21st Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 30 August-2 September 2012
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The theme of the conference is: Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2012

Keynote Speaker:  Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. Her main research areas are medieval literatures, Celtic studies, Arthurian literature, and critical theory.

In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme. We also invite scholars working on any related aspect of the Middle Ages or Renaissance to submit abstracts for consideration.

Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to Professor David Scott-Macnab by 31 January 2012.