We are pleased to announce that the IV SEDERI International Conference for Graduate Students of Early Modern English Studies will be held on 21, 22, 23 October 2026 at the University of Jaén (Jaén, Spain). This event is part of an initiative born within SEDERI, the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, which seeks to provide a platform where students, PhD candidates and early career researchers from around the globe can gather to exchange different ideas, views, and opinions on the study of the English language and its literature, history and culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

MARIA DE JESUS RELVAS (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)

JONATHAN SELL (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

CINTA ZUNINO GARRIDO (Universidad de Jaén, Spain)

We welcome proposals in English for 20-minute papers that critically explore questions related to the study of early modern literature, language, history and culture, particularly in relation to the English Renaissance and the English Restoration. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Early modern texts, contexts and stages

• Early modern politics, economies and ideologies

• Anglo-Iberian and Anglo-Mediterranean relations in the early modern period

• Early modern cultures of work, customs and rituals

• Early modern utopias and dystopias

• Early modern travel narratives and narratives of migration and exile

• Early modern constructions of the figure of the outsider / the other and their afterlives

• The materiality of the early modern text: critical editions, manuscripts and print culture

• Linguistic contact, variation and change in the early modern period

• Translations, adaptations and appropriations of early modern English texts

• Performance and reception of early modern English plays

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 31 May 2026. 

Proposals must be sent to sederigrad@ujaen.es as an email attachment (preferably as .doc or .docx files) containing the following information:

• The author’s name, institutional affiliation and email address

• A short biographical note (max. 100 words)

• The full title of the paper, an abstract (250–300 words), and 4 keywords

• Your SEDERI membership status (member, non-member, application submitted). If you wish to join SEDERI, please visit http://www.sederi.org/membership/

You can find more information of the conference’s website:https://sederigraduja.weebly.com/ 

Conference fees: SEDERI members (35€), non-SEDERI members (55€)

Registration: 15 July 2026 – 30 September 2026