CALL FOR PAPERS: Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Studies Graduate
Conference
University of Calgary
April 16-17, 2004
“Bridging and Breaking Boundaries”
Staff and students of the University of Calgary recently formed a
Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Studies (MARCS) research group whose
principal aim is to promote interdisciplinary inquiry and exchange. In
an effort to promote this goal, student members of MARCS are pleased to
invite graduate students from all Western colleges and universities to
the first ever medieval and renaissance graduate student conference
hosted by the University of Calgary. The conference will be held from
April 16 to 17, 2004.
The conference seeks to explore cultural liminalities or, broadly
termed, boundaries. Boundaries may be conceived in one or any number of
spatial/temporal combinations between the natural/constructed, the
moving/fixed, the permeable/resistant. Papers might consider boundaries
and corresponding boundary conditions in terms of divisions,
contiguities, limits, limitations, or configurations for subjects as
varied as gender/sexuality paradigms, socio-political
centres/peripheries, historical periodization, urban/architectural
integrations, transculturation, linguistic flux, religious hierocracies,
compositions of territorial borders/frontiers, textual and technological
margins, and literary categorizations. The conference therefore
encourages inquiry from a range of medieval and renaissance disciplines:
philosophy, religion, literature, philology, language, history,
sociology, and science.
Conference sessions will be held over two days and will include keynote
addresses by two prominent academics who display the sort of
interdisciplinary inquiry that this conference seeks to foster. Murray
McGillivray, a medievalist who combines new media technology with
traditional philology and has produced several electronic editions of
literary manuscripts, will offer a paper concerning his current
project. The second speaker is Jonathan Hart, an early modern historian
and literary scholar who works across disciplines and national and
linguistic borders. His research focus is the intersection between
historiography, theory, and literature and his most recent work concerns
exploration narratives.
Students are requested to submit an abstract (maximum 250 words) that
outlines the topic to be presented in a twenty-minute paper. The
sessions will follow the standard format of academic conferences with
three papers followed by a discussion period.
Abstracts are due February 7, 2004 and should be faxed, mailed or
emailed to:
Ayn Becze
University of Calgary
Social Sciences Tower, 11th floor
2500 University Drive
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4
Telephone: (403)220-5470
Fax: (403)289-1123
aynbecze@hotmail.com
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