The Australian Association for Byzantine Studies announces a call for papers for its XVIth Biennial Conference. The conference is being held in honour of Professor John Melville-Jones and the theme will be 'Gender and Class in Byzantine Society'. Contributors are invited to interpret this theme broadly and we welcome submissions from all fields. Both scholars with academic affiliation and working independently, as well as postgraduate students, are encouraged to apply.
The conference will be held 16 - 18 April 2010 at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia.
Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words in length to :
Associate Professor Lynda Garland
School of Humanities
University of New England
Armidale
New South Wales 2351.
tel +61 2 6773 3236
fax +61 2 6773 3520
headshum@une.edu.au