The 33^rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference – TRAC 2025 
Date: 22–24 October 2025 
Venue: Online through the Gather Town platform

The TRAC Standing Committee and TidA are pleased to invite proposals for themed conference sessions for TRAC 2025.

In the spirit of collaboration the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Standing Committee and TidA are partnering to offer an opportunity to connect scholars  working in the D-A-CH regions, the UK and beyond for a special TRAC 2025 conference. Established at the TAG conference in Lampeter, AG Theorien in der Archäologie (AG TidA) has evolved from the Theorie-AG, founded in 1990 and dedicated to furthering debates in archaeological theory within (but not exclusively) the German speaking world (D-A-CH).

TRAC 2025 welcomes sessions that address all aspects of theoretical Roman archaeology. However, as TidA’s scope is not limited to the Roman world only, the joint organising team specifically welcomes sessions taking a comparative diachronic approach regarding Roman archaeology and other archaeological and historical cultures, or take a long-horizon perspective and consider the Roman world in relation to prior or subsequent periods. We also welcome proposals for sessions that consider the application of a specific theoretical model in diachronic perspectives but include the Roman world.

Session proposals should be sent to tracconf2025@gmail.com

Deadline: 15 May 2025

New Deadline: 15 June 2025

Session proposals will be considered by the joint organising team and sessions proposers will be informed of the Committee’s decision by email.

The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference will have a general session(s) for any papers that do not correspond with a themed session.

A Call for Papers will follow in June 2025.

The complete Call for Sessions can be found here.

3. Nachwuchstagung Österreichische Mediävistik 2025
Salzburg, 20. und 21. November 2025

Einreichungsfrist: 27.05.2025

Wer sich entschließt, zu promovieren und damit einen Schritt in Richtung einer wissenschaftlichen Karriere zu tun, kann in der Regel Rat und Hilfe gut gebrauchen und profitiert besonders vom Kontakt zu anderen Forscherinnen und Forschern, die sich auf ähnliche Epochen und Themen spezialisiert haben.

Die Nachwuchstagung der österreichischen Mediävistik bietet ein Forum für diesen Austausch und das gegenseitige Kennenlernen. Die nunmehr bereits dritte Nachwuchstagung findet am 20. und 21. November 2025 in Salzburg statt.

Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Promovierende in den Disziplinen Geschichte, Hilfswissenschaften, Numismatik, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte, Byzantinistik oder Judaistik, die an einer österreichischen Universität oder zu einem Thema mit engem Bezug zum österreichischen Raum forschen und deren Dissertationsprojekte zeitlich auf das Mittelalter fokussiert sind. Von allen Teilnehmenden wird die Bereitschaft erwartet, neben der Kurzvorstellung des eigenen Projektes einen kurzen Kommentar zu jeweils einem anderen Projekt vorzubereiten und eine Moderation zu übernehmen.

Bewerbung
Interessierte Promovierende sind herzlich eingeladen, sich per E-Mail an nataoemed@gmail.com mit ihrem Lebenslauf und einer Kurzbeschreibung des Dissertationsprojekts inklusive Fragestellungen, Forschungsstand, Quellen und Methoden, offener Fragen und Probleme sowie einer vorläufigen Gliederung im Umfang von 5-6 Seiten bis zum 27.05.2025 zu bewerben. Einreichungen sind auch auf Englisch willkommen, wobei die Veranstaltungssprache Deutsch ist.
Auswahl und Einladung der Teilnehmenden erfolgen im Juni 2025. Mit der Einladung werden nähere Informationen zu den Aufgaben während der Tagung und zur erweiterten Version der Projektbeschreibung (15-25 Seiten) versandt. Dieser bis 20. September 2025 abzugebende Text dient als Grundlage für die Peer- und Seniorkommentare und die Diskussionen am 20. und 21. November 2025.

Kontakt
nataoemed@gmail.com

Den vollständigen Call for Papers als PDF finden Sie hier.

Historical Languages and AI
International Conference
Conference Dates: March 5-6, 2026
Venue: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2025

The intersection of historical languages and artificial intelligence (AI) presents a rich and dynamic field of study, with the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the past and the ways in which we engage with historical texts. As digital technologies continue to advance, the need for interdisciplinary collaboration becomes increasingly apparent. The upcoming 2-day international conference on “Historical Languages and AI” aims to foster this collaboration by bringing together experts from computational literary studies, digital history, linguistics, and other domains that work with historical languages such as Latin.
The conference seeks to address the growing demand for innovative methods and tools that can enhance the analysis, preservation, and interpretation of historical languages. By leveraging AI technologies, researchers can unlock new insights into historical texts, improve the accuracy of translations, and develop more effective teaching methods for historical languages. The conference will provide a platform for scholars to share their latest findings, discuss emerging trends, and explore the practical applications of AI in historical language research. It explicitly includes historical stages of modern languages, such as Old English or Early New High German.

Submission types
Included in the open-access proceedings:
Long papers: up to 4000 words (ca. 8 pages, excl. bibliography and appendix). Long papers report on original and unpublished results. Long papers are presented as oral presentations (30 min talk + 15 min discussion). We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information.

Published only in the book of abstracts in our Zenodo Community
(https://zenodo.org/communities/daidalos):
Short papers: up to 2000 words (ca. 4 pages, excl. bibliography and appendix). Short papers report on focused contributions, and may present work in progress. Short papers are presented as short oral presentations (20 min talk + 10 min discussion). We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information.
Pitch Your Research Idea: Submit an abstract of up to 200 words (excl. bibliography and appendix) to give a 5-minute presentation during a pitch session. The presentations are followed by a Scientific Speed Dating Session and enable researchers to get in touch faster.

Workshops (90 min): Submit a proposal for your intended workshop of up to 750 words. Workshops should be organized as hands-on research or learning opportunity. The workshops will take place on the second day of the conference (March 6, 2026).

Submission Guidelines and Participation
All submissions must be in English or German.
Papers should be formatted according to the conference template: Template of the Association for Computational Linguistics (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). It supports both Microsoft Word and LaTeX.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the organizers.
Papers should be submitted as PDF documents via E-Mail: daidalos-projekt@hu-berlin.de
At least one author of each accepted submission must register to the conference and present
the paper.
Proceedings of the conference will be published as a Propylaeum eBook in the Digital Classics Books series (for long papers; https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/series/dcb) and on Zenodo (for all other submissions; https://zenodo.org/communities/daidalos).

Contact Information
For any inquiries, please contact the conference organizers at daidalos-projekt@hu-berlin.de.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to the International Conference
on Historical Languages and AI!
The Conference Organizing Committee of the Daidalos project (https://daidalos-projekt.de):
Andrea Beyer, Konstantin Schulz, Anke Lüdeling, Florian Kotschka, Florian Deichsler, Malte Dreyer

The complete Call for Papers as PDF can be found here.

Interdisciplinary Conference
The rhetoric of breaking the rules: achieving success against the norms

This call for papers is aimed in particular at young researchers in the humanities.

International conference, funded by the German Research Foundation
2-4 July 2026 (Thursday-Saturday), KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
Languages: English and German
Organisers: Verena Schulz (Eichstätt) and Nicola Hömke (Rostock)

Deadline for abstracts:
250-300 words, short biography (not more than half a page)
Presentations are 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion.
The results of the conference will be published in an interdisciplinary volume.
Please send your title, abstract, contact details and a short biography to both organisers before 1 September 2025: Verena.Schulz@ku.de and Nicola.Hoemke@uni-rostock.de
You can expect a response in the course of November 2025.

Topic of the conference:
Ancient rhetoric has left us one of the greatest sets of rules of antiquity. Countless rules regulate in detail how a speech should be invented, structured, formulated, memorised and delivered. Modern speech guides are also full of recommendations for successful rhetoric. Researchers have analysed critically the relationship between this wealth of theory and the actual practice of speaking. Both ancient and modern orators know very well that it is precisely the non-adherence to the rule, the exploration of licences, that can lead to rhetorical success. This is where our conference comes in: it explores rule-breaking in its process, its rhetorical realisation and its ethical, aesthetic and legal implications - in different eras and from the perspective of different disciplines.

For further information, please contact Verena.Schulz@ku.de and Nicola.Hoemke@uni-rostock.de or our website: https://www.ku.de/slf/klassische-philologie/team/professur-fuer-klassische-philologie-und-wirkungsgeschichte-der-antike/prof-dr-verena-schulz/rhetorik-des-regelbruchs. 

The complete Call for Papers as PDF can be found here.

Workshop on 
Spatial Notions in Antiquity
Ruhr University Bochum, June 27^th-28^th, 2025

Submission deadline: May 1^st, 2025

with Dominic O'Meara, Katja Vogt, Gottfried Heinemann, Chiara Martinez, Thomas Seissl, Pieter Sjoerd Hasper, Barbara Sattler, Henry Mendell, Vincenzo De Risi

Space seem to belong to the most fundamental features of our world and is essential to our experience of it. If we look at the beginning of ancient thought, however, we find many different spatial notions, but not yet a unified understanding of space. This workshop will explore some of these spatial notions, prominently but not exclusively Aristotle's understanding of topos, and will discuss some of the key debates with respect to space in ancient times. 

Call for Abstracts: In addition to the invited speakers, we will invite up to three more speakers through this call for abstracts. We are looking for abstracts from scholars working on the themes of this conference. The papers should be appropriate for roughly 45 minutes of presentation. We will be able to cover accommodation and travel costs within Europe. 

Important details:

• Abstracts should be between 300 and 1000 words.
• Papers can be submitted in English or German.
• Applicants should remove any identifying information on the abstract and include a separate document with their name, email, and affiliation.
• Abstracts should be sent to Julia Böhm (Julia.Boehm-h66@ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
• The subject of the email should be "Submission - Spatial Notions Conference". 
• The submission deadline is May 1^st, 2025.

Contact
Julia Böhm (Julia.Boehm-h66@ruhr-uni-bochum.de)

NATURA & ceTERRA. Zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter
31. Jahrestagung des Brackweder Arbeitskreises 
20. und 21. November 2025 
Universität Tübingen

Einreichungsfrist: 25. Mai 2025

Spätestens mit der Debatte um das Anthropozän scheint der Mensch endgültig zum Nabel der Welt geworden zu sein: Er formt, interpretiert und ordnet seine natürliche (Um-)Welt – und hat sein Verhältnis zu ihr grundlegend und zu seinen Gunsten verändert. Dabei stellen Naturtopoi in ihren metaphorisch-allegorischen und anthropo- wie zoomorphen Formationen keineswegs nur passive Kulissen menschlichen Handelns dar, sondern erweisen sich als dynamische Räume von Aushandlung und Aneignung sowie Wandel und Zuschreibung. Sie sind ambivalente Orte, die zwischen lebensspendender und chaotisch-unberechenbarer Kraft changieren, aber auch mit ihren gesetzmäßigen Abläufen und ihrer schöpfungstheologisch fundierten Ordnung eine unwiderstehliche Geltung und Verbindlichkeit erzeugen.

Die Tagung nimmt anhand von soziokulturell bedingten Naturorten und den mit ihnen verbundenen Praktiken ganz grundsätzliche Fragen mittelalterlicher Gesellschaftskonfigurationen in ihren Relationen zur Natur in den Blick: Wie werden abstrakte Konzepte von Natur (wie z.B. Heimat, Herkunft, Geschlecht) in Rückbindung an konkrete Orte in der Natur räumlich anschaulich gemacht? Wie werden Naturorte (wie z.B. der Wald, die Wüste, das Meer) argumentativ genutzt? Wie werden Diskurse und Themen als Naturorte imaginiert, visualisiert, metaphorisiert, narrativiert und verkörpert – und wie werden diese Transformationen im historischen Material realisiert?

Der Call richtet sich an Wissenschaftler*innen aller mediävistisch arbeitenden Disziplinen (Anglistik, Archäologie, Byzantinistik, Germanistik, Geschichte, Islamwissenschaft, Jüdische Studien, Kunstgeschichte, Mittellatein, Musikwissenschaft, Philosophie, Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistik, Skandinavistik, Theologie usw.) in allen Karrierestufen.

Für Vortragende werden Übernachtungs- und Reisekosten übernommen. Bei Interesse senden Sie bitte ein Abstract (ca. 300 Wörter, deutsch oder englisch) für einen 30-minütigen Vortrag (mit anschließender Diskussion) mit einer kurzen biographischen Skizze als eine PDF-Datei an die Tagungsorganisation. Einsendeschluss ist der 25. Mai 2025. Vortragsvorschläge und Rückfragen senden Sie bitte an:
jan.stellmann@uni-tuebingen.de und rike.szill@geschichte.uni-tuebingen.de.

Kontakt
Jan Stellmann: jan.stellmann@uni-tuebingen.de
Rike Szill: rike.szill@geschichte.uni-tuebingen.de

Den vollständigen Call for Papers und weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.

Stratigraphies of Knowledge, Memory, and the Self: Notebooks in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean World  
Conference, Historisches Kolleg, Munich
December 11–12, 2025

Submission deadline: April 30, 2025

We are inviting proposals for papers on medieval notebooks and collections of notes in any language of the Euro-Mediterranean realm.

The conference taps into such cultural-historical approaches to medieval written culture and utilizes codicological models for the “stratigraphy” and “architecture” of composite manuscripts to illuminate the complexity, multilayeredness, and fluidity of knowledge organization, memory processes, and self-representation in medieval notebooks. It pursues a comparative approach for the Euro-Mediterranean world, bringing research on notes and notebooks in the cultural spheres of the three major Abrahamic religions in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East (including Byzantium) into comparative dialogue.

Confirmed speakers: Patrick Andrist (Munich / Fribourg), Richard Corradini (Vienna), Ahuva Liberles (Tel Aviv), José Maksimczuk (Hamburg), Gabor Toth (Luxembourg).

Papers will ideally present case studies on one or more manuscripts, but other formats (e.g., discussion of a specific question or methodological issue) are also welcome. Scholars of all career stages, including graduate students, are encouraged to apply. Presentations can be in either English or German.

Please email your proposal comprising a tentative title, abstract of 200–300 words, and short curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages) to the organizers (tobias.daniels@mg.fak09.uni-muenchen.de, ariehle@fas.harvard.edu) by April 30. Speakers will be reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to 300 EUR.

Organizers
Tobias Daniels (LMU München): tobias.daniels@mg.fak09.uni-muenchen.de 
Alexander Riehle (Harvard University): ariehle@fas.harvard.edu

The complete Call for Papers as PDF can be found here.

The LAGOOS Project (www.lagoos.org) is pleased to announce it’s upcoming workshop “Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe” The event will take place on 19^th September 2025 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Submission Deadline: 04.05.2025

The workshop intends to explore the role of private diaries in recording and shaping intellectual life in the modern and early modern periods (ca. 1400–1900). Adopting a comparative approach, the workshop seeks to bring together researchers working on scholars’ diaries to allow analysis across historical periods, languages and geographical areas. We welcome contributions that examine the diaries of European intellectuals as tools of scholarly inquiry, expressions of intellectual identity, or as sources that reveal new insights on the cultural and linguistic landscapes of particular historical contexts.

Participants are encouraged to present specific case studies that explore the evolving nature of scholarly self-representation through diary-keeping and journalling in 15-minute presentations, which will be followed by discussion.

Abstract Submission
Scholars are invited to send abstracts of around 300 words accompanied by a brief academic biography of no more than 100 words to chiara.telesca@uibk.ac.at by 04.05.2025. The language of the workshop and of discussion will be English.

Contact
Chiara Telesca: chiara.telesca@uibk.ac.at

The complete Call for Papers can be found here.