CALL FOR PAPERS “Don't Let Us Die, or Our Successors...” Patron Saints on Their Path from the Middle Ages to Modern Times Conference organized by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (within the project Bohemian Hagiography of Czech Saints from Tridentine to Enlightenment Reforms) and Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov 7–9 June 2018 at the Strahov Monastery (Strahovské nádvoří 1/132, Prague 1 ‒ Hradčany)

the conference is devoted to the phenomenon of patron saints and holy patronage in its transformations. The Christian-defined concepts of holy patronage are in focus, primarily within the Early Modern Habsburg Empire, but we also welcome comparative contributions looking at earlier or later historical periods, as well as other political-geographic or cultural-geographic areas or even other religions. The aim of the conference is to analyze the phenomenon of patron saints from an interdisciplinary perspective, thus to present and confront the approaches of historiography, theology, religious studies, cultural anthropology, ethnology, philology, history of art, history of music etc. We would like to focus on the following thematic areas in particular: T  Communication with patron saints and about them by word, image, music, gesture, ritual  Holy patronage as an identity category, and/or category of affiliation; holy patronage and the concept of community, holy patronage and its polemical and apologetic potential in the inter-faith, inter-confessional, and intraconfessional dimensions; holy patronage and the articulation of enmity, foreignness, danger  Holy patronage and local piety; patron saints and memory of (a pilgrimage) place and/or a material object  Theological and lay concepts of the holy patronage, patron saints in folk piety; patron saint as a disciplinary instrument, patron saint as an instrument of cultural exchange  Strategy of introducing, spreading and restoring holy patronages, forgetting them, suppressing and rejecting them; profaning and secularizing the patron saints; patron saints’ ‘competition’ We cordially invite all colleagues interested in the problems mentioned above and other related issues to attend the conference. Please send us your proposals for papers (20 minutes in length + 10 minutes of discussion) including an abstract (up to a maximum of one standard page and one standard page for the bibliography) by 15 January 2018 at patroni.konference@seznam.cz. The organizers reserve the right to select contributions. Notification of acceptance will be made by mid-February 2018. Conference proceedings are to be published (in full or in an extended form) after the review process in a monothematic issue of a reviewed journal. The conference fee is 800 CZK / 30 €. The working languages are Czech, Slovak, German and English. Deadline: 15 January 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS On behalf of the organizing committee: Marie Škarpová Alena A. Fidlerová Evermod Gejza Šidlovský, O. Praem. ÚČLK FF UK ÚČJTK FF UK Strahovská knihovna nám. Jana Palacha 2 nám. Jana Palacha 2 Strahovské nádvoří 1/132 116 38 Praha 1 116 38 Praha 1 118 00 Praha 1 http://uclk.ff.cuni.cz http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz https://www.strahovskykl