The International Medieval Congress (IMC) will be held in Leeds, England, 1-4 July 2013. Here is a list of sessions of special interest for medieval environmental historians.<\/p>\n

Session 228:\u00c2\u00a0Hunting for Fun and Political Gain<\/strong><\/p>\n

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• Hunting and Pleasure,\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Hannele Klemettil\u00c3\u00a4, University of Turku<\/li>\n
• Forbidden Pleasure or Pragmatics of Power?: Bishops’ Hunting in the Late Middle Ages,\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Ewa W\u00c3\u00b3\u00c5\u201akiewicz, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Warsaw<\/li>\n
• The ‘Delights’ of the Courtly Hunt,\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Ryan Judkins, University of Massachusetts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Session 733: Water in Medieval Society: Economic, Social, and Religious Implications, I<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Water Culture: The Hydraulic Constructions of the Almoravid Period in North Africa and Al-Andalus<\/strong>, Maria Marcos Cobaleda, \u00c3\u2030cole des Hautes \u00c3\u2030tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)<\/li>\n
  • Water in Medieval Islamic Valencia (Spain): Hydraulic Structures and the Configuration of the Urban Area and Its Surroundings<\/strong>, Josefa Pascual Pacheco, Servicio de Investigaci\u00c3\u00b3n Arqueol\u00c3\u00b3gica Municipal (SIAM), Valencia<\/li>\n
  • The Urban Evolution of Medieval C\u00c3\u00b3rdoba through Its Water Supply during the Middle Ages<\/strong>, Guadalupe Pizarro Berengena, Universidad de C\u00c3\u00b3rdoba<\/li>\n
  • The Hydraulic Systems in Medieval Islamic C\u00c3\u00b3rdoba: The Case of the Occidental Suburbs<\/strong>, Bel\u00c3\u00a9n V\u00c3\u00a1zquez Navajas, Universidad de C\u00c3\u00b3rdoba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Session 833:\u00c2\u00a0Water in Medieval Society: Economic, Social, and Religious Implications, II<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Water in Everyday Life: From the Material to the Symbolic in Late Medieval Spain<\/strong>, Maria Isabel del Val Valdivieso and Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta, Universidad de Valladolid<\/li>\n
    • Sprinkling Water on the Corpse and the Tomb: The Rite of the Absolution of the Dead in the Middle Ages<\/strong>, Ana del Campo Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez, Yale University<\/li>\n
    • Fountains, Gardens, and Pleasure: The Image and the Symbolic Meaning of Water in the Hispanic Courts at the End of the Middle Ages<\/strong>, Germ\u00c3\u00a1n Gamero Igea and Diana Pelaz Flores, Universidad de Valladolid<\/li>\n
    • The Configuration of Water and Gardens in Late Medieval Islamic Cordoba (Qurtuba)<\/strong>, Rafael Blanco Guzman, Universidad de C\u00c3\u00b3rdoba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Session 1222:\u00c2\u00a0Animals and the Diversity of Pleasure, I<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • Fun in the Chicken Run: Two 14th-Century German Poultry Poems,<\/strong> Gabriele Klug, \u00c3\u2013sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Krems<\/li>\n
      • ‘[\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6] copia autem piscium excedit fere omnia regna’: The Delight of Fishes in Medieval Hungary<\/strong>, Bal\u00c3\u00a1zs Nagy, Central European University<\/li>\n
      • When Pets Go Bad: Animal Bites and the Loss of Pleasure<\/strong>, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, University of York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Session 1322:\u00c2\u00a0Animals and the Diversity of Pleasure, II<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Possessing Wild Beasts in Monastic Menageries: A Condemnable Effeminate Pleasure?<\/strong>, Thierry Buquet, Institut Fran\u00c3\u00a7ais du Proche Orient, Beirut<\/li>\n
        • Turning Heads: The Sartorial Use of Fur<\/strong>, Eva Fairnell, University of York<\/li>\n
        • Animals of Pleasure: Touch, Function, and Materiality in Gothic Ivory Carvings<\/strong>, Naomi Speakman, British Museum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Session 1422:\u00c2\u00a0Ostriches: A Round Table Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Sponsored by Medieval Animal Data Network. Participants include Thierry Buquet (Institut Fran\u00c3\u00a7ais du Proche Orient, Beirut), Alice Choyke (Central European University, Budapest), Drago\u00c5\u0178 Gh. N\u00c4\u0192st\u00c4\u0192soiu (Central European University, Budapest), and M\u00c3\u00b3nica Ann Walker Vadillo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).<\/p>\n

          Session 1620: Perceiving and Explaining Weather in the Middle Ages<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • Pleasure into Pain: Weather in the Old Norse Sagas,\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Bernadine McCreesh, Universit\u00c3\u00a9 du Qu\u00c3\u00a9bec \u00c3\u00a0 Chicoutimi<\/li>\n
          • Explaining Weather and Natural Hazards to a Wider Public: Konrad of Megenberg’s\u00c2\u00a0Book of Nature<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(1349),\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Christian Rohr, Universit\u00c3\u00a4t Bern<\/li>\n
          • Late Medieval Weather Diaries in England,\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Kathleen Pribyl, University of Brighton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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