The RSA Boston 2025 Call for Papers submission form is open. RSA members are invited to submit CfPs to organize sessions for our 71st Annual Meeting, being held March 20–22, 2025, in Boston, Massachusetts. The Public Index of Calls for Papers is also available to view. The submission deadline for CfPs is Sunday, June 30, 2024. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

The RSA will hold the conference jointly with the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA). Our two societies will convene at three Boston hotels: the Sheraton Boston (SAA), Marriott Copley Place (RSA), and Westin Copley Place (RSA). All are located close to the Back Bay train station and are interconnected by shopping venues. Each society will organize its own program, but through a shared registration process all delegates will be able to attend sessions and special events hosted by both societies, and there will be a joint book exhibit. We are delighted to be co-conferencing with the SAA; we expect that this will give members of both organizations many opportunities for cross-communication and shared ventures. The Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture at RSA Boston 2025 will be presented by Daniel J. Vitkus, the Rebeca Hickel Chair in Elizabethan Literature at UC San Diego.

We are delighted to announce that our 2028 Annual Meeting will be held in Rome, Italy. The conference will take place April 20–22 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in the heart of Rome. The university is located on the Piazza della Pilotta, next to the Palazzo Colonna and near the Trevi Fountain. More details about our Rome conference can be found on the RSA website.

Congratulations to our 2024–2025 grant recipients for member public engagement projects in Renaissance studies! With generous support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, six grants in the amount of $5,000 have been awarded and will be carried out between May 2024 and May 2025. The projects funded in this initiative spotlight some of the many ways in which RSA members engage in public outreach, and provide a fertile ground for developing new avenues of communication about a period that resonates with many in the public at large.

Submissions are open for innovative teaching projects in Renaissance studies by RSA members who are high school teachers. Two grants will be awarded this year, each of approximately $2,500 plus travel expenses to the RSA conference. Please click on this link to access the application and view additional information. Submissions are due Monday, June 17, 2024, and the winners will be announced in July.

Please take a look at the RSA calendar highlighting important upcoming dates and deadlines, and view the details of the RSA’s conferences through 2028.

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