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
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