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WORLDWIDE ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS ETC.
List of English Department Homepages Worldwide:
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/links/engdpts.html. List of History Departments Around the World: http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts/departments.qry?function=form. College and University Home Pages - Alphabetical Listing: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html.
WITCHCRAFT RESOURCES
The Witchcraft Bibliography Project site offers an extensive bibliography
on witchcraft (downloadable as a file, over 100 pages) at http://www.hist.unt.edu/witch.htm. See also The Salem Witch Museum site at http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/.
EMLS MAKES ITS MOVE; NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
EMLS (Early Modern Literary Studies) is an old favourite. It has been based
at the University of Alberta's Department of English since the September
1997 issue (3.2). All of which makes very little difference to
web-searchers since its permanent address (PURL) has stayed the same:
http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html. However, the contact addresses have changed, with various things now based at Alberta. So check out the website to make sure you get details right. Oh, and issue 3.2 is ready for access: Articles by Dennis Kay, Chris Fitter, Victoria Burke and Elizabeth Clarke of the Perdita Project, and various reviews.
TLS ARCHIVE ON-LINE
This service is only available to those who pay up for a subscription to
the paper TLS, but it is pretty good. There's a searchable archive of
issues since October 1994, and they are available from six months after
publication. The URL is http://www.the-tls.co.uk.
GASCOIGNE ON-LINE George Gascoigne's The Steele Glas & the complaynte of Philomene(1576) is now available online at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/steel/steel.html. This is one of the many electronic texts under the aegis of web-hero Richard Bear, who has for some time been on-line Spenser king. Catch him at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm.
LEAR/CORDELIA WEBSITE
The question 'is Lear's fool actually Cordelia?' may seem to some to lend
itself to a one-word answer. However, there is a website dedicated to the
proposition at http://www.ar.com.au/~rgm/student.html.
PARISH BOUNDARIES
A useful new research project based at Exeter, UK, which will reconstruct
and make available in electronic map form the boundaries of all the
pre-1850 parishes, townships and other local administrative districts of England and
Wales. It will be published as a CD-ROM. If you can't wait to find out
more, the man with the plan is Roger Kain, r.j.p.kain@exeter.ac.uk.
EARLY MODERN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY AT CUNY
The colloquium series of the CUNY Renaissance Studies Program, Renaissance
and Early Modern Cultural Geography: The Places of Identity, 1500-1700, can
be viewed under '1997-98 Colloquium Series' on the CUNY website:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/renai/.
Papers for these colloquia will be made available on the website as they
are received. At the moment, Malcolm Smuts's paper, 'Rituals of Power and
National Identities in Seventeenth-Century Britain', appears on the
website.
CONFRATERNITIES
The Society for Confraternity Studies has set up an electronic discussion
list. Persons interested in joining the list should send the usual command
subscribe confrat Your Name to: listserv@unc.edu. The Confraternities
journal published by the SCS has its own web site (including archives) at:
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CRRS/Confraternitas/index.htm. The SCS gathers scholars working on medieval and Renaissance confraternities, lay religious associations, and popular devotion or spirituality.
CLASSICS SEARCHING VIA KENTUCKY
There is a very flexible and impressive web-searching resource based at the
U of K: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/lexindex.html. It searches just about every on-line classics-related resource, via bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, rhetorical devices, etc. etc. etc. Quite an achievement.
BRITISH ACADEMY SERVER
Worth a mention as we've only just realised it exists: http://britac3.britac.ac.uk/.
REED WEB SITES UPDATED
The associated group of Web sites for the Records of Early English Drama
project at Victoria College, University of Toronto, has just undergone its
annual upgrade and revision. They now have even more links to early music
and archival sites plus (for the first time) a full listing of the REED
collections in progress with the names and e-mail addresses (where
available) of their editors. The publication list has been up-dated to
include their latest collection, Bristol, edited by Mark C Pilkinton, now
available from the University of Toronto Press.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (ISCT)
Fourth meeting at the University of Tuebingen (Germany), July 29 - August
2, 1998. Papers were invited on all aspects of the transmission, reception, and
impact of Graeco-Roman antiquity on other cultures and later periods, from
the ancient world itself to the present time. The deadline for submission
of abstracts and proposals (for papers and panels) was December 15, 1997. Information is available from Professors Wolfgang Haase and Meyer Reinhold at isct@bu.edu.
INTERNATIONAL THOMAS MORE CONFERENCE
At St Patrick's College, Maymouth, Co Kildare, Ireland, 9-16 Aug 1998:
'Thomas More in his Time: Renaissance Humanism and Renaissance Law'. For
information/booking contact the Conference Organiser - Rev. Prof. Thomas
Finan, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, e- mail: floodj@tcd.ie.
FORMS OF PERSUASION
The fourth international, interdisciplinary conference in the early modern
period at the University of Reading, 7 - 10 July, 1998 seeks to explore and
debate the means of persuasion (in a wide variety of texts and arenas) and
its reception and interpretation. All papers should be historically
located. The date span should be considered about 1520- 1700, but treated flexibly.
Proposals (of about two pages) should be sent to Cedric Brown as soon as
possible or at least before the end of March, 1998, e-mail: C.C.Brown@reading.ac.uk.
FULKE GREVILLE CONFERENCE
'Fulke Greville is a good boy': A Symposium on the Life, Times and Writings
of Fulke Greville, to be held at Shrewsbury School; Shrewsbury, Shropshire,
April 3-5 1998. The title of this symposium (CERES thinks you should know)
comes from a comment scrawled in one of Sidney's school-books. If you are
interested in attending, please contact Matthew Woodcock or Helen Vincent at University College, Oxford, OX1 4BH, e-mail: matthew.woodcock@university-college.ox.ac.uk or helen.vincent@university-college.ox.ac.uk. Deadline for submission of abstracts was 31 Jan 1998. Further details regarding registration and accommodation are available from the addresses
above.
OXFORDIANS SHINDIG
The Department of English at Concordia University-Portland announces the
forthcoming convocation of Vero Nihil Verius: The Second Annual Edward de
Vere Studies Conference, an international conference for undergraduate,
graduate and post-graduate scholars (including university faculty,
professional writers, and non-academically-affiliated independent
researchers). Abstracts were due in January 1998, but further infomation on registration can be had from Dr. Daniel L. Wright, Chair, Department
of English, Concordia University, Portland, OR 97211-6099, or e-mail
dwright@cu-portland.edu.
REFORMATION STUDIES CONFERENCE
The fifth annual Conference of the Society for Reformation Studies will be
held at Westminster College, Cambridge, UK on 15-17 April 1998. The special
theme for the forthcoming Conference is 'The Reformation in England,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales in Continental perspective'. The two keynote
speakers for 1998 will be Dr Eamon Duffy (Magdalene College, Cambridge) and
Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge). The Society is also
intending to sponsor a journal called 'Reformation and Renaissance Review',
to be published in 1998 by Sheffield Academic Press. The Society is
planning to mount a website to advertise its work and to act as a focus for all
Society members working in the field of Reformation and Renaissance
Studies. If you are interested in giving a paper at the forthcoming 1998 Conference,
or would like to join the Society or find out more about its work, please
contact the Secretary at the following address: Dr Paul Ayris, Director of
Library Services, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT,
United Kingdom (e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk).
GOODLY WORLDS
'Goodly Worlds: Places, Topoi, and Global Riches'. The conference offers an opportunity for scholars to explore topics related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This year's topic is 'Goodly Worlds: Places, Topoi, and Global Riches', with emphasis upon sites of medieval and Renaissance knowledge and power - geographical, rhetorical, economic, political, scientific, artistic, and cultural. For more information, contact Sharon A. Beehler
or Sara Jayne Steen, Department of English, Montana State University,
Bozeman, Montana, USA 59717-0230, e-mail: sbeehler@english.montana.edu or
steen@english.montana.edu.
DIDACTIC LITERATURE 1500-1800
'Expertise Constructed: Didactic Literature in the British Atlantic World,
1500-1800', 9-10 July 1998, Newnham College, Cambridge, UK. This
multi-disciplinary conference will explore English-language didactic
literature in the early modern Atlantic world. Building on, but shifting
the focus away from, conduct literature scholarship, the conference will range
widely over the genre, encompassing all types of didactic and instructional
literature from vade mecums of bee-keeping to grammars, from 'compleat'
cookery courses to universal manuals on arithmetic. How do these texts
engender and/or reflect the practices in society? And how are these
societies, and the individuals who consumed such texts, represented? Proposal deadline now past, but further information can be had from Natasha
Glaisyer, Darwin College, Cambridge, CB3 9EU (nafg2@cus.cam.ac.uk) or Sara
Pennell, Newnham College, Cambridge, CB3 9DF (smp26@cus.cam.ac.uk).
WORD AND IMAGE
Word and Image: Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, April 24-25,
1998, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. The theme 'Word and Image' is intended to be interpreted very broadly to include considerations
of iconography, film, religious images, illustration, maps, set design,
costume, painting and other fine arts, descriptions of images, the
presentation of manuscripts, documents, books, hypertext, etc. The PNRC is an interdisciplinary conference. For more information, contact Marc Geisler, Department of English, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, e-mail geisler@cc.wwu.edu.
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES
The 1998 conference of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies will be
held as part of the 1998 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, at
the University of Ottawa, May 28-30. The Society considered 500-word abstracts
for papers, in English or French, on the following, as well as on open,
topics: Erasmus and His Legacy, Montaigne and the Construction of the Self,
Manuscript Studies and the Passage between Manuscript and Print,
Translation and Translation Theory, Amicitia, Renaissance Music, Edict of Nantes:
1598-1998. Abstracts were due in January 1998, but further information on the conference is available from: David Shore, Programme Chair, CSRS, 1997-98,
Dept. of English, Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5; e-mail:
dshore@uottawa.ca. For the full version of the Call for Papers for all the above proposed sessions, please see the web-posting at:
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/english//ren-eng.htm.
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