General session
CALL FOR PAPERS
ICOME 11
Florence (Italy), 5th-8th February 2019
The Eleventh International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 11) will be hosted by the Department of Languages Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Florence (Italy), 5th-8th February 2019. ICOME 11 continues the series of ICOME conferences held at Rydzyna (1994), Helsinki (1997), Dublin (1999), Vienna (2002), Naples (2005), Cambridge (2008), Lviv (2011), Murcia (2013), Wroclaw (2015) and Stavanger (2017).
Proposals are welcome in any area of interest of ICOME: Middle English language, historical morpho-syntax, linguistic variation, language change, textual studies, manuscript studies, Middle English literature and literary criticism. Abstracts should be between 350 and 500 words excluding references and indicate clearly objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Each paper will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Please send your abstract by email to icome11@lilsi.unifi.it as a .docx, .rtf or .odt file.
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 15 August 2018
Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2018
Please visit our website for general information: http://www.icome11.unifi.it/
Looking forward to seeing you in Florence!
ICOME 11 Organising Committee:
Luca Baratta
Nicholas Brownlees
Fernando Cioni
Fiorenzo Fantaccini
Ilaria Natali
Donatella Pallotti o Ballotti
Francesca Murano
Ayse Saraçgil
Letizia Vezzosi
Mariarosaria Zinzi
Scientific committee:
Stefania D'Agata D'Ottavi (University for Foreigners, Siena)
Ian Johnson (University of St Andrews)
Gabriella Mazzon (University of Innsbruck)
Donka Minkova (UCLA)
Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna)
Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)
David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)