Category Archives: Call for Papers

Pictor/Miniator: Working across media, 1250–1500 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Sponsored Session at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2018   The multimedia fluidity of artists and artisans in the later Middle Ages is … Continue reading →

Medieval Unfreedoms: Slavery, Servitude, and Trafficking in Humans before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade October 19 – 20, 2018 Across the medieval world (c. 500 — c. 1500), multiple forms and degrees of unfreedom—slavery, serfdom, forced concubinage, coerced labor, captivity, and … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 25th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2–5, 2018. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine … Continue reading →

CFP FOR AN EDITED COLLECTION: Architectural Representation in the European Middle Ages Edited by Hannah Bailey, Karl Kinsella, and Daniel Thomas The architectural remnants of the Middle Ages—from castles and cathedrals to village churches—provide many people’s first point of contact … Continue reading →

Memory and Lineage in Medieval Romance The 25th Leeds International Medieval Congress has a special thematic strand of ‘memory’. Medieval romance lends itself to thinking about memory, in many ways, and not least because of its preoccupation with lineage. We … Continue reading →

Call for Papers Applications due: 15 October 2017 Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effects 51st Study Week (Settimana) of the Fondazione Datini (Prato, Italy): 12-15 May 2019. Recent interest in inequality has focused on its real or perceived … Continue reading →

CfP: “Writing the human/animal continuum in the Middle Ages”, special session at the ICMS Kalamazoo 2018 CfP deadline: 15th September 2017 The distance between human and non-human across medieval culture could be populated by a plethora of hybrid beings whose … Continue reading →

Call for Papers: The Animal in Medieval Romance, at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (2018) The ‘animal turn’ is one of the newest and most exciting developments in medieval scholarship. Researchers are increasingly interrogating the role of animals … Continue reading →

Material Processes of Medieval Art and Architecture CAA 106th Annual Conference Los Angeles, February 21–24, 2018 Chairs: Kristine Tanton (kristanton@gmail.com) and Meredith Cohen (mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu) This session will explore the material processes of medieval objects and monuments. Art and architectural historians … Continue reading →

“Medieval Borders and Frontiers” The Thirty-third Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest October 19–21, 2017 The University of Kansas, Lawrence The Medieval Association of the Midwest invites papers and complete sessions on any aspect of the 2017 … Continue reading →