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York-CREMS

@CREMSYork

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.

 University of York, UK
york.ac.uk/crems/
Joined May 2015
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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 🥰
Magic Witchcraft Conference (@MagicWitchCon) profile pictureMagic Witchcraft Conference@MagicWitchCon8 May 2025
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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Image from Magic Witchcraft Conference (@MagicWitchCon)
Image from Magic Witchcraft Conference (@MagicWitchCon)
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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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✨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! 🍿
The Cabinet of Curiosities (@YorkCofC) profile pictureThe Cabinet of Curiosities@YorkCofC18 Nov 2024
📢 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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Joey Crozier@Scacey_11 Nov 2024
#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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We are excited to announce we are now accepting applications for speakers to present in our Seminar Series for the upcoming academic year! Check out the post below for all the details Deadline to apply is Sunday 29th September
We are thrilled to announce we are now accepting applications for speakers to present in the MEMSA Seminar Series for 2024/2025. Our Seminars take place at 6pm on alternate Monday evenings of term at 7 Owengate. If you're new to MEMSA, we are Durham University's Medieval and Early Modern Student Association. MEMSA is an interdisciplinary association attended by postgraduate students in the facilities of English, History, Archaeology, MLAC, Art History, and more. We welcome submissions for 20 to 30 minute papers from postgraduate students and early career academics from any discipline engaged in the study of the medieval and early modern periods. Papers should be accessible to a non-specialist academic audience and will be followed by a 10 minute question and answer session. Send a proposal of no more than 250 words to memsa.committee@durham.ac.uk Please include a brief biographical statement of up to 100 words with your application. Deadline: Sunday 29th September

ALT We are thrilled to announce we are now accepting applications for speakers to present in the MEMSA Seminar Series for 2024/2025. Our Seminars take place at 6pm on alternate Monday evenings of term at 7 Owengate. If you're new to MEMSA, we are Durham University's Medieval and Early Modern Student Association. MEMSA is an interdisciplinary association attended by postgraduate students in the facilities of English, History, Archaeology, MLAC, Art History, and more. We welcome submissions for 20 to 30 minute papers from postgraduate students and early career academics from any discipline engaged in the study of the medieval and early modern periods. Papers should be accessible to a non-specialist academic audience and will be followed by a 10 minute question and answer session. Send a proposal of no more than 250 words to [email protected] Please include a brief biographical statement of up to 100 words with your application. Deadline: Sunday 29th September

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We're advertising a one-year postdoc to work with me and the Print Matters team. If you're into embodiment and text technologies (any period) and keen to turn your hand to letterpress printing, please apply! Feel free to be in touch with questions. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese…
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We have extended the deadline for our @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft Conference.
Dr Tabitha Stanmore (@MagicNotWitches) profile pictureDr Tabitha Stanmore@MagicNotWitches12 Jul 2024
ICYMI: The deadline has been extended for the @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft Conference! Online and in-person papers both very welcome - send your abstracts in by 26th July! @singinghistori1
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ICYMI: The deadline has been extended for the @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft Conference! Online and in-person papers both very welcome - send your abstracts in by 26th July! @singinghistori1
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Image from Dr Tabitha Stanmore (@MagicNotWitches)
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I'm delighted to announce the OA publication of my (first!) article, 'Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750' in The History of the Family journal online (@hisfam_journal): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750

Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750

Through an examination of their personal letters, this article explores the ways in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century gentry parents responded to the illnesses of their children. Correspond...

tandfonline.com
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Writing the World: Early Modern Women, Natural Philosophy and Medicine, @CREMSYork, July 11-12, 2024 rensoc.org.uk/event/writing-… #Twitterstorians #EarlyModernEvents
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