6-8 August 2026 University of King’s College Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Following on the success of the “Malory at 550 Conference” of 2019, University of King’s College is hosting another Malory conference in scenic Nova Scotia. Proposals on any aspect of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur are invited. Topics might include, but are not limited to, textual analysis, critical approaches old and new, fifteenth-century culture and English politics, source studies in English and French, the manuscript and early print context of the work, and historical and contemporary reception of the Morte. The conference is in-person only.
Please send proposals of 250 words, together with contact details, to Kathy Cawsey (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) and Elizabeth Edwards (eedward2@dal.ca) by January 31, 2026.
This conference is sponsored by Arthurian Literature, and by the Early Modern Studies Program and Foundation Year Programs of the University of King’s College. Details on accommodation and events to follow.
A free, online mini-conference mini conference on ghosts is occurring on Tuesday 30th September from 10am UK time. If you would like to attend, please email Charlotte Millar (charlotte.millar@unimelb.edu.au) for the zoom link and more information.
Programme – Tuesday September 30th
Session 1: 10am – 11.00am BST (UK time)
Morgan Daimler, The Dead and the Ever Living: Exploring the Intersection of Fairies and Ghosts in the Role of the Witch’s Familiar
Rowan Steininger, The Fairy Otherworld as the Land of the Dead in Two Orfeo Narratives
Comfort Break
Session 2: 11.30 – 12.30am BST (UK time)
Farah Nada, ‘There is no ghost in this house’: Locating the Spectre in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love
Anne-Marie Creamer, ‘Dear Friend, I can no longer hear your voice’: Lamentation and Conjuring Ghosts as Strategies for Survival’
Registration is now open for the conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association to be hosted at the Australian Catholic University Melbourne Campus from 2-4 October 2025. Themed “Tempestuous Times: Crisis, Change, and Allegory in the Early Medieval and Medieval” paper abstracts and speaker information are available on the AEMA website. All sessions will also be hosted live through zoom for online registered attendees.
Registrations from in-person and online attendance can be made through this link; in-person attendees can also register for an optional excursion to view the exhibition Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard at the Melbourne Museum.
Registration in now open for the 2025 conference of the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, to be hosted on Saturday 4 October. See below flyer for further details:
The 2025 ANZAMEMS Conference, to be hosted at the University of Melbourne between the 3rd and 5th December, is now open for registration.
Registration fee covers:
Entry to all programmed talks and panels
Catered morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea on each day
Opening night wine reception
There is an early bird rate available via the above link for registrations made before the 10th October. You can also add the conference dinner, accommodation at Newman college, and various tours and events to your registration.
The full conference programme will be released in early September.
The conference committee is also pleased to announce that applications are now open to attend the ANZAMEMS Seminar – an intensive palaeography workshop – to be hosted on the 2nd December. The seminar is intended to support the academic development of currently enrolled higher degree by research students and early career academics. Please submit applications to attend via this form.
For much of the past five hundred years, ghosts have dominated the supernatural landscape. The ways in which the dead have been perceived by the living has changed significantly over time, both in terms of their various guises and the contexts in which they appear. Despite this they still remain understudied, and the potential ghosts have to shed light on key historical moments.
This conference will explore representations of the revenant dead in the Irish and British Isles in historical context. Taking a broad chronological scope we will shed light on how representations of ghosts changed over time, and how they can illuminate specific historical moments. We will place ghost beliefs and accounts of sightings of, or engagements with, the dead within their historical context, and consider how these stories were shaped by ideas about religion, community, neighbourhood, gender, space and place, emotion, and the supernatural more broadly.
When: 25 – 27 June, 2025
Where: Rooms G10 and 202, Foundation Building, MIC Limerick Campus
The Classics and Ancient History postgraduate cohort at the University of Adelaide, Australia invites submissions to the 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) Conference for 2025.
AMPHORAE XIX gives postgraduate students across Australasia from Honours to PhD level a platform to explore their research alongside their peers in a supportive and welcoming environment.
AMPHORAE XIX will be in hybrid mode at the University of Adelaide from the 25th to the 29th August 2025 (pre-conference workshops and gallery tours on Monday, papers on Tuesday-Thursday, and a post-conference social event Friday). Submissions on a wide range of research interests within Ancient World Studies are welcomed. Please see the submission link below for a comprehensive list of topics.
Papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes allocated for questions. Abstracts are to be a maximum of 250 words. For Panel submissions please contact the committee with proposals.
Please submit your abstract and biography via the link below, and please indicate whether you intend to present in person or online.
Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 National Library of Australia, August 7-8 2025
Early modern women marked their books in myriad ways, and their marginalia provide evidence of their book ownership, their reading, writing and drawing practices, their acquisition of literacy, and the interrelation of body, book, and material world. This symposium invites papers and panels interpreting this exciting new textual corpus and discussing the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in locating, attributing and analysing marginalia by early modern women, elite and non-elite, known and unknown. What can marginalia tell us about women’s textual agency, education and literacy, their use of books, their lived experience of household economics, organization and technologies, and their interpersonal, affective and social relationships? What evidence does marginalia provide for women’s engagement with orality, performance, print, and scribal cultures? How can marginalia help us position women as humanist, political and religious agents and understand their worlds of work and leisure? And how can such new analyses of early modern women’s marginalia reshape early modern marginalia studies more broadly?
20 minute papers and panels are invited on any aspect of early modern women’s marginalia, but might consider the following topics:
Marginalia, book ownership, book collecting, and provenance
Marginalia as evidence of early modern women’s reading
Marginalia as evidence of early modern women’s writing
Visual and material cultures in early modern women’s marginalia
Authorship, attribution and agency
Form and genre
Marginalia and sociability
Marginalia, politics and power
Marginalia and race
Non-elite women’s marginalia
Marginalia, education and literacy
Marginalia, emotion and affect
Marginalia and haptics
Marginalia and heuristics
Invited speakers include Professor Micheline White (Carleton University), Professor Katherine Acheson (University of Waterloo), Professor Paul Salzman (La Trobe University), Professor Sarah Ross (Victoria University of Wellington), and Dr Hannah August (Massey University)
The symposium will also launch the database Early Modern Women’s Marginalia: The Library of Libraries, with over 3000 examples of early modern women’s marginalia from 100 archives worldwide, hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University. Please send a 200 word abstract (or panel proposal) plus a short biography to admin.cems@anu.edu.au by 31 March 2025.
Ceræ invites abstract submissions on the theme of Dreams, Visions, and Utopias for the journals second annual conference to be held online on 26-27 April 2025.
The deadline for abstract submissions for the conference is 28 February 2025.
