A Call for Papers:
Travel and Translation in the Middle Ages
March 28, 2015 at Yale University
Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 32nd Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, the theme of which will be “Travel and Translation in the Middle Ages.” In light of recent endeavors such as the Global Chaucers project, the growing interest in the multilingual cultures of England, and the upcoming anniversaries of two great medieval councils, Fourth Lateran (1215) and Constance (1415), “travel” and “translation” are immediately relevant to many branches of medieval studies.
The organizers hope that this capacious topic will elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of Medieval Studies. We expect to have three to five concurrent panels of three papers each, and we welcome panelists to consider topics as varied as translation theory and comparative studies, manuscript transmission and paleography, and musicology and liturgical studies. We also welcome papers dealing with any aspect of pilgrimage, migration, trade, relics and holy objects, crusade, religious warfare, and maritime culture. Further, we look forward to receiving proposals that take more theoretical approaches to ideas of travel and translation in the medieval period.
The conference will feature a plenary lecture by Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth), as well as a prize for best graduate student paper.
Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length and read in English. All proposals must be submitted by graduate students. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent by e-mail to newenglandmedievalstudies.2015@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2015. Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the conference will have the opportunity to submit their paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison Goddard Elliott Award.
