Conference Dates & Venue
The Ceræ Conference will be held on 25–26 April 2026.
We conduct the annual Ceræ conference according to a unique format of sessions spaced out over a continuous 30 hour period in order to equitably accommodate presenters from numerous different international time-zones. Presenters located west of the Atlantic Ocean should note that the first few sessions might be scheduled to take place prior to midnight of 24 April, local time.
The conference will be held entirely online, via Zoom, and all sessions will be recorded (with presenters reserving the right to not have their individual paper recorded). Recordings will be made available to registered conference attendees via the website for a limited time after the conference has concluded.
Abstract Submissions
The theme of the 2026 conference is the same as for Volume 13 of the journal, that is: Fame & Fortune. We invite submissions for presentations which relate to some aspect of this theme. Please visit the volume page for the full CFP.
Abstracts must be submitted by the extended deadline: 16 March 2026.
Please email your submission for a 20-minute (+ 10 minutes Q&A) presentation to ceraejournal@gmail.com. Please ensure that you include the following:
- A 150–200 word abstract.
- Your academic affiliation and title (if any).
- A short 50–100 word biography.
- The location (or time-zone) from which you will be presenting at the time of the conference.
- If there are any particular times during the period of the conference when you would not be available to present.
While an providing a slideshow to accompany your presentation is not mandatory, it is strongly encouraged as it greatly assists the online audience to follow a presentation. This is especially the case when the primary/preferred language of the presenter and the audience is not mutual. The language of the conference is English.
We also strongly encourage all conference presenters to submit a full version of their presentation for publication within the journal (which will be subject to our standard peer-review procedures). Please refer to the Volume 13 CFP for further details, prompts, and deadlines relating to this theme. Submissions to the journal may be made either before or after the conference, but must be as complete full-length submissions.
Submissions to the conference will be advised of their paper’s acceptance by mid-March (if not earlier). The draft schedule will be released in late March or early April.
Conference Registrations
Registration for the conference is capped at a very modest $15 AUD per attendee (both presenters and listeners are asked to register)*. 100% of all registration fees goes towards our operational costs as a fully independent, open-access journal.
Register for the conference here.
* Please note that if meeting the registration fee will result in personal financial hardship, please contact the conference convenor for a confidential discussion.
Arc Humanities Press – Conference Attendee Discount
We are very pleased to announce that Arc Humanities Press is providing a generous 40% off all print titles to registered conference attendees valid until 31 May 2026.
Conference Aims
The purpose behind hosting our own conference is threefold:
- Firstly, we are fulfilling our constitutional objectives of promoting high-quality, original scholarship within Medieval and Early Modern Studies, especially as undertaken by graduate and ECR scholars within the Australasian region. Our conference will encourage the development of the online community at both a national and an international level.
- Secondly, this conference will, being held entirely online, promote the digital humanities and scholarship which utilises digital media and sources.
- And thirdly, revenue from the conference will directly contribute to the operational costs of the journal, thus ensuring its long-term financial viability.
Featured image: Guillaume de Machaut, ‘Rueda de la Fortuna‘, Poésies: Jugement du roi de Bohème, ca. 1350-1355. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 1586, fol. 30v.