Registration is now open for Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, c. 900-1500 Keltologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 8-10 April 2015 Keynote speakers: Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol), Prof. Dr Erich Poppe (PhilippsUniversität Marburg) and Dr Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (University of Iceland) We are delighted to open registration for a new symposium at Philipps-Universität Marburg on the role of cross-border literary borrowings in the construction of political, national, regional and cultural identities in the British Isles, Ireland and Iceland across the long period c. 900-1500. Papers from scholars working in a variety of related fields will consider processes of translation and adaptation across insular vernacular languages and Latin; cross-border thematic influences and correspondences; lines of transmission and textual distribution; the role of ecclesiastical and secular institutions in cross-border insular literary contact; perceptions of other insular peoples and constructions of otherness/ similitude; cross-border manuscript and book circulation; literary engagements and intersections with cross-border material and visual culture; and linguistic borrowings across insular languages. This is intended to foster discussion about contemporary methodologies in comparative literary studies by international scholars working in Celtic Studies, English, Scots and Norse. For more details and to see the full programme please visit insularmiddleages.wordpress.com To register to attend the conference please email Dr Victoria Flood at flood@staff.uni-maburg.de, with your name and (if applicable) details of your institutional affiliation. Registration fee is €10 waged; €8 student or unwaged. Registration closes on Friday 27 February.