MEDIEVAL ALTERITY: THE OTHER IN THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MIDDLE AGES AS
OTHER
Saturday, March 2, 2001
Philosophy Hall, Columbia University
Keynote Address: Professor Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University
CALL FOR PAPERS:
This conference will examine the topic of alterity from a variety of
angles. How did medieval people represent or construct alterity, and
how do modern discourses of alterity inform our understanding of the
Middle Ages? We invite papers that a) critically interrogate the question
of the Medieval's alienation from the Modern and/or b) examine and
historicize the category of "difference" itself in medieval literature and
culture. What is the significance of different periodizations of the
Middle Ages? How might one construct linguistic, religious, racial,
class, gender and sexual differences in medieval texts and images?
How do the above categories of difference interact within the same texts?
What new critical vocabularies might be necessary in order to speak
critically about difference within the difference of the Middle Ages?
We welcome papers from all disciplines. Possible topics include:
representations of the Middle Ages in later periods, from the Renaissance
to the 21st century, including film; medieval subjectivity, medieval
orientalism, medieval imperialism and colonialism, medieval
heteronormativity, transvestism, misogyny, and feminism; the
representation of minorities and/or national and regional differences in
Britain or on the continent; trilinguality in England;
international reading communities for certain vernacular genres; medieval
geographical understandings of the world; medieval travel and ethnographic
depictions; religious polemic and heresy; Christian-Jewish-Muslim
interactions, depictions, and debate; discourses of tolerance and
intolerance; lepers, monsters, marvelous races, virtuous pagans, and
primitivism.
Graduate students and recent recipients of the Ph.D. in Art History and
Architecture, Anthropology, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion and all
literature departments are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and cover
letter indicating any audio-visual requirements by December 1st, 2001:
Medieval Guild
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall-MC 4927
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027-4927
For further information, please contact :
Shirin Khnamohamadi
sak58@columbia.edu
Shayne Legassie
sal52@columbia.edu
Laura Weber
lmw34@columbia.edu
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