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Launch of the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies (SCEMS) – The University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield’s new centre brings together over 30 academics specialising in the early modern period (1500-1800), one of the largest communities of early modernists in the world.
The centre’s combined expertise ranges from the late medieval to the late 18th century, from musicology to social history, and from Yorkshire parishes to American colonies; from literary editing and manuscripts, to news-books and novels, to material culture and social practice; from history and literature to linguistics and philosophy.
SCEMS also brings together scholars of the three ‘long’ centuries which make up the early modern period: the long 16th century, the long 17th century, and the long 18th century.
Research Associate: Publishers and Writers in Shakespeare’s England
St John’s College, Oxford, UK
Applications are invited for a one-year fixed-term position as a Research Associate at the St John’s College Research Centre in Oxford University… on a study of the economics of book production in early modern England, exploring the relationship between publishing, writing, and social status. The successful applicant will have a doctorate in early modern English history or literature, with particular reference to print culture and book history….
Grade 7 for Academic and Academic-related staff, currently starting at £29,541 p.a.
Full-time for one year from 1st October 2013.
Deadline: Friday 26th April 2013
Call for papers | Popes and the Papacy in early modern English culture
An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sussex, 24th-26th June 2013
Suggested topics include:
Anti-Catholic satire
Literary and pictorial representations of Popes and the Papacy
Pre-Reformation and recusant culture
Diplomacy and correspondence
Art and architecture
Religious controversy/ Theological dispute.
Or any topic related to the theme of the conference. Papers on the later 17th century are particularly welcome.
300 word proposals for papers and panels should be sent to Paul Quinn by March 15th 2013 (extended deadline).
more: Call for papers | Popes and the Papacy in early modern English culture.
Colloquia: Ephemerality and Durability in Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
University of Cambridge 24-25 May 2013; Huntington Library, San Marino, California 27-28 September 2013
Call for graduate / early career participants
This pair of colloquia will examine the fragility and robustness of early modern objects, exploring not only the matter of their material, but also the transitory or forgotten ways in which they were experienced and used. Reflecting on the sensory and temporal dimensions of artefacts, we will consider the effects upon them of memory, habit, and custom, exploring themes such as impermanence, decay, repair, and recycling. While seeking to recapture the early modern contexts that determined ephemerality and durability, we will ponder also the unspoken gaps in museums, libraries and archives, and how these themes shape current scholarship.
Funding for travel and accommodation is available to enable participants to attend the California meeting.
Applications deadline: Monday 25 March
Conference: Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World
10-11 May 2013, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
An international group of scholars will examine the circulation of objects across regions and cultures in the early modern period (1500–1800), addressing the ways in which mobility led to new meanings, uses, and interpretations. Break-out sessions will invite the audience to consider these questions during an examination of objects from the Getty’s collections. A closing roundtable will provide an opportunity to discuss the methodological and theoretical potential of this line of inquiry for the study and teaching of art history.
Cosponsored by the Getty Research Institute and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
CFP: Place and Preaching (John Donne Sermons project)
a conference which will reassess the ‘place’ of preaching in Early Modern Europe in all its aspects
The organisers welcome proposals (250-500 word abstracts) for further papers on any of the following aspects of sermon culture in Early Modern Europe: Roman Catholic preaching; architectural settings and auditories of preaching; sermons in manuscript and print; performance and delivery; sermon hearing, note taking, and commonplacing; production and reception of patristic and other theological works; rhetoric; and more.
Deadline: 1 May 2013
more: John Donne Sermons – 6-7 September 2013 – Place and Preaching.
Conference: Domestic Dissidents
Domestic dissidents: a reexamination of the lives, exchanges and everyday experiences of radical religious women, 1500-1800
University of Warwick, UK, 10 June 2013.
This one-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars of all levels whose research touches upon the everyday lives and networks of dissident women in early modern England, America and Europe. Traditional histories of sectarian and non-conformist women in the early modern period have attested to the prominent role women had in the spread of religious sectarianism and the survival of individual movements such as the Methodists, Baptists, Quakers and Catholic recusants. However, very little has been discussed about the non-religious elements of these womens’ lives and experiences and how their religious affiliation affected their position as wives and mothers and as members of communities.
The Board of Longitude goes digital
We’re delighted to announce that the Cambridge Digital Library has just launched some samples of material from the Board of Longitude archive, which is being digitized under the JISC-supported project, ‘Navigating Eighteenth Century Science and Technology: the Board of Longitude’…. The rest of the archive will go online this summer, but we’d like to get feedback on how it works and things we can do to improve it.
CFP: Gendering the Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
One day conference, University of Leeds, 13 July 2013.
This conference aims to connect recent scholarship in the areas of book-history and material culture to work on Romantic constructions of masculinity and femininity by considering how men and women in the long eighteenth century imagined their relationship to textual objects. How did cultures of production, consumption, and exchange contribute to the construction of gendered identities? Did these practices and identities change over time, and how far was the book itself a gendered object?
Deadline for submissions: March 1st 2013.
Open Yale Courses: Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts
Syllabus and lectures of videos from a course taught by Professor Keith Wrightson at Yale University.
This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Particular issues addressed in the lectures will include: the changing social structure; households; local communities; gender roles; economic development; urbanization; religious change from the Reformation to the Act of Toleration; the Tudor and Stuart monarchies; rebellion, popular protest and civil war; witchcraft; education, literacy and print culture; crime and the law; poverty and social welfare; the changing structures and dynamics of political participation and the emergence of parliamentary government.
Lectureship in 17th-19th Century Caribbean History – University of Leeds
We welcome applications from historians interested in any aspect of Caribbean history, although we do not expect to make an appointment in the history of the modern Caribbean, nor to appoint someone with research interests in 19th -century Cuba, and Mexico after 1870… You will cover undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Caribbean history, in the period since 1600. You will be able to teach at all levels of the undergraduate programme, and be able to contribute to the MA programmes as well as to supervise research students… You will be expected to work closely with colleagues in the ‘Wider World’ section of the School and with the University’s Institute for Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies, and also to develop this strand of history as part of the School’s policy to foster ‘public engagement’.
University Grade 7 (£33,230 – £36,298 p.a.) or University Grade 8 (£37,382 – £44,607 p.a.)
Closing Date: 12 February 2013
more: Lectureship in 17th-19th Century Caribbean History – University of Leeds – jobs.ac.uk.
Research Associate (East Meets West) – University College London
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher based in the Department of History at UCL to work with the British Library and with two UCL research teams (from the East India Company at Home project and the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project). …
Ideal candidates will hold (or have recently submitted) a PhD in history or a related subject and have a proven track record of high quality research on the colonial history of the 18th and/or 19th centuries as well as a demonstrable interest in public engagement.
Three months, Full Time, UCL Grade 7 £32,375 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
Closing Date: 1st February 2013
more: Research Associate (East Meets West) – University College London – jobs.ac.uk.
Lectureship in Eighteenth Century History – University of Leeds
Applications are invited for a Lectureship in British and / or European History of the ‘long eighteenth century’ in the School of History. We welcome applications from historians interested in any aspect of British or European history in the period 1660-1848, although given the existing strengths among the staff of the School we do not expect to make an appointment in British history post-1800. This is a permanent, full-time post, and you will cover undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in British or European history, in the period 1660-1848. You will be able to teach at all levels of the undergraduate programme, and be able to contribute to the MA programmes as well as supervise research students.
University Grade 7 (£33,230 – £36,298 p.a.) or University Grade 8 (£37,382 – £44,607 p.a.)
Closing Date: 12 February 2013
more: Lectureship in Eighteenth Century History – University of Leeds – jobs.ac.uk
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies special issue: The Early Modern and the Digital
Call for Essays
It is well understood that “the digital turn” has transformed the contemporary cultural, political and economic environment. Less appreciated perhaps is its crucial importance and transformative potential for those of us who study the past. Whether through newlyâand differentlyâaccessible data and methods (e.g. “distant reading”), new questions being asked of that new data, or recognizing how digital reading changes our access to the materiality of the past, the digital humanities engenders a particularized set of questions and concerns for those of us who study the early modern, broadly defined (mid-15th to mid-19th centuries).
For this special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies (JEMCS), we seek essays that describe the challenges and debates arising from issues in the early modern digital, as well as work that shows through its methods, questions, and conclusions the kinds of scholarship that ought best be doneâor perhaps can only be doneâ in its wake. We look for contributions that go beyond describing the advantages and shortcomings of (or problems of inequity of access to) EEBO, ECCO, and the ESTC to contemplate how new forms of information produce new ways of thinking.
We invite contributors to consider the broader implications and uses of existing and emerging early modern digital projects, including data mining, data visualization, corpus linguistics, GIS, and/or potential obsolescence, especially in comparison to insights possible through traditional archival research methods.
Deadline: 15 January 2013
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