CFP: PPLA Lightning Paper Conference

Following on the success of our lightning paper panels at the Pacific Partnership for Late Antiquity Zoom conference earlier this year, we will host another Zoom conference on November 12-13 (North American dates) as a way to present some ideas related to current research. The format will follow that of the lightning papers--5 minutes for…

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CFP: Reception, Susception, Acception, 1-2 December 2022

Reception theory offers scholars fresh insights into the purposes and possibilities of Classical Studies and its intersection with the wider world, post-Antiquity. But the semantic passivity of a concept such as “Reception” can also obfuscate the dynamic ways in which Classics has been utilised, even weaponised, by its proponents — not merely experienced (Reception), but…

CFP: Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World: Tensions, Nordic Colonialism and Indigeneity, 2 – 3 February 2023

We are delighted to announce the call for papers for a two-day conference held at the Universität Greifswald, Germany, on 2-3rd of February 2023, in collaboration with the DFG-funded project "Mission Before Colonisation: A Reassessment of Religious Contact in Greenland and Sápmi, 1000-1500".Despite the on-going colonialism exercised in the Nordic nation-states, the region as a…

CFP: Letters and Politics in Late Antiquity, Ghent University, 31 May- 2 June 2023

We are inviting papers discussing the role of letters in late antique Roman politics (4th to 6th century AD): how did various late antique actors and interest groups use letters to try and influence decision making processes on all levels? Letters played a prominent role in the functioning of social and political life in the late Roman Empire (3rd – 6th century AD).…

CFP: Special Issue – Document Recognition in the Cultural Heritage: Methods and Applications

A Special Issue of Journal of Imaging (ISSN 2313-433X) The field of document recognition in the cultural heritage is rapidly progressing, wherein vast amounts of ancient manuscripts in libraries and other institutions across the world are increasingly undergoing digitisation and transcription. However, the automatic recognition of patterns in ancient manuscripts to render them readable, searchable…

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…

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…

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…

CFP: Pandemic Reflections – Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up with COVID

Call for Papers for a forthcoming edited collection, Pandemic Reflections: Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up with COVID.    To be published with Ethics International Press.     The collection will focus on Saint Francis, his life with lepers, and the COVID pandemic. The collection is meant to explore what it means to think about Francis in light…

CFP: Past and Future Emotions, 28-29 November 2022

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions calls for expressions of interest to be part of its farewell two-day Symposium, ‘Past and Future Emotions’, to be held from 28–29 November 2022 at The University of Melbourne, as part of the 2022 Congress of HASS. The purpose of the symposium is to celebrate…

CFP: 29th IRCLAMA COLLOQUIUM Poreč, Sep 29– Oct 2, 2022

It’s a pleasure for us to invite you to the 29th Annual International Scientific Symposium of the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages. Symposium will take place in Poreč, Croatia, from September 29th to October 2nd 2022. The topic will be the following: Late Medieval Renaissances and their Antecedents (from Late Antiquity…

CFP: Monsters, 8-9 September 2022

Limina Journal in collaboration with the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions and the Department of Classics at the University of Reading invites proposals for 20-minute papers or posters from postgraduate and early-career researchers that explore the theme of ‘monsters’. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to: Monsters in various…

CFP: Indian Ocean World Archaeology Conference, 19th-20th December 2022, University of Exeter

Papers are welcome on all aspects of the archaeology, material culture and heritage of the Indian Ocean (defined as from East Africa to Japan, including Australasia) from the first millennium BC to the contemporary era, and may include reports on research in progress. Presentations should be in English (unless you are in the special session…

APECSS – CFP

The Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society (APECSS) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at its thirteenth annual conference to be held at Trinity Theological College, Singapore, 15 - 17 September 2022. The Society welcomes all proposals that explore any theme relevant to the early Christian world from the New Testament to the end of…