Society for Renaissance Studies

@srsrensoc.bsky.social

SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. πŸ₯ πŸ”₯ 🐣 πŸ¦β€πŸ”₯ https://rensoc.org.uk/

Submission is now closed. And the conference committee will have quite the gargantuan task ahead of them, though made more fun thanks to reading about all that exciting early modern research. Amidst the pressures of the sector, it’s buoying to see earlymodernists still asking exciting questions.

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· 5mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our πŸ’Ž Diamond πŸ’Ž Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

✏️ 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 β€” 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.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

JUST OVER TWO HOURS! (in case you, too, were as alert as this wing of the Phoenix and may or may not have been thinking of a different 12 o' clock...)

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· 5mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our πŸ’Ž Diamond πŸ’Ž Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

Just submitted a panel proposal on 'Early Modern Documents, Digitisation, and Editing' for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference next year! Fingers crossed it is accepted!

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· 5mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our πŸ’Ž Diamond πŸ’Ž Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

SRSly excited! And πŸ‘€ looking for a third panellist on Renaissance texts - English or otherwise - in 18th and 19th century dispersals. We are esp interested in global educational contexts (broadly conceived) and new archives of book/textual history. If this is you be in touch!

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· 5mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our πŸ’Ž Diamond πŸ’Ž Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

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 Β· 3w ago

On 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...

πŸ•πŸ•‘πŸ•’πŸ•“πŸ•”πŸ••πŸ•–πŸ•—πŸ•˜πŸ•™πŸ•šπŸ•› Time is ticking! Abstracts are due THIS FRIDAY, 25 September. Get scribbling those 200 words about your exciting research, #earlymodern #skystorians πŸ•πŸ•‘πŸ•’πŸ•“πŸ•”πŸ••πŸ•–πŸ•—πŸ•˜πŸ•™πŸ•šπŸ•›

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· 5mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our πŸ’Ž Diamond πŸ’Ž Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

DEADLINE COMING UP! Don’t forget to send your abstracts in by this Friday 25 September! It’s going to be a brilliant gathering, you don’t want to be suffering all the FOMO in July! #earlymodern #skystorians

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· 5mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our πŸ’Ž Diamond πŸ’Ž Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

Allow us to continue to celebrate these five brilliant books. Here's a thread with short videos of our stellar shortlisted authors explaining their book and its intervention. Get to know the excellence of #earlymodern scholarship in five short videos 🧡 #SkyStorians

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· last mo.

Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! πŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’« πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸŽŠ #Skystorians #EarlyModern rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

A Banner of BEAUTIFUL BOOK Covers, detailing all the shortlisted books:

John Colley, Humanism, English Literature and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

Colby Gordon, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2025)

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Alantic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Tiffany Jo Werth, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)

DEADLINE COMING UP! Don’t forget to send your abstracts in by this Friday 25 September! It’s going to be a brilliant gathering, you don’t want to be suffering all the FOMO in July! #earlymodern #skystorians

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· 5mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our πŸ’Ž Diamond πŸ’Ž Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

Thread with all the author videos WITH SOUND! For those from whom I somehow stole the audio last night... πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ Really neat way of getting to know this exciting scholarship -- tempted to give some of these to my students both for info and sense of how to pitch your ideas.

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· last wk.

Allow us to continue to celebrate these five brilliant books. Here's a thread with short videos of our stellar shortlisted authors explaining their book and its intervention. Get to know the excellence of #earlymodern scholarship in five short videos 🧡 #SkyStorians

This is such amazing news! Thank you @srsrensoc.bsky.social and many thanks to the judges for their hard work on this prize, and thank you for writing such a generous citation about the book. Many congratulations to fellow shortlisted authors. What a stellar line up! @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· last wk.

And the winner of the biennial book prize is πŸ₯ πŸ₯ πŸ₯ Chloe Ireton and her book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic! πŸŽ‰ Congratulations @chloeireton.bsky.social!! Find authors’ videos and our judges’ comments for all shortlisted books here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Rigorously researched, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is a model for how to excavate the archive and how to find and reanimate the lives and hidden voices latent in letters, trials and petitions. It uncovers the rich and varied experiences of those whom European legal codes racialised as Black in the Iberian world. Ireton attends sensitively to the violence and trauma of the history of slavery while unearthing how those with African heritage negotiated the legal ecologies of enslavement and liberation in Spain, its colonies, and other Atlantic colonised spaces. The book brilliantly uncovers a conceptual and intellectual history of Black thought in the evidence of these legal and logistical documents. Its command of materials is impeccable and its blueprint for approaching archival research will be felt across disciplines for many years to come. The committee were unanimous in its decision to award this book the prize.

Allow us to continue to celebrate these five brilliant books. Here's a thread with short videos of our stellar shortlisted authors explaining their book and its intervention. Get to know the excellence of #earlymodern scholarship in five short videos 🧡 #SkyStorians

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social Β· last mo.

Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! πŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’« πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸ’«πŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸŽŠ #Skystorians #EarlyModern rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

A Banner of BEAUTIFUL BOOK Covers, detailing all the shortlisted books:

John Colley, Humanism, English Literature and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

Colby Gordon, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2025)

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Alantic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Tiffany Jo Werth, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)