Call for Papers: Third AIFG Doctoral Conference, “Cultural syncretisms in the literary traditions of the European Middle Ages. Encounters between Germanic realities and other cultures”
Bologna, December 10-12th 2025. Apply before June 13th 2025.
A call for papers for the Third AIFG Doctoral Conference, to be held at the University of Bologna from Dec. 10-12, 2025, has been circulated these days.
The conference will have as its theme. Cultural syncretisms in the literary traditions of the European Middle Ages. Encounters between Germanic realities and other cultures. Proposals for interventions may concern the mutual influences between Germanic cultures and other literary traditions of the European Middle Ages and how they shaped new symbolic, narrative and poetic languages, as well as the dynamics of cultural exchange, identity transformations and possible reinterpretations of Germanic myths and legends through encounters with other traditions, or even approaches marked by transmediality, as long as they are based on a thorough and rigorous philological analysis of literary sources.
Please send an abstract of no more than 2000 characters (including spaces), accompanied by a short bibliography and a brief biographical note, to the e-mail address convegnophd@aifg.it by Friday, 13th June 2025 (23:59 CET).
The call is open to all PhD students and PhDs who obtained the title from March 2023 onwards in the fields of Medieval philology and linguistics (Germanic, Latin, Romance, Slavic, Celtic philology and linguistics, etc.). The call is also extended exceptionally to scholars who have begun a research fellowship no earlier than 2023.
Each speaker will have a maximum of 20 minutes for their presentation, which will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Acceptance will be notified via e-mail address convegnophd@aifg.it no later than 15th July 2025 (23:59 CET). Following the conference, the contributions accepted by the scientific committee will be considered for publication and subjected to a double-blind peer review process.
Working Languages: Italian, English, German.
Head of the Scientific Committee: Prof. Alessandro Zironi.
Scientific Committee: Prof. Alessandro Zironi, Salvatore Caccamo, Nicola Pennella, Martina
Andriani, Andreea M. Toma, Stefano Ghiroldi.
Organising Committee: Salvatore Caccamo, Nicola Pennella, Martina Andriani, Andreea M.
Toma, Stefano Ghiroldi.