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...
Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 National Library of Australia, August 7-8 2025 Early modern women marked their books in myriad ways, and their marginalia provide evidence of their book ownership, their reading, writing and drawing practices,...
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...
Michelle O'Callaghan's CEMS seminar, "Making Poetry by Hand and Productive Leisure," is now available to watch on the CEMS YouTube channel.
CEMS recently hosted Professor Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto) on behalf of ICCEMS for a public lecture at the National Library of Australia, “Moving Targets: Finding Young People in the Early Modern World.” Professor Terpstra explored where we find young...
Come along to this informal seminar to learn about the work of some of our members and join in the discussion about research in cross-disciplinary early modern studies. In this session, we will hear from Dr Amelia Dale (Lecturer in English, ANU), Barbara Taylor (PhD...
CEMS is delighted to welcome Professor Michelle O’Callaghan from the University of Reading for the next in the 2024 CEMS seminar series with her paper "Making Poetry Collections by Hand and Productive Leisure." This seminar can be attended in-person and online. Time:...
The London Renaissance Seminar held a 1 day symposium, "Learning from Early Modern Books," on June 7 at Birkbeck, jointly organised by Associate Professor Trisha Pender and Professor Susan Wiseman. The symposium brought together three large team projects in early...
ANU’s Humanities Research Centre and Centre for Early Modern Studies present Manuscripts and Early Modern Identities An afternoon symposium to be held on Thursday, 15 August 2024 in the Ian Proudfoot Room (E4.44), Baldessin Precinct Building, ANU Register here:...
Congratulations to CEMS HDR candidate Emma Rayner, who has been approved for the award of PhD for her thesis "Fashioning Worth, Fashioning Worlds: Early Modern Women and Civil Discourses." Fashioning Worth, Fashioning Worlds: Early Modern Women and Civil Discourses...