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Call for Papers:
Material Collective-sponsored session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 14-17,
2015)
Transgressive Materiality
For this session, the Material Collective aims to bring together scholars working in a variety of disciplines to explore instances of transgression by artists, scribes, readers, viewers,
or encoded in surviving objects. We welcome imaginative interpretations of the session topic from any area of Medieval Studies.
In 2005, the world witnessed an intense controversy surrounding the representation of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Despite contemporary opposition to depicting
the Prophet, renditions of Muhammad—in illustrated manuscripts, frescoes, and printed materials—were in sporadic circulation throughout the Christian and Islamic worlds from the twelfth-century onwards, challenging prohibitions against his figuration. Historically,
such transgressions were not unique to religious imagery nor Islamic content.
Speakers in the session could address the materialization of illicit or confrontational subject matter; iconoclasms and erasures; subversive morphologies; materials usurping their physical
properties; unexpected fusions or aggregate forms; or objects intended to provoke the viewer or test existing social norms. Alternatively, instances of transgressive materiality could also function positively, fostering formal innovation, technical experimentation,
or forging relationships within controversial or expanding networks. That which is deemed transgressive is geographically and culturally relative, a point which we hope will ignite the lively reconsideration of any number of artifacts, texts, or patrons.
Please send a brief abstract (no more than 500 words), a CV, and a completed participant information form (http://wmich.edu/medieval/files/pif-2015.pdf) by
September 15 :
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Heather Coffey ([log in to unmask])
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Holly Silvers ([log in to unmask]).
Sincerely,
DANIEL PAYNE
, MLIS, MA (Musicology), BEd
HEAD, INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES
DOROTHY H. HOOVER LIBRARY
T 416 977 6000 x217
OCAD UNIVERSITY
100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Canada M5T 1W1
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