Theme of the Year for the RGME
December 22, 2025 in Manuscript Studies, Theme of the Year
Theme for the Year for the RGME:
Journey of a Tradition
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[Posted on 12 December 2025]
For the Year 2026, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence chooses the Theme of “Transformations and Renewals” for exploration as part of its activities and projects. This choice stands within our tradition (since 2022) of a theme to guide and inspire the interconnected subjects and interwoven strands of activities and projects for the year.
On this choice and its aims, scope, and activities, see:
- Transformations and Renewals: RGME Theme for the Year 2026.
Here, as we approach the Year 2026, we survey this tradition and its choices with successes and growth for individual years.
RGME Themes for the Year (since 2023)
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Last year, the RGME chose the Theme of “Thresholds and Communities”, which our multiple activities developed in a variety of ways.
The choice emerged in conversations reflecting upon the strong benefits of the previous year’s choice, “Bridges” as an overarching theme for 2024 and its year’s funded Project “Between Past and Future”, designed for “Building Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”.
For 2023, our Theme of “Materials and Access” drew guidance and inspiration through the funded 2023 Project on the “RGME Library & Archives” and the Spring and Autumn Symposia on “Materials and Access”.
For our first Theme for the Year in 2022, “Structured Knowledge” (chosen by our new Editorial Committee), the year’s activities explored such subjects as “Catalogues, Metadata, and Databases” in RGME Episodes and our 2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia on Structures for and Supports of Knowledge.
2025
“Thresholds and Communities”
“Agents and Agencies”
2025 Spring Symposium Poster, Set in RGME Bembino.
2024
“Bridges”
For example:
2024 RGME Spring Symposium at Vassar College
2024 RGME Inaugural Session at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds
RGME @ 2024 IMC at Leeds: Poster 2 set in RGME Bembino, with border.
2023
“Materials and Access”
2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia
- 2023 Spring Symposium. “From the Ground Up”
- 2023 Autumn Symposium. “Between Earth and Sky”
2023 Spring Pre-Symposium/Symposium Booklet Front Cover.
2022
“Structured Knowledge”
See our 2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia:
- “Structures of Knowledge” (Spring)
- “Supports for Knowledge” (Autumn)
2022 Autumn Symposium Program Booklet, Front Cover (Page 1)
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