CALL FOR PAPERS

"Religions of the Book: Manuscript Traditions in Judaism, Christianity and
Islam, 1000-1500"

Second Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 21-22, 2008
University of South Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, FL

Deadline: DECEMBER 14, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Thomas E. Burman, Lindsay Young Associate Professor
Department of History, University of Tennessee,
author of Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560

Keynote Address: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Traditions Hall

The Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of
South Florida seeks papers from graduate students and recent M.A. or
Ph.D. recipients for its Second Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate
Symposium. This year's theme is "Religions of the Book: Manuscript
Traditions in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, 1000-1500."
We encourage interdisciplinary topics with comparative emphases on
monotheistic religions in the medieval world.

Subjects for proposals may include, but are not limited to:

sacred myth and narrative
interreligious dialogue
scriptural exegesis
modes of representation
traditions of illumination
methods of manuscript production

Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr. Jane Marie
Pinzino,
Symposium Coordinator at jpinzinolib.usf.edu. Notification
of acceptances will be emailed by January 4, 2008. Please include
the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email address. Each
paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE DATE: DECEMBER 14, 2007

The Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Student Symposium is organized by the
Special Collections Department and the Humanities Institute,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Jane Marie Pinzino, Ph.D.

Special Collections Department
University of South Florida, Tampa Library
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa, FL 33620-5400
813.974-2731 voice
813.396-9006 fax
http://www.lib.usf.edu
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