Events
Creating Scholarly Communities,
Refining Analytical Frameworks
Podcasts from our 2010 and 2011 seminar series
Videos from our 2011 conference
Alongside the creation of new academic resources, we are assembling a scholarly network more fully adequate to the task of appreciating and interpreting intellectual correspondences. A programme of seminars, conferences, workshops, and digital round tables is facilitating this aim. These meetings are cultivating an international community of researchers reproducing the seventeenth-century networks under investigation, and focussing the attention of an interdisciplinary cross-section of scholars on the structure and function of correspondence networks and the intellectual cultures sustained by them:
Seminars
2010 speaker Mirjam de Baar.
2011 speaker Robert Hatch.
An exciting series of free-standing talks from leading international authorities on seventeenth-century correspondence. Status updates on world-renowned editions, richly contextualised historical case studies, cutting-edge digital approaches, and bold theoretical reflections that encourage us to think differently about early modern epistolarity:
Conferences
2010 conference plenary.
Demonstrators at our 2011 conference.
A trio of international conferences is building a network of emerging and established scholars around three new analytical frameworks for understanding aspects of early modern correspondence: ‘Universal Reformation’, ‘Intellectual Geography’, and ‘Communities of Knowledge’. Three intensive days of of collective conceptual experiment, software demonstration, and networking opportunities:
Workshops
The Prague workshop.
The Budapest workshop.
Three workshops in Prague, Cracow, and Budapest focussed on the east-central European dimensions of intellectual networks, and attempted to identify and nurture a younger generation of scholars previously excluded from western European discussions. Combining short case studies, longer analytical reflections, and field trips to relevant local sites, each workshop took as its theme a central component of the ‘Universal Reformation’ idea:
Workshops » Prague 2009
Workshops » Cracow 2009
Workshops » Budapest 2010
Digital Round Tables
The 2010 round table.
Follow-up conference call.
Finally, a series of detailed technical meetings is supporting the creation of our union catalogue of correspondence by finalising our own data model and standards and facilitating discussion and cooperation with other institutions, projects, and individuals with an active interest in digitising early modern correspondence:
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