Trinity College, University of Dublin is delighted to announce the call for papers for the twenty-third annual Borderlines conference. Borderlines XXIII is co-organised by TCD’s School of English, School of Histories and Humanities, School of Languages,
Literatures and Cultural Studies, and the Trinity Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
While the concept of silence may seem antithetical to expression, a knowledge of the elements that serve to either silence narratives or aid in their articulation is integral to understanding any artistic or literary production and the culture from
which it originates. In the medieval and early modern periods, silence was inextricably linked to prevailing ideas and ideologies – both religious and secular. The role of sound in the music, prose, and poetry of these periods is also crucial to the
proliferation of ideas. Analyses of the roles that sound and silence play in literature and other forms of expression are thus vital to understanding the social, cultural, aesthetic, and political environments in the medieval and early modern world. This year’s conference will explore the concepts of sound and silence from the perspectives of Literature, Languages, Music, Gender Studies, Film Studies, Architecture, Archaeology, Codicology, Drama, History, Philosophy, History of Art, Theology, Folklore, Digital Humanities, Anthropology, Palaeography, Religious Studies, and Geography, dating from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period.
Borderlines XXIII invites abstracts of no more than 300 words on the theme of ‘Sound and Silence’. Papers can focus on one or both concepts. We welcome submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers in the above disciplines. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
● Soundscapes and landscapes
● Nationalism, ethnicity, and grand narratives
● Silenced genders and sexualities
Commemoration/remembering
● Mythology, legends and oral traditions
● Manuscript production
● Material/visual culture
● Language written/oral
● Historiography
● Burial/memorials
● Social-/religious-/cultural-/self-identity
● Intellectual culture and networks of learning
● Hagiography/biography/autobiography
All submissions must be received by February 4, 2019
Abstracts can be submitted on our website https://borderlinesxxiii.wordpress.com/ and queries can be directed to [email protected]
