The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 34th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which takes the idea of “Subjectivities” as its theme. The conference will be held virtually over Zoom on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers investigating the various subjectivities present in the Middle Ages […]

Yale Graduate Music Symposium Call for Papers February 23-24, 2024 Yale University – New Haven, CT Keynote Lecture: Dr. Diane Oliva, U. Michigan The Yale Graduate Music Symposium (YGMS) is a biennial event hosted by the Yale Department of Music that provides an opportunity for graduate students engaged in various fields of sonic research to […]

The thirteenth annual Háskóli Íslands Conference on the Medieval North is currently accepting abstract submissions. The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given papers at an academic […]

Calling for submissions for a special issue of Different Visions Journal on “Social Sculpture in the Middle Ages”. See poster here Social Sculpture CFP The issue is preliminarily entitled Social Sculpture in the Middle Ages, however, we define the Middle Ages expansively and are happy to accept early modern applicants or applicants working on medievalisms. […]

The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is now accepting applications to host the 2025 conference. Hosted by a different university each year, Vagantes is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference focused on the Middle Ages. Organized entirely by graduate students, this is a unique opportunity to showcase the Medieval Studies community at your institution. Those involved in planning, […]

THREAD: LOGISTICAL CHAUCER      Organized by Wan-Chuan Kao (kaow@wlu.edu) and Paul Megna (paul.megna@purchase.edu) 200-word abstract by 22 September 2023 (1) Email to session organizer(s), and (2) fill out online form at https://newchaucersociety.org/surveys/Default.asp?id=Congress2024_CFP   The (Counter-)Logistical Lyric in Chaucer and Beyond Organizer: Stephanie L. Batkie (slbatkie@sewanee.edu) Session Format: Lightning Talks This session will consider the poetic infrastructures […]

The officers of MEMSA (Medieval & Early Modern Student Association) at UCLA are pleased to announce this year’s graduate student conference, “Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World.” While the conference will be held in Royce Hall on UCLA campus on June 2, 2023, it will be a hybrid event, meaning that participants are also free […]

CFP – Conference Lightning Round for advanced graduate students Eros: Thinking, Feeling, Writing Love from Classical Antiquity to Early Modernity Advanced graduate students from the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium and other programs in the area are invited to participate in the conference “Eros: Thinking, Feeling, Writing Love from Classical Antiquity to Early Modernity” at NYU-Italian Department-Casa […]

We live in a world of growing debate about the meaning of Democracy. The rise of extreme right-wing parties around the world and the urgent need to discuss liberal democracies place our generations in a key historical moment. It seems to be up also to historians to rethink what we can understand through democratic participation in a […]

The Rutgers Ph.D. Program in German Studies Presents: The Eternal Return of the Vampire / Die ewige Wiederkehr des Vampyrs March 3-4, 2023 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (Updated: Hybrid Format) Keynote Speakers: Dr. Laurence Rickels (The European Graduate School) Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zurich & NYU) “Stay here… the Master comes.” – Renfield, […]