The Archaeology of Iron Age Transjordan. Between Empires and Local Networks
International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’
Münster, 06 October 2025 – 07 October 2025

The conference aims to discuss the nature of society, politics, and religion throughout Iron Age Transjordan. Our goal is to explore interconnections, systems of control, and the tensions between local networks, emerging ‘state’ power, and the wider imperial context.

Each paper will contribute to these broader themes, and by the end of the conference, we seek to move beyond traditional assumptions and illuminate the complexity of Iron Age communities in Transjordan.

Organization
Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’
Prof. Dr. Katharina Schmidt, University of Münster
Project A3-42: Mountain-top sites in Edom: Disentangling politics, religion and economy in an Iron Age tribal kingdom
transjordan@uni-muenster.de

in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Piotr Bienkowski, University of Manchester

Location and registration
Cluster of Excellence lecture theatre
Room JO 101 (1st floor)
Johannisstraße 4, 48143 Münster

Registration at transjordan@uni-muenster.de 

The complete programme and further information can be found at the conference website.

53nd International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA)
Vienna, 31 March - 4 April 2026

Deadline for submission: 26 October 2025

You are invited to submit an abstract for a paper or poster on any aspect of computer applications or quantitative methods in archaeology for presentation at CAA’s 53rd conference to be held in Vienna, Austria.

Papers and posters from Students and Early Career Researchers are actively encouraged. The Nick Ryan Bursary will be awarded to the best student paper at CAA2026 and the recipient will receive a bursary of up to € 1,000 to travel to the CAA2027 conference.

The CAA2026 call for papers will stay open until 26 October 2025. Any technical queries related to the CAA2026 submission system, questions about conference organisation or other logistical queries should be directed to caa2026@caaconference.org. Any queries related to the scientific or review process should be sent to the scientific committee at: scientificcommittee@caa-international.org.

The complete Call for Papers and Posters with further information can be found at the conference website.

Aesopus talem tum fabellam rettulit. Narratological Approaches to Ancient Fables
Internationale Fabeltagung
Graz, 25.-27. September 2025

Veranstaltungsort
Heinrichstraße 78A/1.OG (HS 47.11), 8010 Graz

Organisation
Christopher Poms
Ursula Gärtner

Kontakt 
christopher.poms@uni-graz.at  

Das vollständige Programm und weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Veranstaltungswebsite.

Burg und Konflikt in Mittelalter und Neuzeit
Tübingen, 30. Oktober – 2. November 2025

Anmeldefrist: 10. Oktober 2025

Burgen als Schauplätze von Macht und Konflikt
Burgen stehen wie kaum ein anderer Bautypus für Macht – und für Konflikt. Die Tagung in Tübingen widmet sich ihrer Rolle in kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart: als militärische Stützpunkte, Symbole von Herrschaft oder Ziel intentioneller Zerstörung.

Im Fokus stehen bekannte Konflikte – etwa die Belagerung der Burg Hohentübingen (1078), der Städtekrieg (1377) oder der Bauernkrieg von 1525, dessen 500. Jahrestag einen zentralen Schwerpunkt bildet. Dabei wird auch der Blick auf frühere und internationale bäuerliche Erhebungen wie die Bundschuhbewegung oder den Aufstand in Tirol (1526) gerichtet.

Neben historischen Perspektiven stehen auch aktuelle Fragen im Mittelpunkt: Wer trägt Verantwortung für Erhalt, Sanierung und Vermittlung? Welche Interessen und Konflikte treffen beim Umgang mit Burgen heute aufeinander – zwischen Denkmalschutz, öffentlicher Nutzung und touristischem Anspruch?

Die Tagung bringt Fachleute aus Geschichte, Archäologie und Bauforschung und zusammen – und bietet Raum für neue Perspektiven auf Burgen als Orte der Auseinandersetzung, damals wie heute.

Anmeldung bis 10. Oktober 2025 über das folgende Anmeldeformular (docx)  und senden Sie es per E-Mail an sekretariat.ifgl@ifgl.uni-tuebingen.de oder per Post an die im Formular genannte Adresse.

Veranstaltungsort
Schloss Hohentübingen, Hörsaal Klassische Archäologie, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen

Teilnahmegebühr (Tagungsgebühr):
Tagungsgebühr 50 €
Mitglieder der Universität Tübingen, MAB und DBV: 30 €.
Für Studierende ist der Besuch der Tagung kostenlos.
Der Unkostenbeitrag bei Teilnahme an der Tagesexkursion am 02.11.2025 beträgt 10 Euro.
Die Tagungsgebühr ist im Tagungsbüro in bar zu bezahlen!

Das vollständige Programm und weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Veranstaltungswebsite.

Entangled Rivers
A multi-layered portrait of Southern Mesopotamia
16–19 October 2025
Bern, Switzerland

Deadline for registration: 30 September 2025

Pursuing a holistic approach towards the diachronic reconstruction of the ancient hydro-cultural landscape of Southern Mesopotamia, we invite archaeologists, philologists, geoscientists, and data scientists to share insights in current state of the art research in landscape archaeology and historic geography. Together with network researchers, we aim to critically discuss the potentials and obstacles of multi-layered networks as a device to interlink and analyze data from archaeological, textual, historical, and paleoenvironmental sources. A further goal of this multi-disciplinary discourse is the agreement on best practice standards to foster the interoperability and re-usability of data sets across disciplines.

Contact
For further information and requests, please send an e-mail to info@hymes.ch

The online registration form, the complete programme and further information can be found at the conference website.

1. Interdisciplinary BAJA Workshop:
"Who was who? Persons in Antiquity"
7.-8.11.2025, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Deadline for submission: October 1, 2025

Who was actually who and who was someone?
We encounter people in ancient cultures in portraits, texts, archaeological contexts – as individuals, as functionaries, as symbols. But what do we really know about them? And what does it mean to reconstruct "persons of antiquity"?

The workshop "Who was who? People in Antiquity" invites doctoral candidates and early career postdocs to approach this topic together across disciplinary boundaries through methodological exchange and new perspectives.

The workshop is part of the BAJA workshop series and funded by the KSBF Doctoral Promotion Office. This year, it is aimed in particular at researchers who move between disciplinary boundaries and want to develop new questions together. The plan is to publish the contributions and a joint thesis paper. We combine Lightning Talks (5-7 minutes) – as an impulse on your topics, ideas, or case studies – with an open fishbowl discussion: a dynamic format where listeners can join the conversation at any time. The aim is not a classic lecture audience, but a productive exchange at eye level.

Contributions from all areas of classical studies with a wide variety of focuses, such as prosopography, iconography, cultural theory, and methodological approaches from sociology, psychology, computer science or related fields are welcome!

If you would like to participate, send us a short abstract (max. 250 words) with title, a summary of your contribution and a short biographical information by October 1, 2025, to: eva.maria.hemauer@hu-berlin.de 

Organisation
Alexandra Verbovsek, Eva Maria Hemauer, Anne Herzberg-Beiersdorf, Christian di Capua

Contact
eva.maria.hemauer@hu-berlin.de 

The complete Call for Papers can be found as PDF on the conference website.

17th Freiburg (Groningen) Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry
Inscriptional Poetry of the Hellenistic age
Freiburg im Breisgau, 23-25 September 2026

Deadline for submission: 31 October 2025

The Seminar für klassische Philologie at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg announces the seventeenth workshop in the series formerly known as the “Groningen Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry”, now for the first time to be organised in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany on 23-25 September 2026. The theme of this workshop will be Inscriptional Poetry of the Hellenistic age.

Inscriptional poetry of the Hellenistic era is an under-exploited resource for expanding our understanding of Hellenistic literature, society and culture. With its direct connection to specific material contexts, its embeddedness within local history, religion and culture, and its direct link to the lives of individuals otherwise unknown, inscribed poetry offers a precious window onto the Hellenistic world. Moreover, studying inscribed texts allows us to move beyond core centers of poetic patronage and learning (including Alexandria) to gain insight into the whole range of literary experience and experimentation across the Hellenistic world. This corpus, in short, can both challenge and enrich our understanding of the literature of this era.

Scholars wishing to contribute a paper to the workshop are requested to send an e-mail to jacqueline.klooster@altphil.uni-freiburg.de with the title of their paper and a brief abstract (1 page) by 31 October 2025. On acceptance, you will be asked to send a PDF of the complete text of the paper by 1 May 2026, so that it can be distributed among the participants well in advance of the workshop. During the workshop itself there will be time for a short introduction (ca. 10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion of the paper (ca. 35 minutes). If necessary, the workshop will also have an online component.
We are confident we will be able to (partly) fund travel and accommodation costs.

Organisation
Jacqueline Klooster (Freiburg): jacqueline.klooster@altphil.uni-freiburg.de
Annette Harder (Groningen)

The complete Call for Papers is available for download as a PDF file.

55. Deutscher Historikertag
"Dynamiken der Macht"
Bonn, 15.-19. September 2025