IMC 2014: Sessions

Many historians have the opportunity to teach aspects of so-called 'informal' empires and indeed scholars often teach the various histories of a least one polity that contemporaries recognised was some form of empire. However, new teachers faced with teaching empires, informal or otherwise, may be forgiven for first familiarising themselves with and therefore subsequently teaching a grand narrative of events. Addressing perspectives that range from world history and the development of 'empire', 'state', and pre-modern 'nations' to economics and the difficulties in conveying contemporary notions of empire, the round table affords an opportunity to discuss a number of alternative pedagogical techniques and challenges one might adapt or confront when teaching medieval empires.

Participants include Julie A. Hofmann (Shenandoah University, Virginia), Hugh Kennedy (University of London), Vanessa Josephine Triall (University of Glasgow), and Daniel Power (Swansea University).