Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Feeling nervous about submitting my thesis, I need only remember Drayton's response to the poor reception of Poly-O's first part: 'instead of that comfort, which my noble friends (from the freedome of their Spirits) proposed as my due, I have met with barbarous Ignorance, and base Detraction' (!)

MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026 rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Finally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️

Come hear me talk about the grammar of weather in husbandry manuals!

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Pleased to be speaking at this: #Soil_Imaginaries www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-co...

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

One month to go till registration closes for #ReadingthePractical @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @emjlynajsh.bsky.social! Online attendance is free, in person is free for self-funded/unwaged PGRs and ECRs, and you can register HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Izzy Daltry will be joining us online **today at 1pm** to share her research on water in Antony and Cleopatra! Details below 👇

EMDG is back, this Thursday (26th Feb, 1-2pm)! Izzy Daltry will be joining us from Hull to present a paper on watery emotion in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Izzy's abstract and the link to join online can both be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Forthcoming PG colloquium at the University of Sheffield -- please repost! pgrcolloquiumsheffield2026-ximez.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Looking forward to this conference. Urgent and necessary. www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/dis...

FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

TEN DAYS TO GO!

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Deborah Cartmell and I are pleased to announce a virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare which we're running on behalf of the BSA in February 2026. Details and cfp at www.britishshakespeare.ws/events/

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

EMDG starts up again this Thursday! We've got loads of great papers coming up this term -- details in this thread 👇 and via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026 Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin... #SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@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!

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Publicising this game developed by my wonderful colleague Dr Maisha Wester: 'A narrative-driven social justice game exploring the suppressed histories of anti-Blackness in the US and UK.' codedblack.info It's getting a lot of attention at festivals etc.; reposts appreciated!

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.' This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details! scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

If you're interested in early modern meteorology, barometers, naval battles or fish, then come along to my hybrid lecture (link in comments) @unibern.bsky.social ! 📆 25/03 🕐 18:15 CET @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social

SCEMS Spring 2025 events lineup 👇

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵 Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

Reminder: this ASLE-UKI seminar on soil is coming up this Wednesday! Details below 👇

Reminder: this ASLE-UKI seminar on soil is coming up this Wednesday! Details below 👇

EXCITEMENT!!! OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE! Would you look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate. Have a peak www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #SkyStorians

If you're interested in soil and other earthy matters, feel free to come along to this ASLE-UKI online seminar that I've been involved with organising! 📅 19th Feb, 2-4pm (GMT) Full details and registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-gro...

Is there anyone out there who can shed some light on what 'Jappeens' are in this context (or any context!)? I've been puzzling over this for a couple of days without making any progress.

The last EMDG of 2024 will be held next Thursday lunchtime! Juliet Atkinson (Leeds) is joining us to share her research on border practices in London and Yarmouth, 1606-1640. Full details (inc. the link to join) can be found via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

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...

We are delighted to be joined tomorrow by Prof Bernard Capp (Warwick) for a lecture on ‘The multiple worlds of James Frese: Russia, civil war radicalism, the Fleet prison, and the Millennium.' Full details (including the joining link) can be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

The SCEMS email account is currently inaccessible so we can't advertise events as usual... IT are working on it, but in the meantime, please share tomorrow's online event with anyone who might be interested! Full details here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Saraya Haddad (Shakespeare Institute) is joining us this Thursday afternoon to present her research on the ghostly world of Macbeth and the queering of time. See the attachment for full details 👻

I'm going to be at #RenSoc25! I'm on a Poly-Olbion panel (the best kind of panel?!) speaking about chorographic narrators and ecological thinking 🌱

"I'm also just a cat, sitting next to your books, begging for more biscuits."