2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies Report
May 22, 2018 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Announcements, Business Meeting, Conference, Conference Announcement, ICMS, Index of Christian Art, Index of Medieval Art, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Manuscript Studies, Princeton University, Reception, Societas Magica
Report: Sessions & Events
Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
10–13 May 2018
[Published on 23 May 2018, with updates]
“The Scene of the Time” Photography by Mildred Budny.
With the completion of our Call for Papers for the 2018 Congress, we prepared the Programs for our Sessions and other Events — Reception and Open Business Meeting included. With the turn of the New Year, as customary, we began to add the Abstracts of Papers and Response, as their Authors permit, to our webpost announcing our activities for the 2018 Congress Program. Next, with the publication of the full Congress Program in a “sneak preview” at the beginning of February, the allocated times and locations become known. Also, as time progressed, more Abstracts joined our gathering Report.
Now we report the Congress activities as they occurred. You Are Here.
A Behind The Scenes Report gathers momentum as well. Coming Soon to a Screen Near You. Watch This Place.
Background and Foreground
The course of announcements and reports about the 2018 Congress may follow the sequence of previous years. For example, for the 2018 Congress, we announced the Plans and the Call for Papers (which has a deadline of 15 September), the Program (once the Sessions are designed from the responses to the Call for Papers), then an updated version or versions of the Program with the addition of the Abstracts and other news (same URL), and, once the Congress is accomplished, a Report as well as, it may be, a Report Behind the Scenes.
- 2018 Congress Call for Papers
- 2018 Congress Program
- 2018 Congress Report
- 2018 Congress Behind the Scenes Report (in preparation).
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As in recent years, we co-sponsored Sessions with the Societas Magica (3 Sessions), and we co-sponsor a Reception.
Also, like the 2017 Congress, we held
- an Open Business Meeting and
- a Reception, co-sponsored with The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University.
It is the 13th year of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica, and our 3rd year of co-sponsorship with the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, now (since 2017) known as the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University.
As usual, we publish the Abstracts for the accepted Papers. Both they and the Abstracts for previous Congresses appear in our Congress Abstracts, listed by Year and by Author.