Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance (REMRA)

Call for papers

Northern Narratives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Early Modern Period in the North Atlantic and Baltic

In 2021 scholars at the University of the Highlands and Islands came together to launch a new multidisciplinary Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance (REMRA). Since then, this collaboration has gone from strength to strength in its research and in the development of a new online postgraduate programme on Early Modern European Studies (EMES) which will launch in September 2025.

REMRA is excited to host its first multidisciplinary online conference from 11 to 13 June 2025 to discuss its exciting research with academic colleagues in the field. We therefore invite papers in the following categories:

• Early Modern Warfare in the North Atlantic/ Baltic
• Early Modern Culture/ Archaeology in the North Atlantic
• Early Modern Public History 
• Early Modern Communities and Identities

Keynote speakers include Dr Lucy Dean (UHI), Professor Mark Elliot (UHI) and Dr Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh), Professor Mark Gardiner (University of Lincoln) and Professor Steve Murdoch (Swedish Defence University, Visiting Professor UHI). 

The conference will be hosted online via MS Teams. Papers from postgraduate researchers and ECRs are particularly welcome. 

Please contact Dr Kathrin Zickermann (kathrin.zickermann@uhi.ac.uk) by 13 January 2024 to register your interest or if you have any questions about the event. We are looking forward to hearing from you! 

The conference team:

Mark Elliott (Highland Theological College, UHI), Jen Harland (Archaeology Institute, UHI), Andrew Lind (Institute for Northern Studies, UHI), Kathrin Zickermann (Centre for History, UHI)