Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies

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The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: [email protected]

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📢 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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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 🥰

Me holding a manuscript of my new book and standing in front of a screen with a PowerPoint presentation on it with the title “Good Karolin, sing. Help to divert this fant’sy”: Identifying Grief in Karolin’s Song in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd.
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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...

kingsearlymodern.co.ukCfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL BlogCall for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
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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 ⬇️

Chloe Fairbanks@fairbanc.bsky.social

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

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Come hear me talk about the grammar of weather in husbandry manuals!

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

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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

scems.sites.sheffield.ac.ukSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - EventsUpcoming events If you would like to be notified about upcoming events, email [email protected] to be added to our mailing list.
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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

scems.sites.sheffield.ac.ukSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - EventsUpcoming events If you would like to be notified about upcoming events, email [email protected] to be added to our mailing list.
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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!

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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...

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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...

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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

politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.ukDanzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builderThe city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destruct…
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Our last session of the year will be delivered by Izzy Daltry (Hull) on 11th December. Izzy's paper is on 'Affective encounters: reading hydraulic models of emotion beyond geohumoralism in Antony and Cleopatra.'

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