LINGUIST List 30.2679
Mon Jul 08 2019
Confs: Middle English; Old English; Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 08-Jul-2019
From: Mark Faulkner <faulknem
tcd.ie>
Subject: International Medieval Congress
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Short Title: IMC2020
Date: 06-Jul-2020 - 09-Jul-2020
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom
Contact: International Medieval Congress
Contact Email:
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http://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2020/
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English, Middle; English, Old
Meeting Description:
The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2020 this is ‘Borders’.
Medieval borders have preoccupied scholars for several decades in various guises. The term ‘border’ designates a wide variety of phenomena: physical geographical limits, that can be signalled by border markers or natural features, points where toll has to be paid, political boundaries, that vary from points in space to linear and fortified military fronts, ways of controlling space, frontier zones, borderlands, porous zones of encounters and contact, ways of limiting community and identity, ideological and metaphorical delimitation including discourse and representation, bordering practices, the process of creating and performing borders, and borderscapes to capture fluidity and change over time.
This strand seeks to bring together medievalists of all fields interested in both the theory and practice of borders in all their variety, from physical boundaries and material borders to dynamic social and spatial relationships. Borders can be linked to power and the formation of states, to definitions of self and other, to violence and military engagement, to belonging and becoming, to material and symbolic construction, to relational and perspectival production of space, to mapping and discourse, to experience and theory, to negotiation and performance. Borders can also be found in frescoes, textiles, clothing, ceramics or coins, with practical, symbolic or aesthetic functions. Borders are also subject to evolution and significant change over time not just between the medieval and modern, but within the medieval period.
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