London Renaissance Seminar Summer Programme
Summer Lecture, 13 July 2015 5.30pm, Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1: Professor Jyotsna Singh, Anglican Global Crossings and the Specters of Islam in the Early Modern Period. Wine will be served.
Saturday 18th July 2015, 2pm-6.30pm, Room 538, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX: The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service Organiser: Dr. Emma Whipday
All welcome. Any queries please contact s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk
Johnson and Shakespeare 7–9 August 2015 Pembroke College Oxford
A Conference to Mark the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Samuel Johnson’s The Plays of William Shakespeare
The publication of Samuel Johnson’s edition of Shakespeare on 10 October 1765 was an important event in his own life and in the history of the editing of Shakespeare. This conference, held at Johnson’s college, Pembroke College, Oxford, will invite perspectives from Shakespearians and Johnsonians, and explore the interplay of sameness and difference, restoration and innovation, in Johnson’s work. It will reassess Johnson’s achievement as a critic and textual editor by revisiting established contexts and developing new ones.
The plenary speakers will be:
Jenny Davidson (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) Joseph Roach (Sterling Professor of Theater at Yale University) Henry Woudhuysen (Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare)
Lectures and panels will be supported by exhibitions in the Bodleian (including cancelled leave from Johnson’s edition) and Pembroke College (including Johnson’s copy of Warburton’s edition of Shakespeare on loan from Aberystwyth), an informal reading performance of Johnson’s play Irene, and a concert of eighteenth-century music.
For more information, and to book places please visit https://johnsonandshakespeare2015.wordpress.com
The Birkbeck Early Modern Society seminar schedule, all meetings are at 6.30pm. The first meeting will be held in Room 101, Birkbeck, 30 Russell Square. Later venues to be confirmed. For more information visit the Birkbeck Early Modern Society website. 
8 May 2015
Dr Linda Grant, From pornographic sparrows to Nashe’s dildo: exploring the erotic in early modern literature.
5 June 2015
Dr Alixe Bovey, University of Kent, The Guildhall Giants, Lord Mayors Pageants and political dialects 1600-1750.
3 July 2015
Professor Peter Mack, Renaissance Rhetoric as Questions about Literature, with special reference to Hamlet and Tom Jones.
