The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of both the Sixteenth Century Journal and the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. SCJ will mark the anniversary with a special issue, “Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies,” in which fifty scholars from different generations, fields of study, and geographic locations consider the impact of trends in scholarship, culture, society, and politics on the past, present, and future of the field. SCSC will mark the anniversary at the 2019 conference in St. Louis, for which they invite submissions (including individual papers, panels, posters, and roundtables) that celebrate the last half-­century and that consider the future of early modern studies in the next quinquagenary. A formal call for papers will be out early in 2019, and meanwhile please send inquiries to conference@sixteenthcentury.org.