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Od: Valery Rees [log in to unmask]


Dear Colleagues,

Stephen Clucas, of Birkbeck College would like to pass on the following message from Richard Maber:

 

We have had a large number of enquiries recently about the future of the biennial interdisciplinary conference series which was put on by the Durham Centre for 17th-Century Studies from 1985 to 2003, and as a result have decided to resume the conferences.  In order to get the conferences restarted we are holding the first of the new series this summer, on 16-17 July 2008.  The Call for Papers is attached, with apologies for the extremely short notice.  I would be grateful if you could circulate this to anyone who might be interested.

 

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE at DURHAM CASTLE

16-17 JULY 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Proposals are invited for the eleventh Conference of the Durham Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, which will focus on the general theme:

Public Spheres and Private Spaces

 

It is expected that this theme will be approached from a very wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives; contributions which span national and disciplinary boundaries are, as always, particularly welcome.  Papers should be of 30 minutes' reading time.  Each session will have ample time for discussion.  Offers to chair sessions are welcomed from participants who are not reading papers.

 

Proposals for papers should be of approx. 200 words, and should be sent to the Director, Prof. Richard Maber (email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) as soon as possible, but no later than 9 May 2008.  The programme will be announced within the following fortnight.

 

The conference will take place in the magnificent setting of Durham Castle, on the two full days of Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 July 2008.  Residential delegates will depart after breakfast on Friday 18 July; it will also be possible to book overnight accommodation for Tuesday 15 July if required.

 

Professor Richard Maber,

Director, Durham University Centre for 17c Studies, Department of French, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham  DH1 3JT, UK.

 

Tel:  (0)191 334 3431

Fax:  (0)191 334 3421

E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 

 

Dr Stephen Clucas,

Editor, Intellectual History Review,

Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX. UK