📣 Appeal to all! Have a new book, CFP, fellowship, or event to share? Let us know by the end of February to feature it in our March Newsletter! ✉️ Write to: [email protected] #EarlyModern #Newsletter

☃️🥃Can you picture yourself in slippers by the fire, a whisky in one hand and a captivating book in the other this holiday season? We bet it’ll be one of EMoDiR members’ monographs from our 2025 publication retrospective (Part 4). #EarlyModern #NewPublications #ReligiousHistory

🌟Still deciding on your New Year’s resolution?🥂 Get inspired by the audacious lives of Early Modern women featured in EMoDiR’s 2025 retrospective of members’ publications (part 3). 💁‍♀️ #EarlyModern #NewPublications #ReligiousHistory #BookInspiration #HolidayReading

🎄Want to impress beyond small talk this holiday season? Dive into EMoDiR’s 2025 retrospective of members’ publications (part 2) to upgrade your dinner conversations. 🥂 #EarlyModern #NewPublications #ReligiousHistory #BookInspiration #HolidayReading

🎄 Looking for inspiration for Christmas gifts or holiday reading? 🎅 🌟Discover our retrospective of EMoDiR members’ publications from 2025! 🌟(Part 1) #EarlyModern #NewPublications #ReligiousHistory #BookInspiration #HolidayReading

📣 Coming soon 📆 17 Feb 2026 Umberto Grassi, What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance Italy (Harvard University Press, 2026) ✨A landmark study of sexual nonconformity and religious dissent in Renaissance Italy. 📚Add to your reading list!

❄️Out now! EMoDiR’s December 2025 Newsletter. Find out about new publications, events, scholarships, fellowships, prizes, and CfPs. ❗️Also featured: EMoDiR panels at the 2026 RSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco (19–21 Feb). #Newsletter #EarlyModern 🔗 www.academia.edu/145355151/EM...

Enjoy this rich issue with lots of opportunities, CFPs, CFAs, events, publications and more! We are pleased to welcome Gabrielle Hamelin to the @emodir.bsky.social team as the new social media manager, and thank @tntwining.bsky.social Twining for his generous service.

I’m delighted to share that I’ve joined the Sabato Morais Transcription Project @upenn.edu as part of my internship for the JTS/AJL Graduate Certificate in Hebraica & Judaica Librarianship. Shout out to Paula Breger, Marjorie Lehman, @mmargolis.bsky.social, Naomi Steinberger & Aaron Taub!

We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

📚 Thrilled to share that my review of Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague (Penn Press, 2022) is out in the latest Renaissance Quarterly! A powerful study of how Italian Jewish communities responded to the 1630–32 plague—researched during COVID-19.

Deadline extended until August 3!!! #RenSA26 #earlymodern #skystorians #academicsky #16thC #17thC #18thC #nuntastic #reformazing #monkabulous

Just a few days left to apply!!! #RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #religion #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

I'm delighted to announce that my article "The Curious Case of the Jew Who Married a Buffalo: An Alleged Blood Libel in Hamburg (1687)" has been published in Cromohs 27 (2024): 76-95! The full issue is digitized and available here: oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/cr... #earlymodern #skystorians

📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity 🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław 🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality ⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifte...

🎤Pour célébrer les travaux de l’historien et résistant Marc Bloch, une première journée d’étude du cycle de conférences et tables-rondes "Actualité de Marc Bloch" est organisée. 📅 Jeudi 3 juillet 🕘 De 9 h à 18 h 📍 Centre Panthéon – Salle 6 En savoir plus sur le programme 👉 swll.to/CS8mj

🚨 Last two days to send us your proposals ! 👇

🚨 CFP 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹 Conference "Forced Mobilities and the Making of Knowledge about the World in 16th-Century Naples, Rome, and Venice" 📍 Paris-Aubervilliers | 🗓️ March 3–6, 2025 🔗 CFP (deadline: July 1): ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co... #CFP #EarlyModern #Venice #Naples #Rome #skystorians #academicsky #16thC

Sympathy for the devil in the early modern period? 😈 Submit your proposal for the next @rsaorg.bsky.social meeting in San Francisco! #RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

Sympathy for the devil in the early modern period? 😈 Submit your proposal for the next @rsaorg.bsky.social meeting in San Francisco! #RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

After more than five years of service, I'm stepping down from my editor role at H-Judaic. It's time to pass the torch to someone else. If you wish to nominate yourself or someone else, please be in touch with Jonathan Sarna. #academicsky #JewishStudies networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

📢 Coming up on June 26–27 at Goethe University Frankfurt: the @emodir.bsky.social -sponsored conference “Human Diversity and Early Modern Religious Life: (Im)perfection and (Im)purity,” organized by Xenia von Tippelskirch and Karin Sennefelt #earlymodern #16thC #17thC #18thC #skystorians #academia

La 1re JE du cycle "Actualité de Marc Bloch" , consacrée à "Marc Bloch, historien et médiéviste", aura lieu le 3/07/25 au Centre Panthéon de l'université Paris 1 (salle 6). Inscription obligatoire www.pantheonsorbonne.fr/cycle-confer... Diffusion sur SorbonneTV

🚨 Hot off the press: the June 2025 @emodir.bsky.social Newsletter (that I compiled with Francesco Quatrini) is out and packed with updated on new #publications, #CFPs, #fellowships, and more! 📩 Don’t miss it! #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern #16thC #17thC #18thC

I am extremely humbled and grateful for having been nominated as a Member of the Seminar in Modern Italian Studies at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social! 🇮🇹 Looking forward to new discussions next year and to enjoying Columbia Libraries' privileges!!! 📚😍 #research #academia #skystorians #italy

Please spread the word widely! ##RenTwitter #skystorians #EarlyModern #reformazing #nuntastic #monkabuluos

We're kicking things off here with @martinamampieri.bsky.social introducing the day's events and the EMoDiR network: emodir.hypotheses.org #EarlyModern

Next week at #RenSA25 in Boston! 🏙️ Special thanks to @emodir.bsky.social representative @stefanovil.bsky.social and our amazing social media manager @tntwining.bsky.social for their hard work! #skystorians #earlymodern #reformazing #nuntastic #monkabuluos #academicsky

Today in person at @upenn.edu and on #Zoom. #EarlyModern #BookHistory #JewishStudies jwst.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

📢📢📢 @emodir.bsky.social March Newsletter is out! Spread the word, share the news in your network! ##earlymodern #reformazing #nuntastic #monkabuluos #skystorians #acdemicsky

H-Judaic is looking for one or more Book Review Editors: networks.h-net.org/group/discus... Please consider nominating yourself or spreading the word with peers! Inquiries and submissions should be sent to Prof. Jonathan D. Sarna at the following email address: [email protected] #academicsky

What's the connection between Shabbetai Zevi, Glikl of Hameln, the parà adumà, and my beloved Hamburg? I dive into some bizarre and fascinating territory in my latest article, accepted by Cromohs in the issue n. 27 (2024): oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/cr... #EarlyModern #BookHistory #c18th

🇬🇧 I'm delighted to take part in this symposium in honour of Angela Groppi (1946-2020), professor of modern history at Sapienza University of Rome, where I studied. Thanks to my friends Michaël Gasperoni and Davide Mano @cnrs.bsky.social for organizing this! #earlymodern #Rome #skystorians

🇫🇷 Je suis très heureuse de participer à ce colloque en l'honneur d'Angela Groppi (1946-2020), professeure d'histoire moderne à l'Université de Rome "Sapienza," où j'ai étudié. "Les juifs de Rome et des États de l’Église" | @ehess-fr.bsky.social, 20-21 February 2025 #earlymodern #Rome #skystorians

Books have been published on every possible subject, but sometimes you still wonder how the author came up with that topic. The work ‘Heads of all fashion’, originally printed in 1642, certainly belongs to that category (R4A8980/2). #tomorrowsresearch #rarebooks

Ma recension du merveilleux livre d' @ipoutrin.bsky.social, Les Convertis du pape, @editionsduseuil.bsky.social, 2023, a été publiée hier par @laviedesidees.bsky.social ! #EarlyModern #skystorians laviedesidees.fr/L-economie-d...

Colloque international "La polémique juive en contexte," organisé par @danielbarbu.bsky.social (@cnrs.bsky.social, Laboratoire d'études sur les monothéismes) et Claire Soussen (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social, Centre Roland Mousnier). 📍@campuscondorcet.bsky.social, Paris-Aubervilliers 🗓️ 10-11 février

Huge congratulations, @tntwining.bsky.social! Hurrah! 🥳

And it's a wrap: the last @emodir.bsky.social newsletter for 2024 is out! Please share it with your colleagues and friends and send us your news before March, so we can include it in the next issue! #academia #earlymodern

My book is now available for pre-order at CUP—where you can also take a look inside: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... This flyer will get you a 20% discount! #earlymodern 🗃️

CfP │ The Courtauld Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland invites porposals for a two-day symposium Tracing Jewish Histories on 19-20 May 2025 Deadline for submissions : February 27, 2025. Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

CfA │ The University College London invites applications for a five-year project on ‘Astronomy, calendar, and related sciences in Near Eastern cultures, third-eighth centuries CE’ (NEAstr) Deadline for applications: November 30, 2024. Details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

CfA │ Junior Curator of Collections at the The Jewish Museum of Belgium (JMB) Deadline for applications: November 30, 2024. Details: ​​https://www.eurojewishstudies.org/positions/junior-curator-of-collections-jewish-museum-of-belgium-jmb-application-deadline-30th-nov-2024/ ​

CfA │ Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History at the Department of History at Queen's University Deadline for applications: January 15, 2025 Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

CfA │ Harry Starr Fellowship for recent Ph.D. recipients working on Jewish mysticism at Harvard University Deadline for applications: December 12, 2024. Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

The 17th Annual Schoenberg Symposium @uofpenn.bsky.social @sims-mss.bsky.social opened last night with a wonderful and entertaining keynote lecture on medieval manuscripts and data sustainability by @lisafdavis.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social. ✨ What a treat! ✨ #BookHistory

The 17th Annual Schoenberg Symposium starts this Thursday evening (EST). Registration remains open through the end of the event. We look forward to seeing you there in person or online! The theme is CIRCULATIONS. Details at the link. (It's FREE) www.library.upenn.edu/events/circu...

Tomorrow 20 November at the Auditorium del Memoriale della Shoah in Milan and online. Conference “Stolen Children, Disputed Children. Forced Baptisms in the Modern and Contemporary Age,” organized by the Italian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem #earlymodern #modern #history

Surprise, surprise! 😮🥳 Look what I found at the Morgan Library & Museum gift shop! My latest chapter on Judeo-Italian manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries, published in the stunning volume "Jewish Languages and Book Culture," eds. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and César Merchán-Hamann: #BookHistory

Tonight at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies @columbiaup.bsky.social #BookHistory #JewishStudies #Italy