medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
GENDER, ECSTASY & IDENTITY:
Creation, Disruption, Transformation
Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2006
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
6th-8th, January 2006
The Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2006 seeks to explore the relationship between Gender, Ecstasy and Identity within the medieval context. We would like to invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes that approach how feelings of ecstasy create, disrupt or transform notions of medieval gender and identity. We encourage a broad interpretation of the term 'ecstasy' as any experience - religious, sexual, artistic, hysterical etc. - that temporarily suspends the subject's self-possession within his/her physical or social body. We welcome abstracts of 250 words that demonstrate both a critical engagement with current gender debates in medieval studies and an examination of any aspect of the intersection between gender, ecstasy and identity.
Some suggested questions that papers might address are: What effect does ecstasy have on the individual or collective body and its corresponding identity? Where can the line be drawn between physical and spiritual ecstasy in medieval representations of ecstatic experience: visual, aural, oral or literary? Does ecstasy blur the boundaries between gender and status identities within medieval society? How are text and textuality important to the construction of gender, identity and ecstasy? How can gender and sexual identities be read as text, subtext and intertext within an ecstatic framework? How did symbolic structures of ecstasy, gender and identity affect the life of ordinary medieval people? How did ecstasy and gender affect local and regional identities? How did ecstasy affect personal and communal understandings of faith, gender and identity?
Keynote Speakers:
William Burgwinkle, King's College, Cambridge
Robert Mills, King's College, London
Please send all abstracts in the body of an email to the conference organizer,
María-Kristina Pérez: [log in to unmask], by 1st August 2005.
The registration deadline for accepted speakers will be 1st October 2005.
Any further questions should also be addressed to the conference organizer.
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