I keep thinking of this Milton Friedman quote:
'Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. (...) the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.'
EMREM have extended their #cfp deadline... check out their recent thread for some suggested ways you could fit the 2020 symposium theme of "The Good Old Days? Memory, Reflection, and Commemoration." Great opportunity for Early Modern PGs/ECRs!
#OTD#SirWalterRaleigh was executed in 1618. In his fascinating guest #blog, @CharlesGreen60 from @UniBirmingham talks about how reports of his execution - and his speech on the scaffold - shape how we think of him today. https://t.co/WeQkeLrKeJ
#CallforPapers now open for ‘Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work’, a one-day symposium @unibirmingham on 27 June 2018 to coincide with landmark new edition of the writings of Alexander Pope @OxUniPress. See https://t.co/8kpaBPQ0yM -- DEADLINE 1 APRIL. @BSECS@beccbham@RECSOxford