Ok… we might need to pause reposting all the congrats to Robert Stagg, least this starts looking like the Rob Stagg stan account. In the interest of balance, can fans of our other shortlisted authors post avidly?

Hoorah for the magnificent Urvashi Chakravarty and this stellar book!

A big thank you to SRS for shortlisting "The Talk of the Town" for its book prize - and congratulations to all shortlisted authors!🎉

Delighted to learn that FICTIONS OF CONSENT has been shortlisted for the SRS Book Prize! A huge honour to be part of this stellar lineup. Many thanks to Renaissance SRS and congratulations to all the shortlisted authors 🎉

We're advertising a one-year postdoc to work with me and the Print Matters team. If you're into embodiment and text technologies (any period) and keen to turn your hand to letterpress printing, please apply! Feel free to be in touch with questions. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

We are delighted English Association that our advice, and the advice of sister bodies across the arts & humanities, was heeded. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…

Congratulations to MUP author Heidi Hausse, who has been shortlisted for the 2024 Renaissance SRS Book Prize for her work, The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany! 🌟📚 #SRSlyGood

Applications are open for the final 2024 Data/Culture workshop on big historical newspaper & maps data + tools (taught by Living with Machines peeps). Sept 30-Oct 2 2024, London & online. forms.office.com/e/4h6sfLfuE3 turing.ac.uk/events/autumn-…

The Study of Collecting: Past, Present And Future 10 Sept 2-4pm UCL IAS A roundtable to explore not only traditional methodologies but also new approaches that have developed in humanities, social sciences, museum studies, heritage, art market etc ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

If you’re working on interpersonal encounters produced by early modern mobility, Sandra Toffolo (also @toffolosandra.bsky.social) & I are welcoming abstracts for our ‘Mobility & Encounter’ panel Renaissance SRS in Bristol next July! Deadline 15 Sep: tinyurl.com/bdhs2hfc #cfp #RenSoc25 #Twitterstorians #EarlyModern

IMPORTANT information for our conference next July:

#CfP: panel proposal a #RenSoc23: 'Mobility and encounter: Between regulation and practice'.. Abstracts by September 15 2024 rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11th… #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents

Registration now open: 'Creativity and Invention in Antiquarian Drawings (1400–1600)', Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, September 5-6, 2024 rensoc.org.uk/event/creativi… #EarlyModernEvents

Join Soundscapes in the Early Modern World for their next online seminar, where Dr Jenni Hyde, @wallyberry.bsky.social, Dr Una McIlvenna 💀🎶 & Jan-Friedrich Mißfelder will discuss 'Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe', September 10, 2024, 14.00BST rensoc.org.uk/event/sounding… #SRSlyGood

Who's joining us on 26th September 2024 for our online Festival? The Festival comprises two sessions celebrating scholarship: the first showcases the #SRSlyGood work of our outgoing postdocs & the second announces the winners of our book & article prize crowdcast.io/c/srs-festival…

Please RT! I'm looking for books/articles/chapters that address the topic of surgical procedures/operations taking place outside the hospital (i.e., at home) in the past. Any leads would be very much appreciated!

🚨New release! Purchase & support Víctor Sierra Matute & his wonderful lineup of specialists unearthing great source material in early modern Iberian sound studies. 🚨The Renaissance Society of America Sixteenth Century Society Renaissance SRS

We welcome applications to The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme for research projects from any discipline that are linked to the world-class Special Collections of the University of Manchester Library. Deadline 04/11/24: library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/resear…

Deadline fast approaching! Get your proposals in for what promises to be a #SRSlyGood conference #RenSoc25 #Twitterstorians #EarlyModernEvents

So proud of my colleague and fellow historian of rhetoric, Katrin Ettenhuber, this year's winner of the @BritishAcademy Rose Mary Crawshay prize for her fine, erudite book, 'The Logical Renaissance'. thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/…