External Academic Events

Below are a list of relevant conferences, calls, and events that are externally organised and managed.

Conferences

12-14 November 2025
‘Aufsteigen’ und ‘Obenbleiben’. Strategien niederadeliger Familien im Vogtund Egerland und den angrenzenden Regionen im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (‘Rise Up’ and ‘Staying on Top’: Strategies of Lower Noble Families in the Vogtland and Egerland Regions and the Neighboring Regions in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period)
Chemnitz, Germany, University of Technology Chemnitz
More information can be found here: Strategien

14-15 November 2024
Fürstliche Repräsentation in Europa um 1300
Marburg, Germany, Aula der Alten Universität (in German)
More information can be found: Repräsentation

20-21 November 2025
Reconsidering Courtly Environments, c. 1200-1800: Interconnecting European Court Cultures and the Role of Natural Environments and Landscapes
Prague, Czechia (online), Society for Court Studies, Households and Environmental Studies (HES), Centre for Research on Courts and Residences (DaR)
More information can be found here: Reconsidering

19-21 February 2026
RSA
San Francisco, California
More information can be found here: RSA

4-6 June 2026
Building Sites in Early Modern Europe
Cambridge, UK, University of Cambridge
More information can be found here: Buildings

6-9 July 2026
IMC: Temporalities
Leeds, UK, University of Leeds
More information can be found here: Leeds

Calls (for proposals to conferences or publications)

CFP: The Materialities of the Ephemeral City
19 June 2026
Paris, France
Deadline: 5 December 2025
More information can be found here: Materialities

CFP: Carousels and Other Colonial Spectacles: Performing Race and Racialization at
European Courts, c. 1500-1700
20-21 August 2026
Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Deadline: 15 December 2025
More information can be found here: Carousels

CFP: Gender and Environment
11-12 June 2026
Aix-en-Provence, France, RUCHE International Conference
Deadline: 15 December 2025
More information can be found here: Gender

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
22 May 2026
Florence, Italy, European University Institute
Deadline: 20 December 2025
More information can be found here: Violence

Book CFP: A Global History of Collecting: Objects, Institutions and Knowledge Practices
Across Cultures
Deadline: 31 January 2026
More information can be found here: Collecting

CFP: Kings, Queens and Dynasties in Peril
2-4 September 2026
Prague, Czech Republic, Kings & Queens 15 Conference
Deadline: 31 January 2026
More information can be found here: Peril

Relevant Events

12 November 2025
Lecture: Monarchy, Dynasty, Empire (Dominic Lieven)
More information can be found here: Empire

12-14 November 2025
Workshop: Ruling Dynasties in the Age of Revolution, 1780-1850
More information can be found here: Dynasties

January-December 2026
Oxford Court Studies Seminars Oxford, UK, Oxford University (in-person)
Interdisciplinary in approach, this seminar series explores the political and cultural significance of courts in the early modern period, broadly defined. The intention is to connect the many scholars working on related fields at Oxford, and to hear from speakers on subjects including diplomacy, hunting, patronage, dynastic marriage, court entertainment, and cultural transfer between nations, confessions, and courts; throughout Europe and globally. Seminars take place on alternate Mondays, odd weeks, at 16:30 in the Memorial Room, Jesus College, unless otherwise specified.
More information can be found here: Oxford

January-December 2026
Online seminar series: Queenship, Art and Material Culture
Dedicated to studying the agency of women of the Spanish branch of the House of Austria in artistic productions in the 16th and 17th centuries.
More information can be found here: Queenship