Othello’s Island: Third Annual Conference
Nicosia, Cyprus
20-22 March, 2015 (with optional trip on 23 March)
Conference Website
Now in its third year, this annual conference brings together speakers from a wide variety of disciplines and from all over the world to discuss not only Levantine history, culture and society in the Mediaeval and Renaissance periods, but wider apects of this period in history including its enduring legacy. This might include looking at medieval travelogues and Shakespeare’s poetry and plays, as well as art and architectural history of the Byzantine, Western Medieval and Muslim worlds, religious and social relations and much much more.
Possible topics for the conference could include:
- Diverse aspects of medieval and/or renaissance historical and/or cultural studies
- Aspects of Byzantine historical and/or cultural studies
- Aspects of Ottoman or other Muslim states historical and/or cultural studies
- Art, literature and other aspects of culture from the medieval and renaissance periods
- Connections between late Antiquity and the medieval period
- Christian and Muslim interactions and/or comparative studies
- The Mediterranean as a factor in medieval and renaissance history and/or culture
- Shakespeare and/or other writers of the medieval and/or renaissance periods
- Continuing legacies of the medieval and renaissance culture in the modern period
- The West, the Mediterranean and the Levant
- Other aspects of the medieval and/or renaissance periods
Possible Session (Strand) Organisers
(please note early deadline for strand organisers)
We invite expressions of interest from individuals, groups or organisations interested in convening specific strands within the conference.
Sessions are defined as comprising at least three papers on a common theme. Once your theme and session title is agreed we will advertise it with a Call for Papers specific to your session strand, but the decision on whether to admit any papers submitted to your strand will remain with you. We also ask that where possible you canvas your contacts to submit paper proposals for your session.
If you are interested in proposing a session or strand please contact Dr Michael Paraskos at michael@artcyprus.org before 30 September 2014.
Call for Papers from Individuals
(later deadline for individuals – but we advise early submission)
If you are interested in giving a talk at the conference please submit a proposal for a paper. Standard papers are 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for questions.
We are very open minded on the topic of papers, so if you have an idea for a presentation that is not covered by the suggestions given above please feel free to submit a proposal, or contact us first to discuss the idea.
Proposals for papers should comprise a cover sheet showing:
- Your title (eg. Mr, Ms, Dr, Prof. etc.) and full name
- Your institutional affiliation (if any)
- Your postal address, e-mail address and telephone number
- The title of your proposed paper
With this you should send a proposal/abstract for your paper of no more than 300 words and a copy of your CV/resume to mparaskos@mac.com with the subject line OTHELLO 2015.
All papers must be delivered in English.
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2015. Early submission is strongly advised. We aim to have a decision on the acceptance of papers within four weeks of submission.
