Revenge: 1st Global Conference Thursday 15th July 2010 – Saturday 17th July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Papers Revenge, so we are told, is a dish best served cold: a ‘sweet’ wreaking of vengeance on those who have – either in...

Shakespeare: From Rowe to Shapiro Symposium Saturday, 28 November, 2009 Globe Education ‘Some little account of the man himself may not be thought improper’ Nicholas Rowe, 1709 A one day symposium on the function and critical value of...

Early Science: A Historical Perspective Speaker(s): Professor Tim Connell, Professor Allan Chapman, Professor Robin Wilson Date/Time: 25 Nov 2010, 11am – 5pm Venue: Wadham College, Oxford Early Science: A Historical Perspective A Symposium...

Prof. Quentin Skinner, ‘Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes’, Thursday 10 December, 6.30 pm, Malet St, Room B35 We are delighted to invite you to our end of term lecture. Prof. Quentin Skinner returns to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society,...

“A fair bird suited with goodly borrowed plumage?” The economic and cultural contribution of Southern Netherlanders to Holland’s Golden Age, c. 1585-1630 A lecture by Dr. Alastair Duke (University of Southampton) Institute of Historical Research...