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.
The Ecclesiastical History Society welcomes paper proposals for its conference, themed ‘Creed, Councils and Canons’, to be held in Edinburgh on 15-17 July 2025.
Proposals should be submitted by 15 April 2025. For further details, see the conference website and below flyer.
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.
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.
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 dynamics
Collecting ghosts
Emotional resonances
Specific case studies
Materialities and immaterialities
Medical and scientific and pseudoscientific explanations
Gendered dynamics
Changing understandings over time
Defining the ghost
Religious impacts
Notions of class
Narrative 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Royal Studies Network is pleased to announce its call for papers for panels at the 2025 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. Please see below flyer.