Call For Papers for Session
Queer(ing) Medieval Art: New Horizons
60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
8-10 May 2025
Due by 15 September 2024
Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances, 1330–1350 or later. France, Lorraine?, Gothic period, 14th century. Ivory; overall: 9.8 x 25.9 x 1 cm (3 7/8 x 10 3/16 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1978.39.b. Public Domain
How does medieval art define queerness and transness, and how do gendered performances of bodies and images shape one another? How do medieval sexualities and genders, fluid and porous, explicate and trouble modern ones? We invite papers that explore queer methodologies and medieval art, including visual cultures of animals, the humoral body, and the non-human. After the success of 2024’s Queer(ing) Medieval Art panels, this new panel seeks to expand our scope: we especially encourage papers examining secular, Jewish, or Islamic perspectives, architecture, non-elite archives, and/or queer intersections with race, religion, and ethnicity as visual/material expressions.
This in-person panel will be part of the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, taking place May 8 - May 10, 2025. For information about the conference, see https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress. Questions about the panel can be directed to Maeve Doyle (doylemae@easternct.edu) or Christopher Richards (crichard@colby.edu).
Please submit proposals, including an abstract of no more than 100 words, via the ICMS-Kalamazoo Confex website by September 15, 2024: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6395.