The MRDS promotes the study of medieval & early modern theatre through conferences, grants, prizes and @romardmrds 🎭 Tweets by @ElizETavares
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📣 Did you have an article on medieval or early modern performance come out this year? Or a book? Are you a grad student who gave a great paper this past year?
We give prizes each year for new work and we want to hear from you!
Details: themrds.org/awards
Deadline: 30 Jan
The 2022 Alexandra Johnston Award for Best Conference Paper in Early Drama Studies by a Graduate Student went to @HanhBuiSaid for “Sycorax and the Anatomies of Old Age,” given at the @BSA_Conference, Surrey, England (UK), July 2021!
Full citation ➡️ themrds.org/award/2022-johns…
We're excited to be seeing our membership in just a half hour as part of the annual business meeting of the MRDS!
If you've registered for the virtual @KzooICMS conference, you can access the meeting through the web log-in page: icms.confex.com/icms/2022am/…
#ICMS2022
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📯Have you published a book or article on early drama #medieval or #renaissance this year? Submit to one of our prizes!
🔸Due: 30 Jan
🔸Details: themrds.org/awards
Questions? Contact @solberg_maggie (esolberg [at] bowdoin [dot] edu)
#earlymodern #medievaltwitter #theatre
The David Bevington Award is for the best new book in early drama studies (exclusive of Shakespeare & edited collections) published within the last eighteen months. Winners receive $500 USD as well as a 2-year membership to @TheMRDS & @ROMARDmrds.
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Join us! Today at 1:45 EST is the @themrds virtual panel, 'Race in Early Performance', featuring:
✨ @matthieuchapman
✨ @MarGalarrita
✨ @patrickaaron89
✨ Mariah Min
For details & login: mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meet…
#mla2022 #mla22 #s286v #raceb4race #shakerace #medievaltwitter
So many congratulations to our @ROMARDmrds team and all of their contributors on their new issue out today!
scholarworks.wmich.edu/romar…
#medievaltwitter #earlymoderntwitter #theatre #earlytheatre
📯 #CFP! The South Center Renaissance Conference is open for submissions! Welcome are individual & special session proposals on all aspects of Ren studies.
🔸Due 15 Dec '21
🔸Event 3–5 Mar '22
SCRC is hosting the QE I Society, @MarvellSociety, & Society for Ren Art History.
Call for applications: Helen Ann Mins Robbins Dissertation Fellowship in Medieval Studies from @UofR: library.rochester.edu/spaces….
▶️ Open to "women and gender minorities with dissertation projects in any field of medieval studies"
▶️ Due 15 Jan 2022
#medievaltwitter #dissertation
Got your paper proposal in for @KzooICMS 2022? @TheMRDS is pleased to be sponsoring 3 virtual sessions!
➡️ New Voices in Early Drama Studies
➡️ Teaching Medieval Drama to Today's Students
➡️ Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been?
Details themrds.org/cfp-2022-icms-ka…
Due 15 Sept
📯 We're looking for abstracts of 15-minute papers for our "The Queerness of Early English Drama" panel to be held at @IMC_Leeds next July!
Deadline: 31 July 2021
Details: themrds.org/cfp-queerness-ea…
#cfp #earlymoderntwitter #medievaltwitter
🎉So many congratulations to @callanjd, Mark J. R. Scott, Liz Fox, @JustinPShaw, & Matthew Woodcock!
Early Theatre offers congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Best Essay Prizes from volumes 22 and 23. We also offer thanks to those who adjudicated the prizes. For the full list of winners and honourable mentions see: earlytheatre.org/earlytheatr…
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📯 #CFP! See this exciting call for the second international #Marlowe Festival from our friends at @MarloweMightyLn: themrds.org/cfp-marlowe-fest….
➡️ proposals due 1 Sept
➡️ special focus on "The Massacre at Paris"
➡️ publication opportunities w/ @EtudesEpisteme +
#earlymoderntwitter
📯 See this exciting #CFP for @IMC_Leeds, "The Queerness of Early English Drama," sponsored by @TheMRDS!
🔸Details: themrds.org/cfp-queerness-ea…
🔸Due: 31 July
🔸Submission: @jeffgstoyanoff
#earlymoderntwitter #medievaltwitter #QueerStudies #TransStudies
So looking forward to the @ldn_shakespeare -sponsored staged reading of Richard Brome's "The Northern Lass" on June 1! Book your free ticket here: ticketsource.co.uk/ridinglig….
#earlymoderntwitter #Shakespeare
📯Our friends at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (PNRS) are getting ready for their 2022 annual conference and they want you! See the #CFP 🔻🔻🔻
#earlymoderntwitter #medievaltwitter
📯This October, a super-troupe collab featuring
🔸@TraceLarkhall
🔹@BeyondShakes
🔸@Edwards_Boys
🔹@SRSRenSoc
will be performing devices from the 1621 #LordMayorsShow!!!
Need to know more? Want to participate?
➡️themrds.org/news/1621-lord-m…
#earlymoderntwitter #medievaltwitter
📯 Do you have an informal idea for a session on early performance at upcoming meetings of @MLAnews, @KzooICMS, or @IMC_Leeds? Let us know! All languages, regions, & cultural traditions welcome.
Submit to our form until 5PM CST today!
#medievaltwitter #earlymoderntwitter
And a final bit of #MRDSBiz2021. Do you have an idea for a future MRDS-sponsored conference session? Weren't able to make the business meeting to volunteer that idea?
Do let us know! Submit your ideas using this quick online form: forms.gle/nhGa752X26Dq9bvg8.
#MRDSBiz21 #Kzoo2021
Can't believe #Kzoo2021 is over? Beat those post-conference blues w/the spring edition of our newsletter, curated & crafted by @GerardNecastro!
✅conference #CFP, sessions & opportunities
✅recent publications on early drama
✅call for award nominations
issuu.com/mrdsociety/docs/20…
Please do join us in an hour for this exciting session! #Kzoo2021
Friday at 5PM EDT check out @fnapolitano1 (@radfordu)'s session, "Concepts & Practices of Performance in Medieval Euro Culture," featuring
📍Jessica Brantley (@Yale)
📍@kyle_a_thomas (@MissouriState)
📍@DrClareWright (@UniKent)
#Kzoo2021
