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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 6d

Proofs looking goooood

Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Registration is free for self-funded PGR students and non-waged ECRs, and we can offer six travel bursaries, so there's no reason not to apply!

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 26

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Aug 26

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
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The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students

The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!!

Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you so much!!

Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 8

It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Aug 8

The Trust is pleased to invest £15.5 million in supporting early career researchers. Projects funded this year include unifying glacier sliding theory to improve global sea level rise projections, and women remaking medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

Read more👉 tinyurl.com/year566p

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Jul 23

Another day, another

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Jun 17

Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Apr 3

Tragedy of Mariam and Revenger's Tragedy, hands down

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Mar 14

My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike.

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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays. By Hailey Bachrach

Hailey Bachrach’s fresh and engaging book brings performance studies to bear on more traditional modes of literary analysis to produce a “historically info

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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · Feb 10

Short but (in my opinion) fun note on plague, kissing, and Aelius Aristides by me in here - enjoyable merely for the question of ancient 'social distancing' if nothing else!

Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Feb 10

New issue of Phoenix Vol. 78, Nos. 1-2 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54238 @projectmuse.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social @phoenixjournal.bsky.social @tomgavin.bsky.social

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jan 23

We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴

A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025.

Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany.

Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions:
What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning?
What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge?
What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists?
How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries?

Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.

This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.

Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Jan 24

Tfw you start your class on Restoration literature with the Horrible Histories Charles II song and the students start singing and dancing along

a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air

ALT: a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Jan 22

Great to start the term off with a wonderfully rich and thought-provoking paper by @harrymccarthy.bsky.social at the Oxford Early Modern Literature Seminar last night.

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Dec 13

I dream of a day when EEBO's systems don't think I'm a robot

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Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · Dec 10

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Dec 5

JAMVENT JAMVENT

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