There has a strong CEMS contigent at RSA this week: Una McIlvenna, Kate Flaherty, Claire Hansen and Rosalind Smith, and HDR students Hannah Upton, Lucy Boon and Barbara Taylor are all presenting new research. CEMS is also sponsoring seven sessions (see below).

CEMS members and friends are also invited to meet at the RSA Cash Bar on Friday evening for the ICCEMS Higher Degree and Early Career Networking Drinks, which will launch the ICCEMS Higher Degree and Early Career Researcher Program.

See the RSA Cash Bar event on the conference program: https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/8852

CEMS Sponsored RSA Sessions

(Also available at this link on the conference program: https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Index/Associate%20Organization~682)

Thursday 20 March

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Entertainment in the Fairs and Marketplaces of Early Modern Europe – Boston Marriott Copley Place – Exeter Room – 3rd Floor

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing I: Formal and Material Approaches – Boston Westin Copley Place – Gloucester Room – 2nd Floor

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing II: Periodization, Potential, and Problems – Boston Westin Copley Place – Gloucester Room – 2nd Floor

Friday 21 March

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: The Marvelous and the Monstrous in the Renaissance – Boston Marriott Copley Place – Maine Room – 5th Floor

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing III: Critical and Cultural Contexts – Boston Westin Copley Place – Gloucester Room – 2nd Floor

Saturday 22 March

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing 4: Where are We Now? – Boston Marriott Copley Place – Tufts Room – 3rd Floor

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Reading Bodies – Boston Marriott Copley Place – Boston University Room – 3rd Floor