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The winner will be announced at a star-studded* online event on Friday 18th September 2026. 17.00BST, hosted by the distinguished, dazzling & divine duo @jillburke.bsky.social & @onslies.bsky.social #Skystorians

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* get your desktops set to show images of the galaxy

August 26, 2026 at 6:32 PM

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Society for Renaissance Studies

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Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! 🎊🎊🎊💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫 🥳🥳🥳💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫🎊🎊🎊 #Skystorians #EarlyModern

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A Banner of BEAUTIFUL BOOK Covers, detailing all the shortlisted books:

John Colley, Humanism, English Literature and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

Colby Gordon, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2025)

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Alantic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Tiffany Jo Werth, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)

August 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM

Society for Renaissance Studies

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TWO SLEEPS! And then we get to hear about so much exciting research and celebrate extraordinary achievements! Do join us! #earlymodern #skystorians

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 20d

Join us on 18th September 2026 for our #SRSlyGood Festival! There are two sessions, The first, at 16:00 BST where our postdoctoral fellows will discuss their latest research and the second, at 17.00BST where the 2026 article prize and book prize will be announced! rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

September 16, 2026 at 10:10 AM

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Liesbeth Corens

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Join us on Friday for this celebration of all the exciting #earlymodern research that’s being done! Your joyful way to get to know 5 excellent books, 2 brilliant post-doctoral projects, and the exciting articles we’re publishing in Renaissance Studies. Get some champagne and join us! #SkyStorians

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 20d

Join us on 18th September 2026 for our #SRSlyGood Festival! There are two sessions, The first, at 16:00 BST where our postdoctoral fellows will discuss their latest research and the second, at 17.00BST where the 2026 article prize and book prize will be announced! rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

September 16, 2026 at 7:55 AM

Society for Renaissance Studies

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A thread! A thread! 🧵 Get a load of all that #RenaissanceStudies juiciness! 🥰 💫 #Skystorians

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

For the last nine months it's been my pleasure & privilege to be the editor of Renaissance Studies, and I think we're well overdue a romp through some fantastic articles we've published this year. See below for some of the finest new research in the interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance! 👇

September 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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👀 is @pennpress.bsky.social looking to crash its website with this sale?

Come on #Skystorians, you know what to do!

Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 2d

Our Back to School Sale features more than 250 paperbacks, from popular course titles to new releases, available for 50% off—including 25+ new titles not included in last year's sale! Browse the collection and use code PENNSCHOOL26 to save until 9/22.

https://www.pennpress.org/back-to-school-sale/

Back to School Sale - University of Pennsylvania Press

Announcing Penn Press’s 2026 Back to School Sale! From September 2 through September 22, customers will receive 50% off select paperbacks when you order right here from pennpress.org! Below, browse......

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September 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM

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Society for Court Studies

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CFP - The Society for Renaissance studies invites papers of 15-20 minutes on the theme "The Renaissance Beyond Borders"

Title of max. 30 words; abstract of max. 200 words.

🗓 Closes 25 September 2026

📍Warburg Institute and School of Advanced Study, University of London, from 30 June - 3 July 2027

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · May 12

GET EXCITED!

Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party.

The #Renaissance Beyond Borders
Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027
Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026
all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

September 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM

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Renaissance Society of America

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📣 We are excited to announce that the Fall 2026 issue (79.3) of Renaissance Quarterly has been published online and is now available to view. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current #earlymodern #rentwitter @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Cover of Fall 2026 Issue of Renaissance Quarterly: Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop (German, Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar). Cranach’s work shows the Black Saint Maurice in a regal bearing, dressed in exquisite silver armor and a large plumed hat. His figure epitomized contemporary ambitions to expand Christian rule and represented the virtues of the perfect Christian warrior.Saint Maurice, ca. 1520 –25. Oil on linden, 137.2 × 39.4 cm. Artwork in the public domain. Image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.

September 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

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Paper cut!
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 14: Fol. 23r

Photo of a page of a manuscript with a big diagonal slash across the text

September 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM

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CEMS KCL

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We are delighted to be hosting another series of the 'Race and the #earlymodern' seminar with @folger.edu. This term we will be hosting three WIP sessions with Dr. Mira Zoubeida 'Assaf, Aman Williams, and Rebecca Adusei, respectively.

Full details below!

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Upcoming Seminars — CEMS KCL Blog

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September 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM

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Hakluyt Society

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Hakluyt Society Essay Prize Competition 2027 now open - first prize £1500, second prize £500. See www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... for more details. Closing date 1 March 2027.

The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students

The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,250. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students

www.hakluyt.com

September 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg

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Honoured to be chairing the Hakluyt Society essay prize committee for the second time, do consider submitting an essay and/or advertise to your PhD students/ECR colleagues. 🗃️ #earlymodern included!

Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social · 5d

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize Competition 2027 now open - first prize £1500, second prize £500. See www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... for more details. Closing date 1 March 2027.

The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students

The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,250. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students

www.hakluyt.com

September 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM

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Exciting new book series! #EarlyModern Maritime Humanities. With @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer at the helm and published by @dgb-mem.bsky.social

all info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #MaritimeHistory #SkyStorians

New book series - Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800
Deadline: 28 August 2028

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Full series title: Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture
Series editors: Professor Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, UK, and Dr John McAleer, University of Southhampton, UK

Interdisciplinary in approach, Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture invites submissions that seek to transform traditional land-based histories of states and nations by focusing on early modern oceans and seas. The series welcomes proposals for monographs and edited collections from across the full range of humanities subjects that place seascapes in dialogue with history and culture. It encourages submissions that reflect on issues of transculturalism, globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism, and the histories of science and technology.

The series is centred on a period of history marked by increased exploration, travel, and trade. Early modern oceans and seas were cultural spaces and contact zones where established centres of control and the dictates of individual national histories held less sway over cultural connections, circulations, and exchanges. Proposals that focus on coastal zones, ports, and rivers are welcome.

The editors are happy to discuss a book at idea stage as well as at later points in its development. The series welcomes proposals from authors, both new and established, who seek to shape the field of maritime humanities by emphasising the historical and cultural significance of oceans and the sea in their work.

August 31, 2026 at 11:42 AM

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Lavinia Gambini

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🚨CFP: SRS, London, 30 June-3 July 2027

10 DAYS LEFT!!!

There is still time to join our panel proposal on 'The Indian Mediterranean' for the SRS Conference (@srsrensoc.bsky.social) in London (@warburginstitute.bsky.social)!

For any questions, feel free to DM me!
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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨CFP: SRS, London, 30 June-3 July 2027

#EarlyModern friends, I am once again asking for your abstracts!

@jenmcfarland.bsky.social and I are delighted to be organising a panel on 'The Indian Mediterranean' for the 2027 SRS (@srsrensoc.bsky.social) Conference at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social!
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Call for Papers for the Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies which will be held in London from 30 June to 3 July 2027. Abstracts from researchers of all career stages (including independent scholars and graudate students) are invited for a panel on 'The Indian Mediterranean'. The panel explores both the presence of people from India in the early modern Mediterranean (1400-1700) as well as the use of the descriptor 'Indian' or 'from the Indies' when describing migrant, displaced, and captive people. If you are interested in applying, please send us a 200-word abstract, a provisional title, and a 100-word bio by 10 September 2026. We are hoping to get back to you with a final decision on 15 September 2026. If you'd like to receive an accessible, B&W, Word-verison of this document, please feel free to DM me.

September 1, 2026 at 9:27 AM

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British Shakespeare Association

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BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' CfP part 1: call for seminar and workshop proposals open now until 30 September! The conference will take place at the University of Leeds, 21-24 July 2027.

Conference - British Shakespeare Association

BSA Conference BSA Conference: ‘Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence’ University of Leeds 21-24 July 2027 The BSA’s 2027 conference will take place in the School of English and the School of Music at the University of Leeds, with a focus on ‘Sounding Shakespeare’. Taking as a starting point the four general themes of voice, […]

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August 31, 2026 at 6:22 PM

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler

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Thinking about putting together a panel on 'Early Modern Documents, Digitisation, and Editing' for @srsrensoc.bsky.social's conference at @warburginstitute.bsky.social (30 June–3 July 2027). I wondered if this might potentially be of interest to anyone?

Gandalf Reading Ancient Paper

Alt: A gif of Gandalf consulting manuscripts in the archives of Minas Tirith

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September 1, 2026 at 8:19 AM

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)

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There's still time! The deadline is October 1.

#earlymodern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · Jun 22

We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern

The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2027/Volume 22.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Generations.
In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 22.1, we invite contributions on **women and generations in the early modern world**. Papers might include examinations of intergenerational relationships among and between women, how gender shapes the expression of generational knowledge and status, how women preserve and protect the generations ahead of and behind them, how representations of generations are gendered, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world.
At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.
Submissions are due October 1, 2026 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed.
If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about.
See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum

August 31, 2026 at 2:15 PM

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period

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Thank you for all the wonderful abstracts we have received so far! Two weeks remain!

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · Aug 5

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Michaelmas 2026. Please get in touch if you would like the plain text version!

August 28, 2026 at 10:08 AM

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EMoDiR

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#CfA 📢 #BookPrize: "The Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion", Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
🏫 Columbia University

For the first book manuscript on religion by an early-career scholar.

⏰ 8 September 2026
🔗 www.stmoderna.it/it/dettaglio...

#ReligiousStudies #EarlyCareer

Dettaglio The Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion

Indispensabili per la sicurezza e per lo svolgimento delle operazioni strutturali.

www.stmoderna.it

August 28, 2026 at 10:39 AM

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Ecclesiastical History Society

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Upcoming conference: Join our next EHS conference online on 9 January 2027. The theme is 'The Church and Race'. Our call for papers will open soon, mark your calendars in the meantime!
#skystorians #history

August 28, 2026 at 1:35 PM

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EMoDiR

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#CfA 📢 “Mediterranean, Religions and Societies” Chair 2026–27, Institut pontifical d’études arabes et d’islamologie & Institut français Centre Saint-Louis

📆 2026–27 | 🌍💻 Rome, Cairo & Online
⏰ 20 Sept 2026
🔗 www.ifcsl.com/fr/centre-sa...

#ReligiousStudies #MediterraneanStudies

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August 31, 2026 at 8:18 AM

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Exciting new book series! #EarlyModern Maritime Humanities. With @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer at the helm and published by @dgb-mem.bsky.social

all info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #MaritimeHistory #SkyStorians

August 31, 2026 at 11:42 AM

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Peter McCullough

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Congratulations to the wonderful Mary Ann Lund (Leicester) on publication of her second (!) vol. in the Oxford Donne Sermons edition. Fantastic textual and critical scholarship on his mid-career at St Paul's.