STERN GRANT FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO ATTEND NACBS CONFERENCE 2014 COMPETITION The NACBS STERN GRANT is intended to provide financial assistance for graduate students who attend the annual NACBS meeting. Recipients may receive up to $500 in reimbursement for travel, lodging, and registration costs incurred as a result of attendance. Guidelines for applicants: You must… Read More Conference grants for British Studies students
Congratulations to everyone who’s done with finals, and to our most recent graduates! EMS blog posts will resume in September. Until then, have a wonderful summer, and check out this website for The Great Parchment Book. It’s a survey of Irish lands held by the City of London, dated 1639. The pages are badly crumpled… Read More Witte and Whimsy: The Great Parchment Book
FRANCESCO ERSPAMER (Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University) Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Royce 314 at 4:00 PM, UCLA “From Vasari to Galileo, the statue as a metaphor and representations of the lost unity of knowledge and of the invention of what we call culture” The metaphor of the statue is examined in this talk by… Read More May 20: “From Vasari to Galileo, the statue as a metaphor . . .”
An exhibition at the Library of the Royal Society of Medicine to mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare Most Wholesome Physic: Medicine in the Age of Shakespeare, 1564-1616. An exhibition at the Library of the Royal Society of Medicine to mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Tuesday… Read More EMS World: London Royal Society of Medicine Exhibition
All ABDers and anyone looking for a dissertation topic, take note: the Huntington has a new database of William Cecil’s papers! This is a fantastic resource, be sure to take advantage: The Cecil Papers are (digitally) coming to the Huntington! There is a free trial until access is finalized: https://trials.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=6IEGQHO2LBJ5DLV4XY1Q. For now, you must be… Read More New Huntington Database: The Cecil Papers
(For all those who already have their Huntington reader’s card!) “Aeon Information Sessions” Hosted by Reader Services, each Brown Bag session will include an overview of the Aeon interface, Aeon’s impact on library services, and will leave time for questions. In addition, we will cover how Aeon partners with the online catalog, Huntington Digital Library,… Read More May 13 and 20: Aeon Information Sessions at the Huntington
We have priority admission for these, and travel funding may be available to you – please contact Dr. Ferrell no later than 15 June if you would like to apply for any of these seminars! Fall 2014 Ten-Week Graduate Seminars Application deadline: May 15 How to Read “contraires choses”: Encounters with the Roman de la… Read More Apply for Fall Newberry Library Seminars
***EMS World posts keep you updated on the wider world of EMS.*** 2014-2015 Programs Renaissance / Early Modern Translation (2014-2015 Year-Long Afternoon Colloquium) Researching the Archive (2014-2015 Year-Long Dissertation Seminar) Narratives of Conversion in Reformation Europe, ca.1550-1700 (Fall 2014 Faculty Weekend Seminar) Science in Early Modern Atlantic World Cultures (Fall 2014 Seminar) … Read More EMS World: Folger Shakespeare Library Workshops 2014-15
The Folger Shakespeare honors our consortial relationship with the Newberry Library, so funding is available for this! Please contact Dr. Ferrell no later than June 15th if you are interested in applying for this workshop. Advanced Early Modern English Paleography Heather Wolfe December Weeklong Workshop This workshop provides intermediate and advanced paleographers with the opportunity… Read More Folger Library Paleography Workshop
Of special note: the USC/UCLA joint course “Political Opposition in Early Modern Europe & the Turn Toward Modernity,” and the Huntington’s Revisiting Revisionism conference on May 16-17! Wednesday, May 14, 2014 EMSI Book Party The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute is throwing a year-end party, celebrating the recent book publications by Emily Berquist, Joseph Boone,… Read More May 5 EMSI Newsletter
Here are a few more MSA events, but they’re members-only. Check out their website if you’re interested in joining! Your favorite RA will be forwarding all events together from now on, so make sure to check if it’s a members-only item, and join if you’d like! (http://miltonsociety.org/) MLA 2016 MSA annual meeting and conference site… Read More Interested in Joining the Milton Society of America?
Please see below for some upcoming Milton Society of America events (you don’t have to be a member!) MSA Committee for Scholarly Awards Nominations will be accepted until today, May 1, 2014, for the following annual memorial awards: the James Holly Hanford, Irene Samuel, John T. Shawcross, and Albert C. Labriola awards. For submission guidelines,… Read More Milton Society of America: Upcoming Events
Please see below for lots of upcoming Huntington Events, research-oriented and otherwise! There are several family-friendly activities too. LECTURES & CONFERENCES Ridge Lecture – How Things Happen: Words into Action on Shakespeare’s Stage MAY 6, TUES, 7:30 PM Bradin Cormack, professor of English at Princeton University and author of A Power to Do Justice and… Read More Huntington Library Upcoming Events
Distinguished Fellow Lecture Anatomy, Cartography, and the New World Body May 8 (Thursday) 7:30 p.m. During the so-called “age of discovery,” European cartographers and anatomists developed novel strategies for representing the human body in their atlases of the world and its inhabitants. Valerie Traub, professor of English and women’s studies, University of Michigan, and the… Read More May 8: Anatomy, Cartography, and the New World Body
The Claremont Early Mod Squad 