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The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at California State University, Long Beach, in collaboration with Forest Lawn Museum, invites submissions for the biennial conference, Afterlives: Reinvention, Reproduction, and Reception.

We invite scholars from any discipline to examine how texts, objects, and images from the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance past have been reimagined, repurposed, reconstructed, and reproduced in later periods.

Afterlives: Reinvention, Reproduction, and Reception will be an in-person conference. Participants should be prepared to meet at Forest Lawn Museum on November 15. After lunch is provided on the patio overlooking the Verdugo mountains, Museum Director, Dr. James Fishburne, will lead conference participants on a behind-the-scenes tour of Forest Lawn Museum and its holdings. A reception will follow the event.

See the CFP for more information and details on how to apply.

The deadline for all abstracts, roundtables, and panel submissions is June 1, 2025. Please send all application materials to: afterlives@csulb.edu.

“Hybridity”: In-Between People, Texts & Objects Across the Early Global World

Saturday, April 26, 2025 | In-Person | Royce Hall 306, UCLA

The UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, in collaboration with the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, is pleased to announce a call for papers for our upcoming 5th Annual Conference: “Hybridity”: In-Between People, Texts, and Objects Across the Early Global World.

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to highlight the innovative work of graduate students and early career scholars on the manifold ways people, texts, and objects “in-between” shaped the early global world, from the early medieval to the late early modern periods.

We invite submissions from all fields of medieval and early modern studies—including but not limited to history, gender and sexuality studies, history of art and architecture, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, and literature—that engage with the so-called “hybrid”. What does it mean to label something as in-between, mixed, syncretic, blended, amalgamated, or composite? T o what end might something be constituted as “hybrid”? Does “hybridity” as a term still carry meaning when encompassing so much?

Does the contact and exchange of people, things, and ideas inevitably result in “hybridity”? We seek to problematize the term and its synonyms, thinking about “hybridity” as a threshold of negotiation, contestation, in(ter)vention, interpretation, translation, and debate. Discussions of “hybridity” might reflect on language, culture, ethnicity, genre, media, materiality, or mobility.

Please email an abstract of your proposed presentation (250 words) to the officers of MEMSA at memsa.ucla@gmail.com by March 14, 2025. Acceptances will be sent out on March 28, 2025.