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26--27 January 2024

New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art, 200 -- 800 AD (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)

Organized by Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, with the support of Spätantike Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte e.V.. Keynote speaker: Emma Stafford (University of Leeds). The aim of this workshop is to explore the formal patterns, roles and meanings, continuities and innovations in the depictions of personifications of this period to better understand their functions, their relationship to one another and to other iconographic tools, as well as the changes that occur between the second and ninth centuries in the Mediterranean world.

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Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2023

16-17 March 2024

Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)

The Program Committee of the Medieval Academy of America invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Exceptions can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. Plenary speakers are Robin Fleming (Boston College), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford), and Jack Tannous (Princeton). The themes of this year's conference are (1) Mapping the Middle Ages, (2) Bodies in Motion, and (3) Communities of Knowledge

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Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2023

19--21 March 2024

Mysticism and Action (St John's College, Oxford University)

This Mystical Theology Network Conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the relationship between mysticism, political activism, and social reform. It features keynote addresses by Joy Bostic, Dylan Esler, Ben Morgan, Andrew Prevot, Simon D. Podmore, Tine Van Osselaer, and a public lecture by Cole Arthur Riley. The organizers welcome papers on both historical and contemporary approaches to the theme, as well as artistic and practical approaches, and those that bring these into dialogue.

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Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2023

5--6 April 2024

'What Do You Have That You Have Not Received?' Approaches to the Relationship between Faith and Grace in Early Christianity and Early Modern Theology and Philosophy (Budapest, Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)

The aim of this conference to provide an academic forum for researchers of Patristics and early modern theology on the subject of Faith and Grace in Early Christianity and in the 16th and 17th centuries. A historical and / or analytical method is expected from participants, who may be theologians, philosophers, historians of ideas etc., and who want to share new insights of their unpublished research. Speakers include Anthony Dupont, Mark W. Elliot, and Aza Goudriaan.

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Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2023

16-17 May 2024

Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Tradition (Vienna)

The purpose of this workshop, organize by Grigory Kissel (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna), Sabine Schmidtke, and George Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) is to study misattribution of content in and forgeries of Middle Eastern manuscript culture as intellectual history. This cross-discipline workshop aims to cover manuscripts in various languages, including, but not limited to, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac, in addition to the ancient languages of Egypt and Mesopotamia. All time periods are of interest.

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Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2023

23-25 May 2024

NAPS - The North American Patristics Society, Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL)

The annual meeting of the North American Patristic Society is usually held in years when the Oxford Patristics Conference does not take place. Due to the postponement of Oxford 2023, both NAPS and the Oxford Patristics Conference will be held in 2024. The Paper Proposal Submission, open to Society members, will open in the Fall of 2023.

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Deadline for submissions: Fall 2023

4-8 June 2024

Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millenium (Rome)

An International Conference co-organized by the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA) and the Institute for the Ecumenical Studies of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). The conference will focus on the theological and ecclesiological issues that unite and divide Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians by discussing the legacy of the First Ecumenical Council.

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Deadline for submissions: March 21, 2024

1--4 July 2024

International Medieval Congress (Leeds, UK)

The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies, bringing together scholars from around the world in a variety of specializations and fields. The thematic strand for the 2024 Congress is "Crisis," examining the language of resilience, vulnerability, and adapatation in the field and inviting a plurality of viewpoints on and critical engagement with these concepts.

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Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2023

5--9 August 2024

Early bird registration ends July 31, 2023. Submit abstracts and workshops by August 31, 2023. The International Conference on Patristic Studies has taken place in Oxford every four years since 1951. Initially conceived as an oecumenical colloquium for a select group of clerical scholars, it has expanded decade by decade until in 2015 it welcomed almost a thousand delegates, clerical and lay, from all the world’s continents, and encompassed a great diversity of subjects from the New Testament to Palamas, and from liturgy to postmodern theories of gender. It is organized by a board of scholars from various universities in the United Kingdom, with the assistance of the presidents of the Association Internationale des Études Patristiques and the North American Patristics Society.

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Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2023

11--13 September 2024

International Conference on the Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (KU Leuven)

In the framework of the Köln/Leuven research project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and launched in 2022, KU Leuven Griekse Studies is organizing an international conference on The Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th-10th century) at the picturesque Arenberg Castle on the outskirts of Leuven. The keynote paper will be delivered by Derek Krueger (Greensboro). Other confirmed speakers include Albrecht Berger (Munich), Stephanos Efthymiadis (Nicosia), Laurence Mellerin (Lyon), and Óscar Prieto Domínguez (Salamanca).