Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies

'(Re)Mapping the Canon: Embodied Knowledge as Decolonial Practice' will be held at SCEMS on Wed 11th Nov! Full details available via link below 👇

📢 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.

I really enjoyed speaking about my book at the University of Sheffield today! Thank you to everyone who attended both in person and online, and special thanks to @ellaalton.bsky.social, @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and Mark Jones for being such lovely hosts! @sheffieldcems.bsky.social 🥰

Two great @sheffieldcems.bsky.social events coming up in the next fortnight, see scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events (1/3):

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Finally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️

📣 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

One month to go till registration closes for #ReadingthePractical @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @emjlynajsh.bsky.social! Online attendance is free, in person is free for self-funded/unwaged PGRs and ECRs, and you can register HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Izzy Daltry will be joining us online **today at 1pm** to share her research on water in Antony and Cleopatra! Details below 👇

EMDG is back, this Thursday (26th Feb, 1-2pm)! Izzy Daltry will be joining us from Hull to present a paper on watery emotion in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Izzy's abstract and the link to join online can both be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Early Christmas present! 🎁✨️ New paperback edition of the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Education series 🎄 (I edited Vol 5) 📚 #histed @unishefplayer.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @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...

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

New blog post 📢 Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder' politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d... #earlymodern #historyofgrain

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026 Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin... #SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰 @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police. blog here: drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

Looking forward to sharing some of my work on Fielding this Friday! ✨

This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink! To join, get in touch!

Our first EMDG of the year is on Thursday! Join us virtually for 5-10 minutes of @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I talking about our cats before Tom's v interesting paper ⛪

This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.' This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details! scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵 Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

SCEMS Spring 2025 events lineup 👇

Great events coming up at Sheffield next week! Wonder who that is talking about the social history of translation in early modern London... 👀

Really looking forward to these workshops and events this semester!

Sheffield students! I am once again recruiting actors (and a fight director) for my practice-as-research workshops! please email lucy.clarke@sheffield.ac.uk if interested! @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social #skystorians #practiceasresearch #actorswanted

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 REMRA is hosting its 1st interdisciplinary conference on Northern Narratives! To register your interest, please contact the conference team (remra@uhi.ac.uk) by 21 Feb 2025. For info, see below ⬇️ or visit bit.ly/4arhSwx @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @thinkuhi.bsky.social

The last EMDG of 2024 will be held next Thursday lunchtime! Juliet Atkinson (Leeds) is joining us to share her research on border practices in London and Yarmouth, 1606-1640. Full details (inc. the link to join) can be found via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

We are delighted to be joined tomorrow by Prof Bernard Capp (Warwick) for a lecture on ‘The multiple worlds of James Frese: Russia, civil war radicalism, the Fleet prison, and the Millennium.' Full details (including the joining link) can be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

We're excited to welcome Prof. Nuala Zahedieh to Sheffield this evening, who will be sharing her research on 'Canoes, commons, and capitalism'. 🛶 Full details (including the link to join online) can be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Saraya Haddad (Shakespeare Institute) is joining us this Thursday afternoon to present her research on the ghostly world of Macbeth and the queering of time. See the attachment for full details 👻

it's not too late to join us in person or online for our exciting workshop this Friday @sheffieldcems.bsky.social! feat. brilliant papers on new approaches to EM law and government, and a practice-as-research workshop on arrest. free to attend, lunch is provided! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experienci...

This week @ SCEMS, Thursday 2nd May, 5:15pm: Dr Diana Matut will be delivering a lecture on 'Performing vernacular musics: Jewish women and Yiddish song, 1500-1750.' The lecture is online only. Register here: forms.gle/RdifgN9NZeKZ... 📝