Croatian Renaissance Drama in Translation 7-8 Oct A rare opportunity to see a performance of Renaissance comedies by the Croatian playwright Marin Držić, with a symposium discussing problems and approaches to Renaissance drama in translation. More details to follow. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

The Works of Marin Držić: Croatian Renaissance Drama in Translation

This event will showcase two rehearsed readings that offer a rare opportunity to see Držić’s work in performance.

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Early Bodleian Donations Online @livesandletters.bsky.social have launched this searchable database which tracks donors & donations to the Bodleian Library between 1600-1620. It has bibliographical information about items donated & biographical detail about donors. Congrats to the team 🎉 ebdo.org.uk

MHRA Research Associate: Oxford Correspondence of John Donne Closes: 9th July 2026 KCL English dept The postholder will undertake stylometric, corpus-based, & computational authorship-attribution analysis of selected materials from the Burley Manuscript. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB149/m...

MHRA Research Associate at King's College London

Recruiting now: MHRA Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources ‘Show and Tell' 2 July 1-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources ‘Show and Tell'

Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

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Old Materialism: making gold & performing money in pre-modern London & Venice 26 June 5:30pm @marxisminculture.bsky.social with Alison Wright (UCL). She questions adequacy of new materialist ethics in face of all-too-human assertion & coercion at play in ‘making’ gold. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Old Materialism: making gold and performing money in pre-modern London and Venice

Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Alison Wright (UCL). Her paper questions the adequacy of new materialist ethics in the face of the all-too-human assertion and coercion at play in ‘making’ ...

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Phantoms in the Classroom: Midwifery Training in Enlightenment Europe 18 June 2026, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Phantoms in the Classroom: Midwifery Training in Enlightenment Europe

Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

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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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Coffee, Currants, and Sherbets: The ‘Exotic’ World of Cross-Cultural Food-Making in Early Modern Europe and the Middle East 19 Jun 2:30-5:30 pm Online and @warburginstitute.bsky.social Explores the relationship between migration & food history (1500-1800). warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Coffee, Currants, and Sherbets: The ‘Exotic’ World of Cross-Cultural Food-Making in Early Modern Europe and the Middle East

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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.

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Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense and Proof 27 May 2:30–4pm Join Rana Banna & Mary Newman, to explore how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense and Proof

Join IAS Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for their reading group, which explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasti...

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Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640 This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers. spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof 27 May 2:30-4pm Join Rana Banna & Mary Newman for their next reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense and Proof

Join IAS Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for their reading group, which explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasti...

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Registration for our Spring Showcase is finally open! Get ready for a full day of exciting talks by our wonderful speakers from all around the globe! 🌏 You can find the link here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chase-memr... - registration is free and the event will be online! We can't wait to see you!

🚨 TONIGHT! 6pm 🚨 'The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire

We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.

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Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany 9 June 6-8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social welcomes @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social. Her book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness=wealth & thinness=poverty 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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It is a great pleasure to announce the return of the Spanish-English Translations Database 1500 - 1640, do bookmark and enjoy: spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk. It may need some tweaking to bring up to date, but it's great to have you back...

Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire 13 May 6pm Unrelenting lawfare by non-elite Spaniards, Indigenous people, women & the enslaved, led to weakened theocracy, curtailed native lordship, reshaped law and forged an order in 1570s under viceroys, bishops & inquisitors www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire

We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.

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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group 7 May 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social Discussing Kroupa’s 2019 article 'Humanists and Travellers, Gorgons and Gorillas. Hanno the Navigator's Periplus and Early Modern Geography (1530-1630)’. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group

Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

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With a panel on 'Medieval and Early Modern Women'

UCL Gender and Feminisms Research Network@ucl-gfrn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

GOTH symposium - Gender and Otherness in the Humanities Friday, May 15, 9am-5pm The Open University, Kents Hill Gender and otherness in drama, literature, creative writing and visual culture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/6th-annual...

Our last big hurrah before we're shut down. We hope you can join us (free lunch!) 28 April 2026, 9am-5pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

A one-day symposium that will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.

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I'll be speaking about my NEW BOOK 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' at the roundtable 'Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' next week (28 April) at UCL, and ONLINE, with Dr @psimonetto.bsky.social and Dr Grace Lucas. Sign up below! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.

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Call for papers: Reframing Poetics: Language, Structure, Form A one day symposium at the UCL Institute of Advanced Study, 22nd July, considering the materiality of language in poetics. Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our MA Early Modern Studies trains you in palaeography, book history & archival research skills, plus options in information & literary studies, history & language. Join us for a taster lecture, learn more about the course & ask questions 📅1 May 2-3:30pm BST online app.geckoform.com/events-embed...

Our MA Early Modern Studies trains you in palaeography, book history & archival research skills, plus options in information & literary studies, history & language. Join us for a taster lecture, learn more about the course & ask questions 📅1 May 2-3:30pm BST online app.geckoform.com/events-embed...

Our MA Early Modern Studies trains you in palaeography, book history & archival research skills, plus options in information & literary studies, history & language. Join us for a taster lecture, learn more about the course & ask questions 📅1 May 2-3:30pm BST online app.geckoform.com/events-embed...

The Song of Songs: Poetry in History 10 April 2–5pm How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

The Song of Songs: Poetry in History

How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.

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IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies 28 April 2026 9am-5pm This symposium will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

A one-day symposium that will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.

ucl.ac.uk

Deadline next week! We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs for our upcoming colloquium. This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. Deadline: 7th April kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

CfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

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CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? Join us for 'The Song of Songs: Poetry in History' on 10th April to find out! www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

The Song of Songs: Poetry in History

How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.

ucl.ac.uk

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

CfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk