MEM-UM Conference 2017: Migration(s): Body, Word, Spirit

Shaun Russell Announcement
Location
Maryland, United States
Subject Fields
British History / Studies, Early Modern History and Period Studies, European History / Studies, Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies, World History / Studies

Call for Papers

University of Maryland

Medieval and Early Modern Field Committee

Annual Conference

10-11 November 2017

College Park, Maryland

 

Migration(s): Body, Word, Spirit

 

Migration(s) of various sorts—of people, information, political, religious, and cultural movements—have long transformed the periods, places, and paradigms in which they occur. Recent scholarship has underlined the fundamental importance of migrations in the medieval and early modern periods.  Intrinsically interesting in their original context, these historic migrations also provide much-needed perspective on the migrations our world is currently experiencing.
 

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Nicholas Terpstra

University of Toronto

 

We invite 250-300 word proposals for individual 20-minute papers from established scholars and advanced graduate students based on, but not limited to, the themes outlined below. Digital projects welcome.
 

  • Refugees
  • Exiles
  • Diasporas
  • Expatriate/Merchant Communities
  • Economic Migrants
  • Immigrants/Emigrants
  • Books and Manuscripts
  • News and Correspondence
  • Production/Wholesale/Retail Centers of Book and Manuscript Culture
  • Political/Religious/Cultural Ideas
  • Pandemic Diseases
  • Environmental Change
  • Education Reforms

 

Please submit proposals to the organizers by 1 May 2017.
 

Organizers:

Andrea M. Frisch (afrisch@umd.edu)
Sabrina Alcorn Baron (sbaron@umd.edu)
Stefano Villani (villani@umd.edu) 
 

Contact Shaun Russell (sjr@umd.edu) for more information.

Contact Email
sjr@umd.edu