Welcome to Public Wiki Pages from the Early Modern Virtual Research Group
Funded by the British Academy, and building on a parallel project funded by the JISC, the Early Modern Virtual Research Group has been holding regular virtual seminars since November 2006, pursuing a collective enquiry in early modern notions of Commonwealth and related themes. Our virtual seminars use Access Grid, a form of web-based video-conferencing. The research project is supported by an online Virtual Research Environment or portal created using the Sakai Collaborative Environment.
These pages give an insight into our activities, and of some of the related projects being promoted by the VRE for the history of political discourse project consortium.
Clips from Virtual Seminars
Clips from recent VRG seminars may be viewed
here. Access Grid has a feature allowing the recording of seminars: these recordings may then be captured, edited and made into a reusable resource.
Presentation: the History of Political Discourse VRE Project
Presentation about the History of Political Discourse VRE Project, comprising the Early Modern Virtual Research Group and the MA in the History of Political Discourse. This presentation was given by Dr Simon Hodson (Project Manager) to the International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments, 23-24 May 2007, National eScience Institute, Edinburgh; filmed by the ReDReSS Project, Lancaster University.
VRG Seminar 3: Commonwealth
These photographs show what an Access Grid seminar looks like to participants. This seminar was held in January 2007 and centred on a presentation by Glenn Burgess, University of Hull. There were 13 participants from 8 different institutions.
Photographs from the Virtual Research Group's Third Seminar, Commonwealth
MA Seminar: The indeterminacy of meaning in printed texts…
Photographs from an virtual seminar in the Hull-UEA MA in the History of Political Discourse, run in 2005-6 and 2006-7. The newly founded Brunswick Group for Collaboration in Postgraduate Teaching, is looking to apply these technologies to enhance existing MA programmes at a number of UK Universities.