*****CALL FOR PAPERS******

The nineteenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 6-9 March 2014 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to ( Read more... )

Throughout history, the city has functioned as a dynamic nexus of cultural, political, and economic identities, a complex forum for the construction of social categories like ethnicity, class, and gender. Seeking to expand the discourse on this dynamic urbanism to a global platform and beyond the confines of periodization, the Fordham University ( Read more... )

Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages V:

Infirmitas. Social and Cultural Approaches to Cure, Caring and Health.August 23 - 26, 2012 ( Read more... )

Calls for papers for two Leeds ’11 sessions sponsored by MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application).

CFP for Leeds 2011: Rich and Poor

SESSION I:  ”The Economy of Monstrosity: Slaves, Human Traffickers, Bankers and Thieves”
Throughout the Middle Ages, ( Read more... )

More Kalamazoo CFPs from my inbox, the first of which really needs some participants!

( CFP (KZOO): TRAVEL IN THE WORLD OF ARTHUR )

The 20th annual Texas Medieval Association conference at SMU in Dallas (Sept ( Read more... )

( The Hobbit and History -- September 15th )

The 2010 Medieval Association of the Midwest conference will be held September 17-18, 2010, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. In addition to featuring the usual stimulating intellectual exchange and fellowship typical for MAM, participants will have an opportunity to explore Iowa’s Special Collections manuscripts, interact with book ( Read more... )

( CFP: Animals and Humans in the Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance )

( CFP: Martyred Bodies and Religious Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe )