The theme for IMC 2024 will be 'Crisis'. Hoping to repeat the success of the IMC 2023 Chinggisid Ripples sessions we invite paper proposals relating to a very broad conception of crisis relating to any period and aspect of Chinggisid rule within and across Eurasia. Here the concept of crisis is not limited to the mid-fourteenth-century upheavals affecting Chinggisid political formations. Crisis should absolutely be taken in its broadest form, including impacts of conquest and empire at any level, location or period. We are particularly keen to involve PhD students and early career scholars. More senior scholars are also very welcome, and we are always happy to involve external moderators and round-table participants. We also encourage applications from scholars outside of Western Europe, and they can apply for a IMC Bursary or reduced fees (see: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/register/ <https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/register/> ). This year, the IMC had 377 bursary applications and awarded 132 bursaries. The IMC is intended to be a hybrid event, and we welcome proposals for virtual attendance. You can find the IMC Call for Papers, with links to practical information on session submission and attendance, at https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2024/ <https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2024/> . Please contact Geoff Humble humblegeoff@gmail.com <mailto:humblegeoff@gmail.com> with proposals (of around 100 words), questions or expressions of interest. Paper proposals must be received by 15 August 2023. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to: - Institutional precarity, fragility and failure - Problem-solving, durability, adaptation and opportunity - Trauma, emotion and mourning - Memory, forgetting and erasure - Community, communication and interaction - Home, migration, uprooting and exile - Food, provision, shortage, hoarding and profiteering - Agriculture and land use - Language, translation and (mis)understanding - Coping, continuity and (re-)construction - Gendered roles and their disruption - Injury, ill health, healing and recovery - Disability, infirmity and support strategies - Scapegoating, blame and condemnation - Conspiracy, plot and exposure - Slavery, kidnap and forced migration - Economic crisis and indebtedness - Political economy, taxation - Infrastructure development and decay - Inequalities, and the unequal impacts of crises - Religious and or spiritual crisis and change - Prayer and appeals for divine assistance - Narrating crisis and historiographical responses - Changing, evolving and disrupted forms of office holding - Elites, patronage and charity