Call for Papers

We encourage junior researchers in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as recent PhD´s (with thesis completed within 5 years prior to event) to participate. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes and may be read in Spanish or English.

We warmly welcome proposals regarding the following topics and guidelines:

1. Commercial and economic activity: cultural exchanges generated by trade, mint coin production and currency fluctuations; state control systems: taxation, charity and other bodies.
2. Orthodoxies and heterodoxies: philosophical, religious, magic and superstitious practices and ideas; millenarian and apocalyptic movements; power and religious legitimation.
3. Artistic expressions and material culture as means of transmission and evidence for religious, political and cultural ideologies; tradition and innovation, assimilation and influence.
4. Political processes and theory: effective execution of powers, authoritarian figures, methods of government, hierarchical relations within intra-state and supra-state structures.
5. Language, literature, textual criticism, hermeneutics: critical editions, modern research technologies and methods.
6. Transmission of knowledge and history of science: processes of reception, cultural exchange and transfer among societies in contact.

Please submit abstracts (300-500 words maximum, including keywords and reference to chosen topic in mail subject), and a brief CV to mediterraneos.abstracts@gmail.com, no later than July 12, 2010.