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The new email address for the conference is imbasnuig@gmail.com. Our new website is http://medieval.starlight.ie

2009 Call for Papers

Imbas:

The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference, November 13-15^th 2009.

We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary medievalists’ conference being held in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway from November 13-15^th 2009. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including language, history literature, art, archaeology and philosophy. The theme for 2009 is Alliances. Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive.

Papers might deal with but are not limited to such topics as:

• Religious, political and military alliances
• Relationships between cultural institutions
• Marriage
• Commerce and economics
• Patronage
• Rebellion and heresy
• Marginality

A selection of papers will be published in our new established peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts. The committee are also delighted to offer a number of travel bursaries to delegates on a competitive basis.

Abstracts of 250 words for a twenty paper must be submitted before October 9 2009. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded to Imbas/Grace Windsor, Dpt. of English, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Rd, Galway, Ireland.