Borderlines

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Please submit proposals no later than 11 February 2010

The Borderlines series of Conferences is an interdisciplinary platform for postgraduate students in Medieval Studies, which, since its inception, has become an exemplary forum for research students from Ireland, the UK and the continent.

Borderlines XIV

Borderlines XIV: Codices and Codification
Hosted by Queen's University Belfast
9 - 11 April 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Borderlines postgraduate conference series traditionally explores the theme of marginal, transgressive, and shifting identities in the Middle Ages. This year’s conference seeks to examine the anxieties surrounding the ever-changing identities. These anxieties gave rise to an increasing number of attempts to control and (re)define the individual’s role within community, Church, and social strata through sumptuary laws, Episcopal decrees (e.g. Arundel’s Constitutions), devotional guides (e.g. The Lay Folks Catechism), etc. This year’s Borderlines seeks papers which deal with these attempts to regulate and define the individual and the community as well as the spaces in which people interacted. Further, we have particular interest in the roles that books played in this increasingly literate society.

Borderlines welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines, including the Early Modern. Potential subjects include (But are not limited to):

• Reading space and space for reading
• Anthologies, Corpora and book production
• (Gendered) reading practices
• Transmission, reception, ownership and patronage
• Drama (i.e. the living text)
• Material Culture (i.e. book as artefact)
• Texts in communities (e.g. monastic, lay, clerical, female, ‘heretical’)
• ‘Transgressive’ or reformist writing
• (Re)imagining the medieval book
• Modern criticism, literary theory and editing practices and translation
• Print Culture

Please submit 250 word proposals to info@borderlines.ie by 31 January 2010