📜 New on Early Modern Hellenism We are pleased to announce the publication of “Zeus the Fool” by Karen Lelittka, a sharp and illuminating examination of Rhodoman’s Ilias parva. Read the full piece here: 🔗 earlymodernhellenism.org/2026/04/01/z...

“From imagination to remains, from remains to imagination: literary representations of ancient Greece in its materiality (14th-19th centuries)”, French School of Athens, February 25-26, 2027. CfP deadline May 15 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/...

📢 CFA - 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History (35 months) within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’ at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Deadline: 8 May 2026. jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs... Please circulate widely!

Periodizing the Early/Modern Annual Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, King’s College London Call for Papers Deadline: 7th April Colloquium: 11th June royalhistsoc.org/calendar/cfp...

I’m very much looking forward to speaking this Wednesday, February 25, at the Early Modern History Workshop at Princeton University. history.princeton.edu/news-events/...

📜 Neo-Latin Call for Papers 📜 Proposals are now being accepted for the 26th annual NeoLatina Conference, to be held in Innsbruck on 24-25 September 2026! See attached flyer for more details and share to fellow Neo-Latinists!

Proofs! My article ‘“That Son of Belial”: William Power and the Milton–Chappell Incident at Christ’s College, Cambridge (Easter Term, 1627)’ will be published later this year in History of Universities.

SNLS Call for Papers! The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek

Eighteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies, with an open theme "Works-in-Progress: New Approaches." The conference will be held in-person at Princeton on Friday, May 1, 2026. hellenic.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment (2026) brill.com/display/titl...

Great to see that my short article, ‘Laurel Berries and the B.A. (Cantab): An Unnoticed Pun in Milton’s Lycidas’, has been published in Notes & Queries! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

Latin Beyond Poetry – Politics, Prose, and Religion. Proposals for papers (6,000–8,000 words) exploring the reception and influence of Latin in Modern Greek texts invited for edited volume Reception of Latin in Modern Greek Literature. Due October 31st 2025. listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

It was a pleasure to present research from my monograph-in-progress, “Advocating Greece’s Liberation in the Seventeenth Century”, at the Hellenism in Early Modern Europe Conference, hosted by the European Union-funded project @greci-eu.bsky.social at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Center in Nicosia.

Issue 11 • 2025 • Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity III jolcel.ugent.be

📆Next week, 22-24 October 👉 Anyone wishing to follow the conference remotely, please email [email protected] to receive the zoom link! #skystorians #earlymodern #classicalreception

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587). the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

Greatly looking forward to presenting at the GrECI Conference in Cyprus!

Delighted to have been elected as an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! @royalhistsoc.org

British Milton Seminar and Andrew Marvell Society via Zoom on Friday 24 October 2025 at 2.00 pm (BST) / 9.00 am (EDT) bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life || 21–23 May 2026 || Hamburg, DE Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.

My article ‘Marshall’s Ignorant Hand’ has been published (open access!) in Milton Quarterly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rare books people! Following some lively & productive discussion at the @livesandletters.bsky.social conference last week, I have a question: how would you describe inscriptions like these?

✨ GrECI Concluding Conference ✨ We are pleased to announce the concluding conference of the GrECI Project, “Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity” 📍 Nicosia, Cyprus (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation) 📅 22–24 October 2025 @nconstantinidou.bsky.social @ucy1.bsky.social

7 Neo-Latin PhD positions at Innsbruck and Freiburg: Ancient Greek and Neo-Latin; Oral Neo-Latin; Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin; Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers; Catholic Inculturation(s); Canones of Neo-Latin Texts; The Nachleben of Neo-Latin Literature. listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Looking forward to returning to my alma mater for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference next week!

Born #OTD 1514, John Cheke, MP for Bletchingley in 1547 and 1553. As sometime tutor to Edward VI, Cheke enjoyed great prestige during the king’s reign, becoming a secretary of state just a month before Edward’s death. Read Cheke's biography here 👉 ow.ly/RWPh50zXSdn

New Ancient Greek Literatures: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies (8–10 July 2026) ianls.com/wp-content/u...

Recently out in HR: @nicolegreenspan.bsky.social on how news in Cromwellian England about the 1655 massacre of Waldenses by Savoyard troops in Piedmont was composed, circulated, & altered as well as its impact & the methods of informal & public diplomacy employed academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

5th June 2025 Balliol College, Oxford “Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean” www.themedievalacademyblog.org/transmitting...

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts! #earlymodern #history

📣 New open access publication on early modern student notes, in which Leuven features quite prominently, as it has a long tradition of research in this source type (e.g. Magister Dixit, DaLeT). An extra surplus is that it has appeared in the year of KU Leuven's sexcentenary.

My new article, "Wild Horses," is now out in Annals of Science! It argues that the Manchu conquest of China—as presented to Europeans by the Jesuit Martino Martini—shaped dialectical theories of the rise and fall of empires, and of the role of horses therein 🐎 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us on April 24 for a lively discussion of how teaching Spenser can solve the crisis of attention in the classroom! Or at least distract us from other crises. Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

‘Milton’s Diodatian Poetics’ in the latest issue of Milton Studies is now accessible on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl...

28 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...

My article ‘Milton’s Diodatian Poetics’ has been published in the latest issue of Milton Studies. Check it out! #rsa2025 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/milton-...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

The LAGOOS team (www.lagoos.org) is delighted to announce the publication of the first volume of K. B. Hase’s “secret” diary on the @transkribus.bsky.social edition platform: app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos. The edition is #open-access. 1/4

📢 Call for Papers! The GrECI Concluding Conference will take place on 22-24 October 2025 in Nicosia, Cyprus, exploring the cultural legacy of Ancient Greece in early modern Europe. 🗓 Submit your abstract (250 words) by 1 April 2025. 💡 Some travel funding available [1/2]