Material Culture in Transformation: The Afterlives of Premodern Stone and Metal Objects
Third Workshop in the Series Cultures of Use and Reuse
Mainz, 12–14 April 2027

Submission Deadline: 13 April 2026

The organisers invite proposals from historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, conservators, heritage practitioners and scholars of religion and cultural studies at all career stages. Contributions should engage directly with the themes of reuse and transformation in medieval stone and/or metal, whether through detailed case studies, comparative analyses or conceptual interventions. Work that situates local or regional material within broader Mediterranean, transregional or global frameworks, or that reflects on the relationship between medieval and early modern practices, is particularly welcome.

Application
Please submit a single PDF file that contains an abstract of 300–400 words and a short biographical note of no more than 150 words. The abstract should outline your main argument, indicate the primary sources and materials you will discuss, specify the geographical and chronological focus of your paper, and explain how your contribution engages with the workshop’s interest in reuse, afterlives and material transformation in stone and metal. The biographical note should include your name, institutional affiliation and up to five relevant publications, projects or exhibitions (where applicable). If you would prefer to present a shorter, more exploratory contribution instead of a full-length paper, please indicate this clearly in your proposal.
Proposals should be sent by Monday, 13 April 2026 to: carolin.gluchowski@uni-hamburg.de, Julia.Noll@adwmainz.de and julia.von.ditfurth@kunstgeschichte.uni-freiburg.de. Applicants will be informed of the outcome by mid-May 2026. Draft versions of accepted papers of approximately 3,000–5,000 words will be circulated among all participants by the beginning of 2027 in order to facilitate substantive discussion during the workshop.

Organisation and Contact
Carolin Gluchowski (Universität Hamburg): carolin.gluchowski@uni-hamburg.de
Julia von Ditfurth (Universität Freiburg): julia.von.ditfurth@kunstgeschichte.uni-freiburg.de
Julia Noll (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz): Julia.Noll@adwmainz.de

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

FAIR 3D HERITAGE
Documentation, Publication and Preservation of the Digital 3D Heritage on the Web
Mainz, 14–16 September 2026

Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026

The DFG 3D-Viewer Conference brings together researchers, heritage professionals, infrastructure providers and software developers to discuss how interoperable, standards-based and applicable 3D workflows can support sustainable digital heritage. We aim to address conceptual, methodological and technical challenges and to encourage exchange between communities. The conference also serves as a final presentation and critical reflection of the second funding phase of the DFG 3D-Viewer project, situating its results within the broader landscape of digital 3D heritage infrastructures.

Paper Submission
To propose a contribution, please submit an extended abstract of up to 500 words in British English (approximately one page, excluding references), including a maximum of two images and 10 references, in PDF format via our Google Form (link on the conference website). We welcome the following contribution types:

• Oral presentations on site (15 minutes + discussion),
• Posters (A1 Poster in the exhibition section + 6 minutes presentation/demo).

Funding & costs
Thanks to the support of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG), we can offer:

• Travel cost reimbursement for selected speakers up to 250,00€ (according to DFG regulations).
• Lunch, dinner and coffee breaks for the duration of the conference.
  There will be no conference fee, but registration is mandatory so that we can plan catering and event space. Registration link will be shared on conference website: https://ai-mainz.github.io/fair-3d-heritage

Contact
In case of any questions, please contact: dfg3dviewer@gmail.com 

The complete Call for Papers with the submission link can be found at the conference website.

Knowing by Example
Workshop
Nuremberg, October 8–9, 2026

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2026

Focusing on ancient, medieval, and early modern materials across diverse cultural traditions, the workshop investigates how examples achieve epistemic force within different knowledge cultures. It asks how exemplary reasoning stabilizes or challenges knowledge claims, structures judgment and comparison, and shapes epistemic communities across time and cultural boundaries. How do examples foster shared modes of reasoning? How do they connect communities and stimulate further inquiry—whether through paradigmatic cases, authoritative repertoires such as the Greek paradeigma and Roman exemplum, or through hypothetical and thought examples that function as heuristics for theory formation?

The workshop combines participants’ contributions (ca. 20 minutes) — including paper presentations and impulse talks — with close readings of selected key passages from thinkers such as Aristotle, Quintilian, and Bacon. Both formats are designed to foster sustained discussion and to consolidate a shared conceptual vocabulary for analyzing exemplarity as an epistemic practice. 

Participants
The workshop warmly welcomes contributions from Classicists, Sinologists, Judaists, Medieval and Early Modern scholars, philosophers, historians of science, epistemologists, and researchers from related disciplines. We invite applications from advanced PhD candidates to senior researchers and particularly encourage contributions that engage across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.

Organization
UTN covers the costs of a round-trip to (Deutsche Bahn, 2nd class) and accommodation in Nuremberg for all participants.

Application
Please submit:
· An abstract of approximately 300 words
· A short bio (max. 150 words), including an email address
Please send submissions by June 30, 2026 to tobias.hirsch@utn.de 

Organizers
Gyburg Uhlmann, Chair and Professor of Classics, University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN)
Dana Jalobeanu, Professor of Early Modern Philosophy, UTN
Tobias Hirsch, Postdoctoral Researcher in Classics, UTN 

Contact
tobias.hirsch@utn.de

The complete Call for Abstracts can be found here as a PDF-Download.

XVII International Numismatic Congress 2027
Transformations and Transitions
Frankfurt am Main, 12-17 September 2027

Submission Deadline: 15 June 2026

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Sessions for the XVII International Numismatic Congress in Frankfurt 12-17 September 2027 will be open from 1 March to 15 June 2026. 
To mark the centenary of the founding of the International Numismatic Council in 1927, the Congress will have the overall theme „Transformations and Transitions“.

We invite proposals for sessions, which may be of three kinds: Regular Sessions, Round Tables and Workshops. All formats will last three hours with two 90-minute blocks and a coffee break in between.

Please note that you may be the main proposer of only one session (irrespective of the format). You may also only speak in one session as the main speaker of a paper in a Regular Session or as the main convenor of a Round Table (but you may be a panellist in a Round Table and be main speaker in a Regular Session). The submissions system does not allow multiple submissions.

Languages: Papers in regular sessions may be in any of the Congress languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). Round Tables and Workshops are to be be held in only one of the congress-languages. All proposals in this call for sessions should be in English.

The Call for Sessions will end on 15 June 2026. Proposers will be informed of the results in August 2026.

All proposals are to be submitted via the online submission system.

Contact
info@inc2027.org 

The complete Call for Sessions and the submission link can be found at the conference website.

Status, Rights, and Duties of the Individual in the Communities of the Biblical World
Conference of the research group “Political Thought in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and Their Cultural Contexts”
Zurich/hybrid, 9–10 April 2027

Submission Deadline: 31 August 2026

The debate concerns the relationship between the individual and the collective in the diverse social constellations from the Israelite and Judean monarchies to Christianity and Judaism in the imperial period. From a methodological point of view, the topic can be addressed from the perspective of various disciplines and under different questions: Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Ancient History, Legal History, Political Science, Sociology, Biblical Exegesis, Archaeology, and Political Anthropology.

We invite researchers from these or neighboring disciplines to submit proposals with a provisional title and a summary (200 words) before August 31, 2026, to be sent to Joachim Krause (joachim.krause@rub.de), Wolfgang Oswald (wolfgang.oswald@uni-tuebingen.de) or Stefan Krauter (stefan.krauter@uzh.ch). Papers may be given in English or German. 

The conference will be held in Zurich, April 9–10, 2027. We will cover travel and accommodation fees for accepted speakers, but please be aware that, for environmental reasons, we are not allowed to cover flight tickets. For those who want to participate from far abroad, there is the possibility to join us on Zoom.

Organisation and Contact
Joachim Krause (joachim.krause@rub.de)
Wolfgang Oswald (wolfgang.oswald@uni-tuebingen.de)
Stefan Krauter (stefan.krauter@uzh.ch)

The complete Call for Papers can be found at the conference website.

Konstruktionen des Falschen: Fälschung und Fake im Mittelalter
21. Symposium des Mediävistikverbands
Münster, 22.-25. Februar 2027

Einreichungsfrist: 31. Mai 2026

Unter dem Titel „Konstruktionen des Falschen: Fälschung und Fake im Mittelalter“ werden im Rahmen des 21. Symposiums des Mediävistikverbands vom 22. bis zum 25. Februar 2027 an der Universität Münster die Phänomene Falschheit, Fälschung und fake in interdisziplinärem Zugriff erkundet. Ausrichter der Veranstaltung ist das Centrum für Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung der Universität Münster.

Vorschläge für Sektionen und Einzelvorträge werden bis zum 31. Mai 2026 per Mail erbeten an falsemed27@uni-muenster.de.
 
Sektionen steht ein Slot von 90 Minuten zur Verfügung, sie bestehen in der Regel aus drei Vorträgen, die interdisziplinär anschlussfähig sein sollen. Die Vortragsdauer beträgt max. 20 Minuten. Die Vortragenden einer Sektion sollen mindestens zwei unterschiedliche Fächer vertreten.
 
Jeder Vorschlag (Einzelvortrag und Sektionsvortrag) soll mit einem kurzen Abstract von max. 2000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen versehen sein. Bei Sektionseinreichungen soll zusätzlich ein kurzes Gesamtkonzept zu übergreifenden Fragestellungen und Zielen (max. 2000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen) gegeben werden.
 
Es wird darum gebeten, bei der Einreichung die Nummer des Themenblocks (1–4, siehe Tagungskonzept) sowie die beabsichtigte Vortragssprache anzugeben.

Organisation
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Drews
Dr. Christian Scholl

Kontakt
falsemed27@uni-muenster.de

Den Call for Papers, das Tagungskonzept und weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Tagungshomepage.

In, Under and Beside the House
Archaeology and Building Archaeology in Dialogue on the shared object „House“
Joint Annual Conference 2026 of the Arbeitskreis Hausforschung (AHF) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (DGAMN)
Brandenburg a. d. Havel/hybrid, 1-4 October 2026

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026 

The thematic focus of the conference, as indicated by its title, will be on the house itself, its structural and spatial configurations, its traces in the ground, and its immediate surroundings. Town walls, churches, castles and cemeteries are explicitly excluded from this meeting.

This focused thematic framework is intended to foster fruitful discussions and, ideally, new insights through the joint consideration of identical objects from different perspectives. Contributions that have already been presented within one’s own disciplinary circle are explicitely welcomed for renewed presentation.

Thematic papers should not exceed 20 minutes; short presentations of new research are limited to 15 minutes.

The conference language is German, but papers in English are welcome. As the number of presentations is limited, a selection process may be necessary, conducted by a joint preparatory committee of AHF and DGAMN. The proceedings will be published in a joint volume by the two organising bodies.

Technical facilities for digital image presentations (PowerPoint) will be available. The conference is planned as a hybrid event with online streaming of presentations.

Please submit proposals including the paper title, an abstract of no more than 10 lines, and a short CV with full postal address by 30 April 2026 to:

Contact
Dr. des. Anja Schmid-Engbrodt M.A.
Lindlacher Weg 25, D-50259 Pulheim
Tel. (+49) 171-501 5624
engbrodt@aol.com

The complete Call for Papers can be found at the conference website.

Rhetorik Jahrbuch 2027 – Rhetorik und Epideiktik

Einreichungsfrist Abstract: 12. April 2026
Einreichungsfrist Manuskript: 1. November 2026 

Für den Jahrgang 2027 von Rhetorik. Ein internationales Jahrbuch, publiziert bei DeGruyter Brill, planen die beiden Herausgeber ein Jahrbuch mit Beiträgen zum Thema Rhetorik und Epideiktik. Der Band richtet sich an Forscher*Innen, die sich für die Lob- und Tadelrede in der Rhetorikgeschichte und vor allem auch in ihren zeitgenössischen Ausprägungen in Praxis wie Theorie interessieren. Die Bandherausgeber möchten insbesondere auch jüngeren Wissenschaftler*Innen mit Interesse für den Themenbereich die Möglichkeit bieten, einen Artikel beizusteuern.

Interessent*innen melden sich bis zum 12. April 2026 mit einem Arbeitstitel und einem kurzen Abstract von etwa 300 Worten bei: Prof. Dietmar Till (Seminar für Allgemeine Rhetorik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) – dietmar.till@uni.tuebingen.de und Dr. Frank Schuhmacher – frank-holger.schuhmacher@uni-tuebingen.de

Beiträge aus Disziplinen wie Literaturwissenschaft, Linguistik, Geschichtswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Medienwissenschaft oder Rhetorik sind gleichermaßen erwünscht.

Das Rhetorik-Jahrbuch publiziert vorzugsweise auf Deutsch, aber auch Texte in englischer Sprache sind willkommen. Die fertigen Manuskripte sollen bis zum 1. November 2026 abgegeben werden. Der Band wird dann im Oktober/November 2027 erscheinen.

Den vollständigen Call for Papers finden Sie hier als PDF-Download.

Culture in Translation – History, Literature, and the Transcultural Movement of Ideas
Interdisciplinary Conference
Zurich, 1–4 October 2026

Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026

The conference's aim is to discuss from an interdisciplinary perspective how ancient traditions from Jewish, Christian, ancient Near Eastern as well as Greek and Roman contexts shaped the culture and discourses of their time, and how some literature could develop into particularly enduring and influential repositories of a history of ideas, both within antiquity and beyond, through processes of transmission, translation, and the formation of tradition. In short, we want to ask how and why precisely those ancient materials that we today consider particularly enduring and influential succeeded in achieving their lasting impact across history.

There is an open call for papers, and we hope to encourage a broad range of scholars, specifically including early career researchers, from a range of subjects (Ancient History, Biblical Studies, Classics, History of Judaism and Christianity, Ancient Near Eastern studies, including reception history etc.) to propose a paper. There is some funding available to support junior scholars’ expenses towards travel and accommodation in Zurich. This is to ensure the accessibility of the conference. Details will be communicated to participants upon the acceptance of their short paper.

Organisation 
Moritz F. Adam, Jörg Frey, and Daniel Maier

Contact
culture@theol.uzh.ch

The complete Call for Papers can be found at the conference website.

Piecing Together Body and Death: Construction – Deconstruction – Reconstruction
DAI, Cluster 3 “Body and Death. Concepts – Practices – Media”
Frankfurt am Main/hybrid, 28–30 September 2026

Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026

Cluster 3 Body and Death invites contributions that deal with the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of bodies, especially after death, both on a theoretical and practical level. The three-day conference will be held from 28th to 30th September at the RGK in Frankfurt (Palmengartenstraße 10–12, Frankfurt am Main).

Submissions for papers and posters are invited in English and German and should include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Oral presentations may last up to 20 minutes. Poster presentations are also encouraged; posters should be prepared in A1 format (portrait orientation). The meeting will be held in a hybrid format and will be streamed online. The abstracts should be sent to koerperundtod.sprecher@dainst.de by no later than 31.03.2026.

Kontakt
Prof. Dr. Mayke Wagner, Stellvertretende Direktorin, Leiterin der Außenstelle Peking 
Mayke.Wagner@dainst.de

The complete Call for Papers can be found at the conference website.