‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’ (Oxford, 5-7 September)

Online booking is now open for the interdisciplinary conference ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’ (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 5-7 September 2011). The event brings together case studies and conceptual papers exploring the roots of local, regional, and national intellectual traditions within concrete features of political, economic, confessional, and physical geography. There is an exciting line-up of speakers and projects, and the prices are a bargain – just £45 for the full three days, or £16 by the day. For full details and a link to the online shop (under ‘Registration’), please visit the conference website:

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/intellectualgeography

The event is the second conference of the research project ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’, a collaboration between the Bodleian Libraries and the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For full details of our activities, please visit:

http://www.culturesofknowledge.org

Recasting the Past: A Conference on Medievalisms

Conference: Book Encounters, 1500-1750 (Bath Spa)

Friday 1 July 2011

Corsham Court Centre, Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University’s newly formed Book, Text and Place (1500-1750) Research Centre is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, ‘Book Encounters, 1500-1750′. In keeping with the Centre’s focus on early modern literary culture, place, and the history of the book broadly defined, this conference explores a wide variety of encounters with the book: from different cultural and geographical sites of production, circulation and reception to various disciplines and periods within early modernity.

Conference fees: £30; £20 students (note: a conference subvention covering fees for students has been generously provided by The Bibliographical Society; students interested in attending the conference should contact Chris Ivic.

Conference programme

Tawney’s Agrarian Problem 100 Years On: Landlords and Tenants in Rural England c.1400-c.1750

11-12 July, Exeter University

Full programme and booking form for the conference are available here.

For further information, contact Jane Whittle.

Rebellion, Riot and Revel: The West Country in the Seventeenth Century

9th – 10th July 2011

 A Conference in Memory of David Underdown

Supported by the Department of History, University of Exeter and the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society

This two-day conference is to be held in memory of David Underdown’s unique contribution to the history of the West Country in the early modern period. Talks will reflect all aspects of David’s work, particularly in relation to the themes of:

• Political allegiances and commitment in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries • The nature and motives behind involvement in collective actions and protests • The effects of religious change and conflict in local communities • Crises of authority and gender within regions and localities • The cultures of ordinary people, and their bases in different local and regional settings, particularly sports, customs and festivities.

For registration details, contact Jenny Lea.

Cornwall Conference: Environment and Identity

Conference: Environment and Identity

20-21 July 2011

Pendennis Castle, Cornwall (supported by English Heritage).

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, climates, communities, identities, resources, and global narratives of environmental change.

Provisional Programme

Registration Form

Wednesday: Sangha on Angels

In the last Centre for Early Modern Studies seminar of  the term, Dr. Laura Sangha (History) will speak on ‘“Incorporeal Substances”: Angels and Belief in Seventeenth-Century England’.

That’s Wednesday 30 March, 4-6pm in Queens MR3, to be followed by the usual refreshments.

PhD Funding! Studentships in English at Exeter



The Department of English is offering excellent funding opportunities for exceptional researchers across a range of subjects in the area of English Studies. These opportunities include up to three AHRC Doctoral Awards (open to UK/EU students only): all tuition fees paid for three years. UK students will also receive an annual maintenance grant for three years, which we expect to be £13,590 per year.

Applicants for the MA English Studies are also eligible to apply for funding.

The deadline for applications is 11 February 2011.  To discuss a specific project relating to the literature of the early modern period, contact any one of the members of the Renaissance Research Group (link on the right).

Phd Mini-Colloquium: “Leaving Shore” (Wednesday)

The next meeting of the Early Modern seminar will be this Wednesday 10 November in Amory B219 (note the change from our usual location this year). Please come along for our first mini-colloquium of the year, on the theme of “Leaving Shore.” The speakers and paper titles are as follows:

Michael Lea-O’Mahoney (History): ‘The Importance of Seapower in the English Civil War’

Kate Arthur (English): ‘”A foreign court lands here upon your shore’: Models of kingship in Persian drama’

Jo Esra (English): ‘”Terribly Turkished”: Losing Hearts and Minds in 17th Century Barbary’

The seminar will be video-conferenced to the Cornwall campus as usual. Exceptionally good refreshments will be served after the papers.

Olivier’s Shakespeare at LSC-KCL, 30/10

Olivier’s Shakespeare: Violence & Memory

A colloquium at the London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London

Saturday October 30

For full details, see here.

The programme features a paper by Jennifer Barnes (University of Exeter) on  ‘Richard III and post-war national identity’.