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The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA26 to join the Annual Meeting conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
📣 Grad Students: Receive complimentary conference registration by volunteering to work just one shift! If you've already registered, we'll refund your registration fee. Get details & sign up here: forms.gle/7EEUMj1QTo6r... #RenTwitter #RenSA26 #earlymodern
15.01.2026 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 We are thrilled to announce that the Winter 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.4) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance
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The submission deadline for the RSA Digital Innovation Awards is approaching! Applications will close January 12 for this award recognizing excellence in digital projects supporting the study of the Renaissance (1300–1700). www.rsa.org/page/Digital... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #digitalhumanties
22.12.2025 13:12 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be speaking about classical and early modern notions of ‘Asiatic style’ as part of a panel on ‘Encountering the East in Early Modern England’ @rsaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco next year:
18.12.2025 10:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A new Renaissance Studies Article Prize, Research Travel Fellowship, Works-in-Progress Series, and much more! Check out the December issue of Renaissance News for all things Renaissance Studies: conta.cc/4nlDFdL #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenSA26
17.12.2025 14:07 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0@rsaorg.bsky.social's inaugural Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship "supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700."
Apply by March 1. 🗃
#arthistory #LatinAmerica
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I'm excited to be presenting on the panel "Senses of Trust" with this amazing group of scholars! If you have room in your program, we'd love to see you there:
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We are delighted to announce that the preliminary program for our 2026 Annual Meeting is available to view and registration is open. We hope you will join us February 19–21, 2026, at our 72nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. www.rsa.org/news/715597/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenSA26
02.12.2025 16:03 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Conference schedule for Renaissance Society of America, meeting in San Francisco, February 2026. The title of the paper is "Leprosy at Contact: The Global Dissemination of Leprosy in the Pre-1500 World."
Delighted to have my schedule set for the @rsaorg.bsky.social meeting in February. Looking forward to the first of two sessions on "Medicine and Science in the Early Modern Pacific." My paper will be examining evidence for leprosy's global dissemination 1000s of years prior to European colonialism.
20.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
What’s happening at the RSA? Take a look at the upcoming calendar noting important events and deadlines: www.rsa.org/page/rsacale... 📷 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #earlymodern #RenTwitter #RenSA26
13.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We are awarding FIVE tuition scholarships to RSA members who wish to attend the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute on the campus of the Université de Montréal. Apply by November 19, 2025! www.rsa.org/news/712947/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #scholarship #digitalhumanities
28.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2Many thanks to the @rsaorg.bsky.social for sharing a notice of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death. www.rsa.org/news/709728/.... I will be attending the RSA meeting in February, so get in touch if you want to plan to talk teaching strategies! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #histmed
22.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
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Join us for two upcoming RSA webinars! "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers" will be held Thursday, Nov 6 and the "Using AI to Broaden Access to Historical Archives" webinar will take place Wednesday, Nov 12. Details & registration: www.rsa.org/page/rsacale... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
14.10.2025 12:40 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📣 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
30.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 24 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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
17.09.2025 11:31 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New Calls for Papers are up on the RSA website! View the latest CfPs here: bit.ly/3uXoYU8 #RenTwitter #earlymodern
04.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
25.08.2025 23:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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
19.08.2025 14:03 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Direct link to Instagram photo contest: www.rsa.org/news/698797/...
06.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
06.08.2025 15:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I 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:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
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.
05.08.2025 17:10 — 👍 59 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1
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
05.08.2025 16:40 — 👍 38 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 3
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
05.08.2025 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
31.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
29.07.2025 14:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0