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International Medieval Society, Paris • Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris

Association fondée sur la Loi du 1er juillet 1901 Affiliated with Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP) - Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne)

About the Society

The International Medieval Society-Paris is a non-profit association that welcomes international scholars of the Middle Ages in France and promotes international exchange with French colleagues. To this end, the IMS organizes monthly apéritifs in which scholars present their research projects for discussion as well as an annual three-day international symposium on a designated theme every June. Founded in 2003, the IMS has quickly grown both in size and in scope as it now counts art and architectural historians, historians, musicologists, and literary scholars from ten different countries among its members. In 2009, the IMS became officially affiliated with the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP) of Paris I-Sorbonne. The International Medieval Society-Paris is a cooperative association that relies on the participation of its members to realize its goals.

 

Upcoming Events

Symposium 2012: Human/Animal

  28 June-30 June, Paris

Deadline for abstract submission:
15 January 2012

Call for Papers (en français).

Poster for download (en français).

Past Symposia

Apéritifs 2010-2011

18 October:
Orientation to research facilities in Paris

10 November

8 December

12 January

9 February

8 March

12 April

10 May

The first IMS-Paris Symposium book is available for purchase!
Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France,
ed. Meredith Cohen and Justine Firnhaber-Baker (Aldershot: Ashgate, August 2010).

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Recent Events

Symposium 2011: Ordo
30 June-2 July, Paris

Apéritifs 2010-2011

19 May:

Elisa Foster, Brown University
"Objectness" and Absence: Recovering the destroyed Black Madonna of Le Puy-en-Velay"

17 March:

Morgan Dickson
"Horn Imagery and the Romance of the Horn"

5 April: Apéritif at LAMOP

24 February: 

Nathalie Le Luel
Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers
"How to Convert a Bear to Christianity: Particularity and Use of the Calendar of the Months on the Portal of Saint-Ursin at Bourges"

20 January

9 December: Orientation to research groups in Paris

9 November: Introduction to the research group LAMOP

21 October (Thursday): Orientation, 19h

Symposium 2010: Translatio
24-26 June, Paris
Program/Programme

May 6 - LAMOP / IMS-Paris join event
Featuring Jonathan Boyarin, author of The Unconverted Self. Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 2009.

Apéritifs 2009-2010
15 April, 7pm
Presentations by
Katherine Baker, Cathrine Besancon, and Kristine Tanton


March 22, 7pm
Emily Guerry, "Beautiful Death: A new study of the wall paintings in the upper chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle".

18 February

Anne Lester (University of Colorado - Boulder), "'A not inconsiderable piece of St. John': Reassessing the Circulation of Crusade Relics in Northern France in the Time of the Fourth Crusade"

14 January
Donna La Rue, "Verbal, Visual, Visceral: Reading and Translating Dance Iconographic Sources"

17 December, 7 pm
Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (GAHOM/EHESS), "Hamlet in purgatory and the ghost of Alés"

17 November, 7 pm
Gabriel C. G. Castanho (Paris-I), "Solitude and Social Organization, a Program of Research
"

27 October (Tuesday): Orientation


Symposium 2009: "Space"
24-26 June, École Normale Supérieure with the collaboration of Université de Paris - I (Sorbonne). Keynote speakers: Dominique Iogna-Prat and Philippe Plagnieux.
Program

16 April
2009
Sarah Long (Alamire Foundation, K.U. Leuven), "'Of Noble Lineage:' Music and Textual Imagery in Masses for St. Sebastian in Parisian Confraternity Manuscripts."

12 March 2009
Sara McDougall, a Ph.D. Candidate in history at Yale, will be presenting a paper entitled "Proof of Death in Late-Medieval Marriage Litigation"