The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (version 2.0) will take place 3–5 March 2022 in Sarasota, Florida, with plenary presentations by Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, London). The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and…
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About the Workshop Series The travel account left by the Florentine merchant Francesco Carletti (1573-1636) remains a major understudied source for global historians. Between 1594 and 1602, Carletti circumnavigated the world, traveling and trading in West Africa, the Spanish Americas, the Philippines, Japan, China, briefly stopping in Malacca and Ceylon before arriving in Portuguese India…
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Women as Readers in Early Modern Italy edited by Julia L. Hairston and Milena Sabato We are seeking abstracts for a collection of essays on women as readers in early modern Italy. Possible topics include but are not limited to: women’s literacy and education admonitions regarding what women read and/or write types of reading—oral, silent, public,…
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It is with great pleasure and admiration that the SIHS awards the 2021 Distinguished Scholar Citation to Guido Ruggiero. Guido Ruggiero is Professor of History and Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. His incisive analysis and imaginative approach to the history of early modern Italy has spanned…
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It is with great pleasure and esteem that the Society for Italian Historical Studies awards the 2020 Senior Scholar Citation to Mary Gibson. Mary Gibson is Professor Emeritus of History at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her innovative and interdisciplinary work on the intersection of law, gender, criminality, and the state transformed…
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