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Kenzie Scott
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She/Her | 25 | Adaptation, Self-Ideation, and Reception in Renaissance Literature | Friends with Too Many Medievalists | Durham University PhD Candidate | Oxford MSt Graduate | Fire Truck O’Toys Founder | Computer Science Minor
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🎺 HEAR YE, HEAR YE! 🎺
We are proud to announce the official MEMSA seminar series term card for this autumn!

Make sure to put the dates in your calendar so you don't miss our amazing speakers! We can't wait to see you there!
Mondays 6pm at 7 Owengate Monday 13 October Isaiah Silvers (Durham University) Auxilios: "Reform" and "Aid" in the Hospital Institutions of New Spain, c. 1730-1770 Monday 27 October Lottie Thompson (Durham University) Medieval Durham and the Ancient World: Lawrence of Durham’s Dialogi and Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics. Monday 24 November Alastair Forbes (Independent Scholar) The Vision of Boso and Moral Soundscapes in Simeon of Durham's Libellus de exordio Monday 10 November Ido Kons (University of Cambridge) Manuscript Transmission and the Spread of Learning in Late Anglo-Saxon England, c.950-1066 Monday 8 December Eugenia Vorobeva (University of Oxford) Devil in the Detail: Language and Laughter in the Passio Domini Homily
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Wishing y'all a productive week #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
March 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
kccasper.bsky.social
Pssst, I've been quiet on social media, but I'm one of the conference coordinators for this year's MEMSA conference! 👀 Applications for speakers are open through the end of April, and we have some great keynotes heading our way; come join us! #renaissance #earlymodern #medieval #medievalsky
durhammemsa.bsky.social Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social · Feb 19
MEMSA is thrilled to announce that the CfP for our 19th Annual Conference is now open!

The theme is 'Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic'

Please see below for the full CfP

The deadline is the 30th April!
The medieval and early modern world was marked by a desire to understand the world and humanity's place in it. Whether through religious experiences, scientific experimentation, magical ritualism, or many other means, the people of the time sought to explore the natural world and their place within it. To apply, please submit a short abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a brief biographical statement and sent this to memsa.conference@durham.ac.uk
March 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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durhammemsa.bsky.social
MEMSA is thrilled to announce that the CfP for our 19th Annual Conference is now open!

The theme is 'Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic'

Please see below for the full CfP

The deadline is the 30th April!
The medieval and early modern world was marked by a desire to understand the world and humanity's place in it. Whether through religious experiences, scientific experimentation, magical ritualism, or many other means, the people of the time sought to explore the natural world and their place within it. To apply, please submit a short abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a brief biographical statement and sent this to memsa.conference@durham.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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nialloddy.bsky.social
Absolutely! It’s important to consider the ethics of AI just as much as any benefits/problems etc.
lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Jan 9
This is just one article about the environmental impact of AI systems… and just one reason for my very strong feelings that no, we should NOT all be using this and teaching our students how to do so, let alone incorporating it into classes and assignments.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Jan 9
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
January 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
Speaking of our conference: there's no deadline on this, but do follow all participants we've been able to capture thus far. And let us know if you're joining us, #EarlyModern #Skystorians! go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

#RenSoc25
January 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
*VERY EXCITING VACANCY*

Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley.

Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...
Renaissance Studies is one of the leading journals in the field of Renaissance studies, with an interdisciplinary emphasis, and a worldwide readership. Established in 1987, Renaissance Studies is published in partnership by the Society for Renaissance Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley). The Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) seeks to appoint an Editor for Renaissance Studies to succeed Professor Kevin Killeen, who retires as Editor in December 2025. It is hoped that the new editor(s) will be able to take over responsibility from 1 January 2026 and serve for a 5-year term until 19 December 2031. Interviews will be held online in February/March 2025. The Editor is responsible for the editorial content of the journal, for obtaining peer reviews of articles submitted, and for the supply of edited copy to Wiley. The Editor works with, and leads, a team consisting of an Associate Editor (whose main responsibility rests with the Special Issues of the journal), Book
November 15, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
Join us in Bristol and especially; join us in these exciting seminars!

Deadline for sign-up is 22 January. You've got some time, but it's closer this side of Christmas... #RenSoc25
srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Dec 14
👀 OUR SEMINAR SIGN-UP IS LIVE!!! We've six scintillating seminars happening at #RenSoc25! To find out more & to sign up before 22 January 2025, see: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...

#SRSlyGood Seminars require pre-circulating a paper & participating in perspicacious conversation at the conference!
Society for Renaissance Studies Conference 2025: 'Interconnections', 2-5 July 2025 Phoenix logo above an image depicting the 'North West Prospect of the City of Bristol' in the early modern period.
January 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
Our own conference is in July, but #EarlyModern 'ists are very welcome at this cross-time-period conference about British History Today taking place @qmul.ac.uk 1-2 May.

Deadline: 24 January
qmcbs.bsky.social QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · Nov 22
Quick reminder about our conference, 'British History Today, 1-2 May 2025. Further details will appear on projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Deadline for papers is 24 January 2025. There have been many great ideas for panels, papers and novel formats already
January 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
Sneak preview from Council: 120 panels! ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY *PANELS*! #EarlyModern scholarship alive and kicking.

You’re going to want to join us in Bristol, with all these exciting thinkers gathering.
srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jan 8
Speaking of our conference: there's no deadline on this, but do follow all participants we've been able to capture thus far. And let us know if you're joining us, #EarlyModern #Skystorians! go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

#RenSoc25
January 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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obs1922.bsky.social
Please consider applying to the OBS for a small grant -- up to £500. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Deadline 7 February.

Talk to us!
January 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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cornellupress.bsky.social
You can read these three books FREE for an entire month here: cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/pro...
mahinder.bsky.social Mahinder Kingra @mahinder.bsky.social · Jan 10
Congratulations to our #MLA2025 award winners: Adhaar Noor Desai, Sean Franzel, and Eric Keenaghan & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein. You can find these books and lots more at the @cornellupress.bsky.social stand in the exhibit hall.
January 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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wordsmith.bsky.social
So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages.

www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...
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January 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Some glorious #BooksInBooks for the first #ManuscriptMonday of 2025 📚

@theul.bsky.social Dd.9.18, Dicts of Philosophers, 15th century, England.

@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CuriousCures #CULconservation
January 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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dbsantiuste.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who has signed up for this or helped to spread the word. The course has recruited well so far, but there are still a few places available. #MedievalSky #ScottishHistory
dbsantiuste.bsky.social David Santiuste @dbsantiuste.bsky.social · Jan 2
I'm looking forward to teaching this one-day course on pilgrimage in late medieval Scotland: www.course-bookings.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/courses/HS/h...

It will take place at the Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh, on Saturday 15 March. Booking is open to anyone aged 16+.

#MedievalSky
January 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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'a fascinating read which draws attention to a number of playwrights who deserve to be better known.'

The latest review for SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS @manchesterup.bsky.social.

My heartfelt gratitude to @shinynewbooks.bsky.social

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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers by Darren Freebury-Jones
Reviewed by Harriet, 7 Jan 2025 When I was young, I spent several summers in Stratford-upon-Avon. My parents were working at the theatre there, so I was fortunate to be allowed to sit quietly at th…
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January 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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CFP: Material Scotland, Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference, 15-16 May 2025, University of Edinburgh.

Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR and postgrad particularly welcome. Please share!
December 16, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Speaking of Hamlet … ! 😱 👻
#hamlet #shakespeare #snowman
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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hessephillips.com
I am also stepping down from my panel at the Oxford Literary Festival, which I would have shared with AJ. I've agonized over this decision, but for my own personal safety and my conscience as a trans nonbinary author, I believe this to be the only way forward. 1/3
ajwestauthor.bsky.social AJ West Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social · Jan 7
I have decided to step down from my panel at the Oxford Literary Festival. I hoped to celebrate and share queer stories + highlight the long history of LGBTQ+ lives. Gutted that voices will now be absent, but I stand in solidarity with my trans friends and writers. As the mollies say #AlwaysTogether
January 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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barbarableiman.bsky.social
This is brilliant! Right up my street as a reader, writer and educator, and with such importance for thinking about literary study as engaging with a living tradition.
January 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era
#drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5
December 30, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same.
(See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)
A sample of the automated index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns: APPENDIX: A COMPUTER-GENERATED INDEX acquaintance, familiar, 148 acrostic form, 30 Acrosticks, 147 acrostics, 30 alphabetic, 29 Active indexes, 254 activity, 12, 58 extra-curricular, 97 Addison, 156–57, 186 hauling, 156 skewering, 157 Addison’s Book, 156 Addison’s Grand Tours, 159 Addison’s words, 156 ad hoc verbal guidepost, 255 Adjective Relative, 156 adjustment, small, 105 Adler, 203 Irene, 203 administrative apparatus, 22 admired Christopher Eccleston, 138 affectations, 30 afoot, 144, 217 Africa, 92 After-Burden, 167 afterthought, 96 Againe, 27 Agatha Christie, 39 age, 2–3, 6–7, 9, 137–38, 169–70, 186, 205, 208, 229, 232–33, 251, 254, 256 industrious, 228 old, 12 twenty-first-century, 233 age finding, 6 agent, 213 estate, 76 age of search, 51, 230, 251 age sticking, 185 aggressive coachmen, 162 Agoa, 243 Agrigento, 142 aid, 28, 30, 62, 67, 117, 191 visual, 66 A sample of the first page of the human indexer's index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns. Index Note to the gentle Reader: Page numbers in italic indicate figures. Page numbers in the form 273n1 indicate endnotes. Entries are sorted in letter-by-letter order, except where noted. This index was created by Paula Clarke Bain, who is a professional indexer and a human being. [PCB] A, a, a 77,78,79 abbreviations 38, 40, 72, 78, 79, 242 ABC Murders, The (Christie) 39 abecedaria 28, 29, 35 Abish, Walter, Alphabetical Africa 39 abstracting 4, 245, 248 accuracy 15, 64, 98, 100, 178, 252 acrostics 29, 30, 147, 311 active indexes 254 Addison, Joseph 30, 156–7, 159, 174, 186 loathes acrostics 30 portrait 154 Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 156–7 Spectator indexes 173–7 addresses to reader see introductory notes ‘Adventures of a Quire of Paper’ 171–2, 174 advertisements 42, 101, 176, 183, 186, 214, 249 Aeneid (Virgil) 39, 242, 243 Aesop's Fables 144, 146 agencies, indexing 260, 296–7n22 Age of Distraction 9, 251 Age of Enlightenment 170 Age of Industry 205-6 Age of Search 51, 233, 251 see also search Agoa, Helen S. 243 AI (Artificial Intelligence) 2, 254 aide-mémoire 66, 126 Aitken, Jonathan, goes to jail 137 Akraiphia stones 36 Aldus Manutius, Dictionarium graecum 110 Alexander of Ashby, De artificioso modo predicandi 49 Alexander the Great 30, 93 Alexandria see Library of Alexandria algorithms 100, 233, 251, 258 Alice stories (Carroll) 177–8, 180, 181 alphabet Cyrillic 45–6 Greek 29, 36, 71, 89 Hebrew 29 history of alphabets 28–30 Latin 29
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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anzamems.bsky.social
Exactly how high was submitting a proposal for our #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference on your list of new year's resolutions? Might as well get that one done early. Come join us in Melbourne on 3-5 Dec, just get your proposals in before 14 Feb.

conference.anzamems....
January 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM