[Mediaevistik] GSA 2011 / Premodern (medieval/early modern) panels (deadline: Feb. 1, 2011)

[Markus Stock]

CALL FOR PAPERS - Medieval/Early Modern

Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in  
Louisville, Kentucky, September 22-25, 2011

www.thegsa.org

YMAGINA (Young Medievalist Germanists in North America,  
http://www.ymagina.org) is pleased to announce a call for papers for  
the following sessions at the 2011 GSA conference.

1.     Premodern Transformations
Papers on all aspects of transformations (social, gender, legal,  
political, spatial, topical, poetic, topological), including  
translation and adaptation; conversion and other religious  
transformative experiences; transformations of bodies or identities;  
relationship between image, text, music, and/or performance.

2.     Art in Literature - Literature in Art in Medieval and Early  
Modern Culture
Papers on the relationship between the visual arts and literature in  
the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era (both theoretical exploration  
and practical application); function of art and artistic creations in  
premodern literary works; ekphrasis; literature's effect on premodern  
art and iconography; literature as source or inspiration for art and  
vice versa; intermediality.

3.     Motion in Text and Image
Papers exploring motion and movement in medieval and early modern  
image and text.  Paper topics might include: travel narratives or  
illustrations; movement on water, land, and air; modes of  
transportation and technologies of motion; patterns of movement  
(linear, circular, or other); theoretical approaches to studying  
motion and the relationship of motion to space, time, and bodies;  
motion and social interaction (dance, joust, battle, procession).

We seek 15- to 20-minutes papers, in English or German. Please send an  
abstract (max. 250 words) and a brief CV that includes institutional  
affiliation by TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2011, to BOTH of the following  
organizers (e-mail submissions only, please):

Dr. Olga Trokhimenko, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Univ. of  
North Carolina Wilmington, trokhimenkoo at uncw.edu

Dr. Katja Altpeter-Jones, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Lewis and  
Clark College, altpeter at lclark.edu