See below flyer for details of a seminar being offered by the Mediterranean Emotions Network to take place on 1st July 2025.
Monthly Archives: June 2025
CFP: Materiality and Confinements in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
The international conference “Materiality and Confinements in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras: Objects, Actors, Experiences”, is currently seeking paper submissions. The conference will be held at Université de Lausanne from 22 to 24 April 2026.
This conference will examine confinements through the lens of their materiality. Drawing on a recent historiographical broadening of the field, the conference aims to address various forms of medieval and early modern confinement, both judicial and non-judicial: prisons, galleys, hospitals, workhouses, cloisters, monasteries, and the like. At the same time, it seeks to reflect on methodological questions pertaining to material history as an approach and to the sources that underpin it.
For further details, see the CFP.
Symposium: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700
When: 8 August, 2025
Where: National Library of Australia
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 one-day symposium interprets this exciting new textual corpus and discusses the challenges involved in locating, attributing and analysing this material. 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?
The symposium will include keynotes by Professor Micheline White (Carleton University), Emeritus Professor Paul Salzman (La Trobe University), Professor Sarah C.E. Ross (Victoria University of Wellington) and Dr Emma Rayner (Australian National University).
For details and registration, click here.
CFP: Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association
The Call For Papers for the 2025 AEMA Conference is currently open and the deadline for abstract submissions is 18 July 2025. Please email your submission to the committee via email at conference@aema.org.au.
Submissions may be in the form of individual papers of 20 minutes duration, themed panels of three 20‐minute papers, or Round Tables of up to six shorter papers (total of one hour). All sessions will include time for questions and general discussion.
Please see below flyer for further details.
Short Courses: University of Durham
Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) is launching two new short courses: Manuscripts Up Close: An Introduction to Codicology and Working with Early Printed Books, 1476-1700, which are both fully online, one-week courses which can be taken flexibly and remotely. These will sit alongside their popular two-week courses, Latin European Medieval Palaeography and Reading English Handwriting 1500-1700.
Both Manuscripts Up Close: An Introduction to Codicology and Working with Early Printed Books, 1476-1700 are designed to include a week’s worth of material, which students have access to for eight weeks, allowing them to learn at their own pace. The courses are supported by two live, online Q&A sessions, which are optional to attend.
For more information, and how to apply, click the links below:
Manuscripts Up Close: An Introduction to Codicology
Working with Early Printed Books, 1476-1700
ANZAMEMS Reading Group
The next session of the 2025 ANZAMEMS reading group is on Tuesday 24 June at 11-12pm Melbourne time (UTC+11). This will be on the topic of ‘Medieval Herring Casks’. 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.
Seminar: Longobardo and the Essence of the Dao – Intercultural Learning through Discord
The next seminar in ACU’s 2025 series, ‘Premodern Beliefs and their Reception’, will take place at 1pm (AEDT) on Monday 30 June via Teams.
The speaker will be Dr Daniel Canaris, speaking on the subject ‘Longobardo and the Essence of the Dao – Intercultural Learning through Discord’. See below flyer for further details.
Lecture: The Belfer Oration in the History of Jewish Philosophy
The Notre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy together with The Great Synagogue Sydney cordially invite you to attend The John and Anna Belfer Oration in the History of Jewish Philosophy.
The inaugural lecture in this new annual series, generously endowed by the Belanna Trust, will be delivered by Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton on the topic ‘The First Rabbinic Philosopher: Saadia Gaon (882-942)’.
The John and Anna Belfer Oration will be launched by Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of New South Wales, and will feature a special performance by the Choir of The Great Synagogue conducted by Daniel Rojas.
When: Monday, June 30, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM — 7:30 PM (doors open at 5:30pm)
Where: The Great Synagogue, 187A Elizabeth St, Sydney NSW
Register here: https://events.nd.edu.au/belfer-oration
Workshop: Something About Marys – Analysing the Reception of the New Testament Marys
This workshop, hosted by the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry (ACU), seeks to investigate the ongoing and transforming cultural resonance of the varied New Testament Marys, in global Christian culture from the early Christian era to the present, including their evolving (and sometimes conflated) identities and characteristics, their theological and personal meaning for individuals and societies, and their changing visual forms and material presence. Contributors will demonstrate the Marys’ significance in shaping religio-cultural identities for cohorts ranging from small communities of women to whole nations. This workshop brings together theologians and historians whose different methodologies complement one another in tracing these women’s historic legacies as both exemplars of religious and gendered virtue and as active heavenly protectors.
This is a hybrid workshop, via Zoom or in person.
Room Location: IRCI Meeting Room, Level 4, 250 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy
Please RSVP to susan.broomhall@acu.edu.au to be added to the Zoom meeting, stating which day(s) you will attend and whether you will be joining us in person or online.
See below for programme details.
Conference: Ghosts in Britain and Ireland, 1500-1950
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. Despite this they still remain understudied, and the potential ghosts have to shed light on key historical moments.
This conference will explore representations of the revenant dead in the Irish and British Isles in historical context. Taking a broad chronological scope we will shed light on how representations of ghosts changed over time, and how they can illuminate specific historical moments. We will place ghost beliefs and accounts of sightings of, or engagements with, the dead within their historical context, and consider how these stories were shaped by ideas about religion, community, neighbourhood, gender, space and place, emotion, and the supernatural more broadly.
- When: 25 – 27 June, 2025
- Where: Rooms G10 and 202, Foundation Building, MIC Limerick Campus
Conference registration is now open.
For further details, email Charlotte Millar.
