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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Colleagues in Andalusi studies: Please consider participating in one of the following two sessions on Mediterranean Studies slated for the MLA's annual meeting in Seattle this coming January.
(Note that the second session is a collaboration between CLCS Mediterranean and LLC Medieval Iberian.)</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><b>DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:</b> March 17th.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Greg Hutcheson</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Chair, CLCS Mediterranean executive committee</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size:14pt; color:rgb(51,51,153); font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif">Is There a Future for Mediterranean Studies?: A Roundtable</span></p>
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<div class="x_abstract" style="box-sizing:border-box">This roundtable seeks to ignite critical debate about the future of Mediterranean Studies by weighing current challenges, emergent approaches and methodologies, and new corpuses of study. (Submit a 200-word
abstract for a 3-page position paper.)</div>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Deadline for submissions:</b> Sunday, 17 March 2019</p>
<div class="x_paperauthors" style="box-sizing:border-box; font-style:italic"><span class="x_presenter" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="x_name" style="box-sizing:border-box">Gregory S. Hutcheson</span>, <span class="x_affiliation" style="box-sizing:border-box">U
of Louisville</span> (<a href="mailto:gshutch@louisville.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0,108,204); text-decoration-line:none">gshutch@louisville.edu </a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt">Alternative Communities in the Medieval Mediterranean</span></h2>
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<div class="x_abstract" style="box-sizing:border-box">How does medieval literature’s engagement with the Mediterranean’s complex networks of exchange transform its audience's sense of belonging and/or promote alternative communities? Collaborative session with
LLC Medieval Iberian. (Seeking 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers.)</div>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Deadline for submissions:</b> Sunday, 17 March 2019</p>
<div class="x_paperauthors" style="box-sizing:border-box; font-style:italic"><span class="x_presenter" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="x_name" style="box-sizing:border-box">Gregory Hutcheson</span>, <span class="x_affiliation" style="box-sizing:border-box">University
of Louisville</span> (<a href="mailto:gregory.hutcheson@louisville.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0,108,204); text-decoration-line:none">gregory.hutcheson@louisville.edu </a>)</span></div>
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