European Academy of Religion 2017
Ex Nihilo: A “Zero Conference” on Research in the Religious Fields
Bologna
June 18–21, 2017

The purpose of the conference—which will precede the first Convention to be held in March 2018—is to test the initiative of a European Academy of Religion as a research platform and as a network of networks. Fscire will host the conference and be in charge of all its organizational aspects.

The Scientific Program

All the academies and associations, departments and research centers, scientific journals and publishers working in the vast area of EU and Mena Countries as well as the Balkans, Caucasus, and Russia who are willing to participate in this conference are kindly asked to submit proposals for panels and disputationes by March 31, 2017.

Scholars and groups of scholars are invited to present individual papers or panels. Societies or groups who want to hold their own meetings and conferences during the “Zero Conference” are also welcome.

Proposal templates are available in the Download Area at www.europeanacademyofreligion.org and should be sent to eu_are2017@fscire.it.

The Marketplace

Publishers may be given a space to display their publications, meet with scholars, and receive proposals from the participants.

Institutional and private donors who want to launch calls and research projects will have the opportunity to meet with scholars and research groups.

Lectiones et Disputationes

Three lectures and three disputationes will be arranged by the hosting institution: while contacts are underway, suggestions and speakers’ CVs are welcome.

Registration and Fees

Registration will open on January 16, 2017 and will close on May 30, 2017.

Fees have been set as follows: senior scholars and professors €60; students, PhD students,

PostDoc, and early-career scholars €30. Travel grants of €200 may be available for scholars who do not have access to their own travel funds.

Special agreements for discounted rates will be concluded with hotels and restaurants. Fscire will organize complimentary artistic events and guided tours for the registered participants, and partially fund the gala dinner.

The CEMS Postgraduate Conference 2017: Living Well and Dying Well in the Early Modern World
Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Exeter
15-16 June, 2017

Keynote Speakers: Dr Lucy Munro (KCL); Dr Amy Erickson (Cambridge)

Following the success of our inaugural conference last year, the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Exeter is pleased to announce our second annual postgraduate conference. This two-day conference will explore the varied aspects of life and death and their representations in art, literature, and culture between 1500 and 1800, and we welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers from postgraduate students in any humanities discipline.

Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

• Ideas of a good life in the early modern period
• The economic lives of early modern families
• Concepts of happiness, satisfaction, or enjoyment
• Advice on how to ensure a good life or death
• Class and society
• Celebrations and memorials (in society, art, music, and drama)
• Medical, scientific, and other advances which contributed to the quality of life
• Work and labour
• Valued relationships, beliefs, or objects
• Gendered virtue, sociability, or affection
• Stage representations of living, the life cycle, death, and dying

Proposals should comprise a 200-word abstract and a brief biography. Please email proposals to cemsconference@exeter.ac.uk with the heading ‘2017 conference proposal’ by 31 March, 2017. Any queries can also be emailed to the same address. Some travel grants will be available and will be announced closer to the conference.