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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">The Research Training Group 1876 “Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed” is calling for papers for its<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US">International Conference<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">in Antiquity and the Middle Ages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">to be held on 14<sup>th</sup> to 16<sup>th</sup> September 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The overall aim of the Research Training Group (RTG) 1876 is to study early concepts of man and nature based on texts, iconography and material evidence from the Near East, North-Eastern Africa
and Europe dating from c. 3.200 B.C. to the Middle Ages. It is interested in establishing where and when similar beliefs and concepts originated, whether this happened independently, if such concepts were transmitted or exchanged between early cultures and
how they then changed over time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">For its International Conference the RTG wants to focus on the process of developing and legitimizing knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The conference aims at answering questions dealing with the creation and justification of knowledge, such as: How is ‘foreign’ knowledge given authority? What are the mechanisms of legitimation?
Are the ascriptions by the sources concerning the knowledge’s origin (inherited or borrowed) traceable or artificial and unfounded? Does transferred knowledge create new concepts during the act of borrowing? Are there special fields of knowledge that are linked
to certain societies or social groups?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">In this conference we want to apply a broad definition of knowledge that includes cultural practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">In order to open up a coherent discussion of our research questions, we will focus on four thematic sections, each dealing with a special field of knowledge on man and nature:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.85pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">A)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">Of man and moon – Knowledge and cultural meaning of the moon</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">The end of the world in fire
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">– Imaginations from antiquity to the middle ages</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">C)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">Creating “volcanological” knowledge from antiquity to modern age<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">D)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white">Pejorative description and delineation based on human perceptions of animals</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">Besides we are looking for papers dealing more generally with our questions from a cross-cultural and theoretical perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-US">We</span><span lang="EN-GB"> want to invite interested scholars of the academic fields of our RTG (</span><span lang="EN-US">Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Near Eastern
Archaeology, Classical Philology, Classical Archaeology, Medieval German Studies, Byzantine Studies, and Medical History)
</span><span lang="EN-GB">to apply and to deliver papers fitting to one of the four sections or to methodological and theoretical aspects. We in particular also encourage scholars of academic fields not included in the RTG but related to any other field of
cultural studies (including the study of modern societies) to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB">We ask those interested in delivering a paper to send an abstract of about 300 words along with a short academic biography to the RTG at
</span><a href="mailto:grk1876@uni-mainz.de"><span lang="EN-GB">grk1876@uni-mainz.de</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> by Monday, 29<sup>th</sup> of February 2016.
</span><span lang="EN-US">Papers should be presented in English. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Travel and accommodation costs will be paid for all successful applicants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">More information about the RTG, its aims, the disciplines involved and the projects of the PhD students can be found on its website:
</span><a href="http://www.grk-konzepte-mensch-natur.uni-mainz.de/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.grk-konzepte-mensch-natur.uni-mainz.de/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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