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.
Please note that the CFP for the conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association, to be hosted at ACU Canberra 26-28 September, has been extended to 9th August 2024.
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.
The Australian Early Medieval Association will host their annual conference at ACU Canberra between 26-28 September. Paper proposals are now sought on the theme ‘The Spectrum of the Early Medieval World’. See below CFP for details.
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
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.
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.
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.
The 37th Irish Conference of Medievalists is taking place in Dublin on 20 & 21st June 2024. The call for papers is now open, with a deadline of 1st May. Please see below flyer for further details.