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>From: "Carol Mattord" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: The Middle Ages and The Panoptic (9/15/05; Kalamazoo, 
>5/4/06-5/7/06)
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>Call for Papers
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>41st International Congress on Medieval Studies
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>Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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>May 4-7, 2006
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>Currently, the focus on the subject of panopticism is growing in its 
>uses and its affects on modern society. We need only to walk up to 
>an ATM machine and know that the "eye" of a camera is fixed upon us 
>as we withdraw our money. The question becomes how much of this 
>conept was familiar in the Middle Ages? Was the concept, perhaps not 
>in name, understood? And how was it expressed or used in medieval 
>society and to what purposes? This session seeks 20-minute papers 
>concerning the concept of panopticism in the Middle Ages. It is 
>hoped that a multi-disciplinary panel will illuminate this concept, 
>such as literature, education, technology, art, politics, 
>sociology--to name a few. If there is enough interest this session 
>could work well as a roundtable discussion.
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>Please send 250-300 word abstracts no later than September 15th to
>
>Carola Mattord
>Department of English
>Georgia State University
>General Classroom Building 923
>38 Peachtree Center Ave. NE
>Atlanta, GA 30303
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>or by email to: [log in to unmask]
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>For more information on the Medieval Congress please visit their 
>website at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress.

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