If you STILL haven’t registered for #SCSC2026, what are you waiting for? Come enjoy days of insightful interdisciplinary conversations with colleagues from across the globe.

And if you want to join one of the fun excursions, the deadline to register is October 19!!! #SeeYouInChicago

Another #SCSC2026 session highlight is "Spenser's Seaons," The Kathleen Williams Lecture, given by David Wilson-Okamura and with comment from William Oram, both eminent Edmund Spenser scholars.

Saturday, 5:30-6:30PM

The Kathleen Williams Lecture was for decades a mainstay...

Consider attending Materials and Making in the Meaning of Art at #SCSC2026. Organized by James Clifton and chaired by Rachel Daphne Weiss. The session will include the following papers:

Only a few days left to get reduced rates for the Palmer House Hilton for Sixteenth Century Society Conference #SCSC2026. Book by October 6! Link available at the conference website--> sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2...

The Bodies, Nature, Knowledge Track organizers are excited to announce a thrilling panel at this year’s #SCSC2026!

Female Bodies and Regimes of Legibility in the Seventeenth-Century Hispanic World

Organizer: Daniela Ruiz
Chair: Pablo F. Gómez
Papers include...

#SCSC2026 is only FIVE weeks away! Have you registered yet? sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2...

Check out the new Lightning Round sessions for new books at #SCSC2026!

The two "New Books in Early Modern Studies: Lightning Talks” panels highlight new works in early modern studies, with brief presentations from 25 different authors about their recently published scholarship.

Are you interested in co-authoring? Or do you have experience and want to share what you’ve learned? Join us at #SCSC2026 for a social sponsored by Emory’s Oxford College titled Co-Authoring: A Social About Social Writing

Pick up a drink ticket from Sarah Higinbotham at the Mezzanine, then..

Another session to consider at #SCSC2026 is Space and Society in Early Modern Italy: From Mapping to Machine Learning, organized by Jennifer Mara DeSilva and chaired by Catherine Kerton-Johnson. Papers will include:

As we approach #SCSC2026, we will be highlighting some of the sessions on offer at the meeting. Our first highlight are the two Burnetti Boni sessions which celebrate Amy Nelson Burnett and Stephen Burnett for their outstanding contributions to early modern scholarship and the 16CSociety.