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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're delighted to be hosting a seminar next Monday with Dr. Amrita Dhar. Her talk is titled 'Shakespeare's Postcolonial Journeys'. Join us if you can! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/shake...

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Shakespeare's Postcolonial Journeys with Dr. Amrita Dhar — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for a talk by Dr. Amrita Dhar on Shakespeare and postcolonialism. Lunch provided!

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PSA: Don’t ridicule your students on social media. Even anonymously. Even if you think their behavior is ridiculous. It’s at best unseemly, and at worse, downright unethical.

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven't worked with skins yet but i'm working on a book on speculation which has a chapter on my experimental work with intestines, so i think about process a lot & would be very happy to have a chat about this!

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i mostly work with intestines, but would be very happy to chat about experimenting with these things & how to make meaningful speculations!

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.

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“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”

On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you could sign up for this to ask me about funny ties or doing things with things, or talk to any of the other mentors about more serious stuff!

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can anyone point me in the direct of nice images of early modern female scribes at work?

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The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to be a GQEM mentee? Our academic/career mentorship festival is launching next Monday! This is a fantastic, and free opportunity to be mentored by some brilliant early modernists. ✨ Sign-up here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reminder that our job market support group starts next Friday! ✨ Click here to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i'm teaching a summer school seminar on 'climate fictions' (v broadly) this week and it has been SHOCKING to (re)watch The Day After Tomorrow and An Inconvenient Truth for this, truly feels like stuff from a different era

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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Join us in #Atlanta for 'Oceanic Risk in the Early Modern World' at the next @saaupdates.bsky.social conference. Our seminar examines how seafaring informs early modern conceptions of risk, while also exploring how models of mind were shaped by the hazards associated with oceanic travel. #shax2027

A ship approaching a rock jutting from the sea. Jacques Callot, 'Ship Navigating Near Rocks', 1628 (National Gallery of Art).

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

a little thing about my practice-as-research production of Fulgens and Lucrece last term: www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/perform...

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Performing Fulgens and Lucrece at St Hilda's College | St Hilda's College Oxford

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Bailey Sincox’s “Much Ado, Anyone But You, and Adapting the “Merry War”: An Interview with Screenwriter Ilana Wolpert”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998118

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Working on and with fragments is always an excitement and privilege, but as a scholar who sometimes writes about drama, identifying one of these fragments as derived from a fifteenth-century secular play text has been particularly thrilling.

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Medieval Guernsey reading habits revealed in hidden manuscripts

Archivists discover 17 manuscript fragments from medieval times were repurposed as book covers.

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Diﬀerence in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of diﬀerence.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

now in press! 📖 the contributions to this collection are brilliant and a little bit weird (compliment!) & i can’t wait for it to be out in the world. forthcoming 2027… ✨

the table of contents of a collections called SHAKESPEARE AND TEXTUAL FAILURE printed on white computer paper. full text here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/utntr2lzaby23fzfjqhlo/TOC-shakespeare-and-textual-failure.pdf?rlkey=cog3pis71494adnioh3o0h6el&st=m5axwkxt&dl=0

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Little reminder that Internet Archive still has all of the old STC films up. Not well searchable (though no worse than Ebsco?) but search early English books, then narrow by year and by author you should be able to turn it up. And unlike the ancient scanning tech EEBO used, these are modern scans.

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is giving quite Vérard-y vibes, but wonder if anyone can help further...maybe @lankian.bsky.social? I'm not convinced there is a direct print source, but the grotesques especially feel like a response to French incunables/post-incunables. Source: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/922b...

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The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Want to be a GQEM mentor? You can sign-up to do so here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Want to be a mentee? Stay tuned 👀

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

📣 CFP: we’re doing a themed issue of SQ on *King Lear*! Abstracts due Nov 8. Details at this link: academic.oup.com/sq/pages/sha...

Banner headline announcement (text only): Shakespeare Quarterly announces call for papers King Lear issue

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Four baselines for academic conference attendance: 1) keep to your allocated speaking time. 2) everyone is clever; stand out by being warm & kind. 3) be interested in everyone equally - from postgrad to Prof to conference administrator to catering & hotel staff. 4) in Q&A, ask an actual question.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#CfP: "George Gascoigne at 450", 19-20 March 2027, Binghamton, NY, USA. Abstracts by 1 October 2026. rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians #EarlyModenEvents

George Gascoigne at 450

Date: 19 March 2027 – 20 March 2027

Deadline: 1 October 2026

Location: Binghamton, NY, USA

Visit website → https://gascoigneat450.org/

When George Gascoigne died in 1577, he had achieved a number of literary “firsts:” the first prose comedy in English (The Supposes), the first English adaptation of a Greek tragedy (Jocasta), one of the first English sonnet sequences, one of the first print collected works of a living author (A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres), the first treatise on English prosody (Certain Notes of Instruction), and what some called the first English novel (The Adventures of Master F.J.). Yet Gascoigne was nearly forgotten until 1869, when Hazlitt released his two-volume Complete Poems. For much of the twentieth century Gascoigne’s critical reception was mixed: by turns scion of C.S. Lewis’s “Drab Age” or progenitor of Lyly, Sidney, and Shakespeare. “George Gascoigne at 450” takes as its premise rising interest in Gascoigne in the twenty-first century. In recent years scholars have viewed Gascoigne’s varied corpus from the vantage points of classical reception and novel theory, the Inns of Court and the humanist grammar school, book history and queer studies. This one-day symposium will bring together scholars from around the world to assess Gascoigne’s legacy 450 years on.

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

'gascoigne security risk' could be something. the cfp is also here: shakespeareassociation.org/george-gasco...

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George Gascoigne at 450 – Shakespeare Association of America

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this will be THE event of the 2027 conference season! abstracts due 1 Oct. gascoigneat450.org

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CFP

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

maybe Gillian Woods' recent "A Lion, an Ass, a Dog and a Wall: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Ecological Theatricality" in the 2025 Shakespeare Survey

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Any ideas for great undergraduate-friendly scholarly readings to be paired with Midsummer Night’s Dream on an introduction to the major course? (So a course not terribly historicist in general bent…) Also welcome ideas for fun theory readings that can stand alone to get prospective majors excited?!

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Big ask: does anyone have plans to be in Paris or Florence? I’m keen to see any notary marks in Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Palatino latino 69 and/or Paris, BnF NAF 6591…

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Had a fantastic time today at the @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on 'Periodizing the Early/Modern' saying (among other things) weird stuff about how periodization is like this artwork: www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

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‘Spatial Concept ‘Waiting’‘, Lucio Fontana, 1960 | Tate

‘Spatial Concept ‘Waiting’‘, Lucio Fontana, 1960 on display at Tate Modern.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

paperbacks! 📚🖤

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

it's one of my all time favourite apps, especially when traveling!

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

six weeks later and this is READY! one more rehearsal tomorrow just for fun & then even more fun on saturday!

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

ISLE, a leading journal in the environmental humanities, is seeking 2 Associate Editors to begin on July 1, 2026. Read the call for applications (deadline June 15) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

you know I think the best way to think about cases like this is that your research must be extremely relevant if it gets people so worked up

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Annual CEMS Colloquium - 11th June! This year's theme is 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Featuring three panels and a roundtable. Join us on 11th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

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Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

if someone gives me a lot of money i will do a "very experimental" live camera stuff etc production of Fulgens and Lucrece entirely in the style of The Bachelor (no one will fund this, no one should)

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this photo is 80% of a very nice bookcover already!

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

my only shakespeare hot take is that romeo and juliet would be a much better play if juliet didn't die in the end & that trying to figure out how that could work (theatrically) actually shows us some extremely interesting things about the play (so a hot take and a dare!)

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Paradox Paradox, CO

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English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Spring = Sprung, and the new issue of ELR is out. A bouquet of work by Justin Kuhn, Wendy Wall, Yaacov Bronstein, @ellierycroft.bsky.social, and Andreas Bassett. From Middleton, to Pulter, to Milton, to Walking and Masculinity, to Title Page Conventions. A truly ELR issue of ELR. Go read!

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

whole foods should normally have it

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

tazo english breakfast is acceptable imo

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is a big one - one of my favourite journals publishing one of the first major outputs of my walking research. In the article 'Walking and Performances of Elite Masculinity' I establish a model for how the collective walking of men negotiates early modern gender politics. A big day! Link below

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Elite Masculinity and Early Modern Performances of Walking | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 56, No 2

Abstract This essay explores the surprising importance of walking to the production of early modern masculine identity, demonstrating that pedestrianism was a culturally significant performance that w...

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

i have so many thoughts about this building but what i still find most striking is that it has an architectural logic of exclusion that feels distinctively american – and that in oxford, a city fundamentally shaped by colleges cultivating their very own kind of architectural exclusion

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Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discreetly in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

excited/nervous/excited about starting rehearsal for fulgens and lucrece today (also literally a dream come true)

Poster for the play fulgens and lucrece, to be performed on 6 June, 5.30pm, at St Hilda's College, Oxford

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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