[Paul Schleuse]

Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe: Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now (Binghamton University, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), October 23-24, 2020

This conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of backgrounds whose work sheds important new light on our relationship with the medieval past. We hope to foster conversations across traditional disciplinary and geographic boundaries about the definitions, cultural significance, and use of cultural heritage in disparate parts of the medieval and modern worlds.How does examining conceptions and problems related to cultural heritage inform our understanding of medieval cultures? How does modern engagement with the medieval past shape debates about power, identity and belonging? What determines how heritage is defined and what merits preservation? What is the state of medieval heritage today?

We invite papers from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives on any topic related to cultural heritage and the Middle Ages, including:

• Medieval heritage and identity in the early modern and modern worlds
• Trafficking in and questions surrounding the restitution of cultural artifacts
• Heritage across borders and global diasporas
• Cultural heritage sites connected to legends, literature, and theater
• Pilgrimage and tourism
• Issues of representation and exclusion
• UNESCO and the handling of medieval cultural heritage
• Literature and film tourism at heritage sites
• Violence, atrocity, and difficult heritage
• Heritage-making and cultural appropriation
• Heritage and communities
• Cultural heritage in the digital world

Abstracts for individual papers and for sessions are invited. We particularly encourage scholars working in different disciplines to organize panels together. Papers should be 20 minutes in length.

Deadline: May 1, 2020
for more information: http://www.binghamton.edu/cemers/conference

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