Call for Papers - The Lighter Side of the Middle Ages
Call for Papers
The Lighter Side of the Middle Ages
One Day Interdisciplinary Symposium - ANU College of Arts and Sciences
Friday 26 November 2010, School of Cultural Inquiry Conference Room, 1st Floor, A. D. Hope Building
Pieter Brueghel, 'Topsy Turvy World'
This interdisciplinary symposium will celebrate the launch of Chaucer’s Landscapes, a collection of essays by renowned medievalist Professor Ralph W.V. Elliott.
It was not all plague and penury in the Middle Ages. Some of them were having a very good time. Proposals are invited for suitable 20 minute papers or performances in the areas of literature, drama, music, language, art, history or philosophy.
Suggested topics:
- carnivale
- minstrels and pilgrims
- parody and satire
- fools and feasting
Send abstracts of approximately 200 words to Dr Jan Lloyd Jones at jan.lloyd-jones@anu.edu.au by 30 September 2010.
CFP as a pdf - CFP_The_Lighter_Side_of_the_Middle_Ages
All are welcome to attend this event.
