Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
3 – 5 December 2025 | University of Melbourne
Call for Papers, deadline – 14 February 2025
The 2025 Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is delighted to announce its 15th Biennial Conference. 3rd – 5th December 2025; University of Melbourne, Australia
For 2025, as well as papers on any area of medieval and early modern studies, the conference committee particularly welcomes papers on the theme of ‘possibilities’. How did medieval and early modern societies imagine, conceptualize, live with, and manage possibilities? What new interpretations are opened up by thinking about the possible in relation to our methods, approaches and attitudes to past societies and their study in the present and into the future?
Possibility is a multifaceted concept, extending from medieval and early modern perceptions of the future and the unknown to philosophical conceptualizations of capability, powers, and potentials. The possible also prompts us to examine what might seem impossible or unknowable in relation to historical subjects and our disciplinary configurations. Because possibility can open up the space of speculation in our work, this conference particularly invites contributions that consider arguments which are possible, but refuse absolute determination; approaches which develop new possibilities for transdisciplinary conversations; and practices open to the possibilities of new technologies in medieval and early modern studies.
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Leah DeVun, Department of History, Rutgers University
- Professor Emma Dillon, Thurston Dart Professor of Music (Medieval Music and Cultures), King’s College London
- Dr Kate Franklin, History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers (20 minutes duration) and thematic panels (90 minutes duration and 3 to 4 speakers). Proposals can be submitted through the conference website: https://conference.anzamems.org/cfp/
- Proposal and deadline: 14th February 2025
- Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2025
Please note that the ANZAMEMS Conference 2025 will be an in-person only event. For further information, see:
https://conference.anzamems.org
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