International Medieval Society, Paris
Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris
A non-profit organization founded in France • Association fondée sur la Loi du 1er juillet 1901

Upcoming Events
"AN, BN, and Beyond: Research Institutions in Paris and in France"
Orientation apéritif .
Tuesday, 7 October
7 p.m., 3, ave. Acollas, 7ème. Email a_russakoff [at] yahoo.com for codes and information.

Apéritif
Thursday, 6 November
Celia Chazelle, Professor and Chair, Department of History at The College of New Jersey, "The Venerable Bede and Christian Fundamentalism."
7 p.m., 3, ave. Acollas, 7ème. Email a_russakoff [at] yahoo.com for codes and information.

Symposium 2009: Space
Call for papers and further information coming soon.

Recent Events
Symposium 2008: "Blood"
24-26 June, Paris.
Paris - IV (La Sorbonne)
Keynote speakers: Franck Collard (Université Paris X-Nanterre) and Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London).
Program

21 May
Apéritif with presentation by Laura Hollengreen, University of Arizona.

20 May
Orientation to the research center at GAHOM given by Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu

8 May
IMS-sponsored session at Kalamazoo
"Kingship and Religiosity in the
Middle Ages."

16 April, 19h
Apéritif with presentation by Elizabeth Monti (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), "Art for an Antipope: Patronage at the Court of Clement VII, 1378-1394."

28 March, 19h
Apéritif with Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (CNRS, Centre de recherches historiques), "Historians and medieval ghost stories."

28 February, 18h
Apéritif with presentation by Emily Wilson Wood, Harvard University) "The Benefits and Bothers of being a Judge Delegate in twelfth-century France."

13 December, 19h
"De la Chanson de Roland à la Conquête de Constantinople, la Suite Vulgate du Merlin, un texte au carrefour des genres." Irene Fabry (Universite Paris-III).

18 October, 7 p.m.
"Performing the Roman de la Rose" - Professor Evelyn Birge (Timmie) Vitz, New York University.

Symposium 2007: "Memory in Medieval France"
27-29 June
Maison de la Récherche, Paris
Keynote Speakers: Mary Carruthers (New York University) and Jean-Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales). Click for the Program.

IMS Bulletin 2005-06.

Symposium 2006: Foreigners, Strangers, and Others in Medieval France
29 June - 1 July 2006, École nationale des chartes, Paris. Click for the Program.

Symposium 2005: Patronage and the Court
30 June - 2 July 2005
Program/Programme.

Each year, numerous academics come to Paris to conduct research in a field of medieval studies. Because most operate independently, precious time is wasted in simple orientation to the different institutions and in gaining access to specialized research locations. Numerous opportunities are missed… The International Medieval Society aims to resolve this by creating a center for international researchers in Paris.

The primary goal of the International Medieval Society is to optimize the academic research experience by providing information and assisting with access to the wide range of opportunities offered to medievalists in Paris and in France. By facilitating communications among independent researchers and the different French institutions or academics through meetings, presentations, and visits, the Society aims to improve academic exchange and promote interdisciplinary and international scholarship.

The International Medieval Society was founded in June 2003. During its first four years, the Society has quickly grown both in size and in scope as it now counts art and architectural historians, historians, musicologists, and literary scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and beyond as its members. The Society is a cooperative association that relies on the participation of its members to realize its goals. In the future, we hope to offer fellowships to researchers at all levels. (Who we are).

For more information, e-mail contact@ims-paris.org.