We hope to see you at the RSA Annual Member Meeting on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. The meeting will be held via Zoom at 12:00 p.m. (EDT). Easily convert the time zone. A week prior to the meeting, RSA members will receive the meeting agenda and a ballot that will allow members to cast their votes online. Register here to attend.

Please join us on Thursday, June 12, 2025, for our Graduate Student Lightning Talks, “The RenAIssance.” Attendees will gain insight into the complex relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Renaissance studies. The webinar will be held via Zoom at 12:00 p.m. (EDT). Easily convert the time zone. Learn more and register here.

Submissions are 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 $3,000 plus travel expenses to the RSA conference. Please click on this link to access the application form and view additional information. Submissions are due Monday, June 30, 2025, and the winners will be announced in July.

The RSA San Francisco 2026 Call for Papers submission form is open. RSA members are invited to submit CfPs to organize sessions for our 72nd Annual Meeting being held February 19–21, 2026, in San Francisco, California. The Public Index of Calls for Papers is also available to view. The submission deadline for complete sessions and individual papers is August 15, 2025. Find more details about the Annual Meeting on the conference homepage.

The RSA will award two book prizes to members during 2025–2026: the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for the Best Book in Renaissance Studies and a new prize for a first book, published between July 2024 and the end of June 2025. We encourage authors to contact their publishers to ask them to submit their books for consideration. Publishers should write to rsa@rsa.org for information about when the competition will open in summer 2025 and how to submit books. The winners will be announced in February 2026.

If you are working in an archive this summer, be sure to enter our Instagram photo contest to win a free RSA membership for a year! From May 1 to August 31, 2025, the RSA is holding a photo contest to highlight the archives (broadly defined). Please visit this webpage for more information.

RSA members are invited to watch the recording of the webinar “Dancing through Europe: Late 16th – early 17th century.” The webinar was held earlier this month and the recording will be available to view through Sunday, June 15, 2025.

Sign in to the RSA website and click here to view the webinar.

Please take a look at the RSA calendar highlighting important upcoming dates and deadlines, and view the details of the RSA’s conferences through 2029.

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“Discover the Renaissance Origins and Mystical Evolution of Tarot Cards”

Smithsonian Magazine

“The Hidden Hand of Medieval Female Scribes”

Phys.org

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Centre Daily Times

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