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October 6th, 2015The Early Modern Inns of Court and the Circulation of Text
14 – 15 June 2019
King’s College London
The Inns of Court were culturally significant institutions of literary production, circulation and performance in the early modern period; their status as a stepping-stone between the universities and courtly or legal employment meant that many major (and minor) literary figures filtered through them. The Inns were communities of learning and leisure in which writers could produce, disseminate, consume, and influence each other’s writing. Even literary figures that did not reside in the Inns, such as William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, were associated with their members and influenced by their culture.
Building on the intellectual foundations of two recent Inns-related conferences, “The Early Modern Inns of Court and the Circulation of Text” will investigate the ways in which material and oral literatures were transmitted throughout, within, and beyond the Inns. This conference aims to centralise thought about the Inns, putting scholarship concerned with the disparate literary outputs of the Inns into a historical and materially-minded conversation. To this end, we are encouraging abstract submissions that engage with early modern literary culture and the Inns broadly, but we are especially interested in papers on the following topics:
Dramatic, oral, and performative literatures
Materiality, geography, and the Inns within the city
Manuscript and print cultures
Collection of literary outputs
Sermons, their delivery and publication
Translation and translated texts
Inns men and professional drama
Clubs, coterie culture and homosocial community
Women and Inns writing: an absent presence
Institutional patronage and patronage networks
Relationships with agents of the book trade
Along with plenaries by Professors Michelle O’Callaghan and Arthur F. Marotti, “The Early Modern Inns of Court and the Circulation of Text” will include a performance of Thomas Hughes’ Gray’s Inn drama, The Misfortunes of Arthur, by The Dolphin’s Back in Gray’s Inn Chapel and an exhibition curated in association with the Middle Temple Library.
Please submit 200-300 word abstracts for roughly twenty-minute papers along with a brief biographical note to early.modern.inns.conference@gmail.com no later than 10th January 2019.
Registration costs: tbc. We will be offering significantly reduced rates to postgraduate students and ECRs.
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Spitting Image archive comes to Cambridge University Library
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A Margaret Thatcher puppet and the unbroadcast script and video tape for the pilot episode of Spitting Image have taken their place alongside the works of Newton, Darwin and other treasures at Cambridge University LibraryAPPROACHING DEADLINE!
Job opportunity: Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2019-20, Cambridge University Library
Applications are invited for the Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library, for the tenure of 1 October 2019 to 31 July 2020.
The Munby Fellow will be free to pursue bibliographical research of his/her own choosing. It is, however, expected that the Fellow's research will be, at least in part, based directly or indirectly on the collections of the University and Colleges of Cambridge and likely to be of benefit, in the broadest sense, to scholars using those collections in the future. The Fellow will have no departmental or other staff duties and responsibilities.
The Fellowship is open to graduates in any discipline of any university and nationality. Applications will be evaluated by a panel comprising the Electors to the Fellowship and the following criteria will be taken into account, with preference given to scholars at post-doctoral or an equivalent level:
- Academic record of the candidate, taking into account the career stage of the applicant
- Suitability of the research proposal
The stipend will be £35,211 (pro-rata). Around £1,500 for help with research expenses is also available.
A non-stipendiary Fellowship at Darwin College will normally be available to the successful candidate, if not already a Fellow of a Cambridge College. Fellows in these categories are members of the Governing Body of the College and may take meals in the College without charge.
An election will be made in early January 2019. There are no interviews. For further information on how to apply, please see www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/15092/
The closing date for applications is Monday 12 November 2018.
Munby Fellow in Bibliography (2018-2019) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
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Munby Fellow in Bibliography (2018-2019) in the University Library at the University of Cambridge.History of Material Texts Seminar tonight
Board Room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd
Thursday 8 November, 5pm
Lukas Erne (Geneva)
'The Integrity of Marlowe’s Works’
All welcome!
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The Rhetoric of the Page: Reading Blank Space
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The first of three lectures by Laurie Maguire on the rhetoric of the page