Email contact

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.

News on the 2009 conference

The NUIG Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference will be held from 13-15th November 2009 in the Moore Institute. The theme of this year's conference will be 'Alliances'. A more detailed call for papers will follow in due course.

As part of our expansion of the event, we will be offering two forms of publication to the delegates. Firstly, all panels will be recorded and made available as Pod casts. Secondly, we will be publishing a selection of the papers in our newly established peer-reviewed journal, which will be available through our website and open-access journal databases.

Our new conference website is under construction; for now, we can be contacted at info@medievalpower.com

Power in the Middle Ages, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 7-9th 2008.

In May 2008, three doctoral students of the English Department, NUIG - Grace Windsor, Lisa Padden and Dermot Burns- organized a three day conference for postgraduate students of Medieval Studies. The conference was a major success, with twenty-two delegates from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Portugal in attendance. Our theme was Power in the Middle Ages: the cfp, conference program and paper abstracts are available at www.medievalpower.com. A review of the conference is available at http://fmrsi.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/cuttingsissuefour.pdf. A selection of the conference papers will be published electronically via our website in March 2009.

The 2009 conference committee- Grace Windsor, Lisa Padden, Jena Web and Francesca Bezzone- are currently organizing the event for November 13-15th 2009. Further information will be posted in due course.