Dear DM community,
The call for proposals for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds is now online (and has been online for a while):
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011_call.html
Session proposals are due on September 30. The DM board typically organizes conference sessions, but before we do so this year we wanted to ask you all if there is anyone amongst you (perhaps one or more someones) who would like to be involved. If you have an idea for a session, or would like to organize one, if you have an idea and would like to co-opt the DM name, please respond to the list (or if you're shy, you can write me privately: dot.porter@gmail.com).
The theme of next year's conference will be "Poor...Rich." From the description on the website: "As the global economy attempts to recover from the recent staggering economic downturn, and scholars and journalists describe the enormously uneven concentrations of wealth that took place in the decade preceding that downturn, it seems only natural to turn our scholarly gaze to issues of wealth and poverty in the Middle Ages." I'm not sure how the theme could be applied to a digital session (suggestions?), but in any case non-thematic session proposals are always welcome.
Thanks, Dot