The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Committee is delighted to announce this year’s Call for Papers. We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’.
The conference will be held in person on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.
Topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:
- religious ceremonies and traditions
- familial or domestic traditions
- ceremonial dress and material culture
- practical uses of ritual and ceremony
- political ritual, ceremony, or processions
- means of recording ritual or performance
- rites of passage
- practices of magic or alchemy
- counterculture or subversion
Presentations will take place in person only but will be streamed for remote attendees. Papers should be max. 20 minutes. A limited number of bursaries are available to help with travel costs, and we welcome applications from graduate students at any university.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 6th of December 2024.
