CfP: Undergraduate Conference - "Corpus: the Body in the Middle Ages and Renaissance"
Call for Papers: Undergraduate Conference Entitled
“Corpus: the Body in
the Middle Ages and Renaissance"
April 19, 2013 Marco Institute for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
is pleased to
announce its Third Annual Undergraduate Conference
entitled “Corpus: the
Body in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.†The conference will take place
on April 19, 2013 at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. We are
currently calling for abstracts from interested
undergraduates.
Medieval and Renaissance views of the body have come to
us from a rich
trove of sources, from poetic portrayals in texts to
mappae mundi to
figures sculpted from stone. This conference seeks to
address the
numerous and changing depictions of bodies during the
early periods from
a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Some
potential topics include holy and unholy bodies, the body
as metaphor,
theatrical portrayals of bodies, the body in music,
medieval medicine
and the advent of anatomy, the body in pain and at play,
superstitions
and the gendered body, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish
perspectives on
bodies, depictions of bodies in art and print, bodies
bound by canon and
secular law, and monstrous races.
All submitters should send an abstract of no more than
250 words,
including their name and college affiliation (if
applicable), to
mylitalo@utk.edu.
Abstracts should be sent by no later than February 4,
2013. A number of $100 travel grants will be awarded to
non-UT students
on a competitive basis. Notification of acceptance will
be sent by
February 19. We look forward to your submissions.
Matthew Ylitalo
Senior, Medieval & Renaissance Studies and Classics
University of Tennessee, Knoxville