We are please to announce that Dr Sébastien Bully (CNRS, Dijon) will present his latest work on the archaeology of Luxeuil, with an overview of early medieval monasticism in the region. The session will also feature papers by Dr Aidan Breen and Emmet Marron on their work on the Life of Columbanus and the archaeology of Annagray, respectively.

The Call for Papers deadline expires shortly: see below.

The 25th Irish Conference of Medievalists will take place at the National University of Ireland, Galway, over 24–26 June 2011. The conference will feature:

• A keynote address by Prof. Alf Smyth (Canterbury): ‘Ireland and Europe in the Middle Ages: Different cultures or different source materials?’
• Special plenary session: ‘Cross-currents in Norse and Irish literature’, with Prof. Judith Jesch (Nottingham), Prof. Jan Erik Rekdal (Oslo) and Prof. Gísli Sigurðsson (Reykjavík).
• Special plenary session: ‘New work on Columbanus’ (details to be announced).

We welcome proposals for papers of 20 minutes’ duration. Proposals should include a title and short abstract (200 words max.), and may be submitted on-line or e-mailed to padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie. Topics outside the field of Irish studies welcome!

Deadline: 28 February 2011

Download our poster: ICM 2011: Call for Papers (PDF file, 427 KB) [updated 21 Feb 2011]

We are very pleased to announce that the 25th anniversary Irish Conference of Medievalists will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in June 2011. Planning is currently under way, more details to follow soon.

In the meantime, e-mail listserv@listserv.heanet.ie with SUBSCRIBE ICM Your Name in the message body to sign up for updates, or join our Facebook group.

You can also e-mail any enquiries to the 2011 Organising Secretary, Pádraic Moran, at padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie.

Many thanks to our 46 speakers, our chairs, our student helpers and all those to travelled to attend and support the conference. It was a very busy few days, and the organising committee was delighted with the quality of papers and discussion, and with the friendly and sociable atmosphere characteristic of previous ICMs.

The committee would like to extend special gratitude to its chair, Jacopo Bisagni, who spear-headed the initiative from the beginning, and took on the lion’s share of the organisational duties. The success of the conference is due in large part to his personal commitment and many hours of hard work.

We hope to post a few pictures shortly, and news about the 25th-anniversary conference in 2011 will follow when it becomes available. To keep up to date, we recommend you sign up to our mailing list (details on right), or join our Facebook group.

(Finally, don’t forget to follow Cathy Swift — the organiser of many previous ICMs — on her journey across the Via Francigena.)