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Summary Sentence: Two-day conference investigates what happens when recreations, reinventions, and redefinitions of the 'medieval' move from one cultural space and time to another
Full Summary: This year's two-day conference investigates what happened when recreations, reinventions, and redefinitions of the 'medieval' move from one cultural space and time to another.
International Society for the Study of MedievalismGeorgia Tech will host the 29th International Conference on Medievalism: Medievalisms on the Move, a two-day conference investigating what happened when recreations, reinventions, and redefinitions of the 'medieval' move from one cultural space and time to another.
Conference Overview:
One of the great epistemological strengths of medievalism studies has been its openness to the many variants of cultural reception, including multiple linguistic, ideological, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives. For this year’s conference, we specifically invite sessions and individual papers that will investigate the manifold transformations that happen when recreations, reinventions, and redefinitions of the “medieval” move from one cultural space and time to another. The conference ("Medievalisms on the Move") will feature two plenary speakers. Sylvie Kandé’s research (see : http://sylviekande.com/ for information on her career) on the migration of medievalisms from Europe and Africa to the Americas, and Kathleen Verduin’s investigation of the North American Dante reception. We also imagine contributions that would show how medievalisms move between different discourses, genres, technological modes, historical periods, geographies, religions, art forms, social levels, research paradigms, etc. In addition to these contributions to the general theme of the conference, we invite any and all papers on the reception of medieval culture in postmedieval times.
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