CFP for the annual meeting of the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern
Group (AMEMG), October 24-25, 2025
Please join us in Moncton (NB) for this year’s conference, co-hosted by the Université de Moncton and Crandall University.

A reception and keynote lecture will be held on the evening of October 24 at the Université de Moncton, followed by a day of papers on October 25, at Crandall University (10 minutes away by car).

We are eager to receive proposals in English or French for papers (15-20 minutes), panels (3-4 papers on a specific topic), or posters from scholars at any career stage (including graduate students and undergraduates working on honours projects). As a broad and inter-disciplinary group, the AMEMG welcomes work on any subject of interest to scholars in the fields of medieval or early modern studies, broadly conceived.

• If you are interested in giving a paper (15-20 minutes), please send an abstract (300 words) and a 1-page CV.
• If you are interested in organizing a panel (3-4 papers on a specific topic), please send a title and brief description (150 words) along with abstracts (300 words) and a 1-page CV for the individual presenters.
• If you are interested in participating in a poster session, send a brief description of what you would present (150 words) and a 1-page CV. Submissions in this category are welcome from all participants, but especially honours undergraduate and graduate students.
• We also welcome proposals for 10-minute introductions to attendees’ research backgrounds and areas of interest. This will give new attendees, as well those embarking on new or different lines of research, the chance to introduce themselves. It will also give the whole group an opportunity to
learn about the exciting work being done in Premodern Studies in Atlantic Canada. Proposals for 10-minute intros should be around 150 words.
• Please email proposals for any of the above to abram.steen@crandallu.ca by August 25, 2025.
• Panel: Call for proposals: Creative ideas for teaching the Early Modern
Seeking participants for a panel discussion on teaching the Early Modern creatively. Share your ideas and examples of making this period engaging and accessible for students. The scale could be at the level of innovative course design down to the level of individual primary source assignments or anything in between. Participants will have 10 minutes each to profile their pedagogical example, leaving plenty of time for conversation between panelists and with the audience. Slides or other materials are welcome. Up to 5 participants will be chosen from proposals.

Proposals and questions can be sent to panel organizer, Keith Grant at keith.grant@crandallu.ca. [The conference organizers would be open to a proposal for a similar panel on teaching the Medieval.]

We are also happy to announce that the keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Tom Peace, Associate Professor of History and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College (London, ON). Dr. Peace is an award-winning scholar of colonialism in early Canada and his talk is entitled “What is a Treaty? Building a Treaty Culture in North America, 1678-1790.”

Watch your email for additional details on registration and accommodations, and feel free to direct any questions to abram.steen@crandallu.ca.

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Appel à Communications pour la réunion annuelle de l’Atlantic Medieval
and Early Modern Group (AMEMG), 24-25 octobre 2025.
Nous vous invitons à assister à ce colloque dans la ville de Moncton. Une réception et conférence
d’ouverture se dérouleront en soirée le 24 octobre à l’Université de Moncton, suivi d’une journée de communications le lendemain, 25 octobre, à la Crandall University, à 10 minutes de route en voiture.

Nous invitons les chercheuses et chercheurs à soumettre des propositions, en anglais ou en français, pour des communications individuelles, pour des séances complètes (3-4 communications sur un même thème), ou pour une affiche. L’AMEMG adhère à une conception large des champs des études médiévales et modernes, des points de vue chronologique et disciplinaire.
• Pour les propositions de communications individuelles (15-20 minutes), veuillez soumettre un résumé d’environ 300 mots et un CV d’une page.
• Pour les propositions de séances complètes, veuillez soumettre une brève description (150 mots) du thème général, ainsi que des résumés (300 mots) et des CV d’une page pour chacune des communications.
• Pour les propositions d’affiche, veuillez soumettre un résumé (150 mots) et un CV d’une page. Nous souhaitons particulièrement recevoir des propositions d’étudiantes et étudiants (aux cycles supérieurs ou en dernière année du baccalauréat).
• Nous souhaitons également recevoir des propositions pour des brèves présentations (10 minutes) des intérêts de recherche des participantes et participants. Cela permettra aux nouveaux membres, ainsi qu’à celles ou veux qui embarquent dans un nouveau projet, la possibilité de se présenter, et au groupe de mieux connaitre la diversité et l’ampleur des travaux de recherche qui se fait dans les études médiévales et modernes dans les provinces de l’Atlantique. Veuillez soumettre un résumé d’environ 150 mots.
• Toutes les propositions devraient être envoyées à abram.steen@crandallu.ca avant le 25 août 2025.
• Appel à communications pour former une séance : Approches innovantes dans l’enseignement de l’époque moderne. Je souhaite organiser une séance sur les approches inventives dans l’enseignement de l’histoire, de la littérature, de la pensée (etc) de l’époque moderne. Partagez vos idées et vos expériences. Les présentations pourraient couvrir, par exemple, la conception d’un cours, la nature d’une évaluation ou présenter une approche à l’analyse d’une source. Prévoyez une dizaine de minutes pour présenter votre expérience d’enseignement. Je prévois qu’il pourra y avoir jusqu’à cinq courtes présentations dans la séance, ce qui laissera du temps pour discuter entre panélistes et avec le public. Vous pouvez envoyer une proposition, et vos questions si vous souhaitez avoir plus d’informations, à l’organisateur de la séance, Keith Grant (keith.grant@crandallu.ca).

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que la conférence d’ouverture sera donné par le professeur Tom Peace, Associate Professeur d’histoire et co-directeur du Community History Centre au Huron University College (London, ON). Le professeur Peace est spécialiste de l’histoire du colonialisme canadien, notamment dans les provinces maritimes, et sa conférence s’intitule « What is a Treaty? Building a Treaty Culture in North America, 1678-1790.”

Brenna Duperron and Sarah LaVoy-Brunette are continuing to build the 'Indigenous turn' with some exciting panels for the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14-16, 2026), which include:

• “The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel);
  
• and “Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel).

Abstract submissions due September 15, 2025 to the ICMS Confex site:

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi

 

Send any questions to myself (brenna.duperron@unbc.ca) or Sarah (sfl39@cornell.edu).

“The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel)

The Global Middle Ages tends to re-emphasize the ‘Old World’ myths by expanding the focus out of Europe into Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This panel considers how our localities (e.g., Indigenous North America) should be centered in this conversation. Given that ICMS takes place at Western Michigan University on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Bodewadmi Nations, what role should the Land play in how we teach the Middle Ages on these Lands? Within this turn outward to the globalized Middle Ages, how do we return to the local? How does our geographic positioning impact our understanding of the Middle Ages and medievalism? What role does Indigenous North America have in our understanding of the Middle Ages or the impacts of medievalism?

“Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel) 

The (re)imagining of the medieval has a long-standing political impulse across both White nationalism and settler-colonial ideology–often facilitating an overlap of these value systems. Helen Young and Stephanie Downes note that politics embedded in popular medievalism radicalizes audiences who “would not engage in political manifestos” (2). However, this settler medievalism appears across political manifestos and popular medievalism: Thomas Jefferson famously evoked the early Middle Ages to justify a homogenous White America. Both George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler cosplayed as a medieval knight or crusader in propaganda images. This panel considers the overlap between settler (and/or White nationalist) ideology and medievalism. How has medievalism been evoked? How has it been twisted into a political tool?

Speaker

Janet Ericksen (University of Minnesota Morris)

When and Where 

Thursday April 17, 2025, 2:30pm to 4:30pm

Centre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 

And virtually via Zoom

Description 

The Toronto Old English Colloquium welcomes Janet Ericksen, Chancellor and Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris for a lecture entitled Reading the Gaps in MS Junius 11.

RSVP required

1 pm Lunch (Great Hall)

2:30-4:30 pm Lecture: Janet Ericksen, Reading the Gaps in MS Junius 11 (Great Hall)
Abstract: The pages of the book now catalogued as Oxford, Bodleian Library manuscript Junius 11 present multiple formats to readers, including completed illustrations integrated with text in the Genesis section, abundant unfinished spaces in its middle portions, and predominantly text-only pages in Christ and Satan. The completed illustrations create a complex interweaving of visual and textual narratives that asks for careful navigation, while the unfinished spaces, rather than representing mere deficits, may have enhanced meditative reading of the sort encouraged by monastic training. The manuscript’s combination of illustration, blank space, and text distinguishes it from other surviving Old English manuscripts, and the varying page layouts would have facilitated different types of reading engagement. The gaps—the unillustrated, unwritten spaces—reveal more than they leave out. 

Reception to follow

Contact Information 

Renée Trilling (renee.trilling@utoronto.ca)

Fabienne Michelet (fabienne.michelet@utoronto.ca)

Centre for Medieval Studies (medieval.communications@utoronto.ca)

Sponsors 

·       Department of English

·       Centre for Medieval Studies

THREAD: Ubiquitous Medieval

SESSION TITLE: Understanding the Coloniser/Re-Imagining the Medieval 

FORMAT: Short Paper

Settler-Colonial ideology is heavily infused with medievalism. Recent scholarship has critically interrogated this intersection in Medieval Studies and its conventions (e.g., Tarren Andrews, Sierra Lomuto, and Eduardo Ramos). The medieval world symbolizes two extremes: it stands for both the ‘epitome’ of society and its most ‘backwards’ state, as seen in the political designation of the Anglo-Saxon in white supremacist discourse versus how global Indigenous populations are labelled as ‘medieval.’ This panel is interested in how this paradox has been explored artistically. Papers should probe works that use medievalism critically to re-write, re-imagine, and reevaluate the past, considering for example, Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales, Waubgeshig Rice’s (Anishinaabe) “Heartbeat,” Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Gerald Vizenor’s (Minnesota Chippewa) “Monte Cassino Curiosa: Heart Dancers at the Headwaters,” Moniquill Blackgoose’s (Seaconck Wampanoag) To Shape a Dragon’s Breath among others. Questions to consider include: how have Indigenous/colonized populations appropriated the ‘medieval’ iconography, stories, or ideology? What alternate futures are suggested or imagined? How has this appropriation shed light on the settler-colonial ideology that permeates medievalism?

To Submit a Proposal

 

1. Fill out the online NCS 2026 proposal submission form: 

• https://forms.gle/nBQtN4GJGphu3MhY7

  This form ensures that the Program Committee can keep track of all submissions. We can only guarantee that your proposal will be considered if you fill out the form. In addition to your 200-word abstract and title, you will be asked to select the best session for your proposal and to describe your academic position (e.g. graduate student, early career, permanent or temporary, independent). This information will help us to find the best sessions for proposals and to support the Society’s principle of inclusivity for session rosters. The information submitted on this form is only accessible to the Program Committee. 

  2.     Email your proposal to your chosen session’s organizer(s). CONTACT: Brenna.duperron@dal.ca

Proposals should be titled and no longer than 200 words. Please include your name, affiliation, and your email address along with your abstract.

Submissions are not complete until both steps have been followed. Submissions (both the online form and the email to organizers) are due by 27 April 2025.

Mediaeval symposium: Cities of women in the Middle Ages

Explore the Life and Times of Mediaeval City Women

Saturday, April 5, 2025, Registration: 8:30 am Symposium: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, Alumni Hall Room 400, $150 (Includes lunch & coffee/tea)

REGISTER NOW    https://bit.ly/4eGRHlT

Cities of Women Symposium PDF Poster.pdf

The EDID Committee are currently putting together a roundtable on ‘Understanding Medieval Race-Making’ for the June 9-11 conference in Waterloo. 

Until recently, texts written prior to the 16^th century were often considered “before race.” It was popularly understood that the concept of ‘race’ began with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the discovery of the “New World” and the scientific Enlightenment’s interest in categorization. Scholars such as Stuart Hall, Matthew Vernon, Cord Whitaker, Geraldine Heng, and Dorothy Kim, among others, have worked to disrupt this misconception, expanding our understanding of race not only temporally and geographically, but to reconsider how it extends past skin colour to encompass a variety of social, physical, and cultural categories that human society has linked to race and race-making. Paradoxically, the idea that ‘race’ is a modern construction, however, reinforces the myths of the medieval period itself as an insular space without global or trans-national reach. These continued myths have spurred current white supremacist usage of the medieval in their justification and execution of violence (such as the attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand and Charlottesville, the Sons of Odin group, or the January Insurrection Attempt int the US). 

This panel asks the following questions: 

·      What does race-making look like in the premodern?

·      How did we understand the idea of race before modern discourses on imperialism and colonialism? 

·      How do modern discourse on imperialism, colonialism, and race help us understand medieval race?

·      Alternatively, how do modern discourses on race shape how race-making or race is engaged with in medievalism?

·      How did the premodern imagine alterity? How did they define themselves?

·      How did the premodern understand the Indigenous vs the colonizer? 

·      We are open to any question that considers how race and race-making work in the Middle Ages and/or medievalism. 

Roundtable presentations may be in either English or French and should be 6-8 minutes in length to allow ample time for discussion. It is a quick turnaround, so please let us know if you would be interested ASAP (February 15th if possible). We’d also be thrilled if you could forward any recommendations our way.

For Inquiries or Proposal Submissions, please contact Brenna Duperron at Brenna.duperron@dal.ca and include a title and brief (100 word) abstract of the proposed presentation (which does not identify the author) as well as a separate  one-page curriculum vitae which includes the presentation’s title at the top.

**Scholars need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists to submit proposals but, by the time of the conference, must be members in good standing and are expected to pay their 2024-25 annual membership fees to CSM / SCM by March 15, 2025 if they are not already members. For more information on our Society, visit https://canadianmedievalists.org/ and for more information on the Annual Conference and the general CFP, please visit: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual**

CFP: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY CONFERENCE: Durham University, Thursday 4 – Saturday 6 September 2025

Proposals are now invited for The Fifteenth Century Conference 2025. This annual meeting, last held at Durham in 1993, brings together established scholars and new researchers working on the history of the long fifteenth century in the British Isles, Ireland, or in the French territories of the English monarchy. We invite proposals for research papers on any subject relating to this field, and proposals on all kinds of history are welcome.

Papers should be 35 minutes in length. They should be based on original research and be suitable for working up for submission to The Fifteenth Century (The Fifteenth Century - Boydell and Brewer), an edited series closely associated with the Conference. Please note, however, that there is no obligation to publish and submissions to this series undergo a separate peer-review process.

Proposals from postgraduates at the later stages of doctoral work and from early-career researchers are particularly encouraged. All speakers will be expected to deliver their papers in person and to pay the standard registration and other fees. This cost-sharing helps to make the conference as affordable as possible for everyone. The Richard III Society is kindly offering two £275 bursaries for postgraduate speakers at the conference (15th Century Conference bursaries).

Please send proposals for papers to Christian Liddy (c.d.liddy@durham.ac.uk) by 31 January 2025. Proposals should include a title and an abstract of the paper totalling no more than 300 words. Along with the abstract, please also provide a short biography (max. of 250 words), which should include any institutional affiliations and, in the case of postgraduate students, the name of your PhD supervisor.

All proposals will be reviewed by The Fifteenth Century Conference advisory board and decisions communicated in March 2025.

https://c15thconference.com/

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• Call for Papers/Session(s) at the

  2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists

  June 9-11, 2025

  at St Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo,

  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  Queer Pasts/Queer Futurities

  The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session, or sessions, that will consider queerness in both the medieval past and its future(s). This panel seeks to disrupt the myth that queerness must be defended— that its place in the medieval past and in medievalism must be “proven.” We will consider where queerness has been overwritten or forgotten in medieval scholarship, where it has been written into medievalism, and/or where it has valuably shaped scholarly conversations. 

  Papers might consider:

• Queer methodologies for analyzing medieval histories, arts, and/or literatures
• Pedagogical approaches to and/or engagements with queerness
• How we can locate and study queerness in the medieval past
• The silencing, erasing, and/or Othering of queer voices/figures
• How queer temporalities might disrupt linear/normative historical narratives
• Queerness in medievalism (considering the representation of queerness in fantasy, science fiction, gaming, etc.)
• How queer identities have and/or continue to intersect with other axes of identity (considering race, disability, class, etc.) 

Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15- 20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 10, 2025.

For Inquiries or Proposal Submissions, please contact Gavin Foster at gavin.foster@dal.ca.

Proposal Submission Details:

Paper proposals must include a document giving the title plus a one-page abstract (without identifying the author). A separate document should consist of a one-page curriculum vitae which includes the paper’s title at the top.

**Scholars need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists to submit proposals but, by the time of the conference, must be members in good standing and are expected to pay their 2024-25 annual membership fees to CSM / SCM by March 15, 2025 if they are not already members. For more information on our Society, visit https://canadianmedievalists.org/ and for more information on the Annual Conference and the general CFP, please visit: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual**

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Appel à communications (presentations individuelles ou séances complètes)

Réunion annuelle de la Société canadienne des médiévistes
le 9-11 juin 2025
L’université St Jerome dans l’Université de Waterloo 

Waterloo, ON

Passé / Futur LGBTQ+

Le comité EDID (Equité, diversité, inclusivité et décolonisation) de la CSM/SCM lance un appel à communications pour une ou plusieurs sessions qui examineront la «queerness» à la fois dans le passé médiéval et dans le(s) futur(s) de la médiévistique et du médiévalisme. Cette session cherche à briser le mythe selon lequel la “queerness” doit être défendue - que sa place dans le Moyen Âge et  dans le médiévalisme doit être «prouvée». Nous examinerons les domaines dans lesquels la «queerness» a été ignorée ou oubliée dans la recherche médiévale, mais aussi les domaines dans lesquels la «queerness» a été rendue visible, a été exprimée, et a utilement façonné les discussions académiques.

Présentations pourraient considérer:

• Méthodologies “queer” pour l'analyse de l'histoire, des arts et/ou des littératures médiévales 
• Approches pédagogiques de «queerness» et/ou engagement dans ce domaine
• Comment localiser et étudier la “queerness” dans le passé medieval
• L’effacement et/ou l'altérisation des voix et/ou des figures “queer”
• Comment les temporalités “queer” peuvent perturber les récits historiques linéaires et/ou normatifs
• “Queerness” dans le médiévalisme (e.g. la représentation de la “queerness” dans la fiction fantastique médiévale, la science-fiction, les jeux, etc.)
• Questions de marginalisation intersectionnelle (en tenant compte de la race, du handicap, de la classe, etc.)

Les présentations peuvent être faites en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 10 janvier 2025.

Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Gavin Foster à l'adresse suivante : gavin.foster@dal.ca.

Soumission de Proposition:

Les propositions de communication doivent inclure le titre et un résumé d'une page (sans identifier l'auteur). Un document séparé doit présenter un curriculum vitae d'une page qui inclut le titre de la communication proposée en haut de la page.

**Les chercheurs.euses ne doivent pas nécessairement être membres de la SCM/CSM pour soumettre des propositions, mais doivent être membres en règle pour participer à la réunion annuelle et doivent payer leur cotisation annuelle 2024-25 à la SCM / CSM avant le 15 mars 2025 s'ils/elles ne sont pas déjà membres. Pour plus d'informations sur notre Société, visitez le site https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/accueil/~fr . Pour plus d'informations sur notre réunion annuelle et sur l'appel à communications général, veuillez consulter le site: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual**

Our annual conference runs June 9-11, 2025  at St Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo. You will find the CFP here: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual Please submit proposals by January 15, 2025!

Notre réunion annuelle se passera le 9-11 juin, 2025 à l'Université St Jerome's à l'Université de Waterloo. Vous trouverez l'appel à  communications ici: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual Veuillez soumettre vos propositions avant le 15 janvier, 2025!