Foundations of Research-1 (Sources & Methods of Source Analysis) is now open for registration.

On Wednesday, 22 September, at 17.00, this interdisciplinary research group kicks off a series of online seminars.

The conference 'Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology' is focused on identifying and examining the connections that create or lie behind parallels between philological methods and traditions in various cultures. Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2022.

Utrecht University is hiring an assistant professor Medieval English Literature. Candidates are invited to apply before April 6, 2024.

The University of Fribourg has a vacancy for both a "professeur" and a "maître d'enseignement et de recherche" in Medieval History. Deadline for application: 30 June 2021.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites outstanding postdoctoral candidates to apply to its postdoctoral scholarship programs. Various deadlines in the Fall of 2021.

The Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Medieval History. Deadline: 3 November 2021.

The Early Irish Hands project is inviting applications for a one-day Work-in-Progress workshop on materiality. Extended deadline: 7 February 2023.

The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is designed to showcase the breadth of graduate research in modern Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and to foster academic collaboration across institutions and sub-disciplines.

The Univeristy of Cologne offers 3 PhD Positions within the project 'Dynamiken der Konventionalität'. Deadline: 30 November 2022.

The deadline for the earlier announced Moving Humanities conference has been extended to August 12. See the original news message for the call for papers.

In April 2022 a new monograph by Carine van Rhijn (Utrecht) will be published, entitled "Leading the Way to Heaven. Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period".

Between April 24th and June 19th Oxford University organises a weekly online seminar in Byzantine Studies.

PhD Position in ERC-funded Project on Historical Future Expectations in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (University of Antwerp) (deadline for submission: 26 April 2020).

The Datini Institute has launched a call for research papers for its 54th Study Week (14-18 May 2023). Deadline for submission: 10 April 2022.

On the 21st and 22nd of June, the students of the Research Master Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Groningen organise an online conference on the topic of otherness.

The deadline for abstract submissions for the Conference on Frisian Humantities has been extended: you can submit your research abstract until 15 March 2022.

Applications to the PhD and MPhil are now open at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). Applicants must submit their completed application by 11:59pm Sunday 18th October 2020 (AEDT).

The Early Irish Hands project is inviting applications for a one-day Work-in-Progress workshop on materiality. Deadline: 31 January 2023.

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

Achter de schermen werken er veel verschillende mensen mee aan de projecten binnen de Dappere Kleintjes onderzoekslijn. Zie hieronder een overzicht van het onderzoeksteam.

In October and December 2021, Al-Babtain Visiting Professor Hugh Kennedy will teach six masterclasses at Leiden University on the idea of a “Greater Mesopotamia” and its fundamental importance in understanding the economy and geopolitics of the early Islamic world, from 650 to 1050 CE.

On 25 and 26 November 2021 the 18th International Meeting of the Middle Ages in Nájera will take place online. It is devoted to: "The Use of Social Space in the Late Medieval European Town". For more information, please consult: www.neim.unican.es.

Fondazione 1563 launched a call for the Summer School of the Turin Humanities Programme, that will take place in Torino from September 6 to September 8 2023. The theme is: Writing global medieval history: comparative and connected approaches. Deadline for applications: June 25.

The NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’ is hosting a series of e-workshops on the topic of ‘Multilingual Literary Cultures in the Middle Ages’. The program is now available online.

On 27-29 October 2021, the ERC Project PASSIM (Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages, Radboud University Nijmegen) will organize the International Workshop On the Way to the Future of Digital Manuscript Studies. Deadline for submission: 10 May 2021.

On 21 October, Andrea van Leerdam will defend her thesis ‘Woodcuts as Reading Guides. How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550)’. To register, send an email to woodcutsasreadingguides@gmail.com.

Spatial humanities are developing fast at the moment. This international expert meeting intends to bring together specialists from different disciplines in order to discuss possibilities, challenges, and next steps for spatial humanities that are concerned with late-medieval and early modern urban history…

The Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame accepts up to two, funded (tuition scholarship + full stipend) PhD students per year in Liturgical Studies. The program integrates three sub-disciplines: Liturgical History; Liturgical Theology; Ritual Studies. Deadline: 2 January 2023.

Anna Dlabačová (Leiden) and Seán Vrieland (Copenhagen) are organizing a panel session on "Praying in the Vernacular" at the 2025 ICMS in Kalamazoo (May 8-10). If you are interested in joining this panel, you are invited to submit an abstract by September 15.

On January 25, the University of Antwerp organizes a workshop around the theme of "The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe". The workshop is free to attend, but registration is necessary.

Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam organises a postgraduate seminar on current issues in religious studies and western esotericism. You can find the programme for the year 2023-2024 below.

This two-day international conference organised by the 'Innovating Knowledge' Project aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to premodern manuscripts and manuscript texts.