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Appel à contribution - Illness, Healing and the Body in the Middle  AgesGraduate Conference in Medieval Studies at  Princeton UniversitySaturday, April 16, 2011The Program in Medieval Studies  at Princeton University invites submissions for its eighteenth annual  graduate conference in Princeton, New Jersey. We are also pleased to  announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Carolyn Walker Bynum,  Professor of the History of Medieval Europe at the Institute for Advanced  Studies, also in Princeton.This year's conference is  dedicated to exploring the themes of illness, healing, and the body in  the broadest possible sense. Among them are individual and collective  experiences of disease, practices of bodily and spiritual healing, and  the complex notions related to embodiment itself. We welcome  presentations dealing with both reality and its representations. Our goal  is to assemble panels reflecting a balanced awareness of both the basic  human experiences our medieval predecessors share with us and the ideas  and cultural practices that separate our world from theirs. In keeping  with the Program's aim to promote interdisciplinary exchange among  medievalists, we encourage proposals from a variety of time periods,  geographies, and disciplines. Topics might include, but are not limited  to:&#62;* Disease, injuries, and symptoms of illness&#62;* Sex,  generation, heredity, and childbirth&#62;* Death and mourning&#62;* Mental  illness and spiritual health&#62;* Traditions of folk and learned medicine,  and their practitioners&#62;* Sites of healing, from saints' shrines to  hospitals&#62;* Defense and discipline of the body&#62;* Depictions of the  body in art and literature&#62;* The miraculous bodies of the saints&#62;*  Gender and the body&#62;* Notions of the relationship between body and  soul&#62;* The body as metaphor&#62;* The construction of "foreign" bodies  (Muslims, Jews, and others)&#62;* Incarnation, embodiment, and  materiality&#62;* Other sorts of bodies or corpora (animals, objects,  texts)In order to support participation of speakers from outside  the northeastern United States, we are offering a limited number of  modest subsidies to help offset the cost of travel to Princeton.  Financial assistance may not be available for every participant;  funding priority goes to those who have the furthest to travel. Every  speaker will have the option of staying with a resident graduate student  as an alternative to paying for a hotel room.Interested graduate  students should submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to Rebecca  Johnson (rwjohnso@princeton.edu) by  February 25, 2011. All applicants will be notified by March 5, 2011.  Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.    