Monday, December 20, 2010

Summer School in Celtic Studies

SUMMER SCHOOL
SCHOOL OF CELTIC STUDIES,
DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

18-29 JULY 2011

Details of the Summer School are now available on our website
(http://www.celt.dias.ie).
The final date for registration is 31 January 2011.

SCOIL SHAMHRAIDH
SCOIL AN LÉINN CHEILTIGH
INSTITIÚID ARD-LÉINN BHAILE ÁTHA CLIATH:

18-29 IÚIL 2011.

Tá eolas faoin Scoil Shamhraidh anois ar fáil ar ár suíomh idirlín
(http://www.celt.dias.ie).
Is é an dáta deireanach le clárú a dhéanamh an 31 Eanáir 2011.

Iarrtar orthu siúd a gheobhaidh an fógra seo é a chóipeáil agus a
scaipeadh ar dhaoine eile a mbeadh spéis acu ina bhfuil ann.

Comitatus

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. Submissions should be in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.

The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

8-WEEK INTENSIVE GREEK AND LATIN SUMMER SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND
June 27th – August 18th 2011

Director of the Summer School: Dr Konstantin Doulamis

The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.

For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/summerschool/
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277, email: v.janssens@ucc.ie

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html
Within the conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies Neoplatonism in the East - ex oriente lux, to be held in Haifa, 22-24 March 2011, we invite abstract submissions for the panel session Platonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages :

The relationship between Platonism and Christianity, and philosophy and theology, in late antique and medieval thinkers has been a subject of a wide range of studies in modern scholarship. However, the positions on this issue are not as uniform as one might think. While one party argues that what happened was just a conventional use of Platonic features by Christian thinkers, the others seem to embrace a true interaction between Christian theology and platonic philosophy.
What did actually happen – was the Platonic element just a mere convenience as to the language and philosophical tools, or was there a genuine unification between Platonism and Christianity? Was the “collaboration” between the two limited to simple borrowings of linguistic and logical tools, or can there be traced an essential influence of one on another? These are the questions on which the papers included in this panel should try to elaborate.
Papers should be concentrated on, but not limited to, some of the following themes: relationship between philosophy and theology; specific authors (such as Augustine, Dionysius Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, etc.) and their use of (neo)platonic doctrines; the use of the same language by Platonists and Christians – similarities and differences; new shapes and meanings of Platonic doctrines in the Christian context…
Abstracts of no more than a single page should be sent to:
Filip Ivanovic
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim

Comitatus

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. Submissions should be in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.

The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"

Call for Papers

Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania

Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University

From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year’s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.

Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.

Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
genealogies
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
gender roles
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
arranged marriages
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
sibling rivalry
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
language families
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
relationships
incest
polygamy
childbearing and childrearing
dynasties

Please send 300-word abstracts to pennmedieval@gmail.com by January 15, 2011

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney (12-14 August 2011) Information & CFP

Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney (12-14 August 2011) Information & CFP

HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA) 12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia

CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011

This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both fields.

For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/

email: antiqua2011@gmail.com

Thursday, December 2, 2010

SCRIPTO IV at Erlangen starts in May

SCRIPTO IV at Erlangen starts in May



The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely innovative course, at the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich-Alexander-University.

SCRIPTO is made up of a broad spectrum of subjects and offers the following courses:


- History and principles of cataloguing
- Text typology (philosophical and theological texts; literary texts; liturgy; music; law, medicine; medieval Latin)
- Book illumination (technology, stylistic history, illustrational typology, iconography); palaeography
- Codicology; incunabula studies
- Informatics (use and construction of databanks for the interpretation, drawing up and administration of information about manuscripts; preparation of printed catalogues).



SCRIPTO IV offers research seminars by Guglielmo Cavallo (La Sapienza, Rome), Nicole Bériou (IRHT, Paris) and Rudolf Gamper (Vadiana St Gall).



The German Manuscript Centres in Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart and Wolfenbüttel are supportive of the SCRIPTO programme.



SCRIPTO sessions will take place in Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek), Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek) and Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) at a fee of 1080 € (which includes travel and accommodations for seminars outside of Erlangen (Munich; four days in Prague; Wolfenbüttel) per participant. Further information may be obtained online:



http://www.mittellatein.phil.uni-erlangen.de/scripto/scripto.html



SCRIPTO IV will run from 2 May 2011 until 13 July 2011. Applicants should write enclosing a full CV to:

Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

Mittellatein und Neulatein

Kochstr. 4/3

D-91054 Erlangen (Germany)



The application deadline is 4 April 2011. The language of instruction is German. Foreign participants, however, will be able to take German language courses at Friedrich-Alexander-University if they so wish. They should mention this in their application.

Those applicants accepted for the course will be charged 1080 € Euros and will receive a document stating the terms of agreement and detailed information about the course, including the timetable.

Newberry Library Symposium

Newberry Library Symposium

Mechanisms of Exchange: Transmission, Scale, and Interaction in the Arts and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean, 1000 to 1500

Friday, February 25, 2011

Organized by Heather E. Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Alicia Walker, Washington University in St. Louis



This symposium will bring together scholars working in art and architectural history to consider the mechanisms of cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean world and specifically the question of how styles, motifs, and techniques were transmitted in the architecture and the monumental arts versus the portable arts. Speakers include specialists in western European, Islamic, and Byzantine art and architectural history.



Preliminary program:



"Conveyance and Convergence: Painting and Architecture in Lusignan Cyprus"

Justine M. Andrews, University of New Mexico



"Coveting Greciscos: Byzantine Cloth and the Luxury Textile Market in Early Medieval Iberia"

Maria J. Feliciano, University of Washington



“Art and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean following 1204. Byzantium diluted or rejuvenated?”

Maria Georgopoulou, Gennadius Library, Athens



"Drawing, Memory, and Imagination in the Wolfenbüttel Musterbuch"

Ludovico V. Geymonat, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome



“Translating Texts and Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean World between the Tenth through Thirteenth Centuries”

Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts University



"Imported versus Native Medicine in a Thirteenth-Century Grave"

Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania



"Portable Palaces? On the Circulation of People, Objects, and Ideas in Medieval Anatolia"

Scott Redford, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul



The symposium will conclude with a roundtable discussion. Audience participation in the conversation will be warmly welcomed.



Registration

While there is no fee to attend this program, participants must register in advance with the Newberry Library.



Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions are eligible to apply for travel funds to attend this event. Contact your Representative Council member for details.

The Sons of Constantine

The Sons of Constantine

A one-day colloquium at Cardiff University

Date: 19th January 2011, 10am-5pm

Place: Room 2.03, Humanities Building, Colum Drive

Provisional Programme:

Nicholas Baker-Brian, Rehabilitating Constantius II: Ancient and Modern Views
Jill Harries, Constans the Hunter: A Late Roman Murder Mystery
Mark Humphries, The Year 350
Michael Saxby, The Coinage of Constantine I and his Sons: Symbols of Power
Alexander Skinner, Constantius II and the Senate of Constantinople
Shaun Tougher, Imperial Blood: Family Relationships in the Dynasty of
Constantine the Great

If you wish to attend please confirm by e-mail to either:
Baker-BrianNJ1@cardiff.ac.uk or TougherSF@cardiff.ac.uk


Dr Shaun Tougher
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History
Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
Wales
UK

MAKING HISTORIES The Sixth International Insular Art Conference

MAKING HISTORIES
The Sixth International Insular Art Conference
University of York
July 18-22, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS


The art of the insular world has been the focus of specific study through the International Insular
Art Conference meetings for over 25 years. The result has been a body of scholarship that has
advanced our understanding of the material on many fronts. The forthcoming Conference aims
to continue this trend, by addressing the various ways in which the art, in all media, can be
understood, as well as the ways in which that understanding itself has been constructed.
‘Making Histories’ thus invites papers that consider the processes involved in ‘making art’ (in
the broadest sense) in the early medieval, insular, world, as well as those that consider the
historical legacy of the scholarship on that art.
Abstracts of 350 words should be submitted to Dr Jane Hawkes (jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk) by 15
December, 2010.


Further queries should be address to: Dr Jane Hawkes
Department of History of Art
University of York
York YO10 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 434620
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433478
E-mail: jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk

Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: From Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion

7-8 January 2011. “Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: From Justinian
I to the Coeur de Lion,” an International Conference to be held at
CAARI (the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute) in
Nicosia, Cyprus. This event will commemorate the 50th year
anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus and the researchers who have
endeavored to study its Byzantine history. An international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars will present on current knowledge
of Byzantine archaeology and art history on Cyprus.

Attendance is free and open to the Public. Program is attached.

For more information contact:

Ms. Vathoulla Moustoukki,

C A A R I

11 Andrea Demitriou Street

1066 Nicosia, Cyprus



Email: admin@caari.org.cy

HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM

HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA)
12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia

CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011

This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from
Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars
interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the
ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded
significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier
centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now
beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that
historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build
systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of
historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary
value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in
the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this
conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern
historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both
fields.

For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/

email: antiqua2011@gmail.com

CFP: Conference: Graduate Students: Paper Prize

To all graduate students in medieval studies (in any discipline):

The Jim Falls paper prize is awarded each year to the best paper
given by a graduate student at the Mid-American Medieval Association
meeting.

In order to be considered for the prize, graduate students must first
submit an abstract to the conference and have it accepted by the
program committee. (See below and on the MAMA website for more
info.) Then, the paper itself - 20-minute maximum, so the actual
conference paper not an article or chapter -- must be submitted
electronically to Dr. Shona Kelly Wray by February 1, 2011. Her
email is wrays@umkc.edu.


CALL FOR PAPERS
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference XXXV: Medieval Recycling
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University,
"Recycling the Troubadours: Quotation and the Development of European Poetry"
February 26, 2011 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Deadline for one-page abstracts is December 15, 2010
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its
annual conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference
topic or any medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers,
with or without a chairperson - are also welcome.)

MEDIEVAL RECYCLING:
The medieval world saw the creative recycling of ideas, images,
materials and practices from classical antiquity and elsewhere
throughout the span of a thousand years. We would like for this
conference to explore the re-use and re-imagining of both material
objects and ideas in a variety of domains, from things like tropes
and citations used in texts and charters, to the copying of images,
to the re-using of materials such as parchment (for instance, the
discoveries found in things like palimpsests and binding fragments),
architectural elements, or building materials. Other possible ways
to think about the topic might include focusing on the transmission
of ideas or techniques through different cultural lenses and
perspectives.

Send a one-page abstract by December 15 to:
Dr. Kathy M. Krause
Email: KrauseK@umkc.edu
Fax: 816-235-1312