The CFP for CSRC 2023 has now CLOSED. However, we have a fantastic range of papers lined up for the two days of the conference and you are very welcome to attend. Please watch this space for registration details…
CFP for Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods: Fourth Biennial Conference now released!
The conference will take place on Tues 27th -Wed 28th June 2023, at Nottingham Trent University in the Newton Building, City Campus. Keynote speakers include Prof Bridget Heal (St Andrews) and Dr Stephen Spencer (Northeastern University London), with a musical performance by Kate Arnold and guests.
Proposals for 20-minute papers should consist of a title plus 200-word abstract, and be emailed to john.mccallum@ntu.ac.uk, by Monday 27th March 2023.
We would like to encourage proposals for papers at the fourth biennial conference held by the Centre forthe Study of Religion and Conflict at NTU. The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Papers can address conflict which relate to religion across military engagements but are also encouraged to consider social, political, cultural and economic aspects to religious conflict, exploring concepts of race, gender and colonialism, and focusing on Medieval and Early Modern global contexts (broadly defined). New approaches, interdisciplinary methodologies and digital approaches are also welcomed. Our previous conferences have established networking links with scholars and students who investigate the role of religion and conflicts with different faiths, confessions and heterodox groups, so that comparisons may contribute towards the development of new definitions and paradigms for understanding the roles played by belief in national, communal and inter-personal conflict. We aim to publish an edited collection, previous titles include Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History and Religion and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds: Identities, Communities and Authorities. For more details see Routledge’s Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History series.
history series.
The conference will incorporate a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing
current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. It will include two keynotes and a public lecture, and panels of academic papers presented in a workshop format. Papers can relate to any aspect of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods, broadly defined, and to any geographical location(s). Postgraduate and ECR applicants are particularly welcome.
This year the special strand will focus on emotions:
Special Strand: ‘Emotions in Religious Conflict’
As part of the conference, we particularly invite proposals for a strand of sessions focused on emotions
in religious conflict, broadly defined. As the historiography of emotions continues to expand
dramatically, there is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the varied roles of emotion in the experience
and representations of religious conflicts of all types and scales. We encourage proposals exploring any
aspect of emotion, religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods, and would welcome
proposals which span or compare the medieval and the early modern. Interdisciplinary proposals, and
research which utilises any of the various frameworks for defining and conceptualising ‘emotion’ are
welcome.
Proposals may relate to one or more of the following broad headings, but this is by no means an
exhaustive list.
•Emotional experiences of religious conflicts
•The use of emotion in religious polemic and controversy
•Crusading emotions
•Emotion in local, communal, and interpersonal conflict and violence
•Emotion and the memory of conflict
•Emotion and the material culture of warfare and violence
•Emotion in the experience and representation of wars of religion
•Emotion in the literary, artistic and cultural representation of religious conflict
•Emotion in persecution and toleration
Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at NTU 