36.1575, Confs: Voces 2025. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words (Portugal)

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Subject: 36.1575, Confs: Voces 2025. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words (Portugal)

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Date: 15-May-2025
From: Krzysztof Nowak [krzysztof.nowak at ijppan.pl]
Subject: Voces 2025. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words


Voces 2025. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words
Short Title: Voces25
Theme: Limits and Boundaries

Date: 16-Oct-2025 - 17-Oct-2025
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Meeting URL: https://glossaria.eu/voces/voces_2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics
Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)
Language Family(ies): Germanic; Latin Subgroup; Romance; Slavic

Submission Deadline: 15-Jun-2025

The conference Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words aims to take
a closer look at Latin words that have played an important role in the
medieval culture. Every two years we propose to focus on a different
major medieval concept and its linguistic expressions. In this
edition, we turn our attention to the concept of "boundaries" – a
fundamental theme that permeates medieval thought, language, and
society. Medieval boundaries manifested in diverse forms: physical
frontiers between territories, linguistic divisions between Latin and
vernacular, conceptual limits in scientific and religious discourse,
and social demarcations between communities and individuals. The
vocabulary used to express these boundaries reveals much about how
medieval people understood their world and navigated its complexities.
These boundaries were rarely fixed; they functioned as fluid,
permeable sites of negotiation, transgression, and cultural exchange.
The terminology of limits evolved as ideas, texts, and practices
traversed geographical and intellectual spaces. This fluidity
challenges modern scholarly categories, whether in distinguishing
medieval from Renaissance vocabulary, delineating genre boundaries, or
mapping the porous limits between specialized discourses. Digital
humanities approaches have recently transformed how we analyze this
boundary-related terminology, enabling more nuanced explorations of
how medieval society organized knowledge, power, and identity through
language.
We invite submissions addressing both individual words or concepts as
well as complete lexical fields or conceptual domains. We particularly
welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine linguistic and
historical analysis (sociological, anthropological, etc.), or provide
cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives. Topics include, but
are not limited to, the following:
    • Representation of Boundaries in the Middle Ages
        ◦ Latin and vernacular terminology for limits, boundaries, and
caesuras
        ◦ Physical and abstract boundaries
            ▪ Property boundaries
            ▪ Society: inclusion and exclusion
            ▪ Human and non-human, male and female, etc.
        ◦ Literal and metaphorical transgression
            ▪ Crime and sin
            ▪ Sacred vs. profane
            ▪ Orthodoxy vs. heresy
        ◦ Vocabulary and medieval categories: time and space
    • Delineating Limits
        ◦ Geographical variation in vocabulary
        ◦ Blurred boundaries between Latin and vernacular languages
        ◦ Still Medieval or yet Renaissance vocabulary?
    • Vocabulary across Boundaries
        ◦ Lexical transfer between cultures and languages
        ◦ Vocabulary exchange between different communities of
practice
        ◦ Vocabulary domains vs. knowledge domains
    • Approaches, Methods, and Tools
        ◦ Addressing ambiguity and vagueness
        ◦ Digital methods in medieval vocabulary studies
        ◦ Lexical borrowing and semantic change
Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=voces2025) by 15 June 2025
(23:59 CEST). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 30 June 2025.
We welcome two forms of submissions:
    • Long papers (20 minutes, 10 minutes discussion): abstracts
should be 300-500 words (including references)
    • Short papers (10 minutes, 5 minutes discussion): abstracts
should be 200-250 words (including references)
Conference languages are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
The conference is co-located with the IX Congreso Internacional de
Latín Medieval Hispánico
(https://sites.google.com/view/ix-cilmh/home-es). It will be held as
an in-person event with online transmission.



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