Call for Papers are invited at the Conference at the University of Edinburgh from 16 to 18 May 2012. This event will be organized on the topic, “The Global Middle Ages: From Influence to Translation”.
European, Islamic and Chinese societies engaged in an extensive practice of cultural, artistic and ideological exchange during the period which was known in Europe as the ‘Middle Ages’. These coincided with classical phases in eastern and western Asia. This conference seeks to explore the embodiment of cultural exchange through the art and architecture of the medieval period as well as the methodological shifts which have occurred in the study of this period of extensive multi-cultural engagement.
Papers are invited related to the topics of global interaction between the years of 400 and 1500 and the range of scholarly approaches to that material. This conference seeks to open discussion of new ways of approaching ideas of exchange and material in which cultural interventions are evident.
Papers emphasizing on a particular historical moment in China, India, Central Asia, the Middle East or Europe will be invited and possible themes to consider include but are not limited to:
•Conceptions of influence, appropriation and translation in scholarly discourse and curatorial practice
•The exchange of visual and material culture through diplomatic gifts, pilgrimage, commerce and conquest
•Patterns of encounter and the process of exchange
Abstracts of 250 words are invited by 10 February, 2012.
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