The Cambridge Medieval History Graduate Workshop is inviting paper submissions
for Michaelmas term 2025.
We host presentations on the cultures, economies, literature, material cultures, politics,
thought, religions, and reception of the medieval world, which we define as broadly as
possible as the global period between c.500 and c.1500. We welcome interdisciplinary
scholarship and encourage submissions which stretch our conception of ‘medieval’ in
time or space, from late antiquity to modern reception and from Scandinavia to the
Middle East and beyond, or which deal with the practice of medieval history.
These short 15–20-minute workshop papers are excellent ways to share your work, gain
presentation experience, and receive constructive feedback in a supportive environment run
for and by graduate students. In terms of scope, we are looking for focused studies that offer
snapshots into ongoing graduate research, and particularly encourage primary source work
and case studies, rather than sweeping overviews of large topics or summaries of entire
dissertations/theses.
We welcome submissions from Master’s and PhD students from any discipline or university,
but especially encourage graduate students based in or around Cambridge to submit.
Accepted speakers will have the opportunity to be featured on our blog, Camedieval.
The Workshop meets alternate Thursdays, 4–5 :30pm, with the option of virtual attendance
on Microsoft Teams for audience members. In each session we will have two 15–20-minute
papers, followed by in-person socialising and refreshments.
Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words and a short bio by 29th September
2025 to: cambridgemedieval@gmail.com