Category Archives: Call for Papers

Call for papers: “Yours, Mine, Ours: Multi-Use Spaces in the Middle Ages,” at Society of Architectural Historians 72nd Annual International Conference (deadline for abstracts June 5, 2018). Medieval buildings and spaces were not always used for a single purpose: very … Continue reading →

Government and Governance from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: Representation and Reality 45th Annual New England Medieval Conference University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Saturday, November 17th, 2018 Keynote Speakers: Amy Appleford, of Boston University, “Governing Bodies in Late Medieval … Continue reading →

Call for Papers International Conference “The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age” Ghent University, 17–18 September 2018 We invite submission of abstracts for the international conference “The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age,” to be held at Ghent … Continue reading →

Interstellar skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature through the Ages Hven, Sweden (connections via Copenhagen), 4th–6th August 2018 Keynotes Lisa R. Messeri (Yale), anthropologist of science and technology Matthew Francis (Aberystwyth), British poet and author Journeys to the moon, visions of … Continue reading →

Monsters and Medievalism Sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture for the Medieval & Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association 29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic … Continue reading →

Revisiting the Codex Buranus: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 26–28 July 2018, Universität Brixen Arguably one of the best known, most studied, yet least understood manuscripts of the Middle Ages, the Codex Buranus (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4660/4660a) sits uncomfortably within the institutionalised … Continue reading →

Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network Second Graduate Symposium New York University | May 17, 2018 MARGIN reads Messy Bodies Last year, in our end-of-the-year symposium focusing on the afterlife of Ovid in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, we found … Continue reading →

CALL FOR PAPERS October 19-20, 2018 “Medieval Unfreedoms: Slavery, Servitude, and Trafficking in Humans before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” Across the medieval world (c. 500 — c. 1500), multiple forms and degrees of unfreedom—slavery, serfdom, forced concubinage, coerced labor, captivity, … Continue reading →

We invite applications for participation in the second annual Dartmouth Summer History Institute (Tuesday May 29-Saturday June 2). The theme for 2018 is New Directions in Medieval Religious History.  The aim of the Summer Institute is to bring together the … Continue reading →

Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies SAMEMES Sixth International Conference 13-14 September 2018 University of Bern Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England At a time when government secrecy and surveillance has reached an unprecedented … Continue reading →