07/03/2024
MAM CFP: Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK, 7-10 July 2025
“The Digital Classroom as the New Traditional Classroom? (A Pedagogical Roundtable)”
The theme for Leeds IMC 2025 is “Worlds of Learning.” The Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM) invites abstract submissions on the above proposed sponsored-session roundtable. We are interested in papers that explore the ways in which educators, from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, have utilized digital learning environments successfully in the exploration of the Middle Ages and in regards to a particular author, artist, text, subject, or theme. We are especially interested in presentations that explore the global Middle Ages, presenters who are active in creating digital platforms and/or content, and digital humanities pedagogy that is conscious of learners’ accessibility to digital content. As museums, archives, libraries, publishers, universities, and organizations create, curate, and maintain a digital world of knowledge, how have educators both participated in that creative, world-building endeavor and also utilized its content to open up worlds that were hidden, obscure, or inaccessible to learners? In what ways is the digital classroom becoming a new form or version of the traditional in-person classroom, and what are those implications? We also encourage abstracts that explore ways in which the digital classroom, archives, the (digital) humanities can be used as a source for learning about medieval culture to create works of art, handicrafts, and other objects that are inspired by the medieval world.
MAM is planning this Leeds IMC session to be in-person, though Leeds IMC conference organizers have made available the possibility of virtual participation for presenters and attendees; as such, MAM cannot guarantee that this will continue in 2025.
Please send 200-word abstracts by 1 September 2024 to both Alex Kaufman ([email protected]) and Tory Schendel-Vyvoda ([email protected]).
In your submission to the session organizers, please include the following information, which is required by IMC organizers:
• full name
• email address
• postal address
• telephone number
• full affiliation details (department, institution); independent scholar
• title (e.g. Dr, Ms, Mr, Mx, Professor etc).
