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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Reasons to Sing’ was everything I had hoped it would be. Such amazing folks I’m privileged to now know doing such meaningful work.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Deadline for registration has been extended to 4 Sept! Share! Join us! 🎈https://www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/bham-conf

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Deadline for registration is 19 August! www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/bham-conf

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

O Yes. Would any man or woman (or anything) desire forming a panel on the 'Cries of London' (or Les Cris de Paris or Cries di Wherever) for SRS 2027 at the Warburg? Or anything related? Any medium, any time in the EM period. Please tag anyone appropriate! rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As part of Jeffrey Skidmore’s final season with @excathedrachoir.bsky.social, we’re hosting a special concert/research event alongside our Singing & Spirituality conference. Hear some of Jeffrey’s most-loved choral works and take part in a study on audience responses to music. 🎶 bit.ly/beautybham

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

CfP: ‘Reasons to Sing’: Singing, spirituality, and the search for meaning We want this event to be really interdisciplinary - do spread the word. www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/singing if this is too tiny to read.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Looking forward to discussing the ways people thought about the power of music in early modern England with these impressive folk.

Poster for conference on beauty with mountains and QR code. Www.canbeautysavetheworld.com

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

And sometimes I actually get to sing (though I’m only doing the Saturday).

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

We are excited to welcome Distinguished Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks in a virtual talk with Q &A about her new book, Women and the Reformations: A Global History (Yale, 2024). Join us! R/T! 13 NOVEMBER 2024 16:00-17:15 GMT, ONLINE BIT.LY/WIESNER-HANKSCREMS

The Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies at the University of Birmingham is excited to welcome Distinguished Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks in a virtual talk with Q &A about her new book, Women and the Reformations: A Global History (Yale, 2024).

13 NOVEMBER 2024

16:00-17:15 GMT, ONLINE
HTTPS://BIT.LY/WIESNER-HANKSCREMS

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Shaking my fist at past me for booking a flight that required leaving my hotel at 4:30am.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

The last one of the season. ☀️

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Slow off the mark here but happy to finally get my hands on these @ka-butler.bsky.social

Cover of Byrd Studies in the Twenty-first Century book

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

I was recently asked to draw my current research. Here’s what I came up with. The greasy stains are from a particularly delightful Swedish cinnamon bun.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

When you hear music in your mind/imagination, do you also feel it in your body? If so, where?

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

5:15, today bit.ly/CREMSTosh

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

🚨attention all ECRs/students interested in early modern religion, liturgy, music! 🚨 Applications are now open for our bursary scheme to subsidise transport to & from the conference! Email chapelroyalconference@gmail.com to apply. Deadline 1st June. Good luck!

Music and Majesty conference bursary scheme for ECR and students to attend

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Good thing Will Tosh’s talk next week is hybrid as it’s a rail strike day. That said, I’m driving from Oxford if anyone wants to come to Stratford. Have one more seat.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Weelkes, Morley, Tallis, Tomkins

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Rewatching and I honestly can’t tell if Angel is better or worse than I remember it.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

#falala at least someone is getting to sing these days

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Much easier to draw a badger than a unicorn. (Peacham, Graphice, 1612) 🦡🦄🦡🦄🦡🦄

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Come hear Will Tosh from Shakespeare’s Globe - hybrid or IRL! www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/crems

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

🍃CfP: Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds - please share! Keynote speaker 👉🏾 @USC_EMSI’s Prof Peter Mancall. 24-25 June; PG students especially encouraged to submit! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/wp-conte...

CFP for Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds see link for PDF version

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Many eras @ Jesus College Cambridge.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Quite right Amazon. I should hope so.

Amazon advertisement advertising my own Byrd book to me.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Children’s books that have not aged well…

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Hear Prof Richard Wistreich @RCMLondon speak @ShakesInstitute 'Performing Social Relationships: Materiality and Meaning in Images of Collective Music-Making’ - tomorrow, 25/10 at 5:15pm - join in person or on Zoom bit.ly/wistreichCREMS

Crems schedule - google crems Bham for pdf

Wistreich abstract - google crems Bham for pdf

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Thanks to the BA - work on royal chapels, cathedrals and collegiate institutions 1485-1688? Sound/music/worship/space/liturgy + more. We can contribute to speaker accommodation and domestic travel. All career stages welcome!!

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