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2021
December
November
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CEMS Research Seminar: Thomas Coryate and the Histories of "Tourism"
-We welcome Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki (Warwick) whose paper is entitled 'Thomas Coryate and the Histories of "Tourism". All are welcome to this online meeting of the CEMS Research Seminar.
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CEMS Research Seminar: Taking Licences: Shakespeare, Forgery & Early Modern Rogue Culture
-Derek Dunne is a lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University. His current research project is on ‘Shakespeare’s Licence’, examining the power of paperwork in early modern England and how this makes its presence felt in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His first monograph, Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy, and Early...
October
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CEMS Research Seminar: Municipal Play and the Home Fans (A Leisure Complex in Congleton)
-What can a council leisure centre from the 16th and 17th centuries tell us about the early modern English playhouse? And what connections does it reveal between recreation and community identity? I address these questions by sharing a draft case study from the forthcoming book, What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620 (Routledge...
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CEMS Research Seminar: Welcome
-A welcome event open to all staff, PGRs, and PGT students with research interest in Late medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern studies across all disciplines.
March
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31st March: Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster) 'Upon that text dilate I coulde, durst I with betters to be boulde': Performing Libel in Early Modern England
-On 31st March, at 1pm Centre for Early Modern Studies will host Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster), via MS Teams. Please register for the meeting here. The CEMS Research Seminar welcome Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster) for the final research seminar of the term. All Welcome. Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster) ‘Upon that text dilate I coulde,...
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24th March: "The Salvage Imaginary: Gender and Objects in The Taming of the Shrew."
-On March 24th, at 1pm Centre for Early Modern Studies will host Dr McKenna Rose (Georgia IT), via MS Teams. Please register for the meeting here The Taming of the Shrew stages the ways that laying waste to domestic material commodities produces an idealized division of the sexes. The broken glasses and...
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17th March: 'Dispossession in Lace: Jacobean Ruffs and Early English Colonialism'
-Wed 17th March If you wish to attend this seminar please register here. Dr Lauren Working (TIDE Project, Oxford): 'Dispossession in Lace: Jacobean Ruffs and Early English Colonialism' Three thousand miles from London, amidst tobacco leaves and animal bones, archaeologists in Jamestown have unearthed five goffering irons – the tools used to shape...
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Friday 12th March CEMS Research Symposium: Print and Prints in the Early Modern World
-This CEMS symposium presents new research into early modern print culture, in both textual and visual contexts. Each paper consists of twenty minutes for the speaker, and a further ten minutes for questions.
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3rd March: 'Itching ears: Desire for news in the 1620s'
-Wed 3rd March If you wish to attend the seminar please register here. Dr Kirsty Rolfe (Leiden), 'Itching ears: Desire for news in the 1620s' In the early 1620s, a flood of foreign news entered England, dealing with the war in Bohemia and Germany (the beginnings of the conflict that would later become...