CFP: IARHS Sponsored Sessions for Leeds IMC 2021
5-8th July, University of Leeds, UK
Session deadline 30 September 2020 (please send to Lesley Coote by September 20th to be considered for a session). Email address for submissions is: L.A.Coote@associate.hull.ac.uk, or coote081@gmail.com
Conference Theme: CLIMATES
The following topics have been selected from a list supplied by the IMC Leeds organising committee, and the full list is available on the Conference website. The two strands provide different emphases to cover the interests of IARHS members, and could form the basis for a series of session proposals. Each year the Leeds IMC board sanctions anything up to 5 sessions from research groups, and so it should be possible to present more than one ‘strand’ with success.
The suggestions in the brackets below each topic in Strand I represent a clarification of how these topics might be applied; they are inspirational guides only. Strand II needs very little additional clarification.
Any period may be covered, and any form of outlawry or rebellion.
(The full CFP can be viewed on the Leeds IMC website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk)
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Outlaws, Rebels and Climates
Strand I: Climates of Rebellion and Revolt
Natural and other landscapes/settings as dynamic spaces (relationship of subject matter to natural and unnatural settings, their use and manipulation in literature, history and culture)
Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism (‘issues’ and social/political considerations, relationship of subject matter/histories to social and natural change and transformation)
Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities (‘isms’, post/colonial issues, ‘read back’ into the past, past origins of, or comparisons between then and now)
Societal organisation, hierarchy, law-making, governance (law, social organisation, class issues, legal and societal manifestations thereof)
Applying paradigms of adaption, resilience, and collapse (relation of subject matter to social and other transformations, its own transformations)
‘Climates’ of opinion, thought, feeling (medieval and later, and how they impact the subject matter)
‘Climates’ and interregional connectivities, interdependencies and disconnections (transmission of material, ideas, images and forms)
Fluctuations in migration, mobility, trade, exchange, and transmission (transmission and mobility, geographical or temporal, relation of the subject matter to economic issues)
Preservation of material remains amid growing climate and societal instability (issues surrounding material remains, their preservation and re/presentation, or not)
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Strand II: Medievalist Outlaw Fantasies and the Elements
Medieval concepts of ‘climes’ and ‘climate’
Cosmologies, world views, natural or supernatural causation
Medieval enquiry into weather, seasons, monsoon patterns
Astronomical and astrological observations and predictions
Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism (includes prognostications, witchcraft/elemental magic, medicinal implications and use of elements)
Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities
Seas, oceans, rivers, monsoon, floods as dynamic spaces
5-8th July, University of Leeds, UK
Session deadline 30 September 2020 (please send to Lesley Coote by September 20th to be considered for a session). Email address for submissions is: L.A.Coote@associate.hull.ac.uk, or coote081@gmail.com
Conference Theme: CLIMATES
The following topics have been selected from a list supplied by the IMC Leeds organising committee, and the full list is available on the Conference website. The two strands provide different emphases to cover the interests of IARHS members, and could form the basis for a series of session proposals. Each year the Leeds IMC board sanctions anything up to 5 sessions from research groups, and so it should be possible to present more than one ‘strand’ with success.
The suggestions in the brackets below each topic in Strand I represent a clarification of how these topics might be applied; they are inspirational guides only. Strand II needs very little additional clarification.
Any period may be covered, and any form of outlawry or rebellion.
(The full CFP can be viewed on the Leeds IMC website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk)
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Outlaws, Rebels and Climates
Strand I: Climates of Rebellion and Revolt
Natural and other landscapes/settings as dynamic spaces (relationship of subject matter to natural and unnatural settings, their use and manipulation in literature, history and culture)
Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism (‘issues’ and social/political considerations, relationship of subject matter/histories to social and natural change and transformation)
Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities (‘isms’, post/colonial issues, ‘read back’ into the past, past origins of, or comparisons between then and now)
Societal organisation, hierarchy, law-making, governance (law, social organisation, class issues, legal and societal manifestations thereof)
Applying paradigms of adaption, resilience, and collapse (relation of subject matter to social and other transformations, its own transformations)
‘Climates’ of opinion, thought, feeling (medieval and later, and how they impact the subject matter)
‘Climates’ and interregional connectivities, interdependencies and disconnections (transmission of material, ideas, images and forms)
Fluctuations in migration, mobility, trade, exchange, and transmission (transmission and mobility, geographical or temporal, relation of the subject matter to economic issues)
Preservation of material remains amid growing climate and societal instability (issues surrounding material remains, their preservation and re/presentation, or not)
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Strand II: Medievalist Outlaw Fantasies and the Elements
Medieval concepts of ‘climes’ and ‘climate’
Cosmologies, world views, natural or supernatural causation
Medieval enquiry into weather, seasons, monsoon patterns
Astronomical and astrological observations and predictions
Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism (includes prognostications, witchcraft/elemental magic, medicinal implications and use of elements)
Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities
Seas, oceans, rivers, monsoon, floods as dynamic spaces
