Conference Registration
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Hotel Accommodations
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Toronto Travel Information
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Future Conferences:
2024 Toronto: 31 Oct - 2 Nov
2025 Portland, OR: 30 Oct - 2 Nov
Toronto 2024 Call for Papers
The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) is pleased to invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, and roundtables for its annual conference, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2024, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Please note that this conference will begin on Thursday morning and end on Saturday evening. The deadline for submissions is Monday, May 6, 2024.
The Sixteenth Century Society promotes a broad range of scholarship on the early modern era (c. 1450-c. 1660). We encourage submissions from international scholars and warmly welcome advanced graduate students, independent and early-career scholars, and postdoctoral researchers.
We invite proposals in the following fields:
Art & Architectural History
Digital Humanities & Pedagogy
English Literature
French Literature
German & Dutch Studies
Global History
History
History of Science & Medicine
Interdisciplinary Studies
Italian Studies
Professional & Career Development
Reformation Studies
Religion & Theology
Spanish, Portuguese, & Latin American Studies
In addition to standard panels with three presenters, the program committee encourages proposals for other types of presentations including but not limited to the following:
Affiliated Society Sponsored Roundtables
General Roundtables and Workshops
Poster and Digital Presentations
The conference will also host lightning talks that will showcase posters and digital presentations in a conference common area afterwards. These lightning talk panels will offer presenters 5-7 minutes (depending on the number of panelists) to share the crux of their current research in either a poster or digital form followed by an exhibit. Those who are interested in contributing to a lightning talk session should submit their proposals as papers to the Digital Humanities & Pedagogy track and indicate in the proposal that the proposal is a poster lightning talk.
The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, May 6, 2024. Within approximately four weeks of the deadline for submissions, the program committee will contact all submitters with a response to their proposals.
To submit a proposal, click here. You will be transferred to a submission site, where you will find the options for proposals (individual paper proposal, panel, etc.) listed along the right-hand side of the page.
Conference Registration and Society Membership
Information about conference registration and hotel accommodations will be forthcoming.
All conference participants must also be members of the Sixteenth Century Society. To join the Society, click here. Membership includes a one-year subscription to The Sixteenth Century Journal.
The Sixteenth Century Society is a not-for-profit scholarly organization that receives no governmental or institutional funding. Thus, participants or their sponsoring institutions or organizations will need to fund travel and lodging expenses in addition to the conference registration fee.
For more information, contact Carrie F. Klaus, SCS Vice President and Program Chair: conference@sixteenthcentury.org
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