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.