The recipients of the RSA awards and prizes for 2023–24 have been announced. We hope you will join us in honoring these scholars at the RSA Chicago 2024 Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m.

More than 2,000 scholars from across the globe will be coming to Chicago next month for the largest international conference devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Please join us at our 70th Annual Meeting being held March 21–23, 2024, at the Palmer House Hilton. The program can be viewed here and the conference app for your phone is now available for download.

In addition to the more than 500 conference sessions at RSA Chicago 2024, we are pleased to offer an in-person workshop on High Renaissance Dance, a welcome reception for graduate student presenters, and a discount on admission to the Art Institute of Chicago. Attendees can also enjoy a lecture and performance by the Newberry Consort and a demonstration of Renaissance swordplay by Gregory D. Mele of Forteza. The 2024 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture will be delivered by Joan-Pau Rubiés, ICREA Research Professor in the Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

There is still time to register, and RSA members who are students, independent scholars, adjunct instructors, part-time instructors, unemployed non-students, and retired scholars are invited to use promotional code REDUCEDREG during checkout to register for the conference at the reduced rate of $145. More information about registration rates and conference details can be found on our website. If you aren’t a current RSA member but would like to come to the Annual Meeting, please view our dues rates page for membership details.

Please email our staff with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

RSA members are invited to attend an online Library Showcase on Thursday, February 22, 2024. Staff from libraries with holdings of interest to early modern researchers will present on their collections. This webinar will showcase resources at the Harry Ransom Center, the Warburg Institute, and the Newberry Library.

Please join us online Thursday, March 7, 2024, for Working with Special Collections and Archives. This webinar will highlight opportunities and challenges from the perspective of researchers engaging with historical texts and materials.

A position on the RSA Board of Directors and another on the RSA Nominating Committee will become available in July 2024:

• Chair, Associate Organizations and International Cooperation, Board of Directors
• At-Large Member of RSA Nominating Committee.

To learn more about these opportunities and to make nominations, RSA members are invited to complete this form. The deadline for nominations is Monday, March 4, 2024.

The editors of Renaissance Quarterly are seeking submissions for a special issue organized around specific themes of interest. Please submit your proposal by Friday, March 1, 2024. Additional information and submission details can be found on this webpage.

The deadline for grant proposals for member public engagement projects in Renaissance studies is Tuesday, March 26, 2024. With generous support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, these six grants in the amount of $5,000 will be carried out between May 2024 and May 2025. The projects funded by this initiative will spotlight some of the many ways in which RSA members engage in public outreach, and these projects will provide a fertile ground for developing new avenues of communication about a period that resonates with many in the public at large.

Please take a look at the RSA calendar highlighting important upcoming dates and deadlines, and view the details of the RSA’s conferences through 2027.

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