[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Trojan Communities (9/15/06; Kalamazoo, 5/10/07-5/13/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
10-13 May 2007
Kalamazoo, Michigan

<http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/index.html>

Special session: Trojan Communities

In the light of the renewed interest in Troy, we invite papers on
medieval representations of the Trojan War, especially Troy as a
particular communal space, and/or papers that consider medieval
communities’ claims of Trojan genealogy as part of a dynastic or
nationalizing mythology. Because the Trojan War was the most popular
secular story in Europe during the Middle Ages in history, literature,
and art, this session can accommodate a wide variety of disciplinary and
methodological approaches to the question of Trojanness. With a number
of towns, cities, and countries across Europe claiming Trojan descent,
the session invites comparative approaches to issues of local and
national communal identity formation, discourses of dynastic
legitimization and critique, and medieval historiography.

This session provides a forum for engaging with and extending upon
prevalent issues in recent Troy scholarship concerning different
discursive representations of Troy throughout the Middle Ages. We are
particularly (though not exclusively) interested in epistemological
(historiographical, poetological etc.) concerns embedded in the
depiction of both Troy and Greece as besieged and besieging communities,
respectively, as well as the relationship to the author’s contemporary
community, for example, in terms of offering different modes of social
critique.

Please submit abstracts for presentations (along with the "Abstract
Cover Sheet") by 15 September 15 2006 to both

Timothy D. Arner (<tda121 at psu.edu>)
&
Wolfram R. Keller (<kellerw at staff.uni-marburg.de>).

Note: The "Abstract Cover Sheet" can be downloaded from
<http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms/ACS.pdf>

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Wolfram R. Keller
Institut fuer Anglistik
Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
D-35032 Marburg/Germany

+49 6421 2824782 (phone)
+49 6421 2824367 (fax)
<http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~kellerw/>
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