Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture with Dr. Emma Smith YouTube video by FolgerLibrary

Did you catch the @folger.edu Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture from Emma Smith this weekend?

www.youtube.com/live/KZV-21r...

Congratulations to our Associate Digital Editor Dr. Dorothy Todd who has been promoted to an associate professorship @tamu.bsky.social! 🙌

CBI's MOSAICS logo, basic information on the MOSAICS Symposium, and list of the members of the Program Committee.

Call for Papers for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-pap...

Thrilled to announce this & to work with Sareeta Amrute, @babintsevak.bsky.social, @anitachan.bsky.social & Gerardo Con Diaz!!

MOSAICS Symposium: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026

#AIstudies #histtech

The first of the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series editions @ardenpublisher.bsky.social will be published this spring. Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg was happy to receive advance copies recently (reflecting his work as an Arden Fourth Series Fellow). We can’t wait to see these editions in the wild.

The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.

This week Dr. Sophie Pitman (Wisconsin) will be visiting the @tamu.bsky.social Early Modern Studies Working Group to lead a workshop about reconstructing early modern textiles and clothing: liberalarts.tamu.edu/glasscock/pi...

ONLINE: Digital Humanities Across the Divide - Computational Linguistics In this session Megan Bushnell (University of Oxford) and Arabella Sinclair (UCL) will present their research in Computational Linguistics.

In this session @meganbushnell.bsky.social (Oxford) and Arabella Sinclair (UCL) will present their research in Computational Linguistics.
30 April 1-2pm on Zoom
We have co-organised the 'Digital Humanities Across the Divide' series with @discoxford.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Applications for the @tamu.bsky.social Libraries’ Book History Workshop are now open! This year’s schedule also features a special lecture by Prof. Jonathan Lamb (Kansas). library.tamu.edu/cushing/prog...

Conference 2026 | Colloque 2026 PROGRAM/PROGRAMME 2026_CSRSSCÉR_ProgramProgrammeDownload REGISTRATION Registration fees are $100.00 for graduate students, retirees, postdocs, and PhDs without full-time employment, and $190.00 fo…

CSRS/SCÉR @csrs-scer.bsky.social final program now available: csrs-scer.com/congress-202.... Join us in Montréal, June 6-8!

plus the annual Kiparsky Seminar: shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be giving a lecture (titled ‘Asiatic Style Revisited’) to Stanford’s cross-disciplinary ‘Renaissances’ group next week: events.stanford.edu/event/renais...

Detail of the provenance mark reading: Catrina Leoners hoort dit bouck toe, die het vindt die doet haer weer om een appel of een peer die het en doet

First page in the manuscript with a decorated letter A in blue and red and border decoration in green and red

Finder’s fee: seasonal fruit.

Early modern provenance mark on the flyleaf in a 16th-century illuminated manuscript: ‘This book belongs to Catrina Leoners. Whoever finds it should return it to her for an apple or a pear…’

#rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 💙📚📜

TODAY!

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

Early modernists! I'm writing about Frost Fairs and keep seeing claims that Elizabeth I played archery on the frozen Thames, but can't find source besides Holinshed who says in 1587 'diuerse of the court being then at Westminster, shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames'. Is there another source?

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be giving the annual Kiparsky Seminar at the Stanford Center for Poetics next week: poetics.stanford.edu/events/kipar...

An #owl perched atop a toppled urn with a Greek inscription - the motto of the Renaissance humanist Lodovico Castelvetro - meaning ‘I have judged’. In his edition of Aristotle’s Poetics, printed at Vienna in 1570. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social since 1715 & now L.11.31.

A reminder that our Associate Technical Editor, Dr. Scott Kleinman (Director of the CSUN Digital Humanities Center) will be visiting us to talk about ‘Modelling Premodern and Early Modern Languages and Literatures’ on Thursday.

More details, including a Zoom link:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

Folks heading home after #shakes2026 might enjoy a podcast I did with @drpetekirwan.bsky.social in November 2025, now online, for the OSU Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. We chat #earlymodern drama, performance, and digital scholarship. cmrs.osu.edu/resources/no...

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI, Part I In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry VI, Part I from Oxford World's Classics.

Last chance to register for this evening's live #Shakespeare webinar with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster.

They will be discussing Henry VI, Part I, followed by a Q&A.

6 April 2026
6 - 7.15pm
Online via Zoom

All welcome! Free but registration required.

#HenryVI #ShakespeareSky

Congratulations to our @tamu.bsky.social colleague Dr. Whitney Sperrazza who has been awarded a Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship which she will be taking up next spring. 🥳

A photograph of a play in performance. Dimly lit, in the middle is a man kneeling; he's wearing old jeans and a dark top, with an outside, realistic donkey head. He's surrounded by people wearing messy dark clothes; they're holding old dolls, some of them with wings.

Titania: make him feel WONDERFUL! #MoonMad
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Bottom (Malcolm Storry) & fairies: Greg Doran's @the-rsc.bsky.social 2005 production used puppets & dolls as well as human actors with lanterns, a gloriously messy, goth, punk fairytale look, des. Stephen Brimson-Lewis.

A good opportunity to hear more from recently minted @tamu.bsky.social PhD @aelagrand.bsky.social about the excellent @pointslikeaman.bsky.social digital project at today’s @saaupdates.bsky.social:

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Here we go! It’s time for our final morning of #Shax2026 panels. Makers, Making, and the Made in Early Modern Theatrical Culture and its Reproductions and Mapping Spatial Habits in Early Modernity are both starting shortly!

Thank you to everyone who participated in and came along to our ‘Variorum Shakespeare’ seminar @saaupdates.bsky.social today, and to our volume editors who joined for a drinks party afterwards. Happy SAA, everyone!

My first experience of convening a seminar at @saaupdates.bsky.social could not have been better. Immense thanks to everyone who contributed to Baz Luhrmann's 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet' at Thirty seminar. Your papers, discussions and questions were all fantastic. #Shax2026

For more details of our @saaupdates.bsky.social seminar, see: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

It’s @saaupdates.bsky.social week!

We’ll be holding a seminar titled ‘Variorum Shakespeare’ on Thursday, 2pm in Mineral D.

All conference attendees are welcome to attend as auditors.

The cover of a book with a black background and a row of different colored and sized book spines along the bottom. The text reads: “Cambridge / Elements / Shakespeare and Text / Editing an Early Modern Play” / Suzanne Gossett and Gordon McMullan”

✨JUST PUBLISHED✨

EDITING AN EARLY MODERN PLAY
by Suzanne Gossett & Gordon McMullan

a long overdue new introduction to the pleasures and challenges of editing early modern drama

free to download until 04.10: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

cc @loughnrv.bsky.social

We are glad to have the NVS’s Associate Technical Editor Dr. Scott Kleinman (Director of the CSUN Center for Digital Humanities) visiting us on 9 April. You can sign up to watch his seminar on Zoom here: tamu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our next seminar is on Wednesday 15 April.

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature

Speaker: Georgina Wilson, University of Oxford
📅 Wednesday 15 April
🕛 5:00pm (for 5:15pm start)
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15

More info, or to sign up via Zoom:
www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...