[Antiquitas] Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing

[Maijastina Kahlos]

Hei,
pyynnöstä levitän tietoa tulevasta konferenssista Helsingissä.

yst. terv.
Maijastina Kahlos


Please visit also the conference homepages at
http://www.glossa.fi/authorities

Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing
Authorities in the Middle Ages

International Conference
Helsinki, Finland
20-23 September 2010

Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing. Authorities in the Middle Ages  
will be arranged in Helsinki 20-23 September 2010. This international  
conference seeks to offer a multidisciplinary forum for researchers  
and academics, enhance interdiscpilinary discussion, promote scholarly  
networking, and set up an innovative platform for scholars who engage  
with questions of power and authority.

The conference is aimed at established researchers, doctoral studens  
and those working on their master"s thesis in medieval history or art  
history, archaeology, theology, philosophy or literature. Conference  
sessions will be open to the public. The conference will be held in  
English.

The conference is organised by Glossa, the Society for Medieval  
Studies in Finland, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS)  
and the Written Culture in Medieval Finland -Project at the University  
of Helsinki.

Selected conference papers will be published as a refereed theme issue  
in <http://www.glossa.fi/mirator>Mirator, an electronic open access  
jourrnal on medieval studies.


Call for Papers

The Latin word auctoritas means not only authority and influence, but  
more generally opinion, encouragement, decree or example. The concept  
thus resonates deeply in the study of social structures, communication  
or religious culture, for instance. Who had auctoritas, and how? How  
was influence built and maintained, how was it lost? How was authority  
contested? What about model and precedent?

Glossa - the society for medieval studies in Finland is arranging with  
the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Sudies the multidisciplinary  
conference SEEING, HEARING, READING AND BELIEVING. AUTHORITIES IN THE  
MIDDLE AGES in Helsinki, 20-23 September 2010. The organisers seek  
proposals for papers on the topic of authorities in the Middle Ages.  
Themes include (but are not limited to) authority/-ies in politics,  
military history, trade and communication, intellectual history, art  
and literature as well as religious conformism, adaptation and  
dissidence. We invite explorations of exercise of authority in  
different spheres of life, as well as of medieval meditations on the  
nature of authority, or of the authority of texts and traditions. The  
conference welcomes researchers across all scholarly fields and  
disciplines.

Confirmed keynote speakers include  
<http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/further_details/abulafia-d.html>Professor David Abulafia (University of Cambridge), <http://www.uib.no/cms/org/acc_staff/staff/sbagge_cv.htm>Professor Sverre Bagge (University of Bergen) and <http://www.coh.arizona.edu/german/faculty/classen.html>Professor Albrecht Classen (University of  
Arizona).

We welcome working papers from established researchers, doctoral  
students and those working on their Master's thesis. Please send  
proposals for individual papers of twenty minutes or for whole  
sessions of three papers with contact details and a 200 word abstract  
to Tuija Ainonen, at tuija.ainonen at helsinki.fi by 15 December 2009.