by Candace Barrington
The program committee co-chairs for the 2026 NCS Congress, Mary Flannery and Ryan Perry, have released the call for paper proposals. You will find both the full cfp and the guidelines for submission at the New Chaucer Society website.
Please keep in mind the two-step submission process. Both steps are due 27 April 2025.
Global Chaucerians will find a wealth of sessions to consider. Many explicitly invite a global perspective, including (but certainly not limited to)
- 5. Medieval Ecologies out of Place
- 6. Queer Medieval Ecologies
- 7. Perspectives on Premodern Ecologies
- 8. Middle English Multilingualism Beyond French and Latin
- 9. Multilingual Approaches to Pilgrimage and Crusade Narratives
- 10. Languages Beyond Borders: Multilingual Contact Zones
- 11. Multilingualism on the Road
- 12. Perspectives on Global Medieval Travel Writing
- 13. Multilingual Middle English
- 14. Medievalists Moving Together: Social Movements and New Solidarities
- 15. Involuntary Mobility: Displacement, Migration, Language, Refuge
- 26. Global Medievalisms
- 27. Medievalism and Contemporary Retellings
- 30. Reconstructing the Middle Ages: Architectural Medievalism
- 31. Understanding the Coloniser/Re-Imagining the Medieval
- 34. Medieval Intersectionality
- 43. Global Perspectives on the Study of Chaucer
- 71. Translanguaging
- 73. New Medieval Literatures Presents: Chaucer and the Unexpected…
- 75. Comparative Work in Medieval English and German
Others seem ripe for a global perspective:
- 17. The Social Lives of Medieval Devotional Texts
- 22. Living Libraries, Living Laboratories: Medieval Books and Archives and/as Classrooms
- 25. Analog Medievalisms
- 28. Ageless Medievalisms
- 29. Institutions
- 32. Transcending Precarity Through Solidarity
- 38. Generosity: Now
- 44. Translation Urbis / Cities in Translation
- 53. Lyric Threats
- 78. Research Expo
- 79. Open Paper Thread
And, of course, all the other sessions welcome your proposals!
So, please enjoy reading the vibrant call for proposals.
If you have specific questions about the submission process or general questions about the congress, please contact me. I’m happy to point you to someone with the answers.
We’re excited to learn how the sessions and their descriptions stimulate new ideas. Most of all, we’re thrilled that we’ll be able to see many of you in Freiburg.