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/). 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/.
Please contact Geoff Humble 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