Seventh Annual King's Gollancz Lecture: Ian Smith
“History’s Hollow Men: Manufacturing Blackness in Love’s Labour’s Lost”.
Ian Smith is Professor of English at the University of Southern California and current President of the Shakespeare Association of America.
Research Networks: What Makes a Research Community?
Join us on Zoom to hear provocations, thoughts, and discussion from an interdisciplinary panel on just what it is that constitutes a research community. ECRs particularly encouraged to attend.
Beginning a PhD in Early Modern Studies
Our first PGR workshop of 22/23 brings together a panel of current PhD students to discuss what they’ve learnt about the process of starting a PhD.
Online, via Zoom (registration link in event listing).
Sixth Annual King’s Gollancz Lecture: Marisa J. Fuentes
“Buried ‘Without Care’: Social Death, Discarded Lives, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”.
Marisa J. Fuentes is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History; and Presidential Term Chair in African American History, 2017-2022, at Rutgers University.
Research Positions: Postdoctoral Fellowships and Opportunities
The third event in our professional development series for early career researchers, in collaboration with the London Shakespeare Centre.
This workshop will explore some of the various postdoctoral opportunities available to ECRs and offer insights into how to identify and apply for these.
Digital Findings: Making the Most of Online Resources
The second event in our professional development series for early career researchers, in collaboration with the London Shakespeare Centre.
This online workshop will introduce attendees to specific digital tools, as well as discussing strategies for conducting archival research at a distance.
First Monographs: Thesis to Book
The first event in our professional development series for early career researchers, in collaboration with the London Shakespeare Centre.
This online workshop will discuss topics related to publication plans, including putting together a book proposal and the practicalities of turning a PhD dissertation into a monograph.
London's Records of Slavery: Network, II.
The second event in our closed network that connects academic researchers with archivists, librarians and curators across private and cultural sectors to explore work on institutional links with the historical slave trade.
Public Sphere Reading Group
The first meeting of a new interdisciplinary reading group, which will look at Jürgen Habermas’s Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere and other texts related to the public sphere theme.
Meeting link in the event listing.
Beginning a PhD in Early Modern Studies
The first PGR workshop of the Winter ‘21 term brings together a panel of current PhD students and early career researchers to discuss what they’ve learnt about the process of starting a PhD.
Psychosomatic Early Modern
A colloquium exploring the connection between the mind and the body in early modern medicine, literature, and thought. This event has now passed.
Performance in History
Hosted in collaboration with the London Shakespeare Centre, 'Performance in History' was a series of conversations that took place over three evenings in June 2021. Whilst the series has now passed, you can still catch up with the recordings by viewing the event page.
Events Image Bibliography
Beginning a PhD in Early Modern Studies: Pieter van der Heyden, after Pieter Bruegel (I). De Ezel in School. 1557. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Book Launch: Marguerite de Navarre: A Critical Companion, by Emily Butterworth: Master of François de Rohan, ‘Marguerite de Navarre donne son ouvrage à Anne de Pisseleu, duchesse d'Etampes. Miniature tirée d'un manuscrit de La Coche ou débat d'amour’, c. 1542. Musée Condé, Ms.522, f.43v.
Book Launch: Strangers Within: Anthony van Dyck. Filips Godines. ca. 1630. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München.
Careers Beyond Academia: Cornelis Gerritsz Decker, Weaver’s Workshop, ca. 1659. Rijksmuseum.
CEMS Book Club: Philippe de Champaigne, Still-Life with Skull. ca. 1646. Wikimedia Commons.
CEMS Reading Group I: Codex Mendoza. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, [MS. Arch. Selden. A.1, fol. 65r].
CEMS Welcome: Courting India Book Club: Front Cover. Courting India (Bloomsbury, 2023).
CEMS Winter Breakfast: Floris Claesz. van Dijck. ‘Stilleven met kazen’. ca. 1615. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
CfP: Rethinking State and Society: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. ‘A Fête at Bermondsey or A Marriage Feast at Bermondsey.’ (c. 1571). Wikimedia Commons.
Churchyard Poetics Book Launch: Front Cover, Churchyard Poetics (OUP, 2024).
Digital Findings: Making the Most of Online Resources: Willem van Swanenburg, after Jan Cornelis Woudanus. ‘Plate 2: The Library of the University of Leiden’. 1610. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Early Modern Projects: Liber quindecim missarum, à præstantissimis musicis compositarum (Nuremberg, 1539), Tenor book, fol. 47v. Copy owned by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek, München, Cim. 44n(1 (= 4° Liturg. 448).
Early Modern Siege Narratives: Anonymous. A Briefe Declaration of the yeelding vp of Saint Denis to the French King the 29. of Iune, 1590 (London, 1590).
'Fictions of Consent’: An Evening with Urvashi Chakravarty: ‘Indenture of apprenticeship for James Holden.’ Folger Shakespeare Library, X.d.734. Taken by Urvashi Chakravarty.
First Article Workshop: Qian Gong. Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion. 1607. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
First Monographs: Thesis to Book: Jan Davidsz. de Heem. ‘Still Life with Books’. 1625 - 1630. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Ideas of Poverty in the Enlightenment: Giacomo Ceruti. ‘Little Beggar Girl and Woman Spinning.’ 172o. Web Gallery of Art.
Institutions of Enlightenment: Education, Family, and the Public Sphere: Charles Philips. ‘The Strong Family’. 1732. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Law and the Early Modern: Power, Speech, Form: Pieter de Bloot. The Lawyer’s Office. 1628. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
London’s Records of Slavery, I. Network: ‘Medical Patients in Sierra Leone, 1791’.
London’s Sources of Slavery Workshop: Wenceslaus Hollar, William Morgan and John Ogilby. ‘A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London’ (1677), British Library Maps Crace Port. 2.61.
Multilingual London: Georg Braun. View of London in Civitates Orbis Terrarum. 1600 - 1623. (LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection). (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Performance in History: C. Walter Hodges. Stage Setting Design Drawings. Folger Shakespeare Library, ART Box H688, no. 1 pt. 3 (LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection). (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Preparing Your First Academic Article: Jehan de Beau-Chesne. ‘Demonstration of the Proper Ways to Hold a Pen’ in A Booke Containing Diuers Sortes of Hands (London: Richard Field, 1602). LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection. (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Preparing Your First Academic Article, Stage II: Summer Workshop: Ja'far Baisunghuri. "Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja. 1431-2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Psychosomatic Early Modern: Rembrandt van Rijn. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp. 1632. Mauritshuis, The Hague.
Public Sphere Reading Group: Anon. ‘Interior of a London Coffee-house’. ca. 1690-1700. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Publishing your First Academic Article: Rechterhand met ganzenpen, Simon Frisius, after Jan van de Velde (I), 1605, Rijksmuseum.
Race and the Early Modern: New Scholars, New Scholarship: ‘Tabula Colorum’ from Richard Waller, ‘A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours with a Specimen of Each Colour Prefixt Its Properties’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 6 (1688). Image from the General Research Division, The New York Public Library.
Reckoning with Slavery: A Public Symposium with Jessica Morgan: Annibale Carracci. ‘Portrait of an African Slave Woman’. ca. 1580s.
Reflecting on Black Lives in the English Archives: A Workshop: Detail from 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll, John Blanke.
Research Networks: What Makes a Research Community?: Narsingh. ‘Akbar and the Jesuits’. ca. 1600-1603. © Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
Research Positions: Postdoctoral Fellowships and Opportunities: Gerrit Dou. ‘An Evening School’. ca. 1655-57. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Rethinking State and Society in EM Britain: Detail from Francis Winter’s Last Farewell (London, 1693).
Rethinking the Public Sphere: Enlightenment Messages for the Post-Covid World: Abraham Bosse, Réunion de dames. 1636.
Seventh Annual King’s Gollancz Lecture: Ian Smith: from the cover of Ian Smith, Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race (Cambridge, 2022).
Sixth Annual King’s Gollancz Lecture: Marisa J. Fuentes: Jackson Pollock. Untitled. 1949. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Death of Nature: Environmental Humanities and the Early Modern Period: Charles Sheeler, ‘Church Street El’. 1920. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public Domain.
Ways of Knowing the Early Modern: 'Adrian Poll, the Apothecary’s Assistant'. 1614. From Hausbuch der Mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung. Nuremberg Stadtbibliothek, MS Amb. 279.2 (Landauer I), f. 86r.
Women’s Work in Seventeenth-Century London: Laura Gowing in conversation with Hannah Dawson and Amy Louise Erickson: Geertruydt Roghman. ‘Two Women Sewing, Plate 1 from Five Feminine Occupations’. ca. 1640–57. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Ye Olde Pub Crawl: Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peasants Making Merry outside a Tavern 'The Swan'. c. 1630. Wikimedia Commons.