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CFP: AMPHORAE XIX, University of Adelaide

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.

Submit Abstracts Here: https://forms.office.com/r/jffbB6RZXp 

Submissions are due by 31/05/2025 11:59PM ACST.

For more information, contact the conference organisers at amphoraexix@gmail.com, or visit their website at  https://amphorae-conference.weebly.com 

CFP Reminder: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700
National Library of Australia, August 7-8 2025
***PROPOSALS DUE MONDAY 14 APRIL 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 14 April 2025.

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700

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.

CFP: Cerae Volume 12 – Dreams, Visions, and Utopias

Ceræ invites article submissions on the theme of Dreams, Visions, and Utopias for volume 12 of the journal.

The journal is interested in receiving submissions related to both the idealistic and the critical, considering the variety of ways that medieval and early modern constructions of dreams, visions, and utopias have expanded and/or delimited the future.

There is no geographic or disciplinary limitation for submissions, which can consider any aspect of the medieval or early modern world or its reception. Non-themed submissions will also be considered.

The deadline for themed submissions is 30 April 2025.

See below flyer for further details.

Ceræ Vol 12 CFPDownload

CFP: Early Modern Global Separation Conference

The research project Moved Apart is pleased to announce that its second conference
Early Modern Global Separation will take place at Lund University on 20-22 August 2025.

This conference seeks proposals that contribute to further our knowledge of how separation was communicated in different parts of the world (Africa, America, Asia, Europe) in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is 3 March 2025 and you will be notified of the results by the end of March 2025.

Note that there may be opportunities for financial support for early career scholars. Please flag this in your proposal.

See the below flyer for further details.

Moved Apart conference poster (2)Download

CFP: Ghosts in Britain and Ireland, c.1500-1950

Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
June 26th – 27th 2025

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. But despite this, and the potential ghosts have to shed light on key historical moments, they still remain understudied. While ghosts have attracted considerable attention within cultural, critical, and literary studies, it is only recently that ghosts have started to be studied for what they can tell us about religious, social, gendered, spatial or emotional dynamics. Older studies have often been dominated by folklorists, or have centred on the medieval period. Much recent scholarship has focused on the modern world, or on the ghost and ‘hauntedness’ as theoretical constructs, or rhetorical or narrative devices.

This two-day conference seeks to explore representations of the revenant dead in historical context. Through taking a broad chronological scope it hopes to shed light on how representations of ghosts changed over time, and how they can illuminate specific historical moments. It aims to place ghost beliefs and accounts of sightings of or engagements with the dead within their historical context and to consider how these stories were shaped by ideas about religion, community, neighbourhood, gender, space and place, emotion, and the supernatural more broadly. We are especially interested in work which takes a historical perspective, regardless of the researcher’s discipline.  

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

Spatial dynamicsCollecting ghosts
Emotional resonancesSpecific case studies
Materialities and immaterialitiesMedical and scientific and pseudoscientific explanations
Gendered dynamicsChanging understandings over time
Defining the ghostReligious impacts
Notions of classNarrative strategies
Conflict and change

The organisers – Dr Charlotte-Rose Millar (Melbourne), Dr Andrew Sneddon (Ulster) and Dr Clodagh Tait (Mary Immaculate) – aim to publish a special issue out of the conference.

Proposals for 20 minute papers or for full panels should be submitted to ghostconference2025@gmail.com by January 10th. Abstracts should be between 150-200 words. We also ask authors to submit a brief bio of 2 or 3 sentences. We aim to communicate decisions by February.

Please note that this is an in-person conference and virtual papers will unfortunately not be possible.

CFP: Twelfth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Paper proposals are now invited for the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Medieval and
Renaissance Studies to be held on 9-11 June 2025 at Saint Louis University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

The submission portal will open on November 1. The deadline for all submissions is December 31, 2024. Decisions will be made by the end of January, and the final program will be published in March.

See below flyers for further details.

SMRS 2025 CFP FlierDownload
CfP_12thSMRS 2025Download
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