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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium</b></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>28 – 29 May 2013</b></font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium, 28 – 29 May 2013. </font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The colloquium is a two-day interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers. The colloquium brings together scholars from different disciplines studying the seventh century in order to promote discussion and the cross-fertilisation of ideas. We will explore how wider perspectives can be used to formulate new approaches to source material, drawing out fresh perspectives on both the familiar and unfamiliar.</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Our general theme will be an examination of whether the seventh century can be studied as a unit across regions or whether the period represents a break in the <i>longue durée</i>. What was the level of discontinuity between the ‘long sixth’ and ‘long eighth’ centuries? </font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We invite those working in archaeology, art history, history, literature, numismatics, and religion, as well as in fields including Byzantine, Celtic, Classics, Islamic, and Late Antique studies to submit abstracts for papers of approximately 15 to 20 minutes that engage with all aspects of the long seventh century. </font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Possible topics for papers might include, but are by no means limited to:</font></p>
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<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The seventh century ‘world crisis’ and its ramifications </font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The development of new economic relations in the North Sea</font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> The Christianisation of western Europe </font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Transformation of the Byzantine Empire </font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Emergence of Islam </font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The transformation of ancient cities to those of the Middle Ages </font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Historiography of the seventh century</font></li>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Additionally, poster presentations will be considered.</font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Our organisational structure is designed to encourage collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas; we will have no parallel sessions as we believe that everything will be useful to all of us. To build collaboration, we will be adopting an innovative structure for the conference. The sessions will be structured as follows:</font></p>
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<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Prior to the colloquium, each speaker will be paired with a respondent with experience of either working on similar issues as the speaker, or using similar research methodologies </font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The respondent will have read a written version of the speaker’s paper in advance and will have prepared a detailed response prior to the colloquium. </font></li>
<li style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After the delivery of the paper, the respondent will give a response before opening the floor to general discussion. </font></li>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We hope that such methods will not only inspire genuine collaboration between the two scholars involved but will encourage a wider and livelier debate and discussion. Similarly, we hope that all involved will feel encouraged to debate, discuss, and occasionally disagree. We believe that through such methods all of us will advance as scholars.</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to the organising committee at <a href="mailto:edinburgh7th@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">edinburgh7th@gmail.com</font></a> <span> </span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The deadline for submission is 15 January 2013. Early submissions are encouraged.</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Persons interested in attending and serving as respondents only are also encouraged to contact us.</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Visit our blog at <a href="http://7thcentury.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://7thcentury.blogspot.co.uk/</a> for updates.</font></p>
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</font><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#666666" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">N. Kivilcim Yavuz</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">PhD Candidate at the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds (</span><a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.leeds.ac.uk/ims</a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Postgraduate Representative of the British Comparative Literature Association (</span><a href="http://www.bcla.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.bcla.org</a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">)</span></font></p>
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