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Society for Renaissance Studies
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SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦‍🔥
It's the annual opening of our mentoring scheme together with the the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network!

Applications for mentors and mentees open now. Apply by 30th November 2025.
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/education-ou... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
CFP: Tolerance and Dissent

Deadline for abstracts 15 January 2026
Conference: 24-26 June 2026, University of Fribourg
Travel grants available for graduate students
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/tolera...
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Modern Humanities Research Association is looking for a second postgraduate editor for its journal MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities.

Deadline: 10 November
Position: from December 2025 to November 2027

all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/mhra-p...
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social

Deadline: 20 December 2025
Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
THIS WEEK! Join via MS Teams (or still make your way to Florence! which we can recommend) for two days of brilliant conversations about Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art

6-7 NOV in Florence
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ch... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #ArtHistory
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin...
#SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy.

11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni
All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...
August 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE!

Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard.

25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
August 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
CFP: Stilled Lives: Living Materials and their Architectural Afterlives in Premodern Buildings

University of Aarhus, 17-21 June 2026
Deadline for submission: 19 September 2025

all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/stille... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
August 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
NEW PUBLICATION: (re) meet Catherine of Braganza, Charles II's queen, who somehow hasn't had as much attention to her as his mistresses have...

New biography by @susanabernethy2.bsky.social
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/charle...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
August 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Old Science of Sound: 450 Years of Tallis & Byrd’s ‘Cantiones Sacrae’ (1575)

An evening of music, readings, and discussion of English Catholic music

National Centre for Early Music, York, 28 October 2025, 19:30
All info www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ol... #EarlyMusic #RecusantsBaby #EarlyModern
August 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
CFP: Speech/less in the Early Modern World
Keynote speakers: Rosamund Oates

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 April 2026
Deadline: 26 September 2025

All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/speech... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #DisabilityHistory #HistDisability
August 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
CFP: @rebpaf.bsky.social’s “Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” With keynote speakers @wynkenhimself.bsky.social @renskehoff.bsky.social and Aditi Nafde

Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 23-25 June 2026
Deadline: 15 December 2025

All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/re-med...
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Evenin' Campers! We're hosting a #SRSlyGood book launch on 10 Sept 2025, 17.00BST/12.00EDT/18.00CEST. Join former SRS Postdoctoral Fellow, @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social in conversation ŵ @ewoodacre.bsky.social to celebrate "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots" shorturl.at/Z6zfN
July 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Congratulations to @nicolemaceira.bsky.social and @serinquinn.bsky.social, SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2025-2026! We look forward to working with you in the coming year 💫 🎉 🙌🎉 💫

www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct... #SRSlyGood #Skystorians
July 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
'Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books', a new digital exhibition, curated by Hannah Yip and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social #EarlyModernVirtualEvents #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/extra-...
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#JobKlaxon: One year fixed-term lectureship in Shakespeare Studies @cemskcl.bsky.social (1 Sept 2025-31 August 2026. Apply by 27th July 2025. #Skystorians #Shax

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/fixed-...
July 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#CfP: Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World

Exeter, 30-31 October 31, 2025. Abstracts by September 5, 2025 @earlymodernwar.bsky.social #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #MiseryOfCivilWar

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/confli...
July 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
British Library Doctoral Open Days

British Library and Online, October 16, 2025 and various other dates

#Skystorians #YayArchives

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/britis...
July 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Worship in Transition: Liturgical Change, Continuity and Adaptation in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Lille, France, September 15-17, 2025

Plenary Speakers: Professor Marjorie E. Plummer; Professor Magnus Williamson

#Skystorians #Reformazing

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/worshi...
July 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#CfP: Poetry & Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment
York, June 26-27 2026. Abstracts Sept 30 2025

Keynote: @manymanyplies.bsky.social. Confirmed speakers: @medrenliza.bsky.social, @titachico.bsky.social, Jonathan Sawday, @wordsmith.bsky.social Lizzie Swann #Skystorians
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July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
CfP for 6-6500 word articles for publication in "Shakespeare’s 21C/The 21 Century’s Shakespeare", the first issue of "Shakespeare Quarterly" under editorial leadership of Vanessa I Corredera, Arthur L Little, Jr., & @davidmcinnis.bsky.social Deadline: October 3 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/shakes...
July 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History of Science & Technology with a focus on Western Europe and/or its empires, starting August 16 2026. Apply by October 1, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/search... #Skystorians
July 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
RANGER'S HOUSE* IS REOPENING!!!!
After a period of closure, they're showing their marvelous collection of #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern decorative arts again.

Opening on 24 July www.rensoc.org.uk/event/ranger...

*Yup. From Bridgerton.
July 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
CFP: Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

The fab REFORC (who aren't here yet 😭) is inviting short paper proposals for their conference in Wrocław 19-21 May 2026. The keynotes are on the topic of #Earlymodern Christian materiality.
Info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/fiftee...
July 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM