44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Call for Papers: Anglo-Saxon Space: Material, Cultural, Symbolic
In recent years, space - in all its various forms - has become a
vital category for medieval studies. We welcome proposals for papers
across a range of approaches to Anglo-Saxon space, including
physical, visual, textual, geographical, spiritual, social and
imaginary. In continuing this series of sessions, which have run
with great success for the past four years, we hope to bring together
more Anglo-Saxon scholars doing such work, and foster further
connections within the "space" of such exchanges.
We still have some "space" available in this session, so if you were
considering submitting an abstract, please do so!
Renee Trilling, University of Illinois
Martin Foys, Hood College
Jacqueline Stodnick, University of Texas at Arlington
Please send abstracts of 250 words or less, along with a completed
Participant Information Form (available online at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF) by
September 1, 2008, to:
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Criseyde Married: Faithless Wives in Middle English Law and Literature
I am seeking papers for my 3-paper session "Criseyde Married:
Faithless Wives in Middle English Law and Literature." The session
will offer interventions into the ongoing examination of marriage
customs and laws and their representation in literature, via the
presentations of and responses to wive's transgressions of these.
Papers may confront the causes and effects of such transgressions;
the cultural anxieties they voice; their positionings concerning
culpability and forgiveness; or more theoretically-aware approaches.
Please send proposals and questions to
-- M. Addison Amos (v) 618.453.6824
Medieval Studies (f) 618.453.8224
Department of English (e) maamos@siu.edu
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
http://www.siu.edu/departments/english/
Faithless Wives in Middle English Law and Literature." The session
will offer interventions into the ongoing examination of marriage
customs and laws and their representation in literature, via the
presentations of and responses to wive's transgressions of these.
Papers may confront the causes and effects of such transgressions;
the cultural anxieties they voice; their positionings concerning
culpability and forgiveness; or more theoretically-aware approaches.
Please send proposals and questions to
-- M. Addison Amos (v) 618.453.6824
Medieval Studies (f) 618.453.8224
Department of English (e) maamos@siu.edu
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
http://www.siu.edu/departments/english/
From Dot Porter for Perseus
posted on behalf of Greg Crane at the Perseus Project; apologies for
cross-posting)
(Although the announcement is aimed at classicists, some on the list
who study and/or teach Latin and Greek may be interested. -Dot)
8/28/08: Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus!
We are currently looking for advanced students of Greek and Latin to
contribute syntactic analyses (via a web-based system) to our existing
Latin Treebank (described below) and our emerging Greek Treebank as
well (for which we have just received funding). We particularly
encourage students at various levels to design research projects
around this new tool. We are looking in particular for the following:
* Get paid to read Greek! We can have a limited number of research
assistantships for advanced students of the languages who can work for
the project from their home institutions. We particularly encourage
students who can use the analyses that they produce to support
research projects of their own.
* We also encourage classes of Greek and Latin to contribute as
well. Creating the syntactic analyses provides a new way to address
the traditional task of parsing Greek and Latin. Your class work can
then contribute to a foundational new resource for the study of Greek
and Latin - both courses as a whole and individual contributors are
acknowledged in the published data.
* Students and faculty interested in conducting their own original
research based on treebank data will have the option to submit their
work for editorial review to have it published as part of the emerging
Scaife Digital Library.
To contribute, please contact David Bamman (david.bamman@tufts.edu) or
Gregory Crane (gregory.crane@tufts.edu).
http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/
cross-posting)
(Although the announcement is aimed at classicists, some on the list
who study and/or teach Latin and Greek may be interested. -Dot)
8/28/08: Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus!
We are currently looking for advanced students of Greek and Latin to
contribute syntactic analyses (via a web-based system) to our existing
Latin Treebank (described below) and our emerging Greek Treebank as
well (for which we have just received funding). We particularly
encourage students at various levels to design research projects
around this new tool. We are looking in particular for the following:
* Get paid to read Greek! We can have a limited number of research
assistantships for advanced students of the languages who can work for
the project from their home institutions. We particularly encourage
students who can use the analyses that they produce to support
research projects of their own.
* We also encourage classes of Greek and Latin to contribute as
well. Creating the syntactic analyses provides a new way to address
the traditional task of parsing Greek and Latin. Your class work can
then contribute to a foundational new resource for the study of Greek
and Latin - both courses as a whole and individual contributors are
acknowledged in the published data.
* Students and faculty interested in conducting their own original
research based on treebank data will have the option to submit their
work for editorial review to have it published as part of the emerging
Scaife Digital Library.
To contribute, please contact David Bamman (david.bamman@tufts.edu) or
Gregory Crane (gregory.crane@tufts.edu).
http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/
Matrons, Monsters, and Men: "Beowulf"
Matrons, Monsters, and Men: "Beowulf" (2007)
We invite papers considering the latest Beowulf film, directed by
Roger Zemackis, in relation to issues of gender and sexuality.
Possible papers might consider this filmic interpretation of the poem
from the perspective of medievalism, constructions of femininity
and/ or masculinity, landscape and sex, bodies on display,
exploitation of sex/gender, etc.
This session is offered in conjunction with the film festival and the
viewing of Beowulf (2007) and sponsored by the Society for Medieval
Feminist Scholarship.
Oganizers: Ilan M. Mitchell-Smith (Angelo State Univ.), Helene Scheck
(Univ. at Albany)
Please submit 1- to 2-page proposals by September 15 to:
Helene Scheck
Department of English
The University at Albany
Albany, New York 12222
518-442-4093
HScheck@albany.edu
We invite papers considering the latest Beowulf film, directed by
Roger Zemackis, in relation to issues of gender and sexuality.
Possible papers might consider this filmic interpretation of the poem
from the perspective of medievalism, constructions of femininity
and/ or masculinity, landscape and sex, bodies on display,
exploitation of sex/gender, etc.
This session is offered in conjunction with the film festival and the
viewing of Beowulf (2007) and sponsored by the Society for Medieval
Feminist Scholarship.
Oganizers: Ilan M. Mitchell-Smith (Angelo State Univ.), Helene Scheck
(Univ. at Albany)
Please submit 1- to 2-page proposals by September 15 to:
Helene Scheck
Department of English
The University at Albany
Albany, New York 12222
518-442-4093
HScheck@albany.edu
Some cool URLS from Karen Reed
Even if you can't make the conference, the websites for the
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) are worth a
look. There are some fascinating mss and early printed books
digitized there.
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/index.cfm
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceticollections.cfm and
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/advancedsearch.cfm
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) are worth a
look. There are some fascinating mss and early printed books
digitized there.
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/index.cfm
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceticollections.cfm and
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/advancedsearch.cfm
Digital Medievalist CFP
The Digital Medievalist is once more sponsoring sessions at Kalamazoo. We have had proposals for one panel and two paper sessions accepted, thus:
Panel: What every digital medievalist should know
This session will take up the theme of Jim Marchand's famous 'WEMSK' series, focussing on how the omnipresence of digital technology has changed what every medievalist -- teacher, scholar, reader, anyone -- should know. We used only to have books; then we had films, television, and now we can everything in a small box, or in a browser on our screen -- even, in a mobile phone. How does this change what we should do, how we should do it, what we should know?
Papers: Exemplary instances of research using digital methods and materials
Several decades into the digital revolution, we may fairly ask: what has changed? For all the digital technology about us, are we still doing research in the same way? We invite contributions from scholars who have found research possibilities for any aspect of medieval studies which could not have been available in the pre-digital world. This may be because the materials were not available, or it may be because the methods were not available, or any combination of the two.
Papers: Using digital materials in the classroom
We invite papers narrating how teachers have used digital materials relating to any aspect of medieval studies in the undergraduate (or graduate) classroom. What are the benefits, difficulties, virtues and dangers in their use? What can be achieved in the classroom with digital materials which could not be achieved through traditional print matter?
We have space in all these sessions. If you are interested in taking part in any of these sessions, please send, by 8 September:
For the panel: your name and brief resume, a few sentences on what you would say as a panel member, and a completed participant identifier form (PID!)
For the paper sessions: as usually required for Kalamazoo -- a 300 word abstract and completed PID
You can download the PID form from http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
In the past, these have been excellent and stimulating sessions. And I will personally buy a beer or other beverage of choice to any participant. I recommend Bells Oberon (taste of summer, etc)
Panel: What every digital medievalist should know
This session will take up the theme of Jim Marchand's famous 'WEMSK' series, focussing on how the omnipresence of digital technology has changed what every medievalist -- teacher, scholar, reader, anyone -- should know. We used only to have books; then we had films, television, and now we can everything in a small box, or in a browser on our screen -- even, in a mobile phone. How does this change what we should do, how we should do it, what we should know?
Papers: Exemplary instances of research using digital methods and materials
Several decades into the digital revolution, we may fairly ask: what has changed? For all the digital technology about us, are we still doing research in the same way? We invite contributions from scholars who have found research possibilities for any aspect of medieval studies which could not have been available in the pre-digital world. This may be because the materials were not available, or it may be because the methods were not available, or any combination of the two.
Papers: Using digital materials in the classroom
We invite papers narrating how teachers have used digital materials relating to any aspect of medieval studies in the undergraduate (or graduate) classroom. What are the benefits, difficulties, virtues and dangers in their use? What can be achieved in the classroom with digital materials which could not be achieved through traditional print matter?
We have space in all these sessions. If you are interested in taking part in any of these sessions, please send, by 8 September:
For the panel: your name and brief resume, a few sentences on what you would say as a panel member, and a completed participant identifier form (PID!)
For the paper sessions: as usually required for Kalamazoo -- a 300 word abstract and completed PID
You can download the PID form from http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
In the past, these have been excellent and stimulating sessions. And I will personally buy a beer or other beverage of choice to any participant. I recommend Bells Oberon (taste of summer, etc)
Shaping Reception of Medieval Sites: What are we doing? CFP for Leeds 2009
Call for papers:
International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, 13-16 July 2009
Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
Shaping Reception of Medieval Sites: What are we doing?
Organized by: Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University
With the eleven-hundredth anniversary of the Abbey of Cluny's
foundation in 910 approaching, it seems timely to evaluate our
current understanding of medieval monuments as cultural patrimony.
We have seen two centuries of rising awareness to the historical
importance, cultural meaning, and tourism potential of medieval
structures in Western Europe. They have changed from outdated and
neglected ruins past fashionable appreciation to picturesque relics
claiming large investments toward their restoration. Yet some
countries have too many historical monuments to maintain and the
oldest represent the largest resource drain. How relevant are
medieval sites today and why should modern administrations continue
to market them as "authentic" representatives of culture? Who
determines popular views of the past in our society and are they
merely following formulae initiated in the nineteenth century? Why
are we still commemorating anniversaries of medieval institutions
long gone?
This session would ideally be composed of papers about sites that
have been reevaluated or which have been recently "rediscovered,"
their reception and commemoration, as well as how their role in the
past and towards the future continues to be shaped.
Please email paper proposals of no more than 300 words to
jtmarquardt@eiu.edu by September 15,
2008 and indicate whether you would require a digital data or
traditional slide projector.
International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, 13-16 July 2009
Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
Shaping Reception of Medieval Sites: What are we doing?
Organized by: Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University
With the eleven-hundredth anniversary of the Abbey of Cluny's
foundation in 910 approaching, it seems timely to evaluate our
current understanding of medieval monuments as cultural patrimony.
We have seen two centuries of rising awareness to the historical
importance, cultural meaning, and tourism potential of medieval
structures in Western Europe. They have changed from outdated and
neglected ruins past fashionable appreciation to picturesque relics
claiming large investments toward their restoration. Yet some
countries have too many historical monuments to maintain and the
oldest represent the largest resource drain. How relevant are
medieval sites today and why should modern administrations continue
to market them as "authentic" representatives of culture? Who
determines popular views of the past in our society and are they
merely following formulae initiated in the nineteenth century? Why
are we still commemorating anniversaries of medieval institutions
long gone?
This session would ideally be composed of papers about sites that
have been reevaluated or which have been recently "rediscovered,"
their reception and commemoration, as well as how their role in the
past and towards the future continues to be shaped.
Please email paper proposals of no more than 300 words to
2008 and indicate whether you would require a digital data or
traditional slide projector.
Last Call: Fragmentation in the Middle Ages
this is the Last call for papers for the
forthcoming conference session for TAG 2008 on the themes of
'Fragmentation in the Middle Ages' at the University of Southampton,
December 2008.
**Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the
Middle Ages**
The session is organised by Ben Jervis and Tehmina Goskar and is
supported by the Society for Medieval Archaeology in the UK.
http://scambimedievali.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/fragmentation-in-the-middle-ages-call-for-papers/
Themes on fragmentation for which we are particularly seeking papers are:
• Divisions between material specialists, e.g. ceramicists,
numismatists, small finds or metalwork specialists
• Geographic boundaries, e.g. studies according to modern regional
and national boundaries (Kent, Italy) or those according to
contemporary boundaries (Wessex, Normandy)
• Landscape and settlement vs. object-based archaeology
• Cultural focus vs. biological/environmental focus (including human
and animal remains)
• Life and death archaeology, e.g. finds and settlements relating to
people’s lifestyles and those found within funerary landscapes
• Relationships between urban and rural archaeology
• Theme-based divisions, e.g. social, economic, cultural, military
• Fragmentation between professions, e.g. academia, heritage
(including museums), commercial archaeology and conservation
Please forward far and wide. The paper deadline is 1 September and
all submissions should be made via email to myself and Ben Jervis
(bpj106@soton.ac.uk) as well as submitted via the TAG 2008 online
submission form:
http://www.tagconference.org/submit-abstract
forthcoming conference session for TAG 2008 on the themes of
'Fragmentation in the Middle Ages' at the University of Southampton,
December 2008.
**Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the
Middle Ages**
The session is organised by Ben Jervis and Tehmina Goskar and is
supported by the Society for Medieval Archaeology in the UK.
http://scambimedievali.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/fragmentation-in-the-middle-ages-call-for-papers/
Themes on fragmentation for which we are particularly seeking papers are:
• Divisions between material specialists, e.g. ceramicists,
numismatists, small finds or metalwork specialists
• Geographic boundaries, e.g. studies according to modern regional
and national boundaries (Kent, Italy) or those according to
contemporary boundaries (Wessex, Normandy)
• Landscape and settlement vs. object-based archaeology
• Cultural focus vs. biological/environmental focus (including human
and animal remains)
• Life and death archaeology, e.g. finds and settlements relating to
people’s lifestyles and those found within funerary landscapes
• Relationships between urban and rural archaeology
• Theme-based divisions, e.g. social, economic, cultural, military
• Fragmentation between professions, e.g. academia, heritage
(including museums), commercial archaeology and conservation
Please forward far and wide. The paper deadline is 1 September and
all submissions should be made via email to myself and Ben Jervis
(bpj106@soton.ac.uk) as well as submitted via the TAG 2008 online
submission form:
http://www.tagconference.org/submit-abstract
Babel News
the theme of the 2009 Leeds Medieval Congress is "heresy and orthodoxy," which
seems to me to be an ideal BABEL-y theme, and Jeffrey Cohen will also
be one of
the plenary speakers. Due to heavy organizing duties for other conferences, I
could not get my act together to put together BABEL panels for Leeds,
but one of
our members, Asa Simon Mittman, has done so under the auspices of MEARCSTAPA
[Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology
through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application], a group that has much
overlap with BABEL, member- and otherwise, and I am sharing the Call
for Papers
here in case any of our members might want to submit paper abstracts to these
excellent sessions [something I will be doing myself].
CFP: 2008 International Medieval Congress, Leeds
Title of Session(s): Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the Monstrous
Sponsor: Mearcstapa
At the 2008 International Medieval Congress, I organized four sessions
on monsters and monstrosity. These were a great success, filled with
twelve diverse and exciting papers. Interest in the subject continues
to grow, and so a group of scholars has now banded together to form
MEARCSTAPA (http://www.csuchico.edu/monsters), an organization dedicated
to the study of medieval monstrosity, currently sponsoring a pair of
sessions at the 2009 Congress in Kalamazoo.
We would like to bring the monsters back to Leeds! In accordance with
the year's theme of "Heresy and Orthodoxy," we are calling for papers on
the subject of "Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the Monstrous." We are
seeking papers in any discipline, dealing with any aspect of monstrosity
in the Middle Ages. Depending on the submissions, we will propose
between one and four full sessions to the selection committee at Leeds.
Possibility exists for the collective publication of the papers,
following the Congress.
Please send a paper title and abstract, along with you name,
affiliation, mailing address and email address to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) by September 20. Also please note if you will
need any A/V equipment.
For more information, see the general CFP:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2009_call.html
If you are interested in joining MEARCSTAPA (we have no dues) and our
listserv, please send Asa an email. All are welcome.
seems to me to be an ideal BABEL-y theme, and Jeffrey Cohen will also
be one of
the plenary speakers. Due to heavy organizing duties for other conferences, I
could not get my act together to put together BABEL panels for Leeds,
but one of
our members, Asa Simon Mittman, has done so under the auspices of MEARCSTAPA
[Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology
through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application], a group that has much
overlap with BABEL, member- and otherwise, and I am sharing the Call
for Papers
here in case any of our members might want to submit paper abstracts to these
excellent sessions [something I will be doing myself].
CFP: 2008 International Medieval Congress, Leeds
Title of Session(s): Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the Monstrous
Sponsor: Mearcstapa
At the 2008 International Medieval Congress, I organized four sessions
on monsters and monstrosity. These were a great success, filled with
twelve diverse and exciting papers. Interest in the subject continues
to grow, and so a group of scholars has now banded together to form
MEARCSTAPA (http://www.csuchico.edu/monsters), an organization dedicated
to the study of medieval monstrosity, currently sponsoring a pair of
sessions at the 2009 Congress in Kalamazoo.
We would like to bring the monsters back to Leeds! In accordance with
the year's theme of "Heresy and Orthodoxy," we are calling for papers on
the subject of "Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the Monstrous." We are
seeking papers in any discipline, dealing with any aspect of monstrosity
in the Middle Ages. Depending on the submissions, we will propose
between one and four full sessions to the selection committee at Leeds.
Possibility exists for the collective publication of the papers,
following the Congress.
Please send a paper title and abstract, along with you name,
affiliation, mailing address and email address to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) by September 20. Also please note if you will
need any A/V equipment.
For more information, see the general CFP:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2009_call.html
If you are interested in joining MEARCSTAPA (we have no dues) and our
listserv, please send Asa an email. All are welcome.
CFP - sessions on Ravenna for Kalamazoo 2009
CFP - sessions on Ravenna for Kalamazoo 2009
Three sessions are being organized with Ravenna as the topic, as follows:
"Ravenna and its Contexts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle
Ages" (2 sessions)
Organizer: Deborah M. Deliyannis, Indiana University
ddeliyan@indiana.edu
For 350 years, Ravenna served as a political center, successively for
the western Roman Empire, the Ostrogothic kingdom, and the
Byzantine exarchate of Italy. After the Lombard conquest of 751 the
city declined in importance, but its glorious past was not
forgotten, preserved as it was in art and architecture, in history,
hagiography, and liturgy. Because of Ravenna's importance, the city
is studied by scholars from a variety of different fields. The two
proposed sessions will provide an opportunity for historians, art
historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, and others to compare
and contrast interpretations in an interdisciplinary forum focused
specifically on Ravenna. The title "Ravenna and its Contexts"
refers both to the historical and cultural contexts in which Ravenna
developed, and to the modern scholarly contexts in which it is
studied today.
"Ravenna" in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Texts
Organizer: Daniel H. Abosso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
dhabosso@uiuc.edu
The study of Ravenna has attracted scholars from a variety of
disciplines in recent decades. Most attention has been paid to
Ravenna's historical and artistic importance; less attention has
been paid to Ravenna as it is regarded in our texts. For example,
how do late antique authors treat Ravenna as a capital city in
comparison to Rome and Constantinople? How do Byzantine historians
narrate Ravenna's fortunes? Questions such as these form the basis
for reception studies on Ravenna. Papers on the Spicilegium
Ravennatis Historiae and later chroniclers of Ravenna such as
Desiderio Spreti are particularly encouraged.
Three sessions are being organized with Ravenna as the topic, as follows:
"Ravenna and its Contexts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle
Ages" (2 sessions)
Organizer: Deborah M. Deliyannis, Indiana University
ddeliyan@indiana.edu
For 350 years, Ravenna served as a political center, successively for
the western Roman Empire, the Ostrogothic kingdom, and the
Byzantine exarchate of Italy. After the Lombard conquest of 751 the
city declined in importance, but its glorious past was not
forgotten, preserved as it was in art and architecture, in history,
hagiography, and liturgy. Because of Ravenna's importance, the city
is studied by scholars from a variety of different fields. The two
proposed sessions will provide an opportunity for historians, art
historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, and others to compare
and contrast interpretations in an interdisciplinary forum focused
specifically on Ravenna. The title "Ravenna and its Contexts"
refers both to the historical and cultural contexts in which Ravenna
developed, and to the modern scholarly contexts in which it is
studied today.
"Ravenna" in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Texts
Organizer: Daniel H. Abosso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
dhabosso@uiuc.edu
The study of Ravenna has attracted scholars from a variety of
disciplines in recent decades. Most attention has been paid to
Ravenna's historical and artistic importance; less attention has
been paid to Ravenna as it is regarded in our texts. For example,
how do late antique authors treat Ravenna as a capital city in
comparison to Rome and Constantinople? How do Byzantine historians
narrate Ravenna's fortunes? Questions such as these form the basis
for reception studies on Ravenna. Papers on the Spicilegium
Ravennatis Historiae and later chroniclers of Ravenna such as
Desiderio Spreti are particularly encouraged.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Paper Opening
I still have an opening for a paper in one of the sessions sponsored by Christianity and Culture (Centre for Medieval Studies, York) on 'The Community of Saints II: The Later Medieval Church'.
This session is linked to an ongoing project to produce an interactive DVD and website on the Parish Church in England. If you are interested in proposing a paper on belief/practice/parish life in England c1100-c1500 please contact me off list (dd11@york.ac.uk)
with thanks
Dee Dyas
Dr Dee Dyas
Director, Christianity and Culture
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
dd11@york.ac.uk
www.york.ac.uk/projects/christianityandculture/
www.york.ac.uk/projects/pilgrimage/
This session is linked to an ongoing project to produce an interactive DVD and website on the Parish Church in England. If you are interested in proposing a paper on belief/practice/parish life in England c1100-c1500 please contact me off list (dd11@york.ac.uk)
with thanks
Dee Dyas
Dr Dee Dyas
Director, Christianity and Culture
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
dd11@york.ac.uk
www.york.ac.uk/projects/christianityandculture/
www.york.ac.uk/projects/pilgrimage/
CRUSADE, JIHAD AND IDENTITY IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD Conference
CRUSADE, JIHAD AND IDENTITY IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Dartmouth College
October 3-4, 2008
Keynote Speakers Include
Benjamin Kedar (Hebrew University)
Maria Rosa Menocal (Yale)
Speakers include
Niall Christie, Matthew Gabriele, Robert Chazan, Jay Rubenstein, Nicholas Paul, Thomas Madden, Mark Pegg, Sharon Farmer, Deborah Gerish, Suleiman Mourad, Marina Rustow, Inas Abbas, Linda Darling, Murat Cem Munguc, Diana Abouali
The program is available at
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/events/2008/nemc09program.html
The Registration Page is available at:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/events/2008/registration-form.html
Let me know if I can answer any questions about the conference. I'd be delighted if some of you from our little virtual community were actually present! Registration is $50.00, and includes the Saturday evening banquet. I am really extraordinarily excited about the panels we have put together and the great quality of our participants.
Cecilia Gaposchkin (m.c.gaposchkin@dartmouth.edu; mcgaposchkin@gmail.com)
Dartmouth College
October 3-4, 2008
Keynote Speakers Include
Benjamin Kedar (Hebrew University)
Maria Rosa Menocal (Yale)
Speakers include
Niall Christie, Matthew Gabriele, Robert Chazan, Jay Rubenstein, Nicholas Paul, Thomas Madden, Mark Pegg, Sharon Farmer, Deborah Gerish, Suleiman Mourad, Marina Rustow, Inas Abbas, Linda Darling, Murat Cem Munguc, Diana Abouali
The program is available at
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/events/2008/nemc09program.html
The Registration Page is available at:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/events/2008/registration-form.html
Let me know if I can answer any questions about the conference. I'd be delighted if some of you from our little virtual community were actually present! Registration is $50.00, and includes the Saturday evening banquet. I am really extraordinarily excited about the panels we have put together and the great quality of our participants.
Cecilia Gaposchkin (m.c.gaposchkin@dartmouth.edu; mcgaposchkin@gmail.com)
Projet Volterra II: "Law and the End of Empire"
Projet Volterra II: "Law and the End of Empire"
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/volterra
(devoted to the study of the afterlife of Roman law in the early middle ages)
Colloquium 2: "Authorities and Subjects" and "Manuals and Jurisprudence"
History Department, University College London
Rooms G.09-G.10, 26 Gordon Square
(see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps )
11.00-17.00 on Monday 15 September
10.30-15.00 on Tuesday 16 September 2008
Speakers include Professors Santiago Castellanos, Michael Crawford,
Gero Dolezalek, Wolfgang Kaiser, Dario Mantovani, and Drs Simon
Corcoran, Magnus Ryan, and Benet Salway
A detailed programme will be circulated shortly.
This event is free of charge and open to all but for the purposes of
catering, please e-mail s.corcoran@ucl.ac.uk to reserve a place.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/volterra
(devoted to the study of the afterlife of Roman law in the early middle ages)
Colloquium 2: "Authorities and Subjects" and "Manuals and Jurisprudence"
History Department, University College London
Rooms G.09-G.10, 26 Gordon Square
(see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps )
11.00-17.00 on Monday 15 September
10.30-15.00 on Tuesday 16 September 2008
Speakers include Professors Santiago Castellanos, Michael Crawford,
Gero Dolezalek, Wolfgang Kaiser, Dario Mantovani, and Drs Simon
Corcoran, Magnus Ryan, and Benet Salway
A detailed programme will be circulated shortly.
This event is free of charge and open to all but for the purposes of
catering, please e-mail s.corcoran@ucl.ac.uk to reserve a place.
Gendering Material Culture
CFP for Kalamazoo '09 - Please feel free to circulate!
Gendering Material Culture
(co-sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Studies & by the Medieval
Feminist Art History Project)
Organizer: Alissandra Paschkowiak
The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI
May 7-10, 2009
This session considers the investigation of the relationship between gender and the material culture(s) of the Middle Ages.
Papers could include a discussion of the production or the reception/interpretation of material objects --imagined or real-- and their impact upon or promotion by individuals, collectives, corporate entities, or nations. How does the gendering of the producers, the gendering of the objects, and/or a gendering of the reception yield meaning or provide some understanding of the Middle Ages? Interdisciplinarity is especially encouraged.
"Material culture" may include shoes, clothing, textiles, psalters, manuscripts, maps, furnishings and household goods, architectural items/structures, sculptures, jewelry, tapestries/woven items, instruments, ceramics, or others.
Please submit 1-2 pg abstracts and cover materials to Alissandra Paschkowiak (apaschkowiak@wsc.ma.edu) by 15 September.
Gendering Material Culture
(co-sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Studies & by the Medieval
Feminist Art History Project)
Organizer: Alissandra Paschkowiak
The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI
May 7-10, 2009
This session considers the investigation of the relationship between gender and the material culture(s) of the Middle Ages.
Papers could include a discussion of the production or the reception/interpretation of material objects --imagined or real-- and their impact upon or promotion by individuals, collectives, corporate entities, or nations. How does the gendering of the producers, the gendering of the objects, and/or a gendering of the reception yield meaning or provide some understanding of the Middle Ages? Interdisciplinarity is especially encouraged.
"Material culture" may include shoes, clothing, textiles, psalters, manuscripts, maps, furnishings and household goods, architectural items/structures, sculptures, jewelry, tapestries/woven items, instruments, ceramics, or others.
Please submit 1-2 pg abstracts and cover materials to Alissandra Paschkowiak (apaschkowiak@wsc.ma.edu) by 15 September.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance Panel CFP
Call for Papers
Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance Panel
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
As Chris Brooks suggests, the Renaissance inherited the Middle Ages both as a material presence and as a complex of ideas and feelings—both real and imaginary. This panel seeks papers that examine how Renaissance communities constructed, evaluated, mythologized, or re-imagined the Middle Ages through performance. Although dramatic texts offer us evidence of such cultural work, this panel encourages submissions that identify and analyze "medievalisms" in staging practices, patronage, acting styles, design choices, or other theatrical elements. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society is sponsoring a panel on this topic at the MLA Convention this coming December. Due to the enthusiastic response to that panel's call for papers, the MRDS is sponsoring this second panel on the same theme.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance Panel
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
As Chris Brooks suggests, the Renaissance inherited the Middle Ages both as a material presence and as a complex of ideas and feelings—both real and imaginary. This panel seeks papers that examine how Renaissance communities constructed, evaluated, mythologized, or re-imagined the Middle Ages through performance. Although dramatic texts offer us evidence of such cultural work, this panel encourages submissions that identify and analyze "medievalisms" in staging practices, patronage, acting styles, design choices, or other theatrical elements. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society is sponsoring a panel on this topic at the MLA Convention this coming December. Due to the enthusiastic response to that panel's call for papers, the MRDS is sponsoring this second panel on the same theme.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
Cognitive Theory and Medieval Performance Panel
Call for Papers
Cognitive Theory and Medieval Performance Panel
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
Many theatre scholars are employing cognitive theory to explore drama and performance. This research has supported long-held claims about theatre, as well as complicated and challenged our assumptions about theatrical events and their cultural work. The large number of recently published essay collections, articles, and special journal issues devoted to this interdisciplinary approach reflects its relevance and significance.
This panel seeks papers that use evidence and theory from cognitive science to analyze medieval drama and performance. Although papers that analyze dramatic texts are welcome, this session specifically invites work that employs cognitive theory to explore aspects of performance events. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
Cognitive Theory and Medieval Performance Panel
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
Many theatre scholars are employing cognitive theory to explore drama and performance. This research has supported long-held claims about theatre, as well as complicated and challenged our assumptions about theatrical events and their cultural work. The large number of recently published essay collections, articles, and special journal issues devoted to this interdisciplinary approach reflects its relevance and significance.
This panel seeks papers that use evidence and theory from cognitive science to analyze medieval drama and performance. Although papers that analyze dramatic texts are welcome, this session specifically invites work that employs cognitive theory to explore aspects of performance events. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
MAMA Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS:MAMA 33
MAMA 33 (Mid-America Medieval Association) will host its annual conference
at UMKC, February 28, 2009. The theme of the conference will be: Urban Life and
Culture.
If you wish to give a paper, organize a panel, etc., send your one-page abstracts no later
than December 15, 2008 to: Dr. Shona Kelly Wray, President, 203 Cockefair Hall,
Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, 64110. Email copies to wrays@umkc.edu or fax 816-235-5723.
Although the theme is urban life and culture, topics on any medieval topic will be considered.
The keynote speaker will be Lester K. Little, Professor Emeritus of History, Smith
College: “Who did the heavy lifting in Italian cities?”
Graduate students who wish to compete for the Jim Falls Graduate Paper Prize should submit three copies of their paper (the one to be read at the conference) with handouts to
Jim Falls, 203 Cockefair Hall, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 64110, no later than February 1, 2009.
We hope you will stay over Saturday as the Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music
will showcase Benjamin Bagby’s Beowulf at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral,
February 28, 2009, 8 PM. The Friends collaborated with MAMA at the last conference,
and it was a great success! (Check the Beowulf link for tickets.)
Check the MAMA website for other information. By October we should have the
hotel information available. www.midamericamedievalassociation.org.
MAMA 33 (Mid-America Medieval Association) will host its annual conference
at UMKC, February 28, 2009. The theme of the conference will be: Urban Life and
Culture.
If you wish to give a paper, organize a panel, etc., send your one-page abstracts no later
than December 15, 2008 to: Dr. Shona Kelly Wray, President, 203 Cockefair Hall,
Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, 64110. Email copies to wrays@umkc.edu or fax 816-235-5723.
Although the theme is urban life and culture, topics on any medieval topic will be considered.
The keynote speaker will be Lester K. Little, Professor Emeritus of History, Smith
College: “Who did the heavy lifting in Italian cities?”
Graduate students who wish to compete for the Jim Falls Graduate Paper Prize should submit three copies of their paper (the one to be read at the conference) with handouts to
Jim Falls, 203 Cockefair Hall, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 64110, no later than February 1, 2009.
We hope you will stay over Saturday as the Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music
will showcase Benjamin Bagby’s Beowulf at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral,
February 28, 2009, 8 PM. The Friends collaborated with MAMA at the last conference,
and it was a great success! (Check the Beowulf link for tickets.)
Check the MAMA website for other information. By October we should have the
hotel information available. www.midamericamedievalassociation.org.
Christ III CFP
Call for Papers: 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May
7–10, 2009)
Special Session on Christ III
Despite its brilliant images and grand rhetoric, "Christ III" is the
least studied member of the three-poem suite that opens the Exeter
Book of Old English poetry. At last year's Congress, Andy Orchard
called attention to this fact, and explored the poem's relationship
to a "Cynewulfian school" and to the poem's homiletic contexts
(including the writings of Wulfstan). And yet there is much more work
to be done.
We welcome proposals on any aspect of the poem's manuscript,
political, or intellectual contexts, on its poetic artistry and
intertextual relationships to other works both in and outside of the
Exeter Book, on its sources and analogues in Latin and Old English
literature, as well as on its sources and analogues in material
culture. Other approaches are, of course, welcome as well.
New work on "Christ III" has the potential to reshape understandings
of eschatological and penitential thought in Anglo-Saxon England, to
realign studies of Old English poetry and prose, and to shed light on
the cultural context responsible for the Exeter Book's production.
Please send an abstract with the required form (available online at
http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions.html#Paper)
by September 15 to:
Brian T. O'Camb : btocamb@wisc.edu
Department of English
University of Wisconsin
7195 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
7–10, 2009)
Special Session on Christ III
Despite its brilliant images and grand rhetoric, "Christ III" is the
least studied member of the three-poem suite that opens the Exeter
Book of Old English poetry. At last year's Congress, Andy Orchard
called attention to this fact, and explored the poem's relationship
to a "Cynewulfian school" and to the poem's homiletic contexts
(including the writings of Wulfstan). And yet there is much more work
to be done.
We welcome proposals on any aspect of the poem's manuscript,
political, or intellectual contexts, on its poetic artistry and
intertextual relationships to other works both in and outside of the
Exeter Book, on its sources and analogues in Latin and Old English
literature, as well as on its sources and analogues in material
culture. Other approaches are, of course, welcome as well.
New work on "Christ III" has the potential to reshape understandings
of eschatological and penitential thought in Anglo-Saxon England, to
realign studies of Old English poetry and prose, and to shed light on
the cultural context responsible for the Exeter Book's production.
Please send an abstract with the required form (available online at
http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions.html#Paper)
by September 15 to:
Brian T. O'Camb : btocamb@wisc.edu
Department of English
University of Wisconsin
7195 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
More Horse Choking CFPs
CFP: 2008 International Medieval Congress, Leeds
Title of Session(s): Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the Monstrous
Sponsor: Mearcstapa
At the 2008 International Medieval Congress, I organized four
sessions on monsters and monstrosity. These were a great success,
filled with twelve diverse and exciting papers. Interest in the
subject continues to grow, and so a group of scholars has now banded
together to form MEARCSTAPA (http://www.csuchico.edu/monsters), an
organization dedicated to the study of medieval monstrosity,
currently sponsoring a pair of sessions at the 2009 Congress in
Kalamazoo.
We would like to bring the monsters back to Leeds! In accordance
with the year's theme of "Heresy and Orthodoxy," we are calling for
papers on the subject of "Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the
Monstrous." We are seeking papers in any discipline, dealing with
any aspect of monstrosity in the Middle Ages. Depending on the
submissions, we will propose between one and four full sessions to
the selection committee at Leeds. Possibility exists for the
collective publication of the papers, following the Congress.
Please send a paper title and abstract, along with you name,
affiliation, mailing address and email address to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) by September 20. Also please note if you
will need any A/V equipment.
For more information, see the general CFP:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2009_call.html
If you are interested in joining MEARCSTAPA (we have no dues) and our
listserv, please send Asa an email. All are welcome.
***************
-- Tarde venientibus ossa.
Title of Session(s): Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the Monstrous
Sponsor: Mearcstapa
At the 2008 International Medieval Congress, I organized four
sessions on monsters and monstrosity. These were a great success,
filled with twelve diverse and exciting papers. Interest in the
subject continues to grow, and so a group of scholars has now banded
together to form MEARCSTAPA (http://www.csuchico.edu/monsters), an
organization dedicated to the study of medieval monstrosity,
currently sponsoring a pair of sessions at the 2009 Congress in
Kalamazoo.
We would like to bring the monsters back to Leeds! In accordance
with the year's theme of "Heresy and Orthodoxy," we are calling for
papers on the subject of "Unorthodox Beings: Monsters and the
Monstrous." We are seeking papers in any discipline, dealing with
any aspect of monstrosity in the Middle Ages. Depending on the
submissions, we will propose between one and four full sessions to
the selection committee at Leeds. Possibility exists for the
collective publication of the papers, following the Congress.
Please send a paper title and abstract, along with you name,
affiliation, mailing address and email address to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) by September 20. Also please note if you
will need any A/V equipment.
For more information, see the general CFP:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2009_call.html
If you are interested in joining MEARCSTAPA (we have no dues) and our
listserv, please send Asa an email. All are welcome.
***************
-- Tarde venientibus ossa.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
CFP: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
CFP: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
7-10 May 2009
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI
AND
International Medieval Congress
13-16 July 2009
University of Leeds, Leeds UK
Execution, mutilation, and bodily punishment permeate our understanding of
Anglo-Saxon judicial practice. In addition to the Old English law codes
that prescribe death and mutilation for criminal offenders, physical
penalties figure prominently in biblical exegesis and theological
discourse, in hagiographical and literary texts, in works of art, and in
the archaeology of the pre-Conquest landscape.
We are currently seeking papers for both Kalamazoo and Leeds 2009. These
sessions will offer an interdisciplinary approach to the role of capital
and corporal punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. We seek papers that
consider the legal, practical, theological, and ethical considerations
that surrounded the sentencing of offenders. Explorations of individual
penalties, specific texts, artistic or archaeological evidence, or the
wider context of physical punishment are also welcome. Please submit
abstracts for twenty-minute papers by 15 September to:
Nicole Marafioti
Cornell University
259 Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
njm28@cornell.edu
(607) 277-4432
44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
7-10 May 2009
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI
AND
International Medieval Congress
13-16 July 2009
University of Leeds, Leeds UK
Execution, mutilation, and bodily punishment permeate our understanding of
Anglo-Saxon judicial practice. In addition to the Old English law codes
that prescribe death and mutilation for criminal offenders, physical
penalties figure prominently in biblical exegesis and theological
discourse, in hagiographical and literary texts, in works of art, and in
the archaeology of the pre-Conquest landscape.
We are currently seeking papers for both Kalamazoo and Leeds 2009. These
sessions will offer an interdisciplinary approach to the role of capital
and corporal punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. We seek papers that
consider the legal, practical, theological, and ethical considerations
that surrounded the sentencing of offenders. Explorations of individual
penalties, specific texts, artistic or archaeological evidence, or the
wider context of physical punishment are also welcome. Please submit
abstracts for twenty-minute papers by 15 September to:
Nicole Marafioti
Cornell University
259 Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
njm28@cornell.edu
(607) 277-4432
From Cloister to World: Monasticism in Society CFP
FP: 44th International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo
"From Cloister to World: Monasticism in Society"
Sponsored by the Graduate program of the Medieval Institute, University of
Notre Dame
Throughout the Middle Ages, monks and monasteries often had complex and
tumultuous relationships with the surrounding societies. Much recent
scholarly attention has elucidated monastic spirituality, but the wider and
important question of these relations with society still need much
investigation. Far from existing in an isolated vacuum, monks had to
negotiate land usage with their neighbors, assumed pastoral duties, and
sometimes sought to reform society with an impulse flowing from the springs
of monastic spirituality. With their economic, spiritual and intellectual
clout, monks had an undeniable impact on society (and our source base).
The aim of this session to elicit some new perspectives on monastic roles in
the world and give those of us investigating these matters a chance to meet
each other in friendly discussion. To enable that discussion, there will be
a commentator (tentatively Dr. John Van Engen, pending other commitments).
Please submit abstracts to Eric Shuler at eshuler@nd.edu by September 15.
- Eric Shuler -
Ph.D. Candidate @ the Medieval Institute
715 Hesburgh Library; University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 271-0768
Fax: (574) 631-8644
"From Cloister to World: Monasticism in Society"
Sponsored by the Graduate program of the Medieval Institute, University of
Notre Dame
Throughout the Middle Ages, monks and monasteries often had complex and
tumultuous relationships with the surrounding societies. Much recent
scholarly attention has elucidated monastic spirituality, but the wider and
important question of these relations with society still need much
investigation. Far from existing in an isolated vacuum, monks had to
negotiate land usage with their neighbors, assumed pastoral duties, and
sometimes sought to reform society with an impulse flowing from the springs
of monastic spirituality. With their economic, spiritual and intellectual
clout, monks had an undeniable impact on society (and our source base).
The aim of this session to elicit some new perspectives on monastic roles in
the world and give those of us investigating these matters a chance to meet
each other in friendly discussion. To enable that discussion, there will be
a commentator (tentatively Dr. John Van Engen, pending other commitments).
Please submit abstracts to Eric Shuler at eshuler@nd.edu by September 15.
- Eric Shuler -
Ph.D. Candidate @ the Medieval Institute
715 Hesburgh Library; University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 271-0768
Fax: (574) 631-8644
Margins of Error: On the Self-Correcting Medieval Manuscript CFP
I think I did this one before, but seems to be making the rounds again:
CFP: 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo May 7-10, 2009
Margins of Error: On the Self-Correcting Medieval Manuscript
Sponsored by: The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
In keeping with the Group’s mission to “apply an integrated, holistic approach to manuscripts and texts in other forms” our session calls for papers closely examining the materials in the margins of manuscripts, especially those that not only comment upon the texts which they surround, but which may offer alternative or even “corrective” readings to a manuscript’s central text.
That is, while some marginal images exist to support a text (by providing mnemonic aid, or by illustrating a scene in a “central” story), others seem to exist at a disjoint to their neighboring text (as with the rude grylles and shitten monkeys that pepper so many holy works) and so may offer counterpoint or even contradiction to an otherwise uncontested central text. We thus look for papers discussing such potentially “self-correcting” marginalia in medieval manuscripts: the images that, while often subordinate to the text, still find a rebelliously self-reflexive voice.
The Research Group is especially interested in first-hand (re)evaluations of medieval manuscripts and their marginalia, but all readings with close textual focus are welcome.
Please submit abstracts and cover materials to Jeff Massey at jmassey@molloy.edu by September 15th for full consideration.
Jeff Massey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
The Royal English Department
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, NY 11571-5002
CFP: 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo May 7-10, 2009
Margins of Error: On the Self-Correcting Medieval Manuscript
Sponsored by: The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
In keeping with the Group’s mission to “apply an integrated, holistic approach to manuscripts and texts in other forms” our session calls for papers closely examining the materials in the margins of manuscripts, especially those that not only comment upon the texts which they surround, but which may offer alternative or even “corrective” readings to a manuscript’s central text.
That is, while some marginal images exist to support a text (by providing mnemonic aid, or by illustrating a scene in a “central” story), others seem to exist at a disjoint to their neighboring text (as with the rude grylles and shitten monkeys that pepper so many holy works) and so may offer counterpoint or even contradiction to an otherwise uncontested central text. We thus look for papers discussing such potentially “self-correcting” marginalia in medieval manuscripts: the images that, while often subordinate to the text, still find a rebelliously self-reflexive voice.
The Research Group is especially interested in first-hand (re)evaluations of medieval manuscripts and their marginalia, but all readings with close textual focus are welcome.
Please submit abstracts and cover materials to Jeff Massey at jmassey@molloy.edu by September 15th for full consideration.
Jeff Massey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
The Royal English Department
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, NY 11571-5002
New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies CFP for LEEDS 2009
Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress (Leeds)
Conference Dates: 13-16 July 2009
Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Session (1): New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies
“New Voices” are broadly defined as any scholar who has not yet published
widely in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies or who is working in an
experimental area or an area outside of his/her regular area of study.
Advanced Graduate students and Assistant Professors are especially
welcome. Papers may address any issue, topic, or area in (or related to)
Anglo-Saxon Studies, including Philology, Literature, History,
Archaeology, Methodology, Art History, Material Culture, Gender, Theory,
Film, Manuscripts, Digital Culture, or areas yet to be imagined. Papers
that make use of new perspectives, approaches, methodologies, and
technologies (as well as more traditional scholarship) are most welcome.
Please send 1 page abstracts by September 15 to Stacy Klein at
ssklein@rci.rutgers.edu
For more information about the IMC, see
www.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Stacy S. Klein
Rutgers Univ.
Dept. of English
510 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167
Phone: 617-412-7456
Fax: 732-932-1150
Conference Dates: 13-16 July 2009
Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Session (1): New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies
“New Voices” are broadly defined as any scholar who has not yet published
widely in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies or who is working in an
experimental area or an area outside of his/her regular area of study.
Advanced Graduate students and Assistant Professors are especially
welcome. Papers may address any issue, topic, or area in (or related to)
Anglo-Saxon Studies, including Philology, Literature, History,
Archaeology, Methodology, Art History, Material Culture, Gender, Theory,
Film, Manuscripts, Digital Culture, or areas yet to be imagined. Papers
that make use of new perspectives, approaches, methodologies, and
technologies (as well as more traditional scholarship) are most welcome.
Please send 1 page abstracts by September 15 to Stacy Klein at
ssklein@rci.rutgers.edu
For more information about the IMC, see
www.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Stacy S. Klein
Rutgers Univ.
Dept. of English
510 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167
Phone: 617-412-7456
Fax: 732-932-1150
Alfredian Texts and Contexts CFP
Special Session: Alfredian Texts and Contexts
Papers are welcome on any topic related to the era of Alfred the
Great, and cross-disciplinary approaches are especially sought.
Possible areas for inquiry:
• Alfred the Great has long been regarded as both patron and
translator, even "the father of English prose." Recent scholarship
has called Alfred's literary role into question. Was Alfred a
translator, the coordinator of a group of translators, patron, or
just the beneficiary of anonymous writers—or later scribes or
historians—who wished to associate works with a prominent name?
• Are traditional datings of "Alfredian" materials right to ascribe
certain texts to Alfred's era and not others? What of works in the
visual arts, such as the Alfred Jewel or the Fuller Brooch? What
works should be newly assigned to Alfred's time or his circle, or
removed from them?
• How did developments in political and military history impinge on
visual or literary arts during the reign of Alfred?
Other approaches are welcome as well!
Please send abstract with required form (available online at http://
www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions.html#Paper)
by September 15 to:
Nicole Guenther Discenza
ndiscenz@cas.usf.edu
Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 E Fowler Ave CPR107
Tampa FL 33620-5550
(813) 974-1887 or fax (813) 974-2270
Papers are welcome on any topic related to the era of Alfred the
Great, and cross-disciplinary approaches are especially sought.
Possible areas for inquiry:
• Alfred the Great has long been regarded as both patron and
translator, even "the father of English prose." Recent scholarship
has called Alfred's literary role into question. Was Alfred a
translator, the coordinator of a group of translators, patron, or
just the beneficiary of anonymous writers—or later scribes or
historians—who wished to associate works with a prominent name?
• Are traditional datings of "Alfredian" materials right to ascribe
certain texts to Alfred's era and not others? What of works in the
visual arts, such as the Alfred Jewel or the Fuller Brooch? What
works should be newly assigned to Alfred's time or his circle, or
removed from them?
• How did developments in political and military history impinge on
visual or literary arts during the reign of Alfred?
Other approaches are welcome as well!
Please send abstract with required form (available online at http://
www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions.html#Paper)
by September 15 to:
Nicole Guenther Discenza
ndiscenz@cas.usf.edu
Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 E Fowler Ave CPR107
Tampa FL 33620-5550
(813) 974-1887 or fax (813) 974-2270
New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies CFP (again)
Call For Papers: International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI)
Conference Dates: May 7-10, 2009
Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Sessions (2): New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies
“New Voices” are broadly defined as any scholar who has not yet published
widely in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies or who is working in an
experimental area or an area outside of his/her regular area of study.
Advanced Graduate students and Assistant Professors are especially
welcome. Papers may address any issue or topic in (or related to)
Anglo-Saxon Studies, including Philology, Literature, History, Art
History, Archaeology, Material Culture, Theory, Film, Manuscripts, Digital
Culture, or areas yet to be imagined. Papers that make use of new
perspectives, approaches, methodologies, and technologies (as well as more
traditional scholarship) are most welcome.
Please send 1 page abstracts by September 15 to Stacy Klein at
ssklein@rci.rutgers.edu
Stacy S. Klein
Rutgers Univ.
Dept. of English
510 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167
Phone: 617-412-7456
Fax: 732-932-1150
ssklein@rci.rutgers.
Conference Dates: May 7-10, 2009
Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Sessions (2): New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies
“New Voices” are broadly defined as any scholar who has not yet published
widely in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies or who is working in an
experimental area or an area outside of his/her regular area of study.
Advanced Graduate students and Assistant Professors are especially
welcome. Papers may address any issue or topic in (or related to)
Anglo-Saxon Studies, including Philology, Literature, History, Art
History, Archaeology, Material Culture, Theory, Film, Manuscripts, Digital
Culture, or areas yet to be imagined. Papers that make use of new
perspectives, approaches, methodologies, and technologies (as well as more
traditional scholarship) are most welcome.
Please send 1 page abstracts by September 15 to Stacy Klein at
ssklein@rci.rutgers.edu
Stacy S. Klein
Rutgers Univ.
Dept. of English
510 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167
Phone: 617-412-7456
Fax: 732-932-1150
ssklein@rci.rutgers.
Text, Performance, and Late Medieval Voice CFP
Text, Performance, and Late Medieval Voice
(listed on p.16 of the recently mailed general CFP for the 44th
International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo)
While the exploration of intertextuality has become a staple approach for
understanding the way medieval texts and authors relate to one another, very
little recent work has sought to plumb the mechanics of and relationships
between the voices present in late-medieval texts and in the culture that
first received them. Poets in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries seem to
pay special attention to the relationship between writing, reading, and
performing in their textual culture and, at the center of this culture, to
the voices that form and interweave texts.
Broad hermeneutic patterns emerge when considering how moments of reception
and production in which voices are embedded collide in moments of
performance. These patterns in turn connect to metalinguistic discourses of
the time that sought to understand voices and their uses in texts and in
oral performances. This session proposes to bring together submissions from
diverse disciplines that build on some of the seminal links between medieval
texts, reading, and oral performance first articulated in the 1970s and '80s
by Paul Zumthor, and productively expanded on especially by Brian Stock in
his renowned Listening for the Text (1990), as well as a number of important
essay collections published in the last 20 years. Particularly in light of
new interest in the nature of the human voice and its social and cultural
implications in psychoanalytic theory, led by Lacanian theorists like Slavoj
Zizek and Mladen Dolar, our hope with this session is to encourage scholars
to reconsider 'the voice' as a site for theoretical investigations of the
flow between media, types of reading situations, and performances in the
late middle ages.
If you have any further questions or would like to submit a paper proposal,
please contact:
Elon Lang
emlang@wustl.edu
or
Anne Stone
astone@gc.cuny.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS:
"Women in the Medieval Mediterranean"
Session to be held at the International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 7-10, 2009
Sponsored by the Byzantine Studies Association of North America
Session Chair: Andrea Olsen (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant: Annemarie Weyl Carr (emerita, Southern Methodist University)
Deadline: 15 September 2008
Recent studies of the medieval Mediterranean—both focused historical
research as well as investigations of cross-cultural phenomena—have
resulted in fresh, dynamic ways of understanding the region as a crossroads
for the exchange of ideas, economic goods and artistic practices. The goal
of this session is to delve deeper into the daily lives of women who lived
at the intersections of the Byzantine, western and Islamic worlds. As
functionaries in medieval court life, women played a vital role as
ambassadors, authors, and as patronesses of art. Although precious little
survives attesting to details of women's experiences, it is certain that
all along the social and economic continuum, women were formative players
at the junctions of disparate cultures. By investigating their social and
religious practices along with their artistic legacies, this session aims
to discuss the hybrid character of women's lives in the "societies in
between."
Seasoned as well as young scholars are invited to submit proposals for
20-minute presentations. Papers dealing with artistic, literary, economic
or religious aspects of women's influence in the medieval Mediterranean are
welcome. Possible lines of inquiry include questions of materiality, the
female body, the family, maternity, transformation of self and other, and
patronage.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 15 September 2008
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
- Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
- Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#Paper
ALL PROPOSALS AND INQUIRIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO:
Andrea Olsen
History of Art Department
268 Mergenthaler Hall
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
469-288-1253
andrea.olsen@jhu.edu
(listed on p.16 of the recently mailed general CFP for the 44th
International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo)
While the exploration of intertextuality has become a staple approach for
understanding the way medieval texts and authors relate to one another, very
little recent work has sought to plumb the mechanics of and relationships
between the voices present in late-medieval texts and in the culture that
first received them. Poets in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries seem to
pay special attention to the relationship between writing, reading, and
performing in their textual culture and, at the center of this culture, to
the voices that form and interweave texts.
Broad hermeneutic patterns emerge when considering how moments of reception
and production in which voices are embedded collide in moments of
performance. These patterns in turn connect to metalinguistic discourses of
the time that sought to understand voices and their uses in texts and in
oral performances. This session proposes to bring together submissions from
diverse disciplines that build on some of the seminal links between medieval
texts, reading, and oral performance first articulated in the 1970s and '80s
by Paul Zumthor, and productively expanded on especially by Brian Stock in
his renowned Listening for the Text (1990), as well as a number of important
essay collections published in the last 20 years. Particularly in light of
new interest in the nature of the human voice and its social and cultural
implications in psychoanalytic theory, led by Lacanian theorists like Slavoj
Zizek and Mladen Dolar, our hope with this session is to encourage scholars
to reconsider 'the voice' as a site for theoretical investigations of the
flow between media, types of reading situations, and performances in the
late middle ages.
If you have any further questions or would like to submit a paper proposal,
please contact:
Elon Lang
emlang@wustl.edu
or
Anne Stone
astone@gc.cuny.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS:
"Women in the Medieval Mediterranean"
Session to be held at the International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 7-10, 2009
Sponsored by the Byzantine Studies Association of North America
Session Chair: Andrea Olsen (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant: Annemarie Weyl Carr (emerita, Southern Methodist University)
Deadline: 15 September 2008
Recent studies of the medieval Mediterranean—both focused historical
research as well as investigations of cross-cultural phenomena—have
resulted in fresh, dynamic ways of understanding the region as a crossroads
for the exchange of ideas, economic goods and artistic practices. The goal
of this session is to delve deeper into the daily lives of women who lived
at the intersections of the Byzantine, western and Islamic worlds. As
functionaries in medieval court life, women played a vital role as
ambassadors, authors, and as patronesses of art. Although precious little
survives attesting to details of women's experiences, it is certain that
all along the social and economic continuum, women were formative players
at the junctions of disparate cultures. By investigating their social and
religious practices along with their artistic legacies, this session aims
to discuss the hybrid character of women's lives in the "societies in
between."
Seasoned as well as young scholars are invited to submit proposals for
20-minute presentations. Papers dealing with artistic, literary, economic
or religious aspects of women's influence in the medieval Mediterranean are
welcome. Possible lines of inquiry include questions of materiality, the
female body, the family, maternity, transformation of self and other, and
patronage.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 15 September 2008
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
- Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
- Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#Paper
ALL PROPOSALS AND INQUIRIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO:
Andrea Olsen
History of Art Department
268 Mergenthaler Hall
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
469-288-1253
andrea.olsen@jhu.edu
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Sacred Leaves CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS--Please Distribute
Third Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 19-20, 2009
University of South Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, FL
Keynote Speaker: Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor, University of
Chicago
The Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of
South Florida seeks papers from graduate students and recent M.A. or Ph.D.
recipients for its Third Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium. This
year’s theme is Comparative Mysticism of the Middle Ages: Textual
Traditions, 1000-1600. We encourage topics on mystical expressions in the
medieval world comparing religions, cultures and/or gender.
Subjects for proposals may include, but are not limited to:
• Poetry and lyric
• Cross-cultural and religious influences
• Manuscript illumination
• Spain, Iberia and beyond
• Mystical forms of dissent and their repression
• The role of mystic in society
Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr. Jane Marie
Pinzino, Symposium Coordinator at by November 14,
2008. Notification of acceptances will be emailed by November 28, 2008.
Please include the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email
address. Each paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation.
Jane Marie Pinzino, MDiv, PhD
University of South Florida/Tampa Library
Special Collections Department
4202 E. Fowler Ave., LIB 122
Tampa, FL 33620-5400
(813) 974-2731
http://sacredleavesgraduatesymposium.blogspot.com/
Third Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 19-20, 2009
University of South Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, FL
Keynote Speaker: Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor, University of
Chicago
The Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of
South Florida seeks papers from graduate students and recent M.A. or Ph.D.
recipients for its Third Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium. This
year’s theme is Comparative Mysticism of the Middle Ages: Textual
Traditions, 1000-1600. We encourage topics on mystical expressions in the
medieval world comparing religions, cultures and/or gender.
Subjects for proposals may include, but are not limited to:
• Poetry and lyric
• Cross-cultural and religious influences
• Manuscript illumination
• Spain, Iberia and beyond
• Mystical forms of dissent and their repression
• The role of mystic in society
Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr. Jane Marie
Pinzino, Symposium Coordinator at
2008. Notification of acceptances will be emailed by November 28, 2008.
Please include the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email
address. Each paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation.
Jane Marie Pinzino, MDiv, PhD
University of South Florida/Tampa Library
Special Collections Department
4202 E. Fowler Ave., LIB 122
Tampa, FL 33620-5400
(813) 974-2731
http://sacredleavesgraduatesymposium.blogspot.com/
GENDERING REPRESENTATION
GENDERING REPRESENTATION
(co-sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and the Medieval Feminist Art History Project)
Organizer: Jennifer Borland
The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI May 7-10, 2009
This session will investigate the gendering of the practice of representation in the Middle Ages, focusing in particular on the performance of gender through representation.
We welcome papers that engage with representation in a variety of formats, including visual, spatial, literary/textual, or historical representations. Contributions may deal with either the production and/or reception of representations, or consider representation from either individual or collective/corporate perspectives.
Interdisciplinarity is especially encouraged.
Please submit a one- to two-page abstract and coversheet to Jennifer Borland (jennifer.borland@okstate.edu) by September 15.
(co-sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and the Medieval Feminist Art History Project)
Organizer: Jennifer Borland
The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI May 7-10, 2009
This session will investigate the gendering of the practice of representation in the Middle Ages, focusing in particular on the performance of gender through representation.
We welcome papers that engage with representation in a variety of formats, including visual, spatial, literary/textual, or historical representations. Contributions may deal with either the production and/or reception of representations, or consider representation from either individual or collective/corporate perspectives.
Interdisciplinarity is especially encouraged.
Please submit a one- to two-page abstract and coversheet to Jennifer Borland (jennifer.borland@okstate.edu) by September 15.
Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies will take place at the
University of Sydney, from Wednesday 29 September to Saturday 2 October
2010. Further announcements, including a call for papers, will be issued
soon. Celticists wishing to be put on the mailing-list for the Conference
are invited to send expressions of interest to: aahlqvist@usyd.edu.au
The Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies will take place at the
University of Sydney, from Wednesday 29 September to Saturday 2 October
2010. Further announcements, including a call for papers, will be issued
soon. Celticists wishing to be put on the mailing-list for the Conference
are invited to send expressions of interest to: aahlqvist@usyd.edu.au
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Shifting Frontiers Late Antiquity CFP
The Eighth Biennial
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
" Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity "
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
April 2-5, 2009
The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Eighth Biennial
Conference \on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will be held at
Indiana University and will explore the theme "Shifting Cultural
Frontiers in Late Antiquity" [ca. 200 - 700 AD]. The confirmed
plenary speakers will be Professors Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
and Seth Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary).
Beneath the familiar political and religious narrative of late antiquity
lies a cultural history both more complicated and more fascinating.
Late antiquity was a time of intense cultural negotiation in which new
religious communities and new populations sifted through existing
modes of cultural expression, adopting many elements for themselves
and turning others aside. This conference seeks to understand how
cultural transformation occurred amidst the political and religious
disruption that can seem characteristic of late antiquity. To this end,
we seek contributions that explore three distinct areas of late antique
cultural history: 1) the interaction of "high" and "low" culture, 2) the
impact of changing and collapsing political centers on their peripheries,
and 3) the emergence of hybrid literary, artistic, and religious modes
of expression. Possible contributions to these areas may highlight the
permeable division between elite and vernacular culture, the ease with
which cultural memes were transmitted across geographic and linguistic
boundaries, the adaptability of established cultures to new political and
social realities, and the degree to which newcomers were integrated into
existing cultural communities.
As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum
for ancient historians, philologists, Orientalists, art historians,
archeologists,
and specialists in the early Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds to discuss
a wide range of European, Middle-Eastern, and African evidence for
cultural transformation in late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly
related to the conference theme. They should state both the problem
being discussed and the nature of the new insights or conclusions that
will be presented.
Abstracts of not more than 500 words for 20-minute presentations may
be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward Watts, shifting.frontiers.8@gmail.com
(Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828,
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103, USA).
The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15, 2008. The submission
of an abstract carries with it a commitment to attend the conference
should the
abstract be accepted.
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
" Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity "
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
April 2-5, 2009
The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Eighth Biennial
Conference \on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will be held at
Indiana University and will explore the theme "Shifting Cultural
Frontiers in Late Antiquity" [ca. 200 - 700 AD]. The confirmed
plenary speakers will be Professors Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
and Seth Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary).
Beneath the familiar political and religious narrative of late antiquity
lies a cultural history both more complicated and more fascinating.
Late antiquity was a time of intense cultural negotiation in which new
religious communities and new populations sifted through existing
modes of cultural expression, adopting many elements for themselves
and turning others aside. This conference seeks to understand how
cultural transformation occurred amidst the political and religious
disruption that can seem characteristic of late antiquity. To this end,
we seek contributions that explore three distinct areas of late antique
cultural history: 1) the interaction of "high" and "low" culture, 2) the
impact of changing and collapsing political centers on their peripheries,
and 3) the emergence of hybrid literary, artistic, and religious modes
of expression. Possible contributions to these areas may highlight the
permeable division between elite and vernacular culture, the ease with
which cultural memes were transmitted across geographic and linguistic
boundaries, the adaptability of established cultures to new political and
social realities, and the degree to which newcomers were integrated into
existing cultural communities.
As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum
for ancient historians, philologists, Orientalists, art historians,
archeologists,
and specialists in the early Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds to discuss
a wide range of European, Middle-Eastern, and African evidence for
cultural transformation in late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly
related to the conference theme. They should state both the problem
being discussed and the nature of the new insights or conclusions that
will be presented.
Abstracts of not more than 500 words for 20-minute presentations may
be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward Watts, shifting.frontiers.8@gmail.com
(Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828,
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103, USA).
The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15, 2008. The submission
of an abstract carries with it a commitment to attend the conference
should the
abstract be accepted.
Fifteenth Century Studies CFP
You are invited to participate in the following Fifteenth-Century
Studies sessions at the Forty-Fourth International Congress on
Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (May 7-10, 2009) in
Kalamazoo, MI:
1. The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries
Send abstracts to: Dr. Rosanne Gasse, Department of English, Brandon
University (gasse@brandonu.ca)
2. Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries.
Send abstracts to: Prof. Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian, Foreign Languages
& Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
(wade@uwosh.edu)
3. Spanish Language and Literature in the Late Middle Ages
(including Catalan).
Send abstracts to: Prof. Roxana Recio, Modern Languages, Creighton
University (roxrecio@creighton.edu)
4. Late-Medieval French Language and Literature.
Send abstracts to: Prof. Steven Millen Taylor, Foreign Languages &
Literatures, Marquette University
(steven.taylor@marquette.edu)
5. The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in
Northern Europe.
Send abstracts to: Prof. Arjo Vanderjagt, History of Ideas (Faculty
of Philosophy), University of Groningen
(A.J.Vanderjagt@rug.nl)
The one-page abstract for a 20 minute presentation should include the
applicant's complete address and must be submitted by September 5,
2008. If you e-mail your abstract, please send it as an attachment
to that session's organizer with a cc to me as the Fifteenth-Century
Studies' contact person.
Please see the attached Call for Papers for additional contact
information. Also attached, please find the Participant Information
Form which should be completed and submitted along with your abstract.
If you have any questions about these sessions, please contact me at
steven.taylor@mu.edu.
Thank you for forwarding this information to any interested
colleagues or students.
Steven Millen Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of French
Coordinator, Medieval Studies Minor
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Studies sessions at the Forty-Fourth International Congress on
Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (May 7-10, 2009) in
Kalamazoo, MI:
1. The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries
Send abstracts to: Dr. Rosanne Gasse, Department of English, Brandon
University (gasse@brandonu.ca
2. Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries.
Send abstracts to: Prof. Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian, Foreign Languages
& Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
(wade@uwosh.edu
3. Spanish Language and Literature in the Late Middle Ages
(including Catalan).
Send abstracts to: Prof. Roxana Recio, Modern Languages, Creighton
University (roxrecio@creighton.edu
4. Late-Medieval French Language and Literature.
Send abstracts to: Prof. Steven Millen Taylor, Foreign Languages &
Literatures, Marquette University
(steven.taylor@marquette.edu
5. The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in
Northern Europe.
Send abstracts to: Prof. Arjo Vanderjagt, History of Ideas (Faculty
of Philosophy), University of Groningen
(A.J.Vanderjagt@rug.nl
The one-page abstract for a 20 minute presentation should include the
applicant's complete address and must be submitted by September 5,
2008. If you e-mail your abstract, please send it as an attachment
to that session's organizer with a cc to me as the Fifteenth-Century
Studies' contact person.
Please see the attached Call for Papers for additional contact
information. Also attached, please find the Participant Information
Form which should be completed and submitted along with your abstract.
If you have any questions about these sessions, please contact me at
steven.taylor@mu.edu
Thank you for forwarding this information to any interested
colleagues or students.
Steven Millen Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of French
Coordinator, Medieval Studies Minor
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Possible Medievalism Panel CFP
From Brian McFadden:
Dear colleagues, know what the truth is; the world is in haste and it
approaches the 1 September deadline for submission of abstracts to the Texas
Medieval Association's 18th annual conference at Texas Tech (2-4 October
2008).
On behalf of John Howe, I am especially soliciting abstracts for either
individual papers or a possible panel on medievalism (Tolkien, Harry Potter,
film adaptations, medievalism on the web, gaming culture, etc.) to work in
with Jane Chance's plenary lecture on "Tough Love: Teaching the New
Medievalisms" and the overall themes of "The Medieval Imagination" and "The
Medieval Southwest." Modern adaptations or appropriations of Anglo-Saxon
culture would be most relevant to the members of this list, but material
drawing on any medieval period would be welcome.
Official call for papers:
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/tmahome.html
Send abstracts to:
Prof. John Howe
Department of History
Texas Tech University
Box 41013
Lubbock TX 79409-1013
John.Howe@ttu.edu
or to
Don Kagay
2812-A Westgate
Albany, GA 31721
dkagay1@netzero.com
Dear colleagues, know what the truth is; the world is in haste and it
approaches the 1 September deadline for submission of abstracts to the Texas
Medieval Association's 18th annual conference at Texas Tech (2-4 October
2008).
On behalf of John Howe, I am especially soliciting abstracts for either
individual papers or a possible panel on medievalism (Tolkien, Harry Potter,
film adaptations, medievalism on the web, gaming culture, etc.) to work in
with Jane Chance's plenary lecture on "Tough Love: Teaching the New
Medievalisms" and the overall themes of "The Medieval Imagination" and "The
Medieval Southwest." Modern adaptations or appropriations of Anglo-Saxon
culture would be most relevant to the members of this list, but material
drawing on any medieval period would be welcome.
Official call for papers:
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/tmahome.html
Send abstracts to:
Prof. John Howe
Department of History
Texas Tech University
Box 41013
Lubbock TX 79409-1013
John.Howe@ttu.edu
or to
Don Kagay
2812-A Westgate
Albany, GA 31721
dkagay1@netzero.com
New Book
Hal Momma and Mike Matto are pleased to announce the publication of the
Blackwell Companion to the History of the English Language. We hope this
volume is of interest to Anglo-Saxonists who teach HEL on a regular basis.
The edition includes essays by ISAS members: Thomas Cable, Mary Blockley,
Geoffrey Russom, Robert D. Fulk, Daniel Donoghue, Mechthild Gretsch, Lucia
Kornexl, and Fred C. Robinson. Here is more information about the book:
This Companion brings together more than 60 distinguished contributors to
offer a wide-ranging survey of the history of the English language, from
its Indo-European and Germanic past, through British and American usage,
to the rise of colonial and post-colonial English. Many of the essays
investigate regional and ethnic varieties and take up issues of class and
gender.
The book explores the many diverse approaches to the study of English in
one volume, ranging from linguistics and etymology to the philosophy of
language and literary history. Concise introductions place individual
essays within larger contexts; notes on phonetics, a chronological list of
events, and a glossary of linguistic terms facilitate use and connect the
reader to the uses of the English language over the centuries.
A meeting ground for students of language and literature, this
broad-ranging volume considers cultural, social, literary, material, and
theoretical approaches to the study of language.
The Blackwell site is:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405129923&site=1
Blackwell Companion to the History of the English Language. We hope this
volume is of interest to Anglo-Saxonists who teach HEL on a regular basis.
The edition includes essays by ISAS members: Thomas Cable, Mary Blockley,
Geoffrey Russom, Robert D. Fulk, Daniel Donoghue, Mechthild Gretsch, Lucia
Kornexl, and Fred C. Robinson. Here is more information about the book:
This Companion brings together more than 60 distinguished contributors to
offer a wide-ranging survey of the history of the English language, from
its Indo-European and Germanic past, through British and American usage,
to the rise of colonial and post-colonial English. Many of the essays
investigate regional and ethnic varieties and take up issues of class and
gender.
The book explores the many diverse approaches to the study of English in
one volume, ranging from linguistics and etymology to the philosophy of
language and literary history. Concise introductions place individual
essays within larger contexts; notes on phonetics, a chronological list of
events, and a glossary of linguistic terms facilitate use and connect the
reader to the uses of the English language over the centuries.
A meeting ground for students of language and literature, this
broad-ranging volume considers cultural, social, literary, material, and
theoretical approaches to the study of language.
The Blackwell site is:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405129923&site=1
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Session CFP for Theoretical Archaeology
Putting Humpty Together Again
A call for papers for a session at the forthcoming Theoretical
Archaeology Conference 2008 (University of Southampton), entitled:
Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the
Middle Ages.
The session is organised by Ben Jervis and myself and is supported by
the Society for Medieval Archaeology in the UK.
Members of this Forum may be particularly interested in one of the
themes which is:
"Fragmentation between professions, e.g. academia, heritage
(including museums), commercial archaeology and conservation"
Other themes on fragmentation for which we are particularly seeking
papers are:
* Divisions between material specialists, e.g. ceramicists,
numismatists, small finds or metalwork specialists
* Geographic boundaries, e.g. studies according to modern regional
and national boundaries (Kent, Italy) or those according to
contemporary boundaries (Wessex, Normandy)
* Landscape and settlement vs. object-based archaeology
* Cultural focus vs. biological/environmental focus (including human
and animal remains)
* Life and death archaeology, e.g. finds and settlements relating to
people's lifestyles and those found within funerary landscapes
* Relationships between urban and rural archaeology
* Theme-based divisions, e.g. social, economic, cultural, military
* Transitions between periods, e.g. Saxon to Norman, early to high
medieval, late to post medieval
The paper deadline is 1 September and all submissions should be made
via email to Tehmina tehm@SOTON.AC.UK and Ben Jervis
bpj106@soton.ac.uk as well as submitted via the TAG 2008 online
submission form.
A call for papers for a session at the forthcoming Theoretical
Archaeology Conference 2008 (University of Southampton), entitled:
Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the
Middle Ages.
The session is organised by Ben Jervis and myself and is supported by
the Society for Medieval Archaeology in the UK.
Members of this Forum may be particularly interested in one of the
themes which is:
"Fragmentation between professions, e.g. academia, heritage
(including museums), commercial archaeology and conservation"
Other themes on fragmentation for which we are particularly seeking
papers are:
* Divisions between material specialists, e.g. ceramicists,
numismatists, small finds or metalwork specialists
* Geographic boundaries, e.g. studies according to modern regional
and national boundaries (Kent, Italy) or those according to
contemporary boundaries (Wessex, Normandy)
* Landscape and settlement vs. object-based archaeology
* Cultural focus vs. biological/environmental focus (including human
and animal remains)
* Life and death archaeology, e.g. finds and settlements relating to
people's lifestyles and those found within funerary landscapes
* Relationships between urban and rural archaeology
* Theme-based divisions, e.g. social, economic, cultural, military
* Transitions between periods, e.g. Saxon to Norman, early to high
medieval, late to post medieval
The paper deadline is 1 September and all submissions should be made
via email to Tehmina tehm@SOTON.AC.UK and Ben Jervis
bpj106@soton.ac.uk as well as submitted via the TAG 2008 online
submission form.
Shifting Frontiers CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline October 15, 2008
The Eighth Biennial
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
"Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity"
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
April 2-5, 2009
http://www.indiana.edu/~sf8/
The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Eighth Biennial
Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will be held at
Indiana University and will explore the theme "Shifting Cultural
Frontiers in Late Antiquity" [ca. 200 - 700 AD]. The confirmed
plenary speakers will be Professors Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi,
Oxford) and Seth Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary).
Beneath the familiar political and religious narrative of late
antiquity lies a cultural history both more complicated and more
fascinating. Late antiquity was a time of intense cultural
negotiation in which new religious communities and new populations
sifted through existing modes of cultural expression, adopting many
elements for themselves and turning others aside. This conference
seeks to understand how cultural transformation occurred amidst the
political and religious disruption that can seem characteristic of
late antiquity. To this end, we seek contributions that explore
three distinct areas of late antique cultural history: 1) the
interaction of "high" and "low" culture, 2) the impact of changing
and collapsing political centers on their peripheries, and 3) the
emergence of hybrid literary, artistic, and religious modes of
expression. Possible contributions to these areas may highlight the
permeable division between elite and vernacular culture, the ease
with which cultural memes were transmitted across geographic and
linguistic boundaries, the adaptability of established cultures to
new political and social realities, and the degree to which newcomers
were integrated into existing cultural communities.
As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary
forum for ancient historians, philologists, Orientalists, art
historians, archeologists, and specialists in the early Christian,
Jewish, and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European,
Middle- Eastern, and African evidence for cultural transformation in
late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the
conference theme. They should state both the problem being
discussed and the nature of the new insights or conclusions that
will be presented.
Abstracts of not more than 500 words for 20-minute presentations may
be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward Watts, shifting.frontiers.
8@gmail.com (Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine
Hall, Rm. 828, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103,
USA). The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15, 2008.
The submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to
attend the conference should the abstract be accepted.
The Eighth Biennial
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
"Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity"
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
April 2-5, 2009
http://www.indiana.edu/~sf8/
The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Eighth Biennial
Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will be held at
Indiana University and will explore the theme "Shifting Cultural
Frontiers in Late Antiquity" [ca. 200 - 700 AD]. The confirmed
plenary speakers will be Professors Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi,
Oxford) and Seth Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary).
Beneath the familiar political and religious narrative of late
antiquity lies a cultural history both more complicated and more
fascinating. Late antiquity was a time of intense cultural
negotiation in which new religious communities and new populations
sifted through existing modes of cultural expression, adopting many
elements for themselves and turning others aside. This conference
seeks to understand how cultural transformation occurred amidst the
political and religious disruption that can seem characteristic of
late antiquity. To this end, we seek contributions that explore
three distinct areas of late antique cultural history: 1) the
interaction of "high" and "low" culture, 2) the impact of changing
and collapsing political centers on their peripheries, and 3) the
emergence of hybrid literary, artistic, and religious modes of
expression. Possible contributions to these areas may highlight the
permeable division between elite and vernacular culture, the ease
with which cultural memes were transmitted across geographic and
linguistic boundaries, the adaptability of established cultures to
new political and social realities, and the degree to which newcomers
were integrated into existing cultural communities.
As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary
forum for ancient historians, philologists, Orientalists, art
historians, archeologists, and specialists in the early Christian,
Jewish, and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European,
Middle- Eastern, and African evidence for cultural transformation in
late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the
conference theme. They should state both the problem being
discussed and the nature of the new insights or conclusions that
will be presented.
Abstracts of not more than 500 words for 20-minute presentations may
be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward Watts, shifting.frontiers.
8@gmail.com (Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine
Hall, Rm. 828, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103,
USA). The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15, 2008.
The submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to
attend the conference should the abstract be accepted.
35TH ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES, 17–18 OCTOBER 2008
35TH ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES, 17–18 OCTOBER 2008
The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis
University and its journal, "Manuscripta," are pleased to announce
program and registration information for the Thirty-Fifth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 17–18 October 2008, to
be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. This annual
conference features papers on medieval and Renaissance manuscript
studies, including topics such as paleography, codicology,
illumination, book production, library history, reading & literacy,
textual criticism, and manuscript cataloguing.
Guest Speaker:
VIRGINIA BROWN
Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Conference sessions on the following themes:
- Maps and Diagrams of the Holy Land in Manuscripts: Graphic
Presentations of Sacred Space
- Glossing across the Medieval School Curriculum
- Paleography and Manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages
- Manuscripts and Memory
- Production and Transmission of Medieval Musical Manuscripts
- German Vernacular Manuscripts
- Otto Ege and the Fortunes of Fragments
Program, registration, and hotel information for the conference
available at http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/conference.
Established in 1953, the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library is
a research collection for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies
that holds on microfilm more than 37,000 Vatican Library manuscripts
comprising major portions of the Vatican’s Greek, Latin, and Western
European vernacular collections, as well as materials in Arabic,
Ethiopic, and Hebrew. Among its other collections, the Library
possesses over 52,000 color slides of manuscript illumination from
collections of the Vatican and other libraries; 2,500 manuscripts on
microfilm from non-Vatican libraries; the microfiche editions of the
Bibliotheca Palatina (consisting of more than 12,000 printed titles
from the Vatican’s Palatine collection) and the Cicognara Library
(consisting of more than 4,800 printed titles from the Vatican’s
Cicognara collection on art, architecture, and archaeology); and the
CD-ROM edition of the papal letter registers from the Archivio
Segreto Vaticano.
The Vatican Film Library maintains an extensive reference collection
for manuscript studies, including catalogues of Vatican Library
manuscripts (complete sets of the Vatican’s published catalogues and
unpublished inventories, and Studi e testi), as well as those of many
other libraries, in addition to numerous works on paleography,
codicology, illumination, and other disciplines to support the study
of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and their texts. Researchers
may also take advantage of the rare book and general collections of
the Saint Louis University Library, which are especially strong in
early and medieval church history, philosophy, and theology.
For further information, see http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl.
The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis
University and its journal, "Manuscripta," are pleased to announce
program and registration information for the Thirty-Fifth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 17–18 October 2008, to
be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. This annual
conference features papers on medieval and Renaissance manuscript
studies, including topics such as paleography, codicology,
illumination, book production, library history, reading & literacy,
textual criticism, and manuscript cataloguing.
Guest Speaker:
VIRGINIA BROWN
Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Conference sessions on the following themes:
- Maps and Diagrams of the Holy Land in Manuscripts: Graphic
Presentations of Sacred Space
- Glossing across the Medieval School Curriculum
- Paleography and Manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages
- Manuscripts and Memory
- Production and Transmission of Medieval Musical Manuscripts
- German Vernacular Manuscripts
- Otto Ege and the Fortunes of Fragments
Program, registration, and hotel information for the conference
available at http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/conference.
Established in 1953, the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library is
a research collection for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies
that holds on microfilm more than 37,000 Vatican Library manuscripts
comprising major portions of the Vatican’s Greek, Latin, and Western
European vernacular collections, as well as materials in Arabic,
Ethiopic, and Hebrew. Among its other collections, the Library
possesses over 52,000 color slides of manuscript illumination from
collections of the Vatican and other libraries; 2,500 manuscripts on
microfilm from non-Vatican libraries; the microfiche editions of the
Bibliotheca Palatina (consisting of more than 12,000 printed titles
from the Vatican’s Palatine collection) and the Cicognara Library
(consisting of more than 4,800 printed titles from the Vatican’s
Cicognara collection on art, architecture, and archaeology); and the
CD-ROM edition of the papal letter registers from the Archivio
Segreto Vaticano.
The Vatican Film Library maintains an extensive reference collection
for manuscript studies, including catalogues of Vatican Library
manuscripts (complete sets of the Vatican’s published catalogues and
unpublished inventories, and Studi e testi), as well as those of many
other libraries, in addition to numerous works on paleography,
codicology, illumination, and other disciplines to support the study
of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and their texts. Researchers
may also take advantage of the rare book and general collections of
the Saint Louis University Library, which are especially strong in
early and medieval church history, philosophy, and theology.
For further information, see http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl.
Rutgers Art Review CFP
Rutgers Art Review: Official Call for Papers.
Rutgers Art Review, a journal of graduate research in
art history, hereby invites all current graduate
students, as well as pre-professionals who have
completed their doctoral degrees within the past year,
to submit papers for its 26th edition.
Papers may address the full range of topics and
historical periods within the history of art and
architecture, material culture, art theory and
criticism, aesthetics, film and photography.
Interdisciplinary studies concerning art and
architecture written by students in other fields are
welcome.
To be considered for publication, submissions must
represent original contributions to existing
scholarship. We encourage submitters to ask their
advisor or other faculty member to review the paper
before submission.
Visit our website for more information:
http://rar.rutgers.edu.
Submissions
must be postmarked or e-mailed no later than September
1, 2008. Send two copies of your paper and a stamped,
self-addressed reply postcard to:
Benjamin Eldredge, Brenna Graham, & Kate Scott
Editors, Rutgers Art Review
Department of Art History
Voorhees Hall
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248.
Questions may be sent to the same address or e-mailed
to rutgersartreview@gmail.com.
Rutgers Art Review, a journal of graduate research in
art history, hereby invites all current graduate
students, as well as pre-professionals who have
completed their doctoral degrees within the past year,
to submit papers for its 26th edition.
Papers may address the full range of topics and
historical periods within the history of art and
architecture, material culture, art theory and
criticism, aesthetics, film and photography.
Interdisciplinary studies concerning art and
architecture written by students in other fields are
welcome.
To be considered for publication, submissions must
represent original contributions to existing
scholarship. We encourage submitters to ask their
advisor or other faculty member to review the paper
before submission.
Visit our website for more information:
http://rar.rutgers.edu.
Submissions
must be postmarked or e-mailed no later than September
1, 2008. Send two copies of your paper and a stamped,
self-addressed reply postcard to:
Benjamin Eldredge, Brenna Graham, & Kate Scott
Editors, Rutgers Art Review
Department of Art History
Voorhees Hall
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248.
Questions may be sent to the same address or e-mailed
to rutgersartreview@gmail.com.
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WELCOMING THE STRANGER IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
FULL PROGRAMME AVAILABLE
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/
AEMA's fifth annual conference will be held from 1-3 October 2008 at
the Sebel Conference Suites, Charlotte Street, Brisbane, hosted by
the Australian Catholic University.
The programme is now available on the web site, together with details
of plenary speakers, abstracts, registration and accommodation
details.
The period from late antiquity to the early middle ages was one of
great social movement, of both individuals and people groups. How
did people respond to demands made upon them for hospitality and
charity by pilgrims, casualties of war, refugees, orphans, widows,
those of other religions, the sick, the poor, itinerant monks and
nuns, travelling traders and others?
Invited speakers:
Dr Anna Silvas, University of New England
Dr Wendy Mayer, Washington DC
Conference convenor:
Dr Geoffrey Dunn g.dunn@mcauley.acu.edu.au
Centre for Early Christian Studies
Australian Catholic University
PO Box 456
Virginia
Queensland 4014
WELCOMING THE STRANGER IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
FULL PROGRAMME AVAILABLE
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/
AEMA's fifth annual conference will be held from 1-3 October 2008 at
the Sebel Conference Suites, Charlotte Street, Brisbane, hosted by
the Australian Catholic University.
The programme is now available on the web site, together with details
of plenary speakers, abstracts, registration and accommodation
details.
The period from late antiquity to the early middle ages was one of
great social movement, of both individuals and people groups. How
did people respond to demands made upon them for hospitality and
charity by pilgrims, casualties of war, refugees, orphans, widows,
those of other religions, the sick, the poor, itinerant monks and
nuns, travelling traders and others?
Invited speakers:
Dr Anna Silvas, University of New England
Dr Wendy Mayer, Washington DC
Conference convenor:
Dr Geoffrey Dunn g.dunn@mcauley.acu.edu.au
Centre for Early Christian Studies
Australian Catholic University
PO Box 456
Virginia
Queensland 4014
The recently established Ambrosiana Foundation
I think I posted this before, but worth posting again if I did:
http://ambrosianafoundation.org/
is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting scholarly
research at and public knowledge about the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in
Milan. A
membership society, the Foundation offers stipends to graduate,
postgraduate, and professional scholars to conduct research at the
Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (next deadline: October 15, 2008) and at
the Ambrosiana Archives at the Medieval Institute, University of Notre
Dame rolling deadline). It also sponsors conference panels, scholarly
lectures, exhibitions, and other events in the United States. For
further information about the Foundation,
its fellowship programs, or other activities, please contact Anna Beth
Rousakis at 718-434-1660 or send an e-mail to
nfo@ambrosianafoundation.org.
I think I posted this before, but worth posting again if I did:
http://ambrosianafoundation.org/
is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting scholarly
research at and public knowledge about the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in
Milan. A
membership society, the Foundation offers stipends to graduate,
postgraduate, and professional scholars to conduct research at the
Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (next deadline: October 15, 2008) and at
the Ambrosiana Archives at the Medieval Institute, University of Notre
Dame rolling deadline). It also sponsors conference panels, scholarly
lectures, exhibitions, and other events in the United States. For
further information about the Foundation,
its fellowship programs, or other activities, please contact Anna Beth
Rousakis at 718-434-1660 or send an e-mail to
nfo@ambrosianafoundation.org.
EVENTS IN AND AROUND BOSTON
EVENTS IN AND AROUND BOSTON
Wednesday - Saturday, 10-13 September: Cultural Reformations from Lollardy to
the English Civil War, Bloomfield Conference at Harvard University. For
details, see below under "CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS."
** Monday, 29 September, 4:15 p.m.: Margot Fassler (Yale Divinity
School): "Haec
est Regina: The Virgin of Chartres and West Facade." Harvard
University, Barker
Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center
Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 29 September, 5:30-7:00 p.m.: Medieval Studies Fall Reception,
Harvard University. The Committee on Medieval Studies cordially invites all
medievalists to its time-honored Fall Reception. Undergraduates, graduate
students, faculty, Visiting Scholars and Alumni(ae) convene at the
beginning of
each term to renew old acquaintances, make new ones, and find out about the
marvelous community of Boston-area scholars working on and interested in the
Middle Ages in its broadest sense, from the Roman empire to the early modern
age, East, West and In Between. Come enjoy good cheer, light fare and
excellent
company in the lovely surroundings of the Thompson Room. (The reception will
follow the first Medieval Studies Seminar of the term, at 4:15 p.m., in the
Thompson Room.) Harvard University, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA.
* Thursday, 9 October, 5:00 p.m.: Professor Damian McManus (School of Irish &
Celtic Languages, Trinity College, Dublin): “Good-Looking and
Irresistible: The Irish Hero from Early Saga to Classical Poetry.”
Harvard University, Faculty Club Library, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The John V. Kelleher Lecture, presented by the Harvard
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.
Friday - Sunday, 10-12 October: Twenty-eighth Annual Harvard Celtic
Colloquium,
Harvard University. For further details, see below under "CONFERENCES
AND CALLS
FOR PAPERS."
* Friday - Saturday, 17-18 October, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Friday, 10:00
a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Saturday. The Boston Crucifix from the Fuld Collection: A Two-Day
Colloquium at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. More information is available at
www.crucifixcolloquium.info; RSVP by October 5 to
registration@crucifixcolloquium.info.
Monday, 27 October, 4:15 p.m.: Bernhard Jussen (Johan Wolfgang
Goethe-University
of Frankfurt): "Between Lexicometrics and Hermeneutics, or: was there a
Carolingian State?" Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 10 November, 4:15 p.m.: Aviad Kleinberg (Tel Aviv University): "Useful
Trespasses" Harvard University, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in
collaboration with
Harvard University Press.
Monday, 24 November, 4:15 p.m.: Baber Johansen (Professor of Islamic Religious
Studies, Harvard Divinity School): Harvard University, Barker Center,
Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 8 December, 4:15 p.m.: Vincent Pollina (Tufts University) Harvard
University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 15 December, 4:15 p.m.: Emily Wood (Department of History, Harvard
University): "Royal Influence Over Papal Judicial Delegation in
Twelfth-century
France" Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 2 February 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Chrisopher de Hamel (Corpus
Cristi College,
Cambridge, UK): Harvard University, Lamont Library, Lamont Room,
Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in collaboration with the Houghton
Library, Harvard University.
Monday, 23 February 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Bernd Nicolai (University of Bern,
Switzerland): Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 9 March 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Mary A. and Richard H. Rouse (UCLA): Harvard
University, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 20 April 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Amy Hollwood (Harvard Divinity School):
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
* Thursday - Sunday, 25-28 June, 2009: Merchants and Missionaries: Trade and
Religion in World History. 18th annual World History Association conference:
Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts. For further details, see
below under
"CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS."
CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
July to November 2008: For a listing of upcoming "convocatorias" and other
Spanish-language gatherings of interest to medievalists (most are located in
Spain or Latin America), visit
http://medievalismo.org/congresos/congresos.htm.
* 1 September 2008: Rutgers Art Review: Official Call for Papers. Rutgers Art
Review, a journal of graduate research in art history, hereby invites all
current graduate students, as well as pre-professionals who have completed
their doctoral degrees within the past year, to submit papers for its 26th
edition. Papers may address the full range of topics and historical periods
within the history of art and architecture, material culture, art theory and
criticism, aesthetics, film and photography. Interdisciplinary studies
concerning art and architecture written by students in other fields are
welcome. To be considered for publication, submissions must represent original
contributions to existing scholarship. We encourage submitters to ask their
advisor or other faculty member to review the paper before submission. Visit
our website for more information: http://rar.rutgers.edu. Submissions must be
postmarked or e-mailed no later than September 1, 2008. Send two
copies of your
paper and a stamped, self-addressed reply postcard to: Benjamin
Eldredge, Brenna
Graham, & Kate Scott, Editors, Rutgers Art Review, Department of Art History,
Voorhees Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248. Questions may
be sent to the same address or e-mailed to rutgersartreview@gmail.com.
2-4 September 2008: International Congress: Peter of Auvergne.
University Master
of the 13th Century. University of Fribourg, Switzerland. This is the first
congress entirely devoted to Peter of Auvergne, one of the greatest masters of
the last quarter of the 13th Century in the Paris University. The congress is
intended to provide studies on the broad range of subjects treated by Peter,
from logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, politics and ethics, to theology.
In addition, some papers deal with his life and career, against the background
of the condemnation of 1277, as well as his doctrinal relationships with other
contemporaneous authors, such as Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, Giles of
Rome and Henry of Ghent. For further information, please visit
http://www.paleography.unifr.ch/congress.htm or contact Prof. Dr. Christoph
Flüeler, Medieval Institute, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg (email
christophe.flueler@unifr.ch).
10-13 September 2008: Cultural Reformations from Lollardy to the English Civil
War, Bloomfield Conference at Harvard University. The deepest
periodic division
in English and other national literary histories has been between the Medieval
and the Early Modern, not least because the cultural investments in
maintaining
that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious
identity and freedom; of individual liberties; of the history of education and
scholarship; of reading or the history of the book; of the very possibility of
persuasive historical consciousness itself: each of these narratives (and many
more) is motivated by positing a powerful break around 1500. An
emergent field,
which might be called Trans Reformation Studies, has started to instigate
dialogue across this boundary. "Cultural Reformations: from Lollardy to the
English Civil War" will give voice and focus to this emergent field.
We welcome
you to participate in this extraordinary gathering. The schedule and
registration form are attached. Please register as early as possible.
Registration is limited to 60 participants in all. Registration payment by
Wednesday 4 September please; places will be distributed on a first come/first
served basis.
* 18, 23, and 25 September 2008: Jonathan Riley-Smith (Dixie
Professor Emeritus
of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge): "The Templars and the
Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land, 1120-1291": The 2008
Conway Lectures, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
Indiana. September 18, 5:00 p.m.: "Ethos" (a reception will follow the
lecture); September 23, 5:00 p.m.: "Community"; September 25, 5:00 p.m.:
"Governance". All lectures will be held at the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium.
Prof. Jonathan Riley-Smith is one of the world's most influential Crusades
historians. He has written about the political and constitutional history of
the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the theory of crusading, the role of popes as
preachers, and the responses of lay men and women to ideas of crusading.
Recently, he has returned to his first focus of study, the history of the
military orders. Prof. Riley-Smith is a founding member of the Society for the
Study of the Crusades in the Latin East and served as its president from 1987
to 1995. He also is the author of the popular classroom texbook on
the crusades
titled, The Crusades: A History. His scholarly publications include
The Knights
of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus (1967), The Feudal Nobility and
the Kingdom
of Jerusalem (1973), The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
(1986), and The
First Crusaders (1997). For more information, call 574-631-8304; e-mail:
medinst@nd.edu.
* 8-10 October 2008: Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious
Orders and at the Papal Court: XVth Colloquium of the Société Internationale
pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale: Medieval Institute, University of
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The Colloquium, organized by Kent Emery, Jr.
(Notre Dame) assisted by William J. Courtenay (Madison, Wisconsin), will focus
on the particularities of the teaching of philosophy and theology in
the studia
of the mendicant (Augustinian, Carmelite, Dominican, Franciscan) and monastic
(Benedictine, Cistercian) orders and at the theological schools at the Papal
Court (notably at Avignon) as distinct from instruction in the
faculties of the
university proper. Marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of
the Society,
the Colloquium is generously supported by an Annual Henkels Lecture grant from
the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts of the College of Arts and
Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Immediately following the conference,
on Saturday, October 11, the governing Bureau of the SIEPM will hold
its annual
business meeting. For the program and registration details, go to
http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/lectures/SIEPMConference.html. Address other
questions to: Roberta Baranowski at rbaranow@nd.edu.
** 10-12 October 2008: The 28th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Harvard
University, Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The Colloquium features presentations on topics which relate
directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and literatures in any phase;
cultural, historical or social science topics; theoretical perspectives, etc.)
or to interdisciplinary research with a Celtic focus. Attendance is
free. There
will be a short discussion period after each paper. Preceding the
conference on
the evening of October 9th, at 5:00, is the John V. Kelleher Lecture (Harvard
Faculty Club Library) presented by the Harvard Celtic Department, by Professor
Damian McManus of the School of Irish & Celtic Languages, Trinity College,
Dublin, speaking on "Good-Looking and Irresistible: The Irish Hero from Early
Saga to Classical Poetry." Further information available at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hcc/.
10-12 October 2008: Meister Eckhart and Modern Thought: The Eckhart Society
Twenty-First Annual Conference. All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, St.
Albans, Hertfordshire. Speakers: Stephen Bullivant (Christ Church, Oxford);
Nancy Hawkins IHM (St. Bernard's School of Theology & Ministry,
Rochester, NY);
Professor Markus Vinzent (University of Birmingham); Dr. Maire Aine
Ni Mhainnin
(National University of Ireland, Galway). Arrivals from 4 pm Friday, 10
October. Workshops and Society AGM the afternoon of Saturday, 11 October. In
the evening there will be a concert. The conference will end Sunday afternoon.
Full Residential fee £250; Non-Residential fee (includes meals) £155.
A deposit
of £50 is payable in advance and the balance is due before 10 October 2008.
For further information and a Registration Form contact: The Treasurer,
The Eckhart Society, Holly Tree Cottage, 2 New Road, Cookham,
Maidenhead, Bucks
SL6 9HB. Telephone: +44 (0) 1628 810240. E mail: cgg@cgglover.com. Web site:
http://www.eckhartsociety.org/events/eckhart-society-annual-conference.
* 17-18 October 2008: The Boston Crucifix from the Fuld Collection: A Two-Day
Colloquium at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. More information
is available at www.crucifixcolloquium.info; registration is required
- RSVP by
October 5 to registration@crucifixcolloquium.info.
28-29 October 2008: Translating the Middle Ages: An International Conference
sponsored by the Programs in Medieval Studies and Center for Translation
Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Papers will address the
theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages, including textual and
visual translation. Who translates what, how and why, and to what effect? The
scope is interpreted broadly to include Europe, Iceland, Byzantium and the
Islamic Mediterranean. Featured speakers include Christopher Kleinhenz, Brian
Merrilees, Rita Copeland, Jeanette Beer, Lars Boje Mortensen, Catherine Batt,
and Aden Kumler. An evening event will focus on translations of medieval texts
and culture by two renowned contemporary authors who will read from
and discuss
their work: W.S. Merwin, poet and translator of Dante's Purgatorio, and former
U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante's Inferno. Send
inquiries
to: Karen Fresco, Director, Program in Medieval Studies, kfresco@uiuc.edu.
31 October-1 November 2008: Texts and Contexts: A conference at the Ohio State
University, sponsored by The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical
Studies. Call for Papers. The conference seeks to investigate the textual
traditions of various texts and genres, including texts in classical Latin,
mediaeval Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and the vernaculars. Preference
will be given to those abstracts which deal with newly discovered texts and
their manuscript settings, or which present new perspectives on established
textual traditions. We encourage graduate students and newly established
scholars to submit their work. Plenary speaker: Keith Busby, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Please send abstracts to Professor Frank T. Coulson,
Director of Palaeography, 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH
43210 or by email at epig@osu.edu. Deadline for submission: August 15, 2008.
14-15 November 2008: Global Encounters: Legacies of Exchange and Conflict
(1000-1700). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The new
Program in MEMS
(Medieval and Early Modern Studies) at UNC, Chapel Hill, will host an
interdisciplinary conference on topics of cultural mediation, interchange, and
conflict in the premodern world. Areas of geographical concentration will
include Europe, the Atlantic world, the Mediterranean, the Middle
East, Africa,
and Asia. Key-note addresses will be offered by Professor Karen
Ordahl Kupperman
(Silver Professor of History, New York University), and by Professor Alfred J.
Andrea (Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vermont). For further
information visit http://mems.unc.edu/global-encounters/, or direct further
questions to Professor Brett Whalen (bwhalen@email.unc.edu). This
conference is
supported by: the College of Arts and Sciences; the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation;
the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UNC; Associate Provost for
International Affairs, UNC Chapel Hill; the Center for Medieval and
Renaissance
Studies, Duke University.
19-21 November 2008: "La creación de la imagen en la Edad Media: de
la herencia
a la renovación" ["The creation of the image in the Middle Ages: from heritage
to renewal"]. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. For more information,
please visit
http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/d437/index.php?tp=II%20Jornadas%20Complutenses%20de%20Arte%20Medieval&a=invest&d=14345.php
9-12 January 2009: 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts &
Humanities: Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions. Sponsored by: University of
Louisville, Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods; The Baylor Journal of
Theatre and Performance. The 7th Annual Hawaii International
Conference on Arts
& Humanities will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort
& Spa, in
Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for
academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to
interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.
Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Submission
deadline: August 22, 2008. For more information: http://www.hichumanities.org.
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org. For online submission, and for
detailed information: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm.
* 2-5 April 2009: Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity [ca. 200 - 700
AD]: Eighth Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity.
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The confirmed plenary speakers are
Professors Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi, Oxford) and Seth Schwartz (Jewish
Theological Seminary). Call for papers: Beneath the familiar political and
religious narrative of late antiquity lies a cultural history both more
complicated and more fascinating. Late antiquity was a time of
intense cultural
negotiation in which new religious communities and new populations sifted
through existing modes of cultural expression, adopting many elements for
themselves and turning others aside. This conference seeks to understand how
cultural transformation occurred amidst the political and religious disruption
that can seem characteristic of late antiquity. To this end, we seek
contributions that explore three distinct areas of late antique cultural
history: 1) the interaction of "high" and "low" culture, 2) the impact of
changing and collapsing political centers on their peripheries, and 3) the
emergence of hybrid literary, artistic, and religious modes of expression.
Possible contributions to these areas may highlight the permeable division
between elite and vernacular culture, the ease with which cultural memes were
transmitted across geographic and linguistic boundaries, the adaptability of
established
cultures to new political and social realities, and the degree to which
newcomers were integrated into existing cultural communities. As in the past,
the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for ancient historians,
philologists, Orientalists, art historians, archeologists, and specialists in
the early Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of
European, Middle-Eastern, and African evidence for cultural transformation in
late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference theme.
They should state both the problem being discussed and the nature of the new
insights or conclusions that will be presented. Abstracts of not more than 500
words for 20-minute presentations may be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward
Watts, shifting.frontiers.8@gmail.com (Department of History, Indiana
University, Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington,
IN 47405-7103, USA). The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15,
2008. The submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to attend the
conference should the abstract be accepted. For further information see
http://www.indiana.edu/~sf8/index.php.
* 3-4 April 2009: "The City in Medieval Life and Culture" is the theme of the
2009 (36th Annual) Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. The University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee. Call for papers: proposals are invited for individual
papers or sessions. The program will include 20-minute papers from any
discipline; papers may be related to the theme in any way. Lecturers include
John Najemy (Cornell University) and Pamela King (University of Bristol).
Please send abstract(s) of approx. 250 words with brief c.v.(s) to
sridyard@sewanee.edu no later than 1 October 2008. Earlier submissions are
encouraged. Papers accepted for the Colloquium must be received in their final
form no later than 27 Feb. 2009, in order to reach their commentators in good
time. For further details of the Colloquium and the SMC Prize for
best paper by
a graduate student or junior scholar, please see
http://www.sewanee.edu/medieval/main.html.
22-25 April 2009: Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy: An International
Conference to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the death of Saint
Anselm of
Canterbury (1033-1109). University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Organised by the
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK and the
Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Call for papers: The
conference organisers welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of Anselm's
life and thought, as well as their subsequent investigation and
interpretation.
Proposed paper titles and abstract of 300 words are due in mid-October 2008.
Full details are available at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/cmrs/conferences/anselm2009.
For more information, please contact Dr Giles Gasper, Durham University, at:
g.e.m.gasper@dur.ac.uk.
* 25-28 June 2009: Merchants and Missionaries: Trade and Religion in World
History: 18th annual World History Association conference: Salem
State College,
Salem, Massachusetts. In honor of Salem’s rich history of overseas
involvement, the conference’s theme will be “Merchants and
Missionaries: Trade and Religion in World History.” Proposals on all
aspects of trade, religion, and related issues in world history are invited.
Further information concerning the 2009 conference, including proposal
submission forms, accommodations and registration will be posted on the WHA
website, www.thewha.org, later this summer.
Wednesday - Saturday, 10-13 September: Cultural Reformations from Lollardy to
the English Civil War, Bloomfield Conference at Harvard University. For
details, see below under "CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS."
** Monday, 29 September, 4:15 p.m.: Margot Fassler (Yale Divinity
School): "Haec
est Regina: The Virgin of Chartres and West Facade." Harvard
University, Barker
Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center
Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 29 September, 5:30-7:00 p.m.: Medieval Studies Fall Reception,
Harvard University. The Committee on Medieval Studies cordially invites all
medievalists to its time-honored Fall Reception. Undergraduates, graduate
students, faculty, Visiting Scholars and Alumni(ae) convene at the
beginning of
each term to renew old acquaintances, make new ones, and find out about the
marvelous community of Boston-area scholars working on and interested in the
Middle Ages in its broadest sense, from the Roman empire to the early modern
age, East, West and In Between. Come enjoy good cheer, light fare and
excellent
company in the lovely surroundings of the Thompson Room. (The reception will
follow the first Medieval Studies Seminar of the term, at 4:15 p.m., in the
Thompson Room.) Harvard University, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA.
* Thursday, 9 October, 5:00 p.m.: Professor Damian McManus (School of Irish &
Celtic Languages, Trinity College, Dublin): “Good-Looking and
Irresistible: The Irish Hero from Early Saga to Classical Poetry.”
Harvard University, Faculty Club Library, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The John V. Kelleher Lecture, presented by the Harvard
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.
Friday - Sunday, 10-12 October: Twenty-eighth Annual Harvard Celtic
Colloquium,
Harvard University. For further details, see below under "CONFERENCES
AND CALLS
FOR PAPERS."
* Friday - Saturday, 17-18 October, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Friday, 10:00
a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Saturday. The Boston Crucifix from the Fuld Collection: A Two-Day
Colloquium at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. More information is available at
www.crucifixcolloquium.info; RSVP by October 5 to
registration@crucifixcolloquium.info.
Monday, 27 October, 4:15 p.m.: Bernhard Jussen (Johan Wolfgang
Goethe-University
of Frankfurt): "Between Lexicometrics and Hermeneutics, or: was there a
Carolingian State?" Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 10 November, 4:15 p.m.: Aviad Kleinberg (Tel Aviv University): "Useful
Trespasses" Harvard University, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in
collaboration with
Harvard University Press.
Monday, 24 November, 4:15 p.m.: Baber Johansen (Professor of Islamic Religious
Studies, Harvard Divinity School): Harvard University, Barker Center,
Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 8 December, 4:15 p.m.: Vincent Pollina (Tufts University) Harvard
University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 15 December, 4:15 p.m.: Emily Wood (Department of History, Harvard
University): "Royal Influence Over Papal Judicial Delegation in
Twelfth-century
France" Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 2 February 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Chrisopher de Hamel (Corpus
Cristi College,
Cambridge, UK): Harvard University, Lamont Library, Lamont Room,
Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in collaboration with the Houghton
Library, Harvard University.
Monday, 23 February 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Bernd Nicolai (University of Bern,
Switzerland): Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 9 March 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Mary A. and Richard H. Rouse (UCLA): Harvard
University, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
Monday, 20 April 2009, 4:15 p.m.: Amy Hollwood (Harvard Divinity School):
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
* Thursday - Sunday, 25-28 June, 2009: Merchants and Missionaries: Trade and
Religion in World History. 18th annual World History Association conference:
Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts. For further details, see
below under
"CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS."
CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
July to November 2008: For a listing of upcoming "convocatorias" and other
Spanish-language gatherings of interest to medievalists (most are located in
Spain or Latin America), visit
http://medievalismo.org/congresos/congresos.htm.
* 1 September 2008: Rutgers Art Review: Official Call for Papers. Rutgers Art
Review, a journal of graduate research in art history, hereby invites all
current graduate students, as well as pre-professionals who have completed
their doctoral degrees within the past year, to submit papers for its 26th
edition. Papers may address the full range of topics and historical periods
within the history of art and architecture, material culture, art theory and
criticism, aesthetics, film and photography. Interdisciplinary studies
concerning art and architecture written by students in other fields are
welcome. To be considered for publication, submissions must represent original
contributions to existing scholarship. We encourage submitters to ask their
advisor or other faculty member to review the paper before submission. Visit
our website for more information: http://rar.rutgers.edu. Submissions must be
postmarked or e-mailed no later than September 1, 2008. Send two
copies of your
paper and a stamped, self-addressed reply postcard to: Benjamin
Eldredge, Brenna
Graham, & Kate Scott, Editors, Rutgers Art Review, Department of Art History,
Voorhees Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248. Questions may
be sent to the same address or e-mailed to rutgersartreview@gmail.com.
2-4 September 2008: International Congress: Peter of Auvergne.
University Master
of the 13th Century. University of Fribourg, Switzerland. This is the first
congress entirely devoted to Peter of Auvergne, one of the greatest masters of
the last quarter of the 13th Century in the Paris University. The congress is
intended to provide studies on the broad range of subjects treated by Peter,
from logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, politics and ethics, to theology.
In addition, some papers deal with his life and career, against the background
of the condemnation of 1277, as well as his doctrinal relationships with other
contemporaneous authors, such as Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, Giles of
Rome and Henry of Ghent. For further information, please visit
http://www.paleography.unifr.ch/congress.htm or contact Prof. Dr. Christoph
Flüeler, Medieval Institute, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg (email
christophe.flueler@unifr.ch).
10-13 September 2008: Cultural Reformations from Lollardy to the English Civil
War, Bloomfield Conference at Harvard University. The deepest
periodic division
in English and other national literary histories has been between the Medieval
and the Early Modern, not least because the cultural investments in
maintaining
that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious
identity and freedom; of individual liberties; of the history of education and
scholarship; of reading or the history of the book; of the very possibility of
persuasive historical consciousness itself: each of these narratives (and many
more) is motivated by positing a powerful break around 1500. An
emergent field,
which might be called Trans Reformation Studies, has started to instigate
dialogue across this boundary. "Cultural Reformations: from Lollardy to the
English Civil War" will give voice and focus to this emergent field.
We welcome
you to participate in this extraordinary gathering. The schedule and
registration form are attached. Please register as early as possible.
Registration is limited to 60 participants in all. Registration payment by
Wednesday 4 September please; places will be distributed on a first come/first
served basis.
* 18, 23, and 25 September 2008: Jonathan Riley-Smith (Dixie
Professor Emeritus
of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge): "The Templars and the
Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land, 1120-1291": The 2008
Conway Lectures, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
Indiana. September 18, 5:00 p.m.: "Ethos" (a reception will follow the
lecture); September 23, 5:00 p.m.: "Community"; September 25, 5:00 p.m.:
"Governance". All lectures will be held at the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium.
Prof. Jonathan Riley-Smith is one of the world's most influential Crusades
historians. He has written about the political and constitutional history of
the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the theory of crusading, the role of popes as
preachers, and the responses of lay men and women to ideas of crusading.
Recently, he has returned to his first focus of study, the history of the
military orders. Prof. Riley-Smith is a founding member of the Society for the
Study of the Crusades in the Latin East and served as its president from 1987
to 1995. He also is the author of the popular classroom texbook on
the crusades
titled, The Crusades: A History. His scholarly publications include
The Knights
of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus (1967), The Feudal Nobility and
the Kingdom
of Jerusalem (1973), The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
(1986), and The
First Crusaders (1997). For more information, call 574-631-8304; e-mail:
medinst@nd.edu.
* 8-10 October 2008: Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious
Orders and at the Papal Court: XVth Colloquium of the Société Internationale
pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale: Medieval Institute, University of
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The Colloquium, organized by Kent Emery, Jr.
(Notre Dame) assisted by William J. Courtenay (Madison, Wisconsin), will focus
on the particularities of the teaching of philosophy and theology in
the studia
of the mendicant (Augustinian, Carmelite, Dominican, Franciscan) and monastic
(Benedictine, Cistercian) orders and at the theological schools at the Papal
Court (notably at Avignon) as distinct from instruction in the
faculties of the
university proper. Marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of
the Society,
the Colloquium is generously supported by an Annual Henkels Lecture grant from
the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts of the College of Arts and
Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Immediately following the conference,
on Saturday, October 11, the governing Bureau of the SIEPM will hold
its annual
business meeting. For the program and registration details, go to
http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/lectures/SIEPMConference.html. Address other
questions to: Roberta Baranowski at rbaranow@nd.edu.
** 10-12 October 2008: The 28th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Harvard
University, Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The Colloquium features presentations on topics which relate
directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and literatures in any phase;
cultural, historical or social science topics; theoretical perspectives, etc.)
or to interdisciplinary research with a Celtic focus. Attendance is
free. There
will be a short discussion period after each paper. Preceding the
conference on
the evening of October 9th, at 5:00, is the John V. Kelleher Lecture (Harvard
Faculty Club Library) presented by the Harvard Celtic Department, by Professor
Damian McManus of the School of Irish & Celtic Languages, Trinity College,
Dublin, speaking on "Good-Looking and Irresistible: The Irish Hero from Early
Saga to Classical Poetry." Further information available at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hcc/.
10-12 October 2008: Meister Eckhart and Modern Thought: The Eckhart Society
Twenty-First Annual Conference. All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, St.
Albans, Hertfordshire. Speakers: Stephen Bullivant (Christ Church, Oxford);
Nancy Hawkins IHM (St. Bernard's School of Theology & Ministry,
Rochester, NY);
Professor Markus Vinzent (University of Birmingham); Dr. Maire Aine
Ni Mhainnin
(National University of Ireland, Galway). Arrivals from 4 pm Friday, 10
October. Workshops and Society AGM the afternoon of Saturday, 11 October. In
the evening there will be a concert. The conference will end Sunday afternoon.
Full Residential fee £250; Non-Residential fee (includes meals) £155.
A deposit
of £50 is payable in advance and the balance is due before 10 October 2008.
For further information and a Registration Form contact: The Treasurer,
The Eckhart Society, Holly Tree Cottage, 2 New Road, Cookham,
Maidenhead, Bucks
SL6 9HB. Telephone: +44 (0) 1628 810240. E mail: cgg@cgglover.com. Web site:
http://www.eckhartsociety.org/events/eckhart-society-annual-conference.
* 17-18 October 2008: The Boston Crucifix from the Fuld Collection: A Two-Day
Colloquium at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. More information
is available at www.crucifixcolloquium.info; registration is required
- RSVP by
October 5 to registration@crucifixcolloquium.info.
28-29 October 2008: Translating the Middle Ages: An International Conference
sponsored by the Programs in Medieval Studies and Center for Translation
Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Papers will address the
theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages, including textual and
visual translation. Who translates what, how and why, and to what effect? The
scope is interpreted broadly to include Europe, Iceland, Byzantium and the
Islamic Mediterranean. Featured speakers include Christopher Kleinhenz, Brian
Merrilees, Rita Copeland, Jeanette Beer, Lars Boje Mortensen, Catherine Batt,
and Aden Kumler. An evening event will focus on translations of medieval texts
and culture by two renowned contemporary authors who will read from
and discuss
their work: W.S. Merwin, poet and translator of Dante's Purgatorio, and former
U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante's Inferno. Send
inquiries
to: Karen Fresco, Director, Program in Medieval Studies, kfresco@uiuc.edu.
31 October-1 November 2008: Texts and Contexts: A conference at the Ohio State
University, sponsored by The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical
Studies. Call for Papers. The conference seeks to investigate the textual
traditions of various texts and genres, including texts in classical Latin,
mediaeval Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and the vernaculars. Preference
will be given to those abstracts which deal with newly discovered texts and
their manuscript settings, or which present new perspectives on established
textual traditions. We encourage graduate students and newly established
scholars to submit their work. Plenary speaker: Keith Busby, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Please send abstracts to Professor Frank T. Coulson,
Director of Palaeography, 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH
43210 or by email at epig@osu.edu. Deadline for submission: August 15, 2008.
14-15 November 2008: Global Encounters: Legacies of Exchange and Conflict
(1000-1700). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The new
Program in MEMS
(Medieval and Early Modern Studies) at UNC, Chapel Hill, will host an
interdisciplinary conference on topics of cultural mediation, interchange, and
conflict in the premodern world. Areas of geographical concentration will
include Europe, the Atlantic world, the Mediterranean, the Middle
East, Africa,
and Asia. Key-note addresses will be offered by Professor Karen
Ordahl Kupperman
(Silver Professor of History, New York University), and by Professor Alfred J.
Andrea (Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vermont). For further
information visit http://mems.unc.edu/global-encounters/, or direct further
questions to Professor Brett Whalen (bwhalen@email.unc.edu). This
conference is
supported by: the College of Arts and Sciences; the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation;
the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UNC; Associate Provost for
International Affairs, UNC Chapel Hill; the Center for Medieval and
Renaissance
Studies, Duke University.
19-21 November 2008: "La creación de la imagen en la Edad Media: de
la herencia
a la renovación" ["The creation of the image in the Middle Ages: from heritage
to renewal"]. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. For more information,
please visit
http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/d437/index.php?tp=II%20Jornadas%20Complutenses%20de%20Arte%20Medieval&a=invest&d=14345.php
9-12 January 2009: 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts &
Humanities: Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions. Sponsored by: University of
Louisville, Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods; The Baylor Journal of
Theatre and Performance. The 7th Annual Hawaii International
Conference on Arts
& Humanities will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort
& Spa, in
Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for
academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to
interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.
Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Submission
deadline: August 22, 2008. For more information: http://www.hichumanities.org.
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org. For online submission, and for
detailed information: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm.
* 2-5 April 2009: Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity [ca. 200 - 700
AD]: Eighth Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity.
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The confirmed plenary speakers are
Professors Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi, Oxford) and Seth Schwartz (Jewish
Theological Seminary). Call for papers: Beneath the familiar political and
religious narrative of late antiquity lies a cultural history both more
complicated and more fascinating. Late antiquity was a time of
intense cultural
negotiation in which new religious communities and new populations sifted
through existing modes of cultural expression, adopting many elements for
themselves and turning others aside. This conference seeks to understand how
cultural transformation occurred amidst the political and religious disruption
that can seem characteristic of late antiquity. To this end, we seek
contributions that explore three distinct areas of late antique cultural
history: 1) the interaction of "high" and "low" culture, 2) the impact of
changing and collapsing political centers on their peripheries, and 3) the
emergence of hybrid literary, artistic, and religious modes of expression.
Possible contributions to these areas may highlight the permeable division
between elite and vernacular culture, the ease with which cultural memes were
transmitted across geographic and linguistic boundaries, the adaptability of
established
cultures to new political and social realities, and the degree to which
newcomers were integrated into existing cultural communities. As in the past,
the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for ancient historians,
philologists, Orientalists, art historians, archeologists, and specialists in
the early Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of
European, Middle-Eastern, and African evidence for cultural transformation in
late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference theme.
They should state both the problem being discussed and the nature of the new
insights or conclusions that will be presented. Abstracts of not more than 500
words for 20-minute presentations may be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward
Watts, shifting.frontiers.8@gmail.com (Department of History, Indiana
University, Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington,
IN 47405-7103, USA). The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15,
2008. The submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to attend the
conference should the abstract be accepted. For further information see
http://www.indiana.edu/~sf8/index.php.
* 3-4 April 2009: "The City in Medieval Life and Culture" is the theme of the
2009 (36th Annual) Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. The University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee. Call for papers: proposals are invited for individual
papers or sessions. The program will include 20-minute papers from any
discipline; papers may be related to the theme in any way. Lecturers include
John Najemy (Cornell University) and Pamela King (University of Bristol).
Please send abstract(s) of approx. 250 words with brief c.v.(s) to
sridyard@sewanee.edu no later than 1 October 2008. Earlier submissions are
encouraged. Papers accepted for the Colloquium must be received in their final
form no later than 27 Feb. 2009, in order to reach their commentators in good
time. For further details of the Colloquium and the SMC Prize for
best paper by
a graduate student or junior scholar, please see
http://www.sewanee.edu/medieval/main.html.
22-25 April 2009: Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy: An International
Conference to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the death of Saint
Anselm of
Canterbury (1033-1109). University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Organised by the
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK and the
Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Call for papers: The
conference organisers welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of Anselm's
life and thought, as well as their subsequent investigation and
interpretation.
Proposed paper titles and abstract of 300 words are due in mid-October 2008.
Full details are available at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/cmrs/conferences/anselm2009.
For more information, please contact Dr Giles Gasper, Durham University, at:
g.e.m.gasper@dur.ac.uk.
* 25-28 June 2009: Merchants and Missionaries: Trade and Religion in World
History: 18th annual World History Association conference: Salem
State College,
Salem, Massachusetts. In honor of Salem’s rich history of overseas
involvement, the conference’s theme will be “Merchants and
Missionaries: Trade and Religion in World History.” Proposals on all
aspects of trade, religion, and related issues in world history are invited.
Further information concerning the 2009 conference, including proposal
submission forms, accommodations and registration will be posted on the WHA
website, www.thewha.org, later this summer.
Friday, August 15, 2008
The theme for the 2009 Leeds is Heresy and Orthodocy. See the Call for
Pages page:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2009_call.html
I am organizing sessions on Political Use of the Accusation of Heresy.
Thus far I have 5 proposed papers, most concerned with Marsilius of
Padua, William of Ockham and their later place in political debate.
There still is room for more papers, and I need a volunteer to chair the
session in which I hope to give a paper. Please contact me soon. The
deadline is at the end of this month. A working title is necessary, and
an abstract would help me put things into order.
Pages page:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2009_call.html
I am organizing sessions on Political Use of the Accusation of Heresy.
Thus far I have 5 proposed papers, most concerned with Marsilius of
Padua, William of Ockham and their later place in political debate.
There still is room for more papers, and I need a volunteer to chair the
session in which I hope to give a paper. Please contact me soon. The
deadline is at the end of this month. A working title is necessary, and
an abstract would help me put things into order.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008
Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008
Friday 15th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street,
London
Ioannis Doukas (KCL)
Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships
ALL WELCOME
In this paper we shall explore the possibilities opened in the digital
scholarship of Ancient Greek literature. We shall focus on the Homeric
Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.484-759), as it is a text that calls for a
series of different scholarly approaches, and try to identify and
present the use of the appropriate digital tools to accomplish these
approaches.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or
Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html
Friday 15th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street,
London
Ioannis Doukas (KCL)
Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships
ALL WELCOME
In this paper we shall explore the possibilities opened in the digital
scholarship of Ancient Greek literature. We shall focus on the Homeric
Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.484-759), as it is a text that calls for a
series of different scholarly approaches, and try to identify and
present the use of the appropriate digital tools to accomplish these
approaches.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or
Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
CFP: Margins of Error
CFP: 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo May 7-10, 2009
Margins of Error: On the Self-Correcting Medieval Manuscript
Sponsored by: The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
In keeping with the Group’s mission to “apply an integrated, holistic
approach to manuscripts and texts in other forms” our session calls
for papers closely examining the materials in the margins of
manuscripts, especially those that not only comment upon the texts
which they surround, but which may offer alternative or even
“corrective” readings to a manuscript’s central text.
That is, while some marginal images exist to support a text (by
providing mnemonic aid, or by illustrating a scene in a “central”
story), others seem to exist at a disjoint to their neighboring text
(as with the rude grylles and shitten monkeys that pepper so many
holy works) and so may offer counterpoint or even contradiction to an
otherwise uncontested central text. We thus look for papers
discussing such potentially “self-correcting” marginalia in medieval
manuscripts: the images that, while often subordinate to the text,
still find a rebelliously self-reflexive voice.
The Research Group is especially interested in first-hand
(re)evaluations of medieval manuscripts and their marginalia, but all
readings with close textual focus are welcome.
Please submit abstracts and cover materials to Jeff Massey at
jmassey@molloy.edu by September 15th for full consideration.
Jeff Massey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
The Royal English Department
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, NY 11571-5002
Kalamazoo May 7-10, 2009
Margins of Error: On the Self-Correcting Medieval Manuscript
Sponsored by: The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
In keeping with the Group’s mission to “apply an integrated, holistic
approach to manuscripts and texts in other forms” our session calls
for papers closely examining the materials in the margins of
manuscripts, especially those that not only comment upon the texts
which they surround, but which may offer alternative or even
“corrective” readings to a manuscript’s central text.
That is, while some marginal images exist to support a text (by
providing mnemonic aid, or by illustrating a scene in a “central”
story), others seem to exist at a disjoint to their neighboring text
(as with the rude grylles and shitten monkeys that pepper so many
holy works) and so may offer counterpoint or even contradiction to an
otherwise uncontested central text. We thus look for papers
discussing such potentially “self-correcting” marginalia in medieval
manuscripts: the images that, while often subordinate to the text,
still find a rebelliously self-reflexive voice.
The Research Group is especially interested in first-hand
(re)evaluations of medieval manuscripts and their marginalia, but all
readings with close textual focus are welcome.
Please submit abstracts and cover materials to Jeff Massey at
jmassey@molloy.edu by September 15th for full consideration.
Jeff Massey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
The Royal English Department
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, NY 11571-5002
Good Tool
Not particularly medieval, but of interest to text critics of all stripes is this tool, new to me anyway: papyri.info
Marco Manuscript Workshop 2009 : Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Marco Manuscript Workshop, "Textual Trauma: Violence
Against Texts," February 6-7, 2009, Marco Institute for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
A two-day workshop on manuscript studies will be held at the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by
Professors Roy M. Liuzza (English) and Maura K. Lafferty (Classics).
The workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference;
participants will be invited to share both their successes and
frustrations, and to work together towards developing better
professional skills for textual and paleographical work in Medieval
Studies.
Last year's workshop focused on the problems of editing texts
characterized by constant change in pre-print culture; this year?s
workshop will explore the theme of violence, deliberate or otherwise,
against texts. Texts are inextricably bound to their material
context, and material damage can have significant implications both
for the reading of a text and for our understanding of its reception
and use. Erasures and other deletions call attention to themselves,
often dramatically, insisting on the presence of their absence,
constantly reminding the reader to remember to forget what has been
altered or removed. Damage and defacement can convey a powerful
message; they may tell us just as much about reading practices,
ownership (of individual books and of the meaning of the text
itself), claims of authority, assertions of power, the circulation of
texts, and the interactions of textual communities as more positive
marks like glosses, annotations, and colophons. Apart from damage
through accident or neglect, which may leave incomplete or illegible
fragments whose original status must be reconstructed, many
manuscripts have erasures or corrections by contemporary or later
scribes; words are deleted, names erased, text excised or cancelled.
Violence can be done _in damnatio memoriae_; equally severe damage
can result from a modern curator's efforts to preserve or recover
faded readings. Some books fall apart from overuse; others are
dismembered as being worthless. Texts can also be violated in ways
that are less damaging to their physical material, but equally
shattering: rewritings can fundamentally alter the text's meaning,
sections can be extracted and placed in new contexts, contradictory
texts can be bound together, commentary that attacks or distorts the
text can be copied alongside it, and so on. Arguably, even modern
printed critical editions imposes this sort of violence on the texts
they hope to preserve.
How should we regard these many forms of violent engagement with
texts? Is an act of textual violence always a violation, the
destruction of a privileged original, a gap that must be repaired? Or
can editors and readers learn to regard the violence itself as an
element of the text's identity as a cultural and social construct?
How can we read such violence to understand the later use,
appropriation, or abuse of the text, and its new role(s) in a
changing world? We invite papers from scholars in all fields
concerned with textual editing, manuscript studies, and epigraphy,
especially those who are working on damaged, distorted, or otherwise
traumatized texts; we hope to include both scholars working on the
recovery of damaged or decayed readings and those who are examining
the cultural implications of these acts of textual trauma.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank who are
engaged in manuscript research. Individual 90-minute sessions will be
devoted to each project; participants will introduce their text and
its context, discuss their approach to working with this material,
and exchange ideas and information with other participants. We
particularly invite 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 1, 2008. Applicants are
asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their
project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, U of Tennessee, 301
McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email to
.
The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to
present their work but may be interested in learning more about
manuscript studies. Non-presenters will not receive a stipend, but
are encouraged to participate fully in discussions and other
activities. Those wishing to attend should visit
or contact Roy
Liuzza for more information.
Sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, and supported by the Humanities Initiative Committee and the
Office of Research at the University of Tennessee.
Against Texts," February 6-7, 2009, Marco Institute for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
A two-day workshop on manuscript studies will be held at the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by
Professors Roy M. Liuzza (English) and Maura K. Lafferty (Classics).
The workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference;
participants will be invited to share both their successes and
frustrations, and to work together towards developing better
professional skills for textual and paleographical work in Medieval
Studies.
Last year's workshop focused on the problems of editing texts
characterized by constant change in pre-print culture; this year?s
workshop will explore the theme of violence, deliberate or otherwise,
against texts. Texts are inextricably bound to their material
context, and material damage can have significant implications both
for the reading of a text and for our understanding of its reception
and use. Erasures and other deletions call attention to themselves,
often dramatically, insisting on the presence of their absence,
constantly reminding the reader to remember to forget what has been
altered or removed. Damage and defacement can convey a powerful
message; they may tell us just as much about reading practices,
ownership (of individual books and of the meaning of the text
itself), claims of authority, assertions of power, the circulation of
texts, and the interactions of textual communities as more positive
marks like glosses, annotations, and colophons. Apart from damage
through accident or neglect, which may leave incomplete or illegible
fragments whose original status must be reconstructed, many
manuscripts have erasures or corrections by contemporary or later
scribes; words are deleted, names erased, text excised or cancelled.
Violence can be done _in damnatio memoriae_; equally severe damage
can result from a modern curator's efforts to preserve or recover
faded readings. Some books fall apart from overuse; others are
dismembered as being worthless. Texts can also be violated in ways
that are less damaging to their physical material, but equally
shattering: rewritings can fundamentally alter the text's meaning,
sections can be extracted and placed in new contexts, contradictory
texts can be bound together, commentary that attacks or distorts the
text can be copied alongside it, and so on. Arguably, even modern
printed critical editions imposes this sort of violence on the texts
they hope to preserve.
How should we regard these many forms of violent engagement with
texts? Is an act of textual violence always a violation, the
destruction of a privileged original, a gap that must be repaired? Or
can editors and readers learn to regard the violence itself as an
element of the text's identity as a cultural and social construct?
How can we read such violence to understand the later use,
appropriation, or abuse of the text, and its new role(s) in a
changing world? We invite papers from scholars in all fields
concerned with textual editing, manuscript studies, and epigraphy,
especially those who are working on damaged, distorted, or otherwise
traumatized texts; we hope to include both scholars working on the
recovery of damaged or decayed readings and those who are examining
the cultural implications of these acts of textual trauma.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank who are
engaged in manuscript research. Individual 90-minute sessions will be
devoted to each project; participants will introduce their text and
its context, discuss their approach to working with this material,
and exchange ideas and information with other participants. We
particularly invite 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 1, 2008. Applicants are
asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their
project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, U of Tennessee, 301
McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email to
The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to
present their work but may be interested in learning more about
manuscript studies. Non-presenters will not receive a stipend, but
are encouraged to participate fully in discussions and other
activities. Those wishing to attend should visit
Liuzza for more information.
Sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, and supported by the Humanities Initiative Committee and the
Office of Research at the University of Tennessee.
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