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Subject: Columbia University's 12th Annual Medieval Guild Conference/ Call for papers > MEDIEVAL ALTERITY: THE OTHER IN THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MIDDLE AGES AS OTHER > > Saturday, March 2, 2002 > Philosophy Hall, Columbia University > > Keynote Address: Professor Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University > > CALL FOR PAPERS: > > This conference will examine the topic of alterity from a variety of > angles. How did medieval people represent or construct alterity, and > how do modern discourses of alterity inform our understanding of the > Middle Ages? We invite papers that a) critically interrogate the question > of the Medieval's alienation from the Modern and/or b) examine and > historicize the category of "difference" itself in medieval literature and > culture. What is the significance of different periodizations of the > Middle Ages? How might one construct linguistic, religious, racial, > class, gender and sexual differences in medieval texts and images? > How do the above categories of difference interact within the same texts? > What new critical vocabularies might be necessary in order to speak > critically about difference within the difference of the Middle Ages? > > We welcome papers from all disciplines. Possible topics include: > representations of the Middle Ages in later periods, from the Renaissance > to the 21st century, including film; medieval subjectivity, medieval > orientalism, medieval imperialism and colonialism, medieval > heteronormativity, transvestism, misogyny, and feminism; the > representation of minorities and/or national and regional differences in > Britain or on the continent; trilinguality in England; > international reading communities for certain vernacular genres; medieval > geographical understandings of the world; medieval travel and ethnographic > depictions; religious polemic and heresy; Christian-Jewish-Muslim > interactions, depictions, and debate; discourses of tolerance and > intolerance; lepers, monsters, marvelous races, virtuous pagans, and > primitivism. > > Graduate students and recent recipients of the Ph.D. in Art History and > Architecture, Anthropology, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion and all > literature departments are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and cover > letter indicating any audio-visual requirements by December 1st, 2001: > > Medieval Guild > Dept. of English and Comparative Literature > 602 Philosophy Hall-MC 4927 > Columbia University > New York, NY 10027-4927 >> > For further information, please contact : > > Shirin Khnamohamadi > [log in to unmask] > > Shayne Legassie > [log in to unmask] > > Laura Weber > [log in to unmask]