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…

Advertisement

Prosimetrum Workshop in Cambridge, 5-6 January 2023

A workshop 'Why Prosimetrum? Aesthetic and Narrative Effects in the Íslendingasögur' will be held at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic in Cambridge on Thursday and Friday, the 5th and 6th of January, 2023. Papers will be presented by Alison Finlay, Stefanie Gropper, Annette Lassen, Guðrún Nordal, Judy Quinn, Tarrin Wills, Alexander Wilson and…

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…

3rd Teaching Classical Languages Symposium | 12 August, 9-5pm

This is a hybrid event. The 3rd Teaching Classical Languages Symposium showcases approaches to the teaching and assessment of ancient Greek and Latin developed by secondary, tertiary, and online adult-education instructors from Australia and New Zealand. Conference speakers share and discuss a diverse range of classical language teaching strategies to assist 21st century learners in a range…

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…

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: 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…

Icelandic Sagas – WEA Course

Arguably the first European novels, the Icelandic Sagas are a collection of purportedly historical accounts of medieval Viking families, interweaving magic and murder, adventure and poetry throughout. They are a foundation of Icelandic culture amongst one of the most literature-loving countries in the world, and to this day you can start a good conversation there…

New Trajectories in Australian Research on Late Antiquity and early Christian Studies, 20-22 April 2022

Beginning this morning, 10am All sessions will be held on Level 7 of the Daniel Mannix Building at ACU’s St Patrick’s Campus, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy. The Daniel Mannix Building can be entered from Young Street or via St Mary of the Cross Square on Brunswick Street. See building 403 on the campus map. Program…

Riddles in Conversation – May Seminar Series

The Exeter Book riddles are often enlisted to illustrate what we think we know about early medieval culture, but the truth is that they are better at asking questions than giving answers. In this seminar series, therefore, we put the Exeter Book riddles in conversation with different kinds of knowing. Exploring in turn poetic translation,…

Australian School of Celtic Learning – March/April Online Events

EARLY MEDIEVAL CELTIC SAINTS WEBINAR Join us for a look at some of the holy people of the Celtic lands in the early medieval period. Ranging from famous Irish saints Patrick and Brigid through some better-known Scottish and Welsh saints to saints known for their work in Cornwall and Brittany, we will consider the life…

Common Threads: Textiles at the Frontiers of Faith

A Virtual Scholars’ Event for the Exhibition at The Met Cloisters Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Center of Medieval Art. Online, 10 November 2021, 1300 – 1430 ET (11 November 2021, 0500 - 0630 AEDT) The sumptuous patterned silk textiles produced in…

14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: ‘Loss’

Engaging with pre-modern books and manuscripts necessarily involves reckoning with the paradox of loss. While a historical document from the distant past is the material survivor of a singular attempt to hedge against the disappearance of an idea, image, or text, the extant specimen always has to be considered alongside missing exemplars, damage and erasure,…