Our Annual Meeting will be held entirely online. Registration for the conference provides you access to:
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More than 500 sessions by 1,800 presenters
- More than 2,600 conference participants
- Recordings of all sessions that are viewable for 30 days following the conference
Dates of Note
Graduate Student Social
Monday, April 12 at 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
Students are invited to attend the virtual Student Social and do not need to be RSA members to participate. Click here for details and registration.
RSA Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, April 13 at 4:00 p.m. (EDT)
Join us as we honor the recipients of the RSA awards and prizes for 2021. The Awards Ceremony is open to anyone who would like to attend and conference registration is not required. Please register here for the ceremony and we will send you a Zoom link shortly before the event.
Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture
Wednesday, April 14 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
The Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture will be presented during the conference by Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English at Arizona State University and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS).
The official conference hashtag for our 67th Annual Meeting is #RenSA21. Please take a moment to review our conference policies and email us with any conference-related questions.
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The spring 2021 issue (74.1) of Renaissance Quarterly has been published and is now available online. There is one special review and five featured, open-access book reviews:
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The Star: Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria and His Summer Palace in Prague, review by Andrea Bubenik
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science, review by Mackenzie Cooley
Victory’s Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia, review by Michael J. Sanders
Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601, review by Colin Rose
The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt, review by Chris Stamatakis
Click here to view the open-access featured reviews.
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In the wake of the COVID pandemic, high school teachers around the globe have been searching for and creating new ways to immerse their students in the experience of Renaissance culture. In an effort to recognize and share these innovative teaching methods, the RSA is delighted to announce a new competition for the best online teaching projects in secondary education. The three winners of this competition will each receive an award of $1,000.
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The deadline to apply to become an RSA nominee for a Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship or Seed Grant is next month. Whiting awards $50,000 for fully developed projects and $10,000 for developing new projects. Early-career full- or part-time faculty members at a US institution are eligible. For more information, click here.
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Music in Africa and Its Diffusion in the Early Modern World |
Submissions due 1 May 2021 for this summer 2022 conference being held in Tours, France.
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The Catholic Reformation and the Book |
Submissions due 1 May 2021 for this two-day virtual conference being held September 2021.
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Medieval Cultural Heritage around the Globe: Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now |
Submissions due 15 May 2021 for this in-person and virtual conference being held October 2021.
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Submissions for a special issue of The Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle due 1 June 2021.
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Submissions due 1 July 2021 for this February 2022 conference being held in Padua, Italy.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art (1300-1700) |
Applications are open for this limited, one-year appointment at the University of Alabama. Application review begins 25 April 2021.
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Director, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz |
Nominations are open for a director who will lead a department with a long-term research program in art history or a related field. Nominations due 30 April 2021.
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Upcoming Conferences & Events |
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Gold, Sugar, Tobacco, Rice: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic |
Registration is open for this virtual conference being held 30 April 2021. The event is sponsored by the Center’s interdisciplinary program in Global Early Modern Studies.
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Teaching with the Pulter Project: A Symposium |
Registration is open for three online events being held in April and May that highlight the range of issues emerging when Pulter’s poems—in digital form—join and shape the curriculum.
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Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers |
Registration is open for this two-day online symposium hosted by the Warburg Institute. The virtual event will be held May 2021.
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World Shakespeare Congress: Shakespeare Circuits |
Registration is open for this virtual conference being held July 2021.
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Renaissance Studies
In the News
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"Fire at 16th-Century Mexican Church Prompts Debate Over How to Protect Cultural Heritage"
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"The Decadent Art of Renaissance-Era Sugar Sculptures—and Their Not-So-Sweet History"
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"Russian Artist Mixes Renaissance Beauty With Moscow’s Gritty Reality"
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Follow the RSA on social media. Use the hashtags #RenSA21 for social posts related to the 2021 Annual Meeting and #RenTwitter for Renaissance studies content.
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Volunteers at the Renaissance Society of America dedicate their time and skills to enrich the Society and support the study of the period 1300–1700. There are several opportunities for RSA members to become involved, ranging from serving on committees to becoming a book reviewer to being a guest lecturer online. We hope you will consider volunteering.
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The RSA brings together thousands of scholars from around the globe, welcoming the broad range of activity in Renaissance studies today. Focused on the advancement of learning through our publications, events, and programs, the RSA provides its members with a deeper and broader understanding of the period 1300–1700. There's never been a better time to become an RSA member, as we’ve discounted rates due to the public health crisis. Join the RSA today.
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