This month's blogpost is by Saba Alkuwari (@standrewshist.bsky.social) on the writings of the German Lutheran reformer Philipp Melanchthon. How were his books printed in #Catholic cities? Was he banned from them, or is there more to the story of the 16c #book trade? wp.me/p7o0HV-tR #Skystorians

Philipp Melanchthon, Catholic Censorship, and the Sixteenth-Century Book Trade

Saba Alkuwari is a PhD researcher in Reformation Studies at the University of St Andrews. Supervised by Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen, her research examines the publication a…

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#CfA 📢 Postdoctoral Researcher: Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage Informatics, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History 📆 24 Mounths | 🌍Rome ⏰ Deadline: 8 August 2026 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/3799061/2026... #Postdoc #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #ArtHistory

Postdoctoral Researcher (50%, 24 months) – Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage Informatics

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#CfA 📢 Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop For early-career historians of pre-1800 history, offering editorial experience in public, radical, and digital history. 📆 Oct 2026–Sept 2028 | 🏫 Birkbeck, University of London ⏰ Deadline: 7 August 2026 🔗 www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/call...

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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#CfA 📢 Postdoctoral fellowships, Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts (2027–2030) 📆2027-2030 | 🏫 Princeton University (USA) ⏰ Application deadline: 4 August 2026 🔗 sf.princeton.edu/about-us/new... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Humanities #SocialSciences

2026 Call for Applications

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, invites applications for the 2027-2030 fellowship competition. Appli...

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#CfP 📢 Edited Volume: "Music, Sound, and Domestic Spaces", eds. Emily Eubanks & Sarah Koval Seeking contributions on music, sound, and domestic spaces across regions and historical periods. ⏰ 1 August 2026 🔗 rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #MusicHistory #SoundStudies #EarlyModern

#CfP 📢 Edited Volume: "Music, Sound, and Domestic Spaces", eds. Emily Eubanks & Sarah Koval Seeking contributions on music, sound, and domestic spaces across regions and historical periods. ⏰ 1 August 2026 🔗 rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #MusicHistory #SoundStudies #EarlyModern

#CfP 📢 Doctoral conference: "Ambienti dell’entroterra come questione storica. Spazi e società montane dall’età medievale all’età contemporanea", Università degli Studi di Teramo. 🗓️ 15-16 December 2026|🌍Teramo (It) ⏰ 31 July 2026 🔗 www.storialavoro.it/cfp/dettagli... #History #EnvironmentalHistory

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Convegno dottorale Università degli Studi di Teramo – 15-16 dicembre 2026

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#CfP 📢New Virtual Symposium: "Public-Making Spaces, Then and Now: Reimagining Early Modern Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century", @rsaorg.bsky.social and @16csociety.bsky.social 🗓️ 28–29 January 2027 | 💻Online ⏰ Deadline: 7 August 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/news.as... #EarlyModern #Humanities

#CfP 📢 "New Research Perspectives on Confraternity Studies: Collective Agency, Space and Materiality", Society for Confraternity Studies at #RSA2027 🗓️ 11–13 March 2027 |🌎 Philadelphia ⏰ Abstract: 24 July 2026 #EarlyModern #Confraternities

Enlightenment and (In)equality 17th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies Zaragoza, Spain 12-16 July 2027 The submission period for for thematic sessions and roundtables is now open! All the information is available on the Congress website: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/

#CfP 📢 Research Group: "Joy, Pleasure, and Enjoyment in Judaism" Exploring joy, pleasure, and enjoyment as cultural, religious, social, and intellectual phenomena in Judaism. ⏰Deadline: 1 August 2026 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #JewishStudies #ReligiousHistory #HistoryOfEmotions

#CfP 📢 Interdisciplinary symposium: "Arcangela Tarabotti in Context: Authority, Community, and Resistance in Early Modern Eureope", Johns Hopkins University. 🗓️ 16–17 April 2027 | 🌎Baltimore (USA) ⏰ Deadline: 1 August 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/730095/... #EarlyModern #HistoryofWomen #AngelaTarabotti

#CfP 📢"Early Modern Female Mysticism: At the Crossroads of Religion, Medicine, Economics, and the Press", special issue of *Religions* ⏰Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.mdpi.com/journal/reli... #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #GenderHistory #Mysticism

📖 #Newbook by EMoDir member Finally available to French readers, Federico Barbierato’s landmark study of religious dissent, libertinism, and unbelief in post-Reformation Venice. 🔗 classiques-garnier.com/evangelistes... #EarlyModern #Inquisition #Venice #ReligiousHistory

#CfA 📢 Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the humanities, arts, sciences, and professions, Michigan Society of Fellows 🏫 University of Michigan (USA) ⏰ Application deadline: 14 September 2026 🔗 jobs.chronicle.com/job/38011689... #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EarlyCareer #Humanities

Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Ann Arbor, Michigan job with University of Michigan | 38011689

U-M Michigan Society of Fellows invites recent Ph.D.s to apply for 3-year postdoctoral fellowships with teaching and research.

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📢 Today's the day! The deadline to submit your proposal for the EMoDiR panel at the #RSA Annual Meeting 2027 is today. Don't miss your chance! We can't wait to read your proposals. #EarlyModernHistory

#CfA 📢 Postdoctoral Research Associate position for the project “A Literary History of Europe and its Global Connections, 1529–1683” (TextDiveGlobal). 🏫 Queen Mary University of London (UK) ⏰Application deadline: 28 July 2026 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG130/p... #Postdoc #EarlyModernHistory

⏰ Deadline approaching! 📆 15 July Don't miss the opportunity to submit your application.

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📢 Deadline Extended! There's still time to submit your proposal for EMoDiR's panel at the RSA Annual Meeting 2027 ⏰ New deadline: July 15, 2026 We look forward to receiving your proposals! 🔗https://emodir.hypotheses.org/3887 #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #RSA2027

#CfP 📢 7th Conference on "Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference" 📆12-13 November 2026 | 💻Online ⏰ Deadline: 1 August 2026 #EarlyModernHistory #HistoryOfMagic #ReligiousHistory #NorthernEurope

The PARISH ERC CoG project is now on Bluesky – follow us for updates! We are also recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study #earlymodern parish communities in the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call! Spread the word! #ERCCoG www.abtk.hu/en/positions...

Postdoctoral Positions in the PARISH Project

The Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow to collaborate on the ERC-funded pr...

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📖 #Newbook by EMoDir member A history of Rome’s Jewish community from 1555 to 1870, tracing life in the ghetto through discrimination, forced conversions, economic hardship, resilience, and the preservation of religious identity. 🔗 www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-... #EarlyModern #JewishHistory

📢 Deadline Extended! There's still time to submit your proposal for EMoDiR's panel at the RSA Annual Meeting 2027 ⏰ New deadline: July 15, 2026 We look forward to receiving your proposals! 🔗https://emodir.hypotheses.org/3887 #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #RSA2027

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

#CfA 📢 #Scholarships at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (2026–2027) Discover a wide range of research scholarships for graduates and PhD holders in history, philosophy, and literary studies. ⏰ Deadline: 20 July 2026 🔗 www.lasisem.it/2026/06/11/b... #ResearchFunding

Bando di concorso per borse di studio presso l’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici – Anno Accademico 2026-27 - La SISEM

L’Istituto italiano per gli studi storici bandisce il concorso alle seguenti borse di studio annuali per giovani laureati e dottori di ricerca in discipline storiche, filosofiche e letterarie, per lo ...

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#CfP 📢 International Workshop: "Tuscany and the Iberian Empires: Migration and Knowledge Transmission in the Early Modern Period", The Medici Archive Project 📆 30 October 2026 | 🌍 Florence ⏰ Deadline: 15 July 2026 🔗 www.medici.org/cfp-tuscany-... #EarlyModernHistory

#CfA 📢 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships, University of Oxford (Faculty of History) Oxford support for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship applicants. ⏰ Deadline: 15 July 2026 🔗 www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/brit... #Postdoc

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#CfP 📢 RSA 2027 Panel: "Building a Collective Knowledge: AI and Digital Humanities for Research and Didactics of Early Modern History", organized by Ligorio Benedetto 📆11-13 March 2026 | 🌍 Philadelphia ⏰ Deadline: 8 August 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... #DigitalHumanities #EarlyModernHistory

#CfP 📢 Workshop: "Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging", Macquarie University 📆27 November 2026 | 🌏Sydney ⏰ Deadline: 15 July 2026 🔗 anzamems.org/cfp-growing-... #EarlyModern #ChildhoodStudies #SocialHistory #EarlyModernHistory

📖 #Newbook curated by EMoDir member A reassessment of the 1587–1589 Ligurian witch trials, placing this major episode of witch-hunting within the wider context of judicial culture, religious belief, and repression in early modern Europe. 🔗 www.viella.it/libro/979125... #EarlyModern #Witchcraft

#CfA 📢 Job opportunity: Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) 🏫 The University of Manchester (UK) ⏰Application deadline: 7 July 2026 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB645/l... #JobOpportunity #EarlyModernHistory