uthority and the Book in Medieval Culture
The 26th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference |
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Yale University April 4, 2009 |
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From the Hunterian Psalter, Sp Coll MS Hunter U.3.2 (229)
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Call for Papers Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 26th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, the theme of which will be “Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture.” The organizers hope that this broad heading will elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of Medieval Studies. Of especial interest are papers dealing with palaeography and manuscript studies; hagiography; literary studies; art history; history and historiography; gender studies; religious studies; musicology and medieval liturgical studies; as well as biblical exegesis and the relationship between Latin and various medieval vernaculars. Further, we look forward to receiving proposals that take more theoretical approaches to ideas of authority in the medieval period. We also hope to have one panel devoted to papers that explore different aspects of the history of modern Medieval Studies. The conference will feature a plenary lecture by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Notre Dame), as well as an exhibition of manuscripts in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length and read in English. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent by e-mail to Andrew Kraebel (English) or Samantha Katz (Medieval Studies); a hardcopy may be mailed to: Andrew Kraebel The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2008. Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the conference will have the opportunity to submit their paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison Goddard Elliott Award.
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About the Plenary Lecturer Kathryn Kerby-Fulton specializes in Middle English literature and related areas of Medieval Studies. She has written several books and articles on medieval literary writers, especially religious visionaries, and their reception, including Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman and Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England. Her edited collections include Written Work: Langland, Labour, and Authorship, with Steven Justice; Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman, with Denise Despres; and Voices in Dialogue: Reading Woman in the Middle Ages, with Linda Olson. |
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This conference is generously supported by the Yale Program in Medieval Studies, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Graduate School Dean's Fund for Student-Organized Symposia |
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