Intersectionality in Ancient and Pre-Modern Contexts. Considering Aspects of Privilege and Marginalisation
11–12 June 2026
University of Basel

Deadline for Submission: 1 September 2025

Questions of identity and the marginalisation of specific groups have become central to both academic and public discourse. Awareness of these concerns is currently increasing in ancient and pre-modern disciplines. Intersectionality, a concept coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) within Black Feminism and Critical Race Theory, offers a valuable framework for understanding how overlapping of aspects of identity – such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and bodily dispositions (e.g., disability, age) – shape individual experiences of privilege and marginalisation. These dynamics unfold on the interpersonal (everyday interactions), structural (government, law, education), and socio-spatial (urban form, spatial governance, land control) levels. 

While intersectional approaches are well established in the social sciences, their application to ancient and pre-modern contexts remains mostly unexplored. The nature of pre-modern source material – often fragmentary and strongly reflecting elite perspectives – poses specific challenges. This conference aims to bring together scholars working in ancient and pre-modern fields who already engage with intersectionality or seek to explore its potential. Contributions from MA students and PhDs are explicitly encouraged. 

We encourage submissions from scholars across disciplines, including but not limited to ancient, byzantine and medieval history, archaeological disciplines (Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, Mediterranean Archaeology, Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, etc.), ancient Eastern studies, classical philologies, Egyptology.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with your title and a short bio (max. 150 words), should be submitted by 1 September 2025 to the organisers. Presentations should preferably be given in English (exceptions are possible, e. g., German). Presentations cannot be held via Zoom. However, a Zoom link can be provided to allow participants to listen to the presentations on demand. We anticipate being able to offer a limited number of travel and accommodation bursaries to support MA and PhD students. If you would like to be considered for a bursary, please indicate this in your submission email. 

Please send your abstract, title and bio to the organising committee: Ana Maspoli ana.maspoli@unibas.ch and Sarah Siegenthaler sarah.siegenthaler@unibas.ch. Notification of acceptance will be provided by 26 September 2025 at the latest.

Contact
Ana Maspoli ana.maspoli@unibas.ch
Sarah Siegenthaler sarah.siegenthaler@unibas.ch

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

DraCor Summit 2025
1 - 5 September 2025
Berlin 

Join us for the DraCor Summit in Berlin from 1 until 5 September 2025. Hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Potsdam, this five-day event will bring together researchers in computational literary studies, cultural analytics, and adjacent fields to present and discuss their research and corpus projects.

DraCor – short for Drama Corpora – is a digital ecosystem dedicated to the study of drama from antiquity to the 20th century. The multilingual community project follows the principles of open science. We currently maintain 28 drama corpora encoded in TEI with a total of over 4,000 annotated full texts of plays in 22 languages. It is the basis for a very vibrant research landscape around the computational research of drama corpora. Since the beginning of 2024 alone, more than 50 monographs and scientific articles have been published worldwide that work with DraCor data.

Venue: The DraCor Summit will take place at the Freie Universität Berlin.

General registration for the DraCor Summit opened on 6 June 2025.

Local organisers: Julia Jennifer Beine, Ingo Börner, Frank Fischer, Luca Giovannini, Carsten Milling, Antonio Rojas Castro, Mark Schwindt, Daniil Skorinkin, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Peer Trilcke, Laura Untner.

How to contact us: info@dracor.org

DraCor Corpora Conference
2 September 2025 

Venue
Seminar Centre:
Room L115
Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26
14195 Berlin-Dahlem

Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis: Achievements and Opportunities
3 September 2025 

Venue 
Seminar Centre:
Room L113
Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26
14195 Berlin-Dahlem

The complete programme and further information can be found here.

18. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag
Aufruhr, Aufstand, Bildersturm – Archäologie der Rebellion
Internationale Tagung in Halle (Saale) vom 30. September bis zum 2. Oktober 2025

Der Mitteldeutsche Archäologentag wird seit 2008 jährlich vom Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt veranstaltet. Die internationale Tagung greift jeweils eine ausgewählte archäologische Thematik auf, um ausgehend von Funden oder Befunden Mitteldeutschlands im interdisziplinären Diskurs überregional neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen.

Ausgangspunkt des diesjährigen Kongresses sind die archäologischen Zeugnisse der Bauernaufstände von 1524/1525, die im Gedenkjahr 2025 deutschlandweit große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Neben diesen sollen andere Revolten und Konflikte von der Antike bis in die Neuzeit präsentiert und diskutiert werden, um das Thema von Rebellionen im archäologischen Befund, deren Nachweisbarkeit in Sachzeugnissen sowie die methodischen und theoretischen Perspektiven umfassend und facettenreich zu beleuchten – immer ausgehend von konkreten Fundstellen und Funden sowie unter Bezug auf die gegebenenfalls vorhandenen Schriftquellen. Sozial motivierte Aufstände stehen im Mittelpunkt, doch werden auch solche miteinbezogen, bei denen religiöse oder andere Aspekte eine Rolle spielten.

Anmeldung bis zum 25.9.2025

Claudia Gärtner M. A.
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte
Richard-Wagner-Straße 9
06114 Halle (Saale)
+49 345 5247-372
cgaertner@lda.stk.sachsen-anhalt.de

International Association for Coptic Studies (IACS)
13th International Congress of Coptic Studies
Göttingen, 27 July – 1 Aug 2026

Deadlines for submission: 
September 30, 2025 (panels)
December 31, 2025 (panel contributions, individual short papers, and posters)

Interested colleagues are again invited to propose thematic panels, which should contain at least three papers per panel, as well as individual papers. Both the individual papers and the panels will be divided into 6 parallel sessions, typically running from mid-morning (11:00 am) until the evening.

Each paper is allotted a time slot of no more than 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for discussion and questions. Prospective panel conveners should submit the title of the panel and a short description to coptic-congress-2026@uni-goettingen.de, as soon as possible, but no later than September 30, 2025.

Posters (A0 format) are recommended for the presentation of work in progress, research tools, and similar topics. A dedicated space will be available near the main lecture theatres. Participants unable to bring their posters to the congress should email coptic-congress-2026@uni-goettingen.de. The organisers will provide assistance with the printing.

Short abstracts (ca. 200 words) for panel contributions, individual short papers, and posters need to be sent to: coptic-congress-2026@uni-goettingen.de before December 31, 2025. Participants who wish to give a short paper, or to present a poster will be able to indicate this during the online registration process in the menu Contribution Type. Papers can be presented in English, German, or French. The congress committee reserves the right to decline any paper or poster proposal in light of time and capacity constraints.

Contact
coptic-congress-2026@uni-goettingen.de

The complete Call for Papers and further information can be found here.

Coasts – Cultures – Constructs: Impulses from Emerging
Research for a Trans-Mediterranean Perspective
Graz, April 17-18, 2026

Deadline for submissions: October 5, 2025

As part of the doctoral programme of the core research area “Trans-Mediterranean Entanglements: Mobilities and Relations in the Mediterranean and Beyond” at the Faculty of Humanities, we warmly invite you to an interdisciplinary workshop on “Coasts, Cultures, Constructs: Impulses from Emerging Research for a Trans-Mediterranean Perspective”. The workshop, which will take place on April 17 and 18, 2026, at the University of Graz, is aimed at early-career researchers.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together PhD students and postdoctoral researchers as well as Master’s students from various fields within the humanities, and to create an open forum for exchange, discussion and networking. Besides the presentation of individual projects, we want to highlight methodological impulses and conceptual as well as thematic intersections, to foster synergies, and to open up interdisciplinary perspectives on the Mediterranean and its multifaceted representations. The concept of ‘trans-Mediterranean entanglements’ serves as a framework to focus particularly on inter- and transcultural exchange, on open and dynamic constructions of identity, and on the resulting imaginations and artefacts. To further develop the synergies generated, a round table will be held to identify connections between the contributions, which will be visualised in an AI-supported digital mind map intended for online publication.

Presentations of (dissertation) projects should be approximately 20 minutes long, followed by a ten-minute moderated discussion. Master’s students are invited to present their work in the form of a poster. PhD and postdoc researchers may choose to contribute either a presentation or a poster. A dedicated timeslot for poster presentations will be scheduled between the talks. Interested participants are kindly asked to submit an abstract of 250–300 words (indicating whether a presentation or a poster is planned), along with a brief biographical statement (working title of the dissertation or Master’s thesis, academic discipline, home institution) by October 5, 2025, to: transmediterranean@uni-graz.at.

Accepted contributions will be announced by early December. A certificate of participation can be issued upon request, and we will make every effort to partially cover travel and accommodation costs if needed. For further questions, please feel free to contact us by email (transmediterranean@uni-graz.at).

The organisation team:
Hannah Barmüller
Juliana Reinisch
Hans Scherer

Contact
transmediterranean@uni-graz.at

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

Practicing Genre: Dynamics of Generic Form(ation)s in Greco-Roman Literature
Conference Date: Early April 2026
Location: University of Bonn, Germany
Organizers: Adrian Weiß (Bonn University) and Daniel Wendt (Graz University)

Deadline for submissions: August 1, 2025

We invite proposals for the conference “Practicing Genre: Dynamics of Generic Form(ation)s in Greco-Roman Literature”. This event seeks to re-examine ancient Greek and Roman literary genres through the lens of praxeological genre theory (cf. Gencarelli 2024).

A praxeological approach conceives of genre not as a fixed, predetermined category defined by the inherent properties of texts, but as a dynamic, socially embedded practice. Literary genres are evolving constructs produced, maintained, and transformed through habitualized actions and ongoing interactions among authors, readers, performers, and institutions. Rather than viewing genres as 'natural forms', this perspective emphasizes their emergence from, and responsiveness to, specific historical and social contexts.

Submission Guidelines:
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words (excluding bibliography), engaging directly with the theme of the conference. Include your name, affiliation, and contact information.
Send submissions by August 1, 2025 to:
• adrian.weiss@uni-bonn.de 
• daniel.wendt@uni-graz.at 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent as soon as possible after the deadline.
We encourage proposals from both established and early-career researchers. Contributions offering interdisciplinary or theoretically innovative perspectives are especially welcome.

Conference Format and Schedule:
The conference will take place in early April 2026, at the University of Bonn. It is designed primarily for in-depth collaborative discussion. To facilitate this, all participants are expected to submit a written version of their paper (maximum 45,000 characters, including spaces) by February 1, 2026. These papers will be circulated in advance, and all attendees are expected to read them prior to the event. Each paper will be allocated approximately 45 minutes, beginning with a presentation, a discussant response, and an in-depth discussion. A peer-reviewed publication of selected contributions is planned. Revised versions of accepted papers will be due by September 1, 2026. It is our intention to secure coverage for the travel and accommodation expenses; a funding request will be submitted in due course.

Contact
Adrian Weiß (Bonn University): adrian.weiss@uni-bonn.de
Daniel Wendt (Graz University): daniel.wendt@uni-graz.at 

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