Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2025: Rituals & Ceremonies, University of Oxford, April 24–25, 2025
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Committee invites papers for its 2025 conference on the theme of Rituals and Ceremonies. The committee welcomes proposals from all disciplinary perspectives, including historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, musical, and interdisciplinary papers.
Papers may address and temporal or geographic subject related to the medieval period and may consider, but need not be limited to, the following topics:
- Religious ceremonies and traditions
- Familial or domestic traditions
- Ceremonial dress and material culture
- Practical uses of ritual and ceremony
- Political ritual, ceremony, or processions
- Means of recording ritual or performance
- Rites of passage
- Practices of magic or alchemy
- Counterculture or subversion
Presenters should able to attend the conference in-person.