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Yale Medieval Studies, in partnership with the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, invites abstracts for the following panel for Kalamazoo 2019 (May 9-12): Odyssean Figures in the Medieval World Described in antiquity as the first historian, the brave, lonely traveller who ‘saw the cities of many peoples’ (Polybius, 12.27.11; Diodorus Siculus, 1.1.2), Odysseus represents a provocative site to explore classical receptions, medieval globalism and encounters with alterities. We invite papers that explore the following themes relating to the figure of Odysseus: • Exile, displacement and nostalgia • Travel, wonder and paradoxography • Autopsia and historiography Throughout the Middle Ages, the characters of Homer were reimagined in new cultural contexts and a wide range of vernacular literary traditions. Mediated primarily through Latin sources (Vergil, Statius, Dares Phrygius), Homeric figures were adapted into literary and also oral traditions.This panel seeks broad conver- sations across diverse medieval communities and literatures, specifically through the figure of Odysseus. Papers may wish to look at adaptations of the Trojan myth, including but not limited to: • Ilias Latina • Imtheachta Aeniasa • Merugud Uilix maicc Leirtis • Trojumanna Saga Or papers may consider texts with Odyssean themes more generally: ( , One Thousand and One Nights (e.g. Sinbad the Sailorةَلْيَلَو ةَلْيَل فْلَأ • • Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia • Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτης, Digenes Akritas • Western Travel literature to the East (e.g. Marco Polo, John Mandeville) • Arabic travel literature (e.g. Ibn Fadlan) These are by no means intended as limitations, but suggestions. Papers that discuss Odyssean themes in oral and/or non-Western traditions are particularly welcome. Please send one-page abstracts for papers to [email protected] by 8 September 2018. Organized by Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Carson J. Koepke, and Chihiro L. Tsukamoto.

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