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…

Summer School in Digital Palaeography at the University of Göttingen

The Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen, in collaboration with the Göttingen State and University Library, and with generous support from the Volkswagen Foundation, is pleased to announce its annual international digital palaeography summer school.The summer school is intended as an intensive training programme for graduate students, in both traditional Latin palaeography…

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…

Scottish Society for Northern Studies Conference 19 November

Just a reminder that our day conference and AGM will take place this year on Saturday 19 November. The event, titled ‘North Sea Economic Networks’, will take place in person at the Carnegie Library in Dunfermline. The event will also see the award of the 2022 Magnusson Prize, and the Society’s AGM, as well as a visit to Dunfermline Abbey. There…

Nomadic Networks and the Spread and Practice of Islam: online workshop October 28

Third Ḥajar Online Workshop October 28th 2022 15:45 - 19:00 (CET time) Chairs: Irina Shingiray (University of Oxford) and José C. Carvajal López (University of Leicester) 15:45 Case studies José C. Carvajal López (University of Leicester) Nomads of Qatar? The emergence of Bedouin communities in the Persian-Arabian Gulf ShadiaTaha (University of Cambridge) Beja nomads in…

Register: AEMA 17 online conference, Fri 30 Sept – Sat 1 Oct

In line with this year's theme of Memory & Forgetting, you've probably forgotten to register! Here, let us nudge your memory. Recall those heady days at the worlds friendliest online early medieval conference and repress those tiresome commitments. Program and registration here.

CFP: 10th conference of the Medieval Chronicle Society.

From Prof Dr Graeme Dunphy: September is upon us, and since many of you will now be making your plans for the next academic year, this seems like a good time to remind you of our chronicles conference, which will be taking place in Nancy (France) in July next year. A few weeks ago I…

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…