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>From: KP Clarke <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: On Allegory: Aspects and Approaches (grad) (UK)
>(5/1/05; 6/10/05-6/11/05)
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>Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference
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>On Allegory: Aspects and Approaches
>University of Oxford, Lincoln College, 10-11 June 2005
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>http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ1934/allegory.html
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>The first Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference will revolve around the
>notion of Allegory in the medieval period, broadly conceived, and
>invites contributions from all related fields of interest by graduates
>and young scholars. The conference is intended as a forum for the
>exchange of ideas relating to the understanding of allegory and its
>impact on multiple aspects of medieval art, thought and life.
>Interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches are particularly
>encouraged in an attempt to transcend the boundaries of a strictly
>literary approach to the phenomenon.
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>Topics for presentations could include:
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>- Discussion of seminal allegorical texts
>- Contemporary vs. modern theoretical understanding of allegory
>- The development of allegoresis in the late-Antique period
>- The impact of seminal texts such as the Ovide moralisČ in medieval
>culture
>- Allegory and iconography
>- Allegorical personification and embodiment in medieval drama
>- Twelfth-century Platonism and the works of Bernardus Silvestris and
>Alain de Lille
>- Allegory and romance
>- Scripture and allegorical interpretation
>- The emergence of the Emblem book and its relation to the medieval
>allegorical tradition
>- Allegory and symbolism
>- Secular vs. religious allegory
>- The afterlife of medieval allegory in the Renaissance or in the
>imagery of metaphysical poetry
>- Allegory and cosmology
>- Allegorical imagery and iconoclasm
>- Exemplarism and the allegorical significance of history
>- The impact of the vice-virtue psychomachia on the graphic arts
>- Symbolism and creation of allegorical space in religious architecture
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>Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers: 1
>May
>Please send abstracts pasted into an email (no attachments please) to:
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>Or as hard copies to Marco Nievergelt, Lincoln College, Oxford, OX13DR.
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>Deadline for conference registration is 15 May.
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>The conference fee is expected to be in the region of 15-20 pounds, and
>includes lunch and coffee/tea breaks.
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