The Institute of Medieval Studies (FCSH; Nova University, Lisbon) and the City Council of Castelo de Vide will host the X International Conference on the Middle Ages which will be held from 2sd to 4th October 2025 under the theme: Memory in medieval urban Europe. With a focus on Christian, Islamic and Jewish Europe, researchers from any scientific discipline (History, Archaeology, History of the Art, Literature, among others) are invited to present proposals for sessions and/or individual presentations suitable for inclusion in the following thematic panels:
- The written memory of cities: charters, cartularies, administrative documentation, letters and chronicles
- The stone memories of cities: buildings, tumuli, sculpture and epigraphy
- Collective memory and individual memory
- Urban memory in representations: cartography, drawing and painting
- The producers of memory: notaries, clerks and illuminators
- Places where memory is produced
- Places where memory is preserved: urban archives
- Urban chancelleries
- Writing: formation and practices
- The construction/destruction of written memory in the medieval period
- The construction/destruction of the memory of medieval towns in the following centuries
- The uses of memory by powers and agents
- The uses of memory by elites
- Between text and stone: the memories of Medieval Castelo de Vide
The Conference will comprise 4 plenary sessions featuring researchers invited by the organizing committee, along with separate thematic panels. Each panel will be made up of three paper presentations and will be 60 minutes long. Researchers wishing to participate are requested to submit proposals for whole panels and/or individual papers, the latter being arranged by the organizing committee into coherent panels. The Conference includes a full cultural program with guided tours, Conference Dinner, and a public Book Launch to present the published volume which brings together a selection of articles gathered from the IX International Conference of the Middle Ages and the Autumn School of October 2024.
Please note, the working languages of the Conference are: Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English.
Keynote speakers:
Four keynote speakers to be confirmed.
Scientific committee:
Adelaide Millán Costa (U. Aberta)
Alberto García Porras (U. Granada)
Antonio Collantes de Terán (U. de Sevilha)
Antonio Malpica Cuello (U. de Granada)
Arnaldo de Sousa Melo (U. do Minho)
Beatriz Arizaga Bolumburu (U. de Cantábria)
Catarina Tente (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Chris Wickham (U. of Oxford)
Damien Carraz (U. Toulouse II- Jean Jaurès)
David Igual Luis (U.de Castilla-La Mancha)
Denis Menjot † (U. Lyon 2)
Dominique Valérian (U. Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (U. de Lille)
Eloísa Ramirez Vaquero (U. Pública de Navarra)
Emilio Martín Gutiérrez (U. de Cadiz)
Florent Garnier (U. Toulouse Capitole)
Francisco Garcia Fitz (U. de Extremadura)
François Foronda (U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Giovanna Bianchi (U. of Siena)
Gregoria Cavero Domínguez (U. de León)
Hermenegildo Fernandes (U. Lisboa)
Hermínia Vilar (U. Évora)
Iria Gonçalves (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Isabel del Val Valdivieso (U. de Valladolid)
Jean Passini (EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Jean-Luc Fray (U. Clermont Auvergne)
Jesús Solórzano Telechea (U. de Cantábria)
José Augusto Sottomayor-Pizarro (U. Porto)
José Avelino Gutiérrez González (U. de Oviedo)
José Manuel Nieto Soria (U. Complutense de Madrid)
Juan Vicente Garcia-Marsilla (U. de València)
Leslie Brubaker (U. of Birmingham)
Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Universiteit Leiden)
Luís Filipe Oliveira (U. Algarve)
Luísa Trindade (U. de Coimbra)
Marc Boone (U. Gent)
María Asenjo González (U. Complutense de Madrid)
Maria Filomena Barros † (U. de Évora)
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (U. de Coimbra)
Maria João Branco (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Mário Barroca (U. do Porto)
Maxime L’Héritier (U. Paris 8)
Michel Bochaca (U. de La Rochelle)
Pascual Martinez de Sopena (U. de Valladolid)
Pere Verdés Pijuan (IMF-CSIC)
Peter Clark (U. de Helsínquia)
Philippe Bernardi (U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, LAMOP)
Pierre Chastang (U. Paris-Saclay)
Raphaella Averkorn (U. Siegen)
Roser Salicrú Lluch (IMF-CSIC Barcelona)
Santiago Macias (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Sara Prata (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Sauro Gelichi (U. Ca ‘Foscari de Veneza)
Stefania Montemezzo (U. Padova)
Stéphane Péquignot (École Pratique des Hautes Études/Université PSL)
Thérèse de Hemptinne (U. Gent)
Wim Blockmans (U. de Leiden)
Organizing Committee:
Amélia Aguiar Andrade (IEM | NOVA FCSH)
Gonçalo Melo da Silva (IEM | NOVA FCSH)
Patrícia Martins (CMCV)
Secretariat:
Mariana Pereira (IEM | NOVA FCSH)
Joana Vieira Paulino (IHC- NOVA FCSH)
Supporters: IEM – NOVA FCSH; CMCV; FCT; NOVA FCSH
Transportation
The organization will provide transport by coach for speakers from campus NOVA-FCSH-Castelo de Vide-campus NOVA-FCSH.
The registration pack for speakers includes coach transport from Lisbon Airport – Castelo de Vide – Lisbon Airport, lunch during conference days, guided tour of Castelo de Vide and Conference Dinner.
Deadline for proposals for panels and papers: until 30th April
Panels, Papers and Posters acceptance: May 7th
Conference fees
Speakers (general): 70 €
University students (undergraduates, MA and PhD): 50 €
IEM integrated researchers and students at NOVA FCSH: 40 €
More information: https://idade-media.castelodevide.pt/en_GB/
Call for Papers
IX JORNADAS call for papers text web ENG