Since the outbreak of the pandemic and the closing of the University of Alberta to the public, the Wirth Institute has moved its programs online. These include a curated series of recorded presentations of music composed by central Europeans. Last week, Franz Sabo, the founding director of the Institute and a retired specialist on the …
Dear members and friends of the Federation, On March 18, 2020, we made the difficult decision to cancel Congress 2020 at Western University, and began consulting our members on a proposal to move the event online. Our priority was to protect public health, while giving our scholarly associations an alternative to share their research …
In the past thirty years, several studies have been devoted to the political and cultural flowering of the republic of Genoa during the so-called ‘siglo de los Genoveses’, between 1528 and 1630, when Genoa became the hub of European trade and an important epicenter of artistic and literary production. Yet little attention has been granted …
The Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) is pleased to announce two, new short-term residencies. The annual ACMRS Short-Term Residency will enable scholars who have earned a PhD in a pre-modern field to pursue their research for a period of four to six weeks. The residency is designed to allow scholars to focus on …
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From 1 to 24 February 2020, Dr. Marion Romberg, historian and art historian from the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW-IHB) in Vienna, will be staying at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta. The objective of her prolonged stay is …
Dear Member: We are again circulating the Call for Papers for this year’s CSRS/SCÉR meeting. Due to a disappointing response to last week’s deadline, we have extended the deadline to submit proposals until February 5. Please distribute this message to anyone who might be interested, and consider submitting a proposal yourself (if you have not …
The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society is pleased to announce its 2020 Conference: Please join us for the 2020 Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (PNRS) conference in beautiful Banff, Canada at the Banff Park Lodge in the Rocky Mountains. Conference dates: September 24-27, 2020 Conference theme: Renaissance Landscapes (Space, Place, and Performance) Confirmed Plenaries: Professor Mary Floyd-Wilson, Bowman and …
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Colloque organisé par Roxanne Roydans le cadre du projet de recherche CRSH« Jeux et enjeux de la parole des femmes :l’énonciation féminine en question (XVe-XVIIIe siècles) » Depuis la plus haute Antiquité grecque et latine et à travers tout le Moyen Âge, des représentations théâtrales, des textes dramaturgiques ou hagiographiques, des poèmes lyriques prêtent voix …
The 2020 conference of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance (CSRS/SCÉR) will be hosted by Western University (London, ON) from May 30 to June 1st, as a part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The theme …
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