The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at York is a welcoming interdisciplinary community devoted to the study of the long 16th and 17th centuries.

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Look at this amazing line up of speakers for this year’s seminar series! Sign up to each seminar individually using the link in our bio - looking forward to seeing you there!
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We are delighted to announce the 2025 @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft Conference with a theme entitled "What is a Witch". The programme is amazing and great discussions are guaranteed! Attendence is both online and in-person so hopefully see you there bit.ly/Witch25
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Incredibly happy to announce this year @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft!!! I hope to see many of you there 🥰
We are delighted to announce the 2025 @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft Conference with a theme entitled "What is a Witch". The programme is amazing and great discussions are guaranteed! Attendence is both online and in-person so hopefully see you there bit.ly/Witch25
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18 Mar 2025
Our next seminar is tonight! Join us (online or in person) to welcome Prof Amanda Wunder (Lehman College & CUNY) who will present a paper titled ‘Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV’ 📍 5pm, B/S/104 More info: york.ac.uk/history-of-art/ab…
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We are thrilled to announce that Chandini Jaswal (Panjab University, India) will be joining us to present her paper exploring the life Ḥamidā Bānū Begum. Join us on Wednesday the 27th using the Zoom link below: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9711352… We look forward to seeing you all there!
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13 Feb 2025
Our first seminar of the semester is today (6pm)! Join us (in person or online) to welcome Eva Johanna Holmberg (Uni of Helsinki) who presents a paper titled ‘The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain’. 📍 The Treehouse, @HRCYork
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✨We are thrilled to be extending our call for Committee applications until the 18 February ✨ Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version. You can apply using the following link: forms.gle/2djCdbPvK6UgJbsS9
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We are delighted to announce that our next seminar will be taking place next week online only on Tuesday 11 February at 5:30pm (GMT). Please note the different time compared to the in-person seminars this term. The seminar will be a roundtable session 1/
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Call for Papers. 'Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland.' Abstracts by 03/03/2025. 3 Workshops Conference. Themes: Identity 25/04/25 Edinburgh, Geography & Cosmology 06/06/25 Orkney, Power 08/10/25 Glasgow. @ThinkUHI Details below:
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#CFP for 2025 History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland Conference is now out. ‘Women Religious: Patronage and Networks from Medieval to Modern' Deadline 31 Jan 2025 Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/…
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New from @AmsterdamUPress - Love the Sofonisba Anguissola cover art! Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy by Megan Moran aup.nl/en/book/9789462984578…
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Join us on Monday the 2nd of December from 2-3pm for a visit to the Borthwick Institute for Archives. The event will be an opportunity to explore a variety of the collection and for students and researchers to familiarise themselves with archives.
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Call for Papers! Please spread the word. The next #englishsharedfutures will be in York, from July 3rd-5th. We've got lots of great events and special sessions planned, and warmly welcome submissions. englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp

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TODAY 🎬 Join us! p.s. There will be snacks! 🍿
📢 Rescheduled Film Group!! Join us THIS FRIDAY for an evening showing of “Luther” 😎 Meet us in the Bowland Auditorium from 16:00-20:00 pm for a fun discussion (and snacks!) All PGs welcome ☺️ @CREMSYork @ArtHistoryYork @UoYEnglish @CECSYork @YorkHistoryDept
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#Twitterstorians CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS! I’m absolutely thrilled to announce ‘Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500-1850)’ is back! Please do check out and share our CfP we’re already looking forward to reading your abstracts! #CFP #Earlymodern #History
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📢 Calling all York PG students interested in the #earlymodern! We’re launching a seasonal reading group where we’ll meet in a casual capacity to discuss aspects of EM history 😃 We’ll connect these events to festivities like Hallowe’en and Christmas 🎉
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Our first research seminar of the academic year is this Thursday (3 Oct). Join us (online or in person) to welcome Katrin Ettenhuber and Lorna Hutson who will present ‘The Poetics of Premodern Probability’. 📍The Treehouse @HRCYork 5.15pm More info: york.ac.uk/crems/events/2023…

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Online registration information can be found here: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/r…

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