As an Associate Organisation of the Renaissance Society of America, CEMS has sponsored 3 sessions at the RSA annual meeting in Boston, March 2025:

• ‘Entertainment in the Fairs and Marketplaces of Early Modern Europe’ with papers by Una McIlvenna (CEMS), Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute), and Nicole Sheriko (Yale)
• ‘Reading Bodies’ with papers by Lucy Boon (CEMS PhD student), Kate Flaherty (CEMS), Barbara Taylor (CEMS PhD student), and Hannah Upton (CEMS PhD student)
• ‘The Marvelous and the Monstrous in the Renaissance’ with papers by Mel Vipperman-Cohen (University of West Florida), Claire Sommers (Washington University), Sara Stamatiades (Cornell), and Kylie Fisher, Furman College