Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual conference will be February 19–21, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Ada Palmer will present at Renaissance Rebirths I on Friday, February 20 during the 9:00 […]
Renaissance Society of America (RSA) and Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) are hosting a joint conference for their 71st Annual Meeting, in Boston, Massachusetts. Ada Palmer will present at a […]
AUG 24, 2021 – 12:00 – 12:45 PM CDT Online via Zoom Join us for our conversation with historian, author, and composer Ada Palmer on the nature of intellectual transformations. […]
Join the Chicago Women’s Alliance (CWA) for a presentation from Dr. Ada Palmer. “Who Has the Power to Change History: Virtual Reality Simulations” will focus on the structures of virtual […]
Interdisciplinary Insights’ seminar series Seminar: The Outsourcing of Information-Sorting to Networks and Non-Human Agents from the 1500s to Today The goal of this series is to expose technical researchers to […]
Wicklow Hall-1 (CCD) Panellists consider how censorship and technology have influenced the dissemination of information through time and across the world, particularly when that information runs counter to the status […]
Wicklow Hall 2B (CCD) The evolution of women’s manga (shoujo and jousei) and their effects on men’s manga (shounen and seinen) Follow DUBLIN 2019 – AN IRISH WORLDCON, THE […]
Conference on Byzantinisms, Speculative Fiction, and the Literary Heritage of Medieval Empire, organized by the joint Paris-Uppsala Text and Narrative in Byzantium Collaborative Research Network
Discussing my work with Renaissance books and manuscripts, and my students’ project to assemble an exhibit on “Tensions in Renaissance Cities” for the University of Chicago Library Society.
Celebrating a brilliant scholar and my most treasured undergraduate mentor, Alan C. Kors, who is still one of my greatest scholarly mentors, and whose work on the “orthodox sources of […]
"Warm, generous, and inviting," Inventing the Renaissance provides a witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the supposed Dark Ages and golden Renaissance, and exposes the terrible yet often tender reality beneath.