Events This Week

Monday 25th January

CMT Inaugural Exhibition Launch Party, 10.15-11.15am, English Faculty first floor landing. Come and help us celebrate the arrival of the CMT’s new exhibition cases with coffee and cake.

Tuesday 26th January

Renaissance Graduate Seminar, 5.15pm, GR06/7
Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Transvernacular Poetry and the Rise of English Literature in Early Modern Europe

Sandars Lectures, Writing and Reading History in Renaiassance England: Some Cambridge Examples’5pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene’t Street                                  Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)                                                         John Caius: history as argument

Clark Lectures ‘The Art of Invention’, 5pm, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms                                    Professor Mary Carruthers (New York University)                                                                 Disquiet, Dislocation, Performance: Augustine’s Conversion

 Wednesday 27th January

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, 12pm SR24                                                 Jennifer Bishop (Sidney Sussex, Cambridge):                                                            Making a record of the self: some autobiographical traces of London clerks

Sandars Lectures, Writing and Reading History in Renaiassance England: Some Cambridge Examples’5pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene’t Street                                  Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)                                                         Matthew Parker: history as archive

Early Modern British and Irish Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall      Greg Salazar (Selwyn),
Ecclesiastical Licensing, Religious Censorship, and the Regulation of Consensus in Early Stuart England

Thursday 28th January

 Sandars Lectures, Writing and Reading History in Renaiassance England: Some Cambridge Examples’5pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene’t Street                                  Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)                                                        Adam Winthrop: history as resource

Friday 29th January

 Graduate Lecture Series, 1pm, GR06/07                                                                   Conor Leahy                                                                                                              Gavin Douglas and the History of Landscape Poetry

Saturday 30th January

Renaissance Revenge: In and Out of Time                                                                            2-6pm Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, Room 112

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Sandars Lectures 2016: Professor Anthony Grafton

The Sandars Reader for 2016 is Professor Anthony Grafton (Professor of History, Princeton University) who will lecture on ‘Writing and reading history in Renaissance England: Some Cambridge examples’. The lectures will be given at 5.00pm on Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 January 2016. Venue to be confirmed.

More details of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society’s 2015-16 lectures are available here.