Events

Future events

09/07/2026, 01:00 PM

Political Unions in European History (10th–18th Centuries) and Their Perception in the Cultures of Remembrance (19th–21st Centuries)

International conference in Brussels , in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences

Geschnitzte Holzplatte mit zwei Figuren, die sich berühren

09/14/2026, 09:00 AM(Closed Event)

Famous and Infamous: Rumours, Slander and Reputation in the Middle Ages

The Czech Academy of Sciences and the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities invite PhD students to apply for a five-day September School in Medieval Studies that will explore the phenomenon of good and bad reputation in the Middle Ages in a Central European context from the perspectives of political use, legal definitions and protections as well as religious polemic.

Zeichnung eines Engels, in dessen Flügel lauter Augen enthalten sind

10/14/2026, 06:00 PM

Structuring the Unstructured: Knowledge Graphs as a Tool

The opening lecture of the series 'Nodes of Time. Historical Networks and Artificial Intelligence' is held by Alexander Lasch (TU Dresden) as a hybrid lecture at the Academy as well as online.

Lecture series poster: images from manuscripts depicting monastic and academic life in the past on a green backdrop with lines depicting a network wit nodes on which the images are placed

10/28/2026, 06:00 PM

From Timetables to Temporal Graphs: AI-Assisted Reconstruction and Analysis of Cold War Berlin's Public Transport Networks

Lecture: Noah Kim-Baumann (HU Berlin)

11/11/2026, 06:00 PM

Automating the inquisition: network data extraction from medieval heresy trial records using LLMs

Lecture: Robert L. J. Shaw (Masaryk University Brno)

11/25/2026, 06:00 PM

From Testimony to Structure: Social Network Analysis of the Apostolic Movement in Bologna, 1291–1310

Lecture: Katia Riccardo (Masaryk University Brno)

12/09/2026, 06:00 PM

Towards a Digital Transmission History – Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Medieval Manuscripts as Case Study

Lecture: Linus Ubl (Eutin State Library)

01/13/2027, 06:00 PM

Hidden relationships: Medieval Networks of Memory in Thirteenth-Century England

Lecture: Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) / Mateusz Jakub Fafinski (University of Erfurt)

01/27/2027, 06:00 PM

From Sources to Networks: AI-assisted Data Creation and Sustainable Modelling in Managing Maximilian

Lecture: Marcella Tambuscio (University of Graz)

02/10/2027, 06:00 PM

More than just nodes and edges: The potential of AI in historical network analysis from the perspective of the project ‘St Mary at Helfta’

This closing lecture of the 'Nodes of Time' lecture series is held by the research team of the project 'St. Mary at Helfta': Katrin Rösler, Sandra Groß, and Mirko Breitenstein (all SAW Leipzig / FOVOG Dresden).

03/03/2027, 02:00 PM

A New Order Permeates the World. Social Relevance and Spatial Impact of the Premonstratensians in Medieval Europe

International Conference, organised by the Academy Project St Mary at Helfta

A medieval illuminated manuscript depicts a bustling outdoor building site where labourers are constructing a church or a monastery. In the foreground, carpenters are working on wooden beams with tools, whilst a man in a monk’s habit gives instructions. In the centre, a labourer is transporting stones in a wooden wheelbarrow, another is chiselling stones with a pickaxe, and labourers on ramps are carrying loads upwards. A large wooden crane lifts stones onto the unfinished stone building. Above the scene, suspended in a white cloud, is a depiction of Jesus Christ on the cross, from which red cords or lines lead downwards towards the building site. In the background, a hilly landscape stretches out with blue mountains beneath a bright sky.

Past events

04/28/2026, 05:00 PM

Alevi Archive: Ethnohistory of Alevi Communities in Anatolia, 16th to 20th Centuries

Presentation of the new long-term project

The interior of a mausoleum, with green walls, carpets on the floor and a tapestry on the wall; two coffins are draped in colourful cloths.

06/30/2025, 08:15 AM

Diffusion Fundamentals XI

11th conference of the series "Spreading in Nature, Technology, and Society"

Northwestern University is hosting the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference from June 30-July 2 (2025) in Evanston, Illinois (USA).

10/07/2024, 01:00 PM

Texttransfer and intertextual references in inscriptions in Medieval and Early Modern Times

09/17/2024, 04:00 PM,

"Buddhism and Sanskrit Turn"

09/16/2024, 09:40 AM,

Ethics of archaeology and post-colonial Asia

Prof. Dr. Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna) is keynote speaker at the 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art. It takes place from 16–20 September 2024 in Leipzig, Germany.

09/16/2024, 06:30 AM

26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art

From 16 to 20 September 2024, the 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA) will take place in Leipzig – a first for Saxony – under the auspices of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The conference has already been hosted by colleagues in Vienna, Paris, Stockholm and other cities, and was last held in Barcelona in 2022. About 170 to 200 participants from Europe, North America and Asia regularly attend.