Lives and Afterlives, Forty-Fifth Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, April 12–13, 2019

The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium also invites proposals for individual papers engaging with any aspect of our theme, Lives and Afterlives, or a specific sub-theme. Papers should be twenty minutes in length, and commentary is traditionally provided for each paper presented. We invite papers from all disciplines, and encourage contributions from medievalists working on any geographic area.

Participants in the Colloquium are generally limited to holders of a Ph.D. and those currently in a Ph.D. program.

Sub-themes:

• Afterlives of Assault: Medieval Traumas in the Modern Imagination
• Calculating the Past
• The Continued Lives of of Medieval Spaces and Objects
• Medieval Afterlives of Antiquity
• Medieval Gender and Medieval Form
• Monastic Afterlives
• New Comparative Literatures
• Performance and/or Performativity?: Lives, Drama, and Afterlives
• Rebuilding, Rewriting and Reimagining Sacred Space in the Middle Ages
• Sanctifying Violence