The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will host its sixteenth annual graduate student conference on Saturday, October 13, 2018. Organized by John Yargo, Hayley Cotter, and Maria Ishikawa, this conference invites papers that think the relation between “space” and “authority.” We are delighted to welcome historian Christopher R. Kyle of Syracuse University as our keynote speaker.