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ArgumentThe exclusion of the urban community was achieved through the separation of friends, family, job, urban governance institutions, confiscation of property, public humiliation, expulsion from the guild, proscription and the exile from the city. Repressive practices linked to the politics of fear, which took many forms, from legal punishment to social exclusion. No social group was left out of the policies of social discipline by means of exclusion. The social control of the rulers affected any person who was located outside the established parameters, whether political dissidents, foreigners, heretics, religious minorities, poor people, homeless, sick persons, categories of women or&#160;gays. The excluded people were considered common criminals, creating a world of urban marginalization. The role of the rulers, as guarantors of the common good, consisted in repressing and punishing anyone who deviated from social discipline, which was part of a gradual process of empowerment of urban elites in the late Middle Ages.We will focus on:The terminology of urban exclusionThe representation of exclusion in the sourcesThe instruments of exclusionPolitical dissentPoverty and social marginalizationIllness and exclusionGender and social exclusionReligion and exclusionCultures of exclusionThe topography of exclusion: hospitals, suburbs and ghettosThe resistance of the excluded&#160;This fascinating conference may be a good springboard to facilitate this goal.Submission guidelinesHistorians and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations or posters on topics related to "Exclusion and social discipline&#160;in the Medieval European City&#8221;.Abstracts should be no more than 500 characters and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Successful proposals will be published in 2018. All abstracts and a short CV should be submitted electronically to Jes&#250;s Sol&#243;rzano at: &#160;solorzaja@unican.es&#160;and Jelle Haemers&#160;jelle.haemers@kuleuven.beThe deadline for submissions will be&#160;September&#160;15th, 2017.OrganizersChairJes&#250;s &#193;ngel Sol&#243;rzano Telechea (Universidad de Cantabria)Co-ChairJelle Haemers (Universiteit Leuven)Scientific CommitteeAm&#233;lia Aguiar Andrade (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)Raphaela Averkorn (Universit&#228;t Siegen)I&#241;aki Baz&#225;n D&#237;az (Universidad del Pa&#237;s Vasco)Michel Bochaca (Universit&#233; de La Rochelle)David Ditchburn (Trinity College Dublin)Ariel Guiance (CONICET-Universidad de C&#243;rdoba de Argentina)Ricardo Izquierdo Benito (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)Juan Francisco Jim&#233;nez Alc&#225;zar (Universidad de Murcia)Christian Liddy (University of Durham)Denis Menjot (Universit&#233; de Lyon II)Giuliano Pinto (Universit&#225; degli studi di Firenze)Sarah Rees Jones (University of York)Ana Mar&#237;a Rivera Medina (UNED)Te&#243;filo F. Ruiz (University of California-Los &#193;ngeles)Vicente Salvatierra Cuenca (Universidad de Ja&#233;n)Louis Sicking (Universiteit Leiden y U. &#193;msterdam)Urszula Sowina (Instituto Arqueol&#243;gico de Varsovia)M&#170; Isabel del Val Valdivieso (Universidad de Valladolid)Honorary CommitteeBeatriz Ar&#237;zaga Bolumburu (Former Chair)