News & events
CEMS Member Spotlight: Christina Clarke
Mar 11, 2024 | News
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...
Recent Publications
Mar 7, 2024 | News
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...
Fellowships and Awards
Mar 7, 2024 | News
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...
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 Member New Publication 2023
Nov 8, 2023 | News
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....
State Papers Online Acquisition
Oct 26, 2023 | News
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,...
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...