This strand seeks to address the impact of this new interest in things, theories, and methods as they relate to an expansive understanding of вЂmaterialityвЂ™. Recent attention to objects, artefacts, matter, and material culture has reshaped scholarship in many fields. Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus.

The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. Special Thematic Strand: вЂ MaterialitiesвЂ™, 1 вЂ“ 4 July 2019 Conference Programme The Special Thematic Strand вЂClimatesвЂ will be co-ordinated by Amanda Power (Faculty of History / St CatherineвЂ™s College, University of Oxford). Preservation of material remains amid growing climate and societal instability.Medievalists, politics, climate justice, pedagogy, and activism.Seas, oceans, rivers, monsoon, floods as dynamic spaces.Fluctuations in migration, mobility, trade, exchange, and transmission.вЂ™ClimatesвЂ™ and interregional connectivities, interdependencies and disconnections.вЂProvincialising EuropeвЂ™: Writing history on the вЂplanetaryвЂ™ or biospheric scale.Interdisciplinarity and integration of historical climate and environmental data.Ecocriticism, critical race theory, indigenous knowledge, ecofeminism, queer ecology.Relationships between climate change and human history.вЂClimatesвЂ™ of opinion, thought, feeling.Ecosystems, entanglements, human and non-human agency.

Applying paradigms of adaption, resilience, and collapse.Societal organisation, hierarchy, law-making, governance.Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities.Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism.Astronomical and astrological observations and predictions.Medieval enquiry into weather, seasons, monsoon patterns.Cosmologies, world views, natural or supernatural causation.Medieval concepts of вЂclimesвЂ™ and вЂclimateвЂ™.Themes to be addressed may include, but are not limited to: It was within dynamic environments and ecosystems that humans lived, moved, organised themselves, developed cosmologies, philosophies, and theologies, created material objects, literatures, and other records, extracted and exchanged the resources of different regions, competed for land and power, and faced disaster, displacement, and violence. вЂClimatesвЂ™ can be explored on many levels, from the planetary to the intimately local, offering alternative routes to explore ideas of centres and peripheries, agency and determinism, connectivities, interdependencies and comparisons, as well as what constitutes the вЂglobalвЂ™ in this period. Expertise on the medieval period is becoming increasingly important to scientific and public conversations, while intensifying global instability threatens both the future study of a period long synonymous with irrelevancy, and the preservation of its material remains. Climates вЂ“ in the many senses of the word вЂ“ are now among the most pressing issues of our times. Medievalists study populations across the globe that understood this interconnectedness in multiple ways, invested causal and explanatory power in observable phenomena, and lived in communities that were both vulnerable and responsive to shifting environmental conditions. They affect, and are affected by, other climates вЂ“ including of thought, opinion, feeling, belief, politics, society, and economics. In 2021 this was вЂClimatesвЂ™.Д¬limates are engendered by powerful interactions of heavens, oceans, and earth, and are themselves potent forces in complicated relationships with water, landscapes, patterns of weather, and human and non-human life. Once logged in, delegates were able to access all aspects of the IMC, including academic sessions, Bookfair and other exhibitions, events and workshop programme, and social and networking opportunities. IMC 2021 was hosted online via the virtual events platform, Pathable, which can be accessed from any modern web browser from a desktop/laptop computer.

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