#CfP 📢 "New Research Perspectives on Confraternity Studies: Collective Agency, Space and Materiality", Society for Confraternity Studies at #RSA2027 🗓️ 11–13 March 2027 |🌎 Philadelphia ⏰ Abstract: 24 July 2026 #EarlyModern #Confraternities

#CfP 📢 Interdisciplinary symposium: "Arcangela Tarabotti in Context: Authority, Community, and Resistance in Early Modern Eureope", Johns Hopkins University. 🗓️ 16–17 April 2027 | 🌎Baltimore (USA) ⏰ Deadline: 1 August 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/730095/... #EarlyModern #HistoryofWomen #AngelaTarabotti

📖 #Newbook by EMoDir member Finally available to French readers, Federico Barbierato’s landmark study of religious dissent, libertinism, and unbelief in post-Reformation Venice. 🔗 classiques-garnier.com/evangelistes... #EarlyModern #Inquisition #Venice #ReligiousHistory

📢 Today's the day! The deadline to submit your proposal for the EMoDiR panel at the #RSA Annual Meeting 2027 is today. Don't miss your chance! We can't wait to read your proposals. #EarlyModernHistory

#CfP 📢 7th Conference on "Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference" 📆12-13 November 2026 | 💻Online ⏰ Deadline: 1 August 2026 #EarlyModernHistory #HistoryOfMagic #ReligiousHistory #NorthernEurope

📖 #Newbook by EMoDir member A history of Rome’s Jewish community from 1555 to 1870, tracing life in the ghetto through discrimination, forced conversions, economic hardship, resilience, and the preservation of religious identity. 🔗 www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-... #EarlyModern #JewishHistory

📖 #Newbook curated by EMoDir member A reassessment of the 1587–1589 Ligurian witch trials, placing this major episode of witch-hunting within the wider context of judicial culture, religious belief, and repression in early modern Europe. 🔗 www.viella.it/libro/979125... #EarlyModern #Witchcraft

#CfP 📢 International workshop: "Beyond Bobadilla: Greek Learning and Religion in Early Modern Europe", The Norwegian Institute in Rome 📆 27–28 May 2027 | 🌍Rome ⏰ Deadline: 1 December 2026 🔗 www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english... #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #IntellectualHistory #Hellenism

EMoDiR learned of the tragic passing of Philip Soergel in January. We mourn the loss of a valued member of our community. 🕊️ An obituary and interview reflecting on his life and career as a historian may be found here 🔗 history.umd.edu/news/memoria... 🔗 www.academia.edu/167725319/A_...

🌴Out now EMoDiR's June #Newsletter. Find out about new publications, events, scholarships, fellowships, prizes, and CfPs. Also discover EMoDiR’s #CfP for the 2027 RSA Meeting and the panels of the upcoming EMoDiR workshop (28–29 May 2026). 🔗 www.academia.edu/167715875/EM...

📢 Launch of the digital Atlas In-ITALJA — please share! 🔗 in-italja.org/en/ A new #digitalhumanities platform mapping Jewish mobility and Jewish-Christian relations in Italy from the Middle Ages to 1938. Learn more about the project and the platform at the link above 👆 #JewishHistory #Mobility

📌22 May 2026 Participate, in person or online, in the stimulating Study Day “Voci dai Margini. Donne, Religione, Alterità”! 🏫Università degli Studi di Firenze | 💻Online: meet.google.com/itk-rhaa-hri #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #WomenHistory #LivedReligion See the rich program below 👇

#CfP 📢 The latest EMoDiR american meeting has barely concluded, and we are already excited to announce the theme of our next gathering at #RSA2027! Please circulate widely 🤗 #EarlyModern #ReligiousMinorities #MigrationHistory #ReligiousDissent #Transgression #MobilityStudies @rsaorg.bsky.social

📌12 May 2026 🕞15:00 Don’t miss the presentation of Federico Barbierato’s latest book on libertinism, book circulation, religious dissent, and the Inquisition in 17th-century Venice. 🪑Alessandra Celati and Luca Addante 🏫 Università di Torino | 💻 Online: unito.webex.com/wbxmjs/joins... #EarlyModern

📖 #Newbook curated by EMoDir members This interdisciplinary volume examines free speech and religious expression in early modern Europe, showing how freedom and its limits shaped religious life from the Reformation to the early Enlightenment. 🔗 brill.com/edcollbook/t... #EarlyModern

📌Tuesday, 29 april 2026 🕞11:00 Federico Zuliani will speak about “Donne protestanti italiane nei Grigioni e a Ginevra (1540–1620)" as part of the “Voices from the Margins" seminar series. 🏫 Università di Firenze |💻Online: meet.google.com/OSJEYFM-KQH #EarlyModern #WomenAndReform

❗Today (7 April 2026) The Seminario permanente di Storia della Repubblica di Venezia invites you to a conversation with Piero Brunello and Mario Infelise on writing and talking about history. 🕞 15:40 🏫Università di Verona | 💻 Online: univr.zoom.us/j/88658895932

📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR member Karin Sennefelt, The Word Made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600–1720 (Routledge, 2026). A study of how bodily experience shaped Lutheran religious life and belief in the seventeenth century. 🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad... #EarlyModern #Lutheranism #ReligiousHistory

📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR member Umberto Grassi, What God Kept for Himself (Harvard U. Press, 2025). A study of Inquisition trials revealing the links between sexual nonconformity and religious dissent in Renaissance Italy 🔗 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #HistoryOfSexuality

#CfA 📢 Intensive course on the archives of religious orders “Francescani e Gesuiti dall’Italia al mondo”, Fondazione Camillo Caetani 📆25-29 May 2026 |🌍Rome ⏰Deadline: 25 March 2026 🔗 www.fondazionecamillocaetani.it/bando-corso-... #EarlyModern #CatholicHistory #ReligiousOrders #Archives

📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR members Inquisitions, Iconography, and Memory (13th–19th Century) (Viella, 2025). The volume explores how visual culture shaped the memory and representation of inquisitorial institutions across centuries. 🔗 www.viella.it/libro/979125... #EarlyModern #Inquisition #VisualCulture

📚Recently published EMoDiR member Maria-Cristina Pitassi’s new book, "Bayle et la Bible, ou l’histoire d’un désenchantement (Honoré Champion, 2026)", explores the place of Scripture in Bayle’s thought and role in his critique of Christian theology 🔗 honorechampion.com/fr/editions-... #EarlyModern

🌷Out now EMoDiR’s March Newsletter! Find updates, new publications, events, scholarships, fellowships, prizes, and CfPs. 👀Also preview the panels for EMoDiR’s next workshop, “Indifference: Religious Boundaries in Question (1650–1750)". 🔗 academia.edu/164922444/EM... #EarlyModern #Newletter

CfA 📢 Gaetano Cozzi Price, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche 🏆Two prizes for unpublished essays by young scholars on the history of play, leisure, and sport (antiquity–WWII). ⏰16 March 2026 🔗 fbsr.it/bandi/bando-... #CallForPapers #Prize #HistoryOfSport #LeisureStudies

#CfP 📢"Monde maritime et religion aux époques moderne et contemporaine : des influences réciproques", Institut Catholique de Paris & Centre d’études du Saulchoir 📆 3 June 2026 |🌍Paris ⏰2 March 2026 🔗 calenda.org/1351841?file=1 #ReligiousHistory #MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern

Although EMoDiR’s day on demonology has come to an end 🥲, we’re delighted to share that another RSA panel, organized by Jan Machielsen, takes place tomorrow: "LIVING WITH DEAMONS: EMOTIONS, ENCOUNTERS, EXPERIENCES" ! ⏰ 9:00 👇 #RSA2026 #earlymodern

And now, in our final paper of a packed day here at #RSA2026, Kevin Cochard examines a corpus of french “canards” by cataloguing the various forms of encounters with devils throughout the long seventeenth century.

Jordan Ivie, arguing that early modern attitudes towards demonic familiars are a direct reflection of early modern attitudes towards gender itself. #RSA2026

Up first here at EMoDiR’s final panel at the RSA, Sarah Richman will talk about “Marlowe's Dancing Devils in Doctor Faustus.” #RSA2026

⏰ 16:30 #RSA2026 EMoDiR closes the day with a panel on GENDERED AND STAGED REPRESENTATIONS OF DEAMONS! 🔊 Speakers: Sarah Richman, Jordan Ivie, Kevin Cochard | 🪑Stefano Villani 📍Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Tower 3, 4th floor Will you join us?