[Milton-L] FW: [ComitatusAnnouncements] Call for Papers - Reminder

[Angelica Duran]

Dear scholars,

Please see the CFP below.

Adios,

Angelica Duran
Associate Professor
English and Comparative Literature
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
USA
(765) 496-3957
<duran0 at purdue.edu>
<http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/?personid=80>



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From: Karen Robinson <robins22 at purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:45:42 -0400
To: <comitatusannouncements at lists.purdue.edu>
Subject: [ComitatusAnnouncements] Call for Papers - Reminder

Don't forget that the deadline for abstract submission for our Comitatus
conference is fast approaching - this Thursday, November 1.

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The sixth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student
conference
sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies student organization,
will
be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana from February 15-16,
2008.
The theme for this year¹s conference will be "Authority, Authorship, and
Audience in the Middle Ages."

Eve Salisbury, Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University
will be the plenary speaker for this year¹s conference.

Our theme looks at the concept of authorship in the Middle Ages. Because our
modern understanding of authorship is quite different from the Middle Ages,
the
idea of how to define authorship and who should be called an author are
questions well worth pursuing. Wrapped into the questions about authorship
are
questions of authority and audience.

We are inviting 250-word abstracts for papers as well as panel proposals
from
graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Individual papers should be
15-20
minutes in length to allow time for discussion.

All facets of authorship, particularly those submissions that engage the
concept
of authorship through art, architecture, gender, historical documentation,
manuscript creation, or literature are particularly welcome. Possible topics
might include but are not limited to the following:
- How has a particular author(s) used source material to establish another
meaning for the text?
- How is authorship defined when looking at an artifact that is not
text-based?
- How does gender affect both author and authority? Does gender affect the
power
structures of a work?
- Who had the authority to write about religious topics? What happened when
someone outside those bounds wrote "authoritatively" about religion?
- What political agendas might an author/artist/designer have?
- How does knowing the authorship (and potential bias) of a writer of a
historical chronicle affect the reading of that chronicle?

Due Date for Abstracts: November 1, 2007

Please send all abstracts to:
Karen Robinson
krobinson at purdue.edu
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