CALL FOR PAPERS IMAGINING MEDIEVAL IDENTITIES 22nd Annual Conference of the ILLINOIS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION 25-26 February 2005 Southern Illinois University Carbondale Keynote Speakers Richard W. Kaeuper, Professor of History, University of Rochester · William Marshal, Lancelot, and the Issue of Chivalric Identity Roberta L. Krueger, Professor of French, Hamilton College · Constructing and Questioning Identity in Medieval Conduct Literature (Each speaker will offer a response to the other's paper.) Debates about models of medieval identities continue to thrive. Some scholars have embraced the arguments of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, but others question the applicability of his model to the Middle Ages. This conference seeks to enrich and extend Anderson's arguments about print textuality by expanding the inquiry into manuscript and oral cultures, as well as by reading the ways in which "identity," broadly defined, is produced or contested via a variety of persons, institutions, and communities. To explore the intricacy and flexibility of identity as it is formed and formulated by individual, social, cultural, narrative, familial, or aesthetic influences, we invite papers that explore and build upon this issue through readings of specific texts as well as those that analyze identity theoretically. Please send one-page abstracts for papers or for complete panels by October 1, 2004 to Anita R. Riedinger or Mark Amos Department of English, MC 4503, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 62901 Graduate students should include CVs. Electronic submissions (or questions) are also welcome: Prof. Anita Riedinger / [log in to unmask]; Prof. Mark Amos / [log in to unmask]