CFP: ‘Playing Games’ a Graduate Conference at UCL
‘Playing Games’ – Department of English Language and Literature, University College London Graduate Conference – 24 May 2013 Play, writes Roger Caillois (Man, Play and Games, 1961), is an activity that is free and non-productive, unfolds in a circumscribed time and place with an uncertain conclusion, is rule-governed and ‘accompanied by a special awareness of … Read more
CFP: Reanimating Playbooks symposium
It’s shaping up to be a busy spring in Stratford! A month before our conference convenes, the Shakespeare Institute will host a one day symposium on editing, Renaissance plays, and performance. Check out the CFP below – the deadline is two weeks today. Info on registration for auditors will be released in just a few … Read more
Ooopsie!
Friends, we’d like to admit our own folly. Whereas we previously advertised the closing date for presenters as Friday 25th April and auditors as Friday 23rd May, and the conference as ‘The British Shakespeare Graduate Conference’, these were incorrect. We’d like to reassure you all that the closing dates for both are Thursday 25th April … Read more
Registration is open!
Friends, postgrads, countrymen…lend us your abstracts! We come to open BritGrad registration. The research that men do lives after them, The best is often entered in their papers, So let it be with BritGrad. (What are you waiting for? Get registering now! See the CFP and poster for more details.) … Read more
CfP: News Networks International Symposium, July 26-28 2013
Reblogged from Early Modern News Networks: News Networks in Early Modern Europe is very pleased to announce an international, interdisciplinary conference, to take place at Queen Mary, University of London in July 2013 on the theme ‘News and the Shape of Europe, 1500-1750′. The call for papers is available to download below: News and The … Read more
CFP: ‘Renaissance Men in the Middle Temple’
I imagine many of you will remember the teaser announcement made at the last BritGrad, and I hope you’ll be interested in the full call. The conference aims to combine research with practice, and the call invites paper and workshop proposals. It looks to be a good one, but you don’t have to settle for … Read more
CFPs: SI Review; ESRA summer conference; Bangor/BSA conference
1. JOURNAL CFP Shakespeare Institute Review, Issue 2: ‘Shakespeare and the superhuman’ The journal’s second issue has pushed back the submission deadline to 31 October 2012. Head on over to the website here, to see how high the bar was set in the first issue, and to answer any style questions you may have. Full CFP can be … Read more
Two New CFPs
It’s the last week to register for BritGrad, so once that abstract is in, have a think about responding to one of these fine CFPs – one a conference in Spring 2013, the other a new journal from the Shakespeare Institute. 1. The School of English, University of St Andrews will host Bonds, Lies, and Circumstances: … Read more
A new eJournal and a free symposium.
Good morning, all. How ’bout some news to start off this lovely reading week? 1. Exegesis, a new eJournal based at Royal Holloway, is now accepting articles, reviews and creative pieces for its inaugural issue. The deadline for submissions is April 30, in advance of publication in September 2012. The full CFP can be downloaded here: Exegesis CFP. … Read more
Big News Friday: KDJ confirmed, CFP posted!
First things first: Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones will join us as a plenary speaker. Professor Duncan-Jones (BLitt, MA Oxf, FRSL) is a Senior Research Fellow in English at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her research interests include Elizabethan literature, history and biography, especially with reference to original sources and early texts. Current work focuses on Shakespeare’s … Read more
