Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

Aspects and Approaches

Lincoln College, Oxford, 16th – 17th April 2010

Medium Ævum will host the sixth Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference. This conference is aimed at early career scholars and graduate students. A volume of proceedings comprising selected papers will appear in the Medium Ævum Monographs Series. Contributions are welcomed from diverse fields of research such as history of art and architecture, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.
Papers will be 20 minutes or less. Please email 250-word abstracts (text only, no attachments please) to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 5th January 2010.
Suggested topics might include:

• Misunderstanding; Miscommunication; Misinterpretation; Misattribution; Mistranslation
• Scribal error; Mismatch (image vs. text); Retractions; Textual variance
• Factual error; Received error
• Personification of error
• Mistaken identity
• Political mistake
• False confessions; Lying
• Confusion; Deception
• Knightly errance
• Theological error; Spiritual error
• Scientific error
• Disharmony/Discord
• Medievalism; Early Modern and later (mis)corrections
• Epistemology; Logic
• Crime and misdemeanour

The conference fee is expected to be in the region of £25 (twenty-five pounds). We hope to organize a conference banquet in Lincoln's lovely hall on the Friday night and will provide details of this as soon as they are available.

Source:http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/omgc.html

Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages

Thirty-Seventh Annual
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium

April 9 – 10, 2010

ON THE THEME:

Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

SEWANEE, TENNESSEE

Lectures:

David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson, University of Rhode Island

Antonio Momplet Míguez, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of medieval pilgrimage.  We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions on particular topics related the theme.  Please submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and brief c.v., electronically if possible, no later than 23 October 2009. If you wish to propose a session, please submit abstracts and vitae for all participants in the session. Commentary is traditionally provided for each paper presented.  Therefore, completed papers, including notes, will be due no later than 10 March 2010. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize will be awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD recipient (degree awarded since June 2007).

Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
The University of the South
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, Tennessee  37383-1000
Tel. (931) 598-1526

E-mail: sraulsto@sewanee.edu

Source: http://www.sewanee.edu/medieval/main.html

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