Monthly Archives: April 2025

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 

ANZAMEMS Reading Group

The next session of the 2025 ANZAMEMS reading group is on Tuesday 29 April at 11-12pm Melbourne time (UTC+11). This will be on the topic of ‘Compassion and the White Ship’. See schedule below.

The Zoom links, readings, and full schedule can be found on the Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF.

We are asking those interested to register again on TryBooking at https://www.trybooking.com/CZJNA, although drop-ins are always welcome.

Please contact the convenor with any queries: Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.

Reading Group Schedule S1 2025Download

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.

Seminar: Programming Piety – Poetry, Play and Early Modern Jesuit Pedagogy

The next seminar in ACU’s 2025 series, ‘Premodern Beliefs and their Reception’, will take place at 1pm (AEDT) on Monday 14 April via Teams.

The speaker will be Professor Yasmin Haskell, speaking on the subject ‘Programming Piety: Poetry, Play and Early Modern Jesuit Pedagogy’. See below flyer for further details.

Yasmin Haskell flyer – Premodern Belief seminar series 14.4.2025 (1)Download

ANZAMEMS Seminar: Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women

Dear members, we are pleased to announce the next ANZAMEMS seminar, to be hosted at University of Auckland from 17-18 July.

This two-day workshop will introduce postgraduate and ECRs from across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia to a range of medieval and early modern sources centred on the female body and female experience. Leading experts will guide participants through unique and challenging genres, from sixth-century Frankish hagiographies and twelfth-century Latin love letters to early modern recipes, architectural drawings and musical manuals. Participants will be encouraged to draw connections between the different genres and consider wider implications for analysing the body, sensory experiences, environmental agencies, and more.

Attendance will be capped at 20-25 participants – see eligibility details below. To apply, send your application to memwomen2025@gmail.com by Friday, 2 May

Documenting MEM Women Call for ApplicationsDownload