CEMS publishes a quarterly newsletter showcasing CEMS events, our members' achievements and items of interest to scholars of early modern studies including events and calls for papers. Access the latest CEMS newsletter here. Access the newsletter archive here. If you...
Three CEMS HDR members graduated with their PhDs in February graduation ceremonies. Congratulations Dr Lucy Boon, Dr Barbara Taylor and Dr Julia Rodwell! Read their dissertation abstracts below. Lucy Boon: Practising "Love & Faith" When Queering the Early Modern...
England’s ‘Island Nationhood?’ When: 19 February 2026 Where: National Library of Australia Theatre and Online Registrations: Click here Join Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, as she considers how early modern legal and...
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Early Modern and Medieval Studies: An ANZAMEMS/CEMS ANU Seminar for Postgraduates and Early-Career Researchers Thursday 19th to Friday 20th February, 2026 National Library of Australia, Canberra Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor...
☛ Gorgeous Books and Royal Annotations: What Katherine Parr and Henry VIII Wrote in their Books ☚ CEMS is proud to host Professor Micheline White (Carleton University) for this public lecture at the National Library of Australia. When: 7 August 2025 Where: National...
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...