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Picture of the audience for the book launch. Prof. Welch is pictured at the front.

Picture of the front cover of Renaissance Skin book.

From sausage makers to cheese rinds to wrinkles... a delightful evening in a packed room to celebrate Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social

TOMORROW!! Renaissance Skin: the final celebration. This *sold out* , but we've been able to squeeze in a few more chairs. If you're interested in materials, bodies, meaning, or even just sausages, do come and celebrate @evelynwelch.bsky.social's return to @kingshistory.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️

Refuge, Science, Faith: Discovering London's 18th-Century Germans | King's College London Discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London.

⛪ On 9 November, discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London, where short talks, an exhibition of rarely displayed paintings, documents, and silverware, and an organ recital reveal more about this little-known community with @cemskcl.bsky.social and @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ⤵️

We've been able to increase ticket availability. If you're keen to attend, please register!

Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin.

Waiting list now activated.

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Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

Book launch October 23rd!

Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.

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We are getting the Renaissance Skin band back together in a few weeks time! Do join us to discuss everything skin from piercing dog's ears to skin under the 17th-century microscope. Thank you @hannahmurphynews.bsky.social for organising such a special event @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Cosmographia Antarctica: The Early Modern invention of the Southern World between the Andes and the Mediterranean | King's College London Juan Carlos Mantilla explores how between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward.

Join @kingsdllc.bsky.social for a seminar on the early modern invention of the southern world. LLC will be welcoming Dr. Juan Carlos Mantilla to hear about his project, Cosmographia Antarctica.

Tomorrow at 16:00!

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Lots of great events this semester!

Events — CEMS KCL Blog 'What's On' at CEMS. We run workshops, seminars, conferences, social and networking events, symposia, and more.

Full details on all of our events can be found on our website.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events

@hsmurphy.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

CEMS Book Club: Glorious Boides — CEMS KCL Blog Join the CEMS reading group for a discussion of Colby Gordon's Glorious Bodies.

Last but not least, our next reading group will take place on 26th November at 13:00. We'll be discussing Dr. Colby Gordon's Glorious Bodies. Convened by Dr. Emily Butterworth.

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Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

On 23rd October we're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's latest book, Renaissance Skin (@manchesterup.bsky.social). Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. The event starts at 17:00.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch. — CEMS KCL Blog Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch for early modernists across King’s. We’ll hear about ongoing research from early modernists across the A&H faculty.

CEMS events for semester 1! We have three events in the calendar for this term.

Firstly, on October 3rd, we'll be hosting a welcome event for early modernists across King's. Join us at 10:30 for a networking brunch.

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Headed into London today for this to listen to these amazing keynotes. My new project is on the Caribbean and it’s relatively new territory for me, so can’t wait to learn from these brilliant colleagues. (can you tell how excited I am??)

THIS WEEK!!!

EXCITING WEEK THIS WEEK! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Tomorrow and Thursday! Come along if you can! 🗃️

Looks great, pity I can't make them! #WomensHistory

Hosted as part of "Caribbean Connections" a workshop organised by @hsmurphy.bsky.social's Medicine and the Making of Race project.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL Blog Join King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr...

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week.

25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous"

26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy"

Full details below.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

Thank you @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social & Claire Titley for organising this really interesting and insightful webinar! It was very helpful to find out more about what The London Archives do on a day-to-day basis aside from collections etc. 😊

There's no better way to spend your Thursday afternoon than with one our archivist @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social talking about cross-institutional collabs and site visits with @cemskcl.bsky.social.

Spoilers, The London Archives DOES offer site visits. #archives #EarlyModern #HigherEducation

Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.

Tomorrow at 14:00! Join us for our final webinar on teaching the #earlymodern. We'll be joined by Claire Titley (@thelondonarchives.bsky.social) to talk about cross-institutional collaboration.

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Doing a thing this Thursday with @cemskcl.bsky.social!

Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.

Join us next Thursday for our final webinar on Teaching the #earlymodern. We'll be joined by Claire Titley (@thelondonarchives.bsky.social) to talk about cross-institutional collaborations.

Online, June 19, 14:00

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...

I had a wonderful time at KCL’s Early Modern War Narratives conference last Friday! All of the papers were absolutely fascinating! @cemskcl.bsky.social

I am very grateful for the opportunity to present my own research into the non-elite experiences of siege in Newark! ⚔️

#earlymodern #skystorians

Some early moderns dressed in sheets with torches, pretending to be the deceased James VI/I.

Today at the @cemskcl.bsky.social conference I learned that ghosts are a Jesuit conspiracy. They stick candles on crabs, then release them into graveyards to convince the unwary of the doctrine of Purgatory. (Either that or they’re just chaps dressed up in bedsheets.)

A PowerPoint slide showing a battle between Matthias Corvinus and some Ottomans, with the title of my presentation - ‘“Scutum inde gero”: Truth, memory, and self-promotion in an early modern war poem’ - superimposed.

Putting the finishing touches on some slides for tomorrow’s @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives. It’s a great joy to return to the crusader I call ‘Bob’, whose story has been the jumping off point for so many fascinating lines of research since I first ‘met’ him in 2018.

Join us this Friday! In person and online tickets available.

Join us next Friday!