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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES VII
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">University of Tampere, 23– 25 August 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Neighbours or Strangers? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Conflict, Negotiation, and Collaboration in Multicultural Communities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Questions of toleration, aggression and even hatred based on ethnic diversity have been accentuated in recent times, but multiculturalism in its various forms is far from being confined to the modern world only. The seventh
international Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages conference will focus on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual contexts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The conference aims at concentrating on social and cultural interaction within and between multi-ethnic and multilingual communities, groups and individuals, minority (minorities) and majority. Cooperation, toleration,
and coexistence was an everyday necessity in Ancient and medieval societies. On occasion, however, these would turn into the opposite: suspicion, conflict, and violence, enhanced by power struggles and prejudices. All these had a central influence on social
dynamics, negotiations of collective or individual identity, definitions of ethnicity, and shaping of legal rules. What was the function of multicultural and multilingual interaction in various contexts: did it create and increase conflicts, or was it rather
a prerequisite for survival and prosperity?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our focus lies on society and the history of everyday life. We welcome papers, which have a sensitive approach to social differences: gender, status, and ethnicity. Actors, experiences, and various levels of negotiations
are of main interest. We aim at a broad coverage not only chronologically but also geographically and disciplinarily (all branches of Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions that have themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary
viewpoint or focusing on a longue durée perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Keynote lectures of the conference <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Professor Emma Densch (Harvard University): "From Race to Ethnicity and Back again in Classical Antiquity"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins (University of Oxford): "Unity and Conflict in the Late-Antique Cult of the Saints"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Professor Felicitas Schmieder (FernUniversität in Hagen): “At the End of the World and in the Throats of our Enemies' - Latin Europeans in Late Medieval Asia"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by e-mail attachment
to the conference secretary, <a href="mailto:passages@uta.fi">passages@uta.fi</a>. The deadline for abstracts is 31 December 2017, and the notification of paper acceptance will be made in January 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Conference papers may be presented in English, or in French, German or Italian, if supplied with an English translation or summary. The sessions will be formed on the basis of thematic coherence, combining papers on Antiquity
and the Middle Ages in each session. The registration fee is 120 € (doctoral students: 50 €). For further information, please visit
<a href="http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/">http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/</a> or contact the organizers by sending an e-mail to
<a href="mailto:passages@uta.fi">passages@uta.fi</a>. The registration opens in March 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Ville Vuolanto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">PhD, Lecturer in History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Faculty of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">University of Tampere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/contact/personnel/villevuolanto/index.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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