Lieu : Porto Rico

Dates : 29 avril-03 mai 2020

Date limite de réponse à l’appel : 15 août 2019

In conversation with the turn towards intersectional and pluralistic approaches within the humanities and social sciences, several movements have surfaced in the study of the medieval North Atlantic raising new questions and bringing new insights to the field. Recent years have seen a push to expand the traditional geographical focus on Old Norse studies in Iceland and Norway to encompass East Norse studies, as well as a drive towards the focus on theoretical approaches to medieval Scandinavian textual and material sources. Manuscript studies have flourished with the emergence of new studies of textual production and transmission on both macro- and micro-levels. Similarly, studies on deviance and ontological borders, cultural and religious pluralism, the impact of the natural world, spaces and places as well as the materiality of texts and objects have made significant contributions.

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Lieu : Leeds (Royaume-Uni)

Dates : 06-09 juillet 2020

Date limite de réponse à l’appel : 1er septembre 2019

In our fifth instalments of horse sessions at the International Medieval Congress, we especially invite submissions in horse history responding to the special thematic strand of IMC 2020: borders. As an example, we suggest addressing, the following themes for the sessions: border zone equestrianisms ; blurring the human/equine boundaries ; equine hybridity and straining the borders between the real and imaginary equines ; horses in the art and annotations on manuscript borders.

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Lieu : Londres et Leeds (Royaume-Uni)

Dates : 29 juin-03 juillet 2020 (Londres) et 06-09 juillet (Leeds)

Date limite de réponse à l’appel : 30 août 2019

The aim of these two sessions is to explore the place of Lithuania within the geopolitical and social sphere of Europe during the later Middle Ages. The first looks to explore the encounters between Lithuania and the other political and religious groups that held stakes within the Baltic arena. The second session will examine the various perceptions Christian Europeans had of Lithuania and place it within a larger reflection on the image of the so-called “margins” of Europe in the Western European discourse.

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Lieu : Western Michigan University (États-Unis) ; Leeds (Royaume-Uni)

Date : 7 mai 2020 (Western Michigan University) ; 06-09 juillet 2020 (Leeds)

Date limite de réponse à l’appel : 10 septembre 2019

Western Michigan University : The proposed session concentrates on Marian iconography of the Late Middle Ages, with particular emphasis on fourteenth to sixteenth century. It focuses on the movement of iconographies in/from/towards France by highlighting connections and influences pertaining to Italian, Spanish, and/or English geographical areas. Furthermore, it situates Marian visual depictions in the context of the development of Marian devotion (rise in her cult and liturgical feasts) and specific theological debates (Immaculate Conception).

Leeds : The proposed session concentrates on representations of the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne in the Middle Ages by bringing into discussion new approaches on their iconographies. In certain instances, Mary’s life incorporates episodes of Saint Anne’s allowing, thus, multiple readings and multiple layers of meaning in the very same (visual) representation.

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