Conference acceptances for RSA Chicago 2024 have been sent and the program will be available to view on Friday, December 8, 2023. Registration will open in mid-December. Our 70th Annual Meeting will be held at the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago, March 21–23, 2024. Visit our website for conference updates and we hope you will join us at our Annual Meeting!

Renaissance Quarterly welcomes original essays of various lengths, up to a maximum of 15,000 words (including notes, bibliography, and any appendixes), on all fields represented by the Renaissance Society of America. Submissions require a 100-word abstract. Please click here for details.

How well do you really, really, know the Renaissance? Come find out by participating in a pop quiz social event organized by the RSA Graduate Student Advisory Committee. If you are a graduate student or early career scholar interested in getting to know your peers in Renaissance studies, please join us via Zoom on Friday, December 8, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. EST. Easily convert the time zone here. Quiz teams will be formed during the event. Please register for this fun and interactive activity.

All RSA members are invited to use the discount codes “RSAStdnt” or “RSANonStdnt” when registering for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). Sessions will be held June 3–7, 2024 (week 1) and June 10–14, 2024 (week 2), on-campus at the University of Victoria, Canada. Participants may choose to attend one or two weeks of the institute. DHSI 2024 includes over 40 courses, in-person institute lectures, and conference/colloquium events and related gatherings. See the DHSI website for the anticipated course offerings.

Please take a look at the RSA calendar highlighting important upcoming dates and deadlines, and view the details of the RSA’s conferences through 2027.

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“Drink, Lechery, and Fellatio by Snake: Was the Renaissance a Sexually Subversive Love-In?”

The Guardian

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Drawings by Michelangelo? Now, Visitors Can Judge for Themselves.”

NY Times

“Autopsy of a Saint”

JStor Daily

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