Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York
📜 The largest Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
- CFP deadline for abstracts has been extended to 15 February! 🗃️
- Co-organised by some of our phenomenal @crems-york.bsky.social and @cecs-york.bsky.social PhD students!
- ‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th! Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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- 18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
- Deadline to submit draft application is this Wednesday (4th Feb)! We're hosting a webinar on drafting applications for postdoc fellowships on 12th Feb. Your application will be reviewed and discussed by assessors and successful applicants. Full details below.
- 📌9 February 2026 | ⌚14:30 Don’t miss the seminar “Blasphemy, Mysticism, and Possession,” co-organized by EMoDiR, bringing together leading scholars to explore the multiple dimensions of unholy speech! 🌍Università di Verona | 💻Online: univr.zoom.us/j/8865889593... #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory
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- Historians work across higher education - and not just in 'traditional' History departments. We welcome applications for Fellowship / Associate Fellowship from all those working historically - in the UK and internationally bit.ly/45vEmeJ Next closing dates for applications: 9 March & 11 May, 1/2
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- 📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢 Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England 🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception 📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom 🗃️ All welcome, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
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- Join us for our next event: 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' by Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University) 🗓️ 2 Feb 🕰️ 5:30pm UK time 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #textiles #history
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- Grants! We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026. Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
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- Delighted to announce our research seminar line up for the semester, kicking off with @alexbamji.bsky.social on ephemeral print and lay religious experience in Venice at 1pm on 18 February - www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/ - all seminars are hybrid and open to all, so please do join us! #earlymodern 🗃️
- 🚨 Two @rarebookschool.bsky.social courses coming to York in July! @wordsmith.bsky.social 'The Culture & Craft of Wood Type' & @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social 'The Rise of Periodical Print Culture' rarebookschool.org/courses/typo... rarebookschool.org/courses/hist... 🗃️ #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thC
- PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate. Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT. Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
- *Reposted CFP with alt text* III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved London, 11-12 June 2026 Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026 Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
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- Co-organised by some of our phenomenal @crems-york.bsky.social and @cecs-york.bsky.social PhD students!
- 📢Call for Papers: Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life 🐀 @northernenvhistory.bsky.social Deadline: 31 January 2026 Further details: tinyurl.com/ynwua3em
- ⚡ Lightning Talks at The London Archives ⚡ Are you a student or ECR? Need feedback on your work? Can you summarise it in 5 minutes? Join us for Lightning Talks at The London Archives - a friendly event open to researchers of London and its history! 📆 Wed 11 February 🕔 5pm
- I'm delighted to share this CFP for our workshop on historical approaches to non-human life. Expect keynotes, collaborative discussions, and cake! Being on the organising team has been great fun, and I look forward to reading your submissions. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
- Our next research seminar is tomorrow! Join us (in person or online) to welcome @nailyas.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Early Modern Bibliotourism: The Case of English and Scottish Visitors to Continental Europe, c. 1600-1700’. 🗓️ Wednesday 5 November, 5pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
- 📣 Our next research seminar is today! @lenaliapi.bsky.social will be presenting a paper titled ‘Contrasting News and Controlling the Narrative: English and French News Reporting in the Wake of the 1696 Conspiracy’. 🗓️ 8 October, 5pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
- Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the academic year! @saragwynbeam.bsky.social will be kicking things off with an excellent paper titled ‘Paradoxes in the History of Torture and the Advent of Modernity in Europe, 1400-1700’. 🗓️ 1 October, 1pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall
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- 📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
- Next week’s @cecs-york.bsky.social seminar looks fantastic! 🖋️ @kharveyhistory.bsky.social #earlymodern #eighteenthcentury #skystorians
- Our final research seminar of the semester is on 3 June at 4.30pm. Join us to welcome @kharveyhistory.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820’. 📍 KG/07 More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
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- This year’s Magic and Witchcraft Conference (23-25 June) is not to be missed!! Join us online or in person! 🦇 #earlymodern #skystorians #witchcraft
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...
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- Join us tomorrow 23 April for our next research seminar! Michał E. Nowakowski will present a paper titled 'Words That Burn: Catholic–Reformed Polemics and Their Impact in Early Modern Vilnius (1574–1647)'. 📍 12pm-2pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building (in person only).
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- Don’t miss tonight’s research seminar! Join us online or in-person to welcome Bettina Varwig who will present a paper titled ‘Dis-ease, Pain and Redemption in Early Modern Musicking’. 📍6pm The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building More info and registration 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
- Our next seminar is tonight! Join us (online or in person) to welcome Prof Amanda Wunder (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center) 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: www.york.ac.uk/history-of-a...
- Our next seminar is this Thursday (6 March) at 12.15pm! Please join us (online or in person) to welcome @alexbamji.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Ephemeral print and lay religious experience in early modern Venice’. 📍The Treehouse, Berrick Saul More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
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- Our next research seminar is on 20 Feb, join us (in person or online) to welcome @claireturner.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Gender, Identity and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases’. 📍 12.15pm, The Treehouse, BSB #earlymodern
- 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, Berrick Saul Building
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