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‘Deformis Formositas ac Formosa Deformitas. The Ugliness of Beauty and the Beauty of Ugliness: Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Ages’Call for Papers for Session Proposal at the International Medieval Congress (IMC 2019)July 1 - 4, 2019, University of Leeds.The proposed session will discuss and debate on the various definitions and functions of the concept of “ugliness.” What is ugliness and how is it conceptualized? This session seeks original research which investigates debates on the concept of “ugliness” in various contexts: Spiritual/physical/material ugliness; Paradoxical nature of ugliness/irony/allegorical discourse; Emotions and ugliness; Functional aspects/Contrasts/Status and ugliness; Didactic/moralistic functions; Gendered aspects: ugliness belonging to other creatures; Description/nature/character of ugliness; Symbolism and patterns of transmission; Comparative aspects of medieval beauty and ugliness; Beauty within the context of ugliness in visual and textual sources;Please submit a working title and a 250-word proposal for a 15-20 minute pape presentation by september 15th, 2018, the latest.Contact informations :Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Ca'Foscari university, Venice, Italy (andrea.znorovszky@unive.it)Theodora C. Artimon, Trivent Publishing, Budapest, Hungary