Appel à communications - " The 102nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America ", University of Toronto

The 102^nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Toronto. The meeting is hosted by The Centre for Medieval Studies, in partnership with the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Canadian Society of Medievalists.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal (and the Program Committee warmly welcomes proposals from graduate students). Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

Location: The Annual Meeting will be held at Trinity College and St Michael’s College, two of the federated colleges in the University of Toronto college system. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research at the library of the Pontifical Institute, one of the premier research libraries in Medieval Studies.

The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. We encourage papers on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe and the networks and exchanges between East and West.

Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper or propose a full panel of papers and speakers.  Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. The Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Panel organizers may wish to propose different formats for their panels, subject to Program Committee approval.

In order to be considered, proposals must be complete and sent in via the Submittable platform at these links: https://forms.office.com/r/f9PCzcJK52 (individual proposals) or https://forms.office.com/r/3i4Q6fF89h (session proposals).

Paper proposals will need to include the proposer’s information (name; a statement of Medieval Academy membership, or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy; professional status; email address; postal address; home or cell and office telephone numbers) and paper information (title, abstract of no more than 250 words,  and audio-visual needs).

Session proposals will need to include the above proposer’s information as well as a session title, session abstract, list of proposed papers and speakers, and audio-visual needs.

If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2026, that address should be included.

Submissions:

The deadline is 1 June 2026.

Please do not send proposals to the Medieval Academy office or to the conference organizers.

Selection Procedure: The Committee will review paper and panel proposals for their quality and the significance of their topics. The Program Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2026 and the Committee will inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers and announce the program in September of 2026.