CFP: On Allegory: Aspects and Approaches (grad) (UK) (5/1/05; 6/10/05-6/11/05)

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference

On Allegory: Aspects and Approaches
University of Oxford, Lincoln College, 10-11 June 2005

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ1934/allegory.html

The first Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference will revolve around the
notion of Allegory in the medieval period, broadly conceived, and
invites contributions from all related fields of interest by graduates
and young scholars. The conference is intended as a forum for the
exchange of ideas relating to the understanding of allegory and its
impact on multiple aspects of medieval art, thought and life.
Interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches are particularly
encouraged in an attempt to transcend the boundaries of a strictly
literary approach to the phenomenon.

Topics for presentations could include:

- Discussion of seminal allegorical texts
- Contemporary vs. modern theoretical understanding of allegory
- The development of allegoresis in the late-Antique period
- The impact of seminal texts such as the Ovide moralisé in medieval
culture
- Allegory and iconography
- Allegorical personification and embodiment in medieval drama
- Twelfth-century Platonism and the works of Bernardus Silvestris and
Alain de Lille
- Allegory and romance
- Scripture and allegorical interpretation
- The emergence of the Emblem book and its relation to the medieval
allegorical tradition
- Allegory and symbolism
- Secular vs. religious allegory
- The afterlife of medieval allegory in the Renaissance or in the
imagery of metaphysical poetry
- Allegory and cosmology
- Allegorical imagery and iconoclasm
- Exemplarism and the allegorical significance of history
- The impact of the vice-virtue psychomachia on the graphic arts
- Symbolism and creation of allegorical space in religious architecture

Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers: 1
May
Please send abstracts pasted into an email (no attachments please) to:
oxgradconf_at_gmail.com
Or as hard copies to Marco Nievergelt, Lincoln College, Oxford, OX13DR.

Deadline for conference registration is 15 May.

The conference fee is expected to be in the region of 15-20 pounds, and
includes lunch and coffee/tea breaks.

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