More of Jo Carpenter's PR sorcery - this time, securing a blog on the Gramophone website, with pictures of the #nuntastic archival stuff... www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...

Curious about Jewish communities in early modern Venice? From Monday, Oct. 6, at the State Archive of Venice, Renata Segre leads a 5-week cycle on sixteenth-century manuscripts about Jewish communities. 🔗 Learn more: www.stmoderna.it/it/eventi/

📣New on Stmoderna! Call for Applications: Winter School (Florence, 13–16 Nov 2025) on the Protestant Reformation - its political, cultural, and social dimensions, and its legacies in philosophy, literature, music, and the arts. Deadline: 10 Oct 2025 see it at: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

Starting today in Rome, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies: Mapping Dissonant Objects – a three-day workshop organized by Sabina Brevaglieri, Massimo Carlo Giannini, and Lina Scalisi. mapdisob.hypotheses.org

📢 New on StModerna The Istituto Sangalli Prize for Religious History 2025 (11th edition) offers young scholars the chance to publish monographs on religious history (Middle Ages–contemporary) with Firenze University Press. ⏳ Deadline: 1 Nov 2025 www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Two Franciscan friars seen through Japanese eyes from: Kano Naizen's "Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Screen" c. 1600 (Kobe City Museum Collection) Triple-knotted cinctures, bare feet, rosaries, hoods. Nicely observed. And linen shirts under the habit too.

It was a pride and pleasure to contribute to this article for the Science History Institute: Melissa Rossi, "Holy Smoke: The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe" #histmed #medhist www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide. A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades. Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment. → europa.eu/!jcnGgP #ChooseEurope

New on StModerna: the Eleonora Rai Prize Established in memory of Eleonora Rai, it awards PhD theses on themes she worked on: religious, cultural, and gender history, with special attention to violence (early modern to contemporary age). ⏳Deadline: 26 Nov 2025 www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 New Call for Papers on StModerna A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century 📍 University of Oxford 🗓️ 22–23 October 2026 ⏳ Deadline: 31 December 2025 👉 This and many other CfPs await you on StModerna: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

This volume investigates the epistemological dimension and social embedding of resource policies while providing a comprehensive overview of the knowledge layers that underpinned the material and immaterial economy of the early modern period in many fields. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

🎓 Two new PhD opportunities just added on StoriaModerna: 📍 University of Trento – deadline: 26 August 2025 📍 University of Sassari – deadline: 1 September 2025 🔎 Full details here: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...

🏆 New on StModerna: the Paola Bora Prize (2025) An award for unpublished MA and PhD theses on gender studies (including history). Open to theses written in Italian or English. Deadline: 31 October 2025 👉 See this and other awards and calls here: www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 Just published on StModerna: 🌍 5 doctoral scholarships in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples) – deadline: 27 August 2025 🔎 Full details and more here: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati... www.stmoderna.it/it/concorsi/ www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Orange is the colour of the summer 🧡

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

📣 call for applications 📣 Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. Please share widely! www.historyworkshop....

📢 Call for Applications The Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici has published its 2025–2026 fellowship call (15 scholarships available). Deadline: 31 July 2025 More info 👉 www.iiss.it/bando-di-con...

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) memorients.com/events/cfp-b... #CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology