1. Romance and its Transformations, 1550-1750, June 30^th and July 1^st, 2014, Chawton House Library, UK. For further information, including a full programme of speakers and registration details, see: https://sites.google.com/a/morris.umn.edu/romance-transformations/

2. The University of Birmingham Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS). Wednesday 18th June 2014, Barber Institute of Fine Arts 4.30- 5.30pm. Challenges for Early Modern Women’s History. Professor Lisa Jardine in conversation with IAS Distinguished Visiting Fellow Dr Nadine Akkerman. There will be opportunities for questions and a networking reception. The event is free but booking is essential.

3. CFP Renaissance Society of America conference in Berlin 2015:  Early Modern Hybridity and Globalization: Artistic and Architectural Exchange in the Iberian World. Please send your proposals, an abstract of no more than 150 words, and a short CV, no longer than one side of an A4 sheet of paper, to the co-chairs, Laura Fernández-González, University of Edinburgh (laura.fernandez-gonzalez@ed.ac.uk / laura.fernandezgonzalez@gmail.com), and Marjorie Trusted, Victoria & Albert Museum (m.trusted@vam.ac.uk) before 2 June 2014. Link:  http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1134779/187566/Early-Modern-Hybridity-and-Globalization-Artistic-and-Architectural-Exchange-in-the-Iberian-World

4. Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Registration form and programme now available here:http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/16001/Women%27s+Scientific+Travelling

5. Two fully funded PhD studentships are available in the Department of English and Drama. For further details of the Department’s current research and information about how to apply please go to: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/english-drama/postgraduate-research/newphdstudentshipsannounced/
Please note that the deadline for applications is Monday 2 June 2014. Initial queries should be sent to Dr Jenny Fry (j.fry@lboro.ac.uk) or Mrs C.J. Flynn (C.J.Flynn-Ryan@lboro.ac.uk).

6. Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 86^th annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia from November 7-9, 2014. Please visit our website for more information about the conference. We welcome you to submit a Call for Papers for us to publicize on our website list.

7. CFP for a panel at the Renaissance Society of America Conference, Berlin, 26-28 March 2015. Women Chroniclers and Historians in the Renaissance. Renaissance women, most of them nuns, wrote histories and memoirs.  This panel will explore convent chronicles and other forms of historical writing by women during the Renaissance and Early Modern Period.  In particular we hope to highlight women whose chronicles and histories pre-date the Reformation. Please send proposals (150-word abstracts), along with brief narrative CVs, to Kathleen Comerford, kcomerfo@georgiasouthern.edu.

8. Kluge Center Announces Call for Kluge Fellowship Applications—Dispatch May 2, 2014. The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is now accepting applications for Kluge Fellowships. The application deadline is July 15, 2014.

9. CFP SSEMW-sponsored session for the annual meeting of the College Art Association. The conference will be held in New York on Feb. 11-14, 2015. The Spectatrix in Early Modern Art. Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 2015 College Art Association. Please send paper proposals of 300-500 words to Maria Maurer at maria-maurer@utulsa.edu by May 23, 2014.

10. CFP for a forthcoming volume for Intersections, Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, entitled “The Global Republic of Sacred Things: The Circulation of Religious Art in the Early Modern World.” Please contact mia.mochizuki@nyu.edu or christine.goettler@ikg.unibe.ch

11. The Warburg Institute Public Lectures: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/images/events/AnnualProgramme2013_14.pdf Further details about all our events are available on our website at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/nc/events/

12. Cultural Production in the Early Modern Household, a One-Day Colloquium. The University of Birmingham Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) 2014 Colloquium will take as its theme Cultural Production in the Early Modern Household, and will take place at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, on Saturday 28 June 2014 (10.30 am – 5.45 pm). Please book by Friday 30 May, via the University of Birmingham online shop: http://shop.bham.ac.uk/College of Arts and Law/Cultural Production in the Early Modern Household. For further information, please email: Caroline Ashton (c.e.ashton@bham.ac.uk), CAL Events Manager.

13. Three fully-funded PhD studentships on ‘Cultures of Consumption in Early Modern Europe’, starting in autumn 2014. Closing date for applications: 5pm, Friday 13^th June 2014. Further details about the doctoral training and opportunities offered by WRoCAH can be found at: www.arts-and-humanities.whiterose.ac.uk. Queries about the network should be directed to the network co-ordinator, Prof Cathy Shrank,c.shrank@shef.ac.uk.

14. There will be a 10-month Teaching Fellowship in early modern English literature at Bristol University http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIQ500/teaching-fellow-in-early-modern-english-literature/

15. Friday, 23 May, Birkbeck, 6.30 pm. ‘How Happy’s the State where no Discord is Breeding?’: the Politipop of Seventeenth Century England.’ This event is free to members (membership £7) and £4 for  non-members, refreshments will be provided. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/current-students/societies-student-groups/early-modern-society

16. A new series for the University of Nebraska Press on early modern cultural studies. The first book has just been published: Raymond Anselment, ed., Alice Thornton, My First Booke of My Life.  https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/My-First-Booke-of-My-Life,675837.aspx

17. Research in Action workshops at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe. To book, please call 020 7401 9919, or visit shakespearesglobe.com/education

18. Scholarship, Science and Religion in the Age of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) and Henry Savile (1549-1622). Oxford’s Centre for Early Modern Studies 6th Annual Conference, T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Tuesday 1st – Thursday 3rd July 2014. Plenary speaker: Anthony Grafton (Princeton). To find out more, and to register, please follow the link to our conference site: http://www.cems-oxford.org/scholarship-science-religion

19. Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies, Seminars, Conferences, Events in Summer 2014 www.york.ac.uk/crems crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk

20. Medieval and Renaissance Lost Libraries: 2014 LIHG Conference. For more info:  www.lihg.org/conference

21. Applications are now being accepted for two PhD Scholarships affiliated with the ERC-funded project, RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Both scholarships will commence in September 2014. For further information, see http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/recirc_phd_scholarship.html.

22. BRITISH ACADEMY SHAKESPEARE LECTURE ‘The two hours’ traffic of our stage’: Wednesday 21 May 2014, 6-7.15pm. Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Admission to this event is Free but you are required to register on the British Academy website in order to book online: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/The_Two_Hours_Traffic_of_Our_Stage.cfm

23. Renaissance Events in Birkbeck Arts Week 2014. All events in School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/about-us/events/arts-week

24. Registration is now open for the International Symposium on Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three Estates, which will take place at Pollock Halls of Residence, Edinburgh, on 6-8th June 2014. http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/ The full symposium programme along with links to registration can be found at this address: http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/events/international-symposium-on-sir-david-lyndsays-a-satire-of-the-three-estates/

25. Come and have some fun at the latest production for my company Mercurius (www.mercuriustheatre.co.uk), a little known Thomas Middleton City Comedy to be performed at The Rose Playhouse around the foundations of the oldest theatre in Bankside.  The Rose was built in 1587 and was home to Philip Henslow’s company, worth a visit in its own right www.rosetheatre.org.uk

26. On the evening of Wednesday, 4 June, there will be a panel debate on David Lyndsay’s 16th-century Scots play, “A Satire of the Three Estates,” taking place at the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh. Featuring a cast of political, theatrical, and academic luminaries, it’s sure to be a fascinating discussion. Please email me by 19 May if you would like to attend, and do pass on the attached poster to anyone who might be interested.
N.Simonova@ed.ac.uk

27. Catholicism in Court and Country, c. 1558-1625. Saturday 20 September 2014 at the Department of History, University of Essex. To register, see: http://www.essex.ac.uk/history/news_and_seminars/catholicism.aspx

28. The fantastic early modern Catholicism network in Oxford has put up an exciting programme of speakers for this term’s seminar series -amongst other Alex Walsham, Tara Alberts, and our very own Victoria Van Hyning. Further information can be found here: http://emcoxford.wordpress.com/. The same network is also organising a workshop on Catholic life-writing on 31 May, for which attendance is free, but early registration is necessary: http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/early-modern-catholic-life-writing.

29. Classical Philosophers in Seventeenth Century English Thought – York CREMS. 28 May 2014, Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, University of York, 10.30-5.30. Open to all – entrance free and no registration required. Contact: kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk and http://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/browne/

30. Ben Jonson in Print and Online. Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. Friday 30 May 2014, 12.00-6.30. This event will celebrate the publication of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Members of the CWBJ team will be discussing the challenge of editing Jonson, and the opportunities provided by the dual format of 7-volume print edition and dynamic website. There is no charge for attendance. Refreshments will be provided, but please register in advance with Martin Butler (m.h.butler@leeds.ac.uk)

31. Nuns Literacies – 29-30 August 2014 University of Glasgow. The annual conference registration and programme are now available. To register follow the link below:www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nuns-literacies-medieval-to-modern-registration-11289981639 Any questions, please contact the conference organisers: hwrbi.conference@gmail.com

32. Annual conference of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies – http://www.maldura.unipd.it/iasems/). The conference this year is dedicated to “Maps and Borders” – it will take place at the end of May in Lecce, and our plenary speakers are Sonia Massai and Janet Clare. The programme (not complete yet) is available at http://www.studiumanistici.unisalento.it/web/6038738/100

33. The Elizabeth Montagu Project has been awarded an AHRC Collaborative PhD studentship. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/riah/graduate-centre/scholarshipsandbursaries/digitising-elizabeth-montagu’s-correspondence/

34. Dan Geffrey with the New Poete: Reading and Rereading Chaucer and Spenser. 11^th-13^th July 2014. Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/events/conferences/cspenser/

35. Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS),Instruments and Arts of Inquiry: Natural History, Natural Magic and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Editors Dana Jalobeanu, Cesare Pastorino.  You can find the table of contents of the latest issue at the following website: http://zetabooks.metapress.com/content/122758/

36. Book History in Global Context. A book history research network. Study Day on Print Culture in Global and Transnational Context. Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, Friday, 23 May 2014.  Book History Research Network: http://www.bookhistory.org.uk Centre for Urban History: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/urbanhistory

37. Dramatizing Penshurst: Site, Scripts, Sidneys conference to be held at Penshurst Place on 8-9 June, featuring a ‘Read not Dead’ staged reading of Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory by Globe Education. The conference website can be found at: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/dramatizing-penshurst/

38. Scholarship, Science and Religion in the Age of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) and Henry Savile (1549-1622) Oxford’s Centre for Early Modern Studies 6th Annual Conference. Tuesday 1st – Thursday 3rd July 2014 http://www.cems-oxford.org/scholarship-science-religion

39. Hester Pulter, Research, Teaching and Learning. Monday 23rd June 2014, 2pm – 6pm. The Postgraduate Hub, Senate House, University of Warwick. An afternoon conference to celebrate the launch of Poems, Emblems and The Unfortunate Florinda, edited by Alice Eardley. Refreshments will be provided. For more info: Hesterpulter2014@gmail.com

40. Early Modern Prophecies Conference (26-28 June, Goldsmiths, London) http://www.gold.ac.uk/history/research/panaceasociety/propheciesconference/

41. Post-doctoral fellowships in the early modern period. Further information at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/applications/

42. Heather Wolfe will be talking about early modern writing paper at the next seminar in this year’s Open University Book History Research Group series. The seminar will take place on Monday 14 April at Senate House in London, at 5.30pm. The complete programme can be downloaded at http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/book-history/sites/www.open.ac.uk.arts.research.book-history/files/files/ecms/arts-bh-pr/web-content/paper-pen-ink.pdf

43. Six new Research Associate posts in the Early Modern period http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/jobs/crossroads-further-particulars.pdf and http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/news-press/announcing-eight-new-research-associate-posts-in-the-early-modern-period

44. Post-Graduate Travel Grants. David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV ‘Ideas and Enlightenment’ at the University of Sydney (10-13 December). Application forms are available to download from the conference webpage: http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/news-events/dns-conference-2014.shtml.

45. Contributions are invited towards the first volume of essays on Sir John Denham (1615–1669), author of Cooper’s Hill and The Sophy, with publication timed to coincide with the 400^th anniversary of his birth. Please contact Dr Philip Major at Birkbeck College, University of London, philip.major@bbk.ac.uk

46. Ars effectiva et methodus: the Body in early modern science and thought. Conference at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, 30 June – 1 July 2014 http://10times.com/ars-effectiva-et-methodus-body-in-early-modern-science-and-thought

47. Scholarship, Science & Religion in the Age of Isaac Casaubon (1559 – 1614) and Henry Savile (1549 – 1622). T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Tuesday 1st – Thursday 3rd July 2014. Oxford’s Centre for Early Modern Studies 6th Annual Conference: http://vimeo.com/94141243

48. Dr Angela McShane, V&A, ‘How Happy’s the State where no Discord is Breeding?’: the Politipop of Seventeenth Century England. The event will take place on Friday 23 May at Birkbeck room MAL G16 at 6.30pm. For more info: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/current-students/societies-student-groups/early-modern-society

49. CFP for a panel at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Berlin 26-28 March 2015: Women’s Active Religious Communities in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. Please e-mail a title, abstract (150-word maximum), keywords, a one-page curriculum vitae (300-word maximum), and A-V requests (if any) to both Liise Lehtsalu (liise_lehtsalu@brown.edu) and Sarah Moran (Sarah.Moran@UAntwerpen.be) by May 31.  http://rsa.site-ym.com/blogpost/1134786/188213/Women-s-Active-Religious-Communities-in-Early-Modern-Europe-and-Beyond

50. University College London, Friday, July 11 2014 – Saturday, July 12 2014: Objects, Families, Homes: British Material Cultures in Global Contexts, is a two-day end-of-project conference organized by UCL History’s Leverhulme Trust-funded East India Company at Home team. Book here: http://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=119.

51. Emotion, Embodiment and Death Symposium, 2-3 June 2014. Centre for the History of the Emotions
Queen Mary, University of London. If you wish to attend any of the sessions, please email: e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk

52. Platonic Commentaries in the Renaissance, 10.30-5.30, Wednesday 11 June 2014, Birkbeck, Malet Street, Room 351, University of London. Please email s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk or john.sellars@bbk.ac.uk if you would like to book a place.

53. The EMREM Symposium 2014 ‘Seen & Unseen: (De)Constructing Medieval and Early Modern Perceptions’ will take place on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 May at the University of Birmingham. Please note that we are also hosting a wine reception on the Thursday evening from 5pm in the Fage Library. If you are unable to attend during the day, please do feel free to join us for some networking over wine, juice and nibbles! For more info: http://emremforum.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/emrem-annual-postgraduate-symposium-2014/

54. SCEMS Visiting Speaker Series: Andrew Hadfield, ‘A Red Herring’ May 22nd, 5:30-7:30pm. Visiting Speaker Masterclass: Friday, May 23rd, 10am-12pm, Humanities Research Institute, Gell St., Sheffield, “Why Does Biography Matter?” For more info: http://www.scems.group.shef.ac.uk/ Please email  g.schwartzleeper@sheffield.ac.uk to sign up and make certain you have a place.

55. Scholarship, Science & Religion in the Age of Isaac Casaubon (1559 – 1614) and Henry Savile (1549 – 1622). T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College. Tuesday 1st – Thursday 3rd July 2014. Oxford’s Centre for Early Modern Studies 6th Annual Conference: http://vimeo.com/94141243