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

A symposium on Early Modern Data Delivery will take place in the English Faculty of the University of Oxford on Monday 28 February 2011. The event will focus on letters as a manifestation of seventeenth-century information exchange, and will feature the following contributions:

• Johanna Harris (University of Exeter), ‘Obstinate Letters: Lady Brilliana Harley’s Defence of Brampton Bryan’
• Kate McLoughlin (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Information Delivery in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Stoppard’s Cahoot’s Macbeth: A Habermasian Reading’
• Katherine Duncan-Jones (University of Oxford), ‘A ‘Tragicall’ Letter (c. 1604): Writer, Recipient, Bearer’

The symposium will be held in Lecture Room 2 from 5pm.