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Call for Papers Theme: Borders and Margins Type: 43rd Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Institution: University of the South Location: Sewanee, TN (USA) Date: 10.–11.3.2017 Deadline: 14.10.2016 __________________________________________________ Call for Papers (due October 14, 2016): The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium invites papers engaging with the space of the margin and the border in all aspects of medieval cultures. This includes the form and arrangement of manuscripts, the framing of visual art, the production of textiles and other materials, the contestation of political boundaries, non-normative sexualities and genders, demarcation of religious identity, conceptions of race, differences of species, frontiers of exploration and travel, and peripheral social groups, and other ways of conceptualizing our theme. Papers should be twenty minutes in length, and commentary is traditionally provided for each paper presented. We invite papers from all disciplines, and encourage contributions from medievalists working on any geographic area. Participants in the Colloquium are limited to holders of a Ph.D. and those currently in a Ph.D. program. Scholars are welcome to submit to a specific panel or to the general call (applications to panels which are not accepted by the panel's organizers will be returned to the general call pool). Panel sub-themes can be found below; click on titles to see the detailed call for papers. Please submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and brief c.v., via our website, no later than 14 October 2016. If you wish to propose a session, please submit abstracts and vitae for all participants in the session. Completed papers, including notes, will be due no later than 10 February 2017. Call for Complete Panels (due October 14, 2016): You may also propose a complete panel of either two or three papers; please submit all abstracts together, and attach all relevant CVs. Complete panel proposals will be due at the same time as our general call, October 14, 2016. Sub-Themes: - Borders and Margins in Piers Plowman - Borders of Perception - British Borderlands and their Communities - Confluences and Conduits - England and Iberia: Exchanges, Networks, Collaborations - European and Islamic cultural exchange: Ideas, Images, Stories, Themes on the borders between East and West - Expressions of “Fylthe”: Sexual Obscenity in the Middle Ages - Extracodexical Texts - Fur/Flesh/Fabric: The Body, its Borders, and the (un)Limited Human in Medieval Literature - Medieval Drama: Playing in the Margin and along the Border - Medieval Home - Mystical Demarcations - Nation Within and Across Linguistic Borders - Queerly, Clearly: Defining the Borders of the Medieval Queer Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for any of these panels, or for the general call. All abstract should be sent using our abstract submission form: http://medievalcolloquium.sewanee.edu/submission/ Questions specific to sub-themes may be addressed to the individual organizers; general questions can be sent to: [email protected] Conference website: http://medievalcolloquium.sewanee.edu __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
