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Brepols @brepols.net · 15/10/2026

The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) and Bibliography of Medieval Civilisation (BCM) have been updated with 2,480 records. Info: bit.ly/4eAh8Zc The Perspecti citation plugin now offers access to 973,377 citations, adding a powerful new layer of insight. Info: perspecti.net/perspecti-pl...

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The #IMC2027 Bursary application portal will close at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1) TODAY! 👀 Click here to apply for an IMC Bursary: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ Any questions, please email the team at imc@leeds.ac.uk. #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Tomorrow Thursday, 15 October 2025 at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1) is the deadline for Bursary applications for #IMC2027! Click here to read about how to apply for an IMC Bursary: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

⏰️ Only two days left to submit an application for a bursary to attend #IMC2027! The deadline is Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1). Click here to read about how to apply for an IMC Bursary: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

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Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Call for contributions to an essay cluster on the Reception of the Early Medieval Insular Church (c.300-1100) ed. by Dr Robyn Stewart & I for the journal postmedieval. Deadline for abstracts is 15 December 2026, with first full drafts due 01 November 2027. Please share! #medievalsky #skystorians

Call for contributions to an essay cluster with the journal postmedieval on The Reception of the Early Medieval Insular Church (c. 300-1100) edited by Robyn Stewart and Ellen Gallimore.

Proposals are invited for articles in any discipline of up to 8000 words on topics relating to religious medievalism in the reception and study of the early medieval Insular Church of Britain and Ireland. From the English Reformation onwards, the study of the early medieval Insular Church featured in heated debates about papal influence on the earliest Christians in Britain and Ireland. It cannot be overstated how integral the belief in an independent early medieval British Church was to Protestant scholars in Britain until the mid-nineteenth century.
Protestantism, with its perceived legacy stretching back to historic figures like Alfred the Great and the foundation of institutions like Parliament, formed a vital aspect of British national identity which was then exported around the world through colonialism. New Protestant outposts in North America, Australasia, Africa, and the Indian subcontinent were intrinsically tied to an early medieval legacy hiding in plain sight. The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England essentially enshrined anti-Catholicism in popular British identity, which
was visible as much in the editing of early medieval texts as in anti-Irish hiring practices at home and abroad. Ireland’s own early medieval Church and scholastic missionaries present another challenge to national history, such as the development of national legends for its patron saints Patrick, Columba, and Brigid of Kildare.

Please submit abstracts of maximum 500 words and a short biography of maximum 150 words to Robyn Stewart (robyn.stewart@york.ac.uk) and Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) by no later than 15 December 2026. Accepted proposals would be notified in January 2027 with first drafts of full articles due by 01 November 2027.

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There is only 3 days left before the #IMC2027 Bursary application portal closes! 😱 The deadline is Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1). Click here to read about how to apply for an IMC Bursary: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our first research seminar on communities in late medieval Transylvania is by Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu coordinator of @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027 special strand on communities. Free, hybrid. 13 October, 5.30 BST. To join online register at forms.cloud.microsoft/e/irxCe8c5mC #medieval #Transylvania

Photograph of Hunedoara Castle, Transylvania, Romania (15th century). Photo by Walter Kärcher (Walle1886) uploaded to Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/photos/castles-castle-iron-market-romania-2534343/). Late gothic, early renaissance castle with battlements, numerous turrets and a bridge over a river in the foreground on several very tall and sturdy stone supports

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The IMC 2027 Bursary application deadline is now just 1 week away! For your application to be considered, don't forget to submit by 23:59 on Thursday 15 October. For more information on IMC bursaries, and the application process, visit www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #IMC2027 #Medievalsky

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We are pleased to offer a limited number of bursaries available to students, independent scholars, pensioners, unwaged scholars, and delegates from outside Western Europe. You can find out more and apply here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ Application deadline: 15 October 2026 ⏰ #IMC2027

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted to announce our autumn seminars. All welcome! All free and hybrid. To attend the first one online go to forms.cloud.microsoft/e/irxCe8c5mC or join us in Parkinson B.08 #medieval #leedsmedieval

Poster for Autumn research seminars at Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds. All hybrid (online and Parkinson B.08).
Tuesday 13 October, 5.30 pm
Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu (Universitatea ‘1 Decembrie 1918’, Alba Iulia, Romania)
‘Ethnic and Political Communities in Transylvania in the Late Medieval Period’

Tuesday 3 November, 5.30 pm
Matthew Townend (University of York, UK)
‘Court Poetry in the Viking Age: Performance and Reception’

Tuesday 24 November, 5.30 pm
Ellen Gallimore (University of Leeds, UK)
‘Early Medieval Law in Nineteenth-Century Reform Debates: Tithes, the Nation, and the Established Church’

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is the day! All sessions and round tables for #IMC2027 must be sent to our submission portal before 23:59 BST(GMT+1) today 30 September. Any questions, email the IMC team at imc@leeds.ac.uk before 17:00 BST. See our website for the portal and guidance: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/pro...

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Session and round table submission deadline is tomorrow! Don't miss out on being a part of #IMC2027! Be sure to submit your sessions and round tables through our submission portal by 30 23:59 BST(GMT+1) on Wednesday 30 September. See our website for details: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/pro...

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two days to go to the session and round table proposal deadline for #IMC2027! 😮 Be sure your submissions are sent in to the IMC team by 23:59 BST(GMT+1) on Wednesday 30 September through our submission portal. Details on our website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/pro... #skystorians #medievalsky

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#medievalsky - are you still hunting for a session to join at #IMC2027? A late change to our presenters means we have just one spot left on our panels! Come and join us!

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

⏰️ Three days left to submit your session and round table proposals for #IMC2027! ⏰️ Information on submitting proposals can be found on our website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/pro... Any questions, email the team at imc@leeds.ac.uk. #medievalsky #skystorians

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Want to present your research at #IMC2027? The IMC Padlet showcases a variety of calls for papers, some of which are still open to applications. Whilst the individual paper deadline has passed, it's not too late to apply to be part of an organised session! 🔗 padlet.com/universityof...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CFP: "Communities of Violence Revisited: Minorities, Sex, and Disease," IMC Leeds 2027. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22972

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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Extended deadline for the Institute for Names studies sponsored Medieval Onomastics panels at Leeds IMC 2027 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC27 ! Get your abstracts in to Tristan and Rachel ASAP, but no later than the 25th September. Please share with colleagues, students, friends, enemies etc

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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The clock is ticking for sending proposals for the sessions organised by #DigitalMedievalist at #IMC2027 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! #CfP #DigitalMedievalStudies #MedievalData #MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities tinyurl.com/IMC2027-DM-CfP

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Hannah E @hspevans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last few days to submit your abstract!! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Call for Papers IMC Leeds 2027: "What Do You Bring To The Table?" 🥄🍴🔪 Multidisciplinary sessions on medieval cutlery, archaeological & (art/food) historical, object focussed! Welcoming proposals on knives, spoons & forks < 21 Sept: a.willemsen@rmo.nl @imc-leeds.bsky.social @rmoudheden.bsky.social

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

⏰️ There is only 1 week left to watch the #IMC2026 IMC Session Recordings on the Virtual Platform. ⏰️ Registered delegates from #IMC2026 have until Monday 21 September to go back and catch up on any sessions you didn't get to see in person.🥳 #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

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Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's the final day to submit abstracts for the YHT sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year! We have funding available too! See below for more details:

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Royal Studies @royalstudies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 Call for Papers. Send your abstracts to zita.rohr@mq.edu or ellie.woodacre@winchester.ac.uk by 15 September www.royalstudiesnetwork.org/post/cfp-com...

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Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Still a couple of weeks to send through abstracts on borderland rebellion in 12th-14th century Britain and Ireland for #IMC2027 If you'd like to chat first, please do feel free to get in touch! #MedievalSky #SkyStorians #Borderlands #Communities #Rebellion #12thCentury #13thCentury #14thCentury

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Mysticism & Lived Experience Network @mlen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The deadline for our CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027 is fast approaching! We are organizing a panel series challenging the solitary paradigm of mysticism and sainthood, repositioning them as communal. Abstracts are due Sept. 14, 2026. #IMC2027 #Mysticism #medievalsky

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Donating to the Bursary fund is open all year-round! The Bursary is integral for many postgraduate students, independent and early career scholars to be able to attend IMC. If you are in a position to donate, please visit our website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #medievalsky #IMC2027

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Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There is still time to submit an abstract to @jllaynesmith.bsky.social for the YHT's panels at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year! Bursaries of £300 are also available for those without institutional funding - see our website for more details: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2026/09/09/y... #MedievalSky

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YHT Call for Papers: 2027 Leeds International Medieval Congress

YHT Call for Papers: 2027 Leeds International Medieval Congress The Long Fifteenth CenturyLeeds IMC 5-8 July 2027 Proposals are sought for 20-minute papers on new research on the period 1399-1525. …

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Ivo Wolsing @ivowolsing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One week left to send in your abstract! #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Jonas ZA @jonasza4.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

10 days left to submit your abstract for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social session on the communities of medieval Norway -- organised by @marycoconnor.bsky.social and me! Please share widely 🤗 #medievalsky #oldnorse

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Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Only 2 days left! Join an impressive group of speakers at next year’s IMC! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #medievalsky #IMC2027

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Celtic Hagiography Network @celtichagiography.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

With apologies for the delay in posting, due to the Celtic Congress in Salamanca next year, the CHN will not host our own sessions at the 2027 IMC. We are instead sponsoring the following two panels at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and encourage anyone interested to submit! Deadlines are 15 & 20 September

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Seeräuber Áine @seerauberaine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are you a medievalist interested in 🐈‍⬛✨witchcraft✨🐈‍⬛? We're looking for papers for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 'Witches: Imaginary Enemies of the Community'. Submissions are open until 20 September. We'd love to hear from you!

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's last days to submit your abstract to join us at Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2027. There's still time to submit! Details below! #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Robert Friedrich @rofrie11.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Quick reminder: you have until next week to apply for my @imc-leeds.bsky.social CfP on medieval multilingualism. Please share widely and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

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Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Call for Papers for #IMC2027 from Jonathan Jarrett looking for papers on medieval understandings of the geography of important locations. (Please click through for a more detailed explanation.) #MedievalSky tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/s...

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Small call for papers about places large in the mind

For this week’s post, can I bring things into the present day for once? I am trying, for various reasons quite late in the day, to put together a session or two for next year’s Internat…

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Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Deadline has been extended to September 10! Keep those abstracts coming! #medievalsky #IMC2027 #fragments @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Alicia Smith @timekeptcity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And second, but with an earlier deadline of *15 Sept*, please propose a paper on the same theme of 'Saints Outside Hagiography' for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027 - a chance for more developed research to be put forward, in person at next year's Congress! Submit here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Qqv6AA7q4K

The Saints Outside Hagiography online workshop has been an illuminating and generative space to explore the many ways people encounter and create holy figures and their lives.
To continue these discussions, we plan to host a panel series at the 2027
International Medieval Congress (5–8 July 2027) co-sponsored by the Hagiography Society. We hope these conversations will go deeper into some of our initial source explorations and make new connections between scholars interested in saints, hagiography, and their contexts.
We invite proposals for 15-20 minute conference papers on 'Saints Outside Hagiography', especially those that align with the IMC 2027 theme of 'Communities'.
Please follow the link in the post to submit a proposal.

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Alicia Smith @timekeptcity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Calling anyone & everyone interested in saints: Saints Outside Hagiography has *two* calls open for you to consider! First, for our next series of monthly online workshops: get in touch to propose a source from your research about saints and sanctity to discuss in an informal setting, by 25 Sept.

We invite expressions of interest to participate in the Saints Outside Hagiography workshop series 2026–2027. Our group examines how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography.
Sessions so far have examined texts including: visual art, poetry, mortuary rolls, chronicles, liturgical texts, didactic literature, and objects. We offer an informal, work-in-progress format focused on discussion of primary sources and key methodological questions in the study of saints.
Meetings consist of 1-2 brief presentations, discussing a text or object
precirculated along with a short description and the speaker’s guiding questions.
If you have a source related to sanctity that you would like to discuss, please get in touch with Laura Moncion (laura.moncion@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de) and Alicia Smith (alicia.smith@uib.no) by 25 September 2026 with a brief description of the source, career stage, and institutional affiliation if any.
Guidelines:
• Chronological and geographical scope are open.
• Participants are free to contest whether a text is ‘outside hagiography’ – we aim to study saints and the construction of saint/sanctity beyond canonical textual forms, including troubling our understanding of those forms.
• If your source is not in English, we will need an English translation.

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Vikki Sands @vikkisands.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A reminder that our CfP deadline is today. Please send us an abstract if you want to join our Outsiders panel at IMC Leeds 2027 @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Me and @hannahsrwriter.bsky.social look forward to reading them!

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Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We've extended the deadline for submissions for "Queer and Trans Medieval Communities" at next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social to *8 September*! If you work on any aspect of medieval trans and queer communitie(s), please consider sending in an abstract. We'd love to hear from you!

As the existence of the trans and queer community is under constant and increasing threat across the world – with alt-right political rhetoric in the West seeking to rupture solidarity for and within the global queer community – the work of the historian has never been more vital. Historians have long found solidarity and recognition of queer experiences and practices with individuals and groups of the past. In concert with the wealth of current research being produced in trans and queer medieval studies, this panel session responds to the urgency of this present moment. In the face of existential threats, we recognise the importance of finding community with one another, which includes understanding our community has a history. This panel session seeks not only to contribute to transtemporal and scholarly trans and queer community building, but to better understand what historical trans and queer communities and practices may have looked like – including the mechanisms and structures that attempted to preclude such community formations. Engaging with and making legible such histories constitutes an act of compassion both with historical actors and with living members of our community today. It also constitutes an act of resistance, by finding existence and continuity in community.
Presentations may address but are not limited to the following topics:
-Cultivating cross-temporal queer and trans community
-How trans and genderqueer experiences manifest in the Middle Ages
-Spaces in which queer/trans community could be manifested in the Middle Ages
-Communal failure/loss of community
-A failing or absence of a trans and queer community
-Texts, codes, etc. used in constituting queer/trans communities in the Middle Ages
-Methodologies available for talking about trans/queer communities
EXTENDED TO 8 SEPTEMBER
TITLE, ABSTRACT (200 WORDS) AND BIO (150 WORDS) TO:
Michael Eber michael.eber@uni-koeln.de
Hannah Victoria hjohnson@aup.edu
Oliver Wilkin o.lg-wilkin@outlook.com

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@imc-leeds.bsky.social Leeds IMC Call for Papers for a session co-ordinated by Liverpool PhDs Hannah Evans and Nik Frenzel #medievalsky #celtic #norse #academic #skystorians

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Ivo Wolsing @ivowolsing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#cfp #medievalsky I'm co-organizing a session on classical reception for IMC 2027. Please do contact me if you have any questions! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Grant Jones @grantosjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just shy of 2 weeks left until our #IMC2027 Call for Papers closes - 'Ordered and Disordered Communities in Clerical Thought' - we've had a great response so far but we would love to make the panel even bigger! @areforbes.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

⏰️ The IMC Office is still closed as part of the University of Leeds Closure day.⏰️ We will be back at our desks on Wednesday 02 September 2026. 🙂 If you have sent any emails to imc@leeds.ac.uk, we will reply to them when we get back. 🎊 #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

⏰️ The deadline for new paper proposals is TODAY, at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1) ⏰️ Submit your paper proposal here www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/pro... 🙂 Don't miss your chance to potentially be in the #IMC2027 Programme Book Any questions please email imc@leeds.ac.uk #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It was wonderful to bring early career medieval scholars together at IMC 2026! We're now calling for submissions to join us at Leeds #IMC2027, July 5-8 2027: ‘Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities’. @imc-leeds.bsky.social See CFP in blog for more info. Abstracts due September 7 #medievalsky

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The IMC Office is closed for the UK Summer Bank Holiday, and like Alice here, the team are having a nice rest before we read all of your amazing paper proposals! 🙂 We will be back in the office on Wednesday 02 September, and we will answer any emails sent to imc@leeds.ac.uk when we get back. 😁

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