Month: April 2013

The Society for Early Modern Women (www.ssemwg.org/) extends sponsorship for up to five sessions at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Sponsorship signifies that sessions pre-approved by the SSEMW are automatically accepted for the RSA annual meeting. The Society promotes study and scholarly exchange in all disciplinary fields with a focus on women/female gender/women's sexuality in the Renaissance/early modern period. Proposals due (with the additional information listed below) by 25 May 2013 to Sara Matthews-Grieco, SSEMW liaison with the Renaissance Society of America: smatth01@syr.edu Please note: submissions with incomplete materials cannot be taken into consideration. Session organizers…

CRRS 50TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL CONFERENCE Rethinking Early Modernity: Methodological and Critical Innovation since the Ritual Turn Toronto, Ontario, June 26-27, 2014 http://crrs.ca/crrs-conferences/50th The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a conference in honor of Edward Muir, whose innovative studies of Venetian politics and culture helped to establish cultural anthropology and ritual as major analytical frameworks for scholarship on early modern European history. Building from Muir's contribution to the field, the conference hopes to focus on the significance of the methodological changes that have characterized early modern research in history, literature and art history over…

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women will be sponsoring five panels for next year's RSA meeting, March 27-29, 2014 in New York. Those interested in submitting a panel for consideration will need to send the following: organizer's contact information, panel title, panel description, panel participants & chair, abstracts for individual papers (150-word maximum) as well as single page curriculum vitae for each participant to Megan Matchinske, Vice President SSEMW (matchin@email.unc.edu). Deadline May 10, 2013. Please feel free to circulate this call too others whom you believe might be interested.