Conf/CfP - Crossing borders in the insular Middle Ages, c. 900-1500, 3-5 April 2017, University of Birmingham

2nd Biennial Conference - University of Birmingham, 3-5 April 2017

Keynote speakers

• Professor Carolyne Larrington (Professor of Medieval European Literature, St John’s College, Oxford)
• Professor. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Professor of Celtic & Medieval Studies, St John’s College, Cambridge)

Additional confirmed speakers include Professor Helen Fulton (University of Bristol), Professor Erich Poppe (Philipps-Universität Marburg), and Dr Emily Wingfield (University of Birmingham).

• processes of translation and adaptation across Insular vernacular languages (English, Welsh, Irish, Older Scots, Old Norse, Old Icelandic, and French) and other European vernaculars or Latin
• discussions of cross-border thematic influences and correspondences
• lines of transmission and textual distribution
• cross-border manuscript and book circulation
• perceptions of other Insular peoples
• literary engagements and intersections with cross-border material and visual culture
• linguistic borrowings across Insular languages

Proposals are also welcomed from doctoral students and early career.

Please send proposals of no more than 300 words by 2 January 2017 to Dr Victoria Flood (Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham) at v.flood@bham.ac.uk and Dr Aisling Byrne (Department of English Literature, University of Reading) at a.byrne@reading.ac.uk