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Appel à comm. IMC 2020 : “Borders”, Leeds, 6-9/07/2020 (Limite : 31 août ou 30 sept 2019).

Medieval borders have preoccupied scholars for several decades in various guises. The term ‘border’ designates a wide variety of phenomena: physical geographical limits, that can be signalled by border markers or natural features, points where toll has to be paid, political boundaries, that vary from points in space to linear and fortified military fronts, ways of controlling space, frontier zones, borderlands, porous zones of encounters and contact, ways of limiting community and identity, ideological and metaphorical delimitation including discourse and representation, bordering practices, the process of creating and performing borders, and borderscapes to capture fluidity and change over time.

This strand seeks to bring together medievalists of all fields interested in both the theory and practice of borders in all their variety, from physical boundaries and material borders to dynamic social and spatial relationships. Borders can be linked to power and the formation of states, to definitions of self and other, to violence and military engagement, to belonging and becoming, to material and symbolic construction, to relational and perspectival production of space, to mapping and discourse, to experience and theory, to negotiation and performance. Borders can also be found in frescoes, textiles, clothing, ceramics or coins, with practical, symbolic or aesthetic functions. Borders are also subject to evolution and significant change over time not just between the medieval and modern, but within the medieval period.

Themes to be addressed may include, but are not limited to:

  • Political and military borders
  • Living in border zones
  • Medieval and Modern perceptions, descriptions, and conceptualizations of borders
  • Delimiting borders, border markers
  • Border maintenance
  • Encountering and experiencing borders
  • Bordering practices
  • Borderscapes in the longue durée
  • Symbolic borders
  • Belonging and exclusion
  • Mapping borders and border zones
  • Border institutions
  • Materiality of borders
  • Border and power
  • Migration
  • Medieval imagery of borders
  • Transnationalism
  • Political, social, cultural, religious performance of borders
  • Village and parish boundaries
  • Boundaries between town and countryside and within towns
  • Practices of delimitation
  • Blurring boundaries such as human/animal, animate/inanimate, gender, age, status, religion
  • Self and other, boundaries of the self
  • Fluidity and fixity of borders
  • Borders in manuscripts
  • Material and visual borders
  • Processual and performative turns and medieval borders
  • Disciplinary boundaries
  • Paratexts as borders
  • Borders of the body
  • Transcending and reaffirming boundaries between life and death
  • Borders, boundaries, frontiers

The Special Thematic Strand ‘Borders‘ will be co-ordinated by Nora Berend (Faculty of History / St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge).

Proposals can be submitted online from 31 May 2019.

We have recently updated our Participation and Acceptance Criteria and encourage you to read these before submitting your paper or session proposal. 

Paper proposal deadline: 31 August 2019

Session proposal deadline: 30 September 2019.

The IMC welcomes session and paper proposals submitted in all major European languages.

You can find out more about how to submit a paper or session proporal by reading our handy guide.

https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2020/

Hassan Bouali
Hassan Bouali
Docteur en histoire médiévale de l'université Paris Nanterre.

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Hassan Bouali (27 juin 2019). Appel à comm. IMC 2020 : “Borders”, Leeds, 6-9/07/2020 (Limite : 31 août ou 30 sept 2019). Diwan. Consulté le 11 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/nr9u


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