The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance – Call For Papers

The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
22nd Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Stellenbosch, South Africa
28-31 August 2014

Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford

The 22nd Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 28-31 August 2014. The conference theme is ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’. In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme.
 

Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2014.
 
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long.
 
Please send abstracts and enquiries by email to:

Professor David Scott-Macnab,
Department of English,
University of Johannesburg
dscott-macnab@uj.ac.za

For information about previous conferences, and the conference venue, please consult the society website: http://www.sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com.