Othello’s Island 2014 – Call For Papers

Othello’s Island
Annual Conference of Mediterranean and Levantine Cultural History​ in the Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance Periods
Cornaro Institute, Cyprus
9-12 April 2014

Conference Website

Confirmed keynote speakers:

  • Professor Rico Frances, American University of Beirut
  • Professor Robert Appelbaum, Uppsala University

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to bring together academics, researchers and research students covering a wide range of topics, including art historians, social and economic historians, museum curators, archaeologists, literary historians and others, convering not only the Western Christian Mediterranean world, but also Byzantine culture, Muslim and other societies relevant to the region.

We would also welcome suggestions from individuals or groups for parallel strands and semi-autonomous conferences which might share some of the plenary sessions and social elements of the event. For example, a strand dealing specifically with Shakespeare and the Mediterranean might be big enough to require its own semi-autonomous event alongside the one we are organising.

If you are interested in giving a talk at the conference please submit a proposal for a paper. Standard papers are 30 minutes long.

We are very open minded on the topic of papers, so if you have an idea for a presentation that is not covered by the suggestions given here please feel free to submit a proposal, or contact us first to discuss the idea.

Proposals for papers should comprise a cover sheet showing:

  1. Your title (eg. Mr, Ms, Dr, Prof. etc.) and full name
  2. Your institutional affiliation (if any)
  3. Your postal address, email address and telephone number
  4. The title of your proposed paper

​With this you should send a proposal/abstract for your paper of no more than 300 words and a copy of your CV/resume to michael@artcyprus.org with the subject line OTHELLO 2014.

All papers must be delivered in English.

The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2013.

For full details, please visit the following website: http://enqui7024.wix.com/copy-of-cypruscolleg#!othellosisland/c19ye