Events

Upcoming Events


April 17, 2024
GEMMS 2.0 Virtual Workshop: Introducing the New Iteration of GEMMS.
By Jennifer Farooq.
GEMMS Project Free Virtual Workshop.
For registration, see


Past Events


December 11, 2023
“From Print to Manuscript: The Commonplacing of Printed Sermons.” [Virtual]
By Arnold Hunt, Durham University.
GEMMS Virtual Lecture Series 2023.
For the recording, see:

November 21, 2023
“‘Sir Henry Vane’s Affection to the Ministery’: Sermons by the Unordained.” [Virtual]
By Hannah Yip, University of Manchester.
GEMMS Virtual Lecture Series 2023.
For the recording, see:


October 28, 2023
Dissent and Rebellion in Yorkshire: The Sermon Notes of John Hall
By Anne James.
Part of the "Rediscovering England in the Archives" Panel.
The Sixteenth Century Studies Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD.


October 28, 2023
“Workshop - Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS), Introduction and Demonstration.
By Anne James.
The Sixteenth Century Studies Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD.


October 18, 2023
“Puritan Preachers and London Merchants: The Sermon Manuscripts of Walter Boothby and John Harper, 1620s -1660s.” [Virtual]
By Ann Hughes, Keele University.
GEMMS Virtual Lecture Series 2023.
For the recording, see:


September 18, 2023
Sweete Words and Lasting Monuments: Manuscript Sermons, Letters, and Poetry.
By Catherine Evans, University of Manchester.
GEMMS Virtual Lecture Series 2023.
For the recording, see:


June 7, 2023
“Preaching the Counter-Reformation in England.”
By Lucy Underwood, University of Warwick.
GEMMS Virtual Lecture Series 2023.
For the recording, see:


May 28, 2023
“Workshop: GEMMS, Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons.”
By Jeanne Shami and Jennifer Farooq.
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Conference. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Toronto, ON.


May 11, 2023
“Sermons in Series and in Fragments: GEMMS, the Archive, and Finding the Spital and Rehearsal Sermons.”
By Mary Morrissey, University of Reading.
GEMMS Virtual Lecture Series 2023.
For the recording, see:


March 22, 2023
"Women and Manuscript Sermon Culture."
By Anne James and Jeanne Shami.
Women and Sermons in the Early Modern Anglo-Atlantic World Panel with Frank Bremer and Tricia Peone.
Co-sponsored by the Congregational Library & Archives, Boston, MA, and GEMMS.
Further details and registration:
For the recording, see:


March 14, 2023
"GEMMS Workshop."
By Catherine Evans.
Hosted by Bangor University.


November 15, 2022
"GEMMS Student Workshop."
By Catherine Evans.
Hosted by the Department of English, King's College London.


September 9, 2022
"The GEMMS Project: A Demonstration"
By Catherine Evans
Sermon Studies Conference: The Twentieth Century, Before and Beyond. Windsor, UK.


May 31, 2022
"Virtual Workshop on GEMMS."
By Catherine Evans.
EME Online. Hosted by the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges.



May 28, 2022
"GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons Workshop."
By Jeanne Shami and Jennifer Farooq.
Canada Milton Seminar. Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


May 27, 2022
"GEMMS Student Workshop."
By Hannah Yip.
Hosted by Department of English, King's College London.


May 24, 2022
"GEMMS Workshop."
By Hannah Yip.
Hosted by Department of English, Bristol University.


April 26, 2022
"GEMMS Roundtable: GEMMS and the Future of Early Modern Sermon Studies."
With Catherine Evans, Jennifer Farooq, Anne James and Hannah Yip.
Edinburgh Early Modern Network Seminar.


April 7, 2022
"The Development of GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons), a Relational Bibliographic Database: or Is It?"
By Brent Nelson and Jennifer Farooq
St Francis Xavier University Digital Humanities Centre, Antigonish, NS


January 17, 2022
Another Confutation of my Sermon in Manuscript’: Discoveries in the GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons) Database."
By Hannah Yip.
EMRC / SWW Early Modern Seminar (Online). Hosted by the Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading.
https://research.reading.ac.uk/emrc/


October 15, 2021
"Digital Collections of Sermons: A Virtual Roundtable."
With Jennifer Farooq, Mary Morrissey, Brent Nelson, Jeanne Shami and Hannah Yip.
Sermon Studies Conference: Preaching and the Sermon in the 20th Century. Hosted by Marshall University.
For the recording, see 


November 21, 2019
Congregational Library Annual Lecture: "Remembering the Dead: The Role of Manuscript Sermons and Sermon Notes in Researching Early Modern Memorial Practices."
By Jeanne Shami and Anne James.
Hosted by the Congregational Library in Dr Williams's Library, London.
Lumen United Reformed Church, 88 Tavistock Place, London, UK.


September 7, 2019
"Creating a Community of Sermon Scholars: GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons."
By Jennifer Farooq and Hannah Yip.
Sermon Studies Conference. Killashee, Naas, Co. Kildaire, Ireland.
https://mds.marshall.edu/sermon_conference/2019/presentations/12/


July 31, 2019
"'Not by might nor by power': Restoration Gunpowder Plot Sermons in a Nonconformist Community."
By Anne James.
Bangor Conference on the Restoration. Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK.


June 3, 2019
"GEMMS: New Research Opportunities in Early Modern Sermons."
Poster Presentation by Anne James and Jeanne Shami.
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (for the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.


May 11, 2019

"GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons Workshop."
By David Robinson and Brandon Taylor.
Canada Milton Seminar. Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


March 17, 2019

"ITER and GEMMS: Developing a Community of Sermon Scholars."
By Jeanne Shami and Anne James.
Renaissance Society of America Meeting. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


February 14, 2019

GEMMS Poster Presentation.
By Jeanne Shami and Anne James.
John Donne Society Conference. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.


January 3, 2019

"A Community of Scholars: The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons Database, Digital Humanities, and the History of the Book."
By Anne James and Jeanne Shami.
MLA Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois, USA.


November 2, 2018

GEMMS Poster Presentation.
By Hannah Yip.
Early Modern Sermons: Performances and Afterlives Workshop. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.


May 28, 2018

"GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons): An Introduction."
By Jeanne Shami and Anne James.
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (joint panel with Canadian Society for Digital Studies and Canadian Society of Renaissance Studies). University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.


April 21, 2018

GEMMS Online Launch and "GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons Workshop."
By Adam Richter, David Robinson, Anne James and Jeanne Shami.
Canada Milton Seminar. Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


October 19, 2017

"Searching for Early Modern Sermons in the Archives: An Introduction to GEMMS."
By Jeanne Shami and Anne James.
Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Colloquium. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.


May 4, 2017

GEMMS Project Launch.
By Anne James and Jeanne Shami.
Dr Williams's Library, London, UK.


March 31, 2016

"Facilitating Access and Collaboration in Early Modern Sermon Scholarship: An Introduction to the GEMMS Project."
By Jeanne Shami and Anne James.
Renaissance Society of America Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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