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...
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Patterns, Outliers, and Teasers: Questions and Challenges for the Reception of Early Modern Women’s Writing. CEMS Seminar One, 2022, recording now available.
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”. Thanks also to our Centre director...
Textual and Bibliographical Studies in Older Scots Literature, forthcoming edited collection.
We are pleased to share the news of a forthcoming edited collection Textual and Bibliographical Studies in Older Scots Literature: Selected Essays of Priscilla Bawcutt prepared by CEMS member Janet Hadley Williams. This volume of Priscilla Bawcutt’s less accessible...
Seminar and Public Lecture: Mobilising Papal History, and Gaetano Moroni’s Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica.
Dr Miles Pattenden will present the seminar ‘Mobilising Papal History’ (March 22), and the ‘Works that Changed the World’ public lecture (March 25) as Humanities Research Centre, ANU, Visiting Fellow. Miles is currently Senior Research Fellow, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University.
RSA Digital Innovation awarded to Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint project.
Congratulations to the Director of CEMS ANU Rosalind Smith and her international team of researchers, A/Prof Sarah Ross from Victoria University Wellington, Professor Michelle O’Callaghan from University of Reading, Jake Arthur from the University of Oxford and...
Digital Approaches to Multilingual Text Analysis Symposium
In January 2022, ANU hosted the online symposium, Digital Approaches to Multilingual Text Analysis, organised by Dr Joshua Brown (University of Western Australia) and CEMS member Dr Katrina Grant. The symposium was held all day on January 27 2022 from 1:45pm – 7:30pm...
View CEMS Seminar Two, 2021, with Assistant Professor Robbie Richardson
“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...
An acquisition for the John Emmerson Collection, State Library Victoria
'Transforming the Early Modern Archive' is an ARC funded linkage project, bringing researchers together from State Library Victoria, ANU, La Trobe University, University of Newcastle and Victoria University of Wellington. The project is investigating the John Emmerson...
Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry Index Launched
On August 23, 2021, the fruit of four years' labour was launched. This searchable index of Early Modern Women's Complaint Poetry reveals women's engagement with the powerful and ubiquitous rhetorical mode of complaint during the English Renaissance. The team behind...
Semester One Work in Progress Morning, Wednesday June 2, 2021
CEMS ANU Work in Progress Morning Wednesday June 2, 2021. 9.15am - 1pm Nine members of CEMS presented short papers during the Work in Progress Morning, which fell into three sessions: Literature and Drama, Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, and History and...