Oct 24-25, CMRC & CRFF Int'l Conference on 'The Origins of FM' - Call for papers

05.05.2009

The CMRC and CRFF issue a call for papers for an:

International Conference on 'The Origins of Freemasonry'

24-25 October 2009

Canonbury Masonic Research Centre, London

Following on from ten years of successful international conferences, The Canonbury Masonic Research Centre is pleased to announce that its eleventh international conference scheduled for the Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of October 2009 will be a joint-venture project co-organised with the Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism (CRFF), Sheffield University. 

The theme of this year's conference will be 'The origins of Freemasonry' and will include keynote addresses from three internationally acclaimed scholars in the field: 

Dr. Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Professor Dr. José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli, Founder and Director of the Centro de Estudios Históricos de la Masoneria Espanola (CEHME), Zaragoza University

Dr. David Stevenson, Professor Emeritus of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews.

Scholars of all disciplines are invited to submit ideas for papers on sociological, political, cultural, religious, esoteric and prosopographical themes relating to early Freemasonry. Papers can be wide ranging in content or more narrowly focused, however, all should be fully documented and previously unpublished, as the organisers intend to publish a volume of post-conference transactions. 

Proposals for papers must consist of no more than 250-300 words and should be sent in writing to: 
The Conference Organiser, Canonbury Masonic Research Centre, Canonbury Tower, Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ. 
Please enclose your contact details and a potted CV with each proposal. 

The deadline for all such submissions is June 24th, 2009.

Matthew Scanlan
CMRC Conference organiser