Event Archive

An archive of previous and past events.

Polcon 2025

Ada Palmer will be at Polcon 2025. Polcon is happening July 4-6, 2025.

4 Jul
2025

Ada Palmer Signing at Naperville B&N

Ada Palmer is signing at the new Naperville Barnes & Noble The event will be on Sunday, May 18, 2025 5:00 PM CT More information is available here.

18 May
2025

Inventing the Renaissance at Volumes Bookcafe

Volumes Bookcafe 1373 North Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, IL 60622 —

Ada Palmer is discussing Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age. She will be joined in conversation with author Mary Anne Mohanraj. The event will be at Volumes […]

3 Apr
2025

Moderating ABUNDANCE

UIC Dorin Forum 1213 S Halsted St Chicago, IL 60607 —

Ada Palmer is the moderator for the Chicago Abundance book tour with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Their latest book, Abundance, asks us to rethink big problems that seem mired […]

1 Apr
2025

Inventing the Renaissance at the Co-op

Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave Chicago, IL 60637 —

Ada Palmer is discussing Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age. She will be joined in conversation by Gary K. Wolfe. A Q&A and signing will follow the […]

29 Mar
2025

RSA 2025 Boston

Renaissance Society of America (RSA) and Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) are hosting a joint conference for their 71st Annual Meeting, in Boston, Massachusetts. Ada Palmer will present at a […]

20 Mar
2025

Chicon 8 (Worldcon 2022)

Worldcon is coming to my home city! Delighted to be both attending and helping to coordinate between the convention and my university!

1 Sep
2022

BOSKONE 59 (Virtual)

425 Summer St, # 0, Boston, MA 02210-1719

Feb 18-20, 2022 Hybrid (virtual and in-person at Boston’s Westin Waterfront Hotel) Boskone is returning to Boston in-person and the virtual world in 2022! We look forward to returning as […]

18 Feb
2022

Feb 3-6, 2022: CAPRICON 42

Sheraton Grand Hotel, Chicago, IL

February 3-6, 2022 | Sheraton Grand Hotel, Chicago, IL | Register at capricon.org The time to celebrate our love of sci-fi/fantasy in person is coming! Capricon 42: Rockin’ In The Outer […]

3 Feb
2022

"Warm, generous, and inviting," Inventing the Renaissance provides a witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the supposed Dark Ages and golden Renaissance, and exposes the terrible yet often tender reality beneath.