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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Jan 13
KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies is on Bluesky! Give us a follow for updates on our upcoming events.

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CEMS KCL Blog -- Events, projects, articles, and workshops from The Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's College London. Join the Mailing List to stay up to date with our regular programme of pub...
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Tomorrow at 15:00 we'll be hosting a workshop on Doing a PhD in Early Modern Studies. Join us to hear from current and recent PhD students.

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Doing a PhD Workshop — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a discussion on doing a PhD. We will hear from current PhD across King’s. Tuesday 27th January at 15:00 in Bush House (SE), 2.01. Light refreshments will be provided.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Join TLA for PGR lightning talks - 11th Feb @ 17:00!
thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 6d
⚡ 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
Lightning Talks at The London Archives - IN PERSON
Are you a student or Early Career Researcher? Need feedback on in-progress research? Can you summarise your research in 5 minutes or less?
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January 23, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Some great workshops this term. Join us if you can.
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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A 🧵 of CEMS events and opportunities this term!

Next Tuesday at 14:00 we'll be hosting a workshop on doing a PhD.

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Doing a PhD Workshop — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a discussion on doing a PhD. We will hear from current PhD across King’s. Tuesday 27th January at 15:00 in Bush House (SE), 2.01. Light refreshments will be provided.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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📢Job: postdoctoral research officer📢

For 'Witchcraft politics (Hexenpolitik) across the sea. A new entangled history of #EarlyModern England and the Holy Roman Empire', led by Profs Alison Rowlands & Rita Voltmer. 🗃️

- 33 months
- 0.8 FTE
- Deadline 1 Feb

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
Senior Research Officer at University of Essex
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January 19, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Really pleased to be co-organising this seminar alongside Dr. Eli Cumings, with support from colleagues at CEMS and the Folger. Do sign up! We're hoping this will be a supportive space for work in progress. If you'd be interested in presenting, please do reach out.
cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 13d
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.

A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.

Sign up to attend!

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Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
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January 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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lsangha.bsky.social
Yes! What excellent news.

#EarlyModern 🗃️
cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 13d
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.

A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.

Sign up to attend!

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
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January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
cemskcl.bsky.social
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.

A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.

Sign up to attend!

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
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January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Today at 17:30! Join the IHR's Europe and the World seminar for a paper by Dr. Yahya Nurgat on the politics of sacred space in the Islamicate World. In person and online!
chloeireton.bsky.social Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 20d
UPCOMING SEMINAR
12 Jan 2026 --
The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf --
Yahya Nurgat (Sabanci University)
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The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf
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January 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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From sausage makers to cheese rinds to wrinkles... a delightful evening in a packed room to celebrate Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin.

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Picture of the audience for the book launch. Prof. Welch is pictured at the front. Picture of the front cover of Renaissance Skin book.
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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TOMORROW!! Renaissance Skin: the final celebration. This *sold out* , but we've been able to squeeze in a few more chairs. If you're interested in materials, bodies, meaning, or even just sausages, do come and celebrate @evelynwelch.bsky.social's return to @kingshistory.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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⛪ On 9 November, discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London, where short talks, an exhibition of rarely displayed paintings, documents, and silverware, and an organ recital reveal more about this little-known community with @cemskcl.bsky.social and @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ⤵️
Refuge, Science, Faith: Discovering London's 18th-Century Germans | King's College London
Discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We've been able to increase ticket availability. If you're keen to attend, please register!
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin.

Waiting list now activated.

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Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Book launch October 23rd!

Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.

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Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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We are getting the Renaissance Skin band back together in a few weeks time! Do join us to discuss everything skin from piercing dog's ears to skin under the 17th-century microscope. Thank you @hannahmurphynews.bsky.social for organising such a special event @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Join @kingsdllc.bsky.social for a seminar on the early modern invention of the southern world. LLC will be welcoming Dr. Juan Carlos Mantilla to hear about his project, Cosmographia Antarctica.

Tomorrow at 16:00!

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Cosmographia Antarctica: The Early Modern invention of the Southern World between the Andes and the Mediterranean | King's College London
Juan Carlos Mantilla explores how between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Lots of great events this semester!
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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CEMS events for semester 1! We have three events in the calendar for this term.

Firstly, on October 3rd, we'll be hosting a welcome event for early modernists across King's. Join us at 10:30 for a networking brunch.

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Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch. — CEMS KCL Blog
Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch for early modernists across King’s. We’ll hear about ongoing research from early modernists across the A&H faculty.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Headed into London today for this to listen to these amazing keynotes. My new project is on the Caribbean and it’s relatively new territory for me, so can’t wait to learn from these brilliant colleagues. (can you tell how excited I am??)
June 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
THIS WEEK!!!
June 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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ihreurope1500.bsky.social
EXCITING WEEK THIS WEEK! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
June 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Tomorrow and Thursday! Come along if you can! 🗃️
June 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Looks great, pity I can't make them! #WomensHistory
June 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week.

25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous"

26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy"

Full details below.

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Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL Blog
Join King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM