Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Cultures of Knowledge seminar series, which will take place in Trinity Term 2010 on Thursdays at 3–5pm in the Colin Matthew Room of the History Faculty. Entitled ‘Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, and convened by Pietro Corsi and Peter Harrison, the seminar features an impressive programme of ten leading international authorities on seventeenth-century correspondents and correspondence networks, and papers and discussion will be followed by a wine reception. For the full programme and further details, please see here. The seminar poster (pdf) can be downloaded on the right.

Exploring the hard copy index in the Selden End of Duke Humfreys Library in the Bodleian

We are delighted to announce that Dr Kim McLean-Fiander will be joining the Project as an Editorial Assistant. Kim will be working intensively with the digitized version of the Card Catalogue of MS Correspondence in the Bodleian Library (which will form an initial core of material for our union catalogue of seventeenth-century letters), proofing the keyed texts and bringing them into conformity with Project standards. Her academic research touches upon the intellectual networks of seventeenth-century women, while she has wide-ranging experience of cataloguing and editing at the Bodleian Libraries and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. For a full profile see here.