters' of Elizabeth I to François Duke of Anjou.'

Amanda Pullan (Lancaster University) ''Divine décor': biblical
narratives in private space, c. 1650-1700.'

Catherine Hunt (Bristol University) 'The public, the private and the
wearing of gloves.'

14.40-15.00 Coffee

15.00-16.20 Third Session

Panel 5: Manuscript and Print Cultures (chaired by Edward Smith)

Simon Jackson (University of Cambridge) ''Of the composition of mee
Herbert of Cherbury': the 'private' musical practices of Edward, First
Lord Herbert of Cherbury.'

Michael Hetherington (University of Cambridge) 'Talking cobblers:
natural reason, common sense, and the public audience for poetry in
the 1580s and 1590s.'

Emily O'Brien (Trinity College Dublin) ''Published in the world':
privacy and publicity in early modern murder narratives.'

Panel 6: Faith and Religion (chaired by Victoria Van Hyning)

Christian Schneider (Durham University) 'Peace, piety and public
opinion - promotion of the papacy in the reign of Pope Clement VIII
(1592-1605).'

Chris Langley (University of Aberdeen) ''Using faithfulnes, painfulnes
& dilligence': implementing domestic reformation in Scotland,
1650-1658.'

Cassie Gorman (University of Cambridge) 'Thomas Traherne and the
individual, intuitive understanding of 'ALL THINGS'.'

16.20-16.45 Coffee

16.45-17.30 Keynote address: Professor Steven W. May (University of
Sheffield) 'Verse Libel, Fable, and the Fall of Essex.'

17.30-18.00 Drinks. Speakers and guests are invited to join us for
supper at a local restaurant; to book a place please let us know by
e-mail when registering (supper not included in the registration fee).

Venue: Humanities Research Institute, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield, S3 7QY

Time: 10.00 registration for 10.45 start. Close 17.30

Registration: £10 (SRS members: £5)

To book a place at this event please contact Jessica Edmondes
(j.edmondes@sheffield.ac.uk) or

Claire Bryony Williams (c.b.williams@sheffield.ac.uk) by 31 August 2011.

Indoor Jacobean Playhouse Postdoctoral Research Associate

(King’s College London/Shakespeare’s Globe)

Six months, part time: 2 days a week. Closing date: 27 June 2011

Project: Sam Wanamaker’s vision for the Globe extended beyond the “wooden-O” – one of the most iconic and atmospheric performance spaces in London. In addition to a purpose-built education centre, which is due for completion this spring, he also intended there to be a second indoor theatre space – the skin of which was incorporated into the blueprint of the Globe complex. When Shakespeare’s Globe finally opened in 1997 after more than twenty-seven years’ planning and four years’ construction, the indoor Jacobean theatre was left as a shell, to be divided and partitioned into rooms for education workshops and rehearsals. Now, fourteen years after the theatre opened, the Globe is about to embark on the restoration of this indoor theatre to its intended purpose, with a stunning new interior. The research associateship will contribute to the research required to create this interior.

Role: We seek a postdoctoral research associate to conduct research into the materials, interior decorative specifications and staging conditions of early modern indoor theatres in order to assist the Shakespeare Globe Trust as it embarks upon its project to construct a playhouse based on the Worcester College drawings (17th century) thought initially to be by Renaissance architect Inigo Jones, but now understood to be the work of his protégé John Webb. The RA will work closely with Dr Farah Karim-Cooper (Globe Education) and Professor Gordon McMullan (London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London) and will report both to the Globe Architecture Research Group and to the Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. The research associateship is designed to participate in developing the intellectual frameworks which will underpin the physical build of the new theatre space at the Globe and the production of plays in the new space; it is also designed to encourage knowledge exchange between Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s and to contribute to the development of meaningful cross-disciplinary activity at King’s, as appropriate. The role will therefore build on the existing relationship between the London Shakespeare Centre and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre – currently manifest in the joint running of a highly successful MA programme, a collaborative doctoral research project, a series of joint postgraduate research seminars, and the joint teaching of a popular BA module – at post-doctoral collaborative research level.

Methodology:

· Archival Research

· Site visits (to survey extant historic buildings/houses with a view to gathering information about decorative schemes and types of materials)

· Analysis of indoor repertories of period 1599-1642

· Workshops (to determine conditions of staging and decorative design and the relationship of the design to aspects of future performance)

Dissemination:

· Written reports and oral presentations to Globe Architecture Research Group and Project Management Committee and to the Director and members of the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s

· The organisation of, and contribution to, a one-day conference on indoor playing to be held at King’s in October 2011

· Contribution to publicity/profile of the project for fundraising and awareness.

Person specifications:

· Must have (or is close to receiving) a Ph.D. in Early modern Drama and /or Theatre and an appropriate track record of research/interest in the practicalities of early modern drama

· Must work and communicate well with others

· Must be able to demonstrate efficiency and experience in archival work

· Experience in the running of conferences/colloquia would be an advantage

· Knowledge-transfer experience would also be an advantage

For further enquiries please contact Professor Gordon McMullan gordon.mcmullan@kcl.ac.uk or Dr Farah Karim-Cooper farah.k@shakespearesglobe.com

Please send a CV and a cover letter specifying your suitability to the role to Jamie Arden (Head of Operations and Events, Globe Education) jamie.a@shakespearesglobe.com

Intercultural Knowledge Transfer: Europe and Islam in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

International Workshop, 15 June 2011, 5-7pm, Christopher Ingold Ramsay Lecture Theatre Gower Street UCL

This workshop investigates the role of culture and knowledge transfer
between different religious communities, focusing, in this case, on
exchanges between mediterranean culture of late antiquity and emerging
Islam, Jewish-Islamic cultural transfer, and instances of knowledge transfer
from Islamic sources to Jewish communities. Thus, the workshop proposes to
understand religious communities as arenas of knowledge production and
reception, as cultural contexts stimulating knowledge exchange and transfer.

Speakers:

• Prof Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin), The Kor'an as a
text of late antiquity
• Dr François de Blois (UCL), Medieval Islamic Science: Its
Achievements, Limitations, and Transmission to Western Europe
• Dr Ilana Wartenberg (UCL), A late medieval conversion algorithm
between the Muslim and Jewish calendars by Isaac Ibn al-Ahdab

• Chair: Dr François Guesnet (UCL)

The event is free but registration is requested. For further information,
see:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/highlights/intercultural

British Country House

Registration is now open for The Intellectual Culture of the British Country House 1500-1700, a multi-disciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex, 13th-15th of July.

The Intellectual Culture of the Country House, 1500-1700 is an international conference to be held at the University of Sussex over three days in July 2011. It emerges from and celebrates the fruitful connections established in recent years between the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Sussex and Petworth House (the southern seat of the Earls of Northumberland in this period), but is intended to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working in many different contexts, both inside and outside the academy, to explore fresh perspectives on this newly vibrant field.

The intellectual networks associated with country houses in the early modern period – with library collections at their centre – will be charted by two plenaries who are leading figures in this area: Professor James Raven (History, University of Essex) and Professor Maurice Howard (History of Art, University of Sussex). Professor Raven’s plenary – ‘Country Houses and the Beginning of Bibliomania’ – will be a public lecture organised in conjunction with the National Trust and Lord Egremont, and will be held at Petworth House.

We encourage interested students and members of the public to attend – the public lecture at Petworth will be free to all.



For information on how to register, please visit: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/countryhouse/about/registration

For more details visit the website or email S.F.Davies@sussex.ac.uk.

Inarticulacy: An Interdisciplinary Early Modern Conference

University of California, Berkeley
November 12 - 13, 2011

When Cordelia responds to Lear with “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/My heart into my mouth” she both does and does not follow her own resolution to “Love, and be silent.” Like Hamlet before her, Cordelia has “that within which passeth show,” however, as a character on the stage, she is bound by literary convention to speak. Yet broader conventions, perhaps even necessity, compel human expression to manifest in human voice. As some philosophers have argued, to see and to be seen is not the only activity that provides the objective reality to subjective experience, but also to hear and to be heard. But what happens when words do not seem to suffice? And how can a scholarship dependent on reconstructed 'presence' interpret such absences, silences, and imprecisions in literary texts, the historical record, and visual media?

This conference concerns such moments at the intersection of speech, silence, and wordless expression, inviting papers of eight to ten pages (approximately 2,000 words) on the topic of inarticulacy in the Early Modern period. Aspects to consider include:

Gaps and silences in written records
The visual arts  
Translation and its attendant anxieties
Material historicism
Reading or staging silence
The role of material objects or landscape
Religious writing and the limits of human knowledge
Incorporating others’ words (intertextuality)
Ekphrasis
Quantification and taxonomy
Stage history
Protestant logocentrism and its discontents
The inexpressibility topos
Representations of grief and trauma
Censorship and surveillance
Unfinished works

Please submit paper titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words to BerkeleyEarlyModern@gmail.com by September 1, 2011. If you have any questions feel free to contact the conference organizers at the same address. We’ll look forward to reading your submissions!

Stephanie Bahr
Rebecca Munson
Stephanie Moore
Trudy Obi
Jane Raisch
Jason Rozumalski

The Winter’s Tale symposium

12 November 2011
Northern Renaissance Seminar series, University of Liverpool
This one-day Symposium is a part of the larger month-long Liverpool
Winter’s Tale Festival celebrating the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It aims to enhance our understanding of
this complex play, and papers presented at the symposium may focus on
the text at the moment of production, its relationship with its
predecessors and contemporaries, both within Shakespeare’s own writing
and beyond, its transmission through editorial processes, as well as its
interpretation through contemporary performances and re-readings.
Confirmed speakers include Helen Cooper (Cambridge), Subha Mukherji
(Cambridge) and Lori Humphrey Newcomb (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign).
We warmly invite proposals for 15-20 minute papers. Proposals for
papers, including titles and abstracts (of no more than 300 words)
should be sent to Nandini Das (ndas@liverpool.ac.uk) before 31st July 2011.
We are also delighted to offer up to 3 bursaries of £100 each, which
will be awarded to postgraduate speakers courtesy of the Society for
Renaissance Studies, www.rensoc.org.uk.

Christopher Marlowe in Performance CFP

NeMLA, April 15 – 18, 2012.

This panel seeks to examine the stage history of Christopher Marlowe’s
dramatic
works, considering the literature as the product of a theatre artist.
Papers will be asked to approach Marlowe'splays from a theatrical
standpoint, in order to discuss what we might learn from by examining
the force of performance as a
shaping factor in the reception of Marlowe’s small but vibrant body of work.
Papers that discuss cinematic treatments of the plays, as well as
considerations
of Marlowe’s place in Elizabethan stage history are also welcome. Please send
abstracts of 250 words to Louise Geddes at LGeddes@adelphi.edu. Deadline for
submissions is September30, 2011.

The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester,
New York at
the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient
air, bus,
and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will
serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are
coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as
celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.

Building upon the excellence of past NeMLA conferences, the
association continues to grow as a vibrant community of scholars,
thanks to the wide array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at
every venue. Compact yet diverse,
Rochester also boasts important historical connections; it is the site of the
home, publication operations, and orations of Frederick Douglass,
where he edited the North Star, as well as his eponymous periodical,
and delivered the speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”.
Visitors can explore the houses of abolitionist, suffragette, and
reformer Susan B. Anthony and the inventor of devices popularizing
photography, George Eastman, as well as shopping and eateries;
attendees will also be within reach of the beautiful Finger Lakes
region, known for its local wineries.

http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html

Louise Geddes
Assistant Professor of English
Adelphi University,
Harvey Hall,
One, South Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530

Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature

School of English, Leicester

Salary Grade 7 - £30,870 to £35,788 per annum

Fixed term contract from 3 October 2011 to 29 June 2012

Ref: AHL00124

This fixed-term Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature will contribute significantly to the delivery of Renaissance literature and drama teaching in the School of English. We are looking for a dynamic Early Modern specialist to join our team of lecturers to deliver undergraduate teaching during academic year 2011-12.

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made either to the Head of English, Professor Martin Halliwell, tel: 0116 252 2645 or email mrh17@le.ac.uk or to Dr Sarah Knight, tel: 0116 2522631 or email sk218@le.ac.uk. Please note that details of the core undergraduate modules in English can be found at www.le.ac.uk/english/resource/index.html.

Applications

For further information and to apply on-line, please visit our website: www.le.ac.uk/joinus

The closing date for this post is midnight on Sunday 12 June 2011.

We anticipate that interviews will take place on 23 June 2011.

Candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted by the University. If you do not receive a communication from the University within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

LECTURE: THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE

by Prof. Felipe Fernández-Armesto

As part of the Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700
conference, there will be a free lecture open to all:

Prof. Felipe Fernández-Armesto (University of Notre Dame), 'The global
Renaissance'
24 June 2011, at 18:00
Room 421, Malet Street, Birkbeck

The lecture will be followed by a reception sponsored by the Journal of
Early Modern History.

Booking is essential; space is limited. If you would like to attend, please
get in touch with Nadia Atia (n.atia@bbk.ac.uk) to reserve a place. (And if
you would like to attend the whole conference, please register at the
website below.)

Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 24-5 June, 2011
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/news/global-dimensions-of-knowledge

The Intellectual Life of Early Modern Sussex

June 29th 2011, 11.00 – 6.00

The Assembly Rooms and George Bell House, Chichester Cathedral.

A one day symposium organised by the University of Chichester’s department of English and Creative Writing and the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Sussex.

Featuring papers by Brian Cummings (Sussex), Michael Questier (Queen Mary’s), Caroline Adams (West Sussex Record Office) and Andrew Foster. Topics include Elizabeth I’s visitation to Chichester, the Midhurst Jacobean Catholic Plot to rule the world and the role of Lancelot Andrewes and Samuel Harsnett in the Arminian crisis. There will also be an opportunity to view items from the Cathedral library, including material from the remains of Bishop Henry King’s collection which was sold after the siege of 1642.

For further details and to register, please contact Paul Quinn, p.quinn@chi.ac.uk