The British Archaeological Association invites proposals for their organised sessions at the 2022 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds (4th-7th July 2022). It is hoped that the 2022 conference will return to the in-person format in 2022 after two years online.
The IMC’s research theme for 2022 is “Borders”, a topic which can be interpreted in numerous ways:
- Political and military borders
- Living in border zones
- Medieval and Modern perceptions, descriptions, and conceptualizations of borders
- Delimiting borders, border markers
- Border maintenance
- Encountering and experiencing borders
- Bordering practices
- Borderscapes in the longue durée
- Symbolic borders
- Belonging and exclusion
- Mapping borders and border zones
- Border institutions
- Materiality of borders
- Border and power
- Migration
- Medieval imagery of borders
- Transnationalism
- Political, social, cultural, religious performance of borders
- Village and parish boundaries
- Boundaries between town and
- countryside and within towns
- Practices of delimitation
- Blurring boundaries such as
- human/animal, animate/inanimate,
- gender, age, status, religion
- Self and other, boundaries of the self
- Fluidity and fixity of borders
- Borders in manuscripts
- Material and visual borders
- Processual and performative turns and
- medieval borders
- Disciplinary boundaries
- Paratexts as borders
Borders of the body
Transcending and reaffirming - boundaries between life and death
- Borders, boundaries, frontiers
A full list of suggested topics and more details can be found here: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2022/
It is hoped that we can organise several sessions once again, with similar papers grouped together (either methodologically or by subject).
Proposals should consist of a paper title, your affiliation, and a short abstract (50-100 words).
Please send paper proposals to Harriet Mahood (hpmahood@gmail.com) by Friday 24th September 2021.
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