Call for Papers/Sessions - International Medieval Congress 2014

Paper proposals must be submitted by August 31, 2013; session proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2013.

Please note this session:
Being Imperial in the East: Reading Asian Empires in the European Middle Ages

This session proposes to examine key elements of non-European empires, whether small, large, centralized, informal, secular or spiritual, across greater Eurasia (from the lands of Islam to the shores of Japan) during the European Middle Ages, a period which for our purposes will be defined asroughly 500-1500 CE. The session will offer further opportunities for fruitful exchange between scholars working on concepts of community, authority and exchange in geographical and cultural contexts beyond Europe's fuzzy bounds within the context of the 2014 theme "Empire."

Proposals for papers are warmly invited from new and establishedresearchers in the field, and topics may include:

• Being someone? Biographies, groups, networks, marriage and kinship
• Being recognized? Negotiating, reproducing and writing registers andelements of group identities
• Being in charge? Sources and expressions of authority, coercion, acclamation and resistance
• Being rewarded? Appointments, patronage, gifts, tribute and loot
• Being rich? Trade, tribute, tax and the economics of empire
• Being in touch? Contact, civilization, mission, superiority and Others
• Being mobile? Deployment, travel, displacement and settlement
• Being heavenly? Spirituality, religion, universality and origins

Organised by Geoff Humble (PhD student, University of Birmingham)

If you are interested in offering a 20-minute paper within this session please send a title and a brief abstract of 100 words by September 1, 2013 to Geoff Humble (gfh299@bham.ac.uk).

Please note: Speakers invited cannot present a paper in anothersession at the IMC. All speakers will have to pay the appropriate IMC registration fee to attend.

If you would like to submit your own individual session or paper proposal for the IMC 2014, please click here for more information.