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Erika Gaffney@erikagaffney.bsky.social · 5d ago

Call for papers - Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Deadline: 20 December This conference also launches a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade. #earlymodern

Have you checked out our call for papers yet? Have you submitted an abstract? If not, why not? MEMRN’s Winter Conference is a friendly and welcoming space that is here to support you no matter how many times you have (or haven’t) presented So check out the details below and get writing!

MEMRN@memrn.bsky.social · 2w ago

CALL FOR PAPERS ‼️| Otherworlds | 12th - 15th November | @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social The MEMRN team are delighted to finally share the Call for Papers for this year’s exciting Winter Conference! Abstract submissions are now open for ‘Otherworlds’ !!! 🐉

We are delighted to announce that our August online research seminar will have public historian Dr Julia Martins presenting! Join us for this exciting talk, followed by a short Q&A. MEMRN's monthly online research seminars are free and open to all, whatever your relationship to MEMs studies.

Have you taken a look at our Call for Papers for the Winter Conference 2026 yet? Open to all postgraduates, ECRs, heritage professionals & creative practitioners, you can find all the details you need right here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

#CfP: "Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale': From Page to Stage", 7-9 June 2027, University of Padua. Abstracts by 28 February 2027. rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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Happening on Monday - a chance to reflect on what Tyndale's achievement of producing the first English New Testament out of the original Greek means 500 years on. A free event at the Cambridge Round Church, with wine & cheese too. 'Eat, drink and be merry' is appropriately a phrase Tyndale coined!

Harry Spillane@harryspillane.bsky.social · last mo.

Tyndale at 500 - 'The Ploughboy Revolution' Join us for an evening at the Round Church, Cambridge, to celebrate 500 years of Tyndale's New Testament. I'll be joined in conversation with the wonderful Tony Watkins from @tyndalehouse.bsky.social More info at: lifeintheround.org

Have you taken a look at our Call for Papers for the Winter Conference 2026 yet? Open to all postgraduates, ECRs, heritage professionals & creative practitioners, you can find all the details you need right here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

CHECK IT OUT - The HKU history department is excited to be launching a search for a new open rank position in early modern global Iberian empires. See the HKU listing here: jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53696...

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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.

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CALL FOR PAPERS  📣   Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800   We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky

CALL FOR PAPERS ‼️| Otherworlds | 12th - 15th November | @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social The MEMRN team are delighted to finally share the Call for Papers for this year’s exciting Winter Conference! Abstract submissions are now open for ‘Otherworlds’ !!! 🐉

SAVE THE DATES! We’re delighted to share that our Winter Conference event is returning in 2026! The third iteration of the MEMRN Winter Conference will take place from the 12th - 15th November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social We’re excited to reveal ‘Otherworlds’ as this year’s conference theme.

What’s this!? Another teaser!?!?! 👀 Over at MEMRN HQ, we’re getting ready to share a very exciting event announcement with you! But before we share the big reveal on Friday, we want to know what you think it's going to be! 🤔 Take your guess at our event theme and comment your ideas below! 👇

Don’t miss out on our July research seminar, happening tonight, 28th July, at 6pm BST! We will be hearing Kate Hilton and Ruby Whitehouse, both members of the MEMRN committee, present their work to our friendly community. Their presentations will be followed by a short Q&A.

MEMRN community‼️Oh boy, do we have a mega announcement coming for you! 👀 We hope you’re as excited as we are… 😏 Friday 31st July, 9am BST 🤫

Don’t miss our June meeting with speaker @jaswalc05.bsky.social tonight at 6pm BST! Join our community to hear Chandini present “The Many “Ramayanas” of Mughal India”, followed by a short Q&A. As always, MEMRN’s monthly research seminars are free and open to all, just drop us an email to attend!

MEMRN@memrn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

MEMRN are delighted to announce for our June meeting we will be welcoming back Chandini Jaswal @jaswalc05.bsky.social! She will be presenting "The Many “Ramayanas” of Mughal India". Come along and join our friendly audience! Chandini’s talk will be followed by a short session of Q&A and feedback.

MEMRN are delighted to announce for our June meeting we will be welcoming back Chandini Jaswal @jaswalc05.bsky.social! She will be presenting "The Many “Ramayanas” of Mughal India". Come along and join our friendly audience! Chandini’s talk will be followed by a short session of Q&A and feedback.

We had a wonderful time at MEMsFest with @memsunikent.bsky.social, catching up with friends of the network, welcoming new people to our community, and listening to so much interesting research!

Chandini Jaswal@jaswalc05.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Snapshots from the @memsunikent.bsky.social conference yesterday. Delighted to be back for a third time! Gratitude to the organisers - Emily & Vincent, and my chair Dr Ivania. Super happy to (virtually) spot the warmest @memrn.bsky.social -- thanks for the shoutout!

Would you like to share your research with our lovely ever-so-welcoming community? This is your chance! We’d love to hear from you!

Don't forget about our monthly online research seminar tonight! The wonderful Reagan Paris will give a talk titled 'Respected or Rumoured? Female Commerce in the Vernacular Imagination' at 6pm BST, so come along and join us if you can! We look forward to seeing you there!

MEMRN are delighted to announce our May speaker! We will be welcoming Reagan Paris from the University of Wyoming, who will present 'Respected or Rumoured? Female Commerce in the Vernacular Imagination'. Come along and join us for an intriguing talk by our lovely speaker, followed by a short Q&A.

That was Madeline Nielsen & Julio César Cárdenas Arenas on "An Argument for Devotional Touch in a 14th Century Metz Book of Hours" & "Byzantines/Romans, Persians, Jews, and Christians in Ibn Taymīyah: Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processors in the Analysis of Otherness"!

We're back with two very exciting talks by Marlee Merson & Chandini Jaswal titled "'Well-Loved and Beloved: Evidence of Emotion in the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Books of Hours" and "'Juy-i Shir' (River of Milk): Unveiling the Influence of Wet Nurses in Mughal India"! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much, Upasana Hazarika, for your exciting presentation on "Tai Ahom Court Chronicles: Early Modern State Bureaucracy and the Intellectual World of the Scribal Elite"! We're now going into our lunch break and will be back at 1:30pm BST!

That's a wrap on our first panel! Thank you so much, Sakshi Sharma, for your talk about "Mughal Traditions and Company Texts" and Xinyao Zhang for talking about "Reframing the Renaissance Encounter"! Your talks were amazing!

Good morning MEMRN community & friends and happy Spring Showcase day! ☀️ It is a lovely day for listening to exciting talks about all things medieval and early modern all day long and this morning we have the wonderful Sakshi Sharma kicking us off!

We're kicking off with Sakshi Sharma (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) who will be speaking to us on 'Mughal Traditions, Company Texts: Persian Grammars, Lexicons, and Translation in 18th Century India'

Today's the day everyone! We're about to begin our annual Spring Showcase event! Thank you to everyone joining us online for this day-conference celebrating brand new research from our international community of scholars

#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com

MEMRN are thrilled to announce a guest lecture on 12th May! Dr Lauren Rozenberg will be presenting ‘Worms, Panthers, and Images: Guido da Vigevano’s Texaurus (1335) for an Aborted Crusade’. Join us at 6pm BST via Teams for this free online meeting. If you’d like to attend, drop us an email or DM!