[Archport] Call for Papers: MediterráneoS Conference

[Ana Mesquita <isis.ankh@gmail.com>]

CALL FOR PAPERS

MediterráneoS
International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean
and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Institute of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures (ILC)
CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, December 13-15, 2010


Throughout history, different cultural traditions, all of them with a
considerable linguistic diversity, have flourished and converged in the
Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. The International Conference
of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages
and Cultures seeks to provide a transverse and interdisciplinary
framework of discussion and reflection on the intellectual and cultural
production of the Mediterranean and the Near East, from its earliest
stages to the present. More precisely, this meeting pursues the analysis
of the different political, religious and social trends of thought, material
culture and artistic, literary and linguistic expressions brought together
in this geographical area, highlighting the scope of this blend of
traditions within different space-time surroundings.

We warmly welcome proposals regarding the following topics and
guidelines:

1.       Commercial and economic activity: cultural exchanges generated
by trade, mint coin production and currency fluctuations; state control
systems: taxation, charity and other bodies.
2.       Orthodoxies and heterodoxies: philosophical, religious, magic
and superstitious practices and ideas; millenarian and apocalyptic
movements; power and religious legitimation.
3.      Artistic expressions and material culture as means of transmission
and evidence for religious, political and cultural ideologies; tradition
and innovation, assimilation and influence.
4.      Political processes and theory: effective execution of powers,
authoritarian figures, methods of government, hierarchical relations
within intra-state and supra-state structures.
5.      Language, literature, textual criticism, hermeneutics: critical
editions, modern research technologies and methods.
6.      Transmission of knowledge and history of science: processes
of reception, cultural exchange and transfer among societies in contact.

We encourage junior researchers in the fields of Humanities and Social
Sciences, as well as recent PhD´s (with thesis completed within 5 years
prior to event) to participate. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes and
may be read in Spanish or English.

Please submit abstracts (300-500 words maximum, including keywords
and reference to chosen topic in mail subject), and a brief CV to
mediterraneos.abstracts@gmail.com, no later than July 12, 2010.

Conference Committee:
Comisión de jóvenes investigadores del Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas
del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, CCHS-CSIC, Madrid.

Conference Location:
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC.
C/ Albasanz, 26-28. 28037 Madrid, Spain.