Birkbeck Early Modern Society

‘Aspirations’ Conference
Saturday 10 September, 2011 Birkbeck Malet Street Building
room tbc

10.00


Registration, coffee

10.30


Birkbeck Early Modern Society AGM

11.00


Conference 'Aspirations'

Opening Remarks: Karen Chester

Session 1: Chair: Timothy Alves



Susan Gane, Birkbeck

The Aspirations of Common Soldiers in the Early Eighteenth Century.



Laura Bolick, Open University

Cherishing Greece: Cardinal Bessarion and the Attempt to Save a Culture.




DISCUSSION

12.45


Lunch Break



Session 2: Chair : Laura Jacobs



Sarah Watkins, Birkbeck

‘The Wonder of all Wonders’ or ‘a mind hardened in sin’? The Aspirations and Motivations of Early Modern Fasting Women and Their Commentators.



Steve Orman, Canterbury Christ Church University

“Nathan Field’s Literary Aspirations in the Early Seventeenth-Century”


Jackie Watson, Birkbeck.

Portrait of Aspiration: Thomas Overbury and Jacobean courtiership

DISCUSSION

3.45

Closing remarks: Karen Chester



3.50


Wine reception


For details of our aims and events please see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/current-students/societies-student-groups/early-modern-society