CARMEN Annual Meeting

CARMEN brings scholars together from universities as well as public and private bodies who are actively involved in the teaching or research of the Middle Ages (ca. 400-1500 AD/CE). We access half of the global body of about 20,000 researchers, with important contributions from Europe, North America, East Asia, Australasia and Latin America.

CARMEN promotes the construction of major scholarly collaborative projects. Its Executive Group directs strategies, disseminates information, and reports to national medievalists’ associations and major conferences. It assists nascent projects to reach critical mass and influences research agendas. CARMEN is a member of EASH (European Alliance for Social Studies and Humanities).

CARMEN

• links research institutions, universities, interest groups and individuals with a

 scholarly interest in the study of the Middle Ages. Based in Europe, it reaches out to all continents to create an international platform of co-operation in the field of medieval research and teaching

• brings medievalists, scholars and outside specialists together to form international

collaborative projects and research-related activities

• helps identify large-scale international research funds and grants, and assist research groups in applying for the money
• instigates and co-ordinates the international networks behind research projects

and facilitates communication between research groups

• aligns and shapes scholarly interests to impact upon current and future public policy
• helps shape the research environment for medievalists, by brokering funding opportunities with national and international agencies, and identifying research trends
• moves the humanities from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research to cross-faculty research, with Medicine, the Social Sciences, ICT and Applied Science
• maximises the impact of research by developing partnerships with public and private bodies outside academia