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GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Announcing the sixth annual Columbia Medieval Guild Conference:
PERFORMANCE, RITUAL & SPECTACLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Saturday, October 14, 1995
Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, New York City
Keynote Address: DR. MIRI RUBIN, Pembroke College, Oxford
Roundtable Moderator: PROF. ROBERT HANNING, Columbia University
Performance: The Digby KILLING OF THE CHILDREN
*****CALL FOR PAPERS*****
This conference will investigate definitions and theories of performance,
ritual and spectacle as they have been developed, borrowed and adapted by
scholars in all disciplines of medieval studies. It will address if and
how these categories are relevant, both singularly and plurally, to the
study of medieval texts, art, religious and secular artifacts, and
historical documents.
Possible topics include: drama, Latin and vernacular lyric traditions,
political arenas, narrative and issues of orality, magic and miracles,
liturgy and liturgical procession, gladiators and gore, rituals of daily
life, torture and punishment, minstrels and troubadours, preaching,
religious ceremonies and cermonies of race, class and gender.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief biography by June 2, 1995 to:
Medieval Guild
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
For further information, please contact
Karen Bezella Julie Crosby
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(212)663-6077 (212)355-3382
