Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2026 (12/8/2025) - Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2026 Materiality, Material Culture and Materialist Approaches – Ghent, 1-5 June 2026 This Spring School is organised by Ghent University (Doctoral Schools), the University of Groningen, the Huizinga Institute and the Dutch Research… Read more
Women and language in late Renaissance Florence: an analysis of private correspondence by Dr. Eleonora Serra (12/2/2025) - This month GEMS is organising a talk by Dr. Eleonora Serra on women and language in late Renaissance Florence. 11 December 10am Meeting Room 0.1 Simon Stevin Campus Boekentoren, Plateau-Rozier Women’s activity as letter writers in Renaissance Italy has come… Read more
GEMS News and Congrats – December (12/2/2025) - We welcome Dr. Chiara Monaco as new GEMS member. She has started a FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at UGent with her project Codifying vernacular Greek: a historical sociolinguistic approach to native and non-native grammars (16th-18th centuries), and has recently obtained… Read more
Lecture: Roland Greene (Stanford U): Literary Studies After Universalism: A History and a Manifesto (11/20/2025) - Please join us for Prof. Roland Greene's Inaugural Francqui Lecture and the 2025 Belvedere Lecture: New Perspectives on Early Modern Studies. March 4, 2026, at 5pm. Belvedere, Boekentoren, Rozier 9, UGent Greene’s lecture will trace the decline of universalism: the… Read more
Reading Group: Moderata Fonte’s The Worth of Women (1600) (11/14/2025) - Reading Group: Moderata Fonte’s The Worth of Women (1600) (An initiative of GEMS – Group for Early Modern Studies) Every Monday, 5-7 pm, starting 24 November Blandijn, room TBC The Worth of Women by sixteenth-century Venetian author Moderata Fonte is… Read more
GEMS News & Congrats – November (11/14/2025) - Ruben Celani is appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Italian Studies and Zahm Dante Collection Curatorial Fellow at the University of Notre Dame (USA, IN) (2025-26). He also published an article ‘”Come parto imperfetto” : Paratexts and Organization in a… Read more
Call for Papers: Tragedy and Resistance (9/25/2025) - 16-17 April, 2026 Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin Keynote Speakers: Professor Caroline Levine (Cornell University), author of The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis Dr Marco Checchi (Northumbria University), author of The Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition… Read more
Medieval & Early Modern Studies Spring School 2026 (9/17/2025) - Medieval & Early Modern Studies Spring School 2026 Materiality, Material Culture and Materialist Approaches 1 June - 5 June 2026, Ghent, Hotel Den Briel Material studies has, for several decades now, been a flourishing field within the study of the… Read more
Call for Papers: European Association of Urban History Conference (9/1/2025) - The Call for Papers for the European Association of Urban History Conference (Barcelona, September 2-5, 2026) is now open! Julie De Groot (Universiteit Antwerpen), Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University) and Juan Vicente García Marsilla (Universitat de València) are organizing a… Read more
Call for Papers: Cultures of Consumption 1500-1800: Products, Desire and Imagination (6/25/2025) - Cultures of Consumption 1500-1800: Products, Desire and Imagination International Workshop 15 & 16 January 2026 Ghent, Belgium On 15 & 16 January of 2026, an international workshop will be organised in Ghent (Belgium) on cultures of consumption, focusing on the… Read more