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The twenty-sixth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds, from 1-4 July 2019.Please read the guidelines carefully before completing the IMC 2019 Proposal Form. Session ProposalPaper Proposal Round Table Proposal If you would like to apply for an IMC bursary for the IMC 2018, to help with the cost of the Registration and Programming Fee, accommodation and meals at the IMC, please complete the online Bursary Application Form below. We recommend that you submit your Bursary application at the same time as your paper or session proposal.Bursary Application FormIf you would like to apply for an IMC bursary for the IMC 2019, to help with the cost of the Registration and Programming Fee, accommodation and meals at the IMC, please complete the online Bursary Application Form below. We recommend that you submit your Bursary application at the same time as your paper or session proposal.Call for Papers/Sessions - International Medieval Congress 2019The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2019 this is 'Materialities'.Recent attention to objects, artefacts, matter, and material culture has reshaped scholarship in many fields. This strand seeks to address the impact of this new interest in things, theories, and methods as they relate to an expansive understanding of ‘materiality’. The study of materiality brings together a host of scholarly and theoretical concerns and puts them into dialogue to understand how conceptions of matter, and matter itself, shaped the creation of the material world, regimes of labour and supply, connectivity, entanglements, trade networks, movements of things and people, concepts of agency and network theory, and constructed notions of the sublime, of replication, and of ‘reality’, as an abstract concept and category during the Middle Ages.This strand seeks to bring into conversation recent work on materialities by art historians, archaeologists, paleographers, historians, economists, musicologists, liturgists, philosophers, philologists, and scholars of literature, critical theory, and religious studies, among other fields. Material objects and practices served as markers of cultural difference, but could also - simultaneously - become part of a shared culture of consumption, proximity suggesting gender and class affinities. Material dynamics were embedded in the making of objects, the trade in raw materials, and the roles of men and women in the fabrication of things spanning the luxurious to the mundane. Materialities shaped cultures of consumption, created regimes of circulation, and informed networks that defined both subjects and objects. Materialities encompass interactions between peoples both near and far and offer an analytical framework that suggests the unity of the medieval world across religious, ethnic, and spatial distances and differences.Themes to be addressed may include, but are not limited to:&#160; Material culture and consumption Materiality and the archaeological record Agency of people and things Medieval ‘thing’ theory Material connections: regimes of circulation Materialism and the Middle Ages Labour and production of things The social life of things Fabrication: production of specific objects Replication and reproduction Materiality of coins, money, and circulation Manuscripts: material and making Material textual and writing cultures Soundscape: material and musical culture Light and form Representing the material Body and spirit: spirituality and the material Space and materialities Materials: mundane (e.g. wood, water, dust) and luxurious (e.g. gold, silver, gems) Intimacies of things Abundance and/or scarcity Imagined materials Material landscapes: urban, suburban, rural Loans, debts, credit Materialities of power/empire Race and subjectivity Transformations: recycling, reuse, destruction Material religions: beliefs and practices Materials and memory Materialities and/of conflict Gendered materialities Digital/virtual/material archives Conservation and preservation Text and/as object&#160;The Special Thematic Strand 'Materialities' will be co-ordinated by Anne E. Lester (Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder).All proposals should be submitted online. Paper proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2018. Session proposals must be submitted by 30 September 2018.The IMC welcomes session and paper proposals submitted in all major European languages.IMC Policy on Dignity and Mutual Respect, including Social Media PolicyTo ensure that everyone can make the most of the academic, networking, and social opportunities that the IMC offers, the organisers expect all delegates, exhibitors and staff to adhere to our policy on dignity and mutual respect at all conference venues and conference-related social events, as well as online and in any form of social media.