Chloe Fairbanks

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social

Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

The Open University The 6th Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presenta...

#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are!

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Only Ben Jonson 😂

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social!

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Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each.

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This one's for you, @tomgavin.bsky.social

Making this red wine drinker chuckle, thanks William.

Other highlights include 'What is the vse of beere?' and 'What is the beſt drink?'

C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.

Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻

Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP

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So thrilled for you Callan, really well deserved!

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
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‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78 Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025

Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!

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Proofs looking goooood

Registration is free for self-funded PGR students and non-waged ECRs, and we can offer six travel bursaries, so there's no reason not to apply!

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
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Thank you!!

Thank you so much!!

It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.

Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺

Another day, another

Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)

Tragedy of Mariam and Revenger's Tragedy, hands down

Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays. By Hailey Bachrach Hailey Bachrach’s fresh and engaging book brings performance studies to bear on more traditional modes of literary analysis to produce a “historically info

My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike.

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Short but (in my opinion) fun note on plague, kissing, and Aelius Aristides by me in here - enjoyable merely for the question of ancient 'social distancing' if nothing else!

A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025.

Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany.    Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions: What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning? What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge? What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists? How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries? Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.   This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.   Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.

We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴