SEMA 2009

We would like to extend a second call for papers for the conference,
which will be held here at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,
October 15-17. Our conference theme will be "Knowing and Unknowing,"
and our plenary speakers are Sarah Kay (French, Princeton) and John
Tolan (History, Nantes).

The conference website gives more information about the conference,
including a complete call for papers, and will include registration
information at a later date. Please make all submissions
electronically, on the website. Once you have made your submission,
you should receive a confirmation email.

http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/sema2009

A note on accommodations: Because of the current economic crisis, we
are trying our best to make the conference as affordable as possible.
This is one reason to make your hotel reservations early on,
especially if you are interested in staying at the Scarritt Bennett
Center, where the conference itself will be held. Another reason is
that the conference weekend coincides with homecoming weekend at
Vanderbilt: this means that prices at other Nashville hotels will most
likely be inflated, and that rooms will be limited.

(We have put more information on different options for accommodation
on the conference website.)

Please address any questions about the website or about conference
logistics either to me (rachel.e.early@vanderbilt.edu) or to Lynn
Ramey (lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu).

Again, we hope to see you all in October!

Rachel Early
Graduate Student
Vanderbilt University
Department of French and Italian

Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute (http://www.bethmardutho.org) published a new issue of its peer-reviewed academic periodical Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (Vol. 12, No. 1). The issue can be found a http://bethmardutho.cua.edu/Hugoye/.

Contents:
Abrohom Nuro (1923-2009).
George Kiraz, Beth Mardutho
Papers

A Guide to Narsai's Homilies
Sebastian P. Brock, Oxford University

Research on the Old Syriac Heritage of the Peshitta Gospels. A Collation of MS Bibl. Nationale syr. 30 (Paris) .
Andreas Juckel, University of Münster

Dendrites and Other Standers in the History of the Exploits of Bishop Paul of Qanetos and Priest John of Edessa.
Kyle Smith, Duke University

Report on the State of Preservation of the Byzantine Mosaics of the Saint Gabriel Monastery of Qartmin, Tur Abdin.
Patrick Blanc, Sébastian Courtois, and Alain Desreumaux

From Damascus to Edessa. Travelogue of a Visit to Syria and Turkey.
Ute Possekel
Publications and Book Reviews

Recent Books on Syriac Topics.
Sebastian P. Brock, Oxford University

Pauline Allen, Majella Franzmann, and Rick Strelan, “I Sowed Fruits into Hearts” (Odes Sol. 17:13): Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke.
Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University

Brian E. Colless, The Wisdom of the Pearlers: An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism .
Robert Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church

Bas ter Haar Romeny, ed. The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy.
Edward G. Mathews, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary

Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma, Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction, and Appropriation.
Joel Walker, University of Washington, Seattle



Publishers interested in advertising in future issues of Hugoye may contact the General Editor at helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com.



About Beth Mardutho and Hugoye

Established in 1992, Beth Mardutho seeks to promote the study and preservation of the Syriac heritage and language, and to facilitate opportunities for people to pursue the study of this ancient legacy globally. Published semiannually since 1988, Hugoye is a peer-reviewed academic journal that is dedicated entirely to the Syriac tradition. [www.bethmardutho.org]

un colloque sur le sang pour début juillet 2009

l'université d'Aix-la-Chapelle organise un colloque sur le sang pour
début juillet 2009 et lance un appel à contributions. On ne donne pas
d'indications sur les langues acceptées; en Allemagne, une communication
en anglais ne devrait pas poser problème, mais il vaut peut-être mieux
se renseigner. La plupart se passera certainement en allemand. Voici en
tout cas le lien:

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11091

Eighth European Social Science History Conference

The Eighth European Social Science History Conference will take place on
13-16 April 2010 in Ghent, Belgium. This biennial conference dedicated
to the social and economic history of all periods and places welcomes
offers of papers from ancient and medieval historians.

For further details, see the Call for Papers at
http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/callforpapers2010.php

The deadline is imminent: 1 May 20009.

Offers of papers should be made through the website, and will then be
directed by the organisation to the relevant Network co-ordinators.

Subject: Online MA in Museum Studies at JHU

Subject: Online MA in Museum Studies at JHU


http://advanced.jhu.edu/academic/museum/index.cfm

Note that they are having an online open house on April 23 from 7-8:30
and all the courses can be done online.

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces two events with

Stephen J. Harris
(University of Massachusetts)

Monday April 20
at Rutgers University


6.00 pm Lecture
Murray Hall, Room 302


"Did the Anglo-Saxons Understand Beauty?"

Seamus Heaney obliquely observed of North Germanic poetry its
tendency to "trust the feel of what nubbed treasure/ your hands have
known." With few exceptions, the poetic vocabulary of Old English
shies from explicit abstraction. There is no mention of the True or
the Good, let alone of physical beauty--descriptions of people and
landscapes are exceedingly rare, for example. As a consequence,
post-Enlightenment critics trying to recover an Anglo-Saxon
Weltanschauung are faced with methodological difficulties that become
increasingly pronounced as we come to search for literary reflexes of
identity, ethnicity, gender, and so forth. What form did their
abstract world take? How was it manifested in material form? How did
their poetry relate to ideas of the Beautiful—if it did at all? And
if we are to answer such questions, what would our answers look like?
In this talk, I discuss Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon ideas
of the Beautiful and how one might go about looking for Beauty in Old
English poetry.



***
followed by:

Tuesday April 21
Workshop at Columbia University

First Workshop: "Beautiful Materialities"
Apr 21, 1pm - 2.30 pm 401 Hamilton

Second Workshop: "Community"
April 21, 4.10 pm - 5.30 pm 501 Int'l Affairs building (CIPA)

Please send an email to assc@columbia.edu to register.
Reading materials will be made available in advance to those who
register in advance.
Attendance is free and open to the public.

***

To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
ASSC@columbia.edu

For further updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc


ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York
University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The
Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of
English, University of Rhode Island; The Department of English,
Rutgers University.

The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University

The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University is pleased to
announce its sixteenth annual Graduate Conference:

Law and Legal Culture in the Middle Ages
4 April 2009
Scheide-Caldwell House, Princeton University

free and open to the public

9:30-11:00 -- Keynote address

"Rereading the Motel: Law as Literature in Medieval Wales"
Robin Stacey, Professor of History at the University of Washington

11:15-1:00 -- The Reading and Writing of Law
chaired by Michelle Garceau, Department of History

"The Burden of Proof: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal and the Polygraph"
Maria Sequeira Mendes, University of Lisbon

"Wulfstan of York, the Canons of Edgar, and Excerptiones
pseudo-Ecgberhti: Sources and Authorship"
Michael D. Elliot, University of Toronto

"Transmission of Legal Knowledge by 'False Impression': The Practice
of Tadlis in the Transmission of Muslim Hadith"
Amr Osman, Princeton University

2:00-3:15 -- Communities of Law
chaired by Intisar A. Rabb, Department of Near Eastern Studies

"A Kingdom Invented: Royal Power and the Law in Medieval Portugal"
André Vitória, University of Porto

"'A Community of Their Own': Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century
Anglo-Jewish Law and the Continental Tosafist Community"
Ethan Zadoff, CUNY Graduate Center

3:30-4:45 -- Generic Flexibility of Law
chaired by Moulie Vidas, Department of Religion

"Legal Adaptability amidst Legal Continuity: The Peira as Evidence
for the Vitality of Eleventh-Century Byzantine Law"
Zachary Chitwood, Princeton University

"Margery Kempe, Barrister?"
Andrea F. Jones, University of California at Los Angeles


For further information, please contact Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@princeton.edu)

Portals, Pathways, and Peregrinations

Portals, Pathways, and Peregrinations: Concepts of Mobility and
Exchange in the Long Middle Ages
4th Annual Medieval Studies/Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
March 27, 2009:Â CUNY Graduate Center, New York, rooms 9204 and 9205
Â
9:00 – 9:30    Registration


9:30 – 11:00   Portals: New Constructions of Identity
Gordon Whatley, Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate
Center, Moderator
                      Alice Lynn McMichael
(CUNY Graduate Center) – “Secular Travel Narrative and
Medieval Christian Society as Represented in Marco Polo’s Livre des
Merveilles in Morgan Manuscript 723”
David Heayn (Villanova University) – “Mary D’Oignies: The
Thirteenth-Century Beguine Movement as Gendered Alternative: Lay
Piety or Heresy”
Adin Lears (CUNY Graduate Center) – “An Ave Family Tree: Female
Kinship, Maternal Authority, and the Exchange of Sanctity in
Memling’s Shrine of St. Ursula at Bruges”Â
          Â
11:15 – 12:45 Pathways: Cultural Movement, Exchange and Assimilation
Anne Stone, Professor of Music, Queens College and the Graduate
Center, Moderator
Linda Stein (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Transmuting Violent Murder
into Devotional Art: Limoges Reliquaries of St. Thomas Becket”
Ethan Zadoff (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Intellectual Exchange and
Movement in Medieval England: The Case of Isaac Alfasi and Maimonides
in Late Twelfth and Thirteenth Century England”
Natalie Espino (Binghamton University) – “Continuity, Change, and
Text: Urban Space and Public Building in Early Medieval Italy”
Clare Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Lyric in Exile:
Troubadours in Foreign Courts and the Albigensian Crusade”
Â
1:00 – 1:45     Brunch
Â
2:00 – 3:00    Keynote Address
Evelyn Birge Vitz, Professor of French, New York University
“Performing the Passions, East and West: An Indian ‘Rasic’
Esthetic in Medieval French Storytelling”

3:15 – 4:45     Panel 3: Peregrinations: Modes and Methods of
Christian Expansion
Eric Ivison, Professor of History, College of Staten Island and the
Graduate Center, Moderator
Jennifer Jordan (CUNY Graduate Center) – “The Children's
Crusadeand Medieval Ideas of Childhood and Parenting”
Brandon Hawk (University of Connecticut) – “Three Stops and
Heaven: Topography in the South English Legendary Life of Thomas
Becket”
AnnaLinden Weller – A Constantinopolitan Latin's Perceptions of
Byzantine Imperial Power: Heresiology and Cultural Interchange in
Hugo Eteriano's Contra Patarenos
Galia Halpern (New York University) – “To India: Geopiety and
Ethnicity in Representations of St. Thomas’s Travels from the
Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century”
Â
A reception from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. will follow in the Certificate
Programs Office (Room 5109) on the 5th Floor of the CUNY Graduate
Center.
Â
For more information, please contact medieval.study@gmail.com
Â
Organized with the generous support of the Medieval Studies
Certificate Program, the Doctoral Students’ Council, and the Ph.D.
Programs in Art History, English, and History.

Early Manuscripts of Anselm

Early Manuscripts of Anselm, a day of discussion with manuscripts, takes place at the Bodleian Library on Monday 27 April, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm, New Library Seminar Room. See the Centre for the Study of the Book webpage for schedule: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/Anselm_Day_Bodleian.htm Space is limited, so registration is essential. e-mail : bookcentre@bodley.ox.ac.uk

LEARN LATIN THIS SUMMER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

LEARN LATIN THIS SUMMER
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

JUNE 8-AUGUST 7, 2009

? 2 YEARS OF COLLEGE-LEVEL LATIN IN 2 MONTHS
? READ CAESAR, CICERO, CATULLUS, OVID AND VERGIL
? NO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF LATIN REQUIRED
? 12 CREDIT HOURS FROM UVA OR NO-CREDIT OPTION
? SUMMER HOUSING IS AVAILABLE

This summer the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia
will again offer Latin as one of the University's Summer Language
Institutes. The Latin program is an intensive series designed to
cover two years of college-level Latin (4 semester courses or 12 UVa
credit hours). Students may also choose a non-credit option. The
Summer Latin Institute represents an excellent opportunity for
motivated students to achieve rapid proficiency in Latin. The
student-faculty ratio is low with 6 instructors and usually 10 to 20
students.

The Institute begins with four weeks on the fundamentals of Latin
grammar, including elementary readings and composition. In the second
four weeks of the program students read extensively from classical
Latin poetry and prose at the intermediate level, and they also have
the opportunity to join an optional reading group, to read the author
of their choice. There are six hours of formal instruction per day
and supplementary review sessions in the evenings. On the whole the
program is demanding and the pace is sustained; the mission of the
Institute's faculty is to prepare serious students to read Latin texts
with increasing facility by the end of the eight-week session.

In the past we have had undergraduates from numerous institutions in
the U.S. and abroad who have applied credit earned at the Institute
toward degrees in Classics and related disciplines. Many graduate
students from various fields, including History, Religious Studies,
Art History, Archeology, Philosophy, Medieval Studies, Romance
Languages, Comparative Literature, and English, have completed our
intensive program and continue to use Latin to further their
educational and research objectives. For more information about this
exciting educational opportunity please contact:

Tom Garvey, Director of the Summer Latin Institute,
tgarvey@virginia.edu, or Caren Freeman, Office of the Summer Session,
uvasli@virginia.edu

Please visit the program website on line at www.virginia.edu/summer/SLI.
Just search for "uva sli" at Google.com.

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers for SASMARS 2010

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers for SASMARS 2010

Afterlives: Survival and Revival

We are pleased to announce that the 20th Biennial Conference of the Southern
African Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont
Fleur, Stellenbosch (in the heart of the Cape winelands), South Africa, on
2-5 September 2010.

The theme of the Conference is "Afterlives: Survival and Revival". In an
effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we
encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing
this theme. The conference theme is designed to promote reflection on
appropriations, adaptations and continuities in cultural production.

A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a
special issue of The Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance
Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).

Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

*new ways of looking at old texts
*textual appropriation and imitation
*textual transmission
*translation
*cross-currents in word and image
*ideological appropriation
*political myth creation
*archaeological recovery
*ethnicities
*retrospection
*life writing
*history of music/art/theatre

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
To be confirmed

Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to the convenor,
Michael Bratchel M.Bratchel@wits.ac.za, by 31 January 2010.

Department of History
University of the Witwatersrand
JOHANNESBURG 2050
South Africa

Portals, Pathways, and Peregrinations: Concepts of Mobility and Exchange in the Long Middle Ages

Portals, Pathways, and Peregrinations: Concepts of Mobility and
Exchange in the Long Middle Ages
4th Annual Medieval Studies/Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
March 27, 2009: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, rooms 9204 and 9205

9:00 – 9:30 Registration


9:30 – 11:00 Portals: New Constructions of Identity
Gordon Whatley, Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate
Center, Moderator
Alice Lynn McMichael
(CUNY Graduate Center) – “Secular Travel Narrative and
Medieval Christian Society as Represented in Marco Polo’s Livre des
Merveilles in Morgan Manuscript 723”
David Heayn (Villanova University) – “Mary D’Oignies: The
Thirteenth-Century Beguine Movement as Gendered Alternative: Lay
Piety or Heresy”
Adin Lears (CUNY Graduate Center) – “An Ave Family Tree: Female
Kinship, Maternal Authority, and the Exchange of Sanctity in
Memling’s Shrine of St. Ursula at Bruges”

11:15 – 12:45 Pathways: Cultural Movement, Exchange and Assimilation
Anne Stone, Professor of Music, Queens College and the Graduate
Center, Moderator
Linda Stein (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Transmuting Violent Murder
into Devotional Art: Limoges Reliquaries of St. Thomas Becket”
Ethan Zadoff (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Intellectual Exchange and
Movement in Medieval England: The Case of Isaac Alfasi and Maimonides
in Late Twelfth and Thirteenth Century England”
Natalie Espino (Binghamton University) – “Continuity, Change, and
Text: Urban Space and Public Building in Early Medieval Italy”
Clare Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Lyric in Exile:
Troubadours in Foreign Courts and the Albigensian Crusade”

1:00 – 1:45 Brunch

2:00 – 3:00 Keynote Address
Evelyn Birge Vitz, Professor of French, New York University
“Performing the Passions, East and West: An Indian ‘Rasic’
Esthetic in Medieval French Storytelling”

3:15 – 4:45 Panel 3: Peregrinations: Modes and Methods of
Christian Expansion
Eric Ivison, Professor of History, College of Staten Island and the
Graduate Center, Moderator
Jennifer Jordan (CUNY Graduate Center) – “The Children's
Crusadeand Medieval Ideas of Childhood and Parenting”
Brandon Hawk (University of Connecticut) – “Three Stops and
Heaven: Topography in the South English Legendary Life of Thomas
Becket”
AnnaLinden Weller – A Constantinopolitan Latin's Perceptions of
Byzantine Imperial Power: Heresiology and Cultural Interchange in
Hugo Eteriano's Contra Patarenos
Galia Halpern (New York University) – “To India: Geopiety and
Ethnicity in Representations of St. Thomas’s Travels from the
Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century”

A reception from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. will follow in the Certificate
Programs Office (Room 5109) on the 5th Floor of the CUNY Graduate
Center.

For more information, please contact medieval.study@gmail.com

Organized with the generous support of the Medieval Studies
Certificate Program, the Doctoral Students’ Council, and the Ph.D.
Programs in Art History, English, and History.

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF SOCIETAS CELTO-SLAVICA

Societas Celto-Slavica & Institute of English Studies, University
of Lodz, Lodz, Poland



THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF SOCIETAS CELTO-SLAVICA



Dimensions and Categories of Celticity: Celtic Languages and Cultures
in Comparison



September 14 -16, 2009



Organising Committee:

Prof. Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Lodz) Prof. Jerzy Jarniewicz
(University of Lodz)

Dr Maxim Fomin (University of Ulster)





THIRD Call for papers



Dear Colleagues,



The Fourth International Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica will
take place in Lodz (central Poland), 14-16 September 2009. The
colloquium is hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University
of Lodz, Poland.



Papers are invited in any of the following areas (the list is not exhaustive):



Language contact in the Celtic World: historical, methodological and
terminological considerations;

Formal approaches to Celtic languages;

Celts in Central Europe: mythological, archeological, and cultural heritage;

Literary perceptions of Celtic traditions in Slavic cultures.



Please submit electronically an abstract of your proposed paper - not
exceeding 500 words, together with your name, affiliation and e-mail
- no later than 25 April, 2009. Please address all applications,
queries and requests for personal invitations sent by regular mail in
relation to the conference to:



Krzysztof Lewoc

Celto-Slavica 4 Conference Secretary

Department of English and General Linguistics,

University of Lodz, Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, Poland

e-mail: celtoslavica4@uni.lodz.pl

web: http://www.celto-slavica.celtologica.com

Call for papers: Current Research Trends in Epic Studies

Call for papers -- please circulate:





Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch

2009 MLA Annual Convention



Current Research Trends in Epic Studies



The goal of this panel is to explore current ways of researching the romance epic. How do scholars today think about the epic as we use new methodologies and approach research on epic from different perspectives?

What topics, ideas, and themes in epic studies are of recent interest and why? How do we advance epic studies when we are working with the same basic materials that generations of scholars have used? This presentation of current directions that epic research is taking is also intended to give insight into potential future trends.



**** Deadline for proposals: 23 March 2009 ****



Submissions addressing any and all aspects of research on the romance epic are encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:



*Performance of epic

*Epics in manuscript context

*Late epics and the roman d’aventure

*Gender studies and the epic

*Teaching epic

*Epics in film

*Cross-cultural comparisons of epic

*Relationship of epic to other genres



Proposals and inquiries should be addressed to:



Dr. Elizabeth Wright eac276@nyu.edu



Please include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, title of paper presentation, and an abstract (250-500 words).

Graduate Summer School 2009 in Avignon

*Graduate Summer School 2009 in Avignon
Writing Practices in the South of France (12th to 18th century)
June 25 - July 3, 2009, Avignon, France*

Starting in 2009, the Laboratory of History of the University of Avignon is
organizing a Graduate Summer School devoted each year to writing practices
in Southern France and adjacent lands (Catalonia, Languedoc, Provence,
Liguria and papal lands), from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. It
seeks to shed light on the uses of writing in the Mediterranean area. The
goal of the Graduate Summer School is to provide high-level technical
training in the history of the various writing practices of chanceries,
clerical offices, notarial offices, scriptoria, writing and decoration
workshops, etc.) as well as on the social dimensions of the written word in
the Northern Mediterranean crescent from Valencia to Bologna and over a long
period of time, which will afford many opportunities to put peculiarities
and innovations into perspective. One area, that of the papal lands, is
particularly interesting: the papal offices seem to have adapted the various
written forms without ever yielding to fashionable trends and could have
influenced the surrounding administrations and judicial courts.
Lectures at the Graduate Summer School will be conducted by guest
specialists in the fields of medieval and modern history. Candidates should
be able to read and communicate in French. (For the 2009 session, all
courses are given in French; starting in 2010, courses will be given in
English and in other languages).

*Application Procedure*
Registration for the Graduate Summer School 2009 session will begin on March
15, 2009. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2009. For the
preparation of application materials please visit
http://ecolethematique.univ-avignon.fr (all application materials must be
filled out in French). Ten candidates will be selected to participate in the
2009 session. Foreign applicants are especially encouraged to apply.
The successful candidates’ accommodation on campus (and travel expenses for
European Union students) is provided. No tuition is charged.

*Eligibility*
Candidates must be Ph.D. students or graduate students in their final year
(or the equivalent for foreign students) in medieval or modern history.
Applications from all countries are welcome.

*For further information please visit the site of the Graduate Summer School
http://ecolethematique.univ-avignon.fr or send an e-mail to
contact-et@univ-avignon.fr.

Medieval Studies and New Media

I am pleased to announce that the poster and full bilingual program of the "Medieval Studies and New Media" Symposium are now available:

- Full English / French program:
http://www.mutec-shs.fr/sites/www.mutec-shs.fr/files/program-DM-20090331.pdf

- Poster:
http://www.mutec-shs.fr/sites/www.mutec-shs.fr/files/posterDM-mars2009.pdf

Looking forward to meeting some of you there,
Marjorie

DHO Summer School

Announcing the 2009 DHO Summer School
In conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect
13 -17 July 2009
http://dho.ie/ss2009

To register:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TIhP7y31Wm_2fvjsIL5B3uSw_3d_3d

Following the success of the 2008 DHO Summer School, the 2009 Summer
School will be held from 13-17 July 2009 at Academy House in Dublin,
Ireland. This year's event will be larger and it is being held in
conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect, two prominent virtual
communities in digital literary studies.

Registration for the Summer School is now open. Early-bird
registration is available until May 15, 2009. Early-bird registration
for the week-long summer school is € 375. After 15 May standard
registration cost of €450 will apply. To register or for more
information, go to: http://dho.ie/ss2009

If you are at an HSIS institution please contact your HSIS
representative. A list of a list of representatives is available at
http://www.dho.ie/committee

* Programme

Master Classes will be led by two of the leading textual scholars in
the world:

Jerome McGann, founder of NINES and co-founder of SPECLAB, will be
speaking on ' Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the
Transmission of Culture.'

Hans Walter Gabler, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English
Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University, is presenting:
'From Conception to Design and Vice Versa: Ways to make your mark-up
do what you want it to do at the interface.'

In addition, Paul Ell, Director of the Centre for Data Digitisation
and Analysis at Queen’s University, Belfast will lecture on
'Humanities Digital Deluge: Serendipity, Scholarship, Sustainability.'

There are also four week-long workshop strands:

• Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative: Theory and Practice
led by James Cummings (University of Oxford) and Dot Porter (DHO);
• Data Modelling and Databases for Humanities Research led by Aja
Teehan (An Foras Feasa, NUI, Maynooth) and Don Gourley (DHO);
• Data Visualisation for the Humanities led by Paolo Battino (DHO),
Shawn Day (DHO), and Faith Lawrence (DHO);
• Text Transformations with XSLT led by Laura Mandell (Miami
University) and Kirstyn Leuner (Miami University).

For more details, consult the Summer School website at: http://dho.ie/ss2009

Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie) regarding the
summer school.

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.

Dorestad-congress June 2009

> From 24 to 27 June 2009, the scholarly congress attached to our large
exhibition on 'Dorestad - A medieval Metropolis' (17 April - 1
November 2009) will be held in Leiden.

Please find all futher information on the congress website, that is
regularly updated: http://www.rmo.nl/congress

CSANA

North America Annual Meeting begins today in Berkeley. The schedule
is available at:

http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/csana/

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers for SASMARS 2010

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers for SASMARS 2010

Afterlives: Survival and Revival

We are pleased to announce that the 20th Biennial Conference of the Southern
African Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont
Fleur, Stellenbosch (in the heart of the Cape winelands), South Africa, on
2-5 September 2010.

The theme of the Conference is "Afterlives: Survival and Revival". In an
effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we
encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing
this theme. The conference theme is designed to promote reflection on
appropriations, adaptations and continuities in cultural production.

A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a
special issue of The Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance
Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).

Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

*new ways of looking at old texts
*textual appropriation and imitation
*textual transmission
*translation
*cross-currents in word and image
*ideological appropriation
*political myth creation
*archaeological recovery
*ethnicities
*retrospection
*life writing
*history of music/art/theatre

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
To be confirmed

Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to the convenor,
Michael Bratchel M.Bratchel@wits.ac.za, by 31 January 2010.

Department of History
University of the Witwatersrand
JOHANNESBURG 2050
South Africa

Cognitive Theories of Medieval Performance

Cognitive Theories of Medieval Performance

Modern Language Association Convention

December 2009

Philadelphia, PA



Many theatre scholars are now employing cognitive theory to explore drama and performance. This research has supported long-held claims about theatre, while simultaneously complicating and challenging our assumptions about theatrical events and their cultural work. The large number of recent essay collections, articles, special journal issues, and conferences devoted to this interdisciplinary approach reflects its relevance and significance. See specifically, Performance and Cognition, eds. Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart (New York: Routledge, 2006); Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy, eds. David Krasner and David Z. Saltz (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006); the December 2007 issue of Theatre Journal dedicated to work on performance and cognition; the Theatre and Cognitive Studies Symposium held at the University of Pittsburgh in February of 2009; and Bruce McConachie’s Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).



This panel seeks papers that use evidence and theory from cognitive science to analyze medieval drama, performance, and/or theatricality. Although papers that analyze dramatic texts are welcome, this session specifically invites work that employs cognitive theory to explore aspects of medieval performance events and theatrical culture. This panel's organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions. One-page abstracts to Jill Stevenson (jstevenson@mmm.edu) by March 15th. This panel is sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society.

Mecham Memorial fund

Friends and Colleagues:



As some of you might already know, June Mecham, medievalist at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, died (after a brief struggle with cancer) the weekend of MAMA. Her final paper was read at our conference. She had just received an A&S Teaching Award and Brepols has agreed to publish her manuscript calling it "a magnificent synthesis".

June has a small daughter and a memorial fund has been established in June's name for Evelyn's college fund.

On behalf of MAMA I am going to contribute to this fund. The profession, and we personally, have lost a friend with a very promising future in medieval studies.



Moreover, I do encourage anyone who would like to give to the fund to send your contribution to:



Dr. Mark Scherer

Department of History

ASH287, UNO

6001 Dodge Street

Omaha NE 68182

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers for SASMARS 2010

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers for SASMARS 2010

Afterlives: Survival and Revival

We are pleased to announce that the 20th Biennial Conference of the Southern
African Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont
Fleur, Stellenbosch (in the heart of the Cape winelands), South Africa, on
2-5 September 2010.

The theme of the Conference is "Afterlives: Survival and Revival". In an
effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we
encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing
this theme. The conference theme is designed to promote reflection on
appropriations, adaptations and continuities in cultural production.

A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a
special issue of The Southern African
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (accredited for South African
research subsidy purposes).

Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

*new ways of looking at old texts
*textual appropriation and imitation
*textual transmission
*translation
*cross-currents in word and image
*ideological appropriation
*political myth creation
*archaeological recovery
*ethnicities
*retrospection
*life writing
*history of music/art/theatre

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
To be confirmed

Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to the convenor,
Michael Bratchel M.Bratchel@wits.ac.za, by 31 January 2010.

Department of History
University of the Witwatersrand
JOHANNESBURG 2050
South Africa

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

"Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage," a new musical based on Beowulf, will
opening in NYC on April 1 at the Abrons Arts Center, part of the Henry
Street Settlement which is located at 466 Grand Street at Pitton the
Lower East
Side

Here's the trailer:

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeCdlhNh8o8_
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeCdlhNh8o8)

and the website:
_http://www.beowulfnyc.com/_ (http://www.beowulfnyc.com/)

Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Scholar Program

Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Scholar Program

The Morton W. Bloomfield Fund at Harvard University, in conjunction with
the Medieval Doctoral Conference of the Department of English, invites
applications to the Bloomfield Visiting Scholar Program. The program is
intended to assist scholars wishing to conduct research at Harvard over
a two- to four-week period during the regular academic year, in any of
the fields associated with Morton W. Bloomfield: particularly Old and
Middle English, the history of English, the history of Christian
thought, and medieval Jewish studies. We can offer $3000 in travel and
accommodation subsidy for one or more
selected scholars in these fields. Bloomfield fellows will give a
presentation of their work at the Medieval Doctoral Conference and might
informally also be asked to meet with graduate students or attend a
student seminar, as a temporary member of our community. Although
applications are open to anyone, preference will be given to younger
scholars who may benefit from access to Harvard’s resources. To apply,
please send a brief curriculum vitae, with a one-page
project proposal and the title of a possible talk, to Daniel
Donoghue, Department of English, Harvard University, 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. by 1 May 2009.

Return of Medieval News

I, for some unexplained reason not clear to myself, haven't been posting Medieval news headlines here of late. But I begin to do so again here. Here's the headlines of the past week as I know them:

our Courts Press founder who was 'a model of publishing integrity':
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2009/0221/1224241576659.html

Skeleton of village 'witch' to be re-buried:
http://www.kent-online.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=58107

Archeology team examine medieval village:
http://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/latestnews/4153997.Archaeology_team_examine_medieval_village/

Old soles: 800-year-old shoe soles yield clues about preservation of
leather: http://www.physorg.com/news155407868.html

Battle over claim of Bannockburn corpse looting:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5827567.ece

Assault on Cologne's historical core:
http://www.welt.de/english-news/article3331556/Assault-on-Colognes-historical-core.html

Proof of ancient Malaysian civilization found :
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/06/malaysia.iron.civilisation.find/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Construction workers in Aztec discover centuries-old bones:
http://www.daily-times.com/ci_11823169?source=most_viewed

A Prize for Solving Charlemagne’s Puzzle:
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/a-prize-for-solving-charlemagnes-puzzle/

Old and Middle English Language and Literature section of the M/MLA

Call for Papers:

Old and Middle English Language and Literature section of the M/MLA
(November 12-15, 2009, St. Louis, MO)

"Language Matters in Old and Middle English Texts"

Papers dealing with any aspect of language in medieval English texts
are invited; focused on perceptions of language in medieval texts;
development of English; competing and contacting vernaculars in
medieval England; linguistic approaches to medieval texts; and other
papers involving language, broadly construed.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by April 15, 2009 to

Damian Fleming
Indiana University- Purdue University, Fort Wayne
English and Linguistics
flemingd@ipfw.edu


Accepted presenters will be required to be become members of the
M/MLA and pre-register for the convention by June 1, 2009.
Additional information about the M/MLA and the convention can be
found here: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

Medieval Translator 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS







Papers are invited for







Medieval Translator 2010




In principio fuit interpres




The Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in
the Middle Ages







To be hosted by the Università degli Studi di Padova

Italy







23-27 July 2010










Linguistic and literary traditions include translation in their myth
of origin - thus the linguistic and scholar Gianfranco Folena
proposed to substitute the motto In principio fuit poëta with the
humbler In principio fuit interpres. Following his suggestion, we
welcome papers addressing translation in the Middle Ages, marking the
relationship between classical, Middle Eastern and vernacular
languages, and studying translation as the representation of ideas
and texts in different media.




Plenary speakers: Roger Ellis, Domenico Pezzini, David Wallace.




Papers may be given in English, French, or Italian, and should be
twenty minutes long. Please send a 500-word abstract and brief
curriculum vitae by 31 August 2009 to:




Alessandra Petrina and Monica Santini

Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche e Slave

Via Beato Pellegrino, 26

35100 Padova

Italy




Or as an email attachment to both these e-mail addresses:

alessandra.petrina@unipd.it

monica.santini@unipd.it







Further information about the conference will be available in Spring 2009.




Following previous practice, it is planned to publish a book of
selected papers in the peer-reviewed Medieval Translator series
(Brepols) following the conference.




Appel à contribution







Nous faisons un appel à contribution pour la conférence :







Traduire au Moyen Age 2010




In principio fuit interpres




The Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in
the Middle Ages







Accueillie par l'Université de Padoue,

Italie







23-27 Juillet 2010







Les traditions linguistiques et littéraires incluent la traduction
dans leur mythe d'origine. Ainsi, l'érudit et linguiste Gianfranco
Folena a proposé la substitution de la devise In principio fuit poeta
par In principio fuit interpres. Suivant son exemple, nous allons
accueillir des interventions faisant état de la traduction au Moyen
Age, soulignant les relations entre langues classiques, vernaculaires
et langues du Moyen-Orient, et étudiant la traduction comme
représentation d'idées et de textes dans différents médias.




Plenary speakers: Roger Ellis, Domenico Pezzini, David Wallace.




Les interventions se feront en italien, anglais, ou français, et
devront durer au maximum vingt minutes. Merci de nous faire parvenir
un résumé de 500 mots et un bref curriculum vitae, avant le 31 aout
2009, à l'adresse suivante :




Alessandra Petrina and Monica Santini

Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche e Slave

Via Beato Pellegrino, 26

35100 Padova

Italy

Blood, Sex, Malory

CONFERENCE UPDATE: REGISTRATION EXTENSION FOR



Blood, Sex, Malory: An International Conference on the Morte Darthur, its
sources and reception.

University of Leicester, 24th-25th April 2009





*To accommodate demand, conference registration is EXTENDED until 14th
March.

Day and overnight rates available.

http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/news/malory/ for more information.*

(Please note that delegates should register even if accommodation is not
required, so that we can supply the right amount of food and venue space.)



Speakers include:

Elizabeth Archibald, Catherine La Farge, A. S. G. Edwards, Carolyne
Larrington, Helen Phillips



BLOOD, SEX, MALORY will provide a forum in which researchers can explore the
diverse associations of sex and blood in the Malorian tradition,
encompassing sexuality and sexual activity (and its lack/erasure) and the
significance of blood (and blood-shedding), but also the interconnections
with gender (biological sex) and familial ('blood') relations in the Morte
and its sources and later reworkings.



The conference is interdisciplinary and open to all research students and
academics.





For more details contact:

katherine.mcclune@merton.ox.ac.uk

dc147@leicester.ac.uk

Deerhurst Lecture

The postponed 2008 Deerhurst Lecture will now take place on Saturday 25
April 2009 at 7.30 pm at St Mary's Church, Deerhurst,
Gloucestershire. The lecture will be given by Heather Gilderdale Scott
on the subject of 'Deerhurst, St Werstan and monastic myth-making in late
medieval England'. Further information will be found at deerhurstfriends.co.uk>.

New Book on the Eddas

Klaus von See, Beatrice La Farge, Eve Picard, Katja Schulz und
Matthias Teichert:


Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda.

Bd. 6: Heldenlieder (Brot af Sigurðarkviðo, Guðrúnarkviða I,
Sigurðarkviða in skamma, Dráp Niflunga, Helreið Brynhildar,
Guðrúnarkviða II, Guðrúnarkviða III, Oddrúnar­grátr,
Strophenbruchstücke aus der Völsunga saga).

Scripto Registration

In this age of globalization, the need to look after our cultural heritage has now become more important than ever.


SCRIPTO

(Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Palaeographical Tools)



is a


Postgraduate Programme



at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg supported by the Luise Prell Foundation, the Schirmer Foundation, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, and available to graduate Medievalists and Early Modern Specialists. It offers a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern manuscripts and to methods of describing and interpreting them. SCRIPTO is a sort of bridge between research and practical work and combines research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely innovative course, at the end of which each candidate will be awarded a certificate from Friedrich Alexander University.

SCRIPTO consists of six modules that cover a broad spectrum of subjects (text typology; book illumination; palaeography; codicology; incunabula studies; informatics). There will be SCRIPTO research seminars, one of which will be given by Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge) at Bamberg. Participants will also have the opportunity to work on a common research project.

The German Manuscript Centres in Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart and Wolfenbüttel are supportive of the SCRIPTO programme. The course will take place in cooperation with the manuscript departments of the Erlangen University Library, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, the City Library in Nuremberg and the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel.



SCRIPTO sessions will take place in Bamberg (Staatsbibliothek), Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek), Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek) and Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) at a fee of 850 Euros (which includes travel and accommodations for seminars outside of Erlangen ) per participant. Further information may be obtained online:



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




SCRIPTO III 2009/2010

SCRIPTO III will run from 26 October 2009 until 27 January 2010. Applicants should write enclosing a full CV to:

Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Mittellatein und Neulatein
Kochstr. 4/3
91054 Erlangen (Germany)



The application deadline is 31 August 2009. The language of instruction is German. Foreign participants, however, will be able to take German language courses at Friedrich Alexander University if they so wish. They should mention this in their application.

Those applicants accepted for the course will be charged 850 Euros and will receive a document stating the terms of agreement and detailed information about the course, including the timetable.

Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources

The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources is
pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International
Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both workshops will be
on Thursday, May 7 (sessions 54 and 166; see
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete
conference schedule).

Workshop registration online at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d

1) Metadata for Medievalists I: Introduction to Metadata Formats
Session 54, Thursday 7 May, 10am

This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital
scholarship,
led by Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University's Metadata Librarian.
Instruction includes an introduction to the concept of metadata, an
overview of metadata types of interest to medievalists working in a
variety of textual and image formats, and an overview of methods for
metadata implementations (database, encoded data, printed copy, etc.).
Assignments will be completed during the following clinic.

2) Metadata for Medievalists II: Introduction to the Text-Encoding Initiative
Session 166, Thursday 7 May, 3:30pm

This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital
scholarship,
taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists.
Instruction
includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5
standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and
a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the
following clinic.

Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds
an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Dot Porter
is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish
Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western
Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and
extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics.

Both workshops are limited to 35 participants, and registration is required.

The pre-registration fee per workshop for students is $40/$55
(Medieval Academy members/nonmembers), for non-students is $50/$65.

To register, complete the online form at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d
Questions about registration should be directed to James W. Brodman at
jimb@uca.edu
Questions about the workshops should be directed to Dot Porter at
dot.porter@gmail.com

Other Peoples’ Thinking: Language and Mentality in England before the Conquest

Other Peoples’ Thinking:
Language and Mentality in England before the Conquest

A conference sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities
University of Wisconsin * Madison USA
April 17*18, 2009.

How did the people of Anglo-Saxon England conceive of their place in the
world that they inhabited? To what extent do the textual records dating
from that formative period reflect assumptions that may have no exact
equivalents today, and that require explication if the culture of that
era is not to be misunderstood? This two-day conference will provide an
opportunity for specialists to share insights into these questions.
Speakers have been asked to explore the extent to which the lexicon
pertaining to a given area of experience provides access to a people’s
mentality.

Main speakers are Robert E. Bjork (Arizona State University), Kathleen
Davis (Rhode Island University), Nicole Discenza (University of South
Forida), Roberta Frank (Yale University), Joseph C. Harris (Harvard
University), Antonette diPaolo Healey (University of Toronto), Karl
Reichl (University of Bonn), and Elaine Treharne (Florida State
University). Cross-disciplinary and theoretical perspectives will be
encouraged through the participation of additional panelists, including
Andrew Rabin (University of Kentucky: Anglo-Saxon law) and, from the
UW-Madison faculty, Thomas Dale (Art History), Thomas DuBois
(Scandinavian Studies and Folklore), Harold Scheub (African Languages
and Literature), Walton O. Schalick (History of Medicine and Bioethics),
Frank Salomon (Anthropology), and Karl Shoemaker (History and Legal
Studies).

For abstracts, the program, and a more complete description, see the
Institute’s home page and follow the link there: http://irh.wisc.edu/.
Those wishing to attend are encouraged to email the organizer in
advance:

John D. Niles _jdniles@wisc.edu _
Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities
and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities
Department of English
University of Wisconsin * Madison
Madison WI 53706
(608) 265-9836

Medieval Studies and New Media

Medieval Studies and New Media
Les médiévistes et les nouveaux media

A symposium proposed by the Digital Medievalist community
Une journée d'étude proposée par la communauté Digital Medievalist

Sponsored by / Avec le soutien de:
MutEC (Mutualisation d'outils numériques pour les éditions critiques) - http://www.mutec-shs.fr
UMR 5648 - Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux - http://ciham.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Lyon (France) – 31 March 2009

venue / lieu :
ENS-LSH, 15 parvis René Descartes 69007 Lyon (métro B – Debourg)
salle F106

Organized by / Organisé par:
Marjorie Burghart (contact: marjorie.burghart@ehess.fr)

1 – Session (14h00 - 15h45)
Digital medievalist: community of practice, community and practice
We are family: Digital Medievalist as Community of Practice par
by Dan O'Donnell, Université de Lethbridge (Canada)

Converting St Paul: TEI P5, stand-off markup, and interoperability
by James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, Université d'Oxford

Digital Materialism: editing in three dimensions
by Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin

17h45-16h15 : pause

2 - Table-ronde (16h15-18h00)
Digital medievalism around the world: What structures, solutions and support are needed?

Avec:
Marjorie Burghart, UMR 5648 - EHESS, pôle de Lyon
Arianna Ciula, European Science Foundation
Dan O'Donnell, Université de Lethbridge (Canada)
Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin
Roberto Rosselli del Turco, Université de Pise
Richard Walter et Thierry Buquet, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT)
Florence Clavaud, Ecole nationale des chartes

Alan Vance

It is with great sadness that I must inform the list that Dr Alan Vince died
on Monday, Feb. 23 after a short illness. He will be greatly missed by many.

Hi to all,



The call for papers for the Medieval Academy of America's Annual Meeting in 2010 is now available online.



http://medievalacademy.org/CallForPapers10.html



There are prizes available for excellent graduate student papers:



"The Medieval Academy will award up to seven prizes of $300 each to graduate students for papers judged meritorious by the local committee. To be eligible for an award graduate students must, of course, be members of the Medieval Academy and, once their proposed papers have been accepted for inclusion in the program, must submit complete papers to the Program Committee by 10 January 2010."



See the website for more info.