This years EMREM Postgraduate Forum Symposium at the University of Birmingham will focus on Body and Soul in the Middle Ages
Body and Soul: circa 400-1700
Thursday 07.05.2015 – 08.05.2015
Papers are invited for the 2015 EMREM two-day interdisciplinary Symposium, to be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Body and Soul’.
Postgraduate speakers from all fields of EMREM are welcome to share their research and build networks at this friendly and well-established symposium.
Possible topics might include, but are not limited to;
- Memorials
- Body alteration
- The female body and mysticism
- Masochism
- Cosmological reflections of the body
- Penance
- Preparation for death
- Monasticism
- Representations of the afterlife
- Embodiment Theory
- Ghosts
- Cannibalism
- The saintly body vs. the sexual body
- Relics
- Feast and fast
- Burial goods
- The translated body
- The wounded body
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please send proposals of approximately 300 words to emremforum@googlemail.com by 1st March 2015.
EMREM will be offering limited travel bursaries for external speakers.
CONTACT:
CfP for the EMREM Symposium 2015
emremforum@googlemail.com
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