Conferences & Funding

4-6 June 2015 The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham We invite graduate students with interests in Shakespeare, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies to join us in June for the Seventeenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference. This interdisciplinary conference, celebrating its seventeenth anniversary in 2015, provides a friendly and stimulating academic forum in which graduate students from all over the world can present their research on Shakespeare, the Early Modern period, or the Renaissance. In accordance with the Shakespeare Institute’s emerging reputation as a place for creative criticism, we also encourage creative responses. The conference takes place in an active centre of Shakespeare and Early Modern scholarship in Shakespeare’s home town, Stratford-upon-Avon. Undergraduate students in their final two years of study are also invited to attend the conference as auditors. Plenary speakers include Chris Laoutaris (University of Birmingham), Laurie Maguire

On April 10-11, 2015, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a conference on "Consequences of 'the Fall': Growth and Decline in Medieval and Early Modern Literary Culture" Very few aspects of late medieval and early modern literature and culture remain untouched by the Fall, concepts of original sin, and considerations of man’s place in a postlapsarian world. Concerns over the state of the soul, right governance and maintenance of the commonweal, and engagement with the natural world were shaded by a need to recoup the loss incurred by the expulsion from Eden. From drama to religious tracts to treatises on government and society, concern over the Fall led to an overwhelming production of texts attempting to cope and contend with its perceived consequences. This conference hopes to investigate these various representations and responses to The Fall. We hope to take a broad approach to exploring late medieval and early modern experiences of the

Villanova's Irish Studies Program is hosting a conference of the American Edmund Burke Society on "Edmund Burke and Patriotism." Limited spaces are available for Villanova faculty and graduate students to attend the conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, 28 February 2015, 9am to 5pm, in the St. Augustine Center, Room 300. Keynote speakers include Dr. David Bromwich (Yale) and Dr. Michael Brown (Aberdeen). Faculty and Graduate Students may register for the event here before 14 February. For further details contact Craig Bailey ( craig.bailey@villanova.edu ).