Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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Conferences
2024
- The Early Modern Stage between Baroque and Enlightenment: Vondel’s Century 20 September
- Writing the World: Early Modern Women, Natural Philosophy and Medicine 11 to 12 July
- Materialism and Metaphysics in Early Modernity 16 to 17 May
2023
- Conference: British Milton Seminar at York 3 November
- Transgender Embodiment: 1400 to 1700 2 June
- Travel and Wonder, 1450-1750 27 to 28 April
2022
-
London and Londoners 1500 - 1720 8 September 2022
2019
- Recognition and Respect: from Hobbes to Honneth 11 to12 July 2019
- Art as Commodities/Commodities as Art: An interdisciplinary conference 14 June 2019
- Thinking with Mysticism 31 May 2019
- Shakespeare and Co.: On the Page and on the Stage 18 May 2019
- Cabinet of Curiosities' Spring Colloquium 25 February 2019
- Early Modern Soundscapes: A Workshop 25-26 January 2019
2018
- Greek Matters: A Workshop 19 July 2018
- Saints and Science: explaining the miraculous in the pre-modern Roman Catholic world - between Knowledge and Belief 11-12 July 2018
- Transnational Approaches to the French Wars of Religion 6-7 July 2018
- New Directions in the History of Political Thought, 1500-1800: Dialogues at Disciplinary Thresholds 14-15 June 2018
- Early Modern Keywords: the Anglo French Dynamic 6-7 June 2018
- Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in Early Modernity 1 June 2018
- Burckhardt at 200: The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance reconsidered 31 May - 1 June 2018 - In association with the British Academy & Warburg Institute, London
2017
- Powerful Emotions/Emotions & Power c. 400-1850 28-30 June 2017
- The Uses of History in Early Modern Religion Controversies 2 June 2017
- Habitual Behaviour in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 1 June 2017
- Spanish Royal Geographies in Early Modern Europe and America: Re-thinking the Royal Sites/Geographies of Habsburg Politics and Religion 4 May 2017
- At Close Quarters: Experiencing the Domestic c.1400-1600 3 March 2017
2016
- Cultures of Consumption 30 June 2016 - WRoCAH PhD network symposium
- Edward Herbert on Reason, Religion and Toleration 13 May 2016
- Epistolary cultures - letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe 18 March 2016
2015
- The Early Modern World: Near and Far, 1450-1650 16 October 2015
- Translating Christianity: object, sound, word and image in the circulation of the sacred from the birth of Christ to the present 28-30 July 2015
- Heywood and the Classical Tradition 7 July2015
- Scrutinising Surfaces in Early Modern Thought Mar 2015
- Magic and Intellectual History May 2015
2014
- Time in Early Modern Thought 9-10 May 2014
- Greek Texts and the Early Modern Stage 14 July 2014
- Cathedral Libraries and Archives in the British Isles 2-4 July 2014
- Godly Governance 27 June 2014
- Narrative Conversions 2-3 June 2014
2013
- Sensing the Sacred Conference 21-22 June 2013
- Cabinet of Curiosities Postgraduate Symposium 14 June 2013
- Renaissance Reincarnations on the Page 15 June 2013
- Poetics and Prose Theory in Early Modern English The Thomas Browne 6th Annual Seminar - 29 May 2013
- Renaissance Reincarnations in the Theatre 14 March 2013
- Cultural Encounters January to April 2013 Public Lectures presented by Conversion Narratives Project
2012
- Conversion and Gender Conference Conversion Narratives Project and CREMS, 26-27 July 2012
- Cabinet of Curiosities Postgraduate Symposium 28 May 2012
- Invention, Philosophy and Technology in the Seventeenth Century The Thomas Browne Fifth Annual Seminar, 23 May 2012
- Cabinet of Curiosities Senses Workshop 15 May 2012
- Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars (RATS) Annual Meeting 12 May 2012
- Music, Space, Sociability CREMS Workshop, 9 May 2012
- Renaissance Reincarnations CREMS Symposium, 17 March 2012
2011
- The Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quatercentenary (1611-2011) CREMS, 7-9 July 2011
Download Conference Report here (PDF
, 285kb) - Conversion Narratives in the Early Modern World Conversion Narratives Project, CREMS, 9-11 June 2011
- Rethinking Holy Space Professor Alexei Lidov (Moscow State University), Research Symposium History of Art and CREMS, 22 June 2011
- Shakespeare's Private Life Professor Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University), The 2011 Patrides Lecture, CREMS and English Dept, 2 June 2011
- Hierotopy, Spatial Icons & Image-Paradigms Professor Alexei Lidov (Moscow State University) Open Lecture, History of Art and CREMS, 10 May 2011
- Representations of Regicide in 17th-Century Europe CREMS-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Day Conference12 March 2011
- Cabinet of Curiosities Postgraduate Symposium CREMS, 9 March 2011
- Teaching Civil War Writings 2 March 2011
- The Places of Popular Medicine: Aristotle's Masterpiece in Context CREMS and CECS Public Lecture 15 February 2011
- About Dogs: The Inaugural White Rose Animals Seminar 4 February 2011
- Listening to Architectural Space Annual CREMS and NCEM Public Lecture, 26 January 2011
- Love and Exile: Petrarch, Sydney and John Berryman Professor John Roe Inaugural Lecture 24 January 2011
2010 and earlier
- The Archaeology of Performance Spaces CREMS Symposium with Archaeology, English and TFTV, 17 November 2010
- Sex, Violence and Religion in the Northern Province, 1300-1858 York Cause Papers one-day conference, Borthwick Institute and CREMS, 13 November 2010
- Rubens and the Human Body History of Art and CREMS, 17-18 September 2010
- Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference 2010 CREMS, 16-18 July 2010
- Shakespeare Configured: A Symposium (PDF , 198kb)
- Prison Writings in Early Modern Britain (PDF , 117kb)
- Exiles in Early Modern Europe (PDF , 59kb)
- Rethinking the Baroque CREMS and History of Art, 5 July 2006
- Shrews on the Renaissance Stage, CREMS, 26-27 May 2006. Speakers included: Sandra Clark (Birkbeck), Michael Cordner (York), Helmer J Helmers (Leiden), Graham Holderness (Hertfordshire), Barbara Hodgdon (Michigan), Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt)