Call for Papers – Insular Identities and Borders
Cynthia Turner Camp at the University of Georgia, Athens – one of our volume contributors – has just forwarded this CFP which may be of interest to readers of this Blog. The deadline’s pretty soon, but it looks a very interesting conference panel.
Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain
Northeast Modern Language Association, April 7-11 2010, Montreal, Quebec
While England, Scotland, and Wales each produced their own bodies of literature in the Middle Ages, their physical proximity at times engendered a sense of shared literary culture, even as the fraught political relations among them complicated any notion of a shared identity. This panel seeks to explore Britain’s insular identities through an examination of its borders, and invites papers dealing with depictions of borders, bordered identities, border theory, or cross-border relations in medieval Britain. Send abstracts to Katherine H. Terrell: kterrell@hamilton.edu by 30 September.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:57 am
A very interesting topic – I’d really like to read more on this. The spread of religion is an interesting case study.