[Those H-HRE members working on the Carolingian period or on the
French/German border regions may be interested in the following CFP]

TRANSLATIO

7th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris
CALL FOR PAPERS

Dates: 24-26 June 2010, Location: Université de Paris I, Paris, France

Deadline for Submissions: 15 January 2010

Keynote speakers: TBA

The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for
its 2010 Symposium, which will explore the practice and function of
translatio in medieval France.

The medieval term translatio brings into contact linguistic, material, and
cultural fields.  It was attached to a group of related concepts:  the
physical displacement of objects, the rewriting of a text in a new
language, or the transfer of meaning proper to metaphor.  Eventually,
writers of the Latin West began to employ the concepts of translatio
imperii and translatio studii in an attempt to define their conflicted
relationship with the authority and learning of Classical, Muslim, and
Byzantine cultures; the term thus expressed their understanding of
cultural contact and exchange.  Recent work has shown how these various
iterations of translatio can indicate complex acts of cultural
appropriation and re-creation, which renegotiated the opposing forces of
old and new, the other and the self.

The present symposium will bring together scholars from diverse
disciplines, in order to study the various modes and meanings of
translatio.  Papers might address such topics as:  the adaptation of texts
from one language into another in literary or musical sources; the
transfer of themes from one medium to another (among, for example, texts,
music, painting, sculpture, or textiles); the use of spolia in building or
orfèvrerie; the translation of relics; the exploitation of Classical
themes or narratives by medieval political figures or historiographers;
the controversies over Biblical translation; the function of translatio as
metaphor in religious or secular writing; the appropriation of words from
one language into another.

Papers should address France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul in some way, but
they need not be exclusively limited to this geographic area.

We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including but not
limited to: Anthropology * Archaeology * Art History * Classical Studies *
Comparative Literature * Gender Studies * History * History of Medicine *
History of Science * Linguistics * Literary Studies * Musicology *
Philosophy * Religious Studies * Theology * Urban Studies *

Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper should be
e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 15 January 2010.

In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information, a CV,
and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required for your
presentation.

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2010. The IMS will
review submissions and respond via e-mail by 1 February 2010. Titles of
accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web- site. Authors of
accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and
conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students). The
registration fee will be waived for IMS members.

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English)
organization founded to serve as a center for medievalists who research,
work, study, or travel to France.

For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s
Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org.

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