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: 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: 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: 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: 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…

MEMS Festival 2022, University of Kent – CFP

This two-day event celebrates Medieval and Early Modern history, 400 – 1800, and encourages a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to, politics, religion, economics, art, drama, literature, and domestic culture. MEMS Fest aims to be an informal space in which postgraduate students, early career researchers, and academics can share ideas and…

SELIM 32 – CFP

New Approaches to Early English: Challenges in the Digitisation Era, Universidad de La Rioja, 14-16 September 2022. The Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) and the local organising committee invite members of the Society and all other scholars interested in the field to participate in the 32nd International Conference of SELIM, to be hosted by…

St Magnús Symposium – CFP

Ruler, Poet, Saint: Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson and his World 1 – 3 September 2022, King Street Halls, Kirkwall, Orkney. Kali, who would rule as Rǫgnvaldr, Earl of Orkney, from 1137-58/59, was a Renaissance man before the Renaissance, a medieval polymath who combined political responsibility with a passion for poetry and a spirit of adventure.…

PPLA 2022 – “Persistence and Resistance: 100 to 1000 CE” – CFP

Online, 18-20 (eastern hemisphere) / 17-19 (western hemisphere) February 2022. The Pacific Partnership in Late Antiquity (PPLA) plans to have a conference on Zoom in February 2022 on the topic of persistence and resistance in late antiquity, defined here capaciously as running from 100 to 1000 CE. The theme is broad and we encourage creativity…

SSNS Bursaries and Grants

The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) is offering funding for individuals and organisations over four categories. Associated institutions should be subscribers or at least two of the organisers should be members of the SSNS, and applications should include a brief project outline that demonstrates its relevance to the Society’s aims and objectives. Publication and Conference Grants…

CCASNC 2022 ‘Marvels and Miracles’ – CFP

The Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic is an annual interdisciplinary graduate conference encompassing all aspects of the British Isles, Ireland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages. A selection of the papers will be published in the departmental journal Quaestio Insularis. This year’s theme will be ‘Marvels and Miracles’’. Our keynote speaker will be…