IMBAS

The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference

Welcome to the home page of Imbas: The NUIG Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference. This conference was established in November 2008 to help provide students of medieval studies with an exciting opportunity to gather for an extensive three day event. We offer delegates the opportunity to publish their papers as podcasts and as articles in the Imbas Journal, our open-access journal. Postgraduate students at all stages of their research are invited to attend and participate at the conference.

The Old Irish word 'imbas' is a compositional form, * imb-fius, meaning 'great knowledge'. Its actual meaning is obscure and is frequently referred to in the literature of early Medieval Ireland as relating to foreknowledge that has been obtained by magical or occult means. We use the term imbas to refer to the scholarly process, similar to the learned art referred to by Feidelm, poetess of Connacht in the great Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailgne (TBC1:41-44).

Imbas 2012 will run from the 23rd- 25th of November. The theme will be Diversity in the Middle Ages: Political, Social, and Cultural. We are delighted to have Dr Clare Stancliffe of the University of Durham as our keynote speaker. The deadline for the submission of abstracts will be the 15th of October. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuiggmail.com

The Imbas committees, past and present, would like to graciously thank our sponsors over the past few years. Our sponsors have included the NUI Galway Registrar, the Millennium Fund, NUI Galway College of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Discipline of History, the Centre of Antique, Medieval and Pre- Modern studies (CAMPS) and the MA in Medieval Studies. Without their support, this conference could never have succeeded.

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