Reminder: Open Calls for Papers, 21st Jan 2025
- Jan 7
- 2 min read
Hello everyone!
We hope you’ve all had a good start of the new year. As usual, there are lots of interesting conferences to look forward to this year!
There is, of course, our very own Annual Conference with the theme “Mystical Entanglements: Communities, Networks, and the (Relational) Self in the History and Study of Mysticism”. Send your abstracts to John Arblaster before January 31!
We’ve also just gotten word of the 20th Biennial Conference of the American Cusanus Society & the International Seminar on Pre-Reformation Theology with the theme “Perspectives on Mystical Vision and Aesthetic Experience” taking place September 18-21, 2025. Send your abstracts to americancusanussociety@gmail.com latest on February 1!
Last but not least, the programme for this year’s International Medieval Congress in Leeds has been just been published, too. We’ll save you trouble and list (some of) the most interesting sessions here:
On Monday, July 7, there are two sessions organised by our friends from the Mysticism & Lived Experience Network:
Session 225: Ignorance is Strength: Revisiting Claims of Illiteracy in Medieval Mystical texts, I
Session 325: Ignorance is Strength: Revisiting Claims of Illiteracy in Medieval Mystical texts, II
On Tuesday, July 8, you can spend all day with the MTN:
Session 525: Medieval Female Mystics as Philosophers, I: Medieval Female Philosophers – Authorities and Teachers
Session 625: Medieval Female Mystics as Philosophers, II: Epistemology and Phenomenology
Session 725: Medieval Female Mystics as Philosophers, III: The Philosophy of Marguerite Porete
Session 825: Medieval Female Mystics as Philosophers, IV: Interrogating the Philosophies of Medieval Female Mystics
Session 925: Roundtable: Why and How Should We Approach Medieval Female Mystics as Philosophers?
On Wednesday, July 9, you can again spend the entire day with us:
Session 1025: Worlds of Mystical Learning: Texts, Ideas, and Impact, I: Authorative Sources as Worlds of Learning in the Mystical Tradition
Session 1125: Worlds of Mystical Learning II: Mystical Texts as Worlds of Learning
Session 1225: Worlds of Mystical Learning III: The Eucharist, Prayer, and Deificiation in Medieval Mystical Texts
Session 1325: Worlds of Mystical Learning IV: Art, Music, and Mysticism, Intersecting Worlds of Learning
Session 1425: Roundtable: Teaching the Unteachable: Mysticism in the Classroom – organised together with the Mysticism & Lived Experience Network
We’re looking forward to all those exciting papers and hope to see you all at least once at any of the conferences!
Let us know if you know of any conferences and/or calls for papers relating to mystical theology so we can share them here, too!
Best wishes,
The Mystical Theology Network
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