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Posted by Erika Gaffney, Ashgate’s Publisher for Literary Studies and Women & Gender Studies

During the first weekend of November, the atmosphere was electric at the international, interdisciplinary symposium Attending to Early Modern Women.  Scholars descended from all over the US, as well as from Canada and the UK, on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus for the eighth iteration of this dynamic triennial gathering, to address the theme of “Conflict, Concord” in the context of early modern women’s studies.

Kudos and thanks to the University of Maryland’s Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, organizer and host of the event!   Established in 1981, CRBS plays a vital role in fostering intellectual exchange between disciplines in the arts and humanities and allied fields.

The CRBS staff are to be congratulated not only for their successful coordination of multiple plenary lectures and workshops to do with early modern women, but for their innovation in composing advice roundtables for today’s professional women, whether in early or mid-career.  In the Early Career Professional Development session I offered guidance about working with academic presses in the form of a list of “Publishing Dos and Don’ts.”  Before long, documents relating to this session will be posted online (along with materials relating to a parallel session on Mid-Career Development); see also the bottom of this posting for the content of the “Publishing Dos and Don’ts” handout mentioned above.

Highlights of the 2009 incarnation of Attending include, but are not limited to:

• The annual business meeting of the international Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
• A special performance of early seventeenth-century songs, performed by Hallie Fishel (Soprano) and John Edwards (Lute)
• A 10^th-anniversary celebration for Ashgate’s book series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Continue reading ‘Ashgate at the Attending to Early Modern Women symposium’

2009 marks the tenth anniversary of the setting up of Ashgate’s series, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. This will be celebrated at the forthcoming Attending to Early Modern Women conference at the University of Maryland, November 5-7 (see program for details). Erika Gaffney will be attending this conference for Ashgate, so if you’re there do drop by and see us!

The Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series was established in 1999, with series editors Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger, and one of the early books in the series was Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period, edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh. It won a Collaborative Projects Award 2001 from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and received some glowing reviews: Continue reading ‘Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series reaches its 10th birthday!’