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:...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
In June 2022, Helen Hills, Professor Emerita of History of Art at the University of York, spoke on her current research project on silver: “Silver is particularly fraught, agile and transformative material. Embedded in power relations, coloniality, and matters of...
Many thanks to Marie-Louise Coolahan, Professor of English at the National University of Ireland Galway, who presented “Patterns, Outliers, and Teasers: Questions and Challenges for the Reception of Early Modern Women’s Writing”…
“The Souls of Departed Utensils”: Death and Indigenous Material Culture in Eighteenth Century Britain, our second seminar and Q&A for 2021, presented by Robbie Richardson, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Princeton University, is now available to view...