Conferences / Conférences
May 27, 28, 29, 2012.Congress of the Canadian Society of Medievalists 2012. Call for Papers - please submit an abstract and brief CV by Fenruary 3, 2012.The next Congress of the Canadian Society of Medievalists will be held at WIlfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, May 27, 28, 29, 2012. The overall theme of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Scientists is "Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World / À la croisée des chemins: le savoir face à un monde incertain." click here, and for further information, please contact:
Professor Elizabeth Edwards
President, CSM
University of King’s College
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2A1
elizabeth.edwards@ukings.ns.ca.
February 12, 2011. The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium announces the Call for Papers for The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference, "Crises of Categorization," University of Toronto, Saturday, February 12, 2011.
The University of Toronto, in partnership with the
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Seventh Annual
Graduate Student Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on "Crises of
Categorization." Marjorie Garber defines crises of categorization as the
“failure of definitional distinction, a borderline that becomes permeable, that
permits of crossings from one (apparently distinct) category to another,” in her
work on the challenge of defining transvestism. This recognition of the
permeability of boundaries is particularly useful in thinking through issues in
the history and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. For the 2011 ASSC Graduate
Colloquium, we are seeking papers which interrogate Anglo-Saxon systems of
categorization, both as they appear within the literature and historical
documents of the period and in terms of modern popular and scholarly practices.
In particular, the conference hopes to explore points of cultural anxiety about
and resistance towards hegemonic practices of categorization.
Potential areas of investigation may include:
— Anglo-Saxon conceptions of time
— periodicity and historiography
— genre and stylistic practices
— negotiation of linguistic boundaries
— spatial discourse and practices
— representations of gender and sexuality
Please submit 250 word abstracts for 20-minute papers by 15 November 2010.
Please include academic affiliation, e-mail address, street address, phone
number, and audio-visual requirements. Abstracts may be sent to
TorontoASSC@gmail.com. — Peter
Buchanan and Colleen Butler, conference organizers.
Sponsored by: Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of English, Trinity
College. For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at
www.columbia.edu/cu/assc. To join the ASSC mail list please email
ASSC@columbia.edu.
May
12-15, 2011. CALL FOR PAPERS - Special session on "Medieval Romance and
the Fair Unknown: Monsters, Women, and Transformations." The deadline for proposals
is September 20, 2011. Papers should be 20 minutes
in length. Proposals should include a one-page abstract and a one-page
curriculum vitae and should be sent to both:
James Weldon
Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Dept. of English and Film Studies
75 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Canada
Phone: 519-884-0710 ex. 3311
Fax: 519-884-8307
jweldon@wlu.ca
May 12-15, 2011. Monsters: The Experimental Association
for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical
Application
(MEARCSTAPA) invites submissions for either of its sessions at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (May 12-15, 2011).
Panel 1: Outlaws, Outliers, and Outsiders This panel explores the intersection of myth and reality, of boundaries and borders between this world, other worlds and their inhabitants. From tales of outlaws exiled by law to those who lurk on the boundaries of "civilization," this panel welcomes papers on all manner of outsiders in any genre.
Panel 2: Prehuman, Nonhuman, Posthuman: Monsters in the Middle Ages This panel explores the concept of monstrosity in the Middle Ages, as well as connections between understandings of the monstrous in the medieval and all subsequent periods. Submissions are welcome on all aspects of the monstrous in all fields of study from the medieval to modern medievalism.
Submissions (abstracts and PIFs) should be sent no later than 15 September 2010 to the contact information below.
Renee Ward
Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Dept. of English and Film Studies
75 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Canada
Phone: 519-884-0839
Fax: 519-884-8307