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Marsilio Ficino at RSA 2013: Call for Papers

Submissions are invited for a series of panels on  Marsilio Ficino at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, California on 4-6 April, 2013.

The New Editor of Renaissance Studies

The Society is delighted to announce that Professor Jennifer Richards has been appointed as the new Editor of Renaissance Studies.

SRS Biennial Conference: Manchester 9-11 July 2012

 

Booking Information (now open)


Portrait of Grafton

© Reproduced by courtesy of the University 
Librarian and Director, The John Rylands 
University Library, The University of Manchester

 

Draft Programme


Society Partnership With Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Publishing now offer SRS members a 20% discount on a selection of relevant books.

Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
15 Jun 2012 - 16 Jun 2012

A conference to be held at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK

Fourth Annual St Andrews Book Conference
28 Jun 2012 - 30 Jun 2012

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World
28-30 June 2012

Renaissance Old Worlds: English Encounters from the Levant to the Far East
29 Jun 2012 - 01 Jul 2012

The early modern period saw England establishing its first colonies in the New World, but its ideas and expectations about foreign nations, travel and its identity as a political and economic power on the global stage were influenced largely by its experiences in other distant but familiar nations.

Summer School: 'Roma in Festa'. Staging and Experiencing Festival Culture in Early Modern Rome
09 Jul 2012 - 15 Jul 2012

This July, an interdisciplinary summerschool on the rich festival
culture of early modern Rome will be held at at the Academia Belgica in
Rome. 

The Broken Image/L'image brisée - Call for Papers
15 Nov 2012 - 17 Nov 2012

Situated strategically at the meeting point for several of the IRCL's key research axes for the coming four-year period, this conference will explore from various angles the theme of the “broken image”. 

The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700)
04 Dec 2013 - 06 Dec 2013

Catholic University, Leuven


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