An intersectional, inclusive, and explicitly interdisciplinary colloquium exploring the nexus of law, language, gender, and power in the making of the early modern world.

A workshop aimed at helping PGRs and ECRs to develop articles for publication. This in-person session will provide participants with detailed feedback on their writing, specific guidance on navigating the relevant peer-review process, as well as the opportunity to discuss their work and ideas in a collegiate environment.

Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 26 April

Join us for a panel discussion on conceptualisations of ‘the poor’ in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with Dr. Anna Plassart (Open University), Dr. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird (University of Portsmouth) and Dr. Niall O’Flaherty (King’s College London). Chaired by Dr. Robin Mills (St Andrews).

We are delighted to welcome Urvashi Chakravarty to King’s College London on March 28th for a programme of events reflecting on her award-winning book Fictions of Consent.

Join us for a roundtable discussion on Prof. Francisco Bethencourt’s forthcoming monograph, Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite (Penn, 2024).

Speakers: Prof. Miri Rubin (Queen Mary), Prof. Regina Grafe (Cambridge), and Prof. Catia Antunes (Leiden); Chair: Prof. Toby Green (King’s)

A new reading group exploring siege narratives as a mode of early modern writing. Co-organised by Dr Emily Rowe and Dr Eli Cumings.

“History’s Hollow Men: Manufacturing Blackness in Love’s Labour’s Lost”.

Ian Smith is Professor of English at the University of Southern California and current President of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Elisabeth Giselbrecht (Music), Lucy Munro (English), and Hannah Murphy (History) speak about their ongoing research projects over coffee and cake.

Coffee, cake, and a discussion of Caroline Dodds Pennock's On Savage Shores (Orion, 2023). The first in a new series of lunchtime reading group sessions.

A symposium reflecting on Imtiaz Habib’s foundational Black Lives in the English Archives. Presentations followed by tours of the ‘Unforgotten Lives’ Exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archives.

A workshop aimed at helping late-stage PGRs and ECRs to develop articles for publication. Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 17 February 2023.

A day's colloquium to think about feminism as both a practice and an object of early modern history, and history more broadly.

An informal workshop for the environmentally-curious reflecting on Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature as well as the role of the early modern in periodising the Anthropocene.

Join us on Zoom to hear provocations, thoughts, and discussion from an interdisciplinary panel on just what it is that constitutes a research community. ECRs particularly encouraged to attend.

A one-day workshop bringing together archivists, librarians, curators and historians, exploring London's links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Join us at King's as we celebrate Laura Gowing's extraordinary recent book, Ingenious Trade, with drinks and a discussion of women's work in seventeenth-century London.

Our first PGR workshop of 22/23 brings together a panel of current PhD students to discuss what they’ve learnt about the process of starting a PhD.

Online, via Zoom (registration link in event listing).

Faculty, PGRs, and MA students are warmly invited to join us in the River Room as we kick-off the winter term with lunchtime presentations from new colleagues in early modern studies.

The second in our series of workshops aimed at helping late-stage PGRs and ECRs to develop academic articles for publication.

“Buried ‘Without Care’: Social Death, Discarded Lives, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”.

Marisa J. Fuentes is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History; and Presidential Term Chair in African American History, 2017-2022, at Rutgers University.

An interdisciplinary colloquium exploring the multilingual sites and spaces of early modern London.

A workshop exploring the practicalities and craft of collaboration. How best can humanities scholars collaborate with scientists and other research partners across disciplines?

Projects presenting include: Renaissance Goo; Odeuropa; Refashioning the Renaissance; The Making and Knowing Project; and Box Office Bears.

A one-day conference featuring new work by early career scholars, as well as keynotes from Nicholas R. Jones and Surekha Davies. Hosted in collaboration with ‘Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720’.

A public symposium with Jennifer Morgan, Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.

A celebration of Marguerite de Navarre and the publication of Emily Butterworth’s new critical introduction to her work.

The third event in our professional development series for early career researchers, in collaboration with the London Shakespeare Centre.

This workshop will explore some of the various postdoctoral opportunities available to ECRs and offer insights into how to identify and apply for these.

The second event in our professional development series for early career researchers, in collaboration with the London Shakespeare Centre.

This online workshop will introduce attendees to specific digital tools, as well as discussing strategies for conducting archival research at a distance.

The first event in our professional development series for early career researchers, in collaboration with the London Shakespeare Centre.

This online workshop will discuss topics related to publication plans, including putting together a book proposal and the practicalities of turning a PhD dissertation into a monograph.

An open discussion of the relationship between the civic and intimate spheres of life. The second event in the ‘Public Sphere’ series.

The second event in our closed network that connects academic researchers with archivists, librarians and curators across private and cultural sectors to explore work on institutional links with the historical slave trade.