[ALBSA-Info] Conference in San Francisco

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From: Florin Curta  <fcurta at h...>
Date: Wed Jan 17, 2001 5:16pm
Subject: CfP: Ethnicity and Medieval Frontiers Panel, San Francisco, January 
2002




Dear list members:

The 116th American Historical Association annual meeting will be held in
San Francisco, between January 3 and 6, 2002. The 2002 conference theme
will be "Frontiers." I plan to organize a panel on ethnicity and medieval
frontiers. 
Ethnicity was often defined as the political construction of cultural
difference. However, the relation between medieval ethnicity and such
salient political features as frontiers has only recently received
scholarly attention. My intention with this session is to illuminate some
of the most interesting aspects of recent research in this direction, such
as the role of frontiers in ethnogenesis, the economic and religious
dimensions of ethnic boundaries, or the re-consideration of the concept of
frontier in Late Roman and Islamic history.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract
before February 7 to the address below or at the e-mail address provided. I
also posted this information on the AHA 2002 panel locator database
(http://www.theaha.org/annual/panels/).

Thank you,


Florin Curta

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Florin Curta
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Florida
4411 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Phone: (352) 392-0271
FAX: (352) 392-6927
E-mail: fcurta at h...
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