The deadline for RSA Boston 2025 submissions is August 15, 2024. Details are on the RSA Boston 2025 page and additional submission guidelines can be found on our conferences page. 

We do hope you will join us March 20–22, 2025, at our 71st Annual Meeting. The RSA will hold the conference jointly with the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA). Our two societies will convene at three Boston hotels located close to the Back Bay train station and interconnected by shopping venues: the Sheraton Boston (SAA), Marriott Copley Place (RSA), and Westin Copley Place (RSA).

Submissions to the Annual Meeting can be made by current RSA members. If your membership has lapsed, we’d like to invite you to renew your membership. If you are new to the RSA, please find membership information on this webpage.

As always, please contact the RSA office with any questions.

Our 2025 Research Fellowships Competition is now open. For the 2025 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). Fellowships are made possible by donations and bequests from RSA members, grants from the American Trust for the British Library and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and support from the Virginia Fox Stern Center at Johns Hopkins University. The deadline for applications is September 17, 2024.

Please join us in congratulating the 2024–2025 winners of the grants for innovative teaching projects in Renaissance studies at the high school level:

Stefania Gargioni (France)

“People in Movements: Representing migrations in the early modern Ile de France”

Tucker Million (South Carolina)

“The Historians’ Craft: Villani’s Florence”

To learn more, please visit our webpage.

Nominations are open for the 2025 Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award. This award honors a lifetime of uncompromising devotion to the highest standard of scholarship accompanied by exceptional achievement in Renaissance studies. Submissions are due by September 30, 2024.

Renaissance News will return in September 2024. In the meantime, 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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