2025 International Medieval Congress at Leeds: Call for Papers

August 1, 2024 in Announcements, Call for Papers, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, Manuscript Studies

2025 International Medieval Congress
at Leeds:
Call for Papers

“Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning”
(2 Sessions + Roundtable)

32nd Annual IMC
Monday to Thursday 07–10 July 2025
(with In-Person and Virtual Components)

Deadline for your Proposals for Papers: 5 September 2024

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25, p. 73, top. Image via https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Dublin,_Royal_Irish_Academy,_MS_23_E_25 via Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

[Posted on 1 August 2024, with updates]

Building upon the successful completion of our RGME Inaugural Session at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at the University of Leeds in July 2024, we announce the Call for Papers (CFP) for our activities at next year’s Congress.

For information about the Congress, see

Note that the general deadline for individual papers without specified sessions in a general pool is 31 August 2024.

The deadline for proposals for our RGME-sponsored Sessions is 5 September 2024.  Please send your proposals directly to us as organisers; we will select the programmes by their deadline of 30 September 2024.  (Instructions below.)

“Worlds of Learning” at Leeds in 2025

Next year’s Thematic Focus for the IMC is “Worlds of Learning”. The broad scope is described in the general Call for Papers: IMC 2025 – ‘Worlds of Learning’.

We invite you to submit proposals for a set of interlinked events planned for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME) to focus on the power and potential of manuscripts to contain, convey, and embody worlds of learning within their span.  In effect, given their structure and contents, as we approach them as beholder, user, reader, student, teacher, or admirer, they may carry worlds in our hands.

How might medieval manuscripts do so, variously for their medieval audience, later intermediaries, and our own times? How might and do they function as “Worlds of Learning” in their own right/write?  We explore.

Update (14 August 2024): As interest grows, we plan several sessions for the 2025 IMC.

In another post, we present a Session with Papers devoted to “Game Knowledge and Knowledge of Games”, which follows up a strand in our RGME Inaugural Session this year.

Here we present a suite of events containing two Sessions with Papers accompanied by a Round Table with Discussion, all dedicated to “Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning”.

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