Event Archive

'The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment' -- cancelled --!!

'The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment'

CEMS Annual Lecture

This event was cancelled

Brian Cummings - 'Petrarch and the Arts of Memory'

Miranda Anderson: 'Early Modern Distributed Cognition'

Miranda Anderson's new book, Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture draws out what was distinctive about medieval and Renaissance insights into (and superstitions about) the cognitive roles of the body and environment and examines how humanities topics are affected by new insights from the cognitive sciences.

Union and Its Legacies. Poland-Lithuania since 1386 A Symposium to mark the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin

Union and Its Legacies. Poland-Lithuania since 1386 A Symposium to mark the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin  Programme Friday 31 January 5:30pm Introduction (Robert Frost) 5:45: Formal Opening of the Centre (speeches from ambassadors) 6:15 pm Keynote Public Lecture Chair: Robert Frost (Aberdeen) Norman Davies (Oxford) ‘Polish’ Studies: Past, Present & Future. Reception and Buffet Saturday 1 February Keynote Lecture 9:30-10:30 Chair: Michael Brown (Aberdeen) Robert...

CEMS Research Seminar - Paul Botley (Warwick), 'Johannes Woverius of Hamburg (1574-1612) and the Idea of the Scholar'

Wednesday 6th November 1-2 pm. MacRobert 266 (and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate) Paul Botley (Warwick),  ‘Johannes Woverius of Hamburg (1574-1612) and the Idea of the Scholar’ Paul Botley is Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University. He has published widely on aspects of Renaissance...

CEMS Research Seminar - Chloe Preedy (Exeter), 'The Mists of Error': Predicting Disaster on the Early Modern Stage'

Wednesday 16th October 1-2 pm. MacRobert 266 (and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate) Chloe Preedy (Exeter), 'The Mists of Error': Predicting Disaster on the Early Modern Stage'   In early modern England, moral and medical understandings of pollution often converged. As a result, errors in judgment or character might be figured through references to...

Newberry joint conference.

On 10-11 October 2019, a joint conference will be held at the Newberry Library Chicago.  The event is a follow up to the Reading the Ministry event, held at the University of Aberdeen in November 2018.

"Shakespeare on the Surface" - Liz Oakley-Brown

A CEMS Research Seminar and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate

CEMS at the RSA

In March 2019 CEMS is hosting a series of panels at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Toronto.

Conference "Reading the Ministry, 1520-1848"

Call for Papers - Deadline 31 July 2018 The Centre for Early Modern Studies and the Special Collection Archives at the University of Aberdeen, in cooperation with the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies in Chicago, are inviting papers on the theme of "Reading the Ministry, 1520-1848".