Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing

The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) organises
an international symposium on "Codicology and Palaeography in the
Digital Age" in Munich, 3/4 July 2009. Please find a brief
description below and more information including the preliminary
programme here:
http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/tagung_kod_pal/index.html#programm.

You are all very welcome to participate.

CFP

CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting (SEMA)
October 15-17, 2009
Submissions due: June 11, 2009

*Monstrous Binaries: Monster Theories in/at Play*

“It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant
elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible
beauty.”—Alfred Jarry, “Les Monstres”

Whether or not it is beautiful, the monster is certainly
inexhaustible. The BABEL Working Group invites submissions that
explore the inexhaustibility of literary monsters as they both demand
and defy binary characterizations. How might binary models explain,
occlude, or displace other monstrous possibilities? The invitation is
purposefully open and might include approaches that range from
postcolonial theory to Russian Formalism, from queer theory to
ecocriticism (and all points in between/beyond).

The panel will be a part of the 2009 SEMA conference, and its goal is
to bring together disparate readings of monsters, letting them
commingle, coexist, and (perhaps) coalesce for a few minutes.
Abstracts should be for papers fifteen minutes in length. They may
offer focused examinations of primary texts or more abstract,
theoretical discussions, but all submissions should make explicit
their theoretical genealogy.

A *partial* list of approaches might include: Kristeva, Foucault,
Girard, Plumwood, Derrida, Bakhtin, Lacan, Cohen, Levi-Strauss,
Deleuze and Guattari, Propp, Zizek, Canguilhem, Butler, and/or Freud.

Deadline for Submission: 11 June 2009

Send Abstracts (150-250 words) to:

Timothy Asay (tasay@uoregon.edu) or

Marcus Hensel (mhensel1@uoregon.edu)

BABEL Working Group: http://www.siue.edu/babel/Babel-Home.htm

SEMA 2009 Conference: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/sema2009

Institute of Classical Studies Byzantine Colloquium

The annual Institute of Classical Studies Byzantine Colloquium will take
place, this year, on Saturday, 13 June. For logistical reasons it will
be held in the Lucas Theatre, King's College.
The theme is Turkey and the Byzantine. With the generous support of the
Institute and the Turkish Embassy, we will be hearing reports on
Byzantine excavations in Istanbul, including those at the Yeni Kapi
site, uncovering both the Theodosian Harbour, and also the neolithic
origins of habitation on the site. There will also be papers examining
the inheritance of the Byzantine in Ottoman culture.

For the full programme see
http://www.kcl. ac.uk/schools/ humanities/ depts/bmgs/ news/byz-turkey.html

Medieval News of the Week

Czech expert: Only 30% of collapsed Cologne archives to be saved

Turning an ancient page in history


Minister Unveils Plans To Preserve And Manage Walled Town

A major project, to identify castles and tower-houses which could be
suitable for future restoration and development


Local Skills and Materials Revitalise Lindisfarne Priory


Charles Bridge builders used modern methods

Expert restoration work for historic stained glass

ARMENIANS RENOVATE UNKNOWN JEWISH CEMETERY


Mayor backs bid to put Bede on world map


A road paved with sarcophagi found in Novgorod

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Seventeenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

*****CALL FOR PAPERS******



The seventeenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place March 11-13 2010 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome.



The conference will be held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. The college, located on Sarasota Bay, is adjacent to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which will offer tours arranged for conference participants. Sarasota is noted for its beautiful public beaches, theater, art and music. The average temperatures in March are a pleasant high of 77F (25C) and a low of 57F (14C).



More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions: http://faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies



The deadline for abstracts is October 1, 2009. Send inquiries and abstracts (email preferred, no attachments please) to:



nmyhill@ncf.edu



Nova Myhill

Division of Humanities

New College of Florida

5800 Bay Shore Road

Sarasota FL 34243

Medieval News

Ivanovo Rock Churches: Medieval Bulgaria Unveiled

More human remains found at dig

Lost' medieval church discovered

Viking ship' discovered in Sweden's largest lake

Medieval button found in St Albans declared 'treasure

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

HA CFP

Call for Papers


The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe invites submissions for our upcoming issues. In each issue, we plan to publish papers on any topic that falls approximately in the era between 300 and 1200 CE and within the general geographical region of Northwestern Europe and periods, and areas. Each issue contains:

*a general section of papers and notes that covers any topic in our range of dates and geography;
*a themed section of papers on an announced topic;
*a Forum section of review essays, special topics, and the like;
*a number of columns dealing with aspects of Early Medieval scholarship and research

Thus, The Heroic Age publishes the following types of materials:
*Feature Articles;
*Notes;
*Review Essays;
*Editions and Translations;
*History by Biography;*Book Reviews;
*Film and Television Reviews.

The following special sections are planned for future issues:

Issue 15: Ten Year Anniversary Issue: The World of Late Antique Britain.
For our ten-year anniversary, The Heroic Age is planning to revisit the topic of its first issue, the Matter of Arthur. Issue 15 will have three sections. The first will be historical, examining the world of Late Antique Britain, connections with the rest of the continent in Late Antiquity, and new views of the Adventus Saxonum. The second section will examine Arthur and Arthurian literature. The third section will include studies of "understudied" early medieval authors. Deadline for submissions is November 2009.

Issue 16: Alcuin and His Impact
Alcuin spans the Anglo-Saxon and Continental worlds and his influence is felt far beyond his own period and place. This issue seeks to explore the man, his times, and his influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations.The Heroic Age

Issue 17: Carolingian Border-Lands.
This issue seeks to explore the lands and peoples surrounding the Carolingian kingdom(s) and their impact on the Carolingians.

Future planned issues include themed sections on Old French/Provencal/Occitan studies, Charlemagne, Rise of the Normans, and Study of the Bible in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe.

Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submission should be sent to Larry Swain at haediting@yahoo.com

Medieval News

Pope creates 5 saints including Portuguese warrior (and another medieval
saint)


Archaeologists to hunt for traces of medieval monastery
site is home of book of deer



Intact runestone found in church car park


Ancient medieval buildings found beneath Cathedral Square

Alan Vince, Archaeologist who transformed the study of Anglo-Saxon and
medieval ceramics Obit



4,300 medieval coins unearthed at Carevi Kuli


Hunt for long lost Monastery of Deer makes some discoveries


Archaeologists keen to trace origins of Roman skeleton

Destruction and Decay of Byzantine Buildings


Christian relics found in northern Iraq, more on a story from last week

Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome


Ancient boat remains found


Medieval fort opens its gates to the public

From the Americas, Airport dig yields new anthropological discovery

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Postcolonizing the Medieval Image

Postcolonizing the Medieval Image
Postgraduate Study Day

Thursday 17 September 2009 10.00-17.00
School of Fine Art, University of Leeds
Keynote Lecturer: Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, co-editor of Postcolonial
Approaches to the European Middle Ages

Short papers and presentations are invited from MA and Ph.D. students
working on projects that link the postcolonial with medieval images. The
study day will be open to art historians, historians, literary scholars
and anyone else interested in the visual.
The keynote lecture will be followed by workshops for MA and PhD students
on topics such as periodization and temporality, geographies, borders and
border crossing, translation subversion and appropriation, especially as
they apply to visual culture.
Participation will not be limited to medievalists.
A limited number of student bursaries for both UK and international
students will be available.
For further information please contact Dr. Eva Frojmovic
(e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk) or Professor Catherine Karkov
(c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk), School of Fine Art, University of Leeds.

The “Postcolonizing the Medieval Image” research network is supported by
the AHRC. More information about the network is available at:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/Pages/ResearchDetail.aspx?id=144078

Robin Hood: Media Creature

Robin Hood: Media Creature
>
>
> An > International Conference, 22-25 October 2009 > http://www.rochester.edu/robinhood/ The International Association for Robin Hood Studies will
> sponsor the Seventh Biennial Conference on Robin Hood, to be held 22-25
> October 2009 at the University of Rochester , Rochester NY (USA). Scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia will present papers on well-established
> and perennially controversial aspects of the outlaw hero,
> and will offer new views and understandings as well.

Participants will be drawn from scholars and intellectuals in all fields
of academic, artistic, and popular culture, with no limits on time period,
media, or national literatures. Though film, media, and the popular and performing
> arts will have a featured role, sessions will include a broad range of
> disciplinary and interdisciplinary interests, including medieval and early
> modern historical studies, literary criticism, folklore, musicology and music
> practice, children’s literature, cultural studies, anthropology, film and media
> studies, performance art and oral recitations, art history, literary theory, and
> philosophy. Deadline for abstracts is 15 June 2009.

Highlights of the Seventh Biennial Conference:
> Plenary speakers: Professor Helen Phillips ( University of Cardiff ), author of Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval (2005), Bandit Territories: British
> Outlaws and their Traditions (2008), and Introduction to the Canterbury Tales: Fiction, Reading , Context (2000, 2005). Website:
> http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/contactsandpeople/profiles/phillips-helen.html
>
> Ms. Gillian Anderson ( Bologna ), internationally renowned composer,
> conductor, and musicologist, has participated in the reconstruction and
> performance of some thirty-four orchestral scores from silent films, author of
> four books, founding editor of the new journal, Music and the Moving
> Image (University of Illinois Press ). Website: http://www.gilliananderson.it

Plenary events: Twenty-First Century “World Premiere” of Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (United Artists, 1922). A new 35mm tinted print, restored by the
> Museum of Modern Art and George Eastman House / International Museum
> of Film and Photography, will be screened 24 October 2009
> (Saturday) before an audience of 500 at the Dryden Theatre, George Eastman
> House.

Live Accompaniment for Robin Hood. Gillian Anderson will conduct a live
> orchestra playing the newly reconstructed score of Robin Hood. The showing – which will duplicate the experience of audiences who attended the first-ever
> Hollywood premier, and of those in early twentieth-century movie palaces – will be
> introduced by Patrick Loughney, Head, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress (Packard Campus).

East Coast Premier of Robin Hood (Éclair America, 1912), the earliest surviving film featuring the outlaw hero, in a recently restored print (shown so far only once, in LA) from the Fort Lee Film Commission. With solo musical accompaniment by
> Philip Carli, renowned film expert and musicologist who has accompanied silent films at the Pordenone Festival in Italy, and elsewhere in Europe and North
> America.

Concert of Early Lute Music. Grammy-Award winner Paul O’Dette (Eastman School of Music) will offer a recital of Elizabethan Greenwood and Robin Hood-related lute music, drawing upon the repertoire he established in albums including Robin is to the Greenwood Gone (1992) and Robin Hood:> Elizabethan Ballad Settings (2001).
>
Operettain Performance. Steven Daigle (Chair, Strings, Eastman School of
> Music, and Artistic Director, Ohio Light Opera) has organized an evening
> of arias and songs from Robin Hood musicals, spanning the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. This presentation will occur the evening of 22 October 2009
> (Thursday) , and will feature musicians and singers from the Ohio Light Opera, as well as faculty and students from the Eastman School of Music and the University of
> Rochester. Professor Daigle’s 2004 production with the Ohio Light Opera of Reginald de Koven’s Robin Hood (1891) is available as a CD from Amazon.com
> and other outlets.

> Events and Exhibitions:
> “An Impression of the Middle Ages”: Productions
> Stills from Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood. A major exhibition drawing upon an
> archive of nearly 1000 negatives at the George Eastman House, most never
> exhibited or examined before. The exhibition will also include original posters and lobby cards, and the boots which Fairbanks wore in the film. Support and
> contributions from the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department, and the
> University of Rochester Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.


The Americanization of Robin Hood, 1883-1923. A focused exhibition, tracing the
> development of American images of Robin Hood which have permanently changed the
> outlaw’s status in international popular culture. Incorporating the Fairbanks photographs from “An Impression of the Middle Ages,” it will provide a lavishly documented account of the impact and history of Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of
> Robin Hood, and present music, lyrics, advertisements, programs, and photographs associated with the operettas of Reginald De Koven, including Robin Hood (1891) and Maid Marian (1901). Support and contributions from the George Eastman House, the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, the Sibley Music Library, and a private collection.

> Robin Hood: Media Creature: An exhibition of Robin Hood-related materials, ranging from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, in all media–selected from thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song,
> operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), photographs
> (including a selection from previously un-exhibited “keybooks” for The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] with Errol Flynn), along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more. Support and contributions from the Strong National Museum of Play, the George Eastman House, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Rush Rhees Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and a private collection. ***

> The conference will begin with simultaneous sessions on Thursday afternoon (October 22), and panels will proceed through Sunday morning (October 25). Highlights include operetta performances Thursday evening, a banquet on Friday evening, and the screening of Robin Hood on Saturday night.

> Helen Phillips will offer her plenary lecture on Friday morning. There will be a
> concluding session on Sunday morning, featuring a panel of experts from the George Eastman House, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Library of Congress, addressing issues of film history, popular culture, and the preservation of national treasures
> like Robin Hood (1922), moderated by Professor Stephen Knight (University of Cardiff).

> Gillian Anderson will then deliver her plenary lecture on the musical environment for silent cinema.

> The conference will conclude with a fare-well luncheon. Other participants include
> Chris Chism (Rutgers), Steven Daigle (Ohio Light Opera /ESM), Alan Gaylord (Dartmouth ), Richard Kaeuper (Rochester), Stephen Knight (Cardiff), Patrick Loughney (Library of Congress), and Thomas Ohlgren (Purdue).

Please post this notice, and forward or share it with anyone who might wish to attend
> or take part in the events. For further information on Conference Registration and full call for papers go to http://www.rochester.edu/robinhood. Send paper abstracts (limit 300 words)in MS Word or compatible formats to Thomas Hahn,
> IARHS Conference@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 15 June> 2009.

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CFP for the Writing England Conference

We are delighted to open a CFP for the Writing England Conference to
be held in Leicester, 28-30 April 2010. After the success of the
Writing England Conference in 2007, we have expanded the temporal
remit of the conference to exchange ideas about manuscript studies,
material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history,
readers, audience and scribes at the heart of the medieval period.

Confirmed speakers: Elaine Treharne (Florida State University),
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University of York) and Tony Edwards (De
Montfort University, Leicester).

CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome paper proposals from scholars working on writers, book
production and use of, and responses to texts in Latin, Insular
French and English from the eleventh to the fourteenth-century.
Please send a title and abstract (maximum 150 words) for a 20-minute
paper, by 30 October 2009, with your contact details, to Dr Orietta
Da Rold, School of English, The University of Leicester, University
Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH. E.: odr1@leicester.ac.uk; T.: 0116 252 2778.

Conference web site: http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/odr1/writingengland/index.html

I'd be very grateful if you could distribute the CFP as widely as possible.

CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting

CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting
Vanderbilt University
October 15-17, 2009

/Knowing and Unknowing/

What did medieval peoples know about their world? What do we know
about the Middle Ages? We welcome papers on all aspects of the Middle
Ages, but we particularly encourage papers that consider the role of
knowledge. Suggested topics include medieval education, medieval
philosophies of what can and cannot be known, material artifacts such
as manuscripts that let us "know" more about the Middle Ages, the
exploitation of the Middle Ages by post-medieval scholars and
artists, the limits of knowledge in medieval literature, knowledge of
self, and knowledge (or lack thereof) of others.

MEARCSTAPA* plans to contribute to SEMA, and so we hereby request
papers for sessions on “knowing” that also fall under our common
umbrella of monstrosity (a horizontal aegis?). In keeping with the
theme of the conference, we solicit abstracts of 250 words or less
that would address the following potential idea sets:

Know Thy Self, Know Thy Other: Identifying (with) the Medieval Monstrous

When Categories Fail!: Taxonomies of the Unknowable

For consideration under the MEARCSTAPA umbrella, please submit
abstracts to Jeff Massey

(e-ddress below) no later than June 15^th .

Again, please send abstracts to: jmassey@molloy.edu
no later than June 15, 2009.

The fine folks at MEARCSTAPA look forward to hearing from you.

* MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research
of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application)
is an organization committed to the scholarly examination of
monstrosity as an area of social and cultural interest to past and
present societies. Our inter/trans/post/pre-disciplinary approach
allows us to explore the significance of monstrosity across cultural,
temporal, and geographic boundaries. We are interested in a
multivalent approach using materials on monsters and monstrosity from
literary, artistic, philosophical, and historical sources.

MAA CER-sponsored workshops at Kalamazoo

Spaces are still available in both MAA CER-sponsored workshops at
Kalamazoo. If you are interested in how digital projects are designed,
or are considering building one of your own, we look forward to seeing
you there!

****************

The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources is
pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both
workshops will be on Thursday, May 7 (sessions 54 and 166; see
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete
conference schedule).

Workshop registration online at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d

1) Metadata for Medievalists I: Introduction to Metadata Formats
Session 54, Thursday 7 May, 10am

This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital
scholarship,
led by Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University's Metadata Librarian.
Instruction includes an introduction to the concept of metadata, an
overview of metadata types of interest to medievalists working in a
variety of textual and image formats, and an overview of methods for
metadata implementations (database, encoded data, printed copy, etc.).
Assignments will be completed during the following clinic.

2) Metadata for Medievalists II: Introduction to the Text-Encoding Initiative
Session 166, Thursday 7 May, 3:30pm

This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital
scholarship,
taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists.
Instruction
includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5
standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and
a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the
following clinic.

Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds
an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Dot Porter
is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish
Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western
Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and
extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics.

Both workshops are limited to 35 participants, and registration is required.

The pre-registration fee per workshop for students is $40/$55
(Medieval Academy members/nonmembers), for non-students is $50/$65.

To register, complete the online form at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d
Questions about registration should be directed to James W. Brodman at
jimb@uca.edu
Questions about the workshops should be directed to Dot Porter at
dot.porter@gmail.com

Knowledge and Learning in the Middle Ages

Knowledge and Learning in the Middle Ages

The Magdalene Society of Medievalists is delighted to announce that registration has now opened for the Society's 2009 Conference entitled: 'Knowledge and Learning in the Middle Ages: A Conference Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the University of Cambridge'.

This one-day, interdisciplinary conference on Medieval Studies will take place on 13 June 2009 and will be held in Cripps Court, Magdalene College, Cambridge. The conference was made possible by a special grant from the 2009 Fund, which is sponsoring a number of events throughout the year celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the University of Cambridge (http://www.800.cam.ac.uk/).

The conference program includes sessions on Music, Literature, History and Religion, and a keynote address by Margot Fassler (Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History, Yale University). Other speakers will include:

Kathleen Biddick, Professor of History (Temple University)
Jeremy Johns, Professor of Art & Archeology of the Islamic Mediterranean, Faculty of Oriental Studies (Oxford University)
Paul A. Brand, Fellow, All Souls College (Oxford University)
David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English (University of Pennsylvania)
Vincent Gillespie, J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language (Oxford University)
Emma Dillon, Associate Professor of Music (University of Pennsylvania)
Jennifer Saltzstein, Assistant Professor of Musicology (University of Oklahoma)
Patrick Geary, Professor of History (University of California Los Angeles)
Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History (Queen Mary University)
Jean-Claude Schmitt, Director of Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales

The conference will close with a banquet in the College Hall.

For the full programme, including a schedule of events, paper titles and information about how to register, please visit the conference website at:

http://www.magdalenemedievalists.org/MSM/2009_Conference.html

The registration deadline is 31 May 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS: BOGOMILISM AND RELATED MOVEMENTS, THE CULTURE OF PEACE AND > CONTACTS OF > CIVILIZATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> BOGOMILISM AND RELATED MOVEMENTS, THE CULTURE OF PEACE AND
> CONTACTS OF
> CIVILIZATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
>
> To be held at the International conference, Bulgarian
> Cultural Center in
> Skopje, Macedonia, September 30, 2009. Dead line: June 30, 2009
>
> In the time of an acute religious rivalry in the Middle
> Ages Bogomilism
> revealed itself as culture of non-violence, of spiritual
> development
> stimulating the communication of different cultures and
> civilizations. In
> many aspects it was a real process of syncresis among
> remote cultures and
> civilizations, close to the actual French notion
> “interculturalité,” and in
> some way a precursor of the actual intercultural dialogue
> of the European
> Union. The study and discussion on this experience could
> generate some
> practical approaches how to overcome the religious
> fanaticism which is one
> of the basic sources of contemporary terrorism.
>
> Plenary session (10 a.m.-1 p.m.)
>
> Working panels (2-5 p.m.):
> 1st panel: New studies and publications on Bogomilism and
> related movements:
> Cathars, Patarenes, Beguines, Lollards
> 2nd panel: Dualist movements and the Reformation
>
> Final plenary session (6-7 p.m.)
> • Working languages: English and
> French.
> • The conference will commence at 9 AM,
> on Wednesday, September30, 2009, and
> will close at 7 PM. • The organizers envisage publishing of
> a collection of the papers
> presented. Expected size of each paper is 10 pages.
> • Travel and accommodation costs are
> the responsibility of the participants
> or the institution they represent. • Participation fee is
> 30 Euros which
> will cover coffee breaks, refreshing
> drinks and final dinner. If you have any further queries please contact the
> conference coordinator:
> Georgi Vasilev Ph.D., D.Litt.
> Professor of European and Medieval Studies,
> State University of Library Studies and IT
> Sofia 1784
> 119 Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd.
> E-mail: g.vasilev (at) cust.skknet (dot) net
> Web: www.geocities.com/bogomil1bg
> Tel. +359 2 887 969087
>
> You can also contact Spas Tashev, Director of the Bulgarian
> Cultural Center in Skopje
> Skopje 1000
> 14 A, Petar Arsov Street
> Tel. +389 2 324 6676 Fax: +389 2 324 6675
> E-mail: lihnida@abv.bg