Successful EMRG conference

Kristiansand in 1666.

The conference brought together art historians, linguists, literary scholars, historians, musicologists (and musicians), including five specially invited keynote speakers, presenting and discussing a plethora of subjects from the psalms of Petter Dass to the plague in Florence, from the presence of ghosts in Milton's poetry to Early Modern notions of Utopia, from genre-oriented corpus analysis to Michaelangelo's biography. Local music professors and practitioners lectured on and performed Early Modern lute music. Please consult the conference website for more information.

The conference organising committee consisted of three former English students from UiB: Gard Jenset, currently employed by Bergen University College (HiB), John Vinje, currently a research fellow at the University of Agder, and Svenn-Arve Myklebost, BSDN acolyte and Research Fellow at the University of Bergen. Other BSDN members and associates that also attended the conference include Stuart Sillars and Katherine Belsey. The latter performed the closing keynote address, a fascinating account of ghosts in Milton's sonnet 19.