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CEMS ANU Work in Progress Morning, Semester 2, 2021
In November 2021 CEMS ANU members, including two HDR candidates, spoke to their most recent research in progress. Chaired by Senior Lecturer Kate Flaherty, the first panellists spoke on ‘Double-take: Revisionary Readings of Early Modern Texts.’ Centre Director Ros...
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...
Dressing in early modern style: Women’s historicised fashions (1800-1830)
The first few decades of the nineteenth century were an exciting time for women’s fashionable and fancy dress. The fashion press expanded, costume or fancy-dress balls became increasingly popular, all of which provided new and expanded arenas for women to express...
View CEMS ANU Inaugural Seminar, June 2021
The CEMS Seminar One recording is now available on our Youtube Channel. Many thanks to the seventy participants who joined us through the Zoom platform for our Inaugural Seminar when Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks spoke about her latest book, What Is Early Modern...
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...
I haif thame found so liberall: A Scottish New Year Carol of 1527 and CEMS ANU in 2021
Professor Rosalind Smith’s recent founding of ANU CEMS, and the launch of its website, make an exciting start to 2021. Without doubt, the Centre’s members have a strong desire to celebrate. They are looking forward to much generous exchange between those at the...
Choix de Chansons launched
In January 2021, the digital critical edition of the Choix de Chansons (1773) was launched—Jean-Benjamin de Laborde’s long-forgotten illustrated songbook. Led by Editor-In-Chief Dr Robert Wellington, Senior Lecturer at the Centre of Art History and Art Theory, ANU,...