Dear Colleagues We are delighted to announce the provisory programme of the forthcoming online series “Road to SES Conference Coimbra 2022”. The first session will take place on the 29th April, 2021 (see pdf with abstracts). The Chair of the Society for Emblem Studies, Prof Ingrid Hoepel, and the Director of the Interuniversitary Centre for Camonian Studies, Prof. José Carlos Seabra Pereira, will…

Memorialising Mary: The Monument to Mary Queen of Scots   Many of us who saw Josie Rourke’s recent (2018) film about Mary Queen of Scots, starring Saoise Ronan and Margot Roberts, will remember that scene, quite late in the film, where the two Queens meet at some undisclosed location in the north of England. At…

Dublin, 7–10 April 2021  The Discipline of Emblem Studies invites papers and panels for its sessions at the annual meeting (which may be on site or virtual). We may submit up to four panels. We invite papers and panels on any subject appropriate to our discipline and especially welcome those that address the following:  –…

Dear Colleague Considering the current circumstances caused by the spread of Covid-19, the Organizing Committee of the 12th Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies decided to postpone the meeting. It will take place in Coimbra, from June 28 to 3 July 2021. We have issued a general certificate stating that the Conference will be postponed (please see…

Dear Colleagues Due to the situation caused by the spread of COVID 19, we cannot know at this time if the 12th International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies will take place as scheduled.  We sincerely hope to maintain the original schedule, and we plan to issue a final decision by May 15, according to the circumstances. The…

Call for Papers The „Under Fortuna” is a cellar in a house adjoining the once principal square in the city of Lublin (Poland). The sources for the frescoes covering its walls and vault have only been discovered recently. The recent study did not answer the pending questions. On the contrary. New perspectives have been opened…

Dear colleagues, As many of you know, the Sociedad Española de Emblemática is affiliated to the Society for Emblem Studies, and they have held conferences together in the past. Both societies have been working to strengthen their scientific collaboration. Their next conference (XII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Emblemática) will take place on 2-4 December…

Dear members, We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the Society for Emblem Studies 12th International Conference, that will be held at the University of Coimbra, between 22-27 June 2020. Extended deadline: 15 November 2019. Please circulate! Download: CfP-SES12Coimbra2020

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) – SES-sponsored Sessions The SCSC invites proposals for individual presentation submissions and complete panels for its 2019 annual conference. As an affiliated society, the SES will sponsor sessions on all aspects of emblem studies. Please send your proposal (up to 250 words) by April 5 to the session…

Emblem Sessions at Kalamazoo54th International Congress on Medieval StudiesMay 9-12, 2019 The Society for Emblem Studies invites proposals for emblem sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Congress is an annual gathering of over 3,000 scholars interested in Medieval Studies. It features over 600 sessions of…