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On Thursday 5 June 2014, Rosa Salzberg and I co-hosted a very stimulating workshop on the topic 'Arriving in the Renaissance'. Facilitated by a generous donation to the Faculty in support of interdisciplinary work, we were able to invite an international group of speakers, all of whom with interests in migration, spatial mobility and the hospitality trade. We heard papers on channeling visitors to Siena, Venetian / Florentine inns, the iconography of German public houses, cultural exchange in Bristol/Bordeaux, welcoming strangers to Amsterdam and the migration network of a Jerusalem friary. Participants from ten academic institutions found plenty of scope for discussion, including issues like voluntary/involuntary mobility, the social status of migrants, contrasting local attitudes towards immigration, principal entry points, systems of surveillance and conceptual approaches in the field. We all agreed that the topic merits further collaboration and comparative analysis, not least given its relevance for the societies of today. Beat Kümin, CSR Director

The Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Lifetime Achievement Award was inaugurated to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (1976-2001). The Society awards an annual prize to one of its members who have made major contributions to the extension of Renaissance Studies in Canada by their learned publications as well as have contributed in other ways to the flourishing of Renaissance Studies in Canada or abroad, such as in the quality of their teaching at all levels of study, in the supervision of graduate work, in research teams, in the editorship of learned journals or by any other means considered appropriate. On the advice of its executive committee, the Society presents the recipient with an engraved plaque of recognition and we are delighted to announce that the honour this year goes to Prof Brenda Hosington who accepted her award on May 25th 2014. Many congratulations from all at Warwick!