Current Events

2025

'Great Expectations Conference (online)' - a gathering to confront the challenges facing our historic churches, chapels and meeting houses, sponsored by Ecclesiastical Insurance. Book tickets for £15 via the link (online, 21 October 2025, 10.30-17.15)

'Small Communities Facing Danger: Strategies of Solidarity and Resilience Before Modernity' - Call for Papers for a conference organized by the RESTORY (Recovering Past Stories for the Future) Horizon project. The organizers welcome presentations in History, Archaeology, Art History, Heritage, and Manuscript Studies as well as Social Sciences. To apply, send a title and abstract (c. 500 words) of the proposed paper, accompanied by a detailed CV to restorycoimbra25@gmail.com by 31 May (University of Coimbra / Portugal, 30-31 October 2025)

2026

‘Pfarren. Religiöse, sozioökonomische und politische Aspekte vom Beginn der Pfarrorganisation bis Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in „Zentraleuropa“ [Parishes in Central Europe: Religious, Socio-Economic and Political Aspects from the Origins to the Middle of the 19thC]’: conference organized by the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, with a Call for Paper Proposals (up to 2.500 characters incl. short biographical note) to be submitted by 13 June 2025 to the 3 co-convenors: josef.loeffler@univie.ac.at, martin.scheutz@univie.ac.at, herwig.weigl@univie.ac.at (University of Vienna, 19-21 February 2026)

'Reformation Studies Colloquium' - invites 20 mins papers from advanced postgraduate students as well as early career researchers and established scholars on any aspect of Reformation studies, broadly defined. The organizers are also happy to receive suggestions for panels and roundtables. In proposal submissions, please include a 300-word abstract and 100-word biography; for a panel or roundtable, please also submit a 300-word description. Submissions in the form of a MS Word document attached to an email should be sent to ReformationStudiesColloquium@gmail.com by 31 October 2025 (UCL London, 15-17 April 2026)

'Parish Data - Twenty-Fourth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research', co-organized by Beat Kümin (Warwick History / My-Parish) with Marek Słoń (Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland - John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) - CFP coming soon (Saturday 16 May 2026 on Warwick Campus / hybrid format)

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Roehampton panel

Beat Kümin (Warwick), Marjolein Schepers (VUB Brussel) & Michael Egger (Bern) presented in the 'Parish Cultures' panel at the German History Society conference (Roehampton University, 3 September 2021)