30.2679, Confs: Middle English; Old English; Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.2679, Confs: Middle English; Old English; Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:38:23
From: Mark Faulkner [faulknem at tcd.ie]
Subject: International Medieval Congress

 
International Medieval Congress 
Short Title: IMC2020 

Date: 06-Jul-2020 - 09-Jul-2020 
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom 
Contact: International Medieval Congress 
Contact Email: imc at leeds.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English, Middle (enm)
                     English, Old (ang)

Meeting Description: 

The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects
of Medieval Studies. Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are
welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In
2020 this is ‘Borders’.

Medieval borders have preoccupied scholars for several decades in various
guises. The term ‘border’ designates a wide variety of phenomena: physical
geographical limits, that can be signalled by border markers or natural
features, points where toll has to be paid, political boundaries, that vary
from points in space to linear and fortified military fronts, ways of
controlling space, frontier zones, borderlands, porous zones of encounters and
contact, ways of limiting community and identity, ideological and metaphorical
delimitation including discourse and representation, bordering practices, the
process of creating and performing borders, and borderscapes to capture
fluidity and change over time.

This strand seeks to bring together medievalists of all fields interested in
both the theory and practice of borders in all their variety, from physical
boundaries and material borders to dynamic social and spatial relationships.
Borders can be linked to power and the formation of states, to definitions of
self and other, to violence and military engagement, to belonging and
becoming, to material and symbolic construction, to relational and
perspectival production of space, to mapping and discourse, to experience and
theory, to negotiation and performance. Borders can also be found in frescoes,
textiles, clothing, ceramics or coins, with practical, symbolic or aesthetic
functions. Borders are also subject to evolution and significant change over
time not just between the medieval and modern, but within the medieval period.
 






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