[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: The Seventh Century: Continuity or Discontinuity?

[N. Kivilcim Yavuz]

*The Seventh Century: Continuity or
Discontinuity?*<http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4706400741867612647>

*The 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium*

*28 – 29 May 2013*

*Call for papers*

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2013 Edinburgh
University Seventh Century Colloquium, 28 – 29 May 2013.

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.

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 *longue durée*.  What was the level of discontinuity between
the ‘long sixth’ and ‘long eighth’ centuries?

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.

Possible topics for papers might include, but are by no means limited to:



   - The seventh century ‘world crisis’ and its ramifications
   - The development of new economic relations in the North Sea
   -  The Christianisation of western Europe
   - The Transformation of the Byzantine Empire
   - The Emergence of Islam
   - The transformation of ancient cities to those of the Middle Ages
   - Historiography of the seventh century



Additionally, poster presentations will be considered.



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:



   - 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
   - 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.
   - After the delivery of the paper, the respondent will give a response
   before opening the floor to general discussion.


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.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to the organising committee
at edinburgh7th at gmail.com

The deadline for submission is 15 January 2013.  Early submissions are
encouraged.

Persons interested in attending and serving as respondents only are also
encouraged to contact us.

Visit our blog at http://7thcentury.blogspot.co.uk/ for updates.







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N. Kivilcim Yavuz

PhD Candidate at the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds (
www.leeds.ac.uk/ims)

Postgraduate Representative of the British Comparative Literature
Association (www.bcla.org)
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