The RSA will offer a limited number of competitive, need-based grants to assist scholars presenting a paper at RSA Virtual 2021 with the cost of registration. Presenters of panel papers and seminar papers are eligible; session monitors and discussants in roundtables are not. To be considered for a grant, please submit this application by 19 January 2021.
The size of RSA Virtual 2021 will be similar to our in-person annual meetings of years past, with more than two thousand participants expected to attend. Registration will open later this month. All RSA Virtual 2021 sessions will be recorded and available for registrants to view for 30 days following the conference.
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Save the Date(s): Our Day(s) of Digital Learning will return in 2021. Sessions will be held online March 8–21 and will be free and open to the public. Topics include Working with Data, GIS, Computer Vision, and Text Encoding. Seven workshops will take place, consisting of a one- to two-hour introductory session followed by an interactive tutorial workshop open to a limited number of participants. Pre-registration will be required. More details to be announced soon. |
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We are delighted that John Decker has begun his term as Reviews Editor for Renaissance Quarterly, effective 1 January 2021. As he steps into his new role, John answered a few questions from Renaissance News about what makes a great scholarly book review, the role book reviews can play in supporting social justice, and how he would like to see RQ evolve over the next several years, among other things. Read the article here.
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The first RSA-nominated Whiting Seed Grant recipient takes us inside his winning project as he explores the experience of incarceration as it relates to Shakespeare. RSA Member Jonathan Shelley discusses the importance of public engagement scholarship grants and how he successfully navigated the application process. View the story here.
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Sixteenth International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature and Language |
Submissions due 29 January 2021 for this July 2021 meeting being held at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Early-career researchers and first-time delegates encouraged to apply.
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Re-Conceiving an Ancient Wonder: The Afterlife of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 1500–1850 |
Submissions due 31 January 2021 for this international workshop to be held at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University in June 2021.
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The Ninth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art |
Submissions exploring the environment and ecology in Islamic art and culture due 20 February 2021. This hybrid conference will be held in November 2021 in Doha, Qatar.
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New Directions in the Humanities: Critical Thinking, Soft Skills, and Technology |
Submissions due 30 March 2021 for this blended conference being held over three days this summer in Madrid, Spain.
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Classical Reformations: Beyond Christian Humanism |
Submissions due 16 April 2021 for this September 2021 online conference highlighting how the literature and ideas of the classical world calibrated early modern Christianity.
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Science History Institute Beckman Center Fellowships |
The Center is offering approximately twenty annual fellowships in the historical study of science, technology, and medicine. Applications due 25 January 2021.
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Post-Doc Fellowships at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel 2022 |
Applicants from all historically-oriented disciplines welcome to apply by 31 January 2021. Fellowships are open to researchers who have already received their PhD.
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Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University |
Applicants with teaching and/or research experience in medieval and/or early modern art, architecture, or design from any region of the globe encouraged to apply. Applications due 11 February 2021.
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Meadows Museum Fellowships |
Applications due 15 February 2021 for two graduate fellowships at the museum: the Mellon Curatorial Fellowship and the Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellowship.
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Scholars of Color MA Bursary, Society for Renaissance Studies |
Three bursaries of £2,500 each are available to attract more early career scholars of colour to the Renaissance. Applications due 1 May 2021.
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Take a look at the dates and details of the RSA's Annual Meetings through 2026 and please note the RSA calendar highlighting important upcoming deadlines.
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From managing careers and research in the age of COVID-19 to on- and off-line teaching, we understand how challenging things have become—and the RSA is here to help. There's never been a better time to become an RSA member, as we’ve discounted rates due to the public health crisis. We depend on members like you to sustain Renaissance studies. Providing students and scholars with a deeper and broader understanding of the field has never been more important.
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