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
Call for Papers:Jaarboek Achttiende Eeuw 250 jaar Amerikaanse onafhankelijkheid (6/18/2025) - Themadossier Jaarboek De Achttiende Eeuw 2026: 250 jaar Amerikaanse onafhankelijkheid ‘When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, […]’, zo begint de verklaring waarmee… Read more
Conference: Women in the History of Political Thought (4/7/2025) - 7-9 May 2025 Het Rustpunt Burgstraat 110-16, Ghent More and more exciting research is being produced by scholars of political theory and related fields––such as political science, history, and political philosophy––exploring the contributions of women to the history of political… Read more
Talk: New Research Perspectives on Italian Vernacular Rhetorics of the 16th Century by Dr. Elena Bilancia (4/2/2025) - GEMS is organising a talk by Dr. Elena Bilancia on ‘New Research Perspectives on Italian Vernacular Rhetorics of the 16th Century’. Wednesday 7 May, 2025 5 PM Camelot (Room 3.30, Blandijnberg 2) The development of vernacular rhetorical theory played a… Read more
Talk: Debating Private Censorship and Family Networks from Florence to Flanders: Lodovico Guicciardini’s Letters and the Publication of Francesco Guicciardini’s “Ricordi” by Dr. Jonathan Schiesaro (4/2/2025) - GEMS is organising a talk by Dr. Jonathan Schiesaro on ‘Debating Private Censorship and Family Networks from Florence to Flanders: Lodovico Guicciardini’s Letters and the Publication of Francesco Guicciardini’s "Ricordi"’ Monday 26 May, 2025 5 PM Camelot (Room 3.30, Blandijnberg… Read more