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Cambridge
Freedom of Conscience in the Pre-Enlightenment (1000-1650)
Freedom of conscience is considered an unalienable right akin to freedoms of expression and speech, as noted in Articles 18 and 19 of the UN Charter. However, if we turn to the Medieval period, and its great diversity of innovative religious writing, it is clear that the mechanics of external oppression upon an individual’s inner life already existed in clear and comprehensible terms. Therefore, the (broad) question we would like to answer is : if we look beyond the eighteenth century, do we see this idea gradually become concrete ?
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Porto
Petrus Hispanus' Tractatus : Logic and Philosophy from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Petrus Hispanus’ Tractatus, or Summulae logicales, composed in the mid-thirteenth century, came to occupy a central place in the study of logic from the late thirteenth century onward. Commented in several studia and then by Buridan at the University of Paris, it was gradually adopted across European universities and remained in use until the seventeenth century, surviving in hundreds of manuscripts and hundreds of printed editions.
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Geneva
Thinking High and Low: Elites, Experts, and the Masses in the Early Reformation
The summer school highlights the dynamic interplay between “high” and “low” forms of thinking and between elite norm-setting and the appropriation, adaptation or contestation of those norms in real-life situations and historical events. By integrating inputs from theology, philosophy and history, along with intellectual, linguistic and social perspectives, the programme presents the transition from the late Middles Ages to the Reformation as a complex reordering of normative structures and cultural hierarchies. It invites the participants to reconsider the period through the lens of how ideas moved between, and were transformed across, different levels of thought, language and society.
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“Locus Sacratissimus”. From Object to Place
The Eucharistic Reservation between the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent
We are pleased to inform you that next October the III International Conference on Art and Liturgy at the University of Cádiz will take place. This specialised conference, now in its third edition, is entitled “Locus Sacratissimus”. From Object to Place. The Eucharistic Reservation between the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent.
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the many forms in which women played with writing between the Middle Ages and the early modern period
The organisers of the workshop propose an occasion for reflection and dialogue on the literary and non-literary works of women authors from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, with the intention of welcoming original and unpublished papers that can contribute to enriching current knowledge and advance research on the themes, modes and forms of women's writing. There will be a focus on lesser-known figures and contributions related to the activity of as yet not-famous women.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Emancipation in Early Modern England
This issue will examine theories and practices of emancipation in early modern England, as well as the parallels and transpositions that can be made with our experience in the 21st century in the domestic, educational, socio-economic, political, and religious spheres.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Early Modern Imaginings and Scientific Investigations
This issue of Shakespeare en devenir invites articles on representations, invocations, and speculations on lunar topics, from early modern imaginings and scientific investigations to contemporary deployments in performance, queer genre and eco-theory. Suggested topics and questions can include visual representations of the moon, the moon’s long association with diseases and madness, the Man in the Moon (sources, circulation, intertextuality), the moon and the cult of Elizabeth I, the cultural circulation and aftermath of Copernicus and Galileo’s discoveries, voyages to the moon as a utopia. Authors considered may range from Lyly, Shakespeare and Jonson, to John Wilkins, Aphra Behn, and modern and contemporary writers.
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Madrid
Conference, symposium - Religion
The Juridical-Political Thought of Alfonso de Castro (1495-1558)
The Construction of Orthodoxy in the Age of the Reformation
Conference dedicated to Alfonso de Castro's heresiographical treatrise “Adversus omnes haereses” (1534, 1546, 1547, 1556), an important milestone in Catholic heresiography that emerged from the interconfesional controversy with Protestantism.
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Tallinn
Conference, symposium - Early modern
From the Baltic Sea Region to the Iberian Peninsula
The Art at the time of Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525)
The year 2025 marks the 500th anniversary of Michel Sittow’s death in his hometown of Reval (now Tallinn). Sittow’s life, career, and œuvre exemplify how, in the Late Medieval and Early Modern world, professional mobility was no less significant than it is today. The seminar aims to explore the international visual and political contexts surrounding Sittow in order to better understand his experiences within the artistic production and visual culture of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Europe.
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Copenhagen
Call for papers - Early modern
Carousels and other colonial spectacles
Performing race and racialization at European courts c. 1500–1700
Interdisciplinary conference on the role of colonialism and racism in Early Modern court spectacles at University of Copenhagen, 20–21 August 2026.
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Abu Dhabi
Philosophers and the Abrahamic Religions
Centuries of Reciprocal Influence
The Abrahamic Family House and the Munich School of Philosophy will organize a two-day conference in Abu Dhabi (UAE) to explore the contributions of the Abrahamic religions to philosophical debates and the reciprocal influence of philosophy on these traditions. Academic scholars and distinguished figures in interfaith dialogue will engage in discussions.
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Porto
Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises
From the Western Schism to the V Lateran Council (1378-1517)
The history of the cardinalate, which stretches from the 11th century to the present day, went through one of the most volatile phases of its development between the beginning of the Western Schism (1378) and the close of the Fifth Lateran Council (1517). This congress aims to work and reflect on these cardinals, both as a group, gathered in the Sacred College, and in their individual dimensions, as lords, members of lineages, pastors, reformers, conciliarists, centres of courts, families and networks, diplomats and representatives of nations, patrons of the arts, among others. The cross-sectional interest of this congress stems from the desire to feed the historiographical renewal that has been taking place over the last two decades on the medieval cardinalate, seeking to bring together researchers who are dedicated to its study, regardless of the angle of approach they may take.
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Vilnius
Acutus et Argutus: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion
The conference will bring together scholars from diverse fields – including book history, print culture, Baroque studies, and documentary heritage – to explore the evolution of books, printing, and readership from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary dialogue and innovative research approaches, we aim to reveal new insights into early printed books and their vibrant journey across time and space.
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This seminar aims to analyse Michel Sittow’s international visual and political contexts to understand his experiences within the artistic production and visual culture of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Europe.
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Frankfurt
Conference, symposium - History
Normative Knowledge and the Emergence of New Spain
The participants in the Conference Normative Knowledge and the Emergence of New Spain will explore the important role that normative knowledge (in particular, law, theology and philology, closely interconnected) played in a long and delicate process of creating institutions and normativities.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Early modern
Ce colloque donnera lieu à la publication d'un volume collectif (Twelfth Night: New Directions) qui sera publié en 2025 aux Presses Universitaires de Nanterre, par Louise Rozsak et Nora Galland.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Knowledge, Symbolics and Uses of a Versatile Material in Europe (1450-1550)
This call for papers targets a wide range of disciplinary fields (e.g. history, art history, heritage science, literature, philosophy). This peer-reviewed edited volume aims to understand the uses and meanings of Gold as it pervades all areas of European societies, on a methodologically restricted time-frame (1450-1550). It intends to move beyond traditional research, so as to map out the social and cultural dynamics of this precious and versatile material in Renaissance Europe.
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Geneva
Laboratories of Tolerance: Rethinking Sebastian Castellio and his Legacy
This year IHR workshops will focus on Sebastian Castellio's work, its reception and its heritage. The first day will be concluded by an evening lecture by Odile Panetta (Oxford/AArhus), which will take place at the Musée International de la Réforme in Geneva.
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Geneva
Conference, symposium - Religion
Pauline Exegesis in Pre-modern Times
The conference on the Many Faces of Paul is the opening workshop of the research project “Exegesis of Paul in the 16th Century”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Other than the project itself which will mainly focus on Reformation theology, our interest for this conference is to focus on other intellectual traditions, be they late antique, medieval, or early modern, that will help us later to contextualize Protestant perspectives. We are therefore deliberately interested in presentations on a broad spectrum of possible figures and sources, and we welcome contributions on the whole corpus that was historically associated with the Apostle, including the Epistle to the Hebrews and apocryphal material such as the Acta Pauli.
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Paris
Call for papers - Early modern
Visual Dramaturgies (1500-1800)
Scenography, Costumes and Movement on Early Modern Stages
The interest of researchers in the visual – and material – aspects of Early modern theatre has increased in the last decade. In addition to the rather developed histories of scenography and dance, an increasing number of publications on the topic of costume, lighting and historical acting have appeared, including more technical studies interested in their production and re- production (see bibliography below). The conference aims to support this trend from a transdisciplinary point of view and to reunite researchers and practitioners interested in Western performing arts (music theatre, dance, drama) of the period between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century in order to share the latest research, compare practices in various periods, countries and theatrical forms, search for convergences and perhaps even debunk some misconceptions about these aspects of theatre.
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