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  • MARS Students Learn from Medieval Texts

    Friday, March 04, 2022 | By

    Students in MARS/ENGL 4P01 Sources and Methods of Medieval and Renaissance Studies got up close and personal with source material on Monday, Feb. 28. The class, taught by Associate Professor Leah Knight, joined David Sharron, Head of Archives and Special Collections, for a special viewing in the Rankin Family Pavilion of the Archives’ oldest items, including a 14th-century psalm from a church reader, the 13th-century Clopton Charter, a 1579 letter of King James VI of Scotland, and John Gerard’s herbal encyclopedia from 1597. Here, Sharron shows students an image of Niagara Falls from the 1698 book A new discovery of a vast country in America by Louis Hennepin. While some of the items have been brought to classes before, this was the first time all these materials have been collectively presented to students outside of Archives and Special Collections.

  • New Course Offering – MARS 3Q63 Africans in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic

    Thursday, March 03, 2022 | By

    For more information, contact Professor Felipe Ruan

  • Free online event – The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food

    Friday, February 04, 2022 | By

    The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University will host its “Popular Culture and the Deep Past” hybrid event on Friday-Saturday, February 11-12, 2022 (http://go.osu.edu/pcdp2022 ). The theme for the upcoming event is “The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food.” This event will feature a scholarly conference nested within a Renaissance-faire-like carnival (featuring tasting sessions, recipes transcription, book fair, commedia dell’arte, falconry, and activities of all kinds).

    We would greatly appreciate it if you would forward the save-the-date announcement below to your unit’s mailing list(s) as we hope the hybrid event will be of interest to a number of your faculty and students, and is free and open to all.

    Please check here for full schedule and registration info.

  • Free Online Event – Indigenous Slavery’s Archive and the Disappearance of the Past

    Wednesday, January 05, 2022 | By

     

    REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED ON EVENTBRITE TO RECEIVE LINK BEFORE EVENT.

  • Holiday Wishes from all of us in MARS

    Thursday, December 16, 2021 | By

  • CALL FOR PAPERS – 2022 Conference of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies

    Wednesday, December 08, 2021 | By

    Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies

    The 2022 conference of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance (CSRS/SCÉR) will be held online from May 12 to May 14, as a part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The theme for this year’s Congress is “Transitions.”

    We are happy to announce that our plenary speakers will be Dennis Austin Britton (University of British Columbia) and Hélène Cazes (University of Victoria).

    The CSRS/SCÉR invites members to submit proposals that address the 2022 Congress theme in relation to the Renaissance and/or early modern period (approximately 1400-1700).  What aspects of the transitional period of the Renaissance seem especially germane to our current moment of transition?  Topics here might include race before race; environment and climate; the global Renaissance; early modern contact zones; travel and migration; religious conflict and reconciliation; the public sphere and forms of publicity; the histories of crime and sin, including the regulation or policing of conduct; early modern epistemologies; utopian and dystopian writing; aristocratic privileges and responsibilities; queer sexualities; and the status of women.

    In addition, we welcome proposals on any topic relevant to this period in a full range of disciplines, such as art history, bibliography, book history, cultural studies, digital humanities, history, literature, rhetoric, medicine, music, or philosophy. Trans/Multi/Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. Proposals can be submitted in either English or French, and can fall into one of the following categories:

    1. an individual paper proposal (maximum 300 words);
    2. a panel of three or four proposed papers that address a defined theme (to be submitted in one file listing the names and institutional affiliations of the organizer(s), chair, and participants, the title of the session, a brief description (of 100 to 300 words) of the theme, and 300-word abstracts of each of the three proposed papers);
    3. a roundtable discussion (to be submitted in one file including the names and institutional affiliations of the organizer(s), chair, and 4-6 speakers, the title of the session, and a 300-word paragraph outlining the focus and goals of the session).
    4. a workshop, naming the leaders and describing the goals and the methods to be employed (maximum 300 words).

    We also welcome proposals for alternative forms of intellectual exchange, consistent with the possibilities and subject to the limitations of an online meeting. 

    Please submit your proposals together with a brief (100-word) bio for each participant indicating presenter or speaker’s name, institutional affiliation, position (graduate student, faculty member, independent scholar, etc.) and full contact information no later than 31 January 2022 to Program Co-chair Elizabeth Sauer at esauer@brocku.ca.

    Please note: acceptance of successful submissions will be sent out by the end of February 2022.

     

     

  • Professor Elizabeth Sauer named VP of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies

    Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | By

    Professor Sauer has been named vice president of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies.

    Founded in 1976, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies is dedicated to encouraging multidisciplinary studies in the Renaissance by students and established scholars in both official languages.

    Fondée en 1976, la Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance a pour vocation d’encourager les études multidisciplinaires sur la Renaissance dans les deux langues officielles auprès des étudiants et des chercheurs.

    The Society sponsors the bilingual scholarly journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, a thrice-yearly News with information for members, and organizes an annual meeting as part of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities.

    Click here for more information, and watch our posts later in the Fall for the CFP for the next meeting of the CSRS at Congress.  This is a great opportunity for students to submit their work and present.

  • Leah Knight presenting a virtual workshop entitled “reinspire my dormant dust”

    Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | By

    Leah Knight will present a workshop entitled “reinspire my dormant dust”: An Editing Collaboratory with The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making at the invitation of The Western Early Modern Society, Western University, Friday, October 22, 2:30 to 4:00 PM; all are welcome.

    To join this Zoom session, please contact M. J. Kidnie: mjkidnie@uwo.ca.

  • Renee-Claude Breitenstein named Associate Editor of Renaissance and Reformation

    Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | By

    Renee-Claude Breitenstein, one of the MARS Advisory Committee members and incoming Director of MARS, has been named Associate Editor (Book Review Editor) of Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme.

    Renaissance and Reformation is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, bilingual quarterly. The journal publishes articles and book reviews on all aspects of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern world: literature, geography, history, religion, art, music, society, and economics. Articles on related periods of history are also considered.

    Click on this link for more information on Renaissance and Reformation.

     

  • Signed and Sealed: The Rise of the Charter in Medieval Scotland

    Thursday, October 07, 2021 | By

    The Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies is thrilled to share with you an exciting online event and exhibit launch that will feature our valuable medieval Scottish land charter collection planned for November 6th.

    Registration is now open on Eventbrite and early registration is encouraged. The event is free and open to the public.

    Those interested in attending can click on the link provided below for full event details and to register.

    We look forward to you joining us!

    https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/signed-and-sealed-the-rise-of-the-charter-in-medieval-scotland-tickets-174360586207

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