Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 National Library of Australia, August 7-8 2025 Early modern women marked their books in myriad ways, and their marginalia provide evidence of their book ownership, their reading, writing and drawing practices,...
Category: Events

CEMS seminar Recording available: Making Poetry by Hand and Productive Leisure with Michelle O’Callaghan
Michelle O'Callaghan's CEMS seminar, "Making Poetry by Hand and Productive Leisure," is now available to watch on the CEMS YouTube channel.
CEMS Work In Progress Seminar, 30 October 2024
After the resounding success of the first CEMS WIP seminar last month, CEMS is hosting a second session at the end of October. Come along to this informal seminar to learn about the work of some of our members and join in the discussion about research in...
Public Lecture with Professor Nicholas Terpstra, 2 July 2024: Moving Targets: Finding Young People in the Early Modern World
On behalf of the International Consortium of Centres for Early Modern Studies, ANU CEMS is delighted to welcome Professor Nicholas Terpstra for a hybrid public lecture on 2 July. Location: Online and in-person at the National Library of Australia, Canberra Date:...
Event Report on Unfinished Conversations: Still Kissing the Rod #3
‘Unfinished Conversations: Still Kissing the Rod #3’ — hosted at Merton College, Oxford, on 30 January 2024 — was occasioned by the recent publication of two landmark works: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700, edited by by...
CEMS Seminar Series 2023
Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London) will present CEMS final seminar for 2023 on 31 October. The title of Katherine's presentation, “Scattering Shahjahanabad: Indian Musicians' Lives in a Time of Crisis 1739-88” will be available on CEMS You Tube...
CEMS Member New Publications 2023
Congratulations to Julie Hotchin (Honorary Lecturer at ANU's School of History) and her co-editor, Jirki Thibaut on their recent publication,Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities (Boydell...
CEMS Seminar Series 2023
Dr Suzanna Ivanič (Kent University) presented CEMS 2nd seminar for 2023 on 16th May. The title of Suzanna's presentation, “Religion, Magic, and Science revisited: A Material Approach to the Everyday” is available on CEMS You Tube channel. Presentation Overview...
CEMS Member New Publications 2023
In February 2023 the Centre for Early Modern Studies celebrates a new publication by Dr Claire Hansen as one of the three editors. Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration (Cambridge University Press 2023) edited by Liam F....
CEMS Member New Publications
In August 2022, the Centre for Early Modern Studies celebrates three new publications by members Kate Flaherty, Katrina Grant, and Una McIlvenna. Find details of the works, and links to how to purchase them, below. Gilli Bush-Bailey and Kate Flaherty, eds. Touring...