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Subject: Reminder CFP: Proselytism and Performance across the Middle
Ages and Renaissance (9/15/10; Medieval Congress, May 2011)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:57:12 -0400
From: jill stevenson <[log in to unmask]>
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*“Proselytism and Performance” *
*International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan*
*12-15 May 2011*
Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, live performances served to
promote religious ideologies and practices among believers, as well as
to proselytize to those outside a given faith. At times such proselytism
was overtly aimed at conversion, while in other circumstances it was
concerned with negotiating the spaces between two or more religious
communities or systems of belief. These functions were not restricted to
a performance’s text or language, but were also achieved through staging
practices, locale, rhythmic and musical elements, visual devices, and
other performance tactics. These performative strategies—whether subtle
or explicit—could prove especially useful when contact between faiths
generated conflict or anxiety.
This panel invites work that considers the relationship between
proselytism and performance across the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The
organizer conceives of both terms—“proselytism” and
“performance”—broadly, and specifically invites topics from across all
geographic regions and religions in the Middle Ages and/or Renaissance.
*Please submit one-page abstracts and a completed Participant
Information form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
<https://owa.mmm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d4795110db134ea9a34aa88f8d22726c&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wmich.edu%2fmedieval%2fcongress%2fsubmissions%2findex.html%23Paper>)
to Jill Stevenson at [log in to unmask]
<https://owa.mmm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d4795110db134ea9a34aa88f8d22726c&URL=mailto%3ajillstevenson%40gmail.com>
no later than September 15, 2010.* Feel free to contact Jill with
questions about the session. For general information about the 2011
Medieval Congress, visit: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/
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Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
170 St George St Ste. 810/ Toronto Ontario Canada/ M5R 2M8
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