Events

Calendar of events on medieval and early modern England and the Islamic worlds. To submit an announcement, please visit our Submissions page.
  • CONFERENCE: Sixteenth Century Society Conference (SCSC) 2026
    Place: Chicago, USA
    29-31 October 2026
    This upcoming conference in Chicago promotes research on the early modern period.
    CONFERENCE: Sixteenth Century Society Conference (SCSC) 2026
    Upcoming Event

  • CONFERENCE: Vienna Renaissance Conference: "Habsburg and Balkan Studies"
    Place: The Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies in Vienna, Austria.
    28 February 2026 (call for papers), 19–20 October 2026 (dates of conference)
    This conference and call for papers explores '“Accounting for Salvation“ Salvation Economics and Pilgrimage in the Early Modern Period'.
    CONFERENCE: Vienna Renaissance Conference: "Habsburg and Balkan Studies"
    Ongoing Series

  • CFP: The Purple and the Book: Precious Manuscripts from Late Antiquity to Renaissance
    Place: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
    Deadline for papers: 28 February 2026. Dates of conference: 18-20 November 2026
    This call out seeks papers on purple manuscripts and the use of purple in manuscript decoration.
    CFP: The Purple and the Book: Precious Manuscripts from Late Antiquity to Renaissance
    Ongoing Series

  • CFP: Conference on John Milton
    Place: Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, United States
    Deadline for papers: 2 March 2025. Dates of conference: 22–24 October 2026.
    This call for papers invites proposals addressing any aspect of John Milton's life or work.
    CFP: Conference on John Milton
    Ongoing Series

  • CFP: Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention
    Place: The Department of English at National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan
    Deadline for papers: 10 March 2026. Date of conference: 29 November 2026.
    This CFP welcomes papers addressing Shakespeare’s influence and reinvention across five centuries of literary, historical and philosophical transformations.
    CFP: Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention
    Ongoing Series

  • CONFERENCE: Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2026
    Place: University College, Oxford, UK.
    13 April 2026 (deadline for call for papers), 8-10 September 2026 (dates of conference)
    This conference and CFP explores creativity in the intersectional gender identities of medieval subjects and modern approaches to studying them.

  • CONFERENCE: European Association of Urban History (EAUH) Conference
    Place: Barcelona, Spain
    2- 5 September 2026
    This interactive conference investigates cross-disciplinary approaches between history, geography, urbanism and more.

  • CONFERENCE: The Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
    Place: The University of Kent, UK
    Deadline for papers: 31 January 2026 , Dates of conference: 3-5 September 2026
    This conference brings together established scholars of fifteenth-century studies with younger colleagues at the start of their academic careers.

  • CFP: Material Memory and the Provenances of Medieval Artefacts
    Place: Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany
    Deadline for papers: 15 March 2026. Dates of conference: 3-4 September 2026.
    This call out for papers invites research that explores how medieval objects and materials “remember” their origins.