The NNSC is sponsoring five sessions at this year's Leeds International Medieval Congress: Spoils of War I, Raiding and Ransom; Spoilers of War II, The Crusades; Spoils of War III, A Round Table Discussion; Crisis and Transition in the Later Crusades, 13th - 16th Centuries I, Grand Strategies in Times of Crisis; Crisis and Transition in the Later Crusades, 13th - 16th Centuries II, Ideology, Historiography, and Memorialisation. The session organisers, respectively, are: Connor Wilson and Paulo Alexandre Mesquita Dias; and Stefan Tebruck.