Reposting as Bluesky censored my last link due to a 17th-c personification failing the porn filter! Please share this instead:
2-year postdoc fellowships in Turin on 'Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World'.
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Now extended to 1 December. Please apply and/or share with your networks.
The crowds are gathering at CEMS Aberdeen for @bkadams.bsky.social paper tomorrow. Sign up and join us. Full details below!
The next English: Shared Futures conference will be held in York, 3-5 July, 2025. More details here: www.englishsharedfutures.org/about
The call for papers is now live, with a deadline of 31 January
Anyone working in English, at any level, is welcome
Just heard about this excellent mentoring initiative from the Early Modern Scholars of Color Network, in partnership with The Society for Renaissance Studies - more info and sign up links here:
www.emsoc.co.uk/mentorship
The CEMS seminar back on Wed 27/11/24 w @bkadams.bsky.social on new approaches to bibliography/book history via understudied collections. Spread the word & email a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk to sign up. #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks
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After a great paper yesterday from Sara Pennell, we're looking forward to next week (27.11.24) when CEMS welcomes @bkadams.bsky.social who'll be talking about her important work on the uses of overlooked book collections. Sign up now by contacting a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk
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This link didn't seem to work? Can access the main podcast but not the promo.
Snow in Aberdeen, but tomorrow’s CEMS seminar with Sara Pennell will warm us up! Sign up and tune in, or come by sledge! #earlymodern
Looking forward to Sara Pennell on Hannah Wooley tomorrow. Sign up now and spread the word!
And look out for future seminars, inc next up the great @bkadams.bsky.social on Wed 27th Nov!
The CEMS res sem @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social is now sharing news here. Wed 20th Nov 1-2 pm (UK) we've got the always fascinating historian Sara Pannell speaking on Hannah Wolley. To attend online, email a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk for the link. #earlymodern Spread the word!
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I see that it's finally Business Time on Bluesky. So: I speak for the Program Committee for the 2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social conference, in Denver. We're accepting proposals for seminars, panels, and workshops: Questions? Ask me, or my committee-mates in next post. And please spread the word!
Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts Leiden University, May 7, 2025 - May 9, 2025 Deadline for submission/application: December 20, 2024 CfP FEATHERS conference In early modern England, the production of manuscript texts, whether literary, governmental or legal, was typically a collaborative or “socialized” enterprise, involving both professionals and amateurs. Indeed, the person a modern reader might automatically identify as “the author” rarely exerted sole influence over a text’s production: scribes and manuscript users might repurpose and adjust extracts from earlier literary contexts, while others commissioned intermediaries, such as secretaries or lawyers, to commit their words to paper. At first glance these intermediaries appear either frustratingly anonymous or, as members of a royal secretariat or court of law, institutionalised and thus indistinguishable. Nevertheless, all these contributors leave inky, au
The fabulous feathery team in @unileiden.bsky.social is organising a conference on Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in #EarlyModern English Manuscripts.
Conference: 7-9 May, Leiden
Deadline abstracts: 20 December
All info: rensoc.org.uk/event/scribe...
