UPDATE: Inner Sanctums and Outer Spaces (grad) (11/1/05; 12/8/05-12/9/05)

DEADLINE EXTENDED

CALL FOR PAPERS

The University of Alberta’s Medieval and Early Modern Institute invites
abstracts for their 3rd annual graduate student colloquium, to be held in
Edmonton at the University on December 8th and 9th, 2005. This colloquium
encourages papers that explore the themes of Inner Sanctums and Outer Spaces in
the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Topics can include but are not limited
to:

-the Gawain manuscript and its texts
-Arthurian legend and cultural practices
-stage drama and/or closet drama
-the natural and/or the supernatural
-civility and/or incivility
-domestic spaces: private and public
-wild men and wild women
-the reception/dissemination of texts in society
-courts of love/courtly love
-representations of interiority in art and architecture
-consort music and/or ceremonial music
-the mapping of inner sanctums and outer spaces
-royal entries/joyeuse entrées

Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to either Rob Desjardins, Department of
History and Classics, rob.desjardins_at_ualberta.ca, or Sheila Christie,
Department of English and Film Studies, sheilac_at_ualberta.ca, by Tuesday,
November 1st 2005. Please include your name, affiliation, email, and telephone
number on the abstract. Please note that MEMI also awards a $100 prize for the
best paper presented, as determined by the faculty component of its board.

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