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Category: Announcements

Summer School on Early-Modern English Manuscripts

This virtual summer school, financed by the “Cité des Écritures” of Sorbonne Nouvelle provides training on how to locate, exploit and edit early modern English manuscripts (1500-1700). It is intended for students and colleagues of all disciplines who, in the context of their own research or professional project, need to...

Mise en texte and Communities: Writing the Convent, Writing the Self

This session will explore the building of common narratives through the study of the texts of the English convents exiled on the Continent; whilst they sought to publicize the shared values and opinions of religious Catholic communities, conventual founding texts such as autobiographies, biographies and chronicles bore the distinctive trace...

Gulliver and Beyond: a study day

Gulliver and Beyond Texts and their Afterlives Research GroupLERMA, Aix-Marseille UniversitéMonday 6th December 2021 Salle de colloques 1, campus ALLSH, Aix-Marseille Université, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-ProvenceOr by Zoom  Register   9h15: Welcome and coffee 9h45: Introduction and presentation Morning panel. Chair: Professor Jean Viviès (LERMA, Aix-Marseille University) 10h00:...

Texts and their Afterlives: Robinsonades

Britaix 17-18 is starting the new term with a flourish of activities both from its individual study groups and from its general seminar. Please join us for the first session of “Texts and their Afterlives”, around the legacy of Robinson Crusoe. Registrations are free via Eventbrite; see the registration button...

“Mise(s) en texte”: Writing American Identity

20 September 2021 : « Writing American Identity » 16.30 – 18.30 This session will be held on site, at the Schuman campus of Aix-Marseille University, salle de colloque 1, bâtiment multimédia.However, you can also join us via Zoom by registering on Eventbrite below.  Florence Petroff (University of La Rochelle),...

Conference announcement

LERMA-QMCRLE conference Lived Religion in Europe 1500-1800: Individual and Communal Practice 15-16 October 2021, online (via Zoom)   Since 2017, the Centre for the English-Speaking World (LERMA) at Aix-Marseille Université and the Centre for Religion and Literature in English (QMCRLE) at Queen Mary University of London have jointly hosted a...

Jean Viviès on the English Novel

Our colleague Prof. Jean Viviès has taken part in a four-part programme by France Culture, entitled Il était une fois le roman. Episode one, Made in England, retraces the origins and particularities of the English novel. The episode will soon be on air and you can access it by clicking...

Seminar: Nonconformist Everyday Religion

The Lived Religion study group of BRITAIX 17-18 is delighted to announce a session around Nonconformist everyday religion Monday 29 March 202116.30 -18.30 CET (15.30 – 17.30 GMT) Rob Daniel (Univ. of Warwick) ‘”A most precious medicine”: The Bedside Bible in the Early Modern Sickchamber’ Vera Camden (Kent State), She...

James Cook’s logs and journals: a seminar

The study group “Texts & Their Afterlives” will host a seminar primarily aimed at students preparing the Agrégation, around James Cook’s logs and journals. It will be held on Monday 1 March between 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm (European Standard Time). We will welcome our two guests: Sandhya Patel (IHRIM-Université-Clermont-Auvergne) The Lives...

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Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent

BRITAIX is delighted to announce that Alison Searle and Emily Vine (University of Leeds) will present the AHRC-funded research project ‘Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)’: Monday 1 February 2021, 16.30 -18.30 European Standard Time (3.30 – 4.30 GMT) This...

A new publication from the Lived Religion Group

We are delighted to announce the publication of: Reconstructing early-modern religious lives: the exemplary and the mundane co-edited by Anne Dunan-Page, Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Tessa Whitehouse in the latest issue of E-rea, https://journals.openedition.org/erea/10058