Category Archives: CFP

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.

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.

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.

CFP: Lost In Time – Intellectual History before the Guillotine

Paper proposals are invited for the 1st Interdisciplinary Intellectual History Conference to be held on 10 – 11 April 2025 at University College, London. The conference aims to offer a platform for scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in concepts and their contexts, which have not traditionally predominated within intellectual history.

Please submit an abstract (250 words) and a short speaker biography (100 words) to beforetheguillotine@yahoo.com by the 10th of November, 2024. All papers should last no more than 20 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A.

See below flyer for further details.

CFP: University of Sydney Humanities Postgraduate Conference

The University of Sydney Postgraduate Conference invite honours, postgraduate research students, and recently graduated scholars from the humanities and adjacent disciplines to come together to share their work, socialise and, in a world where the humanities appear to be increasingly under threat, to acknowledge the inherent value of their research.

The conference will take place on the 6th and 7th December; abstracts are due in by 6th October. Please see below flyer for further details.

CFP: Conjuring Identity – Rethinking Magic in the Global Middle Ages

Contributions are sought for an edited collection, Conjuring Identity – Rethinking Magic in the Global Middle Ages, the proposal for which is being submitted to Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Press.

Please see below flyer regarding the volume’s theme. Abstracts of not more than 300 words are due by 20 September 2024.