Medieval History
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces the CFP for
The Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England"
Harvard University
Friday, February 19, 2010
Deadline for CFP: Monday, December 1, 2009.
Harvard University, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon Studies
Colloquium invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Graduate Student
Conference of the ASSC.
The theme of this year's conference will explore various instances of
fear and loathing in the literatures and cultures of early medieval
Northern Europe (Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Scandinavian). This could
include fears and anxieties produced by encounters with cultural
outsiders as well as internal conflicts within a single society or
individual.
Possible topics include:
--Passions and emotions in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Monsters, Demons and Satan
--Queernesses in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Colonial Others
--Cultural encounters in Northern Europe
--Apocalyptic literature
--Nightmares and dream-visions
--Heretics and sinners
--Shame, disgust and abjection
--Exile
--Maps and concepts of space
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute
papers by December 1, 2009. Please include your email address, street
address, phone number and audio-visual requirements. You may submit
abstracts via email to [email protected]
Best wishes,
Alexis Becker, Laura Wang, Kasi Conley, John Radway and Sara Gorman
(conference organizers)
Sponsored by: The Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies and the ASSC
****
For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.
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Medieval History
"Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England"
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces the CFP for
The Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England"
Harvard University
Friday, February 19, 2010
Deadline for CFP: Monday, December 1, 2009.
Harvard University, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon Studies
Colloquium invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Graduate Student
Conference of the ASSC.
The theme of this year's conference will explore various instances of
fear and loathing in the literatures and cultures of early medieval
Northern Europe (Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Scandinavian). This could
include fears and anxieties produced by encounters with cultural
outsiders as well as internal conflicts within a single society or
individual.
Possible topics include:
--Passions and emotions in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Monsters, Demons and Satan
--Queernesses in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Colonial Others
--Cultural encounters in Northern Europe
--Apocalyptic literature
--Nightmares and dream-visions
--Heretics and sinners
--Shame, disgust and abjection
--Exile
--Maps and concepts of space
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute
papers by December 1, 2009. Please include your email address, street
address, phone number and audio-visual requirements. You may submit
abstracts via email to [email protected]
Best wishes,
Alexis Becker, Laura Wang, Kasi Conley, John Radway and Sara Gorman
(conference organizers)
Sponsored by: The Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies and the ASSC
****
For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.
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