Locating the Voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages

Locating the Voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield

14^th - 15^th June 2008

We invite postgraduate students and early career researchers working in any field of Medieval Studies to submit abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sheffield, organised by medievalists in the Department of French and hosted by the Humanities Research Institute. We welcome papers which approach issues in the interpretation of expressions of identity in medieval culture. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to:

Textual transmission: distinguishing voices in manuscripts

Musical voices; polyphony

Language; dialect; linguistic diversity

Regional/national identities; constructions of identity

The unsaid

The voice of authority; the voice of dissent

Gendered voices

The voice of God

Reconstructing voices

Oral tradition/ folklore

Locating the voice through new technology

We are delighted to confirm that our keynote speaker will be Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Brown.

Please send proposals of no more than 250 words for a twenty minute paper in English withyour name, institution and contact details either by e-mail to voicesconference@sheffield.ac.uk or by post to the address below by 28th March 2008.

Voices conference

c/o Department of French

University of Sheffield

Sheffield S10 2TN

UK

For further information, please contact the organisers (Lorna Bleach, Katariina Närä, Siân Prosser, Paola Scarpini) at the e-mail address above.