Call for Papers: Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages (Bristol 25-26 Feb 2016)

P2190348Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies – 22nd annual postgraduate
conference

Thursday 25th – Friday 26th February 2016
Call for Papers

Dialogue and Difference is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together scholars from all fields to explore the ways in which cultural, social, political, religious, scientific and intellectual exchange and interaction unfolded throughout the Middle Ages. Dialogues took place both across borderlines and within the heart of medieval societies, in monasteries, universities, courts and market places as well as on battlefields and high-roads. How did these dialogues shape the societies of the Middle Ages, and how did new ideas, people and cultures interact with old? Did difference lead to conflict, or to coexistence? This conference aims to explore these issues across societies from medieval Europe, Byzantium, the Near East and beyond, and spanning from Late Antiquity to the 16th century. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
⁃ societies built on cultural, political and religious borders
⁃ inter-religious dialogue and polemic
⁃ the emergence of the university
⁃ conquest and colonisation
⁃ heresy and reform
⁃ inter and intra-textual dialogues
⁃ gender and the body
⁃ technological or scientific developments
⁃ conversion and assimilation
⁃ material histories and the dialogue of artefacts

Postgraduate and early-career researchers are invited to submit abstracts of:
200-300 words for 20 minute papers

We are also accepting abstracts of:
100 words for 10 minute flash papers, or

100 words for poster presentations

All abstracts are to be submitted by Wednesday 25th November 2015 to Sophie and Teresa,
at: sophie.burton@bristol.ac.uk and teresa.witcombe@bristol.ac.uk

For all additional information, please contact: sophie.burton@bristol.ac.uk and
teresa.witcombe@bristol.ac.uk

Published by J.A. Cameron

James Alexander Cameron is a freelance art and architectural historian with a specialist background and active interest in architecture and material culture of the parish churches, cathedrals and monasteries of medieval England in their wider European context. He took a BA in art history and visual studies at the University of Manchester, gaining a university-wide award for excellence (in the top 30 graduands of the year 2008/9), and then went to take masters and PhD degrees at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

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