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:...
Congratulations to CEMS members for their recent publications. Dr Claire Hansen has co-authored a paper with Bríd Phillips, “‘Wilt Break My Heart?’ Takotsubo Syndrome and Shakespeare’s Discourse of Heartbreak in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear” in Shakespeare...
CEMS sponsored three panels for the 2024 conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held on 21-23 March in Chicago, all of which drew strong crowds. "Early Modern Women and English Marginalia," which ran over two sessions, was organised by Robert Wellington...
The CEMS Member Spotlight is a new feature of our newsletter and website which aims to introduce individual members and their research to the CEMS community. To set the Member Spotlights in motion, allow me to introduce myself, Dr Christina Clarke. I’m the new...
Una McIlvenna has published her first article in Spanish (translated by Juan Gomis Coloma): "El sonido de la muerte inminente: las baladas de ajusticiados en Europa (siglos XVI-XIX)," in Boletín de Literatura Oral 6, Special Issue "Los sonidos de la horca: la...
Three members of the CEMS community have recently received awards for their work. Dr Una McIlvenna’s book Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 (The New Cultural History of Music series, Oxford University Press, 2022) won The...
‘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...
Congratulations to CEMS member, Claire Hansen (Senior Lecturer in English at ANU), on her new publication, Shakespeare and Place-Based Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Claire's book explores the potential of place for enriching Shakespeare pedagogy....
CEMS is delighted to announce ANU Library’s acquisition of Gale State Papers Online (SPO). These are significant primary resource databases for studies of early modern and eighteenth-century Britain and Europe. At the request of CEMS’ director Professor Ros Smith,...
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...