Tag: New Chaucer Society Congress 2026

2026 New Chaucer Society Congress at University of Freiburg: Call for paper proposals now available

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.

2026 New Chaucer Society Congress: Call for Sessions

Germany’s Black Forest is Calling

by Candace Barrington

The Program Committee for the 24th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society–to be held in Freiburg, Germany, 27-30 July 2026–has released its Call for Sessions.

The Call includes guidelines for submitting panel proposals to eight thread options:

  • Comparative Environmentalisms
  • Multilingualism and Mobility
  • The Social Lives of Medieval Books
  • Ubiquitous Medievalism
  • Precarity
  • Tales in Translation
  • Thinking with/through Ethics/Aesthetics
  • Open Topics

You will find complete descriptions of the threads as well as the submission process here.

The deadline for submitting a session proposal is 17 January 2025.

The ensuing Call for Papers will appear soon thereafter.

Kuddos to the program committee members Alastair Bennett, Gina M. Hurley, Koichi Kano, Julia R. Mattison, and Eva von Contzen (ex officio), led by committee co-chairs Mary Flannery and Ryan D. Perry.