We are delighted to announce the dates and themes for next year's Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. We will be meeting in Sewanee, TN from March 24th-25th, and our theme will be: Lines, Forms, and Flows
Plenary Speakers: Andrew Cole (Princeton University) and Sara Ritchey (The University of Tenneseee, Knoxville)
We envision this topic to be an expansive one, and we encourage participants to think creatively about the direction they might take. Potential topics might include:
• the harmonic and the dissonant line in the Middle Ages
• medieval futurity queer and straight lines (broadly imagined)
• through-lines and genealogies
• flows and medieval ecology
• potential afterlives of medieval forms
• refrain and repetition
• the politics of perspective
• the ethics of historiography
• chronicles and timelines
• population flows and migration
• forms of law in the Middle Ages
• medieval forms of life
• scribal production and lines of script
• manuscript networks and acts of transcription
• lines of transmission in translation and quotation
• medieval mapping and cartography
• the diagram in medieval thought
• conceptions of the poetic line
• archival flows
There are three ways to participate in the conference. Participants may choose to
- propose a thread (like the examples above) and organize panels based on papers submitted to that thread
- propose a complete panel of 3 pre-selected papers around a set theme
- submit an individual paper to either a proposed thread or to the general call. Subtheme threads will be announced at the beginning of September.
Papers should be twenty minutes in length, and commentary is provided for each paper, presented by an invited respondent. We welcome papers from all disciplines, and encourage contributions from medievalists working on any geographic area. A seminar, led by Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College) will also seek contributions; please look for its separate CFP soon.
Participants in the Colloquium are generally limited to holders of a Ph.D. and those currently in a Ph.D. program.
