The Society for Renaissance Studies’ biennial conference, ‘Difficult Pasts’, organised by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University by Rebecca Bailey, Harald Braun, and Rachel Willie, enabled delegates to enjoy a varied and thought-provoking programme. Panels, roundtable discussions and workshops on an eclectic range of subjects were informed by current enquiry in Renaissance […]
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Playhouse Lab is a play-reading group, which meets regularly in the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds to explore early modern plays in script-in-hand performances. It is co-convened by José A. Pérez Díez and Jane Rickard, and Brett Greatley-Hirsch manages the website. Our regular readers include members of academic staff; current undergraduate and postgraduate
Click here for details of, and to register for, the online book launch on 11 December 2023 at 17.00GMT. The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable Kevin Killeen June 2023 274 pages The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early
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We are deeply saddened to learn that the historian Natalie Zemon Davis has died just shy of her 95th birthday. Her career spanned decades, encompassed early modern France, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean, and was never confined to or contented with the scholarly debate du jour but instead incorporated categories of analysis which
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We are deeply saddened to learn the news that Professor Peter Mack died suddenly on Thursday 5th October. He was a longtime member of the SRS and of SRS Council, and served diligently and thoughtfully as Chair from 2013-2016. Peter graduated with an MA from Oxford, before earning his MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute
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Q: Am I a suitable mentor for the EMSOC scheme? A: If you’re committed to supporting scholars of colour and working to help make our field a more diverse and inclusive place, then yes. You must be willing to be available for the full duration of the mentorship, and to attend the training session. Q:
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Q: Who is eligible to be a mentee? A: We are currently inviting UK and Ireland-based, and MA, PhD and Early Career Academics who self-identify as a Person of Colour to participate in the pilot programme. Q: What are the time commitments? A: We recommend that mentors and mentees meet for three 40–45-minute meetings over
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Is it a requirement of the Fellowship to be based in a particular location? Postdoctoral fellows need to hold a doctorate from a UK or Irish university but the fellowship may be taken up in any part of the world where you can undertake the research you propose. The Society is unable to sponsor visa
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The Renaissance Studies article prize 2023 has been awarded to two outstanding authors: Angelo Lo Conte, ‘A Visual Testament by Luca Riva, a Deaf and Mute Pupil of the Procaccini’, Vol. 36 No. 2, pages 222-51, April 2022. DOI 10.1111/rest.12730 This article takes an impressively interdisciplinary approach to a remarkable source that provides a
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Shakespeare and Disgust: the History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion Bradley J. Irish Use the following discount codes to save 35%: UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, South & Central America: GLR TW2UK USA: GLR TW2US Canada: GLR TW2CA Australia & New Zealand: GLRTW2AU Elizabeth I and the
