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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear list members, I am sending you a Call for papers for a workshop on memory in the Middle Ages. I will be grateful if you can further distribute it to anyone possibly interested. Thank you very much indeed. With my best wishes for the new year, Lucie Dolezalova Call for Papers ESF Exploratory Workshop on Medieval Memories: Case Studies, Definitions, Contexts Date: September 3-5, 2007 Location: Vila Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic Organizer: Center for Theoretical Study, Prague (www.cts.cuni.cz) The topic of memory has attracted attention of a number of scholars from various disciplines in recent years. It has been approached from a variety of points of view and placed into a great number of contexts. Yet, the term remains quite vague since different scholars understand it differently and there is no real communication among them. The aim of the workshop is to discuss and define the possible perspectives and approaches, to look for possible directions of further research on the subject within medieval studies including history, philosophy, social history, manuscript studies, philology, art history, archaeology, literary history and criticism, every day life history, and cultural history. Rather than providing purely methodological contributions, the speakers are invited to present particular medieval case studies, on the basis of which the common discussion will move to a more general level. The organizers believe that in spite of having become a major (and perhaps too fashionable) issue in scholarship, the topic of memory is far from being exhausted and is very promising, provided that it is approached with open mind and methodological precision. While the discussion will be restricted to the Middle Ages (ca. 300-1500), it will address a variety of meanings and contexts including but not limited to: artes memoriae, practical processes of storing and recuperating knowledge memory as creative art memory and ethics construction of the self memory and ritual re-enacting, performance places of memory, material culture theoretical and medical discourse on memory memory and writing memoria versus reminiscentia and oblivio memory in Byzantium and in the Arab world memory and authority passages from individual to collective memory remembering and reconstructing the past In order to provide ample time for discussion, which forms a crucial part of the event, individual papers are limited to 20 minutes. Please, send an abstract and a brief statement on your affiliation and research interests by February 28, 2007, to [log in to unmask] Thanks to the generous support of European Science Foundation, there is no registration fee, the travel costs of the participants from the ESF-member countries will be reimbursed, their meals and accommodation covered. The workshop will be followed by an excursion to medieval monuments of Southern Bohemia on September 6-7. Publication of the proceedings is planned. For further details, please, contact Lucie Doležalová at [log in to unmask], CTS, Jilská 1, Praha 11000, Czech Republic, phone: +420605-758079. ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html