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September 21, 2009
Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe, 03/26-27/2010, Toronto
Deadline: October 10, 2009
Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations
International workshop organized by the Department of History of York University and the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, to be held in Toronto on 26-27 March 2010.
Landscapes can be understood as the natural environments in which a society is embedded, or as the set of representations with which members of a society observe and describe a region and give it significance.. Modern conceptions of landscapes as aesthetic subjects resulted from a historical evolution that began in Renaissance Europe, whereas other cultures developed different traditions of understanding their environment – in medieval times, for instance, symbolic interpretations were in the foreground: nature was a book in which man could learn about God. Landscapes can be defined, in the words of Denis E. Cosgrove, as “visibly distinct regions.” It is clear that the idea of landscape is dependant on the one hand on the material reality of a given region, on the other hand on the sense attached to it by human beings beholding it.
The workshop will bring together a small group of young scholars (16 papers) from North America and Europe working in the fields of archaeology, history, palaeobotany and palaeozoology. Papers in the fields of history, archaeology and related disciplines are invited. The papers should present a link with parts of Europe outside the borders of the Roman Empire as well as with environmental and/or social history. The main focus will be on the medieval period but papers dealing with Antiquity are invited too. Doctoral students and young scholars will be particularly considered.
See complete announcement at http://eseh.org/landscapeandsocieties
Please send a short abstract (less than one page) and a CV by email to one of the organizers by 20 October 2009.
Invitations will depend upon available funding.
A publication following the workshop is considered.
Sunhild Kleingärtner (skleingaertner@ufg.uni-kiel.de
Sébastien Rossignol (rossigno@yorku.ca
Donat Wehner (donatwehner@gshdl.uni-kiel.de
Visit the website at http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~aklammt/
Posted by uunguyen at September 21, 2009 11:34 AM