CFP: Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North, 9-10 November, University of Aberdeen

We invite abstract submissions to the third Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North conference, which will take place on 9-10 November 2023. The conference will focus on magic in ancient, medieval, and early modern Northern Europe. Magic, both as a concept and as a tool, is frequently featured in textual sources of the pre-Modern North.…

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CFP: AEMA 18 at the University of Sydney and Online, 28-29 September

Arguably the world's friendliest early medieval conference is BACK! In person & online! The Natural and Unnatural in the Early Medieval World In the largely rural and agrarian landscape of the medieval world, fauna and flora were highly regarded, as is evidenced by the importance of agriculture, the popularity of bestiaries, and the legacy of…

CfP: Unsettling Certainties, Conference of the Society for the History of Emotions

The call for papers for the Society for the History of Emotions’ Fourth Biennial Conference, under the theme ‘Unsettling Certainties’ is now open! The conference will take place at the University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023 Possible topics include, but are not limited to, emotions in relation to:– Certainty and the assured– Risk,…

CFP: Materiality and The Senses In The Medieval and Early Modern World, April 14 2023

Keynote Speaker: Dr Carol Williams (Monash University) This symposium aims to explore materiality and the senses in the medieval and early modern world, looking at the many forms of sensory experiences and their uses. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from all disciplines including history, literature, art, religion, archaeology, and manuscript studies. We welcome all…

CFP: The Tenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, June 12-14 2023

The Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars in all disciplines to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation on all topics and in all disciplines of the medieval and early modern…

CFP: The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North

We hereby invite submissions to the 12th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, which will be held as a hybrid online and on-site event at the University of Iceland, April 13th-15th, 2023. The world is a changed place post-pandemic. Conferences nowembrace the hybrid format, and open-access research is gaining momentum.This student conference continues…

SASS 2023: CALL FOR PAPERS

SASS 2023 will take place on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin from April 20 to April 22.  The theme of this SASS meeting is everyday life, in the sense that the French theorist Michel de Certeau used the term in his 1980 study, L’invention du quotidien/The Practice of Everyday Life.  In…

CFP: Challenging the Patriarchy: Reframing Graeco-Roman Women and their Reception

International conference The University of Newcastle, Australia 30 June – 1 July 2023 This two-day conference seeks to examine the role of women within the restrictive cultural expectations and societal norms of ancient Greece and Rome, but also addresses how their receptions renegotiated questions of gender across time, down to the present moment. We welcome…

CFP – Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture

Australian National University, 18-19 November 2022. The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory invites submissions for a cross-disciplinary symposium dedicated to current research into ancient and historical metallurgy and metal material culture. This symposium aims to foster links between Australian scholars across disciplines, including but not limited to history, art history, conservation, Classical…

Workshop CFP: “Meet the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods?: Roman Religion, Mass Media and Imperial Power”

18 November 2022University of Newcastle (NSW) The death of Queen Elizabeth II, head of the Church of England and "defender of the faith", reminds all Australians of the links among religion, imperial politics and mass media expressed in coins, processions, and public statues. Scholars have long recognized the continuities of time and space across the…

CFP: Studying East of Byzantium IX – Networks

The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to invite abstracts for the next Studying East of Byzantium workshop: Studying East of Byzantium IX: Networks. A three-part workshop that intends to bring together doctoral…

CFP: AEMA 17 – Memory & Forgetting, 30 Sept- 1 Oct, online

Arguably the world's friendliest early medieval conference is BACK! and it's FREE! This conference invites papers on the theme of memory and forgetting. Memory is malleable. It is shaped by selection, by mediation, by transmission, by ideologies, by societies and, above all, by forgetting. This conference examines the process of how early medieval societies created…

CFP: PPLA zoom conference Nov 12-13

Kia ora Pacific Partnership in Late Antiquity membersThis is your reminder about our upcoming zoom lightning paper conference on November 12-13 (North American dates). If you are interested in presenting, please submit a short (150 word) abstract to Lisa Bailey by October 1st. The format will follow that of the lightning papers at our previous…

CFP: Medievalist Librarians in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities at Kalamazoo 2023

This roundtable aims to bring together two conversations: one among teaching staff about inclusive and engaging pedagogy in the medieval studies classroom, and one among librarians about the challenges and opportunities of library instruction. As academic support professionals, library workers are often overlooked in discussions of medievalist pedagogy, yet in the twenty-first century, both the…

CFP: Taste and Disgust in Late Antiquity

International Medieval Congress, 3-6 July 2023, University of Leeds, UK The Postgraduate and Early Career Late Antiquity Network (LAN) The aim of this strand is to discuss taste as a category of late ancient experience. The overall theme of IMC 2023 is ‘Networks and Entanglements’ and we encourage speakers to think about how late antique…