We received word of a call for papers for a conference on “Race, Law and Group Identity in Medieval Europe” organized by Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun) and Swansea University. Here the call:
This will be an interdisciplinary
conference welcoming historians, art historians, archaeologists, literary
scholars and sociologists. It will discuss the complex relationships that
existed between any of the following elements: (1.) medieval ‘race’ –here
problematized as constructed variously in relation to biological, ethnic,
linguistic or even proto-national elements–; (2.) laws directly or indirectly
governing perceived ‘racial’ or other identity groups; and (3.) the formation
and perpetuation of ‘racial’ or other group identities.
The later medieval processes of
colonization at the European ‘peripheries’ (e.g. Wales, Ireland, Prussia,
Livonia, reconquest Spain, the Levant, etc.), of increasing legal consciousness
and litigiousness, and of growing self-awareness among literary and political
communities transformed the social and political landscape of medieval
Europe. These changes were reflected in both core and peripheral areas.
This conference shall cast the widest possible net to bring together exciting
new perspectives on these processes and their outcomes, broadly conceived.
Indicative approaches to ‘race’,
law and group identity include:
- colonization; urbanization; urban and spiritual
space; integration/assimilation; rebellion; minority suppression;
self-expression; material culture; contemporary group
characterizations.
Proposals: We invite
proposals for 20 minute student papers and 30 minute academic papers (abstracts
of 250 words)
- Proposals should be emailed to Dr Matthew Stevens m.f.stevens@Swansea.ac.uk by
5pm on 2 April 2021.
keynote speakers:
Monday 6 September, Professor Deborah Youngs (Swansea University) and, Tuesday
7 September, Professor Andrzej Janeczek (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw).
Languages: English
and German (with English translation).
Venue:
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. It is envisaged that this will
be an in-person event. Should widespread covid-19 travel restrictions remain in
October 2021, the event will be moved online.
Costs: Funding is
currently being organized, but speakers should expect it to cover only travel
and accommodation within Poland. Non-presenting delegates should expect to pay
a modest conference fee, with a reduction or waver for PhD
Students.
This conference is to be held in connection with Polish National Agency for
Academic Exchange (Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej) grant no.
PPN/ULM/2019/1/00033/U/00001, ‘Ethnicity, law, urban development and identity:
a comparative study of medieval Wales and Prussia’.
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