Call for Papers: BAA Sponsored Sessions, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (7-10 July 2025), Due By 20 Sept. 2024

Call for Papers

BAA sponsored sessions

International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds 2025

Due By 20 September 2024

The BAA is now welcoming paper proposals for the BAA-sponsored sessions at the International Medieval Congress, which will take place at the University of Leeds (7th-10th July 2025).

The IMC’s research theme for 2025 is ‘Worlds of Learning’ and the IMC’s suggested themes include, but are not limited to:

  • Ideals, practices, and rituals of teaching and learning

  • Gendered ideals of learning and gender in learning

  • Pedagogical techniques for different age groups

  • Technical and artisanal knowledge

  • Oral transmission, practice, and performance in learning processes

  • Medieval epistemologies and systematisations of knowledge

  • Religious conceptualisations and interpretations of learning

  • Forms of learning and/about the self

  • Languages and their role in the acquisition of learning

  • Representations of learning in literature and art

  • Learning materials, including instructional objects, texts, images, and diagrams

  • Schools and universities and their local and regional networks

  • Financial and political networks supporting communities of learning

  • Lieux de savoir and locales of learning, including (permanent or situational) material and spatial arrangements

  • Printing and publishing learned materials

  • Distribution and circulation of knowledge traditions (Digitally) Mapping intellectual networks

  • Cross-cultural and interreligious learning

  • Cultural transfer and cultural appropriation

  • Different national and confessional/religious historiographies of learning, their continuing impact, and their problems

A full list of suggested topics and more details can be found here: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/ 

It is hoped that we can organise several sessions, with similar papers grouped together (either methodologically or by subject). Before submitting a proposal, please ensure you have familiarised yourself with the conference fees and the available bursaries for the IMC, details of which are available here: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/proposals/bursary 

Proposals should consist of a paper title, your affiliation (if any), your contact details, and a short abstract (50-100 words). Please send paper proposals to Harriet Mahood (hpmahood@gmail.com) by Friday 20th September 2024.