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International Medieval Congress Leeds

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Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Communities, 5-8 July 2027. https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 12h ago

A bit late...we know...but thanks to everyone who presented at and attended our strand at @imc-leeds.bsky.social last month. So many papers, so much to reflect on. Thank you everyone, we hope to see you next year 😊 Here's a photo of the organising team looking proud.

Organising team sitting at the front of a seminar room, behind them a screen with another member joining online.

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 19h ago

A (belated) cfp for #IMC2027 FORGET THE VIKINGS: Other raids, raiders, & raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period Read below for details, and if you're interested (or know anyone who might be), please submit your proposal of 150 words to the attached e-mail (also in alt text) before 1/9/26

A Call-for-papers for IMC 2027 which reads:

'Forget the Vikings!
CFP: Other raids, raiders, and raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period

There are good reasons why Scandinavian raiders - or ‘Vikings’ - occupy a much-coveted space in popular perceptions of early medieval warfare. But enough about them. What about everyone else?
This CFP is seeking submissions from scholars interested in exploring other, non-Viking raiding groups from c. 400 - 1100. This could include (but is not limited to): Avars, Huns, Hungarians, Slavs, Frisians, Saxon and Frankish pirates, Saracens, Welsh and Irish cattle-rustlers, Balts, Oesellians, Narentanians, Dál Riatans, as well as the military activities of major hegemonies such as the Carolingians, Ottonians, West Saxons, Byzantines, even Normans, and so on.
Chiefly, this is to fashion some new notions of how identity, political practice, and belonging were fostered within raiding communities. Of particular interest would be any papers keen to explore how other, non-Viking groups used raiding as part of regular military affairs. Analogies and comparisons with Viking studies are also welcome, if they are used to shine a light on lesser-known groups. Like the Vikings, many other communities engaged in more than just raiding, so explorations of trade, exchange, and other political dynamics alongside raids, would be ideal.

Please send proposals (150 words or less) to:
alexharvv@gmail.com before 1/9/26'

Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social · 15h ago

CfP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027: "Queer and Trans Medieval Communities" 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We welcome papers (15-20min) from all disciplines of medieval studies by scholars at any level, on any aspect of medieval queer and trans community, in person or virtual. Abstracts due 31 Aug. We'd love to hear from you!

As the existence of the trans and queer community is under constant and
increasing threat across the world – with alt-right political rhetoric in the West seeking to rupture solidarity for and within the global queer community – the work of the historian has never been more vital. Historians have long found solidarity and recognition of queer experiences and practices with individuals and groups of the past. In concert with the wealth of current research being produced in trans and queer medieval studies, this panel session responds to the urgency of this present moment. In the face of existential threats, we recognise the importance of finding community with one another, which includes understanding our community has a history. This panel session seeks not only to contribute to transtemporal and scholarly trans and queer community building, but to better understand what historical trans and queer communities and practices may have looked like – including the mechanisms and structures that attempted to preclude such community formations. Engaging with and making legible such histories constitutes an act of compassion both with historical actors and with living members of our community today. It also constitutes an act of resistance, by finding existence and continuity in community.
Presentations may address but are not limited to the following topics:
-Cultivating cross-temporal queer and trans community
-How trans and genderqueer experiences manifest in the Middle Ages
-Spaces in which queer/trans community could be manifested in the Middle Ages
-Communal failure or loss of community
-A failing or absence of a trans and queer community
-Texts, codes, etc. used in constituting queer and trans communities in the Middle Ages
-Methodologies available for talking about trans and queer communities
TITLE, ABSTRACT (200 WORDS) AND BIO (150 WORDS) BY 31 AUG TO:
Michael Eber michael.eber@uni-koeln.de
Hannah Victoria hjohnson@aup.edu
Oliver Wilkin o.lg-wilkin@outlook.com

Sif (Valsif)@valsif.bsky.social · yesterday

Call for Papers: IMC 2027 - Still trú Today: The Influence of the Middle Ages on 21st-Century Ásatrú Communities. Proposals should be sent to D.M.Coultas@leeds.ac.uk for the attention of Dan Coultas and Sif Brookes by 14th September '26. Join us at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #medievalsky #heathensky

Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social · yesterday

Be sure to check out the Padlet for CfPs for #IMC2027! If anyone wants their CfP adding to the Padlet, email or tag the @imc-leeds.bsky.social team. It's useful for those who don't use the socials and is linked on the IMC 2027 website. padlet.com/universityof...

IMC 2027 'Communities'

Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2027 this is ‘Communities’. For any questions, please email imc@leeds....

padlet.com

Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 2d ago

What made a medieval self? CFP, Leeds #IMC2027, July 5-8: ‘Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities’. We would love to hear from graduate students and early career researchers who may like to join us at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! See CFP for more info. Abstracts due September 7 #medievalsky

Call For Papers: IMC Leeds 2027
Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities
What made a medieval self? Augustine’s noverim me, noverim te (“May I know myself; may I know You”)
suggests that knowing oneself depended upon relationships with both God and other people. Taking this insight
alongside Paul Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (selfhood), this panel asks how medieval
people negotiated selfhood through their relationships with communities, institutions, and the divine.
This panel aims to explore how selves and communities were imagined, enacted, negotiated, and transformed
through material culture, texts, language, and social practice. We are particularly interested in the significance of
belonging, memory, and authority in shaping both individual and collective experience.
Papers may consider, among other themes:
• Communities of belonging:
• Embodied and material expressions of selfhood
• Texts, rituals, and discourse: how rhetoric,
narrative, images, and language mediated
relationships between individuals, communities, and
the divine.
• Authority, spaces and social order: how hierarchy,
sacred or social spaces, exclusion, and reputation
structured medieval selves and communities.
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches from across
medieval studies.
We invite submissions of a 150–250 word abstract,
accompanied by: a paper title; a brief personal biography
including your current institutional affiliation (if any) and
academic title (if any); your full contact details (email and phone); any equipment/accessibility requirements
and scheduling requests; and whether you intend to participate in person or virtually.
Submissions must be sent to ceraejournal@gmail.com by 11:59 PM (GMT) Monday 7 September 2026.
All submissions will be reviewed by the Ceræ Committee. Decisions will be communicated to all applicants
within 5 days of the deadline.

Grant Jones @grantosjones.bsky.social · yesterday

CALL FOR PAPERS! Alastair Forbes (@areforbes.bsky.social) and I are seeking papers for our proposed Leeds #IMC2027 session: 'Ordered and Disordered Communities in Clerical Thought' All disciplines and career stages welcome - abstracts due 14 September. @imc-leeds.bsky.social #MedievalSky

A call for papers for Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 on the topic of 'Ordered and Disordered Communities in Clerical Thought'. This panel examines how medieval clerical and monastic cultures defined communities and situated them within social or religious order. We seek to explore how these cultures understood disorder within or between communities, as well as how their judgements shaped ideas about communal identity and belonging. Communities considered might range from individual institutions to wider social order and communities, across the entirety of Christendom in the Middle Ages.

We welcome proposals from colleagues in any discipline of medieval studies and at any career stage, including postgraduate and early career researchers. Although papers should engage substantively with clerical or monastic understandings of order, they need not be confined to clerical communities or clerically authored sources. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words for a 20-minute paper, along with a short biography, to Dr Alastair Forbes and Dr Grant Jones at: a.r.e.forbes@durham.ac.uk and grant.jones@durham.ac.uk no later than Monday 14 September 2026.

Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social · 2d ago

Working on Britain and/or Ireland in the 12th-14th Centuries? I'm putting together an @imc-leeds.bsky.social panel proposal for #IMC2027 on Borderland Communities of Rebellion. Details attached, but by no means exhaustive! If you'd like to chat, or have any questions, please get in touch.

Sam Riding @medievalpeasants.bsky.social · 6d ago

Do you study medieval manors? Do you want to speak at @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Then we have the Call for Papers for you! Medieval Manorial Research: Community in the Manor. We welcome researchers of all disciplines and career stages. Deadline 4th September 2026. #IMC2027 #Skystorians #Medievalsky

Call for papers poster for IMC 2027.

From juries to tithing-groups, from haywards to cowherds, from the lord’s steward to the harvest workers in the field: the institution of the manor played a key role in shaping rural medieval communities. Research into such populations has traditionally looked to court rolls, accounts and surveys to understand how ordinary people lived their lives. Yet, the scale and complexity of manorial documentation preserved in modern archives presents a significant challenge and much remains critically under-studied. At the same time, other methodologies incorporating archaeological, landscape, and material culture evidence have much to contribute to our understanding of medieval manorial communities, although multi-disciplinary approaches remain under-explored.

We would like to invite papers from researchers who work with manorial documents, either as a means of understanding medieval life and community, or as archival objects in their own right. We also welcome papers focused on non-documentary source bases, comparative studies combining material and documentary evidence, or studies comparing manorial communities across a broad chronological and geographical range. If you research the medieval manor, we would like to hear from you!

Approaches to communities may include (but are not limited to):
Daily peasant life
Manor courts, custom, customary law
Lordship and seigneurial agency in the manor
Communities in the landscape
Manorial material culture
The use and materiality of manorial documents in the archive

Please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words, and a short biography including name, institutional affiliation, and email address to jenni.lane@york.ac.uk and samuel.riding@history.ox.ac.uk. The deadline for proposals is Friday 4th September 2026.
We welcome proposals from researchers in any discipline and at all career stages. Please indicate in your submission whether you intend to present virtually or in-person.

Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

Last chance for our #IMC2026 offer. Get 30% off #medieval history books with free UK postage. Offer ends midnight tonight. #MedievalSky @imc-leeds.bsky.social 👇

Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · last mo.

If you are at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social, drop by our stand where all our books are available at 30% discount. If you are not at the conference, you can still order at the discounted price online until 31/7 with free UK postage: yalebooks.co.uk/imc-2026/ Some highlights follow #IMC2026 #medievalsky

International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎊 Look at how many CfPs are on the #IMC2027 Padlet page! 🎊 Check out the IMC Padlet by clicking the link here: tinyurl.com/IMC2027Padlet If you’d like us to add your CFP to the Padlet, please tag us on bluesky at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, or email us at imc@leeds.ac.uk #MedievalSky

The IMC Padlet page full of many different Call for Papers

Makayla Nicholis @mak-ayla.bsky.social · last wk.

CFP for Leeds IMC 2027: Geography and Cosmography in Non-Historical Texts 📅 05-08.07.2027 📍 Leeds (UK) Deadline: 01.09.2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #LeedsIMC2027 #MedievalSky

Robert Friedrich @rofrie11.bsky.social · 6d ago

Medievalists, I'm proposing a CfP for a couple of sessions for @imc-leeds.bsky.social on "Multilingualism in the Global Middle Ages. Creating Communities through Inclusion and Exclusion". Please share and apply (and check out the beautiful 12th c. quadrilingual epitaph from Palermo) #medievalsky

Dr Caroline Bourne @carolinebourne.bsky.social · last wk.

Call for papers Communities in Medieval Wales & the March, @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027, sponsored by the Mortimer History Society. If you are researching any aspect of Medieval Wales & the March, please consider submitting a paper proposal for our strand at next year's IMC. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Charlotte Bowyer @charlottebowyer.bsky.social · last wk.

CALL FOR PAPERS Excited to open the CFP for 'Wundor in Old English Literature' at Leeds IMC next year (5th-8th July 2027). If you have any questions, please get in touch! Abstracts due 10th September 2026. #IMC2027 #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Wundor in Old English Literature

Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027
5th-8th July 2027

A sense of wonder runs through the Old English literary corpus, from the marvellous sights described in ‘Alexander’s Letter to Aristotle’ to the ambiguous ‘wundorlicu wiht’ of the Exeter Book riddles. But what does it mean to be wondrous? This session will explore the multivalence of the Old English term ‘wundor’, which holds the simultaneous meanings of marvel, portent and miracle.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Wondrous natural phenomena
Monstrous and hybrid bodies
Riddles and the unearthing of wonder
Wonder as an affective response to the inexplicable

Interdisciplinary contributions are very welcome.

To participate, please submit a short biography and a proposal of up to 250 words to Charlotte Bowyer (charlotte.c.bowyer@kcl.ac.uk) by 10 September 2026.

Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · last wk.

Time to start thinking about #IMC2027 - this Call for Papers is about (In)Tangibility of the Medieval Celestial Community in the Confluence-Liminality and Nature-Culture (hello @imc-leeds.bsky.social)

Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · last wk.

Our @imc-leeds.bsky.social offer is still running until the end of the month. Get 30% off medieval history books with free UK postage until 31/7. #IMC2026 #MedievalSky 👇

Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · last mo.

H-Sicily on H-Net @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW POST: Medieval Sicily, Italy, Malta, and Ifriqiya (IMC Leeds, 5-8 July 2027). See the full post on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

MOIRES @moires-textiles.bsky.social · last wk.

⚠️🧵 Appel à communication/Call for papers : “DISTAFF – Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027” 📅 05-08.07.2027 📍 Leeds (UK) Deadline: 31.08.2026 ℹ️ moires.hypotheses.org/10372 #textiles #moyenage #middleages

Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 2w ago

My bestie Robyn Stewart is organising some fabulous sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027! If you want more medieval science at the IMC, you know where to apply. ☀️

Josh Coulthard@joshcoulthard.bsky.social · 2w ago

See below for a CFP for #leeds2027 organised by Robyn Stewart.

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're heading back to @imc-leeds.bsky.social in July next year for a strand on 'Communities' or any other aspect of the medieval and medievalism in modern games - organised by @blairapgar.bsky.social with @tesswatty.bsky.social. Get your abstracts to us by 13 September!

CALL FOR PAPERS post image #1:

The Middle Ages in Modern Games invites submissions for its strand at Leeds IMC (5–8 July 2027), sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester.

This year's strand explores the congress theme of Communities, examining how medievalist games imagine, construct, and negotiate social groups. Papers may consider communities as systems of governance, identity, cooperation, conflict, trade, religion, reputation, or belonging, as well as the ways players form communities around games. We are particularly interested in how games shape understandings of medieval communities through mechanics, narratives, and audiovisual representation.

We welcome papers and sessions (3–4 papers) addressing any aspect of the medieval period or medievalism in digital or tabletop games, across any region and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’—including fantasy.
We particularly welcome submissions engaging with Communities broadly defined.

Abstracts due 13 Sept. All inquiries to midagesmodgames@gmail.com. For more info, visit: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net

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Topics might include (but are not restricted to):

Teaching Medieval Communities through Games
Membership and inclusion within communities; “the Other”
Religious groups within medievalist games
Migration and mobile communities
Race, ethnicity, and cultural identity-based communities
Gender, sexuality, and queer communities
Chosen families and alternative kinship structures
Colonialism, indigeneity, and community representation
Assimilation, hybridity, and multicultural communities
Community lines along social class and/or castes
Enclaves, splinter cells, and secession
Communities of violence and disruptive communities
Cooperation and obligation within medievalist games
Relationship and favorability mechanics in medievalist games
Guild systems in massive multiplayer online games (MMOs)
Language and visual signifiers of communities
Player communities of medievalist games
Positive and negative community exchanges

Abstracts due 13 Sept. All inquiries to midagesmodgames@gmail.com. For more info, visit: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net

Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our PhDs @hspevans.bsky.social and Nikolaus Frenzel are organising a session on “Communities and Connections between the Norse and Celtic Worlds” for #IMC2027 Details in the #CfP below👇 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #acadmicsky #medievalsky #skystorians

Hannah E@hspevans.bsky.social · 2w ago

@imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2027 CALL FOR PAPERS: “Communities and Connections between the Norse and Celtic Worlds” We want to hear all about your research on Norse and Celtic connections ☘️🌊 @irishinstitute.bsky.social

Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am circulating my CFP for #IMC2027, concerning how early medieval gentes, equatable with ethnic communities, were delineated, defined and redefined in the sources through active discourse and brokerage, to various identificatory ends – distinction, promotion, inclusion, exclusion, specialness...

A call for papers for sessions concerning the subject "Redefining early medieval gentes" at the IMC Leeds 2027.

Mary Catherine O'Connor @marycoconnor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Leeds IMC 2027 CALL FOR PAPERS @jonasza4.bsky.social and I are organising more sessions for next year's Leeds IMC - Check out our CfP here on "Communities of the Realm: Shaping Thirteenth Century Norway"

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3w ago

A CfP for #IMC2027.

CfP:
Manuscripts, History, Rulers and Popes:
Sessions in Memory of Rosamond McKitterick
Leeds IMC, 5-8 July 2027

This set of sessions at the IMC in 2027 honours Rosamond McKitterick (1949–2026) and her work through the lens of four of her monographs: The Carolingians and the Written Word (1989), History and Memory in the Carolingian World (2004), Charlemagne (2008) and Rome and the Invention of the Papacy (2020).
We invite papers that engage with the themes Rosamond McKitterick explored in these books, including early medieval manuscript culture, the role of history-writing in shaping Frankish memory and community, early medieval Frankish rulership and the history of the early medieval papacy.
Talks should be 15-20 minutes long and can be delivered either in person or online.
Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words, along with a title, by 20 August 2026, to
• Claire Burridge, c.p.s.burridge@iakh.uio.no
• Charles West, Charles.West@ed.ac.uk

Katrin Janz-Wenig @janzwenig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Next year at the IMC, with Lenka Panuskova Making Devotional Communities: Objects, Practices, and Belonging in Medieval Religious Life International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 5–8 July 2027 Special thematic strand: Communities

Prof. Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 2w ago

Are you working on the histories of clerics and clerical networks across and beyond political borders? Interested in presenting your research at next year's Leeds IMC? Consider submitting an abstract to our Call for Papers! Deadline 1 Sept, details at: medreligion.wordpress.com/transnationa...

Transnational Clerical Communities

Call for Papers for sessions organised by the Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion seminar series at the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 St. Brendan the Navigator. Bibliothèque de Re…

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 2w ago

CFP for DISTAFF-sponsored textile sessions at Leeds next year. #MedievalSky

Call for papers for IMC Leeds for papers on medieval textiles.

Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reminder! CFP: IMC Leeds (5–8 July 2027) Conquest, Invasion, Colonisation: Experience and Memory in Early Medieval Britain. Papers are invited for panels on the experiences and legacies of conquest in early medieval Britain and Ireland. Abstracts to matthew.firth@flinders.edu.au by 31 August 2026.

Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our PGR and ECR research seminar the Long Middle Ages calls for online papers for 2026-27. Friendly supportive conveners @nrhopwood.bsky.social and @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social look forward to reading your abstracts by 17 August #medievalsky #lateantiquesky #earlymodernsky

Two women holding up their call for papers. Photo by Kivilcim Yavuz taken at our reception at the IMC two weeks ago

Call for papers. Send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short bio to thelongmiddleages@gmail.com for a paper to last 30 minutes on any late antique, medieval or early modern topic. Papers will be online only. For PGRs and ECRs.