3-month “Vittore Branca” residential scholarships for interdisciplinary projects  ​The Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture offers three residential scholarships to researchers wishing to spend a study period in Venice between May 2017 and May 2018. Each scholarship is worth 6,250 euros and is aimed at​ PhDs and​ post-doctorate students who must…

[In French and English, below] Appel à candidatures Bourses Zivi de l’Académie de Stanislas – Soutien à la participation au 11e Congrès de la Society for Emblem Studies. L’Académie de Stanislas (Nancy) souhaite soutenir la participation de jeunes chercheurs au prochain congrès international de la Society for Emblem Studies qui se tiendra à Nancy du 3 au 7…

Dear Lila, dear friends and colleagues of Dan, It is with immense sadness that we learned that Daniel Russell, our dear friend, mentor, colleague, and founding member of the “Society for Emblem Studies”, has died after his long illness. Ever generous with his time and insights, we have all been profoundly influenced by his scholarship…

Alciato’s emblem “In eum qui truculentia suorum perierit”.  Delphinem invitum me in littora compulit aestus   Exemplum infido quanta pericla mari.Nam si nec propriis Neptunus parcit alumnis,   Quis tutos homines navibus esse putet?  [I am a dolphin whom the tide drove ashore against my will, an example showing what great dangers there are in the treacherous sea. For if…

The Eleventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies will take place in Nancy (France) from Monday 3 July to Friday 7 July, 2017. The conference will devote itself to the entire spectrum of emblem studies. Papers on all aspects of emblematics are welcome. Please submit proposals before 1 October 2016 (please notice that the deadline has been extended)….

  Elogia Mariana by A. C. Redelius: What is the story behind this book?[1]   I became interested in A. C. Redelius’ Elogia Mariana (1732) seven years ago, when a professor on my faculty suggested the iconographic analysis of its engravings as a possible topic for a project.[2] At that time, I had no idea…

The Journal of the Northern Renaissance is seeking new recruits to its editorial team. Established in 2009, JNR is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to the study of both the cultural productions and the concept of the Northern Renaissance. As several members of the current editorial team will be either moving on or taking…