The Renaissance Society of America’s new Digital Innovation Award recognises excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance. This year, the prize is split between The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe (AOR) and A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama (EMED).
This symposium brings together a group of UK-based academics and librarians, as well as key continental scholars, in an attempt to consolidate current research, for the first time, on seventeenth-century libraries and book collecting. Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems & Perspectives will address questions of topography and typology, networks of library activity, administration, visual identity, dispersal, owners and content, and definitions of public and private. The symposium will also confront current topics of cultural and intellectual history – especially heritage and antiquarianism, the circulation and management of knowledge, and the rise of consumerism and the culture of collecting.
This symposium, co-hosted by the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters(CELL) at University College London, and the Warburg Institute, University of London, caps off a four-year, international collaboration between Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, the Princeton University Library, and CELL at UCL, with funding from the
CELL is delighted to welcome Christopher Warren, Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, as a visiting research fellow here at UCL in May and June 2017. Chris's visit has been funded by a UCL Big Data Institute Visitor grant.
CELL is currently recruiting for three research assistants, to work on our Archaeology of Reading project, including transcribing and translating marginal annotations from digital facsimiles of early modern books. The posts are part-time (2.5 days a week) and are funded for one year in the first instance.
On Thursday October 13, the UCL Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) are hosting a launch event for The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe (AOR), a digital humanities initiative from CELL, Johns Hopkins University, and Princeton University, generously funded by the Mellon Foundation.
You can view and search our "micro-corpus" of books annotated by Gabriel Harvey, in a lovely IIIF-compliant, open access, open source viewer.
CELL are very pleased to have won a Sea and Currents grant as part of UCL's Global Engagement strategy. The successful applications were chosen according to how well they fit the criteria: potential for the future, fit with the Global Engagement strategic plan, benefit to UCL and the Faculty and making a difference in some significant way to research, education or other aspects of life. Our winning project seeks to build a research network to examine paper surfacing methods to receive ink in the early modern period.
CELL invites proposals for papers to be given at the 2017 annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), to be held in Chicago, Illinois, 30 March—1 April 2017.
A memorial was held for our wonderful founding director, Professor Lisa Jardine, on Tuesday 19th January 2016.
The evening was a commemoration of Lisa's academic achievements, and was arranged jointly by the University of London, University College London and Queen Mary University of London. Eight speakers shared their memories of Lisa as her career progressed, from Cambridge and the Netherlands, through to her time at QMUL and subsequently at UCL.
