External Academic Events

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

Conferences

20-22 March 2025
RSA 2025
Boston, Massachusetts
More information can be found here: RSA

11-13 April 2025
The Theatre of Death: Noble Funerals with Music in Early Modern Europe
Paris, France, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin (virtual)
More information can be found here: Theatre

28-29 April 2025
Violence at the Court of France from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
Paris, France, Sorbonne
More information can be obtain by contacting violence.colloque2025@gmail.com

28-29 May 2025
Trade, Production, Consumption of Textiles and Dress in the Early Modern
Venice, Italy, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani
More information can be found here: Dress

28-30 May 2025
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in European Context
Aranjuez, Spain, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
More information can be found here: Commonwealth

2-5 July 2025
Interconnections – Society for Renaissance Studies 2025 Conference
Bristol, UK, University of Bristol
More information can be found here: SRS

24-26 September 2025
En Plein Air: Soundscapes of Ritual and Festivity in Europe and Beyond from the Middle Ages to the Present
Siena, Italy, Università di Siena, Palazzo del Rettorato
More information can be found here: Air

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

Calls (for proposals to conferences or publications)

CFP: Reconsidering Courtly Environments, c. 1200-1800: Interconnecting European Court Cultures and the Role of Natural Environments and Landscapes
20 – 21 November 2025
Prague, Czechia, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Households and Environmental Studies (HES), Centre for Research on Courts and Residences (DaR), and the Society for Court Studies
This two-day workshop aims to bring together scholars from court studies, environmental history/historical ecology, and other relevant disciplines to not only examine the interconnections between European courts, natural environments and landscapes in the medieval and early modern period (c. 1200-1800), but also explore the development of approaches and methodologies to study courts and environments.
Deadline: 15 March 2025
More information can be found here: HES

CFP: Queen Urraca and Her Contemporaries in the Early Twelfth Century
3-5 March 2026
Madrid, Spain, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
This conference seeks instead to call attention to rulers – male or female, of any religion – whose reigns were strictly contemporary to Urraca’s in the first quarter of the twelfth century, in order to understand how her rule played out in its day, not in hindsight.
Deadline: 1 April 2025
More information can be obtained by contacting Urraca2026@gmail.com

Relevant Events

January-December 2025
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 2025
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