International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England
ISSEME Conference 2021: “Contributions”
June 17-18 and 21-22, 2021
At four locations:
- University of Winchester (Winchester, UK), June 17, 2021
- Concordia University (Montréal, Canada), June 18, 2021
- Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), June 21, 2021
- Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands), June 22, 2021
For information about Call for Papers, see (and below):
https://isseme.wpcomstaging.com/isseme-conference-2021/
Theme
“Contributions” will be the theme of the 20th biennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England. Under this broadly conceived and inherently positive rubric, we invite papers that focus on individuals, groups, sources, events, artifacts, and phenomena that have contributed and/or continue to contribute to the study of early medieval England. We intend this theme both to highlight and to celebrate the spirit of collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and dialogue between diverse parties that has typified our field at its best. Alongside scholarly contributions, we wish to celebrate contributions from outside traditional academia including, for example, creative work by Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley, heritage sites like the West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and Jarrow Hall, and popular media like The Last Kingdom and Vikings that have sparked greater interest in our field, especially among undergraduate students. Likewise, we wish to celebrate contributions of those who travelled to England and those who carried English learning abroad, such as Adomnán, Hadrian of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus, Boniface, Willibrord, Leoba, Alcuin, and Asser.
By focusing on contributions—academic and popular, medieval and modern, English and non-English, Anglophone and non-Anglophone—we hope this conference will help to dispel myths of an early medieval England that was exclusionary, isolated, and culturally homogenous and contribute to building a more inclusive and constructively pluralistic field.
We anticipate that the conference will take place either in a hybrid fashion (online and in-situ) or fully online. This means that it will always be possible for you to attend and/or deliver your paper online; if circumstances allow it, you will be able to attend one (or more) days on location.
Call for papers
Every venue welcomes papers on specific themes related to the overall theme of ‘Contributions.’ For the local CFPs of the four venues, please see below:
- Winchester (June 17, 2021) – Themes: ‘The Material Past: Buildings and Visual Culture’; ‘Non-Human Actors and Agents’; ‘Aspects of Authority’; ‘Reform and Resistance’ – Read the full CFP and/or submit an abstract (Google Form) – Downloadable CFP here (PDF)
- Montréal (June 18, 2021) – Themes: ‘Material Culture in Earliest Medieval England’; ‘Affective Histories of the Past’; ‘The Plural Present’; ‘Texts and Future Technologies’ – Read the full CFP and/or submit an abstract (Google Form) – Downloadable CFP here (PDF)
- Adelaide (June 21, 2021) – Themes: ‘Interpretation, Transmission, Adaptation and Reception’; ‘Emotions’; ‘Trade, Exploration, Maritime Power and the Sea’; ‘Science and Medicine’ – Read the full CFP and/or submit an abstract (Google Form) – Downloadable CFP here (PDF)
- Leiden (June 22, 2021) – Themes: ‘Multilingualism in Early Medieval England’; ‘Historiography of Scholarship from the Margins’; ‘Connections between England and the Rest of the World’; ‘Pedagogy Past and Present’ – Read the full CFP and/or submit an abstract (Google Form) – Downloadable CFP here (PDF)
All abstracts will be subject to blind peer review. You do not need to be a member to submit an abstract, but all conference presenters and attendees will be expected to be members of ISSEME. Exceptions may be granted to local student attendees.
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2021.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in February 2021.
For any queries, please contact the organizers via the following e-mail addresses:
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- isseme.general2021@gmail.com – general inquiries
- isseme2021winchester@gmail.com – inquiries related to the Winchester venue
- isseme2021montreal@gmail.com – inquiries related to the Montréal venue
- isseme2021adelaide@gmail.com – inquiries related to the Adelaide venue
- isseme2021leiden@gmail.com – inquiries related to the Leiden venue
