Chloe Fairbanks

Chloe Fairbanks

@fairbanc.bsky.social

Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.

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Lavinia Gambini
@lavinia-gambini.bsky.social

🚨CFP, #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture Workshop! Early-career scholars, don't forget to apply to present your work on Early Modern Material Culture in Bern (19-20 Nov 2026)! Deadline: 2 Oct 2026 👇

infoclio.ch@infoclio.bsky.social

Intersectional Things in the Early Modern World #infoclioevent

dlvr.itIntersectional Things in the Early Modern WorldIntersectional Things in the Early Modern World L 24. September 2026 Intersectional Things in the Early Modern World An Interdisciplinary Projektpool-Workshop, Nov 19-20, 2026, University of Bern *** EXTENDED Call: Please submit your abstracts by October 2, 2026 *** We invite expressions of interest from early modernists at the University of Bern and other Swiss universities whose work engages with material culture.  How did things shape unequal social worlds, and how did unequal social worlds shape what things could do? Different people did not encounter the same things in the same ways. Access to objects (and their uses, meanings, and effects) was shaped by intersecting forms of social distinction and inequality, including gender, race, ethnicity, age, disability, religion, and social status. This workshop examines how such differences governed the roles that things played in everyday life, religious practice, political culture, domestic settings, commerce, medicine, and beyond. We are particularly interested in close studies of objects, collections, practices, spaces, and archives that explore these questions. At the same time, the workshop provides an opportunity to reflect on broader conceptual implications. What happens when intersectional approaches meet recent work on material agency and/or multispecies history? How may an intersectional approach—designed to analyse inequalities among people—change when the things under investigation are themselves treated as agents, environments, companions, living non-human beings, or spirited things? Our aim is not to revolve these questions, but to explore them across disciplinary boundaries. To that end, we welcome both theoretically informed contributions and empirically grounded case studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Minority and subaltern perspectives on material culture * Objects in Disability Studies and the Medical Humanities * Material culture across the life cycle and between generations * Gendered material cultures * Objects of exclusion, sumptuary marking, and contested access * Human-non-human and multispecies entanglements Participants will pre-circulate a draft of up to 2,000 words (in English) and give a five- to ten-minute lightning talk, followed by extended discussion. Drafts may take the form of an expanded abstract, paper outline, introduction, or section of a work in progress. Workshop participation is open to all contingent members of the University of Bern, including PhD students/candidates. Permanent members of staff are invited to participate in the discussion and keynote lectures. Please submit an abstract (max. 250 words), a provisional title, and a short biographical note (max. 150 words) to Lavinia Gambini (lavinia.gambini@unibe.ch) and Andreas Berger (andreas.berger-gehringer@unibe.ch) by October 2, 2026. Drafts will be due by November 6, 2026, and circulated shortly thereafter on November 9, 2026. This workshop is generously supported by the Promotion Fund (Projektpool) for networking activities for mid-level academic staff of the University of Bern. Organisiert von Lavinia Gambini (lavinia.gambini@unibe.ch), Andreas Berger (andreas.berger-gehringer@unibe.ch) Sprachen der Veranstaltung Englisch
Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

'When I became a [wo]man, I put away childish things'? Absolutely not, bc I still got the same rush of glee opening a new box of pens* that I did in elementary school. *huge plug here for my long-term fave pens, the Stabilo .88 fineliners

Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

Beautifully written, important note.

Scaypgrayce@scaypgrayce.bsky.social

Evening! For those of you who look at my blog, some thoughts on What’s-Left-of-the-Constitution Day: scaypgrayce.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/a...

scaypgrayce.wordpress.com“A Republic, If You Can Keep It”Today we celebrate our Constitution, or what’s left of it after the SCOTUS MAGAT Six have had their way. In several respects, today’s a bit of a dark day; because, we have been pushed by a small bu…
Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Difference in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of difference.

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Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Difference in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of difference.

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Erika Gaffney
@erikagaffney.bsky.social

Sat 3 Oct 2026 at Christ Church Library, Oxford Univ - Women and Their Books: Women as Book Producers and Owners in Early Modern England and Scotland A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...

eventbrite.co.ukWomen and Their Books in Early Modern England and ScotlandA study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.
Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

Satan telling Pug in The Devil is an Ass that he's not good enough to corrupt souls in London, but that he might hack it in 'Lancashire...or some parts of Northumberland' is both savage and fascinating proof that EM Satan was a middle class southerner

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Greg Jenner (Historian)
@gregjenner.bsky.social

Climate change is already here

The Guardian@theguardian.com

France orders evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads – Europe live

theguardian.comFrance orders evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads – Europe liveEvacuees have been told to leave using hundreds of mobilised boats or the only road linking the area with the mainland Nuñez also warned about a second fire in Biscarrosse, which he said was also “significant” and “somewhat similar” to the main fire in Gironde since it broke out yesterday afternoon. It has burned over 2,500 hectares, prompting the evacuation of just over 20,000 people, he said. Continue reading...
Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

Featuring book reviews by myself and the inimitable @cazzert.bsky.social! Really enjoyed reviewing Scott Oldenburg and @pangallo.bsky.social's timely collection None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage.

Shakespeare Bulletin@shaxbull.bsky.social

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.4 is now published via Project Muse! Find the final issue of Shakespeare Bulletin's 2025 volume, now fully open access. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610

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Emily Naish
@emjlynajsh.bsky.social

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

bit.lyReading the Practical in Early Modern Literature | University of SheffieldThis two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for lit

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John Gallagher
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social

Job! A 21-month postdoc at Birmingham on French-language print publications in England to 1685 led by the marvellous team of Peter Auger and Suzanne Jones. International applicants are welcome and Birmingham can support a visa application where required. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

jobs.ac.ukResearch Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of BirminghamAn academic position as a Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job ...
Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

Marking my calendar now!!

Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨ A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now. linktr.ee/agoldenworld

Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

This was fabulous - very thought-provoking!

John Gallagher@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social

For anyone in Oxford, I'll be speaking at Lincoln at 5pm today. The paper is called 'Last words: migration, death, and language in early modern London' and I'd love to see you there!

Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!

Dr Rachel Bynoth@rachelbynoth.bsky.social

Come join us in Marseille this September for our @bsecs.bsky.social PGR ECR conference - details below ⬇️ Such a brilliant theme of Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation - looking forward to reading the submissions 👏

Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are! fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...

fass.open.ac.ukThe Open UniversityThe 6th Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presenta...

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies
@sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

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Chloe Fairbanks@fairbanc.bsky.social

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

sites.google.comSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern LiteratureCFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

sites.google.comSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern LiteratureCFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social

Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻