Call for Papers: Third AIFG Doctoral Conference, “Cultural Syncretisms in the Literary Traditions of the European Middle Ages. Encounters between Germanic realities and other cultures” (Bologna, December 10-12, 2025)

A call for papers for the Third AIFG Doctoral Conference, to be held at the University of Bologna from Dec. 10-12, 2025, has been circulated these days.

The conference will have as its theme. Cultural syncretisms in the literary traditions of the European Middle Ages. Encounters between Germanic realities and other cultures. . Proposals for interventions may concern the mutual influences between Germanic cultures and other literary traditions of the European Middle Ages and how they shaped new symbolic, narrative and poetic languages, as well as the dynamics of cultural exchange, identity transformations
and possible reinterpretations of Germanic myths and legends through encounters with other traditions, or even approaches marked by transmediality, as long as they are based on a thorough and rigorous philological analysis of literary sources.

Intervention proposals must be received by June 13, 2025. All information regarding the submission of abstacts and the different types of intervention proposals can be found in the PDFs attached to the news story.