“Esther Inglis in Contexts and Culture” will be held at the University of Edinburgh on the 19th and 20th October 2024. The aim of this colloquium is to bring together scholars, researchers and artists to celebrate the life, work, and manuscripts of Esther Inglis (c.1570-1624) in the 400th annive

The residual influence of the medieval is visible in today’s performance practice in various ways, yet this inheritance is perhaps not valued as highly as it might be, and oftentimes goes entirely unnoticed. Although there has been a soaring in popularity of medievalesque fantasy films and televisio

Please be patient while images load 1) 16th Annual MEMSA Conference: Memory: Staging, Praxis & Practice Durham University, Pemberton Rooms, 18th-19th July 2022. Deadline for Call for Papers: Friday 15th April 2022. More info: https://durhammemsa.wordpress.com/calls-for-papers/ Please submit ab

Call for Papers: Edited by William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy With an afterword by Professor Tracey Hill We plan to publish a collection of essays celebrating 400 years of Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, from his final work for the commercial stage up to the present day.

UCL’s Centre for Early Modern Exchanges celebrates its tenth year anniversary this year and the launch of its PhD programme in Early Modern Studies. To mark this occasion we are bringing together researchers associated with the Centre with colleagues from the award-winning Centre for Editing Lives a

You are warmly invited to the fourth Queen Mary PGRS seminar of this term on Thursday 4th March 5pm, which will be hosted on Zoom. We are delighted to be joined by Dr Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield) who will be speaking on: Christopher Marlowe and Renaissance Malthusianism Regist

With apologies to those who have received this through the MEMS email list, just reposting here in case! CMRC STUDY DAY People, Space and the City Online event Wednesday 26 May This interdisciplinary study day is dedicated to the urban world and, more particularly, to the forces and dynamics tha

All of these events will take place online, via Zoom. If you wish to attend could you please contact Dr Rachel Stenner in advance and she will send the links: rachel.stenner@sussex.ac.uk The Hidden Thoughts of the Soul: Exploring the Mind in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)  Aaron Ka

Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy is a five-day, free, online event which seeks to share, celebrate, and reinvigorate approaches to the teaching and study of Shakespeare's plays.   Bringing together contributions from international scholars, teachers, students, and our multilingual communities to invest

Join English Heritage and the British Archaeological Association for this major online conference focused on Aelred, abbot of Rievaulx between 1147 and 1167. Called ‘our Aelred’ by his monks, the abbot was one of the most important monastic leaders of the Middle Ages and remains an inspirational

This year the conference took place online via Zoom across two days. Whilst we would have loved to have hosted the conference in-person, the silver lining is that we were able to have scholars and academics across the world attend and present their work. So fear not if you missed out – as we recorde

Talk by Dr. Tracey Collins, Aegis Archaeology Ltd, in conjunction with Maynooth University December 3, 5pm via Microsoft Teams For registration contact: niamh.wycherley@mu.ie

The International Spenser Society (https://twitter.com/SpenserSociety) are pleased to announce #GettingStartedWithSpenser, a workshop on developing inclusive teaching resources for reading Spenser in terms of race, gender, class, ecocriticism, and more. Sign up here for the event on Dec 15th, 9am

In Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies there is significant under-representation of faculty of colour employed in permanent positions in UK universities. There are various reasons for this: institutional racism in higher education; unconscious and conscious bias in selection of candidates for study

Join the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies upcoming lecture: 'New Approaches to Medieval Historiography'. Chaired by Dr Ed Roberts (Kent) with Prof Julia Marvin (Notre Dame), Prof Jesse Torgerson (Wesleyan), Prof Elizabeth Tyler (York), and Prof Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth). Scholars of m

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Short notice, but there's a talk on Early Modern Witch Hunts on Monday, 7 February from Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University). The talk is at 1:30pm CST (7:30pm GMT) and information is at the link below. https://onegarden.com/talk/mikki-brock-persecution https://onegarden.com/talk/mikki-brock

A new initiative aiming to create a network of researchers interested in the medieval and early modern period in the Central European region. Please send applications to ceissorg@gmail.com by 31 March 2022.

The Marlowe Festival, the International Conference: Marlowe and the Topicality of Textual Encounters Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (France), 16th-18th May 2022. Deadline: 1st December 2022. For more information: https://marlowefestival2022.wordpress.com/cfp/call-for-paper-reims-engli

This one might be a little late for us in GMT, but looks a fascinating paper so I thought I should share anyway! The University of Toronto Early Modern Working Group presents: Jennifer Park University of North Carolina at Greensboro Thinking Racecraft through Recipes: Early Modern Fantasies of M

The Medieval Manuscripts Seminar, convened by Julia Crick (King's, London) and David Rundle (MEMS, Kent), is sponsored by London's Institute for English Studies. The schedule for the seminars for early 2021 is now available: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/research-seminars/medieval-manuscripts-sem

Brian Richardson is talking at the Warburg Institute's Book and Print Initiative seminar on 25th February about his recently published monograph, Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy (2020). Just flagging up as looks particularly interesting! https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/ev

The journal's new editorial board has released a number of updates today (18 December), including a new website, an open call for scholarly work on the intersections between Critical Race Studies and early modern performance, author and reviewer guidelines, and a brand new contact address. Links a

This is a live online event. Please register for more details. The platform and log in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours before the event. Please note that registration closes 30 minutes before the event start time.  If you have not received the log in details or have any furthe

Adding a call for papers could not be any easier on the MEMSLib forum. Here is a handy guide to help you out. Step 1. Click on 'Create New Post' and then 'Start a Discussion'. Step 2. A new window will open. Step 3. Title: Add the name of your call for papers, the date it takes place and the dea

Gender in Global Medieval Mysticism Speaker Series, Session 1: Dr Liz McAvoy, “A Woman in Pieces: The Spectral Presence of Mechthild of Hackeborn in the Late Medieval English Canon” and Dr Sa’diyya Shaikh, “Refining Power, Cultivating Justice: Sufism and Gender” 8th December 2020, 3pm GMT; 8.30pm

The final #SRSlyGood Society for Renaissance Studies seminar of 2020 is coming up, 16 December, 18.00GMT (don't worry- not the last ever). A conversation with Tina Asmussen (Bergbau-Museum Bochum; Katherine Hunt (York); Emily Rowe (Newcastle); Alison Wright (UCL); chaired by Allison Stielau (UCL). M

Registration is now open for the colloquium, Persianisms: Cultural Encounters with the Anglophone World (10-12 Dec 2020)! You can find the registration form and programme here: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/persianisms-colloquium All are welcome!

This meeting of the UCL English Early Modern English Reading Group will consider the various interpretative challenges posed by the Essays, and how their English readers and editors grappled with their manifold, Protean form. More information at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/events/2020/dec/em

This episode takes a closer look at one of the treasures of the British Library collection, the Sherborne Missal. Made in the early 1400s, it's a titan of a manuscript, weighing as much as the average five-year-old child and containing more paintings than many art galleries, including numerous tiny