CHARTING THE FUTURE AND THE UNKNOWN IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE

The twenty-third Medieval and Renaissance Conference at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City.

Saturday December 1, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts sought for potential papers on topics related to “Charting
the Future and the Unknown” in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:

imagining the future in scientific/ literary discourses and ina rt
articulations of newness, the unexpected, the unforeseen
apocalyptic visions and eschatology
scientific approaches to the unknown
cartographic representations of terrae incognitae
divination
transcribing/representing new realities, languages, peoples.
prophecy in historiography
poets as vates (prophets)
astrological discourses
messengers in literature, e.g. in tragic theater

Please submit an abstract (1 page) and (short) CV to Professor Phillip
John Usher (MedRenConference@barnard.edu) by September 15, 2011.