Dates: April 11-12
Keynote : Dr. Dorsey Armstrong

Send 300 word paper abstracts to iumestsymposium@gmail.com by December 15th
The Middle Ages and our study of it are defined by borderlands. To better understand
and enrich our knowledge of the medieval world, this conference asks us to consider
what lies at its peripheries and what happens when we attend carefully to these
“borderlands.”

Potential panels might consider

Geographic boundaries: How might we consider the medieval world beyond its oftentimes
limited boundaries? How do borderlands create cross-cultural exchanges or function within
larger geopolitical sovereignties?

Cultural limits and taboos: How does breaking the law or tradition represent something
more significant? How did medieval cultures and languages come into contact and what
resulted from their interaction?

Chronological fringes: How might we consider the Middle Ages in conversation with late
antiquity, the early modern period, or even our own contemporary world?

Artistic frontiers: What medieval works lay at the cutting-edge? What works appear anomalous
or otherwise bizarre? What works have been relegated to the fringe of or excluded from the
canon?

Disciplinary and theoretical margins: How might we expand the scope of medieval studies
and of the theories with which we engage?

Send 300 word paper abstracts to iumestsymposium@gmail.com by December 15th

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