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The Society for Reformation Research (SRR) is now accepting proposals for SRR-sponsored sessions at the 2024 annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society (SCS), October 31-November 2, 2024 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.
The SRR invites individual papers and complete sessions (panels, roundtables, or workshops) on any theme related to the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and all other aspects of religious life and theology in the early modern era. In line with our mission to support instruction of Reformation themes in other courses, we also solicit papers with a primary focus on teaching.
For the 2024 meeting, the SRR marks the 500th anniversary of the Peasants’ War by sponsoring panels and papers on the theme of “Conflict, Religion, & Reform.” Specifically, the SRR seeks papers and panels on all aspects of that upheaval, as well as contemporaneous and subsequent social conflicts, as they pertained to religious observance and movements to reform religion. More broadly, the SRR invites panels that explore the nexus between conflict, conflict-resolution, religion, and reform in all early modern settings, throughout Europe and beyond.
Topics may include, but are not limited to
- The origins, course, immediate consequences, and long-term legacies of the Peasants’ War
- The Peasants’ War in early modern memory and modern historiography
- Theology and reform as ideologies of social resistance, urban or agrarian
- Social grievance and religious change
- Liturgy and ritual as sites of contestation and modes of communication
- Urban-rural conflict and communication in processes of reform
- Intersections between confessional division, gender, ethnicity, and social conflict
- Religion, conflict, and reform in high politics throughout the early modern world
- The settlement of social and religious conflict in the early modern world
If you would like to submit a paper, panel, workshop, roundtable for sponsorship by the SRR or need additional information, please contact the SRR program chair: David M. Luebke (dluebke@uoregon.edu). The deadline for submission (via email) of paper and panel proposals to the SRR program chair is 22 April 2024.
Paper proposals should include:
- Paper Title
- Abstract (250 words maximum)
- Presenter’s name, affiliation, and email address
- Presenter’s biography or brief CV (3-4 sentences, maximum 150 words, including rank and most important publications or evidence of scholarship)
- Whether audiovisual equipment is needed and what kind
- Whether you have submitted a paper to the SCSC previously
- Whether you need official confirmation of paper acceptance
- Whether you wish to have your paper considered for the Mayer prize
- Panel, roundtable, or workshop title
- Abstract of the panel, roundtable, or workshop (300 words maximum)
- Any additional affiliate society / sponsor beyond the SRR
- Organizer’s name, affiliation, and email address
- Chair / commentator’s name, affiliation, and email address
- List of papers / presenters with relevant paper proposals, including all of the above information
Posted March 13, 2024
Students and scholars are invited to apply to attend a Latin Reading Workshop, sponsored by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from July 8-12, 2024. This one-week course, led by Dr. David Noe, aims to help participants grow in their confidence in approaching unfamiliar texts, giving them tools to begin to navigate the strength and beauty of the Latin language, and to gain appreciation for the broad conversation in which the authors of the 16th century are participating. Those accepted to the course and whose place of residence is more than 30 miles outside of Grand Rapids will receive a $500 stipend to help defray costs of travel and accommodation. Application deadline is April 1, 2024. Candidates must have completed four semesters of college-level Latin courses or their equivalent and need to take a Latin placement test to qualify. For more information on applying, and a downloadable application form, please go to https://calvin.edu/centers-institutes/meeter-center/summer-workshops/
Posted March 8, 2024
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