Some News from BABEL

FIRST, the special issue of "Journal of Narrative Theory" [v. 37, no. 2],
"Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project" is now available
for viewing and downloading at Project Muse:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_narrative_theory/toc/jnt37.2.html

SECOND, the formerly-behemoth and now recently slimmed-down BABEL
essay volume,"Fragments For a History of a Vanishing Humanism," is going forward with Ohio State University Press, and the prospectus and table of contents can be viewed
here:

http://www.siue.edu/babel/ProspectusFragmentsVolume.htm

THIRD, BABEL has two organized roundtable sessions at Kalamazoo this
year, "What Is the Place of the Present in Medieval Studies?" and "Is There a
Theory in the House of Old English Studies?" [plus there is a session organized by Nicola Masciandaro which is very BABEL-y, "Why Am I Me? On Being Born in the Middle
Ages I" which we want to tout here], and more information on those
can be found here:

http://www.siue.edu/babel/Kalamazoo08Panels.htm

FOURTH, along with Saint Louis University and Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, BABEL is co-hosting the 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern
Medieval Association [theme: "Bodies, Embodiments, Becomings"; plenary speakers:
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Steven Kruger] from October 2-4, 2008 [on
the downtown campus of Saint Louis University], and the Call for Papers is here
[be there or forever break our hearts]:

http://www.siue.edu/babel/SEMA2008CallForPapers.htm

FIFTH, as part of her mission to advance [and to keep re-formulating]
the BABEL "mission" in various stealth maneuvers, Eileen recently presented the
so-called "second chapter" of the BABEL manifesto-cum-loveletter at a Medieval
Club of New York-sponsored panel on "The Subjects of Friendship, Medieval and
Medievalist,"and the text of that second chapter can be found here:

http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy/BetweenWhatIsOurs.htm

*The "third chapter" of the so-called BABEL manifesto-cum-love letter will be
presented by Eileen at another event worth advertising here: the 2nd
International Workshop of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (of Princeton,
Columbia, Rutgers, and NYU), to be held on May 23 and 24 at Kings College
London, "Anglo-Saxon Futures 2: About Time," and the program for that can be
found here:

http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy/AngloSaxonFutures2Programme.html