The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that its 2024–2025 postdoctoral fellowships have been awarded to Jean David Eynard and Claire Turner for projects on the early modern senses. As always, we received an extremely high number of exceptional applications and we would like to congratulate all applicants on the quality of their […]
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The latest issue of Renaissance Studies (Vol 38, no. 3, June 2024) is now available online via the Wiley Online Library. Articles Rachel White and Brett Greatley-Hirsch, ‘Ass-troll-ogical Nashe: Revisiting Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication’, pages 335-362 Isabella Walser-Bürgler, ‘A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon’s oratorical debut at Wittenberg University’, pages 363-378
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The UK’s Higher Education sector has made an alarming number of redundancy announcements in recent months and years. Taking place against a backdrop of negative and erroneous publicity about the value of the arts and humanities, these redundancies have disproportionately affected scholars in premodern studies. Redundancies are presented as a solution to the financial challenges
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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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