Events
Upcoming ICCEMS Events
Late September 2024: Launch of the ICCEMS PhD and ECR Program
The upcoming ICCEMS Higher Degree Research/Early Career Research program is designed to use the collective strength and scale of our centres to benefit ICCEMS’ HDR and ECR members. Details will be announced in late September.
20-22 March 2025, Boston: ICCEMS Early Career Members Drinks Reception at RSA Boston 2025
ICCEMS will host a networking cash-bar event for HDR and ECR members of ICCEMS at the conference of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston. More details to come closer to the date.
4 April 2025, Paris: PEMS to Host ICCEMS Zoom Seminar with Armel Dubois-Nayt
PEMS will host the next ICCEMS online seminar with Armel Dubois-Nayt from Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, who works on early modern women’s writing in Scotland and the Querelle des femmes.
Past ICCEMS Events
30 January 2024, Oxford: ICCEMS website soft launch at “Unfinished Conversations: Still Kissing the Rod #3”
Hosted and organised by Professor Lorna Hutson, Director of CEMS Oxford, Unfinished Conversations: Still Kissing the Rod #3 reassesses the state of the field of early modern women’s writing. Speakers include the presenters Rosalind Smith, Sarah C. E. Ross, Danielle Clarke and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, with interlocutors Virginia Cox, Diane Purkiss and Ros Ballaster. They will discuss two landmark publications in the field: Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English.
Details: https://iccems.org/event-report-on-unfinished-conversations-still-kissing-the-rod-3/
21-23 March 2024, Chicago: ICCEMS Drinks Reception at RSA Chicago 2024
ICCEMS hosted drinks at RSA Chicago to invite new partners to join ICCEMS.
Details: https://iccems.org/iccems-at-rsa-chicago-2024/
16 May, Paris: PEMS Hosts ICCEMS Zoom Seminar “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain”
The Paris Early Modern Seminar (PEMS) hosted the first ICCEMS seminar, introducing Brepols series “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain“.
Details: https://iccems.org/polyglot-encounters-in-early-modern-britain-iccems-hybrid-seminar-16-may-2024/
7 June 2024, London: LRS One-Day Conference, “Learning from Early Modern Books”
The London Renaissance Seminar hosted this one-day event at Birkbeck, University of London.
Details: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/42050/learning-from-early-modern-books
14 June 2024, London: LRS One-Day Conference: “London Locations: Urban Geography, Creative Opportunities and Literary Representations”
This one-day conference hosted by the London Renaissance Seminar and the Paris Early Modern Seminar took place at Birkbeck on Friday 14 June.
Details: https://pems.hypotheses.org/1158
2 July 2024, Canberra: ANU CEMS Hosts ICCEMS Hybrid Seminar with Nicholas Terpstra, “Moving Targets: Finding Young People in the Early Modern World”
ANU CEMS welcomed Professor Nicholas Terpstra for this hybrid lecture at the National Library of Australia.
Details: https://iccems.org/nicholas-terpstra-moving-targets/
3 September 2024, Canberra: ANU CEMS Hosts Hybrid Seminar with Michelle O’Callaghan, “Making Poetry Collections by Hand and Productive Leisure”
Professor Michelle O’Callaghan (University of Reading) visited ANU CEMS thanks to funding from the ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts.
Details: https://iccems.org/anu-cems-seminar-with-michelle-ocallaghan-on-3-september-2024/