Please join us Friday, April 21, as we honor the recipients of the RSA awards and prizes for 2022–23. The ceremony will be held online from noon to 1:00 p.m. Easily convert the time zone. The Awards Ceremony is open to anyone who would like to attend. Please register here. We look forward to seeing you on April 21.

As a new initiative for the journal, Renaissance Quarterly will publish special issues that will appear at least once every three years and no more than once a year. We invite proposals for special issues organized around specific themes of interest to the journal’s readership and the RSA membership. The deadline for submissions is April 30.

There’s never been a better time to donate to the RSA! From now until June 30, your donation will be matched. Please consider making a gift as part of our Spring 2023 Matching Donation campaign.

Submissions are now open for innovative teaching projects in Renaissance studies by RSA members who are high school teachers. Two grants will be awarded this year, each of approximately $2500 plus travel expenses to the RSA conference. Please click on this link to access the application, Submissions are due June 22, and the winners will be announced on July 17.

Thank you to our members from across the globe who joined us in San Juan for the largest international conference devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Approximately 1,400 Renaissance studies scholars participated in the RSA Annual Meeting, and we were delighted to see them in this historic Caribbean city, on the island that the Taínos called Borikén.

Please take a look at the RSA calendar highlighting important upcoming dates and deadlines, and view the details of the RSA’s conferences through 2026.

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