I'm so excited to see this special issue out and about with DOIs (with a little Poly-O essay from me)! Thank you to @fairbanc.bsky.social and Catherine Jenkinson for being excellent editors

God grant me the confidence of a man who hasn't done as well as he thought he would.

Feeling nervous about submitting my thesis, I need only remember Drayton's response to the poor reception of Poly-O's first part: 'instead of that comfort, which my noble friends (from the freedome of their Spirits) proposed as my due, I have met with barbarous Ignorance, and base Detraction' (!)

MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026

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📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣

@fairbanc.bsky.social

We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free.

Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Finally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️

Come hear me talk about the grammar of weather in husbandry manuals!

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣

@fairbanc.bsky.social

We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free.

Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Finding Common Ground: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Soil This two-day symposium is part of a series of events exploring current soil-focussed research from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

Pleased to be speaking at this:

#Soil_Imaginaries

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Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield.
Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
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One month to go till registration closes for #ReadingthePractical @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @emjlynajsh.bsky.social!

Online attendance is free, in person is free for self-funded/unwaged PGRs and ECRs, and you can register HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Izzy Daltry will be joining us online **today at 1pm** to share her research on water in Antony and Cleopatra! Details below 👇

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EMDG is back, this Thursday (26th Feb, 1-2pm)!

Izzy Daltry will be joining us from Hull to present a paper on watery emotion in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

Izzy's abstract and the link to join online can both be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Call for Papers – Open Now! Constructing Identities, Postgraduate Colloquium 2026 Organisation: University of Sheffield. Deadline for Submission: Monday 30th March 2026.  Conference Date: Monday 15th June 2026. Conference Ven…

Forthcoming PG colloquium at the University of Sheffield -- please repost!

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Looking forward to this conference. Urgent and necessary. www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/dis...

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FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social!

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Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!

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TEN DAYS TO GO!

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

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One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP

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Deborah Cartmell and I are pleased to announce a virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare which we're running on behalf of the BSA in February 2026. Details and cfp at
www.britishshakespeare.ws/events/

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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
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EMDG starts up again this Thursday!

We've got loads of great papers coming up this term -- details in this thread 👇 and via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

Call for Papers This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markham’s The English Husbandman were ‘almost literally read to pieces’, Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ‘led the market’ as ‘a Tudor best-seller’, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusser’s work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an ‘agrarian book of jingles’ or ‘collection of doggerel’. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledge’s Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter. Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

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Publicising this game developed by my wonderful colleague Dr Maisha Wester:
'A narrative-driven social justice game exploring the suppressed histories of anti-Blackness in the US and UK.'
codedblack.info
It's getting a lot of attention at festivals etc.; reposts appreciated!

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
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