Writing the Renaissance North

Northern Renaissance Seminar

Saturday 22^nd June 2013, 10:00am-4:30pm

Sheffield Hallam University, Room 921, Owen Building, City Campus

(http://www.shu.ac.uk/university/visit/find-us/citycampus-map.pdf)

Please contact renaissancenorth@yahoo.co.uk to register.

Keynote Speaker: Professor James Loxley (University of Edinburgh)

This one-day symposium will focus on the ways in which the idea of the north was understood, imagined and represented in the writing of the early modern period. The papers will consider early modern literary and cultural engagements with the north, both as a geographical space and an intellectual concept. The topics explored in the papers will include: the political ideas associated with the north; the roles of Scotland and the north of England in shaping the political landscape of the British isles; the ambivalence of the cultural presence of the north in relation to English and British identity; the ways in which the north figured in debates about transgressive behaviour, such as political insurrection and witchcraft; and the effect of the north upon the afterlives of literary texts in biographical narratives and modern dramatic performances. Professor Loxley’s keynote paper will examine the recently discovered manuscript account of Ben Jonson’s walk to Edinburgh and consider the contrasting topographical constructions of north and south, and of England and Scotland.

There is no registration fee and refreshments will be provided, but we do require you to email us in advance to book a place: renaissancenorth@yahoo.co.uk.

10:00 Arrival and Coffee

10:15 Session One

Harriet Phillips (Cambridge University), ‘York, York, for my money: merry ballads and the Tudor North.’

Dr Chris Butler (Sheffield Hallam University), ‘“Lancastrian Spenser”? How Far North Did He Go?’

Sheilagh Ilona O’Brien (University of Queensland), ‘“Pull for the poultry, fowl, and fish, For empty shall not be a dish”: Descriptions of sabbats and witchcraft in The Late Lancashire Witches.’

11:45 Coffee

12:00 Session Two

Dr Sarah Dewar-Watson (University of Sheffield), ‘History, Tragedy and Mary Queen of Scots.’

James Mawdesley (University of Sheffield), ‘Royalism and the Northern clergy: Exploring clerical allegiances in the Diocese of Carlisle during the English civil wars and republic.’

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Keynote Paper 

Professor James Loxley (University of Edinburgh), ‘Ben Jonson’s Road North.’

3:00 Coffee

3:15 Session Three

Dr Alisa Manninen (University of Tampere), ‘Macbeth, King James and the Anglicization of Royal Power.’

Dr Kate Wilkinson (Sheffield Hallam University), ‘“Impossible for the Production of Shakespeare”: Speaking Shakespeare in Northern and Speaking Northern in Shakespeare.’

4:15 Closing Remarks: Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University).

4:30 End of symposium.

Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, Legacy

 This conference to celebrate the life and works of Katherine Philips – poet, dramatist and letter-writer – will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on 27-28 June, 2014. The event will mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of her Poems (1664) and of her death the same year.

The conference venue is to be Marsh’s Library.

Plenary lectures will be given by Professor Elizabeth Hageman (University of New Hampshire) and Professor Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University).

The conference organisers are Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Dr Gillian Wright (University of Birmingham).

Special event: a visit to Smock Alley Theatre, where the first production of Philips’s play Pompey was staged in February 1663.

For more details see the call for papers. The conference programme will be published in September 2013.

Accommodation is available at numerous hotels throughout the city (Marsh’s Library is near St Stephen’s Green and St Patrick’s Cathedral), or try Trinity College, Dublin. It is advisable to book early.

To contact the organisers, please email katherinephilips350@gmail.com

News and the Shape of Europe, 1500-1750

Queen Mary, University of London, 26-28^th July 2013

Registration open: http://newscom.english.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/83801.html

How did news cross Europe, and how did news make Europe? News in early modern Europe was a distinctively transnational phenomenon; its topics were international in scope; the forms and terminologies of news, as well as the news itself, crossed national boundaries; practices of news-gathering relied on networks of international agents; it was widely translated; it travelled along commercial routes, or through postal networks that were designed to be mutually connected; and the forces attempting to control the press operated (or attempted to operate) well outside of their actual jurisdiction. The spread of news and the appetite for it reflect changes in the geopolitical and confessional maps of Europe, spreading through ethnic and religious diasporas as well as diplomatic, mercantile, and scholarly networks. It helped forge communities on a local, national and international scale. This three-day conference will explore ways in which this history can be written, and features speakers from across Europe and the Americas. 

News and the Shape of Europe is the final stage of the Leverhulme international network, News Networks in Early Modern Europe, a two-year investigation of news communication laying the groundwork for a European history of news.

Early Modern Paratexts 2013

University of Bristol, Clifton Hill House, Friday 26^th July

9.00-9.30              Registration and Coffee

9.30-9.40              Seating and Welcome

9.40-11.00            Panel 1, Wills Reception Room                    

People of the Paratext

Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin

‘Early Modern Women’s Poetry, Form and Paratext’

Colm MacCrossan, Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, Oxford ‘Performing Patronage in the Headers of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations (1598-1600)’

Tamara Atkin, Queen Mary, and Emma Smith, Hertford College Oxford

‘Actors, Speakers and Personated Persons: Character Lists as Paratexts in Early Modern Plays’

11.00-11.30                   Coffee

11.30-12.50                   Panel 2, Wills Reception Room                    

Prefacing the Text                  

Ben Crabstick, Independent Scholar

‘ “I shall deserve of the age”: Humphrey Moseley and the Publisher’s Preface’

Harriet Archer, Christ Church College Oxford

‘Rewriting History: The Unstable Texts and Paratexts of John Higgins’s Mirror for Magistrates (1574-1587)’

Harry Newman, Kent

‘ “[M]y intentions herein are honest and iust”: Prefacing Printed Gynaecological and Obstetrical Texts in Early Modern England’

Panel 3, Symonds Music Room                 

‘And another thing ...’

Tom Charlton, Stirling

‘ “Place these three Letters as marked’: the Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, Interpolation and Paratext’

Marion Löffler, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

‘Translation, Education and Politics: Paratexts in 1790s Wales’   

Martina Pranić, Free University Berlin

‘The Meaning in the Paratext: Changing Perspectives on  Marin Držić’s Conspiratorial Episode’

12.50-2.00            Lunch

2.00-3.20              Panel 4, Wills Reception Room      

The Paratext Proper

Camilla Temple, Bristol

‘The Emblem Book Epic and its Trans-European Readership: a Sixteenth-century Edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses’

Sophie Butler, New College Oxford

‘ “I Present thee Reader with no excellencies”: Paratextual Readers and Writers of Essays in Early Modern England’

Katherine Hunt, Birkbeck

‘Shuffled Knowledge: Text and Paratext in Early Modern Didactic Playing Cards’

                                    Panel 5, Symonds Music Room       

Disrupting Reading

Bláithín Hurley, St John’s College Cambridge

‘Paratextual Paradigms or Decorative Distractions: Illustrations in the Music Instrument Manuals of Sylvestro di Ganassi’

Lynsey McCulloch, Coventry, and Rob Tovey, Worcester

‘Designing the Early Modern Frontispiece: “All this literature is book-nurtured and book-bound” ’

Rachel Stenner, Bristol

‘Books and Things: William Caxton’s Erroneous Texts’

3.20-3.50              Tea

3.50-5.10              Panel 6, Wills Reception Room      

Shaping and Reshaping

Peter Kirwan, Nottingham

‘ “The doubtful title, gentlemen, prefixed”: Paratextual Truth Claims and Authenticity in the “Shakespeare Apocrypha” ’

Judith Atty, Queen Mary

‘Changing Paratext, Changing Meaning: from Les Antiquitez to Ruines of Rome’

Laura Moretti, Emmanuel College Cambridge

‘Ensuring Popularity: the Clever Use of Paratext in the Multiple Editions of a Japanese Early Modern Bestseller’

                                    Panel 7, Symonds Music Room       

Reading Materials

Peter Auger, Oxford

‘Printed Marginalia as Punctuation’

Lucy Razzall, Emmanuel College Cambridge

‘Printed Repositories in Early Modern England’

Rebecca Bullard, Reading

‘Signs of the times?  Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-century Secret Histories’

5.10-5.20              Comfort Break

5.20-6.10              Plenary Address, Wills Reception Room

Helen Smith, York

‘Negotiating Paratexts’

6.10-6.30              Closing Discussion, Wills Reception Room

6.30-8.00              Drinks Reception

Early Modern Paratexts 2013 Conference Website

earlymodernparatexts2013@gmail.com

Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar

The Hand in the Text: Renaissance Acts of Writing and Printerventions

A one-day symposium exploring the agency of the hand in textual transmission

Hosted by Centre for Early Modern Studies, Aberdeen

Saturday 25^th May 2013

at

Sir Duncan Rice Library

12.30-1: Tea, Coffee & Welcome
1 – 2.45: Scribes and Scripts
Sebastiaan Verweij (Oxford), In Praise of Scottish Scribes
Steve W. May (Emory/Sheffield), Matching Hands in English Renaissance Manuscripts: A Case Study
Jonathan Gibson (Open University), Varieties of Italic
2.45-3.15: Tea and Coffee
3.15 – 4.30: Re-descriptions: the hand in the printed text.
Katherine Acheson (Waterloo), Writing in Bibles: The Example of Folger 2190 (1603)
Fred Schurink (Northumbria), Re-Reading Tudor Translation from the Margin: Gabriel Harvey’s Annotations to Richard Morison’s Stratagems (1539)

For further information please contact the organiser Andrew Gordon: a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk

The Renaissance at Birkbeck: Arts Week

All events at 43 Gordon Square

Wednesday 22 May

6.00pm-7.20

‘Remembering Myself: Memory and Identity in the Renaissance’

Panel with three speakers: Dr Adam Smyth, Dr Gillian Woods, Sue Wiseman.

Wednesday 22 May 7.40-9

'Casta Paintings and the Colonial Body: Embodying Race in Spanish America'

Professor Rebecca Earle (Warwick)

Thursday 23 May 6.00pm

'Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures: A Book and Some Afterthoughts’

Professor Leonard Barkan (Princeton)

Peltz Room.

The Birkbeck Medieval and Renaissance Studies Summer School: On the River

26-28 June 2013

The 2013 Birkbeck Medieval and Renaissance Summer School will deliver exciting, cutting-edge research to postgraduates and early-career scholars, and will help participants develop crucial research skills. Hosted by Birkbeck, University of London, and located in the heart of Bloomsbury, the Summer School draws together some of Britain’s foremost scholars of Medieval and Renaissance literature, art, culture and history.

This year’s theme is ‘On the River’. We will, of course, take in Shakespeare’s Bankside and the maritime riches of Greenwich as well as Walton’s fishermen. The programme also includes a hands-on workshop in the British Library map room; lectures by Professor Paul Strohm (Columbia) and Professor Julie Sanders (Nottingham). We hope to have a print workshop (back by popular demand), to visit Greenwich and discuss maps at the British Library. There will be opportunities, too, to talk about your own research interests. Workshops and seminars will be led by Birkbeck staff including Anthony Bale, Zoltan Biedermann, Stephen Clucas, Jess Fenn, Adam Smyth, Sue Wiseman, Gillian Woods.

A limited number of scholarships will be available to students from Britain or overseas. These will vary in size but may be up to £100 plus full remission of the fee. Please send a one-page CV and a statement outlining your research interests and your reasons for applying for the scholarship (up to 350 words).  These need to be submitted as word documents clearly labelled SCHOLARSHIPS. Please e-mail these to bmrss@bbk.ac.uk by Wednesday May 8.

Details and booking forms here.

Early Modern Approaches to the Imagination

University of Warwick, 17th July

A one day interdisciplinary colloquium on early modern approaches to the imagination is to be held at the University of Warwick on 17th July.  Themes will include (among others) the imagination and dreams, the poetic imagination, imagination and trauma in literature, conversion and the imagination, the demonic imagination, the musical imagination, theological approaches to the imagination, and the imagination and health. Speakers include Angus Gowland, Koen Vermeir, Helen Smith, Bernard Capp, Freya Sierhuis, Katharine Craik, Lesel Dawson and Jacomien Prins.
Further details, including how to register, can be found here: http://warwick.ac.uk/earlymodernimagination

GABRIEL HARVEY: RENAISSANCE READER

Matching up the margins: across Gabriel Harvey’s books

Dr Matthew Symonds (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, UCL)

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How Gabriel Harvey read his Castiglione

Dr Chris Stamatakis (English Department, UCL)

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Respondent: Professor Lisa Jardine (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, UCL)

UCL, Foster Court 233

Wednesday 29 May, 4.30 pm