2-year postdoc position: Charles University

The Department of Archaeology invites applications for a postdoc position combining approaches of archaeology, cultural and social history/anthropology, and religious history. The researcher will focus on the relations between social and religious transformations in 9-13th c. Central Europe, with a particular focus on frontier zones and contact zones, or state formation and Christianisation. He or…

Call for 3 PhD Positions: University of Graz

ERC project “From Digital to Distant Diplomatics" Prof. Dr. Georg Vogeler is looking for 3 PhD candidates interested in medieval charters: diplomatics, computational linguistic , or computer vision - applied to medieval and historical document corpora. For more information.

Australian School of Celtic Learning – July Online Events

NEGLIGENCE IN EARLY IRELAND WEBINAR Sunday 10 July 2022Online The early Irish legal system dealt in a very sophisticated way with offenses arising from negligent or inadvertent actions or omissions. In this webinar, we will look at the allocation of responsibility and liability for accidents. We will explore ideas such as socially useful activity, responsibility…

Call for PhD Position in Late Antiquity: University of Lille, 2022-2025

Function and Meaning of Small Finds from Late Antique villae in Middle and Lower Danube Provinces within the MASLAP Project : Mutation of Architectural, Social and Landscape Space in the Mirror of Late Antique Peristyle Buildings along the Danube. The proposed PhD dissertation should focus on the small finds and inscriptions connected with Late Antique…

CFP: AEMA 17 Memory & Forgetting, Digital Conference, 30 Sept-1 October 2022

You little beauty! This conference invites papers on the theme of memory and forgetting. Memory is malleable. It isshaped by selection, by mediation, by transmission, by ideologies, by societies and, above all, byforgetting. In the words of Ann Rigney, ‘like water transported in a leaky bucket which slowly runsdry, [memories] are continuously being lost along…

Call for nominations: The 2023 Dan David Prize

The Dan David Prize is the world’s largest history prize, annually awarding 9 prizes of $300,000 each to early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, to acknowledge their outstanding achievements and support future work. We are looking for researchers in disciplines such as history, archaeology, art history, digital humanities and human palaeontology,…

Scottish Society for Northern Studies Spring/Summer Seminar Series

Our penultimate seminar of the spring summer series will be given by Dr Lynda McGuigan (Fraserburgh Lighthouse Museum), titled ‘The Antiquarian Letter Archive of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk: A Case Study‘.  The online lecture promises to reveal new and unpublished antiquarian material on the Pictish symbol stones of Aberdeenshire. The seminar begins at 7pm BST…

Research Assistant, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Tübingen

With its focus on medieval studies, the Department of Scandinavian Studies at Tübingen offers an active research and teaching environment in literary and cultural studies and narratology. As part of this focus, we are inviting applications for one doctoral research position, to be filled by 1 Oct 2022. The position includes a teaching load of…

Two Full Time Research Associate Positions, 48 months, with DoSSE Project (Leicester, UK)

The ERC-funded DoSSE Project - Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Households of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East: From Constantine to c. AD 900 / AH 287 - is seeking researchers with a PhD in History or a related discipline, a profile of published or forthcoming scholarship, and proficiency in two or…

Launch: The Gnostic Hotel, Tuesday 28 June, 7pm, on Zoom

The dodgy hostelry finally opens its doors. Join AEMA stalwart Bob di Napoli for the launch of his new new poetry collection, The Gnostic Hotel. Launch host: Richard Wrigley Introductions: Christine Mathieu Email Bob to get a Zoom invite 15 minutes prior to 7pm start.

CFP: 2022 Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group conference, 15 October

The conference committee invites papers on the theme Colonialism: subaltern voices, contested histories, subverted spaces. Colonialism, and its underlying violence and inequality, continues to demonstrate that modern hopes of peace and fair access to resources are largely illusory. Russia’s imperial ambitions in eastern Europe and resistance to a Voice to Parliament domestically are two obvious…

The Australian & New Zealand Antiquarian Booksellers Association Rare Book Fair, Wilson Hall, the University of Melbourne, 7-9 July

The Australian & New Zealand Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ANZAAB) is very excited to announce the return of the Melbourne Rare Book Fair after a two-year break. Now in its 50th year the Melbourne Rare Book Fair celebrates the book, the printed word and the visual in all its beauty. The Fair will be held Thursday…

ANZAMEMS Conference Hub at ACU Melbourne, 27-30 June

The MEMS team at ACU is delighted to host an in-person ANZAMEMS conference hub for Melbourne colleagues. We will provide IT support for the Zoom sessions, and refreshments for the duration of the conference, June 27-30. The location is Level 4, 250 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne. Location and transport information. If you would like to come to our…

CFP: Christian Political Cultures in Late Antiquity, 21st-22nd June 2023, University of Liverpool

We invite papers for a conference (and planned edited volume) on Christian Political Cultures in Late Antiquity. The remarkably homogeneous ways of thinking about Christian political authority across the Roman world in late antiquity (c. 250-700 CE)—so carefully reconstructed in classic mid-20th century accounts—mask the immense diversity of the social and institutional contexts in which…

CFP: 41st Haskins Society International Conference 28-30 Oct, 2022

The Haskins Society is delighted to announce our return to an in-person, annual conference in Richmond, Virginia on 28-30 October 2022. The featured speakers in 2022 will be: Cord J. Whitaker (Wellesley College) Frances Andrews (University of St Andrews) Anne E. Lester (Johns Hopkins University) We invite proposals for presentations on any topic related to…