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‘Medievalism Transformed’ is an interdisciplinary event that ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s School of Arts, Culture and Language has hosted regularly since 2005. It offers postgraduate students and early career researchers from across the world a space to explore the medieval world and its impact, as well as discuss new approaches and possibilities for study.

Medievalism Transformed 2025 is a one-day hybrid conference dedicated to the consideration of silence. It will be held on the 24th of May 2025, at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and online.

Silence permeates medieval studies and often frustrates its researchers. We regularly encounter unfinished, damaged, or missing texts, contradictory accounts, and a general lack of clarity. We also interact with less concrete silences: reckonings with inexpressible emotions and experiences, representations of isolation and ostracism, suppressed and marginalised voices. How can we consider these silences and, paradoxically, how can they speak to us about the Middle Ages and beyond?

This conference welcomes papers from MA and PhD students and early career researchers, on any topic relevant to the theme of silence in medieval studies. Papers will be 20 minutes long, and poster presentations are also very welcome. Any interested undergraduate students are also encouraged to attend the event.

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