2025 International Medieval Congress
at Leeds:
RGME Program

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

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

“Knowledge Games and Games of Knowledge”
(1 Session)

Congress Theme: “Worlds of Learning”

Private Collection. Stereoscopic Photograph of Bridges of Paris, circa 1850s.

[Posted on 8 December 2024]

Building upon the successful completion of our RGME Inaugural Session at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at the University of Leeds in July 2024, and responding to the strength and numbers of proposals for our Call for Papers for the IMC in 2025, we announce the Program for our sponsored activities at next year’s Congress.

For information about the Congress, see

• its official website and
• the Padlet Page showing the range of organised sessions advertising for papers (as part of the Call for Papers, now completed).

“Worlds of Learning” at Leeds in 2025

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

The worlds to explore in and for learning are wide. We look to manuscripts as carriers, portals, and thresholds, in keeping with our chosen theme for 2025 RGME activities, “Thresholds and Communities”.

Our Aims

Our set of interlinked events planned for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME) focuses 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.

As interest has grown, the two sessions (plus roundtable) which we planned for “Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning” grew into three (plus roundtable), amounting to four events.  See:

• Call for Papers for “Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning”

We also 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.

• “Knowledge Games and Games of Knowledge”: An RGME Session for IMC 2025

Following in succession the close of the Call for Papers, our choices for the programs for the sessions and roundtable, and the acceptance of all these sessions plus roundtable by the IMC, we present

• a suite of events containing three Sessions with Papers accompanied by a Round Table with Discussion, all dedicated to “Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning”
  (Monday 7 July 2025)
  
• a Session with Papers dedicated to “Knowledge Games and Games of Knowledge: A Global Perspective on How Manuscripts Conserve and Transmit Ludic Knowledge”
  (Tuesday 8 July 2025)
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