The Society for Medieval German Studies will offer four
sessions
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The Society for Medieval German Studies will offer four
sessions on New Research in Medieval German Literature at the 43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
May 8-11, 2008. (Presentations may be held in German or English)
Topics include:
* Amazons in Medieval German Sources
We invite papers on Amazons and
their encounters--military, erotic, travel, etc.-- in Middle High German literary,
historical, or visual sources. Possible
topics include (but certainly are not limited to) Amazon weaponry and dress;
subversions and recuperations of conventional medieval notions of gender;
impared body or impared beauty in the Amazon myth (the missing right breast);
female communities in the medieval imagination; and the paradox of the warrior
woman as male sex or love object.
Discursive uses of the concept of the Amazon, for example as praise for
historical female personages, is also encouraged.
* James Schultz: Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness,
and the History of Sexuality
For this session, we are looking for
papers that take some of the ideas in the book
and push them further (what happens
if we look at Neidhart or the Prose
Lancelot? Do the arguments hold up ior
need to be revised? abandoned?); We are
also seeking, papers that address some of the methodological assumptions of the book in the context of the
history of sexuality
* Literacy and Orality in the Middle Ages (full )
* Representation and Theorization of War and Peace in
MHG Lit.
Studies of all Middle High German sources examining and
depicting warfare and/ or peace(sermons, manuals, chronicles, epic, romances,
lyric).
The emphasis is on
"new research." So please to do not hesitate to submit if your work
does not fit into any of the stated topics. The overarching and main theme of
all of our sessions remains "New Research!" You may submit an abstract/session ideas by
post or email by September 15, 2007 to the SMGS Session Organizer:
Stephen Mark
Carey, Ph.D
Assistant
Professor of German
Georgia State University
Department of
Modern & Classical Languages
P. O. Box 3970
Atlanta, GA
30302-3970
tel.: 404 - 651
- 2265
fax: 404 651
1785
Email: [log in to unmask]
Visit the SMGS Website: http://ll.truman.edu/smgsweb/
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