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Call for Papers (CFP) for Sessions
\nSponsored or Co-Sponsored by the RGME<\/h2>\n

at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online)
\nMonday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022<\/h2>\n

CFP Deadline:\u00a0 15 September 2021
\n[Deadline for Session Programs:\u00a0 1 October 2021]<\/h2>\n
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Private Collection, Le Parc Abbey, Theological Volume, Part B: Detail of Vellum Leaf. Photography Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n

[Update on 22 September 2021<\/em>:
\nFollowing the close of the CFP on 15 September, we can welcome the received proposals for papers, observe their strength and range, and prepare the programs for each session.\u00a0 With the selection of proposed papers accomplished, it comes time to arrange their sequence within the given Sessions, assign the Presiders for them, and submit the programs to the Congress Committee by 1 October 2021.<\/p>\n

When appropriate, we can announce the Programs, report the assignment of their scheduling within the Congress Program overall, and publish the Abstracts of the Papers and Responses, as the authors might be willing. The Congress Program will become available in due course, and registration for the online Congress might commence.<\/p>\n

Update on 1 October 2021:<\/em>
\nAt the close of the deadline for submission of the programs to the Congress, we report that each of our Sessions has three or four Papers; three sessions also have Responses; and we plan to hold a Business Meeting at the Congress, as in previous years.\u00a0 All these activities are to take place online.]<\/p>\n

[Posted on 15 July 2021<\/em>]<\/p>\n

After accomplishing the 2021 ICMS Online, with 5 Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Sessions, plus our Open Business Meeting, we produced the 2021 Congress Report<\/a>, as we turned to preparations for the 2022 Congress.\u00a0 We proposed Sessions, and received answers in stages.<\/p>\n

Through the Confex system for the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies, we have learned that all but one of our proposed sessions have been accepted.<\/p>\n

One of the accepted sessions resumes a series (“Medieval Writing Materials”<\/strong>) which a rejection for the 2015 Congress disrupted.\u00a0 That rejection interfered with the momentum of our series of sessions on the subject at the 2011\u20132016 Congresses.\u00a0 (See Sponsored Sessions<\/a>.)\u00a0 The interval between then and now is a long time to wait.\u00a0 We had to turn to other subjects, as the momentum for their own action not only gathered to produce the proposals to sponsor or co-sponsor them, but also found favor by the Congress Committee, so that it could become possible to move to the phase of the Call for Papers for them. With the Pre-Congress Business Meeting in May 2021, as we prepared for this year’s Congress, we aimed to resume that series, as well as to explore other sessions as their subjects and proponents might direct.<\/p>\n

So, we can resume the series on Medieval Writing Materials for 2022.\u00a0 But a new rejection of another subject for the Congress leads us to reconsider our approach to its current momentum.\u00a0 This time, learning from experience, we could choose what to do, but elsewhere, before long, with the subject not accepted this time around, rather than waiting for some other year \u2014 or decade \u2014 at the Congress.<\/p>\n

And so, now, we announce the Call for Papers<\/strong> for the 2022 Congress.<\/p>\n

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2022 Sessions Sponsored and Co-Sponsored<\/h2>\n

For the 2022 Congress we plan four Sessions. Two are co-sponsored.\u00a0 One is co-sponsored with the Societas Magica<\/a>, in Year 18 of our organizations’ co-sponsorship of Sessions at the Congress.\u00a0 One is co-sponsored with the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA), in Year 1 of a new tradition.\u00a0 (See our Co-Sponsored Sessions<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

One Session resumes a series of Sessions sponsored by the RGME at the Congress:\u00a0 “Medieval Writing Materials”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

1\u20132. Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h2>\n
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Private Collection, Turkish Binding Fragment with Balance Watermark.<\/p><\/div>\n

1.\u00a0 Medieval Writing Materials: Processes, Products, and Case Studies<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Contact: <\/strong>Mildred Budny
\ndirector@manuscriptevidence.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Organized by Mildred Budny<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeking to explore new and cumulative research on medieval writing materials and their impact, we propose to examine multiple modes for producing books, documents, and texts in other forms, such as wax, wood, metal, or stone. Case-studies might consider, for example,<\/p>\n