We are pleased to announce three keynotes for our annual online conference Fame and Fortune to be held 25 – 26 April 2026. Registrations to attend are now open! The conference will feature the following keynotes: Associate Professor Lisa Bailey, University of Auckland (New Zealand), on ‘The Fama and Fortuna of Balthild, Slave Queen’. Professor Jane Hwang, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA), on ‘Fortune’s … Continue reading 2026 Ceræ conference – Keynotes Announced – Registrations Open!
We are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for themed submissions for our 2026 online Conference: Fame and Fortune to Monday 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 … Continue reading Seeking Vol 13 Book Reviewers & Conference Deadline EXTENDED!
We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or ironic, tangible or out of … Continue reading 2026 Ceræ Call For Papers
2025 has been a year in which the contemporary world has seen immense geopolitical shifts and generational changes. Cultural fault lines globally have deepened and been exploited cynically by a wide variety of different individuals, organisations, and companies. Communities have simultaneously splintered and closed off from outsiders. Institutions and public edifices are being hollowed out … Continue reading Ceræ Volume 12: Published!
In this series of guest posts, contributors to the eleventh volume of Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies briefly discuss their work, interests, and methods in relation to their published article. Today, we welcome Sam Corradetti as a contributor. Sam holds an MFA from Temple University and is currently a doctoral … Continue reading Guest post: An Interview with Sam Corradetti
Just over a fortnight ago, over the last weekend of April, the second annual Ceræ conference was conducted online with attendees and presenters from sixteen countries across eleven different timezones! Repeating our unique format from last year with a continuous single-stream over 32 hours, our presenters not only came from a multitude of institutions, but … Continue reading I Dream of Ceræ: The Second Annual Conference, April 2025
The 2nd annual Ceræ conference, organised around the theme of Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, will begin this weekend on 26–27 April! Because our conference is truly an international affair with presenters and attendees from numerous countries and timezones, our schedule is based on UTC time. The schedule is now available to view on our website. The conference will … Continue reading It’s Conference Week!
In this series of guest posts, contributors to the eleventh volume of Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies briefly discuss their work, interests, and methods in relation to their published article. Today, we welcome Philip Goldfarb Styrt as a contributor. Philip holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago … Continue reading William Shakespeare as Fanfiction Author
We are grateful to have received many fascinating submissions for the 2025 Ceræ conference, and are equally delighted to announce we have developed additional program capacity and are therefore accepting abstract submissions until March 12, 2025. Detailed submission guidelines are here. All submissions should be emailed to ceraejournal@gmail.com. We are also privileged to announce our two keynote speakers: Jesse … Continue reading Deadline extended and 2025 keynote speakers announced!
Ceræ invites the participation of book reviewers for our twelfth volume. If you have not previously written an academic book review, this is no barrier to requesting a book to review, and indeed we encourage and publish reviews from established scholars to junior graduate students and everyone in between. Interested scholars should contact the Reviews … Continue reading Call for Reviewers: CERÆ volume 12