CFP: ‘Wisdom as Purpose: Ways of Learning, Skill Acquisition, and Knowledge Visualisation in the Middle Ages’, deadline 31 January 2024

6th ARDIT International Congress (15th-17th May 2024, Barcelona University, Barcelona)

With its many ways of expression, knowledge has led, since the dawn of humanity, to the transformation of society. Discovering, understanding and trying to reconstruct, from a broad and diverse perspective, the way in which individual and collective learning situations occurred in the Middle Ages is the purpose of this meeting. In this sense, it aims to become an opportunity to find answers and to learn new points of view on fundamental questions such as who were the transmitters of knowledge, how and where this transmission took place, or who were the receptors.

Starting from these wide conceptions of knowledge and learning, on this occasion, we consider the presentation of proposals related to the following thematic clusters:

  • Studies about the institutions involved in the dissemination of knowledge in the Middle Ages
  • Research regarding the organization of regulated and/or secular learning
  • Education in the Muslim world and in Hebrew communities
  • Tools and methodologies for measuring knowledge
  • Literacy and illiteracy in society
  • Issuers and receivers of knowledge
  • Materials and ways of knowledge
  • Educational training of women

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We welcome all researchers interested in the various ways of manifesting knowledge and learning during the Middle Ages to take part in the 6th edition of the ARDIT International Congress. Those who wish to participate need to indicate their target thematic cluster, send a 250-word-limited summary of their proposal, and a short curriculum vitae not exceeding 100 words before January 31st, 2024. All proposals for papers should be sent to the following email address: arditcongress2024@gmail.com.

Contributions will be sent in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese will be accepted. Feedback on abstracts will be communicated by the Organizing Committee to all participants before the 29th February 2024.

Find more information here.

Organizing Committee:

  • Anahí Álvarez Aguado
  • Helena Casas Perpinyà
  • Tamar Mejías Guillén
  • Carlos Prieto Espinosa

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Published by Roisin Astell

Dr Roisin Astell has a First Class Honours in History of Art at the University of York, an MSt. in Medieval Studies at the University of Oxford, and PhD from the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

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