Off to a flying start...surprisingly strong attendance for the first sessions in Marsh's Library of #RenSA22 Delegates can also enjoy an exhibition of Renaissance texts consulted here by the author of Gothic materpiece 'Melmoth the Wanderer' (1820).

Listening to We are now Research Ireland postdoc Kevin Tracey’s excellent paper on an astronomical fragment that is much more than that - at the second session of #RenSA2022.

What an end to a busy day at #RenSA2022 Dublin: a roundtable on Global Sanctity in the Counter-Reformation - or perhaps, _instead of_ counter-reformation?

Fascinating session on racialisation, focusing on 16th century German prints - do coloured maps confirm what we might think about perception of skin colour? And what's the role of barber-surgeons and craftsmen in the process? #renSA2022 #RenSA22

Wow, a fully-packed room on the Uses of Greek in the early modern period! #RenSA22 #renSA2022 And very rightly so.

Great session on the education, scientific knowledge and (multi)-lingual competencies of women. #renSA2022 #RenSA22

What a great session on language learning and cultural contact across continents! The language teacher in me is absolutely fascinated by the richness of this tradition. The Renaissance Society of America #RenSA2022 #RenSA22

A fantastic - dare we say frenetic - session on 'Truth and Certainty in Post-Reformation England': how to know what's a legitimate document (and therefore worth collecting), and how to undermine your opponent by suggesting they're are in a 'frenzy'? The Renaissance Society of America #renSA2022 #RenSA22

We run two regular online events for members of the project network. The first is a Latin reading group, convened by our postdoctoral researcher Máté Vince; the second is a monthly colloquium on 'Textuality and Diversity'. Take a look at qmul.ac.uk/textdiveglobal… to find out more!

Very excited about this fantastic event, organised by Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700 🇺🇦 today: research.kent.ac.uk/emcentraleu/ma…. Only the introductions so far, but already seeing lots of connections with TextDiveGlobal.

Kicking off our workshop: Professor Howard Hotson “Networks of Exchange: Old Questions, New Methods”

How exciting to read about (former) colleagues' works on the The Guardian frontpage: theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…! Well done, @CWallaceDublin, Can't wait to browse the @VirtualTreasury at virtualtreasury.ie.

"to use accent as shorthand for someone who is stupid, or whatever trait it is, is offensive. Irish people have faced discrimination for centuries based on their identity, so I’m not surprised this has caused upset.” bit.ly/3LYdmcU Hilariously written and so spot on!

So excited to be at the launch of this excellent book eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-… UCL

Are you a UK academic with opinions on eastern Europe? How about listening first, asks @joanna_rzepa's 'Czesław Miłosz: what the Polish poet tells us about the ‘westsplaining’ of eastern and central Europe' tinyurl.com/m9wpy4u4 via The Conversation. With love to UCU friends!

Heading home a little bereft, hearing the moving tributes today to the great scholar and human being Peter Mack: his beard, his laugh, his great kindness, his love for his family, the joy he shared. We all need to be a little more 'Peter'.

"Where's your accent from?" "Where are you really from?", and my favourite, "Your English is so good!" - all these "well-meaning" forms of "linguistic racism" discussed in Maria Cohut's excellent piece: metro.co.uk/2023/11/22/may….

JOB! Join ERC-TextDiveGlobal, bringing together scholars from around the world to write "Europe in the World" (OUP), the first interdisciplinary literary history of early modern Europe and its global connections. Amazing team, exciting project: tinyurl.com/textdiveglobal….