Spoiler alert: so fun

Thinking of going to The Renaissance Society of America 2025??? Here's how great it was this year mmor.co.uk/news/rsa-chica… and here's my favourite putti, who didn't make our website, but made me think about skin, flesh, earth, and questions of scale all over again...

📢ENTRIES OPEN: UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE 2024📢

📎 Essays of more than 8000 words
💰 £300 prize
👥 Nominated by supervisor
📅Deadline: 5 July 24
🖥️Further details: germanhistorysociety.org/undergraduate-…

📢CREATIVE RESEARCH CONTEST📢

The GHS is accepting entries for this competition for students under 18 in the UK and Ireland.

🖥️All the details can be found here at our website: germanhistorysociety.org/2023/11/24/cre…

Gloss: our interests are many and varied, our panels are friendly and great!

In our first ever blog post, I wrote about indirect medical involvement in the slave trade. In our latest, I'm writing about the direct opposite: medical expertise constructed in the crucible of the middle passage, and the social authority its surgeons claim as their due...

New layers of early modern medical involvement in the Mediterranean slave trade in our most recent and very excellent Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 blog post by Benedetta Chizzolini….

Check out Benedetta Chizzolini's blog now live on the MMoR website, which explores health as a determinant of value for enslaved galley crews in early modern Livorno #earlymodern #histmed King's History shorturl.at/actuz

Now I’ve had a preview of my friend and lecture partner Sarah-Maria Schober’s talk Loose Threads today and I’m even more excited!

NEW FELLOWSHIP FOR 2025
We are delighted to announce a new fellowship opportunity in 2025 to mark the 90th anniversary of the British Council 🎉

We are offering two 12-month Fellowships for international early career researchers (at £2,500 per month) starting in January.
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Almost 5 years of Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions Bibliotheca Hertziana means a big event! 22-24 May, a conference with almost everyone who is or was a fellow, 8 fantastic respondents and as many amazing chairs. In person and online. Program 👇 biblhertz.it/3507351/visual…

Bursary alert! The Society for Renaissance Studies Scholars of Colour MA Bursary (two of them, worth £4k each) supporting students of Renaissance studies undertaking a Masters UK or Irish universities. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested rensoc.org.uk/funding-prizes…

I am SO looking forward to this sure-to-be brilliant inaugural by Zoltan Biedermann, one of our most inspiring and generous London colleagues.... Hope to see people there! #earlymodern #twitterstorians

THIS WEDNESDAY! Don't forget to sign up! #earlymodern #twitterstorians

Creeping up on the deadline for this funded #PGR opportunity. If you're on the fence about applying, do get in touch! We're happy to talk informally and offer advice...

Who foresaw that the greatest area of research crossover with my Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 colleague and lit star extraordinaire Eli Cumings would be WORMS. Check out her wonderful blog post bringing together race-making, medicine, and dubious salvation...

Annual Colloquium - May 10

This year, our colloquium will be on the law. Organised by Prof. Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social and Dr. Jonathan Powell (@UniLeidenNews). We'll have a dizzying array of scholars speaking on early modern law.

10 May, 10:30 to 18:00 at KCL.

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Have you seen this weak-at-the-knees-making line up??? So excited for this Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's colloquium organised by Laura Gowing and Jonathan Powell….

Just under two weeks to go! Our panel discussion on Ideas of Poverty in the Enlightenment. Join us for discussions of Montesquieu, Beccaria, and Malthus.

22 April @ 17:30. Sign up below.

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