Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Postponed conferences and workshops
Posted on 29 April 2020
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In addition to the following conferences and workshops, CREMS will be hosting a series of research seminars with invited guest speakers. We are also home to the postgraduate led forum Cabinet of Curiosities. Their events include student symposiums, invited guest speakers and socials, such as academic speed-dating or film nights.
'Courage, Language, Discretion and Learning': Lancelot Andrewes and Early Modern Religious Culture (postponed from 20-21 March 2020)
Since recent re-assessments of his work, this conference will be the first to explore the writings of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) and his engagement with early modern cultures of religion, literature and learning. Andrewes was the most renowned elite preacher of his generation. His sermons were celebrated by listeners, readers and poets; he occupied powerful roles in the Jacobean court, and his writings paved the way for later reforms in the English church. Andrewes was a famous polemicist, a major translator of the King James Bible, an internationally respected scholar, and an influential teacher at Cambridge. This conference intends to explore his writings in all their variety.
Early Modern Soundscapes - Workshop 3: Sound Affects (postponed from 23-24 April 2020)
This final workshop builds upon our exploration of the sites, spaces and archives of sound to explore how people act on sound and sound on people. We will consider the evidence we have regarding the ways individuals responded to sounds. Bringing in scholars who work on sound studies beyond the early modern period, we will ask how sounds connect to sensory experience, emotion, the body, race, gender and disability. The workshop will also explore how we profit from practice-led approaches such as musical performances and digital reconstruction.
On 23rd and 24th April, we met online for the first part of our final workshop. The second part, a face-to-face meeting, will take place at the University of York at a later date. You can watch the reply of this workshop on the Early Modern Soundscapes website
Renaissance Architecture and Theory colloquium (postponed from 25 April 2020)
This colloquium brings together a key network of scholars working in a threatened intellectual field. We have members from across Europe working in different departments (History, Art History, Architecture, Music, Design) across a wide period range from c. 1300 – c. 1800. We encourage young scholars and PHD students to give papers alongside established and senior academics.
Decolonizing the Renaissance Curriculum workshop (postponed from 16 April 2020)
This CREMS workshop will aim to address how 'English Literature' (and by extension other disciplines) addresses its legacy. What does 'decolonising’ mean when it comes to a period where we can't populate the canon, or even the anti-canon, with a majority of BAME authors? This challenge is perhaps also a privilege: it calls on early modernists to think of the idea in a deeper way, as a critical stance as much as a question of the canon. We also face the questions of reception, appropriation, citation and the study of early modern literature and culture in different cultural contexts. Shakespeare in particular is hot cultural property - but how does 'Shax' travel from being a colonial acquisition to a post-colonial invention? Why is a text like Othello so key, so common, so useful, and also so cliched, in these discussions? Can we take it as a paradigm of both what is wrong and what could be complexly right in our decolonising exercise? And finally, how can we decolonise our reading, staging and critical practices without re-segregating white and non-white, centre and periphery, them and us?
Shakespeare’s Rivals 2 (postponed from Summer term 2020)
Following on from the successful staging of Shakespeare's Rivals in October 2019, this 2-day symposium, bringing together scholars and theatre professionals, will explore, via practical experiment and debate, Jonson and John Marston, rivals to Shakespeare and each other. This will be followed by a staging of Shakespeare's Rival 2, devoted to Ben Johnson, with rehearsals based on his First Folio and its distinctive typographical features.
Petyt Library workshop (postponed from Summer term 2020)
In 2018 the University of York took custody of the Petyt Library from Skipton. This substantial library of over 2500 c16 and c17 books, with a small amount of associated MS material, was donated to the town of Skipton by William and Sylvester Petyt, prominent Whigh lawyers. Although work has begun to to establish a preliminary list of the collection, the full potential of the collection is yet to realised. This workshop will further contextualize and discuss Petyts' worlds and library with the following proposed panels:
The Politics of the past in the late C17
Books and archives in late C17 and early C18 England
The Library in Skipton