Renaissance Society of America
@rsaorg.bsky.social
The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA26 to join the Annual Meeting conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
What’s happening at the RSA? Take a look at the upcoming calendar noting important events and deadlines: www.rsa.org/page/rsacale... 📷 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #earlymodern #RenTwitter #RenSA26
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What’s happening at the RSA? Take a look at the upcoming calendar noting important events and deadlines: www.rsa.org/page/rsacale... 📷 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #earlymodern #RenTwitter #RenSA26
We are awarding FIVE tuition scholarships to RSA members who wish to attend the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute on the campus of the Université de Montréal. Apply by November 19, 2025! www.rsa.org/news/712947/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #scholarship #digitalhumanities
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We are awarding FIVE tuition scholarships to RSA members who wish to attend the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute on the campus of the Université de Montréal. Apply by November 19, 2025! www.rsa.org/news/712947/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #scholarship #digitalhumanities
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Many thanks to the @rsaorg.bsky.social for sharing a notice of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death. www.rsa.org/news/709728/.... I will be attending the RSA meeting in February, so get in touch if you want to plan to talk teaching strategies! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #histmed
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Many thanks to the @rsaorg.bsky.social for sharing a notice of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death. www.rsa.org/news/709728/.... I will be attending the RSA meeting in February, so get in touch if you want to plan to talk teaching strategies! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #histmed
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Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
Join us for two upcoming RSA webinars! "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers" will be held Thursday, Nov 6 and the "Using AI to Broaden Access to Historical Archives" webinar will take place Wednesday, Nov 12. Details & registration: www.rsa.org/page/rsacale... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
October 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Join us for two upcoming RSA webinars! "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers" will be held Thursday, Nov 6 and the "Using AI to Broaden Access to Historical Archives" webinar will take place Wednesday, Nov 12. Details & registration: www.rsa.org/page/rsacale... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
In case you missed it, the September 2025 Renaissance News e-newsletter has arrived! See what's happening at @rsaorg.bsky.social here: conta.cc/4mWnWmf #RenTwitter #earlymodern #professionaldevelopment #RenSA26
September 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In case you missed it, the September 2025 Renaissance News e-newsletter has arrived! See what's happening at @rsaorg.bsky.social here: conta.cc/4mWnWmf #RenTwitter #earlymodern #professionaldevelopment #RenSA26
New Calls for Papers are up on the RSA website! View the latest CfPs here: bit.ly/3uXoYU8 #RenTwitter #earlymodern
September 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New Calls for Papers are up on the RSA website! View the latest CfPs here: bit.ly/3uXoYU8 #RenTwitter #earlymodern
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The recording of my lightning talk with the @rsaorg.bsky.social in June is now available. I really enjoyed spending the afternoon listening to what my fellow grad students are working on in Renaissance studies. There's a lot of great research going on today. #earlymodern youtu.be/x8n9i4DFxXM?...
The RenAIssance: Graduate Student Lightning Talks (12 June 2025)
YouTube video by The Renaissance Society of America
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August 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The recording of my lightning talk with the @rsaorg.bsky.social in June is now available. I really enjoyed spending the afternoon listening to what my fellow grad students are working on in Renaissance studies. There's a lot of great research going on today. #earlymodern youtu.be/x8n9i4DFxXM?...
Apply for a 2026 Research Fellowship! For the 2026 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). The deadline for applications is September 16, 2025. Details here: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern #RenTwitter
August 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Apply for a 2026 Research Fellowship! For the 2026 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). The deadline for applications is September 16, 2025. Details here: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern #RenTwitter
Only a few weeks left to send in your photos! If you're working in an archive this summer, enter our Instagram photo contest to win a free RSA membership for a year. September 1 deadline, details here: www.rsa.org/news/698797/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
August 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Only a few weeks left to send in your photos! If you're working in an archive this summer, enter our Instagram photo contest to win a free RSA membership for a year. September 1 deadline, details here: www.rsa.org/news/698797/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
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I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
August 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
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Read Karen Graubert's fabulous article: ""Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records" in this new issue!
@kbgraubart.bsky.social
@kbgraubart.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Read Karen Graubert's fabulous article: ""Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records" in this new issue!
@kbgraubart.bsky.social
@kbgraubart.bsky.social
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Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
Join us September 4 for a new Professional Development Webinar! Learn best practices for planning professional activities throughout the academic year, including publishing and teaching, field research, and job applications. Details here: www.rsa.org/events/Event... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
August 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Join us September 4 for a new Professional Development Webinar! Learn best practices for planning professional activities throughout the academic year, including publishing and teaching, field research, and job applications. Details here: www.rsa.org/events/Event... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
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I'm still looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Microhistory in the Era Global History for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F. Send me your proposal asap!
See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
Renaissance Society of America
365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA
www.rsa.org
August 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm still looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Microhistory in the Era Global History for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F. Send me your proposal asap!
See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
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Deadline is tomorrow! We encourage abstracts for single-papers as well as fully formed sessions for #RenSA2026 @rsaorg.bsky.social #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities
📣 #earlyModern #renaissance #digitalHumanities scholars: the CFP for next year's "New Technologies in Early Modern Studies" sessions at RSA 2026 is live: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... Deadline 1 August 2025
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July 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Deadline is tomorrow! We encourage abstracts for single-papers as well as fully formed sessions for #RenSA2026 @rsaorg.bsky.social #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities
Take a look at the Call for Papers Index for #RenSA26. Lots of fascinating topics. Get your papers in! www.rsa.org/page/RSAAnnu... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
July 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Take a look at the Call for Papers Index for #RenSA26. Lots of fascinating topics. Get your papers in! www.rsa.org/page/RSAAnnu... #RenTwitter #earlymodern
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CFP, abstracts due July 25 -
Women Printmakers in the Early Modern World
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An APS-sponsored session for @rsaorg.bsky.social 2026
Women Printmakers in the Early Modern World
printscholars.org/cfp-women-pr...
An APS-sponsored session for @rsaorg.bsky.social 2026
July 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
CFP, abstracts due July 25 -
Women Printmakers in the Early Modern World
printscholars.org/cfp-women-pr...
An APS-sponsored session for @rsaorg.bsky.social 2026
Women Printmakers in the Early Modern World
printscholars.org/cfp-women-pr...
An APS-sponsored session for @rsaorg.bsky.social 2026
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#RenSA26, #RSA26, #earlymodern folks - you have a few more days to submit an abstract on the history of #cartography, broadly construed, for the @rsaorg.bsky.social annual meeting in San Francisco in February. 🗃
Late #medieval and #earlymodern folks: my friend Ricardo Padrón is assembling a couple of panels on #cartography for #RenSA26, the next @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, in San Francisco in February 2026.
Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
July 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#RenSA26, #RSA26, #earlymodern folks - you have a few more days to submit an abstract on the history of #cartography, broadly construed, for the @rsaorg.bsky.social annual meeting in San Francisco in February. 🗃
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Good morning, #earlymodern friends! I'm reposting my #cfp as we come into the final week of submissions. This panel will explore the topics of #satan #demonicpacts and #evil, particularly regarding those who unwittingly chose their fate. Join us at @rsaorg.bsky.social 's 2026 conference! #rensa26
#earlymodern scholars who work on #satan, I'm organizing a panel for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference. The topic is "Satan the Seductor: Willful and Unwitting Damnation in Early Modern Europe." @fatricky.bsky.social will be the chair. For #cfp info: tinyurl.com/76rw4cz7 See you there? #RenSA26
July 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Good morning, #earlymodern friends! I'm reposting my #cfp as we come into the final week of submissions. This panel will explore the topics of #satan #demonicpacts and #evil, particularly regarding those who unwittingly chose their fate. Join us at @rsaorg.bsky.social 's 2026 conference! #rensa26
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I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap!
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
Renaissance Society of America
365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA
www.rsa.org
July 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap!
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
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Late #medieval and #earlymodern folks: my friend Ricardo Padrón is assembling a couple of panels on #cartography for #RenSA26, the next @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, in San Francisco in February 2026.
Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
July 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Late #medieval and #earlymodern folks: my friend Ricardo Padrón is assembling a couple of panels on #cartography for #RenSA26, the next @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, in San Francisco in February 2026.
Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Send Ricardo your abstract by 30 July. Details below! 🗃
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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Calling scholars of #earlymodernwomen! Whether you're working on representations, histories, labor, or cultural afterlives, consider submitting to my #cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco #RenSA26. Please share widely!
July 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Calling scholars of #earlymodernwomen! Whether you're working on representations, histories, labor, or cultural afterlives, consider submitting to my #cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco #RenSA26. Please share widely!