Category Archives: CFP

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.

Call for Applications: ANZAMEMS Seminar

The MEMS group at The University of Western Australia invites postgraduate students and ECRs to apply to present at an ANZAMEMS Seminar to be held on Tuesday 26 November 2024 (as part of the larger CHASS Congress). The seminar, “Intercultural encounters and materialities in the medieval and early modern period,” will explore the methodological and theoretical challenges in researching inter-cultural encounter histories for MEMS scholars.

Abstracts (ca 150 words) for seminar papers (20 mins duration) are now invited and must be received by 15 September 2024. A limited number of bursaries will be available. For further details, see the ANZAMEMS website.

CFP: Limina, Solidarity Conference

SOLIDARITY – A CONFERENCE
10-11 October 2024 (in person)

The Limina collective conference committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers from across the breadth of humanities research to explore the theme of Solidarity.

Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Solidarity across social, political, economic, ecological, and/or psychological studies
  • Contemporary and/or historic demonstrations of solidarity 
  • Activism and advocacy studies
  • Solidarity and its antithesis
  • Forms of solidarity: fraternity, sisterhood/brotherhood, kinship, and nationality
  • Solidarity in utopian thought and studies
  • Crisis and resolution: falling apart and coming together
  • Theorising solidarity: past, present and/or future
  • Solidarity across temporal/geographical distance
  • Inter/intradisciplinary solidarity
  • Depictions of solidarity in art, literature, and media
  • Any other topics related to the theme of solidarity

Limina is open to all scholars and encourages HDR students and early career researchers (ECRs) to submit abstracts for this in-person conference.

Please submit abstracts (max. 200 words) and a short biography (max. 50 words) to liminajournal@gmail.com before the end of July 2024. Please specify in your proposal whether you are willing to chair a panel.

CFP: Perspective actualité en histoire de l’art

The art history journal Perspective has announced their call for papers for their 2025 special issue, themed ‘anachronisms’. Proposals are to include a 350 to 500 word abstract, a working title, a short bibliography on the subject, and a biography. These must be sent to revue-perspective@inha.fr no later than 17 June 2024.

For full details, see the below CFP.

Intercultural Encounters between Masculinities in the Pre-modern World: Emotions and Religion

Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, ACU
Hybrid Workshop
Melbourne and Online, 15-16 July 2024
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Van Gent (UWA)

This workshop aims to further the study of intercultural encounters in the pre-modern world through the lens of gender. More specifically, we mean to foster a discussion on how masculinities could affect the processes of cultural encounter and their outcomes, but also how masculinities emerged changed in turn from such processes. See below flyer for further details.

Abstracts are due by 3rd June 2024.