Early Career and Postgraduate Conference 2027

The Centre for Catholic Studies (CCS) is pleased to announce that the call for papers is now open for the Early Career and Postgraduate Conference for 2027. This one-day conference will focus on Catholic Theology and Catholic Studies, including: constructive, historical, practical, pastoral, or political theology; Catholic Social Thought and Practice; the history of Catholicism; Lived Catholicism; and Catholicism, literature, and the arts.

The Early Career Conference is a chance for postgraduate students and other early career researchers to meet and to present their research in a collegial environment.

This one-day conference will focus on Catholic Theology and Catholic Studies, including: constructive, historical, practical, pastoral, or political theology; Catholic Social Thought and Practice; the history of Catholicism; Lived Catholicism; and Catholicism, literature, and the arts.

We welcome papers from postgraduate students and other early career scholars interested in Catholic Theology and Catholic Studies from multiple disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. Undergraduates are welcome to attend, but in order to present a paper you must be a graduate student (MA or higher).

Please send proposals (100-200 words) for 20-minute communications to the form linked below by Friday 5 March 2027:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/6MbNu7LVWP

Travel bursaries are available - please submit the form linked here by the 2 April 2027: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/KEZrNkMMcm

Registration for this event will open shortly.

Accommodation

Delegates are asked to book their own accommodation, as required, direct with hotels. Various accommodation is available in Durham City.  Some suggestions are available here:

Suggestions for accommodation in Durham - Early Career Conference 2026

While we encourage delegates to travel by public transport, The Sands car park and Walkergate car park are nearby.