CFP: Historians of Medieval Iberia - International Symposium in Stockholm March 14-16, 2016

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Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University

Historians of Medieval Iberia: Enemies and Friends
A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium

As a means of revitalizing and continuing an institution established by David Lomax and Richard Fletcher, we shall celebrate a symposium with the theme "Enemies and Friends" in Stockholm on March 14-16, 2016. This theme should be understood widely, and it is intended that it embraces courtly cultures, diplomacy, shifting alliances and military and social conflict; rituals of friendship, signs of enmity; patronage and exclusion, exile and execution; odium theologicum, polemic, competition, and coexistence within and between religious communities; charitas and supernatural threats.

The symposium will be opened by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University, Prof. Bengt Novén, and the Danish Ambassador to Portugal, His Excellency Michael Suhr.
Keynote speakers are:

  • Professor Simon Barton (University of Exeter)
  • Assistant Professor Maria João Violante Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
  • Professor Simon Doubleday (Hofstra University, NY)
  • Professor Maribel Fierro (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)

We accept short proposals for 20-minute papers, containing an abstract (of about 300 words) and a brief CV, or proposals for sessions containing three such papers. These should be sent by October 30, 2015 to historiansofmedievaliberia@gmail.com.
The preferred language of the symposium will be English.
Notification of acceptance of proposed sessions and papers will be given on November 30, 2015.
Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for evaluation for a publication of the proceedings edited by the organisers.

A major item of business at the meeting shall be the election of officers to the committee in order to take the society of Historians of Medieval Iberia forward.

Please direct all queries to the following e-mail address: historiansofmedievaliberia@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing as many of our Iberian medievalist colleagues as possible.

Best wishes,
The Organising Committee
Kurt Villads Jensen (Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University)
Anthony John Lappin (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study / National University of Ireland Maynooth)
Kim Bergqvist (Department of History, Stockholm University)

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