2024 IONA Conference

King’s College London

26-28 June 2024

We are thrilled that IONA is back!

The conference will take place on the Strand Campus at King’s College London from Wednesday 26 June to Friday 28 June 2024. The closest tube stations are Holborn and Temple.

Registration is open now: https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-english/iona-islands-of-the-north-atlantic

There is no designated conference hotel. We recommend that participants book accommodation via:  https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/.

Please email Josh Davies (Joshua.davies@kcl.ac.uk) if you have any questions about the conference in general.

Programme

The conference programme is available here: IONA 2024 schedule.

Call for Papers

The conference is formed of various seminars, labs, and workshops, each with its own organizers, call for papers, and deadline for proposals. Here is the full list of sessions that will run at IONA 2024. Please see each individual page for full details, including how to submit a proposal to the organizers where relevant.

Carving Collective Practice: Working Against Monolithic Scholarship on Stone 

Documenting Ephemeral Sounds in the Premodern World 

From Fibre to Decorated Textiles in the Early North Atlantic: Weaving Identities Across Cultures

Gender and Theory in Medieval Celtic Textual Culture

Indigeneity, Colonialism, and Early Medieval Britain

Insular Texts and the Problem of ‘Western Science’

Moving to Inter- and Trans-disciplinarity: Integrating Bioarchaeology into Early Medieval Studies

Rethinking Medium, Message, and Material

Revoicing Medieval Poetry

Spaces and their Humans

Working with Irish Legal Materials