call for papers!
Medieval Sermon Studies
Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Alexander Marx
Deadline for submissions: 15 Sept. 2024
Having had Sermon Studies Sessions at both the IMC 23 and the IMC 24, we hope to continue with this effort at the IMC 25, in order to strengthen the presence of sermon scholarship at this important conference. This call invites thus proposals for 20-minute papers (preferably in English) in any subject or period related to sermon material and preaching efforts. Papers may relate (but are not limited to) next year’s topic of ‘Worlds of Learning’, a subject to which probably many sermon scholars can easily relate. But please feel free to submit papers that are not concerned with this specific subject.
And if there are any queries, questions, or suggestions, please feel free to address the organizer.
If anybody is planning individual sessions for the IMC, I would also be happy to integrate these under the heading of Medieval Sermon Studies, since being part of a session series would procure a much better visibility in the program.
Learning in Iberia, Learning from Iberia
Sponsor: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ibero-Mediaevistik
Organizers:
Alexander Marx | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Laurin Herberich | University of Heidelberg
Deadline for proposals: 15 Sept. 2024
This call for papers invites contributions concerned with the Iberian Peninsula and neighbouring regions in the Mediterranean World. Papers can focus on any period throughout the Middle Ages. The thematic focus is concerned with this year’s subject of “Worlds of Learning” (but not strictly limited to it), including, for example, clerical education, the formation of universities, manuscript production, exegetical endeavours, or preaching efforts.
Besides this thematic focus, these sessions have the goal to seize the opportunity provided by the IMC to bring together scholars from different scholarly and national communities, since many different groups are working on the Iberian Peninsula, and via these sessions we hope to encourage stronger interaction between these groups. This includes several nationally determined groups such as the strong German scholarship on Iberia (as united in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ibero-Mediaevistik) as well as several subject-related groups such as crusade scholars devoted to corresponding phenomena on the Peninsula. These sessions, therefore, have the goal to put various communities into conversation, and to generate new synergies between different scholarly traditions.