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.

Source : Medieval Art Research