Daily Archives: 4 September 2025

ANZAMEMS Conference: Registration Open

The 2025 ANZAMEMS Conference, to be hosted at the University of Melbourne between the 3rd and 5th December, is now open for registration.

Registration fee covers:

  • Entry to all programmed talks and panels
  • Catered morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea on each day
  • Opening night wine reception

There is an early bird rate available via the above link for registrations made before the 10th October. You can also add the conference dinner, accommodation at Newman college, and various tours and events to your registration.

The full conference programme will be released in early September.

The conference committee is also pleased to announce that applications are now open to attend the ANZAMEMS Seminar – an intensive palaeography workshop – to be hosted on the 2nd December. The seminar is intended to support the academic development of currently enrolled higher degree by research students and early career academics. Please submit applications to attend via this form.

Please direct any enquiries to ANZAMEMS-conference@unimelb.edu.au.

Workshop: Faith in the Material World

The program has been released for the upcoming workshop, Faith and the Material World: Creative productions of natural philosophy and religion in medieval and early modern Europe. Hosted by the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU, the workshop will be run in hybrid format on the 2nd and 3rd October 2025. Please see the below program.

Please RSVP to susan.broomhall@acu.edu.au for further details and stating whether you would like to attend in person or online. 

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CFP: Living, Dreaming, and Dying in the Pre-modern Bed

Contributions are being sought for a proposed thematic issue of Parergon called Living, Dreaming, and Dying in the Pre-modern Bed. Abstracts of between 250–350 words are sought for an issue that, if accepted, will be published in 2027. The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 21st of September 2025; please see the below CFP for further details.

Call for Papers – Living, Dreaming, and Dying in the Pre-modern Bed_ANZAMEMS newsletterDownload