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SRS Manchester 2012: Draft Programme
08 Jul 2012 - 11 Jul 2012

Draft programme for SRS2012 now available. Please could you take the time to check that the details for your paper/ panel are correct. If you have issues of timetabling please contact us directly, but at present we will not be negotiating the programme. 

Panel Organisers must contact your panel members directly as we do not have all contact details. You are responsible for your panel members being reminded to register and for checking the details of your panels. Obviously we will be cross-referenceing and programming this, but please help by ensuring that you have passed on details of registration and programming to your panel members.

Chairs will be confirmed soon.

Please remember that speakers must register here by mid-February.

PG and Postdoc bursaries have been confirmed- if you are not sure whether you have been awarded one please contact Jerome de Groot (jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk) 


Society Partnership With Ashgate Publishing

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

www.ashgate.com/SRS 

The New Editor of Renaissance Studies

The Society is delighted to announce that interviews were held in London on 18th August and, as a result, the position of Editor of Renaissance Studies has been offered to Professor Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University). Professor Richards is an authority on aspects of early modern writing, and is currently engaged in a major research prohect exploring the health writings of the Renaissance. Professor Richards will take up the five-year appointment to the editorship on 1st January 2012.

Wiley-Blackwell History, Art History and Literature Discount for SRS Members

The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that its members are now entitled to a 20% discount on all Wiley-Blackwell History, Art History, and Literature titles. Simply enter the SRS access code when ordering!

Society members can discover their access codes by logging in, clicking on Member Pages, and then navigating to the Society News - Members Only page.

SRS Biennial Conference: Manchester 9-11 July 2012
The Society for Renaissance Studies
5th Biennial Conference
University of Manchester, 9-11 July, 2012
Confirmed plenary Speakers: 
  • Roger Chartier (Book History and French Literature, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris/ Collège de France/ University of Pennsylvania)
  • Bette Talvacchia (Art History, University of Connecticut)
  • Alan Stewart (English, Columbia)
    General booking for the conference is now open, and will close toward the end of April. 






    Portrait of Grafton
    © Reproduced by courtesy of the University 
    Librarian and Director, The John Rylands 
    University Library, The University of Manchester
SRS Conference Manchester 2012: Draft Programme

Draft programme for SRS2012 now available. Please could you take the time to check that the details for your paper/ panel are correct. If you have issues of timetabling please contact us directly, but at present we will not be negotiating the programme. 

PANEL ORGANISERS: YOU MUST CONTACT YOUR PANEL MEMBERS DIRECTLY AS WE DO NOT HAVE ALL CONTACT DETAILS. You are responsible for your panel members being reminded to register and for checking the details of your panels. Obviously we will be cross-referencing this but please help by ensuring that you have passed on details of registration and programming to your panel members. 

Chairs will be confirmed soon - if you have suggestions for chairs of your panel, please contact us. 

Please remember that speakers must register by mid-February: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/srsnc/ 

PG and Postdoc bursaries have been confirmed - if you are not sure whether you have been awarded one please contact Jerome de Groot (jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk).

Society Previous News

SRS Inaugural Annual Welsh Lecture
30 Apr 2012

Professor Tom Corns of Bangor University: “Paradise Lost: The Early Years”.

Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize
15 Jan 2012

In 2012 the Society for Renaissance Studies will award for the first time a biennial book prize of £1,000 to encourage original research on any aspect in the field of Renaissance studies and to recognise significant accomplishments by members of the SRS.

Annual Lecture - 2011
06 May 2011

Professor Alison Brown (Royal Holloway): 'Reading Lorenzo's Correspondence: Lorenzo de' Medici, his Letters and their late editor, F.W. Kent.'

Renaissance Prince to Infamous Tyrant: What Changed Henry VIII?
31 Mar 2011

Suzannah Lipscomb (School of History, University of East Anglia)
The Storey Institute, Lancaster

Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference 2010
16 Jul 2010 - 18 Jul 2010

University of York