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Dear all, The following CFP may interest some on the list. Please note that you do not have to be a member of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean to organise a session, deliver a paper or attend. Feel free to forward to anyone you know who might be interested. All good wishes, Dr Marianne O'Doherty Lecturer in English University of Southampton Room 2041, Avenue Campus, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 8BF 02380 594534 m.o'[email protected] Cultures, Communities and Conflicts in the Medieval Mediterranean University of Southampton (UK), 4-6 July 2011 Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean Keynote Speakers: Professor Graham Loud (University of Leeds) Dr Anna Contadini (SOAS, London) The University of Southampton is proud to host the 2011 second biennial conference of the Society for the medieval Mediterranean. This three-day conference will bring scholars together to explore the interaction of the various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of the medieval Mediterranean, a region which had been commonly represented as divided by significant religious and cultural differences. The objective of the conference is to highlight the extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people, goods and ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring cultures and societies. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers in the fields of archaeology, art and architecture, ethnography, history (including the histories of science, medicine and cartography), languages, literature, music, philosophy and religion. Submission on the following topics would be particularly welcome: • Activities of missionary orders • Artistic contacts and exchanges • Byzantine and Muslim navies • Captives and slaves • Cargoes, galleys and warships • Cartography • Costume and vestments • Diplomacy • Judaism and Jewish Mediterranean History • Literary contacts and exchanges • Material Culture • Minority Populations in the Christian and Islamic Worlds. • Mirrors for Princes • Music, sacred and secular • Port towns/city states • Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims. • Religious practices: saints, cults and heretics • Scientific exchange, including astronomy, medicine and mathematics • Seafaring, seamanship and shipbuilding • Sufis & Sufi Orders in North Africa and the Levant • Sultans, kings and other rulers • Trade and Pilgrimage • Travel writing • Warfare: mercenaries and crusaders Please send any enquiries and abstracts of papers of 300 words maximum together with a brief CV to the organisers, Dr Francois Soyer ([email protected]<https://www.outlook.soton.ac.uk/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>) and Dr Rebecca Bridgman ([email protected]<https://www.outlook.soton.ac.uk/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>). We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 October 2010. http://www.soton.ac.uk/history/news/conf_2011/medieval_mediterranean.shtml Dr Marianne O'Doherty Lecturer in English University of Southampton Room 2041, Avenue Campus, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 8BF 02380 594534 m.o'[email protected] _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
