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📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

In case you missed it, the September 2025 Renaissance News e-newsletter has arrived! See what's happening at @rsaorg.bsky.social here: conta.cc/4mWnWmf #RenTwitter #earlymodern #professionaldevelopment #RenSA26

New Calls for Papers are up on the RSA website! View the latest CfPs here: bit.ly/3uXoYU8 #RenTwitter #earlymodern

YouTube video by The Renaissance Society of America The RenAIssance: Graduate Student Lightning Talks (12 June 2025)

The recording of my lightning talk with the @rsaorg.bsky.social in June is now available. I really enjoyed spending the afternoon listening to what my fellow grad students are working on in Renaissance studies. There's a lot of great research going on today. #earlymodern youtu.be/x8n9i4DFxXM?...

Apply for a 2026 Research Fellowship! For the 2026 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). The deadline for applications is September 16, 2025. Details here: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern #RenTwitter

Direct link to Instagram photo contest: www.rsa.org/news/698797/...

Only a few weeks left to send in your photos! If you're working in an archive this summer, enter our Instagram photo contest to win a free RSA membership for a year. September 1 deadline, details here: www.rsa.org/news/698797/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern

I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
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Read Karen Graubert's fabulous article: ""Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records" in this new issue!
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Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.

We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

Join us September 4 for a new Professional Development Webinar! Learn best practices for planning professional activities throughout the academic year, including publishing and teaching, field research, and job applications. Details here: www.rsa.org/events/Event... #RenTwitter #earlymodern

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I'm still looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Microhistory in the Era Global History for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F. Send me your proposal asap!
See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.

Deadline is tomorrow! We encourage abstracts for single-papers as well as fully formed sessions for #RenSA2026 @rsaorg.bsky.social #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities

Take a look at the Call for Papers Index for #RenSA26. Lots of fascinating topics. Get your papers in! www.rsa.org/page/RSAAnnu... #RenTwitter #earlymodern

Baby Moses Placed in the Nile by his Parents, 1672, engraved after Nicolas Poussin by #ClaudineBouzonnetStella (French, 1636-1697). In the foreground of the engraving, a woman puts a baby in a rush basket into the river; nearby are a few other adults, including a man with a small child. In the background is a castle in a landscape.

CFP, abstracts due July 25 -

Women Printmakers in the Early Modern World
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An APS-sponsored session for @rsaorg.bsky.social 2026

#RenSA26, #RSA26, #earlymodern folks - you have a few more days to submit an abstract on the history of #cartography, broadly construed, for the @rsaorg.bsky.social annual meeting in San Francisco in February. 🗃

Good morning, #earlymodern friends! I'm reposting my #cfp as we come into the final week of submissions. This panel will explore the topics of #satan #demonicpacts and #evil, particularly regarding those who unwittingly chose their fate. Join us at @rsaorg.bsky.social 's 2026 conference! #rensa26

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I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap!
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.

Detail from a hand-coloured sixteenth-century map showing Tenochtitlan: a city in a lake, with seven bridges to the shore and fortress-like buildings where they reach land. Green foliage beyond the circular lake.

Late #medieval and #earlymodern folks: my friend Ricardo Padrón is assembling a couple of panels on #cartography for #RenSA26, the next @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, in San Francisco in February 2026.

Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃

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A digital call-for-papers flier titled “Early Modern Women: Figures, Labors, Afterlives.” The flier invites proposals for a panel exploring how early modern women were represented and imagined across genres and cultures. It poses questions about gender, race, class, authority, and empire in early modern texts and welcomes papers on literary and historical figures, print culture, and archival recovery. Submission deadline is August 1, 2025. Abstracts (max 250 words), a short bio, and CV should be sent to Laura DeLuca at ldeluca@cmu.edu.

Calling scholars of #earlymodernwomen! Whether you're working on representations, histories, labor, or cultural afterlives, consider submitting to my #cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco #RenSA26. Please share widely!

Together with @mathieugrenet.bsky.social and Maria Gloria Tumminelli, I have organised a panel on Emotional Communities and Material Traces for RSA 2026!
Deadline for abstracts: 21.07. See our poster below for more details!
@rsaorg.bsky.social #RSA2026 #earlymodern #history #historyofemotions

Working in an archive this summer? Enter our Instagram photo contest to win a free RSA membership for a year! The RSA is holding a photo contest to highlight the archives (broadly defined). Please submit your photos by September 1: www.rsa.org/news/698797/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern

Interested in chatting about #satan, #evil, and #demonicpacts in #earlymodern Europe? Check out our #cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social 's 2026 conference in San Francisco #rensa26. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

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Still looking for submissions for the @rsaorg.bsky.social panel "Living with Demons: Emotions, Encounters, Experiences".

Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅

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📣 We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.1) has officially been published online! Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance

My advisor, @fatricky.bsky.social , is organizing a panel for @rsaorg.bsky.social #rensa26 on #maps in the 16th century. Please share this with your #earlymodern friends.

Sympathy for the devil in the early modern period? 😈

Submit your proposal for the next @rsaorg.bsky.social meeting in San Francisco!

#RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

Excited to participate in this webinar next week. Will be presenting a short paper titled “Animals Adapting to Changes in Nature: Perceptions of Animal Intelligence in the Renaissance?” #earlymodern #histsci #hps