Crossing Borders – Registration

Registration is now open for
Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, c. 900-1500
Keltologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 8-10 April 2015
Keynote speakers: Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol), Prof. Dr Erich Poppe (PhilippsUniversität Marburg) and Dr Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (University of Iceland)
We are delighted to open registration for a new symposium at Philipps-Universität Marburg on the role of
cross-border literary borrowings in the construction of political, national, regional and cultural identities in
the British Isles, Ireland and Iceland across the long period c. 900-1500.
Papers from scholars working in a variety of related fields will consider processes of translation and
adaptation across insular vernacular languages and Latin; cross-border thematic influences and
correspondences; lines of transmission and textual distribution; the role of ecclesiastical and secular
institutions in cross-border insular literary contact; perceptions of other insular peoples and constructions of
otherness/ similitude; cross-border manuscript and book circulation; literary engagements and intersections
with cross-border material and visual culture; and linguistic borrowings across insular languages.
This is intended to foster discussion about contemporary methodologies in comparative literary studies by
international scholars working in Celtic Studies, English, Scots and Norse.
For more details and to see the full programme please visit insularmiddleages.wordpress.com
To register to attend the conference please email Dr Victoria Flood at [email protected],
with your name and (if applicable) details of your institutional affiliation. Registration fee is €10
waged; €8 student or unwaged. Registration closes on Friday 27 February.