The editors of Parergon, in conjunction with the Early Career Committee members, are once again hosting a Next Generation Plenary Panel at the upcoming ANZAMEMS conference, 2–3 December 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to showcase the work of new scholars in early modern and medieval studies.
2025 Speakers
Dr Ruby Lowe
Dr Ruby Lowe is an S Ernest Sprott research fellow at the University of Melbourne. She writes about John Milton and popular print culture in seventeenth-century Britian and the Atlantic world. She is currently undertaking research in the UK and Jamaica on freedom of speech and the afterlives of seventeenth-century British radicalism in the Carribean.
Ms Jennifer McFarland
Jennifer McFarland has recently submitted her PhD in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focuses on old age in the seventeenth-century Veneto, exploring how artisans and workers negotiated this life cycle stage, and how old age affected urban life. More broadly, her research interests lie in concepts of health, charity, neighbourhood, and the material cultures of domestic and urban space. Her previous research on Venetian devotional culture and on uncloistered religious women has been published in Renaissance Studies and I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance.
Dr Samuel Cardwell
Dr Samuel Cardwell is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Nottingham, researching ‘The Beginnings of Biblical Interpretation in Northumbria, c.650-800AD’. He completed his PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 2023, writing on the development of ideas of evangelisation in late antiquity and the early medieval West. He previously completed an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, and undergraduate degrees in History and Classics at the University of Melbourne and Monash University.