CALL FOR PAPERS and IMAGES OF RESEARCH The EMREM Postgraduate Forum Annual Symposium and Images of Research Exhibition Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May 2017 Papers and images of research are invited for the 2017 EMREM two-day interdisciplinary symposium, to be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme for this year’s event is 'Powerful Objects'. Postgraduates from all fields of EMREM (History, Archaeology, Literature, Linguistics, Music, Art History) are welcome to share their research by giving papers and/or entering the exhibition, while also building networks at this friendly and well-established symposium. You may submit both a paper and an image. Possible topics for papers and images might include, but are not limited to: Materiality and Embodiment The Sacred and the Numinous Text as Object Relics and Reliquaries Life Courses and Biographies Digital Humanities Object-Oriented Ontologies Royal Regalia Human and Non-Human Objects Mechanical and Musical Instruments Painting and Sculpture Weaponry and Armour Tombs and Monuments Coins and Coinage Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please send proposals of approximately 300 words, OR 1000 words if applying as a panel, to [email protected] by 1st March 2017. Early Medieval, Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern c.400-c.1700