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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...
Event Report: Nicholas Terpstra “Moving Targets: Finding Young People in the Early Modern World”
CEMS recently hosted Professor Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto) on behalf of ICCEMS for a public lecture at the National Library of Australia, “Moving Targets: Finding Young People in the Early Modern World.” Professor Terpstra explored where we find young...
CEMS Work-In-Progress Seminar, 28 August 2024
Come along to this informal seminar to learn about the work of some of our members and join in the discussion about research in cross-disciplinary early modern studies. In this session, we will hear from Dr Amelia Dale (Lecturer in English, ANU), Barbara Taylor (PhD...
Upcoming CEMS Seminar: Michelle O’Callaghan, “Making Poetry Collections by Hand and Productive Leisure”
CEMS is delighted to welcome Professor Michelle O’Callaghan from the University of Reading for the next in the 2024 CEMS seminar series with her paper "Making Poetry Collections by Hand and Productive Leisure." This seminar can be attended in-person and online. Time:...
Event Report: Learning from Early Modern Books, London Renaissance Seminar, Friday June 7
The London Renaissance Seminar held a 1 day symposium, "Learning from Early Modern Books," on June 7 at Birkbeck, jointly organised by Associate Professor Trisha Pender and Professor Susan Wiseman. The symposium brought together three large team projects in early...
CEMS Member Spotlight: Theodore Ell
I am an Honorary Lecturer in literature at the ANU, looking primarily at Italy, ancient and modern, as well as topics in English and Australian literature. My past projects have included a translation of a landmark scientific proposal by the 18th Century mineralogist...
Manuscripts and Early Modern Identities
ANU’s Humanities Research Centre and Centre for Early Modern Studies present Manuscripts and Early Modern Identities An afternoon symposium to be held on Thursday, 15 August 2024 in the Ian Proudfoot Room (E4.44), Baldessin Precinct Building, ANU Register here:...
CEMS HDR candidate Emma Rayner approved for award of PhD
Congratulations to CEMS HDR candidate Emma Rayner, who has been approved for the award of PhD for her thesis "Fashioning Worth, Fashioning Worlds: Early Modern Women and Civil Discourses." Fashioning Worth, Fashioning Worlds: Early Modern Women and Civil Discourses...
CEMS Member Spotlight: Una McIlvenna
Dr Una McIlvenna is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2023-2027 and Senior Lecturer in English. Her research interests lie in the fields of early modern cultural and literary history. Una is particularly interested in the early modern and nineteenth-century...