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'Rhetoric and Tradition: A Celebration of Peter Mack'. 1 November 2025

'Sir Walter Ralegh: A Quadricentennial Symposium' 29 October 2018, University of London, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HU. Free: All welcome.

'Research and Thinking about Rhetoric' (flyer) Friday, 8 June 2018, 10am-6pm at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV. A one-day conference in honour of the retirement of Professor Peter Mack.

'Crossing Boundaries: confessional, political and cultural interactions in festivals across the early modern world'. The conference will be held at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge on Monday 30 April and Tuesday 1 May, 2018. For more information contact Dr Margaret Shewring, m.e.shewring@warwick.ac.uk

, to be held at ÌÇÐÄTV’s Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice. Thursday 7th – Saturday 10th July 2016. Organised by Ingrid De Smet.

‘The Musical Humanism of the Renaissance and its Legacy’. Thursday 2nd - Saturday 4th June 2016. An international Conference to be held at ÌÇÐÄTV’s Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, in collaboration with the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. Organised by the CSR/IAS Global Research Fellow, Dr Jacomien Prins.

.' A PG workshop on palaeography at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV. Friday 4th March 2016, Renaissance Centre, Room H.4.50. Convenor: Dr. Caroline Petit, University of ÌÇÐÄTV.

A one-day conference on to be held at the Sala delle Edicole, Capitanio Palace, 3 Capitaniato Square, Padua. Tuesday 15 December 2015, from 10am to 5.30pm

Renaissance Festivals conference, Mons, 11-14 October 2015, as part of the city's year as European City of Culture, 2015. ÌÇÐÄTV coordinator, Dr Margaret Shewring. Downloadable Programme.

International workshop organised by Peter Marshall: ‘The Politics of Conversion’ July 21-22, 2015 at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV.

Symposium organised by Jacomien Prins: 'Hearing the Voice, Hearing the Soul' 5th June 2015, 9.30am-6.30pm at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), University of ÌÇÐÄTV.

Third colloquium on ‘Management and Resolution’ from the Leverhulme funded project ‘Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c. 1300–c. 1650’. 21-22 May 2015 at the University Ca' Foscari, Venice.

A one-day interdisciplinary conference organised by Sara Miglietti (CSR) and John Morgan (History) ‘Ruling Climate: The theory and practice of environmental governmentality, 1500-1800’. Saturday 16 May 2015, University of ÌÇÐÄTV.

CSR associate fellow, Dr Elizabeth Goldring will be giving a talk/book-signing on Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art, on Wednesday, 13th May, at 7pm at Lord Leycester’s Hospital, ÌÇÐÄTV.

Tuesday-Wednesday 14-15 April 2015, Reassessing Courtliness in Medieval Literature. International Courtly Literature Society, British Branch at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV. Featuring a roundtable discussion with Dr Jane Gilbert (UCL), Professor Ad Putter (Bristol), and Professor Emma Dillon (KCL). Further information at

Saturday-Sunday 21-22 March 2015, North of England Saints, 600-1500 Conference at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The conference will bring together scholars working on the liturgical, political, military, social and economic aspects of sanctity in Durham, Northumbria, Cumbria, Yorkshire and modern-day Scotland. The conference is organised by Dr Margaret Coombe (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford); Dr Christiania Whitehead (University of ÌÇÐÄTV) and Dr Anne Mouron (Independent Scholar) and is kindly sponsored by the John Fell OUP Research Fund and the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature (SSMLL). Any queries should be directed to northernsaints@history.ox.ac.uk. Full information at

Tuesday 20th May 2014. Centre supported workshop/lunch co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, the Departments of French Studies/ History and the ÌÇÐÄTV Drinking Studies Network, on 'Intoxication in Early Modern France'. More information