CFP: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: ‘Signs and Scripts.’
Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024 ‘Signs and Scripts’
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee are excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is: ‘Signs and Scripts’
The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We are delighted to announce this call for papers and invite proposals relating to all aspects of the broad topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.
Areas of interest may include but are not limited to:
Semiotics and semantics
Ways of (mis)reading
Palaeography and codicology
Spiritual / cosmological signs
Codes and conduct
Behavioural script
Dramatic script; theatre
Monuments; inscriptions
Heraldry; signboards
Graffiti and marginalia
Scripts of the body; tattoos
Textiles
We ask that all presenters attend in person with hybrid participation available for attendees who cannot travel to the event.
Submission Guidelines
Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes. A limited number of bursaries are available to help with travel costs, and we welcome applications from graduate students at any university.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 17th December, 2023.
