The Heroic Age

NEH Institute at Tufts University - Working with Text in a Digital Age

2012-01-29T10:20:00.000-08:00

"Tufts University invites applications to “Working with Text in a Digital Age”, a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities (July 23-August 10, 2012) that combines traditional topics such as TEI Markup with training in methods from Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational Linguistics. Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit proposals by February 15, 2012. Participant proposals must include CVs and statements of purpose (no more than 1,000 words) describing how they will be able to use participation in the Institute to advance their subsequent careers. Participants must be committed to collaborative work and to publication of results from this Institute under a Creative Commons license. Participants should identify source materials with which they propose to work during the Institute and which must be in the public domain or available under a suitable license. In an ideal case, source materials would include both texts for intensive analysis and annotation and one or more larger corpora to be mined and analyzed more broadly. Statements of purpose must describe initial goals for the Institute. For more information or to submit applications, please contact lcerrato@perseus.tufts.edu.

We particularly encourage participants who are committed to developing research agendas that integrate contributions and research by undergraduates, that expand the global presence of the Humanities, and that, in general, broaden access to and participation in the Humanities. Preference will be given to participants who are best prepared not only to apply new technologies but to do so as a means to transform their teaching and research and the relationship of their work to society beyond academia."

Centre for e-Research Seminar: Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing

2012-01-29T10:19:00.000-08:00

Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing

Ralph Schroeder, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute

Eric T. Meyer, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute

Tuesday 17 January, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum. Followed by drinks.

In recent years, large-scale research programmes have been implemented across the globe with labels like e-Science, e-Infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure (Meyer and Schroeder 2009). It has been argued that
these various digital transformations have fundamentally changed how research is done. In this paper, we challenge this argument, and suggest instead that there are more specific changes in particular areas of
research that have taken place. To delimit the scope of what can be considered a digital transformation of research or ‘e-Research’ (since these could potentially encompass a vast range of phenomena), we define
these as the distributed and collaborative use of digital tools and data in the production of scientific knowledge. One feature that e-Research efforts share is that they consist of online research technologies with a digital component, though what this component consists of varies among particular e-Research projects (for example, data in a digital format, the use of computing power to perform processing, or the creation of complex visualizations with computer graphics). We argue, however, that this variety in technologies is not infinite, but that there are a limited number of these components which can be identified.

Please register to attend at:http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2658460527

About the speakers:

Dr Eric T. Meyer is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research in the area of social informatics focuses on understanding how digital technologies enable changes in the way people work, relate and interact. A particular focus has been studying how the practices of research are changing as digital tools and data become central in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. He is broadly interested in a fundamental question regarding how technology and practice are related: what evidence is there that technology has enabled people and organizations to do entirely new things? More information is available at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120

Ralph Schroeder is Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. He is director of research at the Institute and director of its Master's degree in 'Social Science of the Internet'. His
books include 'Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change' (Stanford University Press 2007) and 'Being there Together: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments' (Oxford University Press 2010).
Before coming to Oxford, he was Professor at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. His current research is focused on the digital transformations of research.

Call for papers at the SBL international meeting July 2012

2012-01-29T10:16:00.000-08:00

Digital Humanities and Manuscripts, chaired by David Hamidovic and Claire Clivaz.

The process of editing of ancient biblical manuscripts, as well as of editing other ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts, has been transformed by the emerging digital culture. The digitalization of the manuscripts raises technical questions, such as automatic reading or multispectral imagery, and leads us to new challenges. How do we understand the "text" in the digital culture? In addition, the capacity to study and valorize online a specific manuscript challenges the notion of “critical edition”.?The seminar welcomes proposals of papers about ancient Hebrew, Greek or Arabic manuscripts - either literary or documentary texts - in the fields of biblical studies, early Jewish and Christian studies. We hope to receive papers either on technical points, or new interpretations with digitalization or data managing, or questions about the notion of “critical edition”.

All the details are here:

http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=20&VolunteerUnitId=574

The call for papers ends the 1st of February.

International Studies in Medievalism(s) Call for Student Participation

2012-01-29T10:14:00.000-08:00

The International Conference on Medievalism (http://www.medievalism.net/conferences.html) will be hosted by Kent State University Regional Campuses (particularly Stark and Trumbull) on October 18-20, 2012, on the Stark Campus. This conference is a great opportunity for student scholastic involvement.

At this time, in addition to the general invitation for conference papers by scholars, I invite undergraduate students to submit for participation in a medievalist video game poster session workshop (co-sponsored with Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization). This workshop will be held in two ways. One way will be during an afternoon of the conference (in a room filled with the appropriate technology), where conference participants may wander from station-to-station of presented medievalist games. Each participant will have a station (a table) at which both the poster and the game will be made available to conference participants. The poster may be constructed of either paper poster board or be electronic (such as a PowerPoint presentation on a laptop). NOTE regarding the video game demonstrations at the conference: the game and the necessary equipment might have to be supplied by the presenter, but there will be some pieces available for general use. The other way that one might present would be fully online, in a password protected area, where electronic posters will be accessible to all conference participants for several weeks. Participants may be considered to present in both the physical and virtual environments. There are a limited number of stations available for the at-conference (physical) presentations.

The theme is Medievalism(s) & Diversity (see the attached description)--proposals must address this conference theme. Please encourage your students to submit completed posters and the attached form for consideration by June 1, 2012. In addition, please also consider submitting a paper proposal yourself (for the conference in general). Finally, please share this announcement with others.

Late Antiquity Newsletter -- Call for Papers, APA 2013 Seattle

2012-01-29T10:10:00.000-08:00

Letters in Late Antiquity

Organizer: Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at Boulder

Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity

We are fortunate to have more letters and letter collections from Late Antiquity than from the rest of Greco-Roman antiquity combined. These offer a wealth of information on personal relations, social history, the history of the family, political alliances, religious concerns, and daily life. Additionally, late antique letters open a broad window onto the literary concerns of authors and their world, reflecting as they do the power this genre exerted over the formation of literary personae and their performance on the cultural stage. Despite this vast wealth of material, it has only begun to receive the attention it deserves in the last decade, which has seen an burgeoning of new studies on epistolography.

The 2013 panel of the Society for Late Antiquity will be devoted to the subject of epistles in all of their manifestations, Latin and Greek (as well as Coptic and Syriac), prose and verse, religious and secular, literary and bureaucratic, textual and epigraphic. It seeks to explore why this form of expression suited the late antique world so well and to explore the research avenues opened up by the letters we have. Questions might include: What constituted a literary epistle? To what earlier traditions of epistolography do Late Antique authors appeal? Why do late antique authors choose so often to express themselves in this genre? In what way do late antique letters differ from those of earlier periods? How were letters transported and exchanged? To what extent did the collapse of territorial integrity in the Roman world affect the transmission of letters? What do letters reflect about social relations and patronage networks? How were letters used as instruments of power by their authors, be they estate holders, bishops, sophists, or emperors? How was the composition, transmission, receipt and collection of letters used as a method for self-expression and self-assertion?

We invite the submission of abstracts offering new approaches to these problems. One-page abstracts (ca. 500 words) for papers requiring a maximum of 20 minutes to deliver should be sent no later than February 1, 2012 by email attachment as .doc or .rtf files to Noel Lenski atlenski@colorado.edu. Please follow the APA's instructions for the format of individual abstracts. All submissions will be judged anonymously by two referees. Those whose papers are accepted must be members of the APA by March 1, 2012 and must attend the 2013 meeting in Seattle. For further information, please contact Noel Lenski, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder at the email address above.

Guide to Evagrius Ponticus

2012-01-29T10:08:00.000-08:00

Guide to Evagrius Ponticus

The inaugural edition of the Guide to Evagrius Ponticus, a digital-only, peer-reviewed reference work about the fourth-century monastic theologian, has been released. Updated quarterly, it provides definitive, integrated lists of Evagrius’s works, of editions and translations of those works, and of studies related to his life and thought. The Guide also includes a sourcebook of key ancient testimonies to Evagrius and his reception, in English translation, as well as a checklist of images from the ancient world.

The Guide takes relatively new approaches to open-access academic publishing in the digital humanities, and so is anticipated to develop over the coming years. Future editions will include a manuscript checklist, images of manuscripts, transcriptions of those manuscripts, and open-source critical editions of Evagrius’s writings.

http://evagriusponticus.net/

Posted by: Joel Kalvesmaki (kalvesmakij@doaks.org).

24th International Conference of Philosophy, Samos, July 2012

2012-01-29T10:06:00.000-08:00

THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTER-HUMAN RELATIONS AND THE RELATIONS WITH OTHER NATURAL BEINGS IN THE GLOBAL ERA

The Conference will take place in the famous inland of Samos (Pythagorion-a sea-side resort in the Aegean) in Greece between 15th -25th of July 2012.

The Conference intends to provide a broad forum for exploring crucial issues concerning the Philosophy of inter-human relations and the relations to other beings in our age. This means that all legitimate fields of study and philosophical research are included in the scope of the Conference, provided that the authors of conference papers concentrate on the main issues of the Conference. We are particularly interested in all branches of philosophy and of course we pay special attention to academic research papers relevant to the burning moral issues and problems concerning inter-human bonding and other relations and our stance to the world at large in our global era.

The aim of the Conference is to open discourse and to promote the exchange of ideas on the following issues:

1. Inquiry into the ontology of relations

2. Examination and assessment of theories and means regarding kinds of communication among persons, institutions and states (ancient and modern)

3. Review and evaluation of theories (or conceptions) of friendship, love, eros agape and enmity (ancient and modern)

4. Inquiry into theories that have (a) been put forth and implemented as bases for human bonding and (b) what conclusions can be drawn from these experiences and (c) to examine the influence of these concepts on such aspects of human intercourse and on social institutions such as community cohesiveness, communication, social dialogue, political change and stability and psychological well-being. (How do people get together at a time when individualism, alienation, loneliness and fragmentation are on the rise and how can the technological character of our global era help to bridge the gap or reinstate the real communication and bonding among people?)

5. Investigation of the kind of relations that man has developed and adopted towards other beings in the world and evaluation of the results of these relations for humanity and the world itself in our global era.

For full information please see the First Circular which will be made available shortly and will be posted later on our Website: http://www.iagp.gr ,http://www.hri.org/iagp/

Contact person: Prof. Konstatine Boudouris, President of the Organizing Committee, kboud714@ppp.uoa.gr

"Medieval Structures of Power" Grad Conference, Princeton University

2012-01-29T10:04:00.000-08:00

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University

Medieval Structures of Power

April 14, 2012

Call for Papers

The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University invites submissions for its nineteenth annual graduate conference in Princeton, New Jersey.

Keynote Speaker: Thomas Bisson, Professor of Medieval History, Emeritus, at Harvard University

Closing Address: Stephen Murray, Professor of Medieval Art History at Columbia University.

Structures of Power

“The state exists chiefly in the hearts and minds of its people: if they do not believe it is there, no logical exercise will bring it to life". This insight from Joseph Strayer’s now-classic Medieval Foundations of the Modern State points to the powerful noetic and psychological underpinnings of any successful polity or social group. Belief in the bonds of fealty, in the communion of the saints, and in other figurations of corporate unity: these were primary structures of power in the Middle Ages. With the formal advent of purgatory during the thirteenth century, the church extended its power over individual souls into the afterlife; meanwhile, medieval men and women still on earth remained subject to the “soft power” of innumerable discursive, cultural and artistic practices. Yet the medieval exercise of power could just as often be concrete and brutal, from the ius maltractandi, or right of mistreatment, that local lords claimed over their serfs, to the use of torture in legal cases, the harsh physical punishment of malefactors, or the bloody suppression of revolts.

If medieval power itself was founded on a variety of structures (military, economic, social, familial, legal, administrative, religious), much of medieval life was also organized around physical structures. Castles proliferated, a visual embodiment of their owner’s dominance over the countryside; city walls encircled and protected the rights of the people within; and great Gothic cathedrals, mapped onto a blueprint of heaven, reached to new heights, as if forming a ladder to the kingdom of God. While power was often imposed from above, by the few on the many, was a collective undertaking such as cathedral building an expression of the power of a community? Proposals are encouraged that interpret “structures of power” broadly, and look for them in unexpected places.

How did these structures function? How was power imposed, experienced, negotiated, and contested in the Middle Ages, and how did it impact the lives of ordinary men and women? We invite the submission of proposals from a variety of disciplines, time periods, geographies, source materials, and methodological approaches. Potential topics might include, but are not limited to:

*Power at the local level: predatory lordship and the “feudal revolution”; aspects of freedom and serfdom; rights of adjudication; the influence of aristocratic families; feud, retribution, and private justice.

*The growth of regional power: royal and ducal prerogatives; high justice; taxation; armies; state formation.

*Resistance to power: Urban riots and peasant revolts; aristocratic rebellions; legal challenges to authority; the “weapons of the weak.”

*Political power: obtaining and legitimizing power; theories of kingship and the state.

*Architectural Power: Churches, city walls, crusader castles

*Power structures in the arts: patronage, visual and verbal representations of power in writing, plastic arts, drama

*The power of literacy and the written word

*Disciplinary power: from torture and execution to clemency and pardon.

*Economic power: money, credit, and interest; royal revenues; merchants and guilds.

*Religious power: inquisition and penance; excommunication and interdict; the church’s power in the afterlife; the power of priests and of laypeople; the power of the sacraments.

In order to support participation by speakers from outside the northeastern United States, we are offering a limited number of modest subsidies to help offset the cost of travel to Princeton. Financial assistance may not be available for every participant; funding priority goes to those who have the furthest to travel. Every speaker will have the option of staying with a resident graduate student as an alternative to paying for a hotel room.

Interested graduate students should submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to Jenna Phillips (structuresofpower@gmail.com) by February 5th, 2011.

All applicants will be notified by February 20th, 2011. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.

California State University, Long Beach 4th Annual Medieval & Renaissance Students' Association Conference CFP

2012-01-29T10:02:00.000-08:00

California State University, Long Beach Medieval and Renaissance Student’s Association
& Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fourth Annual Student Conference Call for Papers
February 25, 2012
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California

THE Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at CSULB is seeking
proposals for individual papers and group panels from graduate and undergraduate
students in all disciplines for its Fourth Annual Student Conference. Proposals should be
sent as presentation abstracts of 250 words or less. Presentations should be
approximately 15-20 minutes in length, allowing an additional 5-10 minutes for
discussion and questions.

MaRSA welcomes proposals from all disciplines and levels of study, but
submissions should be limited to topics ranging from the Medieval through Early
Modern periods. Modern topics relevant to this period, such as anachronism or
medievalism, as well as proposals pertaining to regions outside of Europe, are also
welcome.

Accepted participants will also be given the opportunity to work with MaRSA in
publishing their work in a collection of essays on the conference's proceedings.

Proposals should include:
• The presenter or panel organizer's name and contact information
• A presentation title
• A 250-word abstract

The deadline for abstracts is February 4, 2012;
A list of accepted participants will be announced by February 6th.
Proposals should be submitted in the body of an e-mail to: csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Please use the following subject heading when submitting abstracts: MARSA 2012
Inquiries may be directed to the MaRSA staff at csulbmarsa@gmail.com.
To register, or for information, go to www.sites.google.com/site/csulbmarsa/.
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at California State
University, Long Beach, founded in 2007, is the student association of the Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and is dedicated to fostering an arena of
collegial dialogue and support for the pre- and post-baccalaureate community.

CFP: APA 2013: Latin Translations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

2012-01-29T09:59:00.000-08:00

The Medieval Latin Studies Group invites proposals for papers on the translation of texts into Latin in the post-Classical period for a panel to be held at the annual meeting of theAmerican Philological Association in Seattle in January, 2013.

In recent years, the study of translation has emerged as a vital area of scholarly and critical inquiry across different disciplines. In our field, translation has come to be recognized not only as an important component of the study and reception of Latin literature, but also as an essential and continuing characteristic of Latin literature itself. For this panel we welcome submissions on translators from late antiquity or the medieval period and on any Latin text from this period that is a translation, whether broadly or narrowly defined. Both close analyses of translated texts (for example, a reading of the Latin translation of a Greek epigram that illuminates the translational technique of a particular author) and more theoretically-inclined explorations of ancient translators and of modes of translation (for example, the strategies of translation for non-elite audiences) are encouraged.

One-page abstracts of papers requiring no more than 20 minutes to deliver should be submitted by February 1, 2012, preferably via email attachment to bmulliga@haverford.edu or via surface mail to Bret Mulligan, Hall Building, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041. Abstracts will be judged anonymously. Membership in the Medieval Latin Studies Group is not required to submit an abstract.

For more information, please contact the panel organizer, Bret Mulligan, at bmulliga@haverford.edu

ACLS Public Fellows program: call for applications

2012-01-29T09:56:00.000-08:00

ACLS invites applications for the second competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. The positions and organizations are listed below. The program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.

In 2012, the ACLS Public Fellows will be appointed to the following positions:

Carnegie Mellon University – Assistant Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
Consumers Union – Policy Analyst
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) – Global Projects Manager
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing
Forum on Education Abroad – Associate Director
German Marshall Fund of the United States – Program Officer, Leadership and Alumni Development
Human Rights Watch – Human Rights Researcher/Advocate
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Associate Development Officer
National Conference of State Legislatures – Legislative Studies Specialist
Newberry Library – Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services
New York Public Library – Special Projects Coordinator
Oxfam America – Policy and Research Advisor
Union of Concerned Scientists – Democracy Analyst

Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See acls.org/programs/publicfellows for complete position descriptions and application information.

Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences. Applicants must possess U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status; have a Ph.D. in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between January 2009 and the application deadline; and not have applied to any other ACLS fellowship programs in the 2011-2012 competition year, including the New Faculty Fellows program.

Announcing the Biennial Michael Camille Essay Prize [postmedieval]

2012-01-29T09:51:00.000-08:00

by EILEEN JOY

Myra Seaman, Holly Crocker and I are thrilled to announce the biennial Michael Camille Essay Prize, to be jointly sponsored by postmedieval, Palgrave Macmillan, and the BABEL working group. The competition will be open to early career researchers: those currently in M.A./Ph.D. programs or within 5 years of having received the Ph.D. (for the first award, that will include those graduating in 2007 or later). Essays in all disciplines are encouraged. The prize will be for the best short essay (4,000-6,000 words), on a variable theme, that brings the medieval and the modern into productive critical relation. For 2012, the theme is inspired by Camille’s last book on the gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity (conceptualized and imagined in any way the author sees fit). The award for 2012 will include: publication in postmedieval, 250 dollars, and one year’s free print and online subscription to the journal.

The prize is named after Michael Camille (1958-2002), the brilliant art historian whose work on medieval art exemplified playfulness, a felicitous interdisciplinary reach, a restless imagination, and an avidness to bring the medieval and modern into vibrant, dialogic encounter. In addition, we wish to honor Camille for his attention to the fringes of medieval society, to the liminal, excluded, ‘subjugated rabble,’ and disenfranchised, and to the socially subversive powers of medieval artists who worked on and in the margins. The prize is also named after Camille because his work was often invested in exploring ‘the prism of modernity through which the Middle Ages is constructed’ and because, as his colleague at the University of Chicago Linda Seidel said shortly after his death, he had ‘a mind like shooting stars.’

Deadline for submissions is June 30, 2012. Submissions will be judged by a panel of scholars selected from postmedieval’s Editorial Board, and the winner will be announced at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, to be held September 20-22, 2012, in Boston, Massachusetts. Please send submissions (as a Word document, formatted according to Chicago Manual, author-date style with endnotes + list of references at end) to the editors, Eileen Joy and Myra Seaman, at postmedievaljournal@gmail.com.

Decoding Digital Humanities (London)

2012-01-25T20:51:00.000-08:00

We're very pleased to announce that Decoding Digital Humanities (London) is re-starting its regular discussion meetings on:

* Tuesday 31 January 18:30 *

at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A 1LH.

For this first meeting we will be discussing the Digital Humanities Manifesto:

http://tcp.hypotheses.org/411

Decoding Digital Humanities began as an informal series of pub meetings organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities at UCL. It has since expanded with several international chapters but still retains
its informal atmosphere.

You will be very welcome to join us for a drink and to discuss all things DH. We look forward to seeing you there.

Best,
Richard

Early Monastic/Ecclesiastic Panel (Congress of the Canadian Society of Medievalists)

2012-01-25T20:47:00.000-08:00

I would like to know if there might be anyone interested in joining a somewhat impromptu panel for the Congress of the Canadian Society of Medievalists happening in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) this May. The panel which we are proposing is focused on early medieval monasticism (roughly 500-900), though it's quite a loosely organized session (we'd be happy for anything connected to the early church). For more information on the conference, check out http://www.csm.wlu.ca/Scrinium/Scrinium%20Fall%202011.pdf

If anyone has any interest, please send a response shortly as the deadline to apply is in early February.

Hortulus Journal: March 1 Submission Deadline, Special Issue on Medieval Space and Place

2012-01-25T20:40:00.000-08:00

Hortulus Journal: March 1 Submission Deadline, Special Issue on Medieval Space and Place

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Special Call For Papers for Issue on Medieval Space and Place

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 7, Issue 1: 1 March 2012

The next issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2012. This special issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of spatial order, and place as a socially constructed category, in the art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music of the Middle Ages.

Graduate students working in any discipline and period of Medieval Studies are welcome to submit their articles related to this year’s theme via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2012. We are also interested in book reviews on recent publications which may be of interest to a broad audience of Medieval Studies scholars. For further information please visit our website at www.hortulus.net.

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas.

Posted by: Hortulus Journal (hortulus@hortulus.net).

MSS Online Blog

2012-01-25T20:30:00.000-08:00

We've just posted a list of the resources that will be included in the MSSO on launch next year:

http://manuscriptsonline.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/manuscripts-online-the-resources/

You can subscribe to the blog via its RSS feed or by signing up to receive an email when there are new posts.

I hope to be in touch before long with more details of the user testing, but you can also use the blog for more general comments or feedback.

Finally, we're also on Twitter

Yours,
Sharon Howard

Writing Europe

2012-01-25T20:22:00.000-08:00

After the success of the Writing England Conference in 2010, "Writing Europe: A Colloquium" aims to draw on a range of approaches and perspectives to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the medieval period and beyond

Plenary speakers: William Johnson (Duke University); Kathryn A. Lowe (University of Glasgow); Marilena Maniaci (Universita` di Cassino)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

We welcome proposals from scholars working on writers, book production and use, and responses to texts in any language up to 1450. Abstracts (300 words or less) for papers (20 minutes) should be submitted on-line using the form provided. Please visit the conference web site for additional information. To encourage participation from a range of individuals and institutions, a limited number of bursaries will be available to assist in covering travel expenses for participants with limited institutional support.

Places are limited to allow us to subsidise costs, including registration, accommodation and meals. Please send your abstract by 31 January 2012. For further information please contact one of the organisers at the e-mail below.

Conference web site:

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing-europe

Writing Europe before 1450 is a collaboration between the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen and the School of English at the University of Leicester, and is generously subsidised by the Centre for Medieval Studies and by the School of English.

Viking Society/Scottish Society for Northern Studies student conference: Saturday 11 February 2012

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All welcome! Please spread the word. Travel bursaries are available for third- and fourth-year
undergraduates and postgrads within Scotland, too. For more details, check the link:

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/seminarsandevents/vikingconference/vikingconference2012/

The Viking Society for Northern Research (VSNR) holds an annual student conference which enables postgraduate students to share a platform with leading academics from around the world. The conference is the UK’s primary event in Old Norse studies, and regularly attracts international scholars from as far afield as Iceland and Australia. It is a unique event which enables scholars and students to share research and ideas, and present their work to an international audience.

This year, Glasgow has been chosen to host the conference. Not only will this be the first time the event has been held in Scotland, it will also be the first time it has been held in association with the Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS).

The theme of this year’s conference is "Language: Contact and Change," which reflects the dual interests of both societies in history and linguistics, as well as showcasing Glasgow’s own strengths in these areas. The papers will focus on the linguistic contacts between early North-West European cultures and their historical significance appealing to the specialisms of a number of subject areas within
Critical Studies, Humanities, and Culture and Creative Arts.

Books and their Readers in Anglo-Saxon England: A Manuscript Colloquium

2012-01-01T22:57:00.001-08:00

Dear colleagues, Organized by the Vidi-project 'Turning Over a New Leaf', on January 27, 2012, the University Library Leiden will host 'Books and their Readers in Anglo-Saxon England: A Manuscript Colloquium'. The keynote address - the third Lieftinck Lecture in Medieval Manuscripts of this academic year - is by Michelle Brown. More details of the event may be found by following this link: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/turning-over-a-new-leaf/manuscript-colloquia/mscolloquia.html

Medieval Multilingualism in the British Isles

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CALL FOR PAPERSMedieval Multilingualism in the British IslesThe Graduate Conference of Magdalene Medievalists Society Magdalene College, Cambridge, Saturday 21st July 2012Keynote Speaker: Dr Tony Hunt, St Peter's College, OxfordThe phenomenon of multilingualism in the Middle Ages has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention in recent years, with at least two major essay collections and one conference devoted to the topic since the Millennium, and numerous articles and book chapters. This graduate and early career conference aims to give those new to the field an opportunity to contribute to what has become an important site of critical debate.Whilst recent scholarship has become steadily more aware of the interconnected nature of Anglo-Norman and Middle English, the use of Latin and its links to the vernaculars has often provoked less sustained attention than is justified by the language's conceptual and administrative importance. The relationships between the mainstream trilingual culture of England and its contiguous linguistic enclaves (such as Cornish, Cumbric, Welsh, Hebrew, Flemish, Norse, Pictish, Manx, Irish and Scottish Gaelic) also frequently remain comparatively obscure. There is conflicting evidence about the medieval awareness of multilingualism, of the relationships between languages and of the phenomenon of language change; such contemporary treatments of these phenomena as survive often rely extensively on Biblical and Patristic accounts of sacred languages. In view of this complex picture, the conference is intended not only to facilitate a closer examination of the phenomenon of multilingualism, but also of medieval attitudes to its manifestations.We invite papers that address any aspect of the interaction between the speakers of different languages in the Middle Ages, including, but not limited to:- attitudes to the tres linguae sacrae and to the vernaculars- pedagogy and medieval perceptions of language acquisition- translation- orality and its depictions- medieval views of linguistic history- code-switching, miscellanies, and scribal practiceWe will accept submissions from graduate students and early career scholars in English and other languages and literatures, History, Linguistics, and all related disciplines. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length; please send abstracts of 250 words or less to Sara Harris, mms@magd.cam.ac.uk by February 1st, 2012. Further information will be available at www.magdalenemedievalists.wordpress.com/conference.

Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century

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Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st CenturyCall for PapersThe Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century . June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada.Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep, (Victoria University of Wellington)At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions “What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as* What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital?* What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium?* How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts?* How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe?* How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts?* What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history?INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies.We invite proposals for papers, posters/demonstrations, and roundtable discussions that address these and other issues pertinent to research in textual studies. Proposals should contain a title, a detailed and focussed abstract (of approximately 300 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and Website URLs of presenters. Please send proposals before 15 December 2011 to richard.cunningham@acadiau.ca.Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria (http://www.dhsi.org/). A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012 (http://www.sdh-semi.org/).

NEH Summer Seminar: "Health and Disease in the Middle Ages" (application deadline: 1 March 2012)

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NEH Summer Seminar: "Health and Disease in the Middle Ages" (application deadline: 1 March 2012)Applications are being sought for a five-week Seminar for College and University Teachers—"Health and Disease in the Middle Ages"—which is being held June 24 through July 28, 2012, in London, England. Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminars and Institutes program, the Seminar is sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) and will convene at the Wellcome Library, the world’s premier research center for medical history. This Seminar will gather together sixteen scholars (including up to two advanced graduate students) from across the disciplines interested in questions of health, disease, and disability in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.A primary goal is to explore how the scientific technologies of assessing disease prevalence andidentifying pathogens (particularly leprosy and plague) can inform traditional, humanistic methods (historical, literary, art historical, and linguistic) of investigating cultural responses to disease and disability. The Seminar also explores how humanistic studies of medieval medicine can inform modern scientific studies of historical diseases, which are developing at a rapid pace thanks to new methods in paleopathology and ancient DNA (aDNA) retrieval and analysis. Our goal is not simply to foster dialogue among the disciplines regarding the intersections of religion, economics, and medicine in the medieval interpretation and treatment of disease, but also to provide a historical basis for understanding crises in global health today.The two co-Directors, Monica Green and Rachel Scott, are specialists in the fields of medical history and bioarcheology, respectively, and they will be aided by three guest lecturers who bring additional perspectives to interdisciplinary dialogue. Drawing on these multiple areas of expertise, the Seminar advocates studying the material evidence for disease and health-seeking behaviors alongside learned and artistic interpretations. Special emphasis is placed on assisting participants with their independent research projects relating to the History of Medicine, especially those based on unpublished primary sources.The ideal participant for this Seminar will be a faculty member at a university or college, or an advanced graduate student, working in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences with an interest in research on medieval medicine. The NEH requires that applicants be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for the last three years. The Seminar is designed for those with no prior background in medical history and does not presuppose any advanced training in the biological sciences. Scholars working on any aspect of medieval Europe or the Mediterranean, and in any discipline, are encouraged to apply. Also, because our understanding of Europe will be expanded by thinking comparatively, scholars with expertise in other premodern cultures (e.g., pre-Columbian Americas or China) are encouraged to apply.The sixteen selected participants will receive a stipend for the five-week Seminar of $3900, to cover airfare, housing costs, and other expenses. Housing has been prearranged at University College London.Admission is competitive. The application process has two parts:Part 1 – submitted directly to NEH: Fill out the initial application form online at the NEH website:https://securegrants.neh.gov/education/participants/. This part is for the NEH’s internal records and is the necessary first step of processing your file. Please print it out since a copy of the form also needs to be included in Part 2.Part 2 – submitted directly to the Seminar Directors, c/o ACMRS (at the e-mail or snail-mail address below): The rest of the application materials consist of a copy of the NEH cover page, a curriculum vitae, a brief essay explaining your interest in the Seminar, and two letters of recommendation.For further information (including a detailed description of the program and the syllabus), please go to the Seminar website:http://acmrs.org/healthanddisease2012.Or write to us or call at:Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)4th Floor, Lattie F. Coor HallArizona State UniversityP.O. Box 874402 Tempe, AZ 85287-4402e-mail:healthanddisease2012@acmrs.orgPhone: 480.965.4661

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Call for Papers for a Section on Poetry and Prose in Late AntiquityDear colleagues,I am organizing a section on the dynamics between poetry and prose in late antiquity for the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature / European Association for Biblical Studies to be held in Amsterdam, 22-26 of July 2012. The section, which will include a 20 minute papers session(s) and a textual workshop will focus on the above mentioned dynamics in Hebrew, Syriac and Greek literatures. The Call for Papers can be found in the following link:http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=20&VolunteerUnitId=573Please do not hesitate to contact me by email (ophirmm@openu.ac.il) for further clarifications and discussion.With best wishes,Dr. Ophir Münz-Manor

DONALD BULLOUGH FELLOWSHIP FOR A MEDIAEVAL HISTORIAN

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UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWSSt Andrews Institute of Mediaeval StudiesDONALD BULLOUGH FELLOWSHIP FOR A MEDIAEVAL HISTORIANThe St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship in Mediaeval History, to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2012-13. The Fellowship is open to any academic in a permanent university post with research interests in mediaeval history. It covers the cost of return travel to St Andrews from the holder’s normal place of work, together with a substantial subsidy towards accommodation while the holder is resident in St Andrews. Previous Fellows have included Dr Christina Pössel, Professor Cynthia Neville and Dr Ross Balzaretti. The fellowship is currently held by Dr Marlene Hennessy.The Fellowship carries with it no teaching duties, though the Fellow is expected to take part in the normal seminar life of the mediaeval historians during their stay in St Andrews. Weekly seminars, held on a Monday evening, run from September – December, and February – May. You will also be invited to lead a workshop on your chosen research theme during your stay. Fellows are provided with computing facilities and an office alongside the mediaeval historians in the Institute. The university library has an excellent collection for mediaeval historians.You should send a letter of application by the advertised closing date, together with a scheme of research for the project on which you will be engaged during your time in St Andrews. You should also enclose a CV, together with the names of two academic referees, who should be asked to write by the closing date. All correspondence should be addressed to The Director, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews, 71 South St, St Andrews, Scotland, KY16 9QW. Please mark the envelope ‘Donald Bullough Mediaeval Fellowship’. The closing date for applications is 30 March 2012.Further enquiries may be addressed to the Director, Dr Alex Woolf (saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk) or to colleagues in the Institute, whose contact details may be found on www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims

Note Deadline!

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AUDIENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES // YALE UNIVERSITY Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 29th annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, to be held at Yale University on Saturday, March 31st, 2012. The theme will be “Audience in the Middle Ages.” The organizers hope that this broad heading will elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of medieval studies. Among many potential areas of focus are performance; orality; spectacle and spectatorship; transmission and circulation; decrees, bulls, charters, and other public documents; drama; liturgy and sacred music; sermons, lectures, and disputation; reception history; and coteries. Further, we look forward to receiving proposals that take more theoretical approaches to ideas of audience in the medieval period. We also welcome investigations of the post-medieval reception of medieval life and thought. The conference will feature a plenary lecture by Elaine Treharne, Professor of English at Florida State University. Professor Treharne is the author of Living Through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (Oxford, forthcoming), Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 2006) and Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts (Boydell and Brewer, 2010), among many others. Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length and read in English. Abstracts of up to 250 words should be sent by e-mail to audience.yale@gmail.com, or a hard copy may be mailed to: Audience in the Middle Ages c/o Joseph Stadolnik Department of English Yale University P.O. Box 208302 New Haven, CT 06520-8302 The deadline for submissions is January 1, 2012. Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the conference will have the opportunity to submit their paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison Goddard Elliott Award.

new date: Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous

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> Due to irreconcilable scheduling conflicts, the Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference has been rescheduled for the spring of 2012. Details regarding registration for the conference will be forthcoming. Here is a revised call for papers:>>> Revised Call for Papers> "Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous">> [cid:3401708447_74287676]>> Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference> March 16-17, 2012>>> The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation in its second bi-annual meeting from March 16-17 in Dandridge, TN. Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the beautiful spring flowers!>> [cid:3401708447_74325152]>>>> Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.>> In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing with the teaching of saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.>> Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight double-spaced pages).>>> SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS>> Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler (kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 1, 2011. Participants will be notified of acceptance by January 15, 2012.>

Medieval Anti-Judaism in the Crucible of Modern Thought

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the following colloquium, to be held at the University of Pittsburgh in April2012, may be of great interest to some of you [I should add, too, that NinaCaputo and Hannah Johnson are co-editing a special issue of "postmedieval" onthis topic, to be published in 2014]:The Holocaust and the Middle Ages:Medieval Anti-Judaism in the Crucible of Modern Thought>From medieval pogroms to modern racial science, Jewish history in Europe hascome to stand as a test case for thinking about problems of historicalcontinuity and change, embodied most clearly in the tension between narrativesemphasizing a timeless antisemitism and arguments for the distinctivementalities associated with discrete historical periods. Our colloquium, “TheHolocaust and the Middle Ages,” seeks to reexamine Jewish history as amulti-layered problem of narrative and conceptualization, in which deeplyinterested anti-Jewish narratives from the premodern world form points ofexplosive contact with modern literary and historical modes of analysis. Part ofour work is to examine how later historical lenses, such as the interests ofpost-Reformation history and the consuming project of Holocaust history, havesubstantially dictated the terms of modern understanding of Jewish-Christianrelations, often with distorting effects. At the same time, medieval paradigmsof religious conflict continue to operate as the unacknowledged foundations forcontemporary efforts to think about problems of political conflict rooted inreligious difference.Our objective is to bring together a small group of scholars and encouragesignificant interdisciplinary dialogue between medievalists and specialists inlater fields, including particularly Reformation history and Holocaust studies.In doing so, we hope to move beyond generalities about the evolution of Westernpatterns of religious conflict to gain critical purchase on the ways in whichour narratives for thinking about these problems are deeply imbricated in theassumptions, needs, and theories at work within discrete moments of historicalthought. We invite proposals from specialists across the disciplines toparticipate in a small gathering of scholars at the University of Pittsburgh onApril 22, 2012. Abstracts of not more than 500 words should be sent to theco-organizers, Hannah Johnson and Nina Caputo, atmiddle.ages.and.the.holocaust@gmail.comno later than December 12, 2011. Participants will be contacted via email bymid-January.

Courses

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INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIESSCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDONLONDON RARE BOOKS SCHOOL25 - 29 June & 2 - 6 July 2012A series of five-day intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught by internationally renowned scholars using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London.LONDON PALAEOGRAPHY SUMMER SCHOOL18 June - 22 June 2012A series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Diplomatic. Courses range from a half to two days' duration and are given by experts in the London palaeography teachers' group.NEW COURSES IN PALAEOGRAPHY AND MANUSCRIPT STUDIESThe Institute is pleased to announce that it will co-ordinate two new courses on behalf of the School of Advanced Study: Palaeography and Codicology of the Latin West c.100-1500, which will run as part of the London Rare Books School 2012 and a ten-week course on Palaeography and Diplomatic for Historians, commencing January 2012.All the courses listed are suitable for MA, MRes, MPhil and PhD students and are also open to professional and other participants.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Gender and Transgression in the Middle AgesSt Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 4th - 5th May 2012We are pleased to announce a call for papers to Gender andTransgression 2012, a two-day interdisciplinary conference forpostgraduate students and early career researchers hosted by the StAndrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Now in its fourth year, theconference aims to create a lively and welcoming forum for studentsand academic staff to build contacts, present research, andparticipate in creative discussion on the topics of gender andtransgression in the Middle Ages. We hope to explore further how theseconcepts can be used to formulate new approaches to source material,drawing out fresh perspectives on both the familiar and unfamiliar.We invite staff and students from departments of History, Modern andMediaeval Languages, Theology, English, and Art History, in additionto scholars working in any other relevant subject area, to submitabstracts for papers of approximately 20 minutes that engage with thethemes of gender and/or transgression in the mediaeval period. Thisyear’s keynote speaker will be Professor Elizabeth van Houts (HonoraryProfessor of Medieval European History, Faculty of History, Universityof Cambridge), who will speak on gender and marriage in the MiddleAges, with special reference to the Anglo-Norman period.Possible topics for papers might include, but are by no means limited to:-How may the terms “gender” and/or “transgression” be used ascategories of analysis for the study of the Middle Ages, and how mightthey have been significant in mediaeval legal, literary or historicalcontexts?-Can transgression be seen as a constructive force in the Middle Ages?-How do gender and transgression participate in mediaeval conceptions of union?-“Speaking up”: transgressing in the written and spoken word-How are gender and transgression relevant categories for historiansworking in traditional economic, political, or legal fields ofhistory?All delegates are invited to attend an evening meal after the firstday’s sessions, the cost of which will be covered for conferencespeakers. A buffet lunch and refreshments will be provided for alldelegates during the second day, which will conclude with an informalroundtable discussion and wine reception. Please send abstracts ofapproximately 300 words to the organising committee atgenderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk. The deadline for submissionis Friday 23rd December 2011, followed by the registration deadline ofMonday 2nd April 2012. Conference registration may be completed closerto the time of the conference through the St Andrews University onlineshop at https://onlineshop.st- andrews.ac.uk/. Registration fees are£10 for academic staff and £5 for students and unwaged. For furtherinformation, please refer to the conference webpages, soon to go liveat http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/conferences.htm.With best wishes -Gender and Transgression 2012 Organising CommitteeEilidh HarrisJustine TrombleyJamie PageMiriam BuncombeRoberta Cimino

Summer Programs in Medieval Studies From:

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Call for Papers: ‘Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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Further Call for Papers: ‘Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2012The 21st Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 30 August-2 September 2012.The theme of the conference is ‘Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’. In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme. We also invite scholars working on any related aspect of the Middle Ages or Renaissance to submit abstracts for consideration.We are proud to announce that Helen Fulton, BA (Sydney), Dip. Celt (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Sydney) has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the conference.Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to Professor David Scott-Macnab by 31 January 2012.More information: http://sasmars2012.blogspot.com/.

International Medieval Society in Paris, France,

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The International Medieval Society in Paris, France, is seeking paper and/or session proposals for its symposium to be held on 28-30 June 2012 on the theme of "Human/Animal".Proposals are due on 15 January 2012. Kindly note that the IMS-Paris offers a prize for the best proposal by a doctoral student.Please scroll down for additional information in English (rendez-vous sur www.ims-paris.org pour consulter l'appel à communications en français).

First Year Grad Research Skills Workshop Newberry Library

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If you are a first year graduate student or a faculty member with a first year graduate student to recommend, then you may be interested in the One-Day Research Skills Workshop for First-Year Graduate Students taking place at the Newberry Library from 9-5 on Friday, February 3. The workshop will be taught by Prof. Michael Kuczynski of Tulane University, and will be organized around the Penitential Psalms.For more information, click herehttp://dev.newberry.org/sites/default/files/KuczynskiNewberryLetter2_2.pdf to read a letter from Prof. Kuczynski with more detail about the program. There is also information and a form to register for the workshop on the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies page here:http://www.newberry.org/02242012-one-day-research-skills-workshop-first-year-graduate-students-psalms-public-and-private Enrollment is currently limited to Master's and PhD students in their first year of graduate study.----

Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium

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call for papers advertisement for the third biennial Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (OCICS), which will take place at the University of Oxford on 5 - 7 July 2012.We would be very grateful if you would circulate the attached call for papers, and the message below, to your Faculty members and graduate students.Thank you very much for all your time and assistance.With all best wishes, The OCICS 2012 Organizing Committee.*************************The 3rd Biennial Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (OCICS)5-7 July 2012University of OxfordThe Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (OCICS) is a biennial conference devoted to the interdisciplinary study of chronicles in the medieval and Early Modern periods. It provides a forum for discussions of historical and related texts written across a range of languages, periods and places. It seeks to strengthen the network of chronicle studies worldwide, and aims to encourage collaboration between researchers working in a variety of disciplines from around the globe.The theme for the 2012 conference, which will take place at the University of Oxford from the 5-7 July, is 'Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles'. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof Pauline Stafford (Liverpool), Dr Elizabeth van Houts (Cambridge), and Dr James Howard-Johnston (Oxford). The conference will take place at Oxford's Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies.Registration is £60 (full) or £50 (reduced). This includes lunch and refreshments on all three days. A limited number of bursaries will be available to assist graduate students with travel costs.Call for PapersAbstracts of no more than 300 words for papers of 20 minutes must be submitted to the organizers via e-mail (at ocics@history.ox.ac.uk) by 31 January 2012.Topics may include, but are not limited to:« genealogies (real or imagined)« family bonds« textual links« breaks and discontinuities« links between past, present, and future« ties of religion and faith« law, order, and disruption« oaths, promises, and betrayals« local, regional, and national identitiesPlease visit our website for more information: www.ocics.co.ukWe look forward to receiving your submission!Yours faithfully,The OCICS 2012 Organizing Committee.ocics@history.ox.ac.uk

British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site

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The British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site was launched in September 2010, and currently attracts more than 24,000 page views each month. Our first upload comprised 284 Greek manuscripts, and we have periodically added more content, including the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Old English Hexateuch and autograph manuscripts of William Blake and JSBach.Another 74 Greek manuscripts have now been added to this list, containing approximately 25,000 images. The British Library is privileged to house such a significant collection of manuscripts written in the Greek language, ranging in date from the 3rd century B.C. to the present, and constituting arguably the largest and most important resource outside Greece for the study of Hellenic culture.The digitisation of our Greek manuscripts has been generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The most recent upload features items ranging in date from the 11th to the 18th century, and includes a 14th-century Psalter, works of St Basil of Caesarea copied in the 14th century, a 15th-century copy of Homer's Odyssey, a collection of divinations and writings on magic, and a Greek-Latin dictionary copied in about 1420.Here is a listing of all the Greek manuscripts recently added to the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts.Harley 1675 Copies of Greek and Latin texts with notes by Toussaint Berchet (d. 1607), after 1590 Harley 1771 Homer, Iliad, 15th century Harley 1814 Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio, 15th century Harley 1868 Cassianus Bassus, Geoponica, 14th century Harley 3100 Suda, 15th century Harley 3329 In Sacra Biblia Graeca ex versione LXX, 17th century Harley 3382 Selections from Claudius Aelian, De animalium natura libri xvii, 17th century Harley 3521 Collection of notes and extracts, 17th century Harley 4767 Lycophron, Alexandra, 17th century Harley 5534 Psalter, 14th century Harley 5539 Works of Agapetus diaconus and Basil I 'the Macedonian', 15th century Harley 5549 Life of Hartmann Beyer (1516-1577), by Philipp Reinhart, ?1580 Harley 5554 Nomocanon of Manuel Malaxos, 1675 Harley 5556 Gerasimus, Patriarch of Alexandria, On Communion, etc., 1714 Harley 5560 Sindbad (Syntipas) the philosopher, Tale of the king, his son, and the 7 sages, 1667 Harley 5561 Euchologion, with readings from the Epistles and Gospels, 13th-15th century Harley 5564 Epiphanius of Salamis, De duodecim gemmis, 16th century Harley 5570 Psalms and Odes etc., 16th century Harley 5574 Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, 17th century Harley 5575 Euthymius Zigabenus, Ps.-Nonnus, Nicholas of Andida etc., 1281 Harley 5576 Works of St Basil of Caesarea etc., 14th century Harley 5577 Works of Dionysius Periegetes and Eustathius of Thessalonica, 15th century Harley 5581 Menaion, 14th century Harley 5588 New Testament, 13th century Harley 5590 Eusebius of Caesarea, Commentary on the Psalms, 16th century Harley 5592 Photius, Bibliotheca, 16th century Harley 5593 Works of Photius, Aristides, Philip of Side etc., 1555 Harley 5596 Divinations, magic, etc., 15th century Harley 5599 Aristotle, 15th century Harley 5602 St John Chrysostom, Homiliae 1-55 in Acta Apostolorum, 12th century Harley 5603 Metaphrastan Menologion for October, 11th century Harley 5607 Hilarion Cigalas, Archbishop of Cyprus, Synodikon in hexameters, 17th century Harley 5608 Missal of Dominican use, 15th century Harley 5609 Works of St Basil of Caesarea and Isocrates, 15th century Harley 5610 Epistolographi Graeci, 14th century Harley 5619 St John Damascenus, Barlaam and Josaphat, c.1590 Harley 5623 Liturgica, 13th-17th century Harley 5626 Medical writings of Aetius and Hippocrates, 16th century Harley 5630 Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, 16th century Harley 5637 Collations of Polyainos, Strategemata, 17th century Harley 5645 Themistius, 17th century Harley 5663 Collection of fragments, 16th century Harley 5666 Commentary on St Gregory, In laudem S. Basilii Magni, etc., 16th century Harley 5672 Homer, Iliad, 15th century Harley 5675 Canon Law, 16th century Harley 5678 Dionysius the Ps.-Areopagite, 15th century Harley 5679 Dioscorides, 15th century Harley 5685 Nemesius and Proclus, 12th century Harley 5691 Works of Manuel Bryennios, etc., 15th-16th century Harley 5692 Plutarch, Vitae Parallelae, 14th century Harley 5697 Ιoannes Chortasmenos, Metropolites of Selymbria, 15th century Harley 5727 Scholia on Homer, Iliad I-XIX, 15th-16th century Harley 5734 Theological miscellany, 16th century Harley 5782 Synaxarion (Lives of Saints), 1362-63 Harley 5783 Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, 1601 Harley 5784 Four Gospels, 15th century Harley 5790 Four Gospels, 1478 Harley 5795 Iamblichus, 16th century Harley 6302 Formulary for letters to ecclesiastics, etc., 17th century Harley 6304 Nomocanon, 1713 Harley 6307 Aristophanes, Plutus, Nubes and Ranae, 15th century Harley 6309 Mechanica, 17th century Harley 6310 Collection of fragments, 16th century Harley 6311A Demosthenes, De corona, 15th century Harley 6313 Greek-Latin dictionary, circa 1420 Harley 6316 Ecclesiastical History, 16th century Harley 6317 Military treatises by Athenaeus, Biton and Leo VI, ?1563 Harley 6322 Demosthenes, Aeschines, Synesius, 15th century Harley 6325 Homer, Odyssey, 15th century Harley 6462 Greek grammar in Latin, before 1715 Harley 6478 Epigrams from the Palatine Anthology, before 1713 Harley 6874 Aristotle, 15th century Harley 6876 Geoponica, c. 1700-1703 Harley 7576 Miscellany, 1588-1724

“Imperial Self-presentation and the Byzantine Oikoumene”

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The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture presents a Public LecturebyProfessor Ioli Kalavrezou “Imperial Self-presentation and the Byzantine Oikoumene” Thursday, December 1, 2011 At 4:00 p.m. All are welcomeThe lecture will be held in the Reading Room of the Archbishop Iakovos Library & Learning Resource Center at Hellenic College and Holy CrossGreek Orthodox School of Theology located at 50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA, 02445Free Parking available on campusFor more information, please contact the Director of the MJCBAC, Dr. Maria Kouroumali, mjcbac@hchc.edu

Call for Sessions: BABEL's 2nd Biennial Meeting

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The time draws near -- December 15th, to be exact -- for session proposals forthe 2nd biennial meeting of the BABEL Working Group, "cruising in the ruins: thequestion of disciplinarity in the post/medieval university," to be held inBoston from 20-23 September 2012, and co-hosted by Northeastern University,Boston College, and M.I.T. If you are interested in submitting only anindividual paper, don't worry -- shortly after we have assembled all of thefinalized sessions, we will issue another call for individual papers, to besubmitted to organized sessions or just as individual papers [the next deadlinefor submissions will likely be in mid- to late March].We've gathered an exciting line-up of featured speakers -- Jane Bennett, JeffreyCohen, Carolyn Dinshaw, David Kaiser, Marget Long, Lindy Elkins-Tanton and Sansfaçon -- who cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and fields, from medievalstudies to physics to planetary geology to political philosophy to architectureto public art to photography, and who have been asked to consider thepossibility of new friendships (intellectual and otherwise) across and withinlocal knowledges. We are hoping for a raucous and felicitous convergence ofbodies of knowledge and singular voices to help us consider: what happens bothdeep within, but also, beyond and after disciplines? What happens when were-sound our disciplinary wells, while also, inevitably, bumping into each otherand occasionally hooking up, like Democrituss atoms, with our disciplinaryOthers? We're hoping to consider (and dream) together what the uni- inuniversity and universe might mean; what the after in afterinter-disciplinarity might portend; what misfit heterotopias might be possiblein a new multiversity; what the cruising in cruising in the ruins mightinvite.For more details about the meeting, and where to send session proposals, gohere:http://blogs.cofc.edu/babelworkinggroup/2011/07/03/the-second-biennial-babel-conference-20-23-september-2012-boston/For a glance at the program, with asbtracts, from our first biennial meeting, gohere:http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htmBest, Eileen--Eileen A. Joy, Assoc. ProfessorDept. of English Language and LiteratureSouthern Illinois University EdwardsvillePeck Hall, Room 3206Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431(618) 650-3971http://www.siue.edu/~ejoyLead Ingenitor, The BABEL Working Grouphttp://www.babelworkinggroup.org/

18th Annual ACMRS Conference

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18th Annual ACMRS ConferenceErotica and the Erotic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Online Site here.

Index of Christian Art

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The Index of Christian Art has just launched three new resources for the medievalist which contain over 25,000 images. The first of these is a database of some six thousand images of medieval-mainly Romanesque art which were taken by a Swiss couple who wish to remain anonymous. The collection of digitized slides covers France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Cursory cataloguing accompanies these images which are more fully analyzed in the Index database proper. The url is http://ica.princeton.edu/romanesque/index.php The second resource is The Lois Drewer Database. When she died some five months ago she left the Index of Christian Art a large and unsorted collection of slides which covered many countries she visited throughout her lifetime. Her wide interest in art and architecture is reflected in this collection which spans landscape and garden design to archaeological sites in the Near East, to Romanesque and Gothic architecture to a considerable focus on Renaissance architecture. Her travels brought her to Austria, Crete, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Libya, the Netherlands, Spain, Syria, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. It is slightly ironical that some of the weakest areas to be represented in this collection are the medieval and Byzantine worlds! Again, cursory cataloguing accompanies these images which are low resolution jpg files. The url for this site is http://ica.princeton.edu/drewer/index.php The third resource is the first installment of images from a collaborative venture the Index entered into with the Bibliotheque Gabriel Millet in the Sorbonne, Paris. This is to catalogue the entire archive of Byzantine art that was first started in 1903. As it presently stands, the database contains nearly all of the slides (approximately 15,000) in the archive. It is hoped that these will be extended over time with the addition of the glass plate negatives and prints. Enquiries regarding this database should be addressed to Catherine Jolivet-Lévy at catjolivet@yahoo.fr. Images from this resources are not available from the Index.The url for this resource is http://ica.princeton.edu/millet/index.php

Workshop on the Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels From:

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You may recall that the Workshop on the Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was due to take place in April this year, had to be postponed due to unforseen circumstances. We would like to inform you that it has now been rescheduled for Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th of April 2012. The workshop will still take place at the University of Westminster, London. The workshop aims to provide a forum for multidisciplinary discussion on the gloss. You are welcome to present a paper on topics such as:1) The relationship between the Old English gloss and the Latin text2) The similarities and differences between the Aldredian gloss and Rushworth 23) The linguistic features of the Old English gloss (spelling/phonology, morphology, morphosyntax and lexis)4) The historical, religious, literary and intellectual context of the gloss5) The Lindisfarne gloss in the context of Old English glossographyProf. Michelle Brown, Prof. Jane Roberts and Dr Robert McColl Millar have already confirmed their participation as key-note speakers. If you would like to present a paper, please send an abstract (approx. 500 words) before the 10th of January 2012 to Dr Pons-Sanz (s.ponssanz@westminster.ac.uk). We very much look forward to seeing you in London next April. With best wishes, Dr Sara M. Pons-Sanz & Dr Julia Fernandez Cuesta

Inter Ambo Maria: Northern Barbarians from Scandinavia towards the Black Sea.²

2011-11-02T15:58:00.001-07:00

Dear Colleagues! We invite you to participate in conference ³Inter Ambo Maria: NorthernBarbarians from Scandinavia towards the Black Sea.²The conference will take place on 3 7 October 2012 in the Crimea.The Organizing Committee will cover your stay in the Crimea (accommodation,food, and excursions). But you have to cover your travelexpenses to Simferopol airport or railway station and back by yourself.Please confirm your participation before 1 March 2012 by sending anapplication to the e-mail address:igorkhrapunov@mail.ru orkhrapunovigor@gmail.com. Organizers of the Conference: Vest Agder County Council (Kristiansand, Norway); National Taurida University (Simferopol, Ukraine); ³Heritage of Millennia² non-profitable foundation for history andarcheology (Simferopol, Ukraine).

FLORILEGIA FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE THE CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORITY

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FLORILEGIA FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCETHE CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORITYINTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPKATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN1-2 DECEMBER 2011From Antiquity onwards, florilegia have played an important role in the preservation and reception of the work of influential authors. For various reasons, extracts from their work have been selected, rearranged and assembled to form new entities. These, in turn, were often disseminated widely, for instance through translations. As a consequence, florilegia are crucial in the process of the transmission of knowledge.Because the florilegium as a genre is inherently connected with value judgements, it also has close ties with the issue of authority. Florilegia exert an influence on the canonization of texts and authors, while their perceived importance is itself often based on the authority of their compilers. Conversely, the work itself regularly acquires a certain status that can reflect on the compiler, witness the many ‘pseudo’-florilegia. Not only are florilegia sometimes strategically or erroneously attributed to an authority, the same can be observed with regard to the texts that have been included in them.However, the different instances of authority that can be related to florilegia do not necessarily lead to a completely stable text. Indeed, this genre is – even more than others – characterized by an intriguing openness: it is not only impossible to strictly distinguish the genre from related forms; the variability of the text is to a large degree also due to the fact that parts of it can easily be added, moved or omitted during transmission. This process of selection and (re)arrangement is obviously a typical feature of florilegia both at the time of their creation and during various stages of theirtransmission.During this two-day workshop we will study the constants and evolutions with regard to the creation, function, public and context of a large range of florilegia from Antiquity to the Renaissance, from the Byzantine, Latin and vernacular traditions. The contributions will combine various disciplines: philology, history, codicology, philosophy, literary studies, etc. Specific case studies will be combined with broader surveys, with the issue of authority functioning as a shared focal point.Participation is free, but registration (before 21 November) is required: an.faems@arts.kuleuven.beLocationPauscollege, ConferentiezaalHogeschoolplein 3, 3000 LeuvenThe workshop is organized by the Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (IMRS) and LECTIO.Organizing committeeRita Beyers, Reinhart Ceulemans, Pieter De Leemans, Kristoffel Demoen, An Faems, Jan Papy, Peter Van Deun, Gerd Van RielScientific committeeRita Beyers, Kristoffel Demoen, Russell Friedman, Jacqueline Hamesse, Johan Leemans, Glenn Most, Antonio RigoWith the generous support of- FWO-Vlaanderen- vzw Graecitas Christiana- Leuven International Doctoral School for the Humanities and Social Sciences- the research committee of the Faculty of Arts (K.U.Leuven)http://ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/

CFP: Creation and Destruction in the Long Middle Ages

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CFP: Creation and Destruction in the Long Middle AgesThe Pearl Kibre Medieval Study announces its seventh annual Graduate Student Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, February 24, 2012. This year's theme, Creation and Destruction, is designed to address a number of methodological, historical, and theoretical issues within the diverse fields of medieval studies ranging from late antiquity to the early modern period. The cycle of beginnings and endings has a number of manifestations that are unique to the medieval period. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: concepts of time and history, iconoclasm, imperial mythology, hagiography, invention and translation of relics, scientific discoveries, literary themes, burial practices, archaeological sites, and theological developments.Please send 200-word abstracts to medievalstudy@gmail.com by December 20, 2011.

International Congress of Middle Ages for Predoctoral Researchers. Almeria (Spain), June 18-22, 2012.

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International Congress of Middle Ages for Predoctoral Researchers. Almeria (Spain), June 18-22, 2012.The purpose of the congress is twofold:1. The creation of an international meeting and debate forum to promote the exchange of ideas among predoctoral researchers on the Middle Ages, be it History, Art History, or Archaeology.2. To report the different research lines being developed, with an emphasis on:-The subject of thesis projects-Research methodology-Computer assisted data processing-Field workThe call for papers is open to any researcher working on a doctoral thesis in History, Art History or Mediaeval Archaeology. Besides, proposals will be accepted from researchers expected to defend their doctoral theses on after 1 March, 2012. Proposals of papers can be sent to the Organizing Committe until November 11 -included- (I.CIIP.EM@hotmail.com) After evaluation, the acceptance of proposals will be communicated until November 25.For further information, please go to http://i-ciip-em.blogspot.com/ Call for Papers Spanish/English available.

CFP: Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600

2011-11-02T15:55:00.001-07:00

CFP: Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600The social organisation of medieval and early modern urban communities has long been debated, particularly the significance of norms, networks and institutions for advancing social integration and cohesion. Pre-modern urban life is sometimes thought to have rested on a lost form of association rooted in kinship, friendship and neighbourhood. Others argue that these relations were particular and primordial: genuine trust and solidarity based on reciprocity are then regarded as properties of modern society. More recently, the emergence of corporation-based institutions (guilds, fraternities, neighbourhoods, etc.) in medieval cities and towns has drawn much attention. These voluntary associations, by generating social capital, gave rise to political stability, fostered economic growth and strengthened societal cohesiveness; and, as such, they shaped urban civil society.The last conclusion has met with general acceptance, even though we still do not know how voluntary associations contributed to the well-being of both townsmen and urban society as a whole. This workshop, therefore, addresses the question as to how membership of trade and craft guilds and religious fraternities benefited individuals and how these organisations strengthened the cohesiveness of medieval and early modern European urban communities. It aims to scrutinise the social texture of these corporations and how their various roles in urban society developed over time, thereby challenging participants to re-examine existing data and re-evaluate current theories. The comparative perspective of the workshop should also be instructive in determining the factors that explain variations in the role of voluntary associations as integrative forces in urban society, particularly between southern and north-western Europe.The call for papers, therefore, aims to attract contributions on the following themes:1) Structure and membership: Under what conditions did guilds and fraternities emerge as the collective consequence of cooperation between individuals? How did the growth and institutionalisation of these voluntary associations affect their internal organisation and members’ participation? Which segments of urban society had access to guilds and fraternities, i.e. how did mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion operate? And, to what extent were these multi-layered voluntary associations shaped by kinship ties or ingrained in neighbourhoods?2) Functions and beneficiaries: How did the secondary political, social or cultural functions of guilds and fraternities relate to their core economic or religious purposes? Were secondary functions – for example social assistance – important motives for joining voluntary associations? Did benefits of membership also extend to the families of members? And, to what extent and how did these organisations produce public goods that benefited the urban community as a whole?3) Institutional contexts: What kind of linkages and interactions (particularly through overlapping social networks) existed between guilds and fraternities and urban religious and secular institutions? To what degree was their organisation and functioning determined by variations in the wider urban institutional framework? And, to what extent did differences in family structures and household formation patterns affect the social role of guilds and fraternities in urban society?4) Ideology and culture: Did ideological, religious and cultural norms and beliefs emerge that strengthened cooperation within guilds and fraternities? Were the religious and cultural activities of voluntary associations interwoven with urban festivities, and to what extent did they fit into an overarching urban ideology? And, did these activities contribute to or harm the social cohesiveness of urban communities?Early career researchers and researchers working on southern Europe are particularly encouraged to participate.Please send abstracts of around 250 words for 20-minute papers to the organiser, Dr Arie van Steensel (arie.vansteensel@eui.eu).Deadline for abstracts is 5 December 2011.The workshop will take place on Friday, 27 April 2012, at the European University Institute (EUI), Department of History and Civilization, Florence, Italy.Selected paper participants will receive reimbursement for accommodation expenses.Funding is provided by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme as part of the Marie Curie Actions IEF-project ‘Constructing Solidarities. Kinship Ties and Social Networks in the Urban Communities of Italy and the Low Countries, 1250-1550’, and by the European University Institute.

Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography 13-18 August 2012

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Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography 13-18 August 2012Purpose: The school is intended for students of Classical, Biblical, Patristic and medieval Greek literature, for historians of Byzantine art and culture, and for custodians of manuscripts and rare books. Its aim is to introduce them to research work with medieval Greek manuscripts.Structure: Over the course of five days, students will have ten reading classes, participate in four manuscript viewing sessions in Oxford libraries, and attend ten lectures (listed below).Tutors: Ilse de Vos (M.A., Ghent; Ph.D., Leuven); Charalambos Dendrinos (M.A., Ph.D., London); Dimitrios Skrekas (M.St., D.Phil., Oxford); Georgi Parpulov (M.A., Sofia; Ph.D., Chicago); Nigel Wilson, F.B.A.Lecture speakers: Andrew Honey (Care and Conservation of Byzantine Manuscripts), Nigel Wilson (Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts; Editing Classical Texts), Ilse de Vos (Editing Patristic Texts), Marc Lauxtermann (Editing Byzantine Poetry), Elizabeth Jeffreys (Editing Byzantine Prose), Michael Jeffreys (Editing Vernacular Texts; Early Printing in Greek), Alexander Lingas (Greek Liturgical Manuscripts), Maja Kominko (Byzantine Manuscript Illumination)Fees: £ 200Accommodation: Accommodation will be available at Lincoln College at the cost of £ 263 (prices current as of December 2011), but students may choose to make their own living arrangements in Oxford.Financial assistance: Bursaries of £ 463 will cover the fees and accommodation expenses of at least five students. At least two more students will be able to attend the school without paying a £ 200 fee. Active efforts are being made to raise funds for further bursaries.Applications are due on or before 8 January 2012 and are to be submitted by e-mail to georgi.parpulov@history.ox.ac.uk . Please, explain in detail your reasons for wishing to attend the school and attach your current CV. Indicate whether you would like to be considered for financial assistance. Arrange for one letter of reference from an established academic to be sent to the same e-mail address by 8 January 2012. Successful applicants will be notified on 20 January 2012.________________________________________

Lectio

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LECTIO, the Leuven Centre for the study of the transmission of texts and ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (http://ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio), is organizing a series of round tables in the framework of a "Laboratory for critical text editing". The first one is entitled ‘Digital or critical/Digital and critical?’. Speakers are Franz Fischer (Cologne Center for eHumanities), Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens ING) and Tara Andrews (K.U.Leuven/LECTIO). The meeting will take place on Monday November 21, 2-5 pm, in Leuven, Faculty of Arts (http://www2.arts.kuleuven.be/situering), Room: MSI 02.08.You are most welcome to attend, but, please register by sending an email to An Faems: an.faems@arts.kuleuven.be.

27th International Conference on Medievali

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Call for Papers27th International Conference on MedievalismHosted by Kent State University Regional Campuses(October 18-20, 2012)THEME: Medievalism(s) & DiversityDeadline: June 1, 2012Conference Theme: Is there diversity in medievalism? How has medievalism represented diversity of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender,...? How have medievalist works supported issues concerning equity and inclusion? How have medievalist works oppressed and suppressed? Are there elements of bigotry and discrimination? What about human rights as a medieval concept, as a contemporary concept? Media to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: novels, plays, films, art works, the Internet, television, historical works, political works, comics, video games. Angles to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: race, gender, sexuality, disability/ability, religion, corporation and/or class, nationality, human rights, political correctness, marginalization, anti-marginalization tactics, rewritten codes, rewritten ideologies, re-affirmed codes, re-affirmed ideologies.Conference Location: Nestled on 200 beautiful acres, yet only minutes from the hustle and bustle of The Strip and Westfield Belden Village Mall, Kent State University at Stark provides a quiet, serene and picturesque setting for students and the community to enjoy. With rolling hills, a pond, walking trail, and a Campus Center and Food Emporium, it is located in Jackson Township, just five minutes from the Akron-Canton Airport and easily accessible from Interstate-77.Publication Opportunities:Selected papers related to the conference theme will be published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism.Deadline: June 1, 2012Please send paper and/or session proposals to either:Carol L. Robinson, Conference ChairInternational Conference on MedievalismKent State University Trumbull4314 Mahoning Avenue, NWWarren, Ohio 44483EMAIL: clrobins@kent.eduFAX: 330-437-0490 orElizabeth Williamsen, Conference Assist. ChairInternational Conference on MedievalismKent State University Stark6000 Frank Avenue, NWNorth Canton, Ohio 44720EMAIL: ewilli46@kent.eduFAX: 330-437-0490

2011-11-02T15:47:00.001-07:00

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Call for Submissions, 2013 Open Issue Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries and periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical results. Beginning in 2012 Digital Philology will have two issues per year, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. One of the issues will be open to all submissions, while the other one will be guest-edited and revolve around a thematic axis. Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation. Digital Philology is welcoming submissions for its 2013 open issue. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to dph@jhu.edu, addressed to the Managing Editor (Albert Lloret). Digital Philology will also publish manuscript studies and reviews of books and digital projects. Correspondence regarding manuscript studies may be addressed to Jeanette Patterson at jpatterson09@gmail.com. Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson@gmail.com. Editors and Editorial Board Albert Lloret, Managing Editor University of Massachusetts Amherst Jeanette Patterson, Manuscript Studies EditorJohns Hopkins University Timothy Stinson, Review Editor North Carolina State University Nadia R. Altschul, Executive EditorJohns Hopkins University Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, Founding EditorsJohns Hopkins University Editorial Board Tracy Adams, Auckland UniversityBenjamin Albritton, Stanford UniversityNadia R. Altschul, Johns Hopkins UniversityR. Howard Bloch, Yale UniversityKevin Brownlee, University of PennsylvaniaJacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, University of Paris, Sorbonne - Paris IVSuzanne Conklin Akbari, University of TorontoLucie Dolezalova, Charles University, PragueAlexandra Gillespie, University of TorontoJeffrey Hamburger, Harvard UniversityDaniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton UniversitySharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa CruzJoachim Küpper, Free University of BerlinDeborah McGrady, University of VirginiaChristine McWebb, University of WaterlooStephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins UniversityTimothy Stinson, North Carolina State University

Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from England's Dark Ages

2011-10-23T14:59:00.000-07:00

Selected objectsfrom the Staffordshire Hoard, entitled 'Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold fromEngland's Dark Ages' will go on show at the National Geographic Museum inWashington DC (1145 17th Street NW), from October 29, 2011 - March 6,2012.Further details, including opening times and how to book tickets, are onthe Staffordshire Hoard website -http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/?post_type=event&p=1696

Digital Humanities 2012

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The international Program Committee for the Digital Humanities 2012 conference (to be held at Hamburg, Germany) announces its last call for all proposals--proposals for posters, short papers, long papers, panels and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The deadline is now just **two weeks away** on Tuesday, 1 Nov 2011, at 12 midnight GMT. Just a reminder that this is a firm deadline - please check your time zone in relation to GMT and leave plenty of time before the deadline for your submission.Submissions should be made through the DH 2012 conference ConfTool submission portal at https://secure.digitalhumanities.org. If you have previously used ConfTool to submit a paper, review papers, or register for Digital Humanities conference and cannot remember your user name, please contact us at dh2012 at digitalhumanities.org. If you cannot remember your password, the system will generate a new password for you.The full Call for Papers for both the main conference and pre-conference are available on the conference website at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/

2012 Cleveland Symposium

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The 2012 Cleveland Symposium invites graduate submissions exploring the theme of fragmentation in the visual arts. This trope has manifested itself in a variety of ways in response to political, social, ideological, or aesthetic trends of a particular epoch. Students are encouraged to interpret this theme broadly, through avenues such as iconoclasm, revolution, political upheaval, physical fragmentation of materials, or particular aesthetic movements.We welcome submissions from graduate students in all stages of their studies and from all fields and geographic regions, ranging from ancient through contemporary art. We will also consider papers from a wide range of methodologies and approaches. A monetary prize will be awarded to the speaker who presents the most innovative research in the most successfully delivered paper.Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words for papers of no longer than 20 minutes, along with a curriculum vitae or résumé, toclevelandsymposium@gmail.com by December 15, 2011. Please include “Cleveland Symposium Submission” in the subject line of your email.Selected presenters will be notified by January 1,2012

Power and place in Later Roman and early medieval Europe: interdisciplinary perspectives on governance and civil organization*

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Power and place in Later Roman and early medieval Europe:interdisciplinary perspectives on governance and civil organization**UCL Institute of Archaeology, London. 10-12 November 2011*This conference will explore the background, origins, development andpractice of later Roman and early medieval social and politicalinstitutions from a European comparative perspective. It will addressquestions of political participation, governance, and authority from the3rd to the 11th centuries in England, Europe and the westernMediterranean, focussing especially on the chronology and landscapesetting of political practices. In particular, the conference will explorecontinuities, contrasts and parallels between governance and civilorganization in Roman and post-Roman contexts.Confirmed speakers include: Isabel Alfonso; John Baker; Keith Briggs;Stuart Brookes; Alexandra Chavaria; Adriana Ciesielska; Wendy Davies;Christine Delaplace; Stephen Driscoll; Werner Eck; Julio Escalona;Caroline Goodson; Helena Hamerow; John Hudson; Frode Iverson; LarsJorgenson; Marie Ødegaard; Sue Oosthuizen; Levi Roach; Chris Scull; HeikiValkThe full programme can be viewed here:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/assembly/ConferenceProgrammeThere will also be a free public lecture on the topic of "Beheading,drowning and hanging: the archaeology of judicial killing in Anglo-SaxonEngland", given by Prof Andrew Reynolds, in the Cruciform Lecture Theatre,UCL, on the evening of 11 Nov 2011.Posters are invited which address the following themes:· The development and chronology of civil organization and authority inEurope from the 3rd to the 11th centuries AD.· Places, political landscapes and human experience.· Identifying and Defining Political Landscapes: methods and problems.If you would like to present a poster, please provide a brief outline (200words) to s.brookes@ucl.ac.uk, or send you poster by 1 Oct 2011 to DrStuart Brookes, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-4 Gordon Square, London,WC1H 0PYAttendance costs £95 (£50 concessions) which includes tea, coffee andlunch for three days; day rate £40 (£20). Further details, as well asregistration forms, can be found on the conference website:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/assembly/eventsAny enquiries can be sent to s.brookes@ucl.ac.uk.*UCL Institute of Archaeology, London. 10-12 November 2011*This conference will explore the background, origins, development andpractice of later Roman and early medieval social and politicalinstitutions from a European comparative perspective. It will addressquestions of political participation, governance, and authority from the3rd to the 11th centuries in England, Europe and the westernMediterranean, focussing especially on the chronology and landscapesetting of political practices. In particular, the conference will explorecontinuities, contrasts and parallels between governance and civilorganization in Roman and post-Roman contexts.Confirmed speakers include: Isabel Alfonso; John Baker; Keith Briggs;Stuart Brookes; Alexandra Chavaria; Adriana Ciesielska; Wendy Davies;Christine Delaplace; Stephen Driscoll; Werner Eck; Julio Escalona;Caroline Goodson; Helena Hamerow; John Hudson; Frode Iverson; LarsJorgenson; Marie Ødegaard; Sue Oosthuizen; Levi Roach; Chris Scull; HeikiValkThe full programme can be viewed here:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/assembly/ConferenceProgrammeThere will also be a free public lecture on the topic of "Beheading,drowning and hanging: the archaeology of judicial killing in Anglo-SaxonEngland", given by Prof Andrew Reynolds, in the Cruciform Lecture Theatre,UCL, on the evening of 11 Nov 2011.Posters are invited which address the following themes:· The development and chronology of civil organization and authority inEurope from the 3rd to the 11th centuries AD.· Places, political landscapes and human experience.· Identifying and Defining Political Landscapes: methods and problems.If you would like to present a poster, please provide a brief outline (200words) to s.brookes@ucl.ac.uk, or send you poster by 1 Oct 2011 to DrStuart Brookes, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-4 Gordon Square, London,WC1H 0PYAttendance costs £95 (£50 concessions) which includes tea, coffee andlunch for three days; day rate £40 (£20). Further details, as well asregistration forms, can be found on the conference website:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/assembly/eventsAny enquiries can be sent to s.brookes@ucl.ac.uk.

Hortulus Journal CFP: Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination

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Subject:Hortulus Journal CFP: Space and Place in the Medieval ImaginationFrom:"Hortulus" Date:10/17/11 11:33 PMTo:med-grad@groups.sas.upenn.eduHortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval StudiesSpecial Call For Papers for Issue on Medieval Space and PlaceSUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 7, Issue 1: 1 March 2012Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereedjournal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medievalworld. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present aforum in which graduate students from around the globe may share theirideas. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in anydiscipline and period of Medieval Studies. We are also interested in bookreviews on recent works: interested reviewers should send a query,indicating the book they would like to review.Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretationsof spatial order, and place as a socially constructed category, in theart, chronicles, letters, literature, and music of the Middle Ages. Placeand space theories have manifested themselves in Medieval Studies recentlyin a number of ways, from analysis of specific spaces and places, such asgardens, forests, cities, and the court, to spatially theorized topicssuch as travel narratives, nationalism, and the open- or closedness ofspecific medieval cultural areas. Over an array of subjects, the spatialturn challenges scholars to re-think how humans create the world aroundthem, through both physical and mental processes. Articles should explorethe meaning of space/place in the past by situating it in its precisehistorical context.Possible article topics include, but are not limited to: Medieval representations of spatial order The sense of place in the construction of social identities Mapping and spatial imagination Topographies of meaningful places Beyond the binary of center/periphery Spatial policies of separation: ethnicity, religion, or gender Travel and the sense of place Creating landscape The idea of place in medieval religious culture Pilgrimage Workplaces Intimate space, public place Liminality and proximity as social categoriesThe 2011 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of MedievalStudies will be published in May of 2012. All graduate students arewelcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queriesvia email to submit@hortulus.net before March 1, 2012.Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies,www.hortulus.net

10th Annual Comitatus Conference on Medieval Studies: "North Atlantic Connections: Texts and Interpretations of the Medieval North"

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10th Annual Comitatus Conference on Medieval Studies: "North AtlanticConnections: Texts and Interpretations of the Medieval North"Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, INFeb. 24–25, 2012Keynote Speaker:Marianne E. KalinkeCAS Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literatures at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of _The Arthurof the North: Arthurian Literature in the Norse and Rus' Realms_Call for Papers:We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any topic that addressescultural transmission and interaction in the medieval North Atlantic, fromNova Scotia to Scandinavia, from Iceland to Normandy. Presenters arewelcome to discuss any period of the Middle Ages. Possible themes include:· North Atlantic political interactions.· Medieval Irish and Viking activity in North America.· Influence of intercultural violence on urban architecture.· Impact of cultural cross-pollination on daily life.· Literature, music, drama, and the visual arts.· Cultural interaction as a catalyst for social change.· Insular monastic evangelism.· The Viking role in the emergence of nationalism.· Spread of the British Arthur across the North.· Legal ramifications of North Atlantic cultural interaction.· The legacy of such medieval interactions on later eras.Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to Erin Kissick(echall@purdue.edu) by December 15, 2011.

Symposium on Sortilege in Late Antiquity

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Symposium on Sortilege in Late AntiquityNovember 12-13, 2011 at Princeton University Sortilege, the practice of making decisions or foretelling the future by casting lots, was both widely practiced and at the same time highly contested in the Mediterranean world of Late Antiquity. While secular and ecclesiastical leaders often expressly prohibited such practices, lot divination proved resilient and even remained vibrant throughout the centuries. The symposium’s participants will analyze lot texts in their larger social-historical and religious contexts, especially against the backdrop of the classical Greek and Latin canon and the formation of the major book religions in the Mediterranean basin as well as their evolving bodies of sacred scriptures. Registration is free. Conference website: http://www.princeton.edu/~sortes/ William E. KlingshirnProfessor and Chair of Greek and LatinThe Catholic University of America

Vagantes

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Call for PapersVagantes 2012March 29-31Indiana University, Bloomington Vagantes is the largest conference in North America for graduate students studying the Middle Ages, and aims to provide an open dialogue among junior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Shannon Gayk (Professor of English, Indiana University) and Professor Jordan L. Zweck (Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison). They will be joined by at least twenty-four student presenters and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies come together to exchange ideas. In this manner, Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget. Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are welcome from graduate students on all topics considering the Middle Ages. In keeping with the mission of Vagantes to advance interdisciplinary studies, we invite submissions in areas including but not limited to history, literature, art history, philosophy, religious studies, and musicology. Vagantes is sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America. Please email a brief vitae and abstract of no more than 300 words by October 25, 2011 to: Diane Fruchtmandsfrucht@indiana.eduFor more information, find us on the web atwww.vagantesconference.org.Download our flyer at: www.vagantesconference.org/VagantesCFP.pdfFind us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Vagantes2012

PHI Latin database is now available on-line:

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PHI Latin database is now available on-line:http://latin.packhum.org/index

Vagantes 2012

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Call for PapersVagantes 2012March 29-31Indiana University, BloomingtonVagantes is the largest conference in North America for graduate students studying the Middle Ages, and aims to provide an open dialogue among junior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Shannon Gayk (Associate Professor of English, Indiana University) and Professor Jordan L. Zweck (Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison). They will be joined by at least twenty-four student presenters and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies come together to exchange ideas. In this manner, Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget.Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are welcome from graduate students on all topics considering the Middle Ages. In keeping with the mission of Vagantes to advance interdisciplinary studies, we invite submissions in areas including but not limited to history, literature, art history, philosophy, religious studies, and musicology.Vagantes is sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America.Please email a brief vitae and abstract of no more than 300 words by October 25, 2011 to:Diane Fruchtmandsfrucht@indiana.eduFor more information, find us on the web atwww.vagantesconference.org.Download our flyer at: www.vagantesconference.org/VagantesCFP.pdfFind us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Vagantes2012

Centre for e-Research

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Please see below forthcoming seminars run by the Centre for e-Research. All take place in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London (for directions see http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) and are followed by drinks. All welcome.Wednesday 5 October 18:00'Digital Humanities Centers and the New Humanities'Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/fraistat.aspx Tuesday 11 October 18:15'Webometric Analyses of Social Web Texts: Case Studies Twitter and YouTube'Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhamptonhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/webometrics.aspx Tuesday 25 October 18:15'BBC Genome Project'Andy O’Dwyer, BBC Researchhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/bbcgenome.aspx Tuesday 8 November 18:15'Watching the Detectives: Using digital forensic techniques to investigate the digital persona'Gareth Knight, King’s College Londonhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/digforensics.aspxTuesday 22 November 18:15'Documenting and Exploring Material Surface Features with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)'Kathryn Piquette, UCLhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/materialsurface.aspxTuesday 6 December, 18:15'The Ocropodium Project: Evaluating open-source tools for historical OCR'Mike Bryant, King’s College Londonhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/ocropodium.aspx___Anna AshtonCommunications ManagerCentre for e-ResearchKing's College London26-29 Drury LaneLondon, WC2B 5RLEmail: anna.ashton@kcl.ac.ukTel: 020 7848 2689Fax: 020 7848 1989

MASONS AT WORK

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2012 Center for Ancient Studies SymposiumMASONS AT WORKArchitecture and Construction in the Pre-Modern Worldat the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)30 March-1 April 2012The symposium aims to assemble specialists in various fields to examine building practices in the pre-modern world, with an emphasis on aspects of construction and structure in ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, medieval, and early-to-middle period Islamic architecture. While some technologies and built forms may be shared across pre-modern cultures (such as vault construction or the use of centering), other may be specific to a single period or region (such as the use of concrete or structural ribs in vaulting). In addition to a panel of invited speakers, we are soliciting 20-minute papers that examine the problems pre-modern masons commonly encountered – and the solutions they developed – in the process of design and construction. Evidence may be drawn from a variety of sources, including written evidence and the archaeological record, but for the purpose of the symposium we encourage studies based on the analysis of standing buildings.Keynote Address: Lynne Lancaster (Ohio University)Commentator: Kostis Kourelis (Franklin and Marshall University)Organizing committee: Lothar Haselberger, Renata Holod, Robert OusterhoutCall for papers: Those wishing to speak at the symposium should submit by email a letter to the organizing committee, including name, title, institutional affiliation, paper title, plus a summary of 200 words or fewer. Graduate students should include a note of support from their adviser. Deadline: 30 November 2011; the final program will be announced by the end of November. Submit proposals to ancient@sas.upenn.edu with “Masons at Work” in the subject line.Note: There is no registration fee; receptions and meals are provided to all speakers. However, speakers must arrange their own transportation and hotel accommodation. Philadelphia has a major international airport and is easily accessible by train. A conference hotel rate will be available at the Club Quarters in downtown Philadelphia, a short bus ride or walk from the campus. Those wishing to attend but not speak should register in advance to guarantee space is available. More information will be available in the second circular.

Brixworth Lecture

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The twenty-ninth annual Brixworth Lecture is organised by The Friends ofAll Saints' Brixworth in conjunction with the University of Leicester.This year's lecture, on Saturday 29 October 2011 at 5.00pm, will be given by:Leslie Webster: "Wall-paintings to altar cloths: furnishing theAnglo-Saxon Church"Full details are here and a poster is attached:http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mrc/events/the-brixworth-lectureColleagues may also like to know that Richard Gem's 2009 Brixworth Lectureis now published (with a new colour phase plan of the AS church):"Architecture, Liturgy and 'Romanitas' at All Saints' Church, Brixworth".Copies can be purchased direct from the Friends of All Saints', Brixworth(brixworthfriends1@btinternet.com)or by contacting Jo Story at Leicester.School of Historical StudiesUniversity of LeicesterUniversity RoadLeicester LE1 7RHW: SHS http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/historicalW: Medieval Research Centre: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mrc

Marco Manuscript Workshop: READERS

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Marco Manuscript Workshop: READERS February 3–4, 2012The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville The Seventh Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4, 2012, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English). For this year’s workshop we invite presentations that focus on the reading, interpretation, and use of manuscripts. The relationship between a text and its readers is reciprocal – the text speaks to readers, readers in turn talk back to the text, and meaning emerges through this series of encounters between readers and texts and negotiations among different readers. Readers sometimes create new texts to answer the ones they read – literary practices such as commentary, quotation, or reference. But they also leave traces of their reading in material ways: physical wear and tear, annotations and corrections, interpolations and excisions, glosses and marginalia, the purposeful grouping or arrangement of texts in a codex or books in a library. How is such evidence recognized and understood? How is it presented to modern readers? What does it tell us about the history of the text? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.The deadline for applications is October 15, 2011. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.

CFP: The Fourth British Patristics Conference (Exeter University)

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CFP: The Fourth British Patristics Conference (Exeter University)Please note the following conference and call for papers, which may be of interest to colleagues. (Sent on behalf of Dr Morwenna Ludlow).The Fourth British Patristics Conference will be held at Exeter University (St. Luke's Campus)5th - 7th September, 2012.Conference website: http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/conferences/patristics/The aim of the conference is to foster the study of early Christianity broadly considered in its social, historical and theological context and to cultivate a community of scholars of the subject in Britain. We particularly welcome participation by and applications for papers from current graduate students studying at British Universities.We are delighted to announce that two plenary speakers have already been confirmed:* Sebastian Brock, formerly Reader in Syriac Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford* Alastair Logan, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter.The conference will begin after lunch on Wednesday 5th September and will close after lunch on Friday 7th September.Call for papers:-The call for papers is now open.Please submit your proposal for a short paper (15-20 minutes long) to Morwenna Ludlow by 31st January 2012:* preferably by email: britishpatristics@gmail.com (please do not reply to the address from which this email was sent)* or by post: Dr. Morwenna Ludlow, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, Devon. EX4 4RJ.The conference committee will select proposals and inform all applicants in mid-February.Attendance is not formally restricted to those studying or working in the British Isles, although the committee will take the above aim of the conference into account when selecting papers from submitted proposals. Please send queries about conference papers and proposals to Morwenna Ludlow at britishpatristics@gmail.com.We look forward to receiving your proposal and to welcoming you to Exeter,With best wishes on behalf of the Conference committee,Morwenna LudlowConference committee:-Morwenna LudlowSiam BhayroDavid HorrellAlastair LoganStephen Mitchell

Call for proposals: Pre-conference Workshops and Tutorials Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2012

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Call for proposals: Pre-conference Workshops and Tutorials Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2012 Hosted by University of Hamburg16-22 July 2012http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Proposal deadline: November 1, 2011 (Midnight GMT)I. General InformationThe International Program Committee invites submissions of proposals of no more than 1500 words for pre-conferences or specialized Tutorials and Workshops on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. Tutorials are typically a half day to a full day; workshops and pre-conferences may be one day or more. We particularly welcome submissions relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2012 conference, 'Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods' .Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities:- computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship;- the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and related areas;- research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium.- digital humanities and diversity- libraries, archives, and the creation, delivery, management, and preservation of humanities digital resources- text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages- the role of digital humanities in academic curriculaThe range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press.Participants in Workshops or Tutorials will be expected to register for the full conference as well, paying the regular registration fee. There will be additional fees of roughly 40-50 Euros per half-day for participants in tutorials and workshops, with a minimum attendance of approximately 10 participants each, in order to ensure that these events cover their own costs.The deadline for submitting proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2011. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 2011. See below for full details on submitting proposals.Proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizers (please email katrin.schoenert@uni-hamburg.de) as soon as possible.For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site, .II. Pre-Conference TutorialsProposals for Tutorials should provide the following information:1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the DH community (not more than 1500 words).2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a half-day tutorial (approximately 3 hours, plus breaks). In exceptional cases, full-day tutorials may be supported as well.3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise.4. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size. (DH Tutorials are expected to be self-financing.)5. Special requirements for technical support.Proposals will be submitted via the DH2012 conference registration application, ConfTool, at the address https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ no later than November 1, 2011.TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIESAccepted tutorial speakers will be notified by December 15, 2011, and must then provide final draft abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by February 1, 2011. The description should be in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference web site, and a Word or ODT (not PDF) version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions to follow).III. Pre-Conference WorkshopsProposals for workshops should provide the following information:1. A title and brief description (of not more than 1500 words) of the workshop topic and its motivation (i.e., its relevance to DH).2. A description of target audience and expected number of participants.3. The intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day; maximum one and a half days).4. A budget proposal (DH Workshops are expected to be self-financing.)5. Dates for submission deadline (if there is to be a CfP) and notification of acceptances.6. A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted.7. Full postal address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the workshop contact person.8. Special requirements (e.g. computer infrastructure or audio equipment).Proposals will be submitted via the DH2012 conference registration application, ConfTool, at the address https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ no later than November 1, 2011. You will be notified about the decision to accept or reject the proposal by December 15, 2011.IV. Format of the ProposalsAll proposals must be submitted electronically using the online submission form in the ConfTool system no later than November 1, 2011. Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. Information for new users is available at the ConfTool site. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact .V. Information about the conference venueHamburg on the river Elbe has about 1.8 million inhabitants within the city limits, making the old Hanseatic merchant city Germany's second largest metropolis. Hamburg is characterized by its port, its international orientation and a cosmopolitan flair. The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919. Today the Faculty of the Humanities is home to over 10,000 students. Since its inception Hamburg University has maintained a strong focus on foreign languages and cultures. To foster and to explore such diversity is a key task of the Humanities - and to provide theories, methods and tools to this end poses a particularly interesting challenge to the Digital Humanities. We hope you will join in the discussion on "Digital Diversity" at the DH2012 and look forward to seeing you in Hamburg!VI. International Program CommitteeSusan Brown (SDH-SEMI - Vice Chair)Arianna Ciula (ALLC)Tanya Clement (ACH)Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI)Dot Porter (ACH)Jan Rybicki (ALLC)Jon Saklofske (SDH-SEMI)Paul Spence (ALLC - Chair)Tomoji Tabata (ALLC)Katherine Walter (ACH)Jan Christoph Meister (ex officio, Local Host)

Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study

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The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study offers two types of fellowship:Residential fellowships for faculty and scholars in all disciplines — including the arts, engineering,the humanities, and the social, life, and physical sciences — with projects that are creative,innovative, or align with the intellectual orientation of the Notre Dame Institute for AdvancedStudy. The Institute also welcomes those who are beginning their careers with promise and haveappropriate projects.Graduate student fellowships for a full academic year (fall and spring semesters, August throughMay). As with residential fellowships for faculty and other scholars, artists, and scientists, theInstitute encourages graduate student fellows to address ultimate questions and questions ofvalue while a member of the Institute’s academic community.DEADLINE for applications is the 1st of NOVEMBER 2011.See http://ndias.nd.edu/fellowships/ for further details.Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html

BYZANTIUM, ITS NEIGHBOURS AND ITS CULTURES: DIVERSITY AND INTERACTION

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Apologies for Cross PostingBYZANTIUM, ITS NEIGHBOURS AND ITS CULTURES: DIVERSITY AND INTERACTIONAUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES XVIITH BIENNIAL CONFERENCEhttp://home.vicnet.net.au/~byzaus/conferences/17th2012/20-22 July 2012, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia Our understanding of Byzantium's external and internal interactions hasshifted significantly as a result of recent scholarship. The significance ofthis state to a millennium of developments throughout Eurasia has beenexamined; more importantly, the nature of contacts between Byzantium and itsEurasian neighbours has been reconceived. Models for understandingByzantium's interactions with its neighbours have moved from imperial centreand periphery, to 'commonwealth', to 'overlapping circles', to parallel andmutual developments in political and cultural identity. The Byzantinemillennium now seems more connected, by commerce, diplomacy and commoncultural heritage, than before. Artefacts and ideologies were acquired,appropriated or mediated amongst Byzantium and its neighbours in the LatinWest, southeastern and central Europe, Iran and Dar al-Islam; even prolongedconflict did not preclude exchanges and indeed sometimes sprang from shareddevelopments. At the same time, what we think of as the distinctivelyByzantine milieu of Constantinople also interacted with regional culturesthat at various times formed part of its empire. Coptic and Syriac culturesin Late Antiquity, Latin and Arabic regions in later periods, displayed bothambivalence and engagement with the culture of Constantinople and with itsimperial and ecclesiastical leaders. As with Byzantium's externalconnections, 'centre and periphery' models of internal interactions aregiving way to more dynamic models seeing metropolis and regions as parts ofbroader, common developments. The conference aims to explore thesedevelopments.Keynote Speaker:Professor Jonathan Shepard, University of Cambridge, former Lecturer inHistory at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Selwyn College and ofPeterhouse; his major publications include inter alia: Jonathan Shepard andSimon Franklin, 'The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200' (1996), Jonathan Shepardand Simon Franklin (eds), 'Byzantine Diplomacy' (1992), Jonathan Shepard,'Byzantium's Overlapping Circles', Proceedings of the 21st InternationalCongress of Byzantine Studies (2006), Jonathan Shepard (ed.), 'The Expansionof Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia' (2007), JonathanShepard (ed.), 'The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500-1492'(2008). The Biennial General Meeting of the Association will be held during theconference. CALL FOR PAPERSPapers exploring any aspect of cultural and political interactions betweenByzantium and its neighbours, or within regions of the Byzantine empire, areinvited. Abstracts of up to 300 words for papers of 20 minutes' durationshould be sent by 31 March to AABS2012@mq.edu.au. Postgraduate and Post-doctoral Conference Bursaries The AABS committee will give a limited number of bursaries of $500 each topostgraduate and postdoctoral members of AABS from outside Sydney who wishto present a paper. Please send an application letter with details of yourcircumstances along with your abstract to AABS2012@mq.edu.au.Conference Organisers Andrew GillettDanijel DzinoKen Parry Email: AABS2012@mq.edu.au This conference is sponsored by the Macquarie University Ancient CulturesResearch Centre. _

Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar

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The Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar has a great and diverseprogramme of speakers planned for this year, under the aegis of theCentre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Ourfirst seminar is 11 October, featuring Dr. Mark Whittow (Corpus Christi,Oxford) speaking on Byzantium and the Feudal Revolution. The rest of theprogram is detailed below. More details are athttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/219/late-antiquity-network-clans.htm.All our Michaelmas seminars will be held at the CRASSH building, 17 MillLane, at 2.30 alternate Tuesdays, and followed by tea, biscuits, andvigorous discussion. But in the new year, we have a big change upcoming:CRASSH will be moving buildings in the new year, and so will we!Seminars will then be held at 5pm in the new Alison Richard Building, onthe Sidgwick Site.Everyone interested in Late Antique, Byzantine & Early Medieval Studiesis, as always, most welcome to join us. Please pass on this message toany new members in your department in the next while who might beinterested. To be added to the mailing list, send an email to Margaret(mjm97), Mike (mtgh2) or Robin (rew47).Michaelmas Term 2011: All seminars will take place Tuesdays at 2.30 atthe CRASSH building, 17 Mill Lane.11 October: Mark Whittow (Corpus Christi, Oxford)Byzantium and the Feudal Revolution25 October: Claire Sotinel (Université Paris-Est, Créteil Val de Marne)The defence of Rome in Gothic Italy: Pope Symmachus and the Sylloge ofCambridge8 November: Marios Costambeys (Liverpool)Anglo-Saxons, Rome, and the coronation of Charlemagne22 November: Alex Woolf (St. Andrews)Barbarians and pseudo-Barbarians in Late AntiquityLent and Easter Terms 2012: CRASSH is moving! All seminars will be heldTuesdays at 5pm in the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, on theSidgwick Site.24 January: Charles West (Sheffield)Kings, Franks, and Pseudo-Isidore: Problems of lordship in lateninth-century Frankia7 February: Luke Lavan (Kent)The Late Antique City: Models of Change21 February: Roger Collins (Edinburgh)Oh, let us never, never doubt: The Churches of Early Medieval Spainbefore, during, and after the Arab Conquest1 May: Simon Corcoran (UCL)Roman Law for Dummies: the Summa Perusina and legal learning in earlymedieval Italy15 May: Stephen Mitchell (Exeter)Towards a History of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity

MAKING RACE MATTER IN THE MIDDLE AGES

2011-10-08T11:57:00.001-07:00

MAKING RACE MATTER IN THE MIDDLE AGESEditor: Cord J. Whitaker, University of New Hampshire (cord.whitaker@unh.edu)Issue Description:Only in the past fifteen years have medievalists considered with any regularitythe question of whether race mattered in the Middle Ages. In that time,medievalists’ interest in racial alterity has grown significantly, witnessingthe release of such works as Geraldine Heng’s Empire of Magic: Medieval Romanceand the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (2003) and Suzanne Conklin Akbari’s Idolsin the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 (2009).These studies and others like them take into account the similarities betweenmedieval forms of cultural differentiation and modern racial ideology. On thecontrary, other studies have maintained that race is indeed an early moderninvention, arguing that to look for signs of race in the Middle Ages is at bestwrongheaded and at worst irresponsible. Still others have addressed at lengthand without decisive conclusion the question of whether modern racial discoursecan be profitably and responsibly deployed in medieval studies. postmedieval’smission to develop a “present-minded medieval studies” makes it the perfectforum in which scholars might proceed from the standpoint that the benefits oflocating the pre-history of race in the Middle Ages outweigh the potentialpitfalls.The editor invites scholars of literature, history, art history, and relatedfields to focus on how race can best be examined through medieval culturalmaterials. For instance, contributors may examine medieval representations ofbodies and cultures that purport to be different from one another. More oftenthan not, borderlines between bodies or cultures become most interesting whenthey are transgressed; there is much to be learned from instances when bordersare (or are not) reestablished. Articles may also investigate the relationaldynamics between the individual body and communal identity in the medievalconstruction of race. In addition, articles may address the role of spiritualconditions and religious doctrines in the development of race.This special issue will explore in-depth medieval articulations of racialdifference even while it asserts the place of race in medieval studies and theplace of medieval studies in the study of race. The issue as a whole seeks toask, how did the Middle Ages make race matter? (“Matter” can be taken as a verb,meaning become important, or the second term in a compound noun, meaningmaterial pertaining to race.) And how can we best illuminate the ways racematters to the study of the Middle Ages and vice versa?

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

2011-10-08T11:53:00.001-07:00

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquiumannounces its Fall 2011 Schedule: Andrew Rabin(University of Louisville)"Holy Bodies, Legal Matters: Theorizing Law and Gender in an Early Medieval Saint's Life"Tuesday, October 25th6:00 pmat Rutgers UniversityMurray Hall 302Co-Sponsored by the Rutgers Medieval Studies Program, the Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium, and the GSA*****Carol Braun Pasternack(University of California, Santa Barbara)lectureMonday, November 7th4.30 pmreception to followat Columbia Universitylocation tbaCo-Sponsored by the Medieval Guild***workshopTuesday, November 8that Rutgers Universitylocation tba

2011-09-01T21:37:00.001-07:00

Not an endorsement:Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror [Hardcover]Tracy Borman(Author) Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Jonathan Cape (1 Sep 2011)Book Description:The first English biography of the thrilling, tempestuous life of the 'first' Queen of EnglandProduct Description:Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England and formally recognised as such by her subjects. Beyond this, though, little is known of her life. No contemporary images of her remain, and in a period where all evidence is fragmentary and questionable, the chroniclers of the age left us only the faintest clues as to her life. So who was this spectral queen?In this first major biography, Tracy Borman elegantly sifts through the shards of evidence to uncover an extraordinary story. In a dangerous, brutal world of conquest and rebellion, fragile alliances and bitter familial rivalries, Matilda possessed all the attributes required for a woman to thrive. She was born of impeccable lineage, and possessed of a loving and pious nature, she was a paragon of fidelity and motherhood. But strength, intelligence and ambition were also prerequisites to survive in such an environment. This side of her character, coupled with a fiercely independent nature, made Matilda essential to William's rule, giving her unparalleled influence over the king. While this would provide an inspiring template for future indomitable queens, it led eventually to treachery, revolt and the fracturing of a dynasty.Characterised by Tracy Borman's graceful storytelling, Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror takes us from the courts of Flanders and Normandy to the opulence of royal life in England. Alive with intrigue, rumour and betrayal, it illuminates for the first time the life of an exceptional, brave and complex queen pivotal to the history of England.

codicology

2011-09-01T20:35:00.001-07:00

A workshop of team 1 (codicology) of the European Science FoundationProgram dedicated to Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies (COMSt,2009-2014, http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=6247) will take place in Nice,South of France, on the 14th and 15th of October. Participation is free butpersons interested are requested to registrate before 20th of September bysending me a message.

The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies

2011-09-01T20:30:00.001-07:00

The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS) is still acceptingabstracts for its two sessions at the Congress next May. 1. Historia social de las lenguas ibéricas: Acercamientos socio-históricosal cambio lingüístico en la Península Ibérica (Abstracts to Sonia Kania,skania@uta.edu) 2. Digital Advances for the Study of Medieval Iberia (Abstracts to FranciscoGago Jover, fgagojov@holycross.edu) If you are interested in submitting an abstract for either of those twosessions, please include a Participant Information Form(available at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html)with your abstract by September 15.

The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference "Philology"

2011-09-01T20:23:00.001-07:00

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquiumannounces the CFP forThe Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference"Philology"University of California, BerkeleySaturday, 25 February 2012Deadline for Abstracts: 26 September 2011The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with theAnglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the EighthAnnual Graduate Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on“Philology,” to be held on 25 February 2012 at UC Berkeley.More than twenty years ago, in response to tectonic shifts in theacademic landscape, Speculum and Comparative Literary Studies almostsimultaneously published special issues asking the same question:“What is Philology?” Since that watershed moment, scholars havecontinued to debate which methodologies deserve the title “Philology”(whether “old” or “new”). Meanwhile, these very methodologies haveundergone significant theoretical and practical revisions. Bearing inmind that “Philology” lies at the historical, institutional, andintellectual core of Anglo-Saxon Studies, this conference seeks toconsider not only “What is philology now?” but also “How and why doesphilology matter, particularly to emerging scholars?”We invite proposals for papers that reflect on the idea of “Philology”at a theoretical, methodological, or institutional level, as well aspapers that demonstrate philological practices, particularly from aninterdisciplinary perspective, or that address the relationshipbetween philology and contemporary critical concerns, such ashistoricism(s), aesthetics, cognitive studies, manuscript studies,textual criticism, intellectual history, and the digital humanities.Please submit 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers by September 26,2011 and kindly include your academic affiliation, e-mail address,street address, phone number, and any audio-visual requirements.Abstracts may be sent to assc2012@gmail.com. We very much look forwardto welcoming you to our campus, and we are excited about the richdiscussion that will ensue.Organized by: Marcos Garcia, Jacob Hobson, Jennifer Lorden, R. D.Perry, Benjamin A. SaltzmanSponsored by: the UC Berkeley Department of English, UC BerkeleyProgram in Medieval Studies, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, andAnglo-Saxon Studies ColloquiumFor other ASSC events, please visit the main ASSC website atwww.columbia.edu/cu/assc. To join the ASSC mailing list, please e-mailASSC@columbia.edu.For conference updates and ASSC events at UC Berkeley please visit:http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html

Second Call for Papers: First Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) Conference, 15-16 December 2011

2011-09-01T19:18:00.001-07:00

Second Call for Papers: First Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) Conference, 15-16 December 2011Senate HouseMalet PlaceLondonWC1E 7HU We are now accepting abstracts for the first Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World, a two-day postgraduate conference which will take place on the 15th and 16th of December 2011. AMPRAW aims to establish an international postgraduate community for those researching the reception of the ancient world, focused around an annual conference dedicated to the discussion of the evolving nature of reception studies and their place within the study of the Ancient World.Reception of the ancient world is concerned with the way it has been interpreted, used, constructed and perceived, both within antiquity itself and since, by various cultures. It includes not only a wide range of different media and modes of reception but also how these different modes and media intersect and impact one another. We welcome submissions on all topics concerning the reception of the ancient world, including 'work-in-progress' papers as well as presentations of completed research. Papers might discuss the reception of the ancient world in art, literature, visual and material culture, theatre, film and popular culture, museology, politics and the discipline of Classics. Possible focuses might include (but are not limited to) the nature and direction of reception studies, reader response, deconstruction, postcolonialism, gender studies, transmission, translation or on specific theorists. Postgraduate students from the UK and abroad are invited to participate in the conference, and to submit proposals for papers 20-30 minutes in length. Please send a title and an abstract of 300-500 words to AMPRAW2011@gmail.com with 'Abstract' as the subject by 15 SEPTEMBER 2011. Please include your name, level of study and academic institution. We welcome postgraduates from departments outside of Classics who work on reception topics. To register for attendance, e-mail AMPRAW2011@gmail.com with 'Registration' in the subject and your name, level of study and academic institution in the body. Registration for this event is free.

THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF BEDE’S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA

2011-08-31T19:21:00.001-07:00

New book announcement:THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF BEDE’S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICASHARON M. ROWLEYThe Old English version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and most substantial surviving works of Old English prose. Translated anonymously around the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century, the text, which is substantially shorter than Bede’s original, was well known and actively used in medieval England, and was highly influential. However, despite its importance, it has been little studied.In this first book on the subject, the author places the work in its manuscript context, arguing that the text was an independent, ecclesiastical translation, thoughtfully revised for its new audience. Rather than looking back on the age of Bede from the perspective of a king centralizing power and building a community by recalling a glorious English past, the Old English version of Bede’s Historia transforms its source to focus on local history, key Anglo-Saxon saints, and their miracles. The author argues that its reading reflects an ecclesiastical setting more than a political one, with uses more hagiographical than royal; and that rather than being used as a class-book or crib, it functioned as a resource for vernacular preaching, as a corpus of vernacular saints’ lives, for oral performance, and episcopal authority.UK:Boydell & Brewer, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF. Tel. 01394 610 600 Fax. 01394 610 316 Email trading@boydell.co.uk When ordering please quote this reference: 11283US:Boydell & Brewer Inc, 668 Mount Hope Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. USA Tel. 558 275 0419 Fax. 585 571 8778 Email boydell@boydellusa.net When ordering, please remember to mention this promotion code: $11201List Price: £60.00/$99.00September 2011ISBN: 97818438427367 b/w & 2 line illustrations; 272 pp., clothAnglo-Saxon Studies Series

“Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama”

2011-08-31T16:45:00.001-07:00

“Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama”International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan10-13 May 2012 In their Introduction to The Affect Theory Reader (2010), Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth argue that “affect is found in those intensities that pass body to body (human, nonhuman, part-body, and otherwise), in those resonances that circulate about, between, and sometimes stick to bodies and worlds, and in the very passage or variations between these intensities and resonances themselves.” Affect, then, “is the name we give to those forces…that can serve to drive us toward movement, toward thought.” Likewise, in her recent book Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (2010), Sarah McNamer examines affectively oriented medieval texts and argues that these texts supplied their users with “‘intimate scripts’…quite literally scripts for the performance of feeling—scripts that often explicitly aspire to performative efficacy.” Work like this has productively complicated our understanding of affect and its relation to emotional production. This panel invites work that critically examines the relationship between affect and emotional production in medieval and Renaissance performance. How did devices such as gesture, sound and silence, music, rhythm and choreography, props and performing objects, staging and scenic choices, spatial arrangements, or visual and textual elements generate the kinds of intensities and resonances that Gregg and Seigworth describe? How were these forces specifically employed to enhance or complicate emotional responses in spectators and/or performers? What were the goals and stakes of such emotional production? Given the slipperiness of these terms—and the many theories of affect and emotion—the organizer is open to a range of interpretive possibilities, approaches, and methodologies. The organizer also invites topics from across all geographies and performance traditions in the Middle Ages and/or Renaissance. Please submit one-page abstracts and a completed Participant Information form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to Jill Stevenson at jillstevenson@gmail.com no later than September 15, 2011. Feel free to contact Jill with questions about the session. For general information about the 2012 Medieval Congress, visit: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

Studies in Medievalism

2011-08-31T16:32:00.001-07:00

I would like to invite you to submit short proposals for contributions to two sections sponsored by Studies in Medievalism and Medievally Speaking at next year's Kalamazoo congress:1) Imagining the Crusades in the Nineteenth Century. We welcome any and all contributions that consider the medieval crusades in literature, music, the fine arts, politics, etc. This is a traditional session with three to four 20-minute papers.2) Coming to Terms with Medievalism. For this round table, we welcome contributions that would extend existing conceptual histories of the English term, "medievalism," to other languages/linguistic traditions/cultures. For the Anglophone world, HERE is a recent definition of the conceptual history of the English term I published in the European Journal of English Studies.I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination

2011-08-29T20:18:00.000-07:00

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Date:
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Special Call for Papers:
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
May 10-13, 2012

“Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination”
Sponsored by Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies

This session welcomes scholars working on medieval representations of
spatial order, or on the sense of place in the construction of social
identities. We are seeking papers which investigate any time and place in
medieval Europe in which a strong local or regional identity was
emphasized; the papers should explore how an imagined order of space, or
the meaning of a particular place, aided in defining those identities. The
topic encourages literary scholars, historians and art historians to
consider the meaning of space in the past by situating it in its precise
historical context.

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words, along with the
conference Participant Information Form, to Meghan Glass at
*m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk* by September 14, 2011. The Participant
Information Form can be found on the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html.

Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal
has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent
on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general
sessions at Kalamazoo. All proposals will additionally be considered for
special publication in Hortulus Journal. For further information:
http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/Call_for_Papers

Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to Ninth-Century World

2011-08-29T19:23:00.000-07:00

Call For Papers: 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2012

"Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to
Ninth-Century World"

Potsherds are the most ubiquitous archaeological evidence present from
the Late Antique and early medieval periods. From the complete amphora,
preserved intact through the passing centuries, to the smallest
fragments of a cooking pot’s rim, nearly unidentifiable to all but the
trained eye, pottery has provided generations of historians and
archaeologists with information about the date of a site, the trade
networks on which it relied, and the general economic status of its
inhabitants.

The focus of this sessions is on a different aspect of what ceramics are
capable of illuminating: the culture of a site’s inhabitants. Pottery
was among the most prevalent man-made item in the lives of most people,
and the meals cooked and eaten with pottery were among the most
important aspects of day-to-day existence. The common medium for
transactions of processed agricultural goods, pottery also speaks to the
range of individual economic exchanges and social structures that
underpinned relations between buyers and sellers. As the scholarship of
Paul Arthur, Nicholas Hudson, and Joanita Vroom has shown, these
ceramics are essential for the study of what is usually the most
inaccessible part of the lives of the ancients: the quotidian, ordinary
activities that make up such an important part of culture, economy, and
identity. These scholars use ceramics to explain, respectively, the
relationship between diet and cultural boundaries, the impact of
Christianity on dining practice, and cultural change over the longue
durée in Boeotia.

For this session we invite scholars working on ceramics from the eastern
and western Mediterranean –- and beyond –- to come together to discuss
the various ways pottery can be used to enhance modern understanding of
the cultures which produced it.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Andrew Donnelly at
adonnel@luc.edu along with a participant information form (available
here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF)
by September 15, 2011. Any papers not included in this session will be
forwarded to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the
General Sessions.

Andrew Donnelly
Department of History
Loyola University Chicago

Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous

2011-08-29T19:22:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the
Blasphemous"

Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference
October 27-29, 2011

The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation
in its second bi-annual meeting from October 27-29, 2011 in Dandridge, TN.
Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the
beautiful Fall color season!

Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the
teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.

In honor of All Saints Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing
with the teaching of Saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are
welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.

Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight
double-spaced pages).

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized
panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts
will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF
attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler
(kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30,
2011.

Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous

2011-08-29T18:01:00.000-07:00

medieval Icelandic law

2011-08-29T17:58:00.000-07:00

Medieval Icelandic Law; Medieval Icelandic Bishops’ Sagas (2)

Jana K. Schulman

Western Michigan Univ.

Dept. of English, 924 Sprau Tower

1903 W. Michigan Ave.

Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331

Phone: 269-387-2627 Fax: 269-387-2562

email: jana.schulman@wmich.edu

I'm interested in abstracts exploring aspects of medieval Icelandic law, of law and literature, of medieval Icelandic law in comparison with some Scandinavian, German, or English laws. Regarding the bishops' sagas, basically any paper exploring some aspect of these sagas, comparative or otherwise, would be good. I've had papers looking at the difference between excommunication and outlawry, the difference between the Law of Nature and the Law of Man, extreme unction in Thorlak's saga. Really, the sessions are open in terms of their topics as long as the paper belongs, broadly, in the topic.

New Age and Neopagan Medievalisms

2011-08-29T17:02:00.000-07:00

Call for Submissions

New Age and Neopagan Medievalisms

We welcome contributions to a collection of essays that explores the medieval in New Age and Neopagan movements. Scholars of Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Art History, Music History, and Cultural Studies, as well as historians and literary critics, are particularly encouraged to contribute.

Current topics included in the volume:

n New Age appropriations of Kabbalah

n The medieval in New Age masculinities

n Hermeneutics and medieval-themed tarot decks

n Hildegard in the New Age

Abstracts of approximately 500 words and a brief academic bio should be sent to Dr. Karolyn Kinane at kkinane@plymouth.edu by December 1, 2011. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the article will advance theoretical and cultural understandings of medievalism and/or New Age and Neopagan movements. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee inclusion in the volume.

Upon preliminary acceptance, contributors will be asked to submit articles of approximately 7,000 words by August 1, 2012. Editors reserve the right to reject articles that do not meet editorial standards. We anticipate a Fall/Winter 2013 publication date.

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Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
MSC 40
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264
www.plymouth.edu/medieval
603-535-2402
PSUForum@gmail.com

Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World

2011-08-29T16:57:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo)
May 10-13, 2012

Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World

Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the microcosm for wider social order and interaction. It was also a model used to portray the close bonds of religious relationships, such as the ties between monk and abbot, layperson and priest, or human and God. Descriptions of familial love have much to offer scholars interested in early medieval social and cultural history as well as scholars of gender, as expressions of love varied based on the gender, age, and relative power dynamic of the parties involved.

This session will seek to explore expressions of familial love in the early Middle Ages. We hope to discover how love was expressed or enacted between spouses, parents and children, and siblings in natal, adoptive or foster families. We also encourage explorations of how descriptions of familial love compared to expressions of love between friends, within secular political relationships, religious communities, and even the wider “community of man.” We seek to have an interdisciplinary panel that reflects the various ways that familial love is reflected in the textual and material culture of the early medieval world. The aim of the panel is to bring together scholars who wish to explore how expressions of love and family bonds can deepen our understanding of the literature and emotional, social, cultural, and political history of the early Middle Ages.

Please send proposals and a Participant Information Form (link below) to ahandy@as.muw.edu by September 15th.

The Participant Information Form can be downloaded in MS Word or pdf format from http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF

All the best,
Amber Handy

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Amber Handy, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
Mississippi University for Women
1100 College St MUW-1634
Columbus MS 39701
ahandy@as.muw.edu

Postcolonial England

2011-08-29T16:38:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers:

Sponsored Session: The Department of English Studies at Durham University invites submission of proposals for its session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from May 10-13, 2012. The panel seeks proposals of 300-500 words with a working title and department affiliation by September 1, 2011. Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general sessions at Kalamazoo. The CfP is as follows:

Postcolonial England

Postcolonial theory has been applied to studies of the Middle Ages with increasing frequency over the past decade. Throughout the 2000s, medieval studies has seen a plethora of publications in this area, from ‘Postcolonial Middle Ages’ to ‘Empire of Magic.’ This theory in particular has become a more prominent niche within contemporary criticism. Additionally, though it has been applied in many areas of disciplinary study, there are still many categories which need further research. One area in which postcolonial theory is particularly applicable is the analysis of national identity. This subject has also been a hot topic in the past few years, especially in relation to England (Ashe, McDonald, Lavezzo, Fenton). These two discourses sometimes, but not always, work together–and both areas could benefit from further exploration, both independently and symbiotically. Medieval postcolonialism can have the tendency to be too broad in its analysis and application throughout Europe, whereas discussions of national identity through specific texts can be overly narrow. By focusing on postcolonial interpretations of national identity in England alone, it makes for a more precise, but still broad area for discussion. This session will aim for papers which apply postcolonial theory to English texts in an attempt to better understand English concepts of national identity, specifically looking at less obvious, rather than canonical, texts as many of these have already been explored. For example, much work has already been done on romances such as Bevis of Hampton, Guy of Warwick, Richard Cour de Lyon, and Havelok the Dane. There is still much to be researched however, and this session aims to encourage such endeavours. As Thomas Crofts and Robert Rouse recently said in their 2009 chapter in ‘A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance,’ the lesser-explored romances “present more complex challenges for the critic [and] continue to demand individual detailed attention, lest we be lulled by their familiar rhythm into the belief that they speak with one voice.” We have chosen to propose this session to provide a more focused exploration of medieval national identity and postcolonialism by focusing on England, and hope this session will provide a larger litmus test for these ideas through its focus on lesser-explored English texts.

Contact: Meghan Glass m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk

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Meghan Glass
Doctoral Candidate, English Literature, Durham University
Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies: MRPDG
St. John's College Tuto

The Nobility of Western France: Anjou and its neighbors

2011-08-29T15:59:00.000-07:00

Seigneurie:the Group for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and
Chivalry

invites submissions for it's session at Kalamazoo 2012 on

The Nobility of Western France: Anjou and its neighbors

Please send submissions to :

Sarah Delinger
4109 Oglethorpe Street, apt 101
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Ph: 301-403-0452
sarah.delinger@gmail.com

or

Donald Fleming
PO Box 209
Hiram, OH 44234
Ph: 330-569-5467
FlemingDF@hiram.edu

Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages Call for Papers 2012

2011-08-29T14:23:00.000-07:00

Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages Call for Papers 2012

We invite abstracts for the following sessions at the 2012 ICMS and IMC. Abstracts (between 250 and 500 words) should be submitted electronically to publicmiddleages@gmail.com to the attention of Paul Sturtevant, and should indicate clearly your mailing address and phone number. If you need special equipment for the talk (digital projector, etc.), let us know when you submit your abstract. All abstract submissions are due by 15th September, 2011.
ICMS Kalamazoo, 2012
Growing Up with the Middle Ages: The Influences upon Children’s Ideas about the Medieval World
Children are bombarded with images of the Middle Ages every day— whether in school, in the popular media, in books, toys or play. But what impact do these childhood medievalisms have upon our children? And children grow up; how do the ideas about the Middle Ages formulated in childhood persist in adulthood?

Abstracts are invited for any subject pertaining to this topic, including medievalisms in media directed towards children, teaching the Middle Ages to children, or the ways in which the Middle Ages have become our collective default fairy-tale playground. Abstracts are particularly encouraged from practitioners in the fields of public history, educators, or medievalist mums and dads.
IMC Leeds, 2012
A Holiday to the Middle Ages: Medieval Public History Today
Contrary to popular belief, the Middle Ages is big business. The heritage industry in the UK contributes £20.6 billion to the British economy each year. A significant proportion of this is generated from countless trips to countryside castles, ruined abbeys, days out at a re-enactment, a museum or a living-history site which depicts the Middle Ages.

In recent years there have been significant developments in the ways in which the Middle Ages are interpreted and presented to the public through the heritage industry. This session invites abstracts pertaining to the presentation of the Middle Ages to the public today and its potential to influence the public knowledge of the Middle Ages. It particularly welcomes abstracts from any academics and professionals working in the heritage industry.

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CFP on Hincmar!!

2011-08-12T14:33:00.002-07:00

Sorry folks, I got busy doing a cross-continental move and left this one too long! So if you're interested in Hincmar, drop the organizers a quick note!

Call for Papers: Hincmar of Rheims at IMC 2012

The nineteenth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds from 9-12 July 2012. We are hoping to put together several sessions on Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims (845-882), whose text De Divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae we are currently translating. Hincmar is a central figure for historians working in a great number of fields, and to a great degree shapes our vision of the later Carolingian empire. However, though he and his writings have never been short of students, there has been no attempt to provide an overarching study since Devisse's book, published in 1976.

We would welcome 20 minute papers on any aspects of Hincmar's life and work as politician, author, liturgist, hagiographer and churchman. Please circulate this to anyone you know who might be interested in giving such a paper. We will be submitting proposal for sessions in September 2011, so please let us know if you are interested by the end of August. For further details, or to offer a paper, please contact:

Dr Rachel Stone (magistra@hotmail.co.uk) or Dr Charles West (c.m.west@sheffield.ac.uk)

Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art

2011-08-12T14:33:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers: Active Objects

Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13 2012

Active Objects I: Optics and Transparency
Active Objects II: Agency and Phenomenology

Inspired by the recent exhibitions of reliquaries in Cleveland, Baltimore, and London, these sessions invite considerations of how object-centered approaches develop our understanding of reliquaries, vasa sacra, and other instruments of faith. If we conceive of those objects as active agents, and not merely as passive elements in devotional practice, how does that change our perception of their function and their aesthetic nature? How did the vivid nature of these objects -- their mass and texture, their form, their brilliance, their aroma -- shape the way people acted with them, or simply behaved in their presence? Also, is it possible to track the ways in which the agency of a specific object changed over time? Finally, should we, can we, and do we want to consider how the agentic power of medieval objects influences our own relations with them in the present day?

“Active Objects” is organized by the Material Collective, a group of medievalists pursuing collaborative discoveries, humane histories, and the interpretive possibilities of the material. We invite proposals that engage phenomenology, optical theories, relational aesthetics, Actor-Network Theory, Thing Theory, notions of affect, and other object-centered approaches; we seek papers that consider how objects matter in medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, as well as in the interactions of faiths.

Please send paper proposals (abstract of no more than 300 words, and a completed Participant Information Form) by September 15, 2011 to Karen Overbey (karen.overbey@tufts.edu) and Ben C. Tilghman (btilghman@gmail.com).

Karen Eileen Overbey
Art & Art History
Tufts University
11 Talbot Ave
Medford, MA
Phone: 617.627.2597
Karen.overbey@tufts.edu<
mailto:Karen.overbey@tufts.edu>

Benjamin C. Tilghman
George Washington University
3002 Abell Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-963-2106
btilghman@gmail.com

The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

2011-08-12T14:21:00.001-07:00

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces the CFP for
The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

"Philology"
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Deadline for Abstracts: 26 September 2011

The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Eighth
Annual Graduate Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
“Philology,” to be held on 25 February 2012 at UC Berkeley.

More than twenty years ago, in response to tectonic shifts in the
academic landscape, Speculum and Comparative Literary Studies almost
simultaneously published special issues asking the same question:
“What is Philology?” Since that watershed moment, scholars have
continued to debate which methodologies deserve the title “Philology”
(whether “old” or “new”). Meanwhile, these very methodologies have
undergone significant theoretical and practical revisions. Bearing in
mind that “Philology” lies at the historical, institutional, and
intellectual core of Anglo-Saxon Studies, this conference seeks to
consider not only “What is philology now?” but also “How and why does
philology matter, particularly to emerging scholars?”

We invite proposals for papers that reflect on the idea of “Philology”
at a theoretical, methodological, or institutional level, as well as
papers that demonstrate philological practices, particularly from an
interdisciplinary perspective, or that address the relationship
between philology and contemporary critical concerns, such as
historicism(s), aesthetics, cognitive studies, manuscript studies,
textual criticism, intellectual history, and the digital humanities.

Please submit 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers by September 26,
2011 and kindly include your academic affiliation, e-mail address,
street address, phone number, and any audio-visual requirements.
Abstracts may be sent to assc2012@gmail.com. We very much look forward
to welcoming you to our campus, and we are excited about the rich
discussion that will ensue.

Organized by: Marcos Garcia, Jacob Hobson, Jennifer Lorden, R. D.
Perry, Benjamin A. Saltzman

Sponsored by: the UC Berkeley Department of English, UC Berkeley
Program in Medieval Studies, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, and
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium

For other ASSC events, please visit the main ASSC website at
www.columbia.edu/cu/assc. To join the ASSC mailing list, please e-mail
ASSC@columbia.edu.

For conference updates and ASSC events at UC Berkeley please visit:
http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html

Forthcoming Book!

2011-08-12T14:20:00.001-07:00

PATTERNS OF EPISCOPAL POWER
Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe
Ed. by Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven.

In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops – whose general importance for the time around the first millennium has been revealed by recent scholarship – as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops’ room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about “A Europe of Bishops” (“Ein Europa der Bischöfe”) is presented in English translation for the first time.

© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
226 pp. | Hardcover RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026202-5
eBook RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026203-2
Series: Prinz-Albert-Forschungen 6
to be published August 2011

More information can be obtained online (http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ge/detailEn.cfm?isbn=9783110262025).
A PDF file including an order form can be found at http://bit.ly/Patterns-of-Episcopal-Power

Contents
Ludger Körntgen: Introduction, p. 11
Timothy Reuter: A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms, p. 17
Monika Suchan: Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics, p. 39
Theo Riches: The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, p. 51
Ernst-Dieter Hehl: Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischöflichen Handelns
bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen, p. 63 (English Summary, p. 87)
Dominik Waßenhoven: Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings, p. 89
Catherine Cubitt: Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England, p. 111
Pauline Stafford: Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035–1042/1043, p. 127
Joyce Hill: Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190, p. 145
Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day, p. 163

CFP

2011-06-29T14:15:00.000-07:00

MEPlease forward to all and sundry.

The Heroic Age is currently inviting papers on the following topics:

LAST CALL: 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.

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 submissions should be
sent to Larry Swain.

Issue 17: Carolingian Border-Lands

This issue seeks to explore the lands and peoples surrounding the
Carolingian kingdom(s) and the relationship between empire and
"periphery". Possible topics might include, but not be limited to: the
Spanish March, Carolingians and England and Ireland, the Scandinavian
countries, Carolingian "foreign policy" and trade,
cross-border/cultural/linguistic influences, Italy, Byzantine Empire and
the Carolingians, Saxons, Avars and Slavs just to name a few. The focus
is on the regions surrounding the Carolingians and possibly Carolingian
relationships with those borderlands whether political, religious, or
cultural.

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 submissions should be
sent to Larry Swain.

Issue 18: Occitan Poetry

We would like to invite submissions for the special 2012 issue of HA on
Occitan poetry, edited by Anna Klosowska (Miami U. of OH). We are
interested in submissions including but not limited to the following
topics and approaches:

editions or translations of a short text or texts or a portion of a
longer text (especially lesser known texts)
transnational and postcolonial approaches, Jewish, Arabic,
Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and cultural studies
feminism, queer theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, history of emotions,
history of subjectivity, critical animal studies
philology, musicology, poetics, manuscript study, material history and
history of ideas, medievalism
Publication: June 2012 (online)
Final revisions due: March 1, 2012
Response from anonymous readers by: December 1, 2012
Submission due: July 1, 2011

Submissions should be 3000 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 submissions should
be sent to Anna Klosowska, Special Issue Editor.
--
Larry Swain

Specular Reflections: The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture"

2011-06-29T13:33:00.000-07:00

"Specular Reflections: The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture"
The Early Romance Studies Research Cluster, along with the Committee for Medieval Studies at the University of British Columbia, solicits contributions for the 40th Annual UBC Medieval Workshop, to be held on March 16-17, 2012. The conference will be held at Green College on the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver, Canada.

As Margot Schmidt suggests in the Dictionnaire de spiritualité, the mirror's multiple uses as an object translate into highly diversified symbolic functions. Thus, while they have long been associated with scientific exploration, knowledge, and contemplation, owing largely to analogies with their instrumental use-analogies that lead to the book as speculum, as explored by Herbert Grabes, for example--reflective surfaces also function as metaphors for the illusory nature of representation. They can create false, shadowy, or deformed images of earthly reality, as suggested both by the ubiquitous Ovidian theme of Narcissus at the fountain and the Pauline per speculum in aenigmate. The contradictory uses of mirrors in iconography mean they can stand as figures of virtue or vice, depending on whether they accompany Prudence or Venus, or represent Mary--the speculum sine macula--or Eve. Mirrors are not only ambivalent, but also Janus-like: whether examined as objects, in their instrumental, decorative, or other functions, or as visual or textual figures, mirrors have fascinated humankind, not least because they seem to serve as a kind of threshold phenomenon allowing for the contemplation of inner and outer worlds, as well as the otherworldly. While these thresholds promise access to other worlds--earthly, imaginary, or divine--they are also suggestive of the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom.

We are looking for papers dealing with any aspect of 'specular reflections' through text, image, music or any branch of learning, especially those that engage with the paradoxical ways mirror images are used in all periods, places, and disciplines from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Areas of interest might include, but are in no way limited to: literature, translation, history, art history, philosophy, science and optics, musicology, etc.

Submissions are invited for 20-minute papers and full panels (three papers and a chair). Selected papers from the workshop will be collected as part of a thematic volume of proceedings to be published with a major scholarly press. Proposals (250 words) for papers and panels should be sent by August 1, 2011 to:

Nancy Frelick, Chantal Phan, or Juliet O'Brien
Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
University of British Columbia
797-1873 East Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
CANADA

or by email to: ubcmedievalworkshop@gmail.com

For further details and updated information check: http://ubc2012medieval.blogspot.com

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Kornbluth Photography

2011-06-03T12:37:00.000-07:00

A very worthy website to visit for pictures of historical places and objects.

http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/archive-1.html

retirement of Professor Gillian Clark

2011-05-01T16:05:00.000-07:00

On the 2nd of August 2011 The University of Bristol will hold a day to mark
the career and retirement of Professor Gillian Clark:

A Colloquium for Gillian Clark: Christianity and Roman Society.
Tuesday 2nd of August 10.50-18.30 (coffee from 10.30)
Speakers include: Jill Harries, Karla Pollman, Neil McLynn, Fergus Millar,
Mark Humphries, Averil Cameron, Tessa Rajak and Oliver Nicholson.

Venue to be announced. Further details to follow.
If you think you might attend it would be useful if you could contact Bella
Sandwell (Bella.Sandwell@bris.ac.uk) so that we can cater correctly for
lunch.
Please also contact Bella Sandwell if you have any other queries about this
event.

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Bella Sandwell,
Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics
Department of Classics & Ancient History
Bristol University
Tel: 0117 928 9020
bella.sandwell@bristol.ac.uk

COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL

2011-05-01T14:59:00.001-07:00

COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL
MAY 26, 2011, Room 201A, 11AM

The Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is pleased to announce the organization of a colloquium on the Ancient Novel to be held on Thursday, May 26 2011, inRoom 201A, at 10.00 am. The topic of this colloquium will be:

Greek and Roman Novel: Narrative Tensions, Plot and Themes

PROGRAM
Genre, Ideology and Motifs, Chair: Prof. AntonioςRengakos
Prof. David Konstan (Brown, Emeritus; New York University): “Erôs and Oikos.”

Prof. Marí lia P. Futre Pinheiro (University of Lisbon): “Satire and Philosophy in Lucian.”
Prof. Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University): “The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif, from Euripides to Heliodorus.”
Ass. Prof. Maria Plastira Valkanou (Aristotle University): “Lampon's Episode in Xenophon's Ephesiaca.”
Break
Petronius and Apuleius, Chair: Prof. Katharina Volk
Prof. Gareth Schmeling (University of Florida): “Size Matters: It is the Little Things that Count in Petronius’ Satyrica.”
Prof. Stephen J. Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford): “Interpreting the anteludia: Apuleius Met.11.8.”

1700 Years of the Edict of Milan

2011-04-28T20:49:00.000-07:00

In 2013, various events will be organized in Niš to celebrate an important date in the history of Christianity – the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan. Emperor Constantine's hometown will be the venue of the big international conference
St. Emperor Constantine and Christianity

The conference is planned to be held in late May or early June 2013, and the organizers are: Center for Church Studies, Niš; Institute for Slavo-Byzantine Studies “Ivan Dujčev”, Sofia; Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade; Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge; and Institute for National and Religious Studies, Thessaloniki.

Program Committee: Serbian Patriarch Irinej, president, Dragiša Bojović (Niš), vicepresident, Marcus Plested (Cambridge), Athanasios Angelopoulos (Thessaloniki), Vasja Velinova (Sofia), Siniša Mišić (Belgrade), Francesco Braschi (Milan), Ljubomir Maksimović (Belgrade), Aksinija Džurova (Sofia), Branislav Todić (Belgrade), Ivanka Gergova (Sofia), Thomas Papastergiou (Thessaloniki), Aleksander Naumov (Venice, Krakow), Radomir Popović (Belgrade), Vladimir Cvetković (Aarhus), Kiril Maksimovič (Moscow), Ivica Živković (Niš), secretary and Vladimir Aleksić (Niš), secretary.

We would like to invite you to participate in the conference. The topic should be related to one of the following domains:
• Emperor Constantine in history
• Christianity in the first millennium
• Theological and church-historical circumstances in the 4th century
• St. Emperor Constantine in art
• St. Emperor Constantine in literature
• Roman law and Christianity
• Edicts on religious tolerance.

A paper title followed by an abstract in English or Serbian should be submitted electronically to the email of Program Committee secretaries: ivicazzivkovic@gmail.com, vlaleksic@yahoo.com by June 1, 2011.

Since the proceedings volume is planned to be printed before the conference, we ask you to send your paper by May 1, 2012 at latest. The paper may be written in one of the following languages: English, Russian, French, Serbian, Bulgarian. The conference languages will be English and Serbian. Proceedings editorial board: Vladimir Cvetković, Siniša Mišić, Vasja Velinova, Athanasios Angelopoulos, Marcus Plested, Ivica Živković, and Dragiša Bojović, editor.

The conference fee is 30 EUR and will be due during 2012. Additional information about the payment procedure will be available at a later point.

Call for Papers: The XVIth World Economic History Congress

2011-04-16T14:55:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers: The XVIth World Economic History Congress (8-13 July 2012,
Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Ancient History Session
Panel Title:
“Transport infrastructure and economic development in the Roman World (1st
c. BC – 6th c. AD)”

According to the analyses of modern scholars, the Roman Empire developed one
of the most successful pre-industrial economies. This said, in what ways and
to what extent could the Roman economy perform better than previous (and
indeed later) economies? Factors of economic development such as the
favourable conditions offered by internal peace and the unification of the
Mediterranean World in one empire have often been explored.
However, much less attention has been paid to understand what impact the
Roman network of infrastructures had on economic growth. Doubtless, the
establishment of a network of land, river and sea routes greatly fostered
communication between the different areas of the Empire. Yet, what was its
bearing on the development of the Roman economy?
In the wake of the main theme of the congress, "Exploring the Roots of
Development", this panel aims to demonstrate how the infrastructure built by
the Romans helped the economy and especially trade to develop. More
significantly, this session will attempt to reconstruct the official policy
conceived by Roman rulers and administrators in order to create and
constantly improve this network.
By combining theoretical and case-study papers with a specific focus on the
Eastern part of the Empire, this panel will explore the possibility that an
integrated transport system existed in the Roman World and that its
establishment and improvement represented major factors of economic
development and growth.
We welcome papers that meet either of the following criteria:
a) Theoretical studies. These papers should investigate how public
initiative (whether driven by imperial action or promoted by local
administrators) aimed to develop a coherent and Empire-wide system of
communication and transport which triggered economic growth.
b) Regional studies. Ideally, papers that qualify for this criterion will
concentrate on a region within the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. Such
papers should aim to bring out the economic effects that the development of
a network of infrastructures had on the region studied and show how the
newly established links contributed to connecting this and other areas thus
creating a global economy, albeit in an embryonic stage.

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Dario Nappo
dario.nappo@classics.ox.ac.uk or to Andrea Zerbini
andrea.zerbini.2008@rhul.ac.uk by 31 May 2011.

New PhD Studentship: Digital Resource of Palaeography

2011-03-24T20:19:00.000-07:00

New PhD Studentship: Digital Resource of Palaeography
With apologies for cross-posting. Please note that this is *not* the post-doctoral position which was announced in December but is a new PhD studentship on the same project.

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, is pleased to announce a PhD studentship in digital methods in palaeography funded by a European Research Council project, the ‘Digital Resource of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’. The studentship is to be held in CCH as part of a PhD in Digital Humanities.

Context

The aim of Digital Resource of Palaeography is to bringing the methods and resources of digital humanities to bear on palaeographical exploration, citation and teaching of late Anglo-Saxon script. It involves a web resource which will allow scholars to rapidly retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the text in which it is found and the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of searching, using images, maps, timelines and image-processing as well as conventional text-based browsing and searching. The palaeographical content will focus on a case-study of vernacular English script from the eleventh century, but the project will allow scholars to test and apply new general developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but which have hitherto proven difficult or impossible to implement in practice. Some further details of the project are av!

ailable on the KCL news pages.

The studentship

Applicants should propose a research project which can benefit from and contribute to the Digital Resource in Palaeography project but which remains distinct from it. Possibilities may include the detailed study of a particular manuscript or small group of manuscripts. A comparative study could apply the research methodologies of the ERC project to a different corpus, perhaps focusing on the products of a single scriptorium or scribe, looking at variance and variation in script; or focusing on a corpus (such as manuscript fragments) that has proven difficult to manage with conventional approaches. Another possibility may be more methodological, focusing on the possibilities and limits of Digital Humanities in palaeographical scholarship.

The student will be based at King’s College London, in the Centre for Computing in Humanities and will benefit from the CCH PhD Seminar. A second supervisor will be assigned according to the requirements of the project. It is also expected that the student will maintain contact with other departments in King’s, such as History or English. The student will also have access to resources and seminars across the University of London more widely, including Senate House Library and its Palaeography Room, the Institute of Historical Research’s seminars and library, and seminars and expertise at the Institute of English Studies.

Value

For the three years of the studentship (starting no later than October 2011) the grant is c. ￡14,000 per annum. Students liable to pay fees at the overseas rate are welcome to apply, but should make sure that they can cover the difference between the award and the full overseas fee. The studentship must be held full-time.

Eligibility, Timetable & Application Process

Applicants for these awards are expected to begin PhD study on 1 October 2011. Applicants should hold (or have nearly completed) a Master’s degree or equivalent in Old English, Anglo-Saxon/early Anglo-Norman history, or another relevant area of medieval studies. A good knowledge of the language(s) of the manuscripts under study is required (Old/Middle English and/or Latin), and a background or demonstrable interest in manuscript studies is highly desirable.

Applicants must submit the following documentation by the deadline of 1 March 2011:

1. An Admissions Application form & all supporting documents – submitted to the Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions (CASA) via the online admissions portal at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/
2. A one page statement of interest including a description of the proposed research, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
3. A one-page statement of your research training, background and suitability to the project, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
4. A sample of written work (3000-5000 words), submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk

An interview will be arranged with shortlisted applicants, either face to face or by teleconference, after the closing date.

Enquiries

Please email Dr Peter Stokes at peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk or telephone him on +44 (0)20 7848 2813 in the first instance with any queries about this studentship.