Medieval History
Call for Papers
Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year?s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.
Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
genealogies
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
gender roles
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
arranged marriages
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
sibling rivalry
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
language families
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
relationships
incest
polygamy
childbearing and childrearing
dynasties
Please send 300-word abstracts to [email protected] by January 15, 2011
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Medieval History
Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
Call for Papers
Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year?s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.
Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
genealogies
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
gender roles
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
arranged marriages
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
sibling rivalry
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
language families
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
relationships
incest
polygamy
childbearing and childrearing
dynasties
Please send 300-word abstracts to [email protected] by January 15, 2011
- Call For Papers: Intimacy: Family, Fealty, And Friendship In The Middle Ages
The City University of New York-Graduate Center in New York is hosting the Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies on Friday, March 12, 2010. The theme for this year's conference is Intimacy: Family, Fealty, and Friendship in the Middle...
- Loving Relations: Familial Love In The Early Medieval World
CALL FOR PAPERS 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo) May 10-13, 2012 Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the...
- Joint Family Systems In The Ancient World
Joint Family Systems in the Ancient World The editors of a new volume of collected essays focussing on the extended family, multigenerational households and familial obligations beyond the nuclear family in the ancient world invite English language submissions...
- Cfp: Border Families And Their Books In Northern England And In Scotland, C. 1480-c. 1620
CALL FOR PAPERS Border Families and their Books in Northern England and in Scotland, c. 1480-c. 1620 A symposium on family books and borders in Scotland and Northern England. Merton College, Oxford, 16-17 April 2010. Plenary Speakers: Sally Mapstone...
- Cfp: Upenn Medievalist Graduate Student Conference Cfp
CFP: UPenn Medievalist Graduate Student Conference (6-7 Feb 09) Call for Papers Per Speculum in Mediaevum: Discourses of Mirroring in the Middle Ages Keynote Speaker: Marina Brownlee; Topic TBA Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) invites submissions for the graduate...