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International research group on Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism. Find us at http://emodir.net! Posts by @gmhamelin.bsky.social, media manager.
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We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism: go.bsky.app/ArYba4T Let me know if you'd like to be added! #EarlyModern
📌 Conference: "La France périphérique (1559-1659)" On the political, religious & cultural dynamics of France’s peripheral regions between 1559 and 1659! 📆23-30 October 2026 🏫 Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) | 💻 Online: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3531966... 🔗 www.sns.it/it/evento/la... #EarlyModern
#CfA 📢 Postdoctoral #ResearchFellowship “Raffaele Pettazzoni” 2027, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Postdoctoral fellowship in the history of religions for EU citizens (born in 1991 or later). ⏰2 November 2026 🔗 lincei.it/sites/default/files/Bandi/ANL_bando_borsaP.D._PETTAZZONI2027.pdf
#CfA 📢 #Prize: *Premio Istituto Sangalli per la storia religiosa 2026*, Istituto Sangalli per la storia e le culture religiose For unpublished research in #ReligiousHistory ⏰ 1 November 2026 🔗 istitutosangalli.it/wp-content/u...
#CfP 📢 Colloquium: “Täufer-Kolloquium zu 500 Jahre Schleitheimer Bekenntnis”, Verein für Täufergeschichte (Mennonitica Helvetica) 📆 1–2 July 2027 | 🌍 Liestal (Switzerland) ⏰ 1 Nov 2026 🔗 www.mennonitica.ch/wp-content/u... #Reformation #Anabaptism #ReligiousHistory #EarlyModern
#CfP 📢 Conference: “Sieges, Sacks, and Surrenders in the Early Modern World”, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) 📆 12–13 Nov 2027 | 🌍 Toronto (Canada) ⏰ 30 Nov 2026 🔗 www.trrc.ca?utm_source=c... #EarlyModernHistory #MilitaryHistory #HistoryofViolence
❗️Happening today! Don't miss it! 💻 Find the link to join online below 👇 #EarlyModern #HistoryofVenice #ReligiousDissent #ReligiousHistory
📌Wednesday, 21 October 2026 🕐13:00 🌍Florence | 💻Online: meet.google.com/VHC-DDSZ-HJS... The Seminar Series “Orizzonti dell’alterità” offers another great opportunity to hear @federicobarbierato.bsky.social discuss his latest book! #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #ReligiousDissent #Venice
📌Wednesday, 21 October 2026 🕐13:00 🌍Florence | 💻Online: meet.google.com/VHC-DDSZ-HJS... The Seminar Series “Orizzonti dell’alterità” offers another great opportunity to hear @federicobarbierato.bsky.social discuss his latest book! #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #ReligiousDissent #Venice
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My article (in Italian) on Giorgio Rizzacasa—astrology, politics, and propaganda between Elizabeth I and Henry IV—is out in Bruniana & Campanelliana. Copyright permits only the first page online: go.umd.edu/Rizzacasa. Write to me for the full text. Issue contents: www.libraweb.net/articoli.php...
#CfP 📢 Conference: “The Translatability of Scripture in Christianity and Islam”, Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford & Markfield Institute of Higher Education 📆 12–14 April 2027 | 🌍 Oxford (UK) ⏰ 31 Oct 2026 🔗 cmcsoxford.org.uk/translatability-of-the-scriptures #ReligiousStudies
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Just a reminder – if you are a PhD student or know a PhD student who would like to give a talk at our seminar Lightning Talks on 12 November, do encourage them to get in touch!
We're on the lookout for some PhD students who would like to give a Lightning Talk at our seminar on 12 November! Open to early modernists working on any geography, talks are 3-5 minutes! Get in touch via BlueSky or email tmt29@cam.ac.uk with a short summary of PhD and bio by 12 October! ✨🥳
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Appel à communications – JE “Mobilités et Papiers. Acteurs en mouvement, institutions et productions documentaires de la fin du Moyen Âge au XXe siècle” Lieu : IHMC Date : 3-4 juin 2027 Date limite pour soumettre une proposition : 30 novembre 2027 ajch.hypotheses.org/9988
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#CfP 📢 Book chapters: “Religion in Egodocuments”, eds. Fred van Lieburg & Vincent Petit Inviting contributions on religion in diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, letters & other egodocuments. ⏰ 31 Oct 2026 🔗 reforc.com/news/religion-in-egodocuments #ReligiousHistory #EarlyModern
#CfP 📢 13th AISU Congress: “The Wounded City. Urban Spaces as Sites of Conflict, Life, and Memory”, Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana 📆 7–10 Sept 2027 | 🌍 Genoa (It) ⏰ 18 Oct 2026 🔗 aisuinternational.org/genova-2027-home #UrbanHistory #UrbanStudies #MemoryStudies
#CfA 📢 I Tatti Residential Fellowship 2027–28, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Postdoctoral #fellowships for research on the Italian Renaissance (14th–17th c.) 📆 2027–28 | 🌍 Florence (It) ⏰ 15 Oct 2026 🔗 itatti.harvard.edu/i-tatti-fellowship #EarlyModern
#CfA 📢 4th Winter School di Studi sulla Riforma, Centro Culturale Protestante “Pietro Martire Vermigli”, Università degli Studi di Firenze & RERHIS 📆 19–22 Nov 2026 | 🌍 Florence (It) ⏰10 Oct 2026 🔗 chiesavaldese.org/winter-schoo... #Reformation #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory
#CfA 📢 Eleonora Rai #Prize, Università di Torino For doctoral theses in religious, cultural & gender history, especially on violence from early modern to contemporary era. ⏰ 15 Oct 2026 🔗 dipstudistorici.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl/Show?_id=djca #ReligiousHistory #GenderHistory #HistoryOfViolence
#CfP 📢 Conference: “L’histoire comme argument (XIVe–XVIIIe siècle)”, UCLouvain & Université de Namur 📆 18–19 March 2027 | 🌍 Louvain-la-Neuve (Bel) ⏰ 10 October 2026 🔗 calenda.org/1417718 #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #MaterialCulture
#CfP 📢 Workshop proposals: “Attending to Early Modern Women and Gender: Resistance and Resilience”, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 📆 11–12 June 2027 | 🏫 American University (Washington, D.C.) ⏰ 30 Sept 2026 🔗 www.ssemwg.org/attending-to... #EarlyModern #WomenHistory #Gender
#CfP 📢 International Conference: “Inside/Outside: Jews, Law, and Jewish Law”, Jewish Law Association 📆 19–21 July 2027 | 🌍 Vienna ⏰ 9 October 2026 🔗 jewishlawassociation.org/new-page-5 #JewishStudies #JewishLaw #LegalHistory #ReligiousStudies
#CfP 📢 Research Symposium: “Imagining the Global Past: Antiquities, Early Modernities, and the Humanities Today”, University of Washington Division of the Humanities 📆 17–18 May 2027 | 🌍 Seattle (USA) ⏰ 1 Oct 2026 🔗 emworkshop.fas.harvard.edu/deadline-oct... #GlobalHistory
#CfA 📢 National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2027–28 Residential #ResearchFellowship for #Humanities scholars working on advanced research projects. 📆 2027–28 | 🏫 Research Triangle Park (USA) ⏰ 1 October 2026 🔗 nationalhumanitiescenter.org/residential-fellowships
#CfP 📢 “Imagining Difference in Early Modern London”, Elm Bank, Coventry University 📆 22-23 March 2027 |🌍 London ⏰ 1 October 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/733815 #EarlyModern #LondonHistory #MigrationHistory #SocialHistory
#CfP 📢 Special Issue: “Silenced Knowledge: Epistemic Censorship, Invisibilisation and the Production of Ignorance in Europe (16th–21st Centuries)”, Cultural History of Europe / Revue d’histoire culturelle de l’Europe ⏰ 1 October 2026 🔗 calenda.org/1424692 #Censorship #HistoryOfKnowledge
#CfP 📢 Conference: “TransLATINg the Bible: The Creation, Transmission, and Reception of the Latin Bible”, KU Leuven 📆 7–9 April 2027 | 🌍 Leuven ⏰ 1 October 2026 🔗 reforc.com/events/translating-the-bible #Bible #TranslationStudies #LatinStudies #BookHistory
#CfP 📢 International Workshop: “What Makes a Diaspora? Middle Eastern Minorities, the Americas, and Jewish Studies in Conversation”, Consortium for Jewish Studies Across the Americas 📆 24–25 May 2027 | 🏫 University of Cologne ⏰ 1 Oct 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/mrwh2wuc #JewishStudies #DiasporaStudie
#CfP 📢 “Early Modern Women and Generations”, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Inviting submissions for the Fall 2027 Forum. ⏰ 1 October 2026 🔗 www.stmoderna.it/it/dettaglio... #GenderHistory #WomensHistory #EarlyModern
#CfA 📢 *Nottebohm #Fellowship for Book Historical Research*, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library & Museum Plantin-Moretus Short-term research grants for scholars working on book history and the collections of both institutions. 🌍 Antwerp ⏰ 1 Oct 2026 🔗 consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
#CfP 📢 Conference: “Sacred Conversations: The Exchange of Objects between Monastic and Secular Courts in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe”, Institute of Art History (@czechacademy.bsky.social) 📆 7–8 May 2027 | 🌍 Ottobeuren (Ger) ⏰ 21 Sept 2026 🔗 www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/sacr... #EarlyModern
📖 #NewBook by EMoDiR members and published in the Routledge Book Series! The book explores women’s religiosity in Italy between 1400 and 1550, showing how women sought religious authority, pursued holiness, and contributed to hopes for Church renewal. 🔗 www.routledge.com/From-Living-...
#CfP 📢 IV Seminario italo-spagnolo di #Biblioteconomia, #Bibliografia, Scienze del Documento: "Collezioni bibliotecarie tra patrimonio, innovazione e partecipazione", SISBB 📆 28–29 Jan 2027 | 🏫Sapienza Università di Roma 💻 Online ⏰ 20 Sept 2026 🔗 www.sisbb.it/wp-content/u... #DigitalHumanities
#CfA 📢 Prize: *Premio Luigi Lanfranchi*, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti For a doctoral thesis on the history of the Republic of Venice, based on archival and historical sources. ⏰ 20 September 2026 🔗 www.lasisem.it/wp-content/u... #VenetianHistory #EarlyModern #PhD #ResearchPrize
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GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
📖 #NewBook edited by EMoDiR members and published in the Routledge Book Series! This interdisciplinary volume explores how ideas of sacrifice shaped early modern debates on sovereignty, law, religious identity, and political theology. 👉 www.routledge.com/p/book/97810... #EarlyModern
#CfA 📢 Books in Progress Fellow, Folger Institute For early career scholars looking to publish in US academic markets without institutional support for book manuscript review. ⏰ 14 September 2026 🔗 www.folger.edu/research/the... #EarlyCareer #FirstBook #BookPublication
#CfA 📢 *Founders’ Prize*, Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Supporting early-career scholars publishing their first book in early modern studies (1450–1750). ⏰ 15 September 2026 🔗 sixteenthcentury.org/prize/founde... #EarlyCareer #EarlyModern #FirstBook #BookPublication
#CfA 📢 John W. Kluge Center Fellowships Four residential #fellowship programs at the Library of Congress for scholars using its collections and digital resources. 🏫Library of Congress (Washington, DC, USA) ⏰ 15 Sept 2026 🔗 www.loc.gov/programs/joh... #Humanities #DigitalHumanities
#CfP 📢 Conference: "Reformation and Participation", Verein für Reformationsgeschichte / Society for Reformation History and the German Historical Institute 📆30 Sept-2 Oct 2027 | 🌍 London ⏰ 15 Sept 2026 🔗 www.ghil.ac.uk/events/confe... #Reformation #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory
#CfP 📢 Conference: "Broken Continuity: Anti-Jewish Motifs in Literature from Antiquity to the Present", org. Stéphanie E. Binder and A. Judith Göppinger. 📆 June 2027 | 🌍 Paris ⏰ 10 September 2026 🔗 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #JewishHistory #Antisemitism #LiteraryStudies #ReligiousHistory
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Thrilled to have contributed to this new volume, edited by Francesco Quatrini & @freyas.bsky.social and just published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social in the @emodir.bsky.social series! #earlymodern #skystorians #academicsky
🍂Out now! EMoDiR’s September 2026 Newsletter. Find out about new publications, events, scholarships, fellowships, prizes, and CfPs. 🔗 emodir.hypotheses.org/files/2026/0... #newsletter #EarlyModern
#CfA 📢 “Mediterranean, Religions and Societies” Chair 2026–27, Institut pontifical d’études arabes et d’islamologie & Institut français Centre Saint-Louis 📆 2026–27 | 🌍💻 Rome, Cairo & Online ⏰ 20 Sept 2026 🔗 www.ifcsl.com/fr/centre-sa... #ReligiousStudies #MediterraneanStudies
#CfA 📢 #BookPrize: "The Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion", Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life 🏫 Columbia University For the first book manuscript on religion by an early-career scholar. ⏰ 8 September 2026 🔗 www.stmoderna.it/it/dettaglio... #ReligiousStudies #EarlyCareer
#CfP 📢Conference: *Reformation and Participation*, Society for Reformation History, GHI 📆30 September - 2 October 2027|🌍London ⏰Deadline: 15 September 2026 🔗 www.ghil.ac.uk/events/confe... #Reformation #EarlyModern
Call for Papers! 📣 The Society for Reformation History and the GHI London invite scholars from all fields of academic research to participate in a conference on 'Reformation and Participation' that will take place in London from the 30th September to the 2nd October 2027. 📅 1/5
#CfA 📢 École française de Rome Research Grants Monthly grants for doctoral students and postdocs conducting research in Italy, open to French nationals or those affiliated with a French institution. 📆 Jan–June 2027 | 🌍 Rome ⏰ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 🔗 www.efrome.it/candidater/d...
#CfA 📢 Premio “Sponda Lombarda del Lago Maggiore”, Gruppo di Ricerca Storica di Laveno Mombello #ResearchPrize for unpublished research on the Lombard shore of Lake Maggiore and its hinterland, open to scholars under 35. ⏰ 31 August 2027 🔗 www.lasisem.it/2026/05/25/p...
#CfA 📢 Job opportunity: Pamela Stewart Visiting Professor in Italian Studies 🏫 McGill University (Canada) | 📆 Winter 2027 term ⏰Application deadline: 30 September 2026 🔗 mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... #JobOpportunity #ItalianStudies
#CfP 📢 Workshop: “Alt! Chi va là? Registrazione di residenti, viaggiatori e migranti in prospettiva storica", Univeristy of Vienna 📆12 Feb 2027 | 🌍 Vienna ⏰ 31 August 2026 🔗 www.stmoderna.it/it/dettaglio... #MigrationHistory #SocialHistory #MobilityStudies #EarlyModernHistory