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The University of Oxford and the Open University invite papers for our annual interdisciplinary Early Modern Sensory Experiences (EMSE) conference.

This year’s conference, ‘Sensory Encounters’, welcomes papers that consider sensory experiences as instances or reflections of cultural exchange and which discuss possible methodologies and approaches to this particular subject.

For further details, see the CFP here.

The CFP for our next annual conference is now open! This first annual conference on the theme of 'Early Modern Sensory Experiences' will take place at Kellogg College, Oxford on 9-10 June 2022. The CFP closes on 14 January 2022.

Dr. Sara Wolfson, Staff Tutor and Lecturer in History, has published a co-edited volume with Dr. Marie-Claude Canova-Green on The Wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, 1625: Celebrations and Controversy. The union of 1625 between Charles Stuart, the Protestant king of Great Britain, and Henrietta Maria, a Catholic Bourbon princess, was a unique cross-confessional alliance in post-Reformation Europe. The volume brings together literary, art, music, and political-cultural scholars to explore for the first time the variety of celebrations that accompanied the match. ...

2020/21 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of William Cecil (Lord Burghley from 1572), one of the most important statesmen and patrons of the Elizabethan age. Monday 20 September saw the start of a major three-day conference at St John’s College Cambridge exploring the breadth and significance of Burghley’s activities as well as gathering together new research into Burghley and his world. ...

These landmark volumes, by OU Art History's Angeliki Lymberopoulou, provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world, with a special emphasis on the imagery produced on Venetian Crete (1204-1669).

Our Call for Papers is now open for the annual MEM Spaces & Places conference. 

Thanks to everybody who attended and spoke at our Experiencing the Court conference in Greenwich. We're hoping to write up a report on the event.

We'll be putting together the call for papers for the next one soon!

Professor Richard Brown's book, The Art of The Faerie Queene came out in December 2018. The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental.

We are delighted to announce registration for our annual Spaces & Places conference is now open! This year’s theme is ‘Experiencing the Court’ and will take place 3-4 April 2019 at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich. Please register before 1 March 2019: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiencing-the-court-tickets-53814035228 

Our first Sensory Experience Seminar will take place on 4 February 2019! more details here: https://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/medieval-and-early-modern-research/sensory-experiences