27.1321, Calls: English, Historical Ling/Norway

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Subject: 27.1321, Calls:  English, Historical Ling/Norway

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:37:26
From: Merja Stenroos [icome10 at uis.no]
Subject: 10th International Conference on Middle English

 
Full Title: 10th International Conference on Middle English 
Short Title: ICOME 10 

Date: 31-May-2017 - 02-Jun-2017
Location: Stavanger, Norway 
Contact Person: Merja Stenroos
Meeting Email: icome10 at uis.no
Web Site: http://www.uis.no/icome10 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Tenth International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 10) will be hosted
by the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of
Stavanger (Norway), 31 May - 2 June 2017. 

ICOME 10 continues the series of ICOME conferences held at Rydzyna (1994),
Helsinki (1997), Dublin (1999), Vienna (2002), Naples (2005), Cambridge
(2008), Lviv (2011), Murcia (2013) and Wroclaw (2015). It will cover different
aspects of Middle English language and texts, including papers on historical
linguistic, philological-textual and literary topics. 

The following plenary speakers have kindly confirmed their participation:

Richard Dance (University of Cambridge, UK)
Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto, Canada)
Gabriella Mazzon (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Matti Peikola (University of Turku, Finland)

Organizing committee:

Geir Bergstrøm
Anastasia Khanukaeva
Martti Mäkinen
Delia Schipor
Jeremy J. Smith
Merja Stenroos
Kjetil V. Thengs

Programme committee:

Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre (University of Murcia)
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Notre Dame)
Tim Machan (University of Notre Dame)
Donka Minkova (UCLA)
Joanna Nykiel (University of Silesia)
Janne Skaffari (University of Turku)
Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki)
Jacob Thaisen (University of Oslo)
Laura Wright (University of Cambridge)


Call for Papers: 

Participants are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations
(followed by 10 minute discussion) on any aspect touching on the areas of
interest of  ICOME: Middle English language, linguistic variation, textual
studies, manuscript studies and literature. Abstracts (between 250 and 500
words excluding references), should be submitted by 1 November 2016.  

Please send your abstract by email to icome10 at uis.no as a .docx, .rtf or .odt
file. If at all possible, please include a .pdf copy as well. Notification of
acceptance will be sent out in January 2017 and registration will open in
February.

There will be a pre-conference workshop organized by the Stavanger team,
presenting the Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD). The conference
itself will include a workshop on Middle English administrative texts. If you
would like your paper to be considered for the workshop, please indicate this
in the abstract.  

Proposals for other workshops are welcome and should reach us by 1 August
2016.

For more information, please consult the conference website:
www.uis.no/icome10
We look forward to seeing you in Stavanger!




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