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Lecture by @drwillgreen.bsky.social: "The Forgotten Playhouse: Travelling Players, Renaissance Stratford, and the Making of Shakespeare", 19 November 2026, online via Zoom, Price: £7.00 rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModernVirtualEvents #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents
The Forgotten Playhouse: Travelling Players, Renaissance Stratford, and the Making of Shakespeare Date: 19 November 2026 Location: Online via Zoom Price: £7 Visit website → https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespeares-schoolroom-guildhall-the-forgotten-playhouse-tickets-1991398732215?aff=oddtdtcreator Long before he became the most famous playwright in English history, from the 1560s a young William Shakespeare had ample opportunity to witness professional theatre performed within his hometown. Although often thought of as a London-based industry centred upon famous theatres like the Globe, Elizabethan Stratford was a popular destination for actors on tour outside the capital, with the town's Guildhall effectively serving as the local playhouse. Yet these performances did not always run smoothly, with local debates over the appropriateness of such activity in the town ultimately leading to the gradual suppression of theatre in Stratford in the early 1600s. Join Dr. Will Green - Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Research Associate at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall, Stratford-upon-Avon - as he investigates the forgotten theatrical heritage of Stratford-upon-Avon's Guildhall, uncovering how these touring players transformed the building into a captivating local playhouse.
October 30, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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#CfP: VAHRG Study Day: New Research on Venetian Art, 24 October 2026, online. Proposals by 30 June 2026

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VAHRG Study Day: New Research on Venetian Art Date: 24 October 2026 Deadline: 30 June 2026 Location: Online Visit website → https://vahrg.wordpress.com/ A Study Day for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Researchers. The Venetian Art History Research Group (VAHRG) invites submissions for its second virtual conference, open to current PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working on any aspect of Venetian art history. The conference will take place online via Zoom on Saturday, 24 October 2026, and will be hosted by members of the VAHRG committee. We welcome proposals for short papers presenting current research on Venetian art. Presentations may be given in either English or Italian, be accompanied by a PowerPoint, and not exceed 20 minutes. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a proposal title and an abstract (maximum 200 words) to venetianahg@gmail.com by Tuesday, 30 June 2026. Please also include your current university affiliation and the contact details of your supervisor(s).
May 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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#CfP: 'Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice', online, 11-12 November 2026. Proposals by 30 Jun3 2026
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Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. Date: 11 November 2026 – 12 November 2026 Deadline: 30 June 2026 Location: Online Visit website → https://culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2026/05/14/812/#more-812 The Cultures of Philosophy team at the University of Exeter invites proposals for the online workshop Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. The aim of this workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings. We intend to bring together teachers and researchers in HE with members of subject organisations to reflect on what’s working and what could be changed to improve the visibility of and engagement with early modern women’s philosophical writing, broadly conceived. The workshop will take place online over one afternoon (Wed 11th) and one morning (Thurs 12th); we envisage short (10 minute) interventions to allow for plenty of discussion. We intend to produce a report to be published on our project website, summarising the workshop’s findings and to use this as a landing page to bring together further resources.
May 24, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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The 2026 Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will be given by Joshua Calhoun on 'Entropic Affordances in the Archives’, 22 April, 5-6pmBST online.

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Entropic Affordances in the Archives Date: 22 April 2026 Location: Online Price: Free Visit website → This year’s Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will be on 22 April, 5-6, online. Our speaker is Joshua Calhoun, 'Entropic Affordances in the Archives’. Joshua Calhoun is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). The Stachniewski Memorial Lecture is supported by EACW and UMUCU in memory of John Stachniewski. All welcome!
March 28, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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'Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books', a new digital exhibition, curated by Hannah Yip and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social #EarlyModernVirtualEvents #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/extra-...
Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books Why did readers write on, or alter, printed images? What does this tell us about the enduring appeal of early modern texts? A new digital exhibition curated by Hannah Yip (University of Manchester), ’Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books’, explores how readers engaged visually with their books. The exhibition includes a range of works from the literary canon to ephemeral pamphlets held today at the John Rylands Library, each uniquely transformed by the people who owned them. These objects ask us to reconsider how books and images were read, repurposed, and reimagined across time. Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books Location: The John Rylands Research Institute and Library (online) Ticket Price: Free Website: https://www.digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/extra-illustrated-books/page/introduction
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