medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hello members, the following is a posting for a conference to be held in
Vancouver this coming fall. It may be of interest to several or more of you.
Feel free to contact either persons listed at the bottom of the posting, or
myself.
Many thanks,
Stephanie ShirIlan-Howlett
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Call for Papers
The Committee for Medieval Studies
University of British Columbia
invites proposals for papers to be given at its
Thirty-Second Medieval Workshop
to be held at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced studies, UBC
24-26 October 2002
on the theme of
PROMISED LANDS:
THE BIBLE, CHRISTIAN MISSIONS,
AND COLONIAL HISTORIES IN LATIN CHRISTENDOM,
400-1700 AD
Latin Christendom is meant in a broad sense, so as to include Roman Catholic
and Protestant missions to Asia and the Americas as well as the "conversions"
of European people. Similarly, mission will be taken to embrace all forms of
religio-political expansionism, including those involving armed force. The
aim of the workshop will be to bring together scholars working on
chronologically and geographically separated theatres of christianization, to
address the complex of relations between
-narratives and theories of territory, conquest and settlement derived
from or referred to the Bible
-emergent histories of Christian empire and the medieval or early modern
nation
-ideas and stories of land-title, nationhood and empire among colonized
and/or christianized peoples before, during and after exposure to Christian
missions
Contributions are solicited from specialists in all relevant fields.
Comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspectives will be especially welcome.
Please send a short biography and proposal (max. 500 words) to Mark Vessey or
Christine Jones, Department of English, University of British Columbia,
397-1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1.
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Fax +604.822.6906.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2002.
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