The deadline for abstracts has been extended until Wednesday, December 19!
Call For Papers:
"Lamentations"
April 5-6
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo...” Thus begins the Vulgate
rendition of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, a prophetic book in which
memorializing lost political and religious wholeness takes the form of a
complex temporality in which present lament for the past reaches
forward even into the future. Laments—and their liturgical, poetic, and
artistic relations—marked particularly crucial moments associated with
ends and what’s left after things are over: death and apocalypses,
survivors and remnants.
Indiana University Medieval Studies Institute announces its Spring
Symposium, to be held April 4-6. On the topic of lamentation, the
symposium would like to pose a broad range of possible questions: What
social, political, ethical, or aesthetic purposes do laments or their
figurations serve? Who—or what, for that matter—is allowed to lament?
Where and when is lament appropriate? Who or what is one allowed to
lament for? What places or people(s) have laments left out? Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to:
- Laments over loss of cities, battles, or leaders
- Religious laments and commentaries
- Apocalyptic visions; utopian visions
- The afterlife
- Love complaints and their parodies
- Melancholy; enjoying mourning
- Tragic drama; performing lament; embodied affects
- Illustrations of sorrow in funerary art and manuscript illumination
- Ceremonial observances like funeral orations and eulogies
- Survivor stories; captive narratives
- The process of mourning and grief as understood in the Middle Ages
- Penitence manuals
- Non-human lament or sorrow
- Lament, spatiality, and temporality; spaces reserved for lament, burial, or grief
Please email an abstract of no more than 300 words by December 19, 2012 to: mest@indiana.edu
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Diane Fruchtman
Special Projects Assistant
Medieval Studies Institute
Indiana University
(812) 855-8201
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