The MEMS group at The University of Western Australia invites postgraduate students and ECRs to apply to present at an ANZAMEMS Seminar to be held on Tuesday 26 November 2024 (as part of the larger CHASS Congress). The seminar, “Intercultural encounters and materialities in the medieval and early modern period,” will explore the methodological and theoretical challenges in researching inter-cultural encounter histories for MEMS scholars.
Abstracts (ca 150 words) for seminar papers (20 mins duration) are now invited and must be received by 15 September 2024. A limited number of bursaries will be available. For further details, see the ANZAMEMS website.
The Australian Early Medieval Association will host their annual conference at ACU Canberra between 26-28 September. Paper proposals are now sought on the theme ‘The Spectrum of the Early Medieval World’. See below CFP for details.
SOLIDARITY – A CONFERENCE 10-11 October 2024 (in person)
The Limina collective conference committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers from across the breadth of humanities research to explore the theme of Solidarity.
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
Solidarity across social, political, economic, ecological, and/or psychological studies
Contemporary and/or historic demonstrations of solidarity
Activism and advocacy studies
Solidarity and its antithesis
Forms of solidarity: fraternity, sisterhood/brotherhood, kinship, and nationality
Solidarity in utopian thought and studies
Crisis and resolution: falling apart and coming together
Depictions of solidarity in art, literature, and media
Any other topics related to the theme of solidarity
Limina is open to all scholars and encourages HDR students and early career researchers (ECRs) to submit abstracts for this in-person conference.
Please submit abstracts (max. 200 words) and a short biography (max. 50 words) to liminajournal@gmail.com before the end of July 2024. Please specify in your proposal whether you are willing to chair a panel.
The art history journal Perspective has announced their call for papers for their 2025 special issue, themed ‘anachronisms’. Proposals are to include a 350 to 500 word abstract, a working title, a short bibliography on the subject, and a biography. These must be sent to revue-perspective@inha.fr no later than 17 June 2024.
Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, ACU Hybrid Workshop Melbourne and Online, 15-16 July 2024 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Van Gent (UWA)
This workshop aims to further the study of intercultural encounters in the pre-modern world through the lens of gender. More specifically, we mean to foster a discussion on how masculinities could affect the processes of cultural encounter and their outcomes, but also how masculinities emerged changed in turn from such processes. See below flyer for further details.
The 37th Irish Conference of Medievalists is taking place in Dublin on 20 & 21st June 2024. The call for papers is now open, with a deadline of 1st May. Please see below flyer for further details.
The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent welcomes paper proposal – online and in person – for the 10th annual MEMS festival. See below flyer for details.
Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group have opened the Call for Papers for their 2024 conference: Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales, to be held hybrid on Zoom and at the University of Western Australia on Saturday 26 October. Further details can be found in the below flyer and at: https://www.pmrg.org.au/2024-conference-myths-legends-and-fairy-tales.
Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction
University of Huelva, Spain 17-18 October, 2024
Traditional approaches to the ‘origins of the novel’ question in the English context have often overlooked the role played by women’s contribution to the development of the genre. Minor works, anonymous texts, fiction signed by women, as well as those works bearing a female pseudonym, were usually considered second-rate and were rarely included—with only a few exceptions—in canonical histories of the novel. A female history of the novel genre cannot be written in isolation from other women novelists across Europe, who no doubt exerted an enormous influence on the English novel market, and on women novelists in particular. This seminar proposes a discussion of women’s printed fiction during the seventeenth century from a pan-European perspective to help us situate the early days of the novel in their true transnational context. The fictional works translated into English from different European tongues, the growing popularity of women’s fiction among readers, as well as the cross-influences between English and non-English novels allegedly authored by women, or their different markets—accounting for the influence that women printers and booksellers played in the publication and dissemination of fiction—will also be of our concern. It is our contention that it is possible to read the complex network of readers, writers and other agents of the novel market as belonging to an active, though imaginary, community contributing to the development of the novel form. We would like to assess the relevance that this growing female contribution had in the evolution of the genre.
We invite 20-minute papers which discuss crosscurrents or influences among texts authored by European women, as well as about biographical and/or cultural relationships at work between women writers and intellectuals in the period of study. We aim to discuss whether we can trace a continuum in European women’s fiction which explains transitions of genre/gender and literary culture, from the perspective of transculturality, drawing on all literary sources as fields of cross-media influences. We will consider papers about English women’s native fiction, like Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, as well as about translations and adaptations of continental women’s works printed in England, as the examples of Marie de Lafayette, Mlle de la Roche Guilhem, Madeleine de Scudéry, or María de Zayas, among others, make clear.
Some of the suggested topics are the following:
· Women’s contribution to the rise and development of fiction in English
· French nouvelles and English novels: mutual allegiances and liaisons
· Spanish novelas, the picaresque and the world of roguery
· Letter exchanges: the early novel and epistolarity
· Assessing gallantry across borders: from French to English
· Towards a transnational theory of the novel
· Political diatribes and religious debates in early prose fiction by women
· Intersections of gender and genre across national borders
· Translation, revision and adaptation in the seventeenth-century novel: translations of women’s texts, female translators of works by men
· Female histories of the book: printing, publishing and bookselling across national borders
· Popularity, canonicity, and the new female readership for the novel: reality or wishful thinking?
· Romancing the novel and novelizing the romance
· Framed-nouvelles and female narrators
· Women’s worlds in historical fictions
· The worlds of domesticity: wives, daughters, she-workers, servants
The Fifth Quadrennial Symposium on Crusade Studies(October 3 -5, 2024) hosted by Saint Louis University will take place on its European campus in Madrid, Spain. Meeting in the vibrant capital city, the Symposium offers scholars the opportunity to present research, visit significant locations, and engage in historical discussion. The goal of the of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and disciplines associated with crusading and the Latin East. The symposium will include plenary sessions from Thomas Asbridge, of Queen Mary University of London, and Helen Nicholson, of Cardiff University.
The Symposium invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of medieval crusading are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes.
Submissions are currently open and the deadline for all proposals is March 31st, 2024. Late submissions will be considered if space is available. Decisions will be made by the end of April and the final program will be published in June.
