Early Modern History and Period Studies

In October 2021, a conference aiming to examine the economic impacts of a divorce on (former) spouses from a historical perspective was held at the Department of History at the University of Vienna.

FOUR EVA SCHLER FELLOWSHIPS AT MAP – 2022-23

Thanks to the generous gift from Joan A. McClure and Michael L. Schler, in honor of Michael’s late mother Eva Schler, the Medici Archive Project is offering four short-term fellowships for graduate and pre-doctoral students of any nationality working on any field related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history).

German Historical Institute Warsaw

24–25 November 2022

The Central European History Society (CEHS) is pleased to solicit nominations for the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize. This annual prize honors the best monograph in Central European history published in English by a permanent resident of North America. This year’s award is restricted to books with an imprint of 2021. Central European history is understood to include all German-speaking countries as well as areas previously included within the Habsburg monarchy.

Renaissance Skin: A two-day conference to celebrate the Renaissance Skin project

Taking place in person at the Council Room at King's College London's Strand Campus.

With papers from (in order of appearance):

In connection with the publication of History, Politics, Law: Thinking through the International (Cambridge University Press, 2021), the editors (Annabel Brett (Cambridge), Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) and

For an edited volume Becoming Ottoman. Converts, Renegades and Identity in Early Modern and Modern Context which has been accepted for publication by I.B. Tauris we are seeking additional contributions on the early modern period (16th-18th centuries).

We are inviting papers that pertain in any way to the archaeology of labor and migration in port cities for a symposium during the Society of Historical Archaeology's Annual meeting in 2023, to take place in Lisbon, Portugal. The symposium is temporally and regionally broad, and any interested scholars and students are encouraged to submit directly through the SHA website or to reach out to the organizers and inquire further. 

Save Venice’s recent conservation campaigns focusing on Carpaccio’s paintings for the Scuola di Sant’Orsola and the Scuola Dalmata, as well as on Veronese’s theatrical paintings in the Church of San Sebastiano and Tintoretto’s dramatic ceiling paintings in the Palazzo Ducale have called attention to Venetian approaches to (and changing tastes in) pictorial narrative.