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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 8h
The keynote address at this year’s Sixteenth Century Society Conference #SCSC2026 will be given by Alexandra Walsham from the University of Cambridge Friday evening at 6:30 in the Grand Ballroom. Walsham’s talk is entitled "The Reformation of Silence In Early Modern England."
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you STILL haven’t registered for #SCSC2026, what are you waiting for? Come enjoy days of insightful interdisciplinary conversations with colleagues from across the globe. And if you want to join one of the fun excursions, the deadline to register is October 19!!! #SeeYouInChicago
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2026 | Sixteenth Century Society
The Sixteenth Century Society hosts one of the most important annual conferences in early modern studies each year, where senior, junior, and future colleagues of all early modern disciplines meet to…
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the conference's leading role for scholars working on these authors.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, where students of Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and members of the Sidney Circle would gather each year to present and exchange new scholarship. The lecture has moved to SCSC for the first time this year reflecting...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another #SCSC2026 session highlight is "Spenser's Seaons," The Kathleen Williams Lecture, given by David Wilson-Okamura and with comment from William Oram, both eminent Edmund Spenser scholars. Saturday, 5:30-6:30PM The Kathleen Williams Lecture was for decades a mainstay...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Phantasmagoric Fungi: Fungal-Stained Woods, Material Poetics, and Artisanal Knowledge in Sixteenth-Century Intarsia" Brantly Hancock Moore   "World-making: Cellini's Salt Cellar" Beth Holman   "Fertile Mud and Living Blood: Rembrandt and the Natural Philosophy of Creation" Annie Correll
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Consider attending Materials and Making in the Meaning of Art at #SCSC2026. Organized by James Clifton and chaired by Rachel Daphne Weiss. The session will include the following papers:
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Only a few days left to get reduced rates for the Palmer House Hilton for Sixteenth Century Society Conference #SCSC2026. Book by October 6! Link available at the conference website--> sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a range of sources (including hagiographic texts, theater plays, and short stories), it explores how female bodies are situated within sanctity frameworks, how certain bodies affect others, and how attributes associated with excess become meaningful within early modern epistemologies of embodiment.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
destabilizing particular forms of legibility. The panel further attends to the question of mediation, considering how bodies are not only interpreted within institutional structures but are also actively (re)constructed through rhetorical, visual, and narrative practices. Drawing on...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
reveal their own fragility and uncertainty regarding how female bodies are perceived and controlled. Models of the body emerge as aspirational, normative, deviant, and even holy, shaping and challenging expectations around gender, piety, and authority while stabilizing and...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
as meaningful spaces where different regimes of truth were generated, interpreted, and made visible. In this context, the panel examines how efforts to impose meaning onto female bodies contribute to the construction of notions of the “natural.” However these constructions of truth...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the 17th-century Hispanic World, female bodies have been observed, represented, and rendered legible as discursive platforms where knowledge was constantly both produced and contested. Therefore, it asks how bodies come to function not only as objects of representation but also...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Blindness and Regimes of Visibility in María de Zayas’s La inocencia castigada,” Henrry A. Ibáñez “Embodied Legibility and Authority in Calderón’s La cisma de Inglaterra (1627),” Rocío Corral This panel engages the theme of Bodies, Nature, and Knowledge by examining how, throughout...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The Role of the Female Body in the Making of Santa Rosa de Lima’s Sanctity,” Daniela Ruiz “Between Real and Feigned Madness: The Destabilization of Truth in Lope de Vega’s Los locos de Valencia,” Sara Buitrago
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Bodies, Nature, Knowledge Track organizers are excited to announce a thrilling panel at this year’s #SCSC2026! Female Bodies and Regimes of Legibility in the Seventeenth-Century Hispanic World Organizer: Daniela Ruiz Chair: Pablo F. Gómez Papers include...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
from Special Collections into classrooms that focus on early modern topics. This roundtable is important because it offers approaches that can grow one's pedagogy as well as develop alternative ways to engage students with early modern works.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Participants will be: Megan Heffernan, DePaul University Elisa Jones, College of Charleston Nora Epstein, Newberry Library  Here, contributors will discuss approaches to integrating materials...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Come listen to a tremendous pedagogy panel organized by Case Western’s Denna Iammarino! Keeping it Real: Using Special Collections in the Classroom Sponsor: Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies Organizer/Chair: Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#SCSC2026 is only FIVE weeks away! Have you registered yet? sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2...
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2026 | Sixteenth Century Society
The Sixteenth Century Society hosts one of the most important annual conferences in early modern studies each year, where senior, junior, and future colleagues of all early modern disciplines meet to…
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
sure to be useful to anyone researching or teaching in early modern fields.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Session 1 features recent books on historical, religious, or political themes, while Session 2 includes scholarship on literary, art historical, and architectural themes. The authors on these panel give a wide-ranging perspective on new works and directions in early modern studies that is...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Check out the new Lightning Round sessions for new books at #SCSC2026! The two "New Books in Early Modern Studies: Lightning Talks” panels highlight new works in early modern studies, with brief presentations from 25 different authors about their recently published scholarship.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When: Thursday, 5:00–6:30 p.m. Where: On the Mezzanine, west-side tables (above the lobby bar) Free drinks, courtesy of Emory University’s Oxford College All are welcome, whether learning or sharing. Reach out to Sarah with any questions (sarah.higinbotham@emory.edu)
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
take it to the Lockwood Lounge Bar in the main lobby for beer, wine, soda, or water. Bring your drink back to the Mezzanine for collegial conversation about co-authoring.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Are you interested in co-authoring? Or do you have experience and want to share what you’ve learned? Join us at #SCSC2026 for a social sponsored by Emory’s Oxford College titled Co-Authoring: A Social About Social Writing Pick up a drink ticket from Sarah Higinbotham at the Mezzanine, then..
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Artisans and Urban Space: Reconstructing Labor Networks in the 1526 Descriptio Urbis,” Emily K. Hagen “Digital Descriptio Urbis II: Emerging Technologies and Demographic Data Processing,” Frank Lacopo
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Mapping Information Routes, Government Collaboration, and Essential Amenities in Florence,” Jennifer Mara DeSilva “The Costs of Crusading: Mapping Enslavement in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” Heather N. Smith
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another session to consider at #SCSC2026 is Space and Society in Early Modern Italy: From Mapping to Machine Learning, organized by Jennifer Mara DeSilva and chaired by Catherine Kerton-Johnson. Papers will include:
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How to Teach the Reformation: Amy Nelson Burnett and the Protestant Clergy by Paul Strauss. Both sessions are sponsored by @socrefresearch.bsky.social
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The second will celebrate Amy Nelson Burnett. In her honor, you will hear: Debating the Colonies: Print, Authority, and Religion in Early Modern Travel Narratives by Danielle Alesi, Amy Nelson Burnett and the Re-centering of Andreas Karlstadt in Early Reformation Debate by Alyssa Lehr Evans, and...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The first will celebrate Stephen Burnett. In his honor you will hear: The Swiss Christian Hebraists by Eric Lundeen, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Christian Hebraism by G. Sujin Pak, and Luther and the Jews by Dean Phillip Bell.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As we approach #SCSC2026, we will be highlighting some of the sessions on offer at the meeting. Our first highlight are the two Burnetti Boni sessions which celebrate Amy Nelson Burnett and Stephen Burnett for their outstanding contributions to early modern scholarship and the 16CSociety.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seán is a soon-to-be graduate of Binghamton University, SUNY and Joshua is assistant director of the Research and Writing Development Center working with Baylor University's EdD-LOCL.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Noticed an uptick in posts from SCS? That's thanks to the society's new Tech Advisors, Seán Thomas Kane and Joshua Caleb Smith. They serve jointly in the position created at #SCSC2025. You can reach out to them by emailing TechAdvisor@sixteenthcentury.org.
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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This article from The Sixteenth Century Journal examines the historical and philosophical significance of Renaissance literature on space travel. Learn more here: ow.ly/V5s650XR60M. Sixteenth Century Society
The Sixteenth Century Journal
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender is sponsoring a conference session dedicated to the work of ECRs at the upcoming meeting of the @16csociety.bsky.social in Chicago, Oct 29-31, 2026. Submit an abstract of 250 words & a brief bio to Michelle Dowd, mmdowd1@ua.edu, by April 3.
Conference banner, with a colorful medieval drawing of rooftops in the background under a smiling sun. In the center, in black text within a translucent white rectangle, are the conference dates and location.
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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨CFP - Sixteenth Century Society Conference 2026, Chicago Really excited to be organising this panel for SCS 2026 (@16csociety.bsky.social) with my colleague, Andreas Berger (@unibe.ch)! Don't forget to apply! Deadline: 10 April 2026 👇
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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Pleased to see my review of Raphael Magarik's 'Fictions of God' out with the Sixteenth Century Journal. Well worth a read @16csociety.bsky.social
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Fictions of God: English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator. Raphael Magarik. University of Chicago Press, 2025. 264 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978-022684221-9. | The Sixteenth Century Journal: Vol 57, No 3
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
The Lise Meitner Research Group at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome has just issued a CfP around the theme of "Reworking Early Modern Drawings." For further details, please see: recruitment.biblhertz.it/auth/2%3A1%3...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Further details are at: smrs-slu.org
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Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Announcing the CfP for the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies! www.smrs-slu.org/uploads/1/2/...
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Nominations are now open for the Kluge Chairs, the Maguire Chair, the Kislak Chair, and the Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress! www.loc.gov/programs/joh...
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Chairs | Chairs & Fellowships | The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress | Programs | Library of Congress
The Kluge Center welcomes scholars and practitioners at the height of their fields for residencies as chair holders or as distinguished visiting scholars.
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
The new issue of the Sixteenth Century Journal is now available via Chicago Journals! Check out the Table of Contents! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/scj/curr...
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The Sixteenth Century Journal | Vol 55, No 1-2
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
The Preliminary Draft Program *and* Toronto travel information are both now available via the Sixteenth Century website! #SCSC2024 #earlymodern #twitterstorians #interdisciplinary #conference www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference
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Conference — Sixteenth Century Society
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Registration is now open for #SCSC2024!
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Conference — Sixteenth Century Society
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
But of course there isn't a preview... The link is to "Rediscovering Catharina van Hemessen’s Scourging of Christ: Women Artists, Patrons, and Rulers in Renaissance Europe."
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
This looks fantastic!
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Rediscovering Catharina van Hemessen's Scourging of Christ
Catharina van Hemessen, Scourging of Christ, Oil on Wood Panel, 1556, private collection
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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) has extended the deadline for submission of proposals for its Toronto conference to Monday, May 6, 2024.
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Hoping to put together a panel on Catholic religious households for #SCS2024. My paper would look at the generative possibilities of imagining the convent as a household & how the non-religious members of that household transform the use of convent space. Ping me if interested! #earlymodern
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