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CFP: Boundaries of the Law panel at ANZAMEMS 2019

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for an interdisciplinary panel on boundaries of the law in medieval and early modern societies, to be convened at the ANZAMEMS 2019 conference, 5-8 February 2019, University of Sydney. The conference theme is Boundaries, Categories, Horizons.

Conventional approaches to legal history often aim to fix the parameters of any given legal system, and to clearly demarcate ‘law’ from ‘non-law’. Such approaches can be confounded by the realities of medieval and early modern societies, which were characterized by legal ambiguities, blurred boundaries, conflicting jurisdictions and contested authorities. This panel seeks to use interdisciplinary approaches, to ask new questions of familiar sources, and to use new sources and methods to productively explore tensions, complexities and conflict in the ways law was defined, enforced, experienced and resisted in medieval and early modern societies.

Topics and themes could include (but are not limited to):

  • Breaking the boundaries of conventional legal history – new sources and methodologies for studying law, legal cultures and society
  • Liminal spaces and overlapping jurisdictions
  • Textual and oral/aural authorities and knowledges
  • Gendered experiences of the law
  • Multilingualism and languages of the law
  • Blurred boundaries between law and custom
  • Literary representations of law and legal culture
  • Conflicting or inter-penetrating codes and legal cultures, including customary, civil and common law, and Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions
  • The legal, the extra-legal and the illicit
  • Advocacy and legal practice by lay people, semi-professionals and professionals

This session is organized by Amanda McVitty (Massey University). Please send proposals for 20-minute papers to e.a.mcvitty@massey.ac.nz by 16 August 2018.

Proposals should include:

  • Presenter name
  • Affiliation (if relevant)
  • Paper title and a 200-word abstract
  • Any day of the conference on which you CANNOT present
  • AV requirements other than standard PowerPoint + projector

The twelfth biennial ANZAMEMS Conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, 5-8 February 2019 at the Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney. For more information see https://anzamemsconference2019.wordpress.com/

This panel is organized in accordance with the ANZAMEMS Equity & Diversity guidelines: https://anzamemsconference2019.wordpress.com/equity-diversity/

Call for submissions for Parergon journal

We invite established scholars, early career academics and advanced postgraduates to submit research articles for publication in Parergon, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS).

Parergon is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes on all aspects of medieval and early modern literature, history, arts and culture. We are especially interested in material that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and takes new approaches. Parergon is published as two issues per year; one of these is open-themed and the other is a guest-edited Special Issue.

Parergon is edited from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia, is fully refereed, and has an international Advisory Board. Parergon asks its authors to achieve international standards of excellence. Articles should be substantially original, advance research in the field, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to the critical debate. We do not accept submissions that have already been published elsewhere.

Parergon is included in the Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus. Content is available in electronic form as part of Project MUSE (From Volume 1 (1983)), Australian Public Affairs – Full Text (from 1994), and Humanities Full Text (from 2008).

This is an open call and manuscripts can be submitted at any time. For further information on Parergon and full submission guidelines, please visit: https://parergon.org/

Please feel free to print and circulate our PDF call for papers:

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