Conferences
(Photograph: Andrew Stephenson)
ASCS 46
The Australasian Society for Classical Studies 46th conference will be held at ANU in Canberra from 3–5 February 2025 with a welcome reception on the evening of 2 February.
The call for papers is now open. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 23 August 2024.
Call for papers and further information
60th International Congress on Medieval Studies
The 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place 8-10 May 2025 at Western Michigan University Kalamazoo.
Leeds Medieval Congress 2025
IMC 2025 will take place from Monday 07 July to Thursday 10 July 2025 and there will be both an in-person and virtual component. The special thematic focus for IMC 2025 will be 'Worlds of Learning'.
Proposals for IMC 2025 are open from Saturday 01 June 2024. Details for submitting a proposal.
ANZAMEMS Conference 2025 - Possibilities
The ANZAMEMS 15th Biennial Conference:
3–5 December 2025
The University of Melbourne, Australia
In-Person Event
The 2025 Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is delighted to announce its 15th Biennial Conference. For 2025, as well as papers on any area of medieval and early modern studies, the conference committee particularly welcomes papers on the theme of 'possibilities'. How did medieval and early modern societies imagine, conceptualize, live with, and manage possibilities? What new interpretations are opened up by thinking about the possible in relation to our methods, approaches and attitudes to past societies and their study in the present and into the future?
Possibility is a multifaceted concept, extending from medieval and early modern perceptions of the future and the unknown to philosophical conceptualizations of capability, powers, and potentials. The possible also prompts us to examine what might seem impossible or unknowable in relation to historical subjects and our disciplinary configurations. Because possibility can open up the space of speculation in our work, this conference particularly invites contributions that consider arguments which are possible, but refuse absolute determination; approaches which develop new possibilities for transdisciplinary conversations; and practices open to the possibilities of new technologies in medieval and early modern studies.
Possible topics include:
* Possibility and future-oriented affects: hope, dread, fear, trust
* Contingency and uncertainty: predicting and managing possible futures
* Possible encounters and worlds
* Possibilities of the body: senses, transformations, habits, and identities
* Thinking possibility, impossibility, compossibility, necessity, and actuality
* The art of the possible: politics, pragmatism, compromise, idealism
* The art of the impossible: medieval and early modern worlds in fantasy, science
fiction and speculative writing
* Contemporary methods and im/possibility: fabulation, historical speculation, and
counterfactuals
* ‘Another university is possible’: reflections on institutions, pedagogy and
curriculum
* Material affordances: the possibilities of material worlds
Keynote speakers:
Professor Emma Dillon, Thurston Dart Professor of Music (Medieval Music and Cultures), King's College London
Dr Kate Franklin, History, Classics & Archaeology, Birbeck College, University of London
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The ANZAMEMS Postgraduate and Early Career Training Seminar will take place on the 2nd December 2025. Details to be announced here.
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers (20 minutes duration)mand thematic panels (90 minutes duration and 3 to 4 speakers).
Proposals can be submitted through the conference web site:
https://conference.anzamems.org/cfp/
Proposal and deadline: 14th February 2025
Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2025
If an early decision is required, please contact the conference committee: ANZAMEMS-conference@unimelb.edu.au
Proposals for other events such as roundtables or workshops will also be considered; please contact the conference committee directly.
Please note that the ANZAMEMS Conference 2025 will be an in-person only event.
ANZAMEMS Conference 2025 Travel Bursaries
A limited number of travel bursaries will be available to facilitate the attendance of postgrads, ECRs, and those without institutional support. Bursary applications can be submitted through the conference website:
https://conference.anzamems.org/bursaries/
Further information on the ANZAMEMS diversity and equity policy is also available on he ANZAMEMS web site.