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Next week! Join us to celebrate the launch of Dr. Joan Redmond's Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland (@universitypress.cambridge.org). Wednesday 30th September at 18:00. @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/relig...
Religion, Rebellion and Violence: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS to celebrate the launch of Dr. Joan Redmond’s first monograph, Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649 .
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✏️ Mark your diaries! Next month @cemskcl.bsky.social, Kerry Apps, Hannah Dawson, Catharine MacLeod, & ME will be talking about Restoration women, their libertinism, their consumerism, & their contact with the expanding world. Book here & spread the word 🌍 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...
Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a conversion on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.
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Join us in a few hours to discuss Dr. Mira 'Assaf's (@miramiraculous.bsky.social) work in progress! If you need the paper/Zoom details, please send us an email and we can send it over!
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 2w agoOn 21st September, we'll be discussing a paper by Dr. Mira Zoubeida 'Assaf (@miramiraculous.bsky.social) titled Arab Cleopatra: Conviviality and Queerness at Cleopatra’s Court. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/upcoming-sem...
Join us on 30th September to celebrate the launch of Dr. Joan Redmond's ( @kingshistory.bsky.social) first monograph, Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649 (@universitypress.cambridge.org). Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/relig...
Religion, Rebellion and Violence: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS to celebrate the launch of Dr. Joan Redmond’s first monograph, Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649 .
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
We're looking forward to discussing @miramiraculous.bsky.social's paper next Monday! Still time to sign up if you'd like to receive the paper and join the session.
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 2w agoOn 21st September, we'll be discussing a paper by Dr. Mira Zoubeida 'Assaf (@miramiraculous.bsky.social) titled Arab Cleopatra: Conviviality and Queerness at Cleopatra’s Court. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/upcoming-sem...
So excited for Shakespeare and Race Festival at Shakespeare's Globe! Come join us if you’re around next month 🔥 link to register: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/sym...
We are delighted to be hosting another series of the 'Race and the #earlymodern' seminar with @folger.edu. This term we will be hosting three WIP sessions with Dr. Mira Zoubeida 'Assaf, Aman Williams, and Rebecca Adusei, respectively. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/upcoming-sem...
Upcoming Seminars — CEMS KCL Blog
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1/ "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...
Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850
As the title suggests, the provocation of this Supplement is simple: that the histories of medicine, transatlantic slavery, and race cannot, and should not
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12/ "Healing, Mobility, and Belonging: ‘María Phelipa de Color Negro’, A Black Woman Healer Navigating the Canary Islands, 1712–1729" by Carolin Schmitz by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...
Healing, Mobility, and Belonging: ‘María Phelipa de Color Negro’, A Black Woman Healer Navigating the Canary Islands, 1712–1729*
Abstract. María Phelipa de la Cruz, a Black, mostly free, woman healer from Tenerife, was tried four times between 1712 and 1729 by the Tribunal of the Inq
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A new special issue in P&P on medicine, race, and slavery edited by our Director!
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Event on funding in medieval and early modern studies, organised by QMUL! Featuring panels on UKRI, the ERC, and the Leverhulme Trust. Tuesday 23rd June, 15:00. Full details below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaining-ex...
Gaining External Funding for Research in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Learn how to score funding for your medieval and early modern research.
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What a week it's been.... Yesterday fresh scholarship from interdisciplinary experts pushed us to think about 'the' #EarlyModern in terms of race, environment, interregional connections, adaptions, eschatology, stop-start technological change and the 'slash' in the early/modern
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnd, last but not least, our Annual Colloquium will take place on Thursday. This year's theme is 'Periodizing Early/Modernity' and features several panels and a roundtable. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
And to conclude our week of CEMS events... A rountable reflecting on periodisation and the early/modern! Thanks to all who've joined us today and over the course of this week.
TOMORROW!! IAS Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany Author Holly Fletcher overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wealth while thinness indicated poverty. 9 June 6pm www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...
IAS Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany
The IAS is pleased to welcome author Holly Fletcher, whose book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wea...
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A week of CEMS events... including PGR lightning talks, our first article workshop, a book launch, and our annual CEMS Colloquium. Full details in the thread below! Join us if you can! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events
Events — CEMS KCL Blog
'What's On' at CEMS. We run workshops, seminars, conferences, social and networking events, symposia, and more.
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I’ll be talking about the racialised Merlin in early modern England at this seminar (June 8th, 5pm uk time). Very excited!
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur final session of 'Race and the Early Modern' will take place next Monday! We're hosting three PGR lightning talks on Merlin, witches, and slave law. Join us if you can. We have just released more tickets... @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Our final session of 'Race and the Early Modern' will take place next Monday! We're hosting three PGR lightning talks on Merlin, witches, and slave law. Join us if you can. We have just released more tickets... @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
PGR Lightning Talks - 8th June — CEMS KCL Blog
The Race and the Early Modern seminar invites Postgraduate Research Students to present 10-minute lightning talks on their research. The seminar will take place virtually on June 8th 2026 . To apply...
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Our Annual Colloquium is next week! Join us on Thursday 11th June for a series of panels and a roundtable on 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
Next week! Join us for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's new book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Wednesday 10th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...
On the Altar by Prof. Jonathan Sheehan: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s latest book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular .
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Annual @cemskcl.bsky.social Colloquium: "Periodizing the Early/Modern", 11 June 2026, King's College London rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #EarlyModernEvents #IsItEarlyModernThough
On June 11, I 'll be presenting my paper 'Institutional temporalities between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period' @cemskcl.bsky.social annual colloquium 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. (full program kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...) See you in London!
Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
I'm really excited to share the programme for a workshop on Portable Archives that @anastruillou.bsky.social and I have put together! We are looking forward to welcoming such an exciting group of speakers to Oxford! There are still places to attend the workshop on 5 June.
Annual CEMS Colloquium - 11th June! This year's theme is 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Featuring three panels and a roundtable. Join us on 11th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
Book Launch! Join @cemskcl.bsky.social for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s (UC Berkeley) latest book, "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular" (Princeton University Press, 2026), 10 June 2026. #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
And we're off... halfway through our first panel on Enslavement and Forced Mobilities. Grateful to @anastruillou.bsky.social for organising such a great workshop!
Tomorrow! Join us for a workshop on connections between North Africa and the Iberian Atlantic. Organised by Dr. @anastruillou.bsky.social (KCL) and Dr. Kaja Cook (Royal Holloway). Online and in person! We still have some in person tickets available. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/mexic...
Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib - A Workshop — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a one-day workshop on interactions between the early modern Iberian Atlantic and North Africa. Organised by Dr. Ana Struillou and Dr. Kaja Cook. Friday 22nd May, 09:00 - 18:00
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We're delighted to be launching Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's latest book - On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Join us on 10th June at 17:30. Full details below. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...
On the Altar by Prof. Jonathan Sheehan: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s latest book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular .
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
I'll be discussing some of my work on John Satia and London's 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship next Monday. If you'd like to attend, get in touch and I can forward along the Zoom details and the work in progress.
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us next week for our next 'Race and the Early Modern' seminar. We'll be discussing a paper by @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social on John Satia and the ban on Black Apprenticeship. The pre-circulated materials will be sent out later today. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
⭐️ Our final Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshop of the 2025-26 year is on 3rd June! ⭐️ Are you doing archival research for a degree or work? Or just want to learn more about how to research at TLA? Then come along! Book your place using the link 👇
Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
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