Category Archives: Call for Papers

CFP: Early Medieval Education ICMS, Kalamazoo 9-12 May 2019 Scenes of instruction and learning fill early medieval literature and art–Boethius at Philosophia’s knees, Alcuin and Charlemagne discussing rhetoric, Lioba recalling Eadburga’s poetic instruction. Education, as Irina Dumitrescu pointed out in … Continue reading →

Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer and Europe Friday 28th– Saturday 29th June 2019 Hosted by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Keynote addresses by Professor Laura Kendrick (University of Versailles) and Professor David Wallace … Continue reading →

Messy Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Body in Pre-Modern Culture 54th ICMS | May 9-12, 2019 Following our end-of-the-year symposium, the Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network welcomes papers for our two sessions on Messy Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to … Continue reading →

This session at the 2019 International Congress on Medieval Studies examines the many valences of wounds in late medieval Christianity, focusing on themes surrounding wounds and wounding both visible (corporeal and/or material) and invisible (rhetorical and allegorical). The image of … Continue reading →

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 26th International Medieval Congress, … Continue reading →

Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts’ Istanbul Medeniyet University, 15-16 November 2018 The history of Iberia, as both an originator and a product of global colonization, constitutes a field of study for interrogating fundamental concepts of contemporary liberal-democratic … Continue reading →

For both contemporary scholars and classical theorists, capitalism defines modernity. Yet for a concept that is so en vogue (consider, e.g., the surprising success of Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty- First Century), there is little consensus over what it is … Continue reading →

Call for Proposals 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9 to 12, 2019 A Roundtable Encountering Medieval Iconography in the Twenty-First Century: Scholarship, Social Media, and Digital Methods Organizers: M. Alessia Rossi and Jessica Savage (Index of Medieval Art, … Continue reading →

The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for the academic year 2019/2020. The Academy seeks to enrich transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and public policy through the development and communication of projects of the highest … Continue reading →

Government and Governance from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: Representation and Reality 45th Annual New England Medieval Conference University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Saturday, November 17th, 2018 Great Seal of Edward I Keynote Speakers: Amy Appleford, of Boston University, … Continue reading →