CALL FOR PAPERS
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13–16, 2010)
Special Session
Denizens of Hell: Devils, Demons and the Damned
In past years a number of sessions have been arranged on the devil, demons, and the damned in the middle ages. Be this as it may, there still remains a great deal to be said about this fascinating topic.
Whether in images or in text, the depictions of the residents and prisoners of Hell reveal a great deal about the societies from which they arise. As Peter Dendle writes in his book Satan Unbound, "The devil consistently exhibits a fluidity, an elasticity, that allows him to bleed over into overlapping regions of time and space, of heart and world, of history and allegory" (Dendle, p.8). Yet this applies not only to the devil himself, but also to his servants and his subjects: whether it is the Anglo-Saxon distinction between the bound Lucifer and the wandering devil, the depictions of the bodies of the damned changing to show their sins in physical form, or the Nicodemian debate between Satan and the anthropomorphized Hell, the denizens of the underworld exist in a fluid space, one that allows for a marked flexibility of expression not present in many other areas of theological consequence. As such, any exploration of these topics cannot help but reflect greatly on the society that formed these conceptions, and thus helps to generate in us a better understanding of those who lived in those times.
Proposals of no more than 300 words for 15-20 minute papers are now invited. Those interested should note that there is no requirement that papers stay within the constraints of a single discipline (e.g. art history, literature, etc.), so long as they remain on topic.
Deadline for proposal submission is 31 August 2009.
All proposals should be sent to Richard Burley (r.a.burley@gmail.com) and should include a completed participant information form, downloadable at the ICMS webpage (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF).
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Archaeologists find skulls on route of new road
Bulgaria Archaeologists Discover 13th Century Monastery, French Jewelry
Angel's face uncovered at Istanbul's Haghia Sophia
1000-Year-Old Cowshed Discovered
Human bones unearthed as tram workers hit ancient graveyard
Treasure-hunter digs up silver hawking bell dropped by falconers in
medieval era
Of interest:
All-Purpose Pronoun
Bulgaria Archaeologists Discover 13th Century Monastery, French Jewelry
Angel's face uncovered at Istanbul's Haghia Sophia
1000-Year-Old Cowshed Discovered
Human bones unearthed as tram workers hit ancient graveyard
Treasure-hunter digs up silver hawking bell dropped by falconers in
medieval era
Of interest:
All-Purpose Pronoun
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Plague and Famine: An Interdisciplinary View
Plague and Famine: An Interdisciplinary View
I am organizing a session for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held from May 13-16, 2010 at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo on the relationship between plague and famine.
Famines have long been associated with the two great historic plague pandemics: the plague of Justinian (541-c. 750) and the Black Death (14th century onwards). This session seeks papers that examine the interaction between famines and the plague specifically. Considering the two pandemics together opens new areas of research. The role of cattle epizootics adds an interesting third dimension to the environment of plague and famine that prevailed during both plague pandemics. Cattle epizootics, caused by unknown agents, alter human nutrition for years after the epizootic ends.
I am inviting submissions from historians, biologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and others to explore the interaction between plague and nutrition. Understanding plague dynamics will only come by exploring the complex interaction between plague and its environmental context that includes epizootics of domestic animals and human famines.
Submit your proposal and contact information to Michelle Ziegler at ZieglerM@slu.edu
I am organizing a session for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held from May 13-16, 2010 at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo on the relationship between plague and famine.
Famines have long been associated with the two great historic plague pandemics: the plague of Justinian (541-c. 750) and the Black Death (14th century onwards). This session seeks papers that examine the interaction between famines and the plague specifically. Considering the two pandemics together opens new areas of research. The role of cattle epizootics adds an interesting third dimension to the environment of plague and famine that prevailed during both plague pandemics. Cattle epizootics, caused by unknown agents, alter human nutrition for years after the epizootic ends.
I am inviting submissions from historians, biologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and others to explore the interaction between plague and nutrition. Understanding plague dynamics will only come by exploring the complex interaction between plague and its environmental context that includes epizootics of domestic animals and human famines.
Submit your proposal and contact information to Michelle Ziegler at ZieglerM@slu.edu
Medieval Romance Society CFP
The Medieval Romance Society seeks submissions of paper proposals for the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, May 13-16, 2010. This year we are sponsoring three sessions on "Romance Temporalities" (descriptions below), including one session on teaching medieval Romance.
If you are interested in presenting a paper in one of our three sessions, please send an abstract and completed Participant Information Form, available on the Congress website, to me by Sept. 15. All sessions remain open until the submission deadline. Submission by email is strongly preferred.
Please remember that, according to the policies of the Medieval Institute, you may only submit a paper proposal for one session per Congress. However, the MRS is careful to forward all proposals that we are unable to include in our sessions on to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the General Sessions.
The website for the International Congress on Medieval Studies may be found at the following address: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you!
Rebecca Wilcox
Co-Coordinator, Medieval Romance Society
rawilcox122@yahoo.com
Romance Temporalities
In recent years, medievalists have increasingly considered the medium of time as a dynamic position from which to analyze the medieval as we explore and question our own temporally determined relationships to the period we study. This heightened awareness of our temporal distance from our scholarly subjects has encouraged us to explore the conflations, confusions, uses, and abuses of time and periodization at work in medieval literature itself. We are no longer satisfied with the idea of histories and chronologies—whether purportedly factual or openly fictional—as linear, progressive, or innocent. Medieval romance, in particular, offers today’s readers a rich array of timely challenges, from temporal discontinuities and ahistorical moments to shifting verb tenses. The three proposed sessions of the Medieval Romance Society aim to address questions such as, “How does time function in romance?” “How does our modern understanding of medieval romance infiltrate contemporary literature?” “How do we teach medieval romance today in fun, accessible, and responsible ways?”
The Medieval Romance Society would like to invite papers that explore how we understand medieval romance in our contemporary world, both as critical researchers and as teachers of romance. We value interdisciplinarity and welcome proposals from graduate students as well as established scholars. Though papers should be presented in English, we hope to include papers on romances of multiple medieval languages.
“Once Upon a Time:” Romance Temporalities
Critics have long acknowledged the “once upon a time” trope at work in medieval romance, but we are increasingly uneasy with the innocence and “merely” fantastic or escapist motivations assumed in its deployment. This session invites reconsiderations of what kinds of temporal systems are at work in medieval romance (and why), how romance makes use of revisionary chronologies, how it imagines its pasts and futures.
Temporal Touching: Medieval Romance and Popular Culture
Although medieval romance and popular culture are distinct genres, scholars increasingly recognize the productivity of blurring the medieval/modern divide in order to examine the relevance of the medieval to the modern. This session aims to explore the transmission of medieval romance into modern popular culture and to investigate the benefits of diachronic research to medieval studies.
Time for Romance? Teaching Medieval Romance in a Modern World
How do we, as teachers, mediate the “otherness” of medieval romance in the classroom? On the one hand, we have a responsibility to help students learn about medieval cultures as distinct from our own; on the other hand, we want to help them view medieval literature as accessible and enjoyable as an object of study. This session invites papers by teachers of medieval romance to share their strategies and engage in critical exploration of the challenges of teaching romance, particularly to undergraduates.
If you are interested in presenting a paper in one of our three sessions, please send an abstract and completed Participant Information Form, available on the Congress website, to me by Sept. 15. All sessions remain open until the submission deadline. Submission by email is strongly preferred.
Please remember that, according to the policies of the Medieval Institute, you may only submit a paper proposal for one session per Congress. However, the MRS is careful to forward all proposals that we are unable to include in our sessions on to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the General Sessions.
The website for the International Congress on Medieval Studies may be found at the following address: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you!
Rebecca Wilcox
Co-Coordinator, Medieval Romance Society
rawilcox122@yahoo.com
Romance Temporalities
In recent years, medievalists have increasingly considered the medium of time as a dynamic position from which to analyze the medieval as we explore and question our own temporally determined relationships to the period we study. This heightened awareness of our temporal distance from our scholarly subjects has encouraged us to explore the conflations, confusions, uses, and abuses of time and periodization at work in medieval literature itself. We are no longer satisfied with the idea of histories and chronologies—whether purportedly factual or openly fictional—as linear, progressive, or innocent. Medieval romance, in particular, offers today’s readers a rich array of timely challenges, from temporal discontinuities and ahistorical moments to shifting verb tenses. The three proposed sessions of the Medieval Romance Society aim to address questions such as, “How does time function in romance?” “How does our modern understanding of medieval romance infiltrate contemporary literature?” “How do we teach medieval romance today in fun, accessible, and responsible ways?”
The Medieval Romance Society would like to invite papers that explore how we understand medieval romance in our contemporary world, both as critical researchers and as teachers of romance. We value interdisciplinarity and welcome proposals from graduate students as well as established scholars. Though papers should be presented in English, we hope to include papers on romances of multiple medieval languages.
“Once Upon a Time:” Romance Temporalities
Critics have long acknowledged the “once upon a time” trope at work in medieval romance, but we are increasingly uneasy with the innocence and “merely” fantastic or escapist motivations assumed in its deployment. This session invites reconsiderations of what kinds of temporal systems are at work in medieval romance (and why), how romance makes use of revisionary chronologies, how it imagines its pasts and futures.
Temporal Touching: Medieval Romance and Popular Culture
Although medieval romance and popular culture are distinct genres, scholars increasingly recognize the productivity of blurring the medieval/modern divide in order to examine the relevance of the medieval to the modern. This session aims to explore the transmission of medieval romance into modern popular culture and to investigate the benefits of diachronic research to medieval studies.
Time for Romance? Teaching Medieval Romance in a Modern World
How do we, as teachers, mediate the “otherness” of medieval romance in the classroom? On the one hand, we have a responsibility to help students learn about medieval cultures as distinct from our own; on the other hand, we want to help them view medieval literature as accessible and enjoyable as an object of study. This session invites papers by teachers of medieval romance to share their strategies and engage in critical exploration of the challenges of teaching romance, particularly to undergraduates.
CFP: Feminist Approaches to Medieval Art
CFP: Feminist Approaches to Medieval Art: Islam, Byzantium, and the West
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Feminist scholarship has had relatively little impact on Byzantine art history, and has yet to become visible in work on medieval Islamic art or on cross-cultural encounters. This session seeks to expand feminist discourses on medieval visual culture by extending their geographic, religious, and cultural parameters. We welcome papers that investigate feminist approaches to art of the Byzantine or Islamic traditions, as well as investigations that engage with the cross-cultural exchanges evident in material from across the medieval world.
Sponsored by the Medieval Feminist Art History Project.
Submission Details: Please submit a one-page abstract (for a 20-minute presentation) and a Participant Information Form (link below) to Marian Bleeke at m.bleeke@csuohio.edu no later than September 15, 2009.
Participant Information Form:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Feminist scholarship has had relatively little impact on Byzantine art history, and has yet to become visible in work on medieval Islamic art or on cross-cultural encounters. This session seeks to expand feminist discourses on medieval visual culture by extending their geographic, religious, and cultural parameters. We welcome papers that investigate feminist approaches to art of the Byzantine or Islamic traditions, as well as investigations that engage with the cross-cultural exchanges evident in material from across the medieval world.
Sponsored by the Medieval Feminist Art History Project.
Submission Details: Please submit a one-page abstract (for a 20-minute presentation) and a Participant Information Form (link below) to Marian Bleeke at m.bleeke@csuohio.edu no later than September 15, 2009.
Participant Information Form:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html
Locality and Community: Cheshire Sculpture in Context
Locality and Community: Cheshire Sculpture in Context
The AHRC-funded Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in partnership with
the Victoria County History, the Department of History and Archaeology,
University of Chester and the Chester Archaeology Society cordially invite
you to attend and participate in a day-long workshop to introduce the
forthcoming publication of the Cheshire and Lancashire Corpus of
Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture authored by Prof. Richard Bailey. The day
brings together a range of key specialists in interdisciplinary fields of
study examining aspects of life/ landscape/ community in the North West
region and Wales. Speakers include: Sir David Wilson (British Academy);
Dr. Alan Thacker (Victoria County History); Prof. Richard Bailey
(Newcastle University); Dr. David Griffiths (Oxford University); Prof.
Nancy Edwards (Bangor University) & Prof. Judy Jesch (University of
Nottingham).
Please join us on Saturday the 5th of September 2009. The venue is the
Grosvenor Museum in Chester. The day will commence at 10.00am and finish
at 4.00pm with a drinks reception later in the evening hosted by the
University of Chester. A charge of £20 a day and £10 for student
participants includes entry, refreshments, lunch, an optional tour of St.
John's Church and the evening reception. To register your intention to
attend please e-mail or contact Dr. Sarah Semple at Department of
Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE; 0191 334
1115, s.j.semple@durham.ac.uk. Bursaries
are available for postgraduate students covering entry, travel and
accommodation costs and applicants should send a CV to the above address
or e-mail. All cheques should be made payable to 'Durham University' and
sent to Sarah Semple at the address above. Students should send a
photocopy of their Student ID cards to guarantee a reduced price.
We look forward to welcoming you to the event.
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Dr. Sarah Semple
Lecturer in Archaeology
Secretary for the Centre of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Director of Taught Postgraduates
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
The AHRC-funded Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in partnership with
the Victoria County History, the Department of History and Archaeology,
University of Chester and the Chester Archaeology Society cordially invite
you to attend and participate in a day-long workshop to introduce the
forthcoming publication of the Cheshire and Lancashire Corpus of
Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture authored by Prof. Richard Bailey. The day
brings together a range of key specialists in interdisciplinary fields of
study examining aspects of life/ landscape/ community in the North West
region and Wales. Speakers include: Sir David Wilson (British Academy);
Dr. Alan Thacker (Victoria County History); Prof. Richard Bailey
(Newcastle University); Dr. David Griffiths (Oxford University); Prof.
Nancy Edwards (Bangor University) & Prof. Judy Jesch (University of
Nottingham).
Please join us on Saturday the 5th of September 2009. The venue is the
Grosvenor Museum in Chester. The day will commence at 10.00am and finish
at 4.00pm with a drinks reception later in the evening hosted by the
University of Chester. A charge of £20 a day and £10 for student
participants includes entry, refreshments, lunch, an optional tour of St.
John's Church and the evening reception. To register your intention to
attend please e-mail or contact Dr. Sarah Semple at Department of
Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE; 0191 334
1115, s.j.semple@durham.ac.uk
are available for postgraduate students covering entry, travel and
accommodation costs and applicants should send a CV to the above address
or e-mail. All cheques should be made payable to 'Durham University' and
sent to Sarah Semple at the address above. Students should send a
photocopy of their Student ID cards to guarantee a reduced price.
We look forward to welcoming you to the event.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Sarah Semple
Lecturer in Archaeology
Secretary for the Centre of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Director of Taught Postgraduates
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
Liminal Spaces Conference
Liminal Spaces
The Index of Christian Art in Princeton University is pleased to host a conference in honor of Pamela Sheingorn organized by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson.
The conference will be held on Friday October 30th 2009 in the Multi-Purpose Room, Frist campus Center in Princeton University.
The full program is available on the Index of Christian Art website: http://ica.Princeton.edu
The Index of Christian Art in Princeton University is pleased to host a conference in honor of Pamela Sheingorn organized by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson.
The conference will be held on Friday October 30th 2009 in the Multi-Purpose Room, Frist campus Center in Princeton University.
The full program is available on the Index of Christian Art website: http://ica.Princeton.edu
Saturday, July 25, 2009
*HEROIC AGE CFP*
Call for Papers
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 13-16, 2010
Saints of the Heroic Age and Today, a session sponsored by The Heroic
Age (http://www.heroicage.org)
The Heroic Age organizes a session that investigates which saints
from early North-Western Europe in the early medieval period (roughly
defined as between the 4th and the 13th century) still cling to life.
Some of those saints, like St. Boniface and St. Wilfrid, still have a
cult that continues to attract believers and scholars; others, such
as St. Rabanus Maurus, cling somewhat tenaciously to life; many seem
completely forgotten (Wikipedia lists 155 Anglo-Saxon saints, many of
whom are unknown to modern believers and even to many scholars).
We are interested in probing which factors allow a saint to continue
to live--personality, historical significance, written documentation
of their life and works--and what it means for an old saint to still
enjoy modern interest, that is, whether and how cults and
personalities are adapted to fit different time periods.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a completed Participant
Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper)
to Michel Aaij at maaij1@aum.edu, by 1 September 2009.
Dr. Michel Aaij
Assistant Professor
361 Liberal Arts
Department of English and Philosophy
Auburn University Montgomery
P.O. Box 244023
Montgomery, AL 36124
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 13-16, 2010
Saints of the Heroic Age and Today, a session sponsored by The Heroic
Age (http://www.heroicage.org)
The Heroic Age organizes a session that investigates which saints
from early North-Western Europe in the early medieval period (roughly
defined as between the 4th and the 13th century) still cling to life.
Some of those saints, like St. Boniface and St. Wilfrid, still have a
cult that continues to attract believers and scholars; others, such
as St. Rabanus Maurus, cling somewhat tenaciously to life; many seem
completely forgotten (Wikipedia lists 155 Anglo-Saxon saints, many of
whom are unknown to modern believers and even to many scholars).
We are interested in probing which factors allow a saint to continue
to live--personality, historical significance, written documentation
of their life and works--and what it means for an old saint to still
enjoy modern interest, that is, whether and how cults and
personalities are adapted to fit different time periods.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a completed Participant
Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper)
to Michel Aaij at maaij1@aum.edu, by 1 September 2009.
Dr. Michel Aaij
Assistant Professor
361 Liberal Arts
Department of English and Philosophy
Auburn University Montgomery
P.O. Box 244023
Montgomery, AL 36124
Journeying Along Medieval Routes: Narratives, Maps and Archaeological Traces International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 12-15 July 2010
Journeying Along Medieval Routes: Narratives, Maps and Archaeological Traces
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 12-15 July 2010
Following on from the round table 'Navigating Space' at the
International Medieval Congress 2009, we are planning a series of
interdisciplinary sessions and a round table on 'Routes' for IMC
2010's theme 'Travel and Exploration'. The proposed sessions will
investigate routes taken by medieval travellers in an
interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary way. Each session will
consider a single, specific route or places upon that route using
different varieties of evidence, such as travel narratives (widely
interpreted), contemporary maps, and archaeological traces. Routes
for consideration might include pilgrimage routes, trade routes,
routes of military expeditions (including crusades), postal networks,
land routes, and waterways (inland and maritime). We therefore invite
individual papers that, through textual, archaeological, cartographic
or other visual evidence, approach specific routes in three
broadly-defined areas: within Europe, between Europe and the eastern
Mediterranean, and within southwest Asia/ the Islamic world.
It is hoped that, through these sessions and in particular through
the round table discussion that will conclude the series, we will
raise and begin to answer a number of key questions about travelling,
routes, and space in the Middle Ages. What is the relationship
between the experience and conceptualisation of travel? What gaps
exist in the evidence for travel as a physical, economic, social and
cultural phenomenon, and can interdisciplinary work help us to bridge
these? Can interdisciplinary approaches enhance our understanding of
past experiences and conceptualisations of space, place and travel?
Please send paper proposals to Dr Alison Gascoigne, Dr Leonie Hicks
and Dr Marianne O'Doherty (University of Southampton, UK) at
l.v.hicks@soton.ac.uk by 31 August 2009.
Proposals should include
* Title
* Abstract (max 250 words)
* Your name, institution, and role
* Full postal and electronic contact details
Please also indicate whether you wish your proposal to be considered
for inclusion in an edited volume of the series of papers.
Dr Marianne O'Doherty
Lecturer in English
School of Humanities -Room 2041
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
Tel +44 (0)23 80594534
Fax +44 (0)23 80592859
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 12-15 July 2010
Following on from the round table 'Navigating Space' at the
International Medieval Congress 2009, we are planning a series of
interdisciplinary sessions and a round table on 'Routes' for IMC
2010's theme 'Travel and Exploration'. The proposed sessions will
investigate routes taken by medieval travellers in an
interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary way. Each session will
consider a single, specific route or places upon that route using
different varieties of evidence, such as travel narratives (widely
interpreted), contemporary maps, and archaeological traces. Routes
for consideration might include pilgrimage routes, trade routes,
routes of military expeditions (including crusades), postal networks,
land routes, and waterways (inland and maritime). We therefore invite
individual papers that, through textual, archaeological, cartographic
or other visual evidence, approach specific routes in three
broadly-defined areas: within Europe, between Europe and the eastern
Mediterranean, and within southwest Asia/ the Islamic world.
It is hoped that, through these sessions and in particular through
the round table discussion that will conclude the series, we will
raise and begin to answer a number of key questions about travelling,
routes, and space in the Middle Ages. What is the relationship
between the experience and conceptualisation of travel? What gaps
exist in the evidence for travel as a physical, economic, social and
cultural phenomenon, and can interdisciplinary work help us to bridge
these? Can interdisciplinary approaches enhance our understanding of
past experiences and conceptualisations of space, place and travel?
Please send paper proposals to Dr Alison Gascoigne, Dr Leonie Hicks
and Dr Marianne O'Doherty (University of Southampton, UK) at
l.v.hicks@soton.ac.uk by 31 August 2009.
Proposals should include
* Title
* Abstract (max 250 words)
* Your name, institution, and role
* Full postal and electronic contact details
Please also indicate whether you wish your proposal to be considered
for inclusion in an edited volume of the series of papers.
Dr Marianne O'Doherty
Lecturer in English
School of Humanities -Room 2041
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
Tel +44 (0)23 80594534
Fax +44 (0)23 80592859
CFP: Border Families and their Books in Northern England and in Scotland, c. 1480-c. 1620
CALL FOR PAPERS
Border Families and their Books in Northern England and in Scotland, c.
1480-c. 1620
A symposium on family books and borders in Scotland and Northern England.
Merton College, Oxford, 16-17 April 2010.
Plenary Speakers: Sally Mapstone (University of Oxford) and Priscilla
Bawcutt (University of Liverpool)
Closing remarks: Roger Mason (University of St Andrews)
Symposium Focus
An exploration of the literary activities, tastes, and book collections of
family groups based in or connected to the border regions of Northern
England and Scotland from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century.
Border regions are taken to include borders or boundaries (physical or
imagined) between Lowland and Highland Scotland, as well as Scotland and
England.
Topics may include, but are not limited to
. Prints and manuscripts (especially anthologies or miscellanies
associated with kin groups)
. Related subjects such as literary interchange between border
families, or the way in which crossing borders shaped a family's literary
pursuits and interests
. Bodies of writing by members of the same family group, or
family book collections
The organisers welcome proposals for 20-30 minute papers on these, and
related, topics. They would be particularly interested in paper proposals on
the Percy, Neville, and Howard families, and on the Maitlands, Cockburns,
Douglases, and Campbells of Glenorchy.
Submission details
Please send expressions of interest/200-word abstract, along with your name
and affiliation to either of the organisers by 1st October 2010. Further
information can be obtained by contacting the organisers, or on the
conference website:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/conference/doku.php?id=borderfamilies:ho
me
Organisers
Dr Joanna Martin Dr Kate McClune
University of Nottingham Merton College, Oxford
joanna.martin@nottingham.ac.uk katherine.mcclune@merton.ox.ac.uk
Border Families and their Books in Northern England and in Scotland, c.
1480-c. 1620
A symposium on family books and borders in Scotland and Northern England.
Merton College, Oxford, 16-17 April 2010.
Plenary Speakers: Sally Mapstone (University of Oxford) and Priscilla
Bawcutt (University of Liverpool)
Closing remarks: Roger Mason (University of St Andrews)
Symposium Focus
An exploration of the literary activities, tastes, and book collections of
family groups based in or connected to the border regions of Northern
England and Scotland from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century.
Border regions are taken to include borders or boundaries (physical or
imagined) between Lowland and Highland Scotland, as well as Scotland and
England.
Topics may include, but are not limited to
. Prints and manuscripts (especially anthologies or miscellanies
associated with kin groups)
. Related subjects such as literary interchange between border
families, or the way in which crossing borders shaped a family's literary
pursuits and interests
. Bodies of writing by members of the same family group, or
family book collections
The organisers welcome proposals for 20-30 minute papers on these, and
related, topics. They would be particularly interested in paper proposals on
the Percy, Neville, and Howard families, and on the Maitlands, Cockburns,
Douglases, and Campbells of Glenorchy.
Submission details
Please send expressions of interest/200-word abstract, along with your name
and affiliation to either of the organisers by 1st October 2010. Further
information can be obtained by contacting the organisers, or on the
conference website:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/conference/doku.php?id=borderfamilies:ho
me
Organisers
Dr Joanna Martin Dr Kate McClune
University of Nottingham Merton College, Oxford
joanna.martin@nottingham.ac.uk katherine.mcclune@merton.ox.ac.uk
CFP: Mearcstapa
*Call for Papers: *
*45th International Congress on Medieval Studies*
*May 13–16, 2010***
*Western Michigan University/ Kalamazoo*
*MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of
Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application) *is
sponsoring two sessions at the 45th International Congress on Medieval
Studies (May 13–16, 2010). The call for papers and the contact details for
each session are below. All abstracts will also be made available for
viewing on the MEARCSTAPA blog (http://medievalmonsters.blogspot.com/).
* *
* *
*1. The Monstrous, the Marvelous, and the Miraculous*
Much critical attention is currently being directed at the monstrous in the
Middle Ages, but the category is, by its very nature, difficult to define. It
bleeds at the edges into other fundamental categories, most notably the
marvelous and the miraculous. On one end of this spectrum, we find
horrifying, homophagic nightmares and, on the other, direct evidence for the
power and mercy of God.
While these two extremes seem, at a glance, to have little in common, they
both were marvelous, deserving and inspiring our wonder on account of lying
outside of the realm of the everyday. Both were therefore viewed as signs of
God's divinity and divine plan for the universe. In this session, we will
interrogate the blurred boundaries between these richly ambiguous
epistemological categories, not striving to artificially sharpen their
boundaries but rather, seeking greater nuance in our understandings of all
three.
Please send abstracts of 300 words, along with a completed Participant
Information Form (
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper), to
Melissa Ridley-Elmes at melissaelmes@carlbrook.org by 1 September 2009.
*2. Unexpected Monsters: Close Encounters of the Other Kind *
Typically, in medieval imagination, monsters appear in liminal spaces, in
spaces outside of the civilized realm of the court. In literature they might
appear in the forests and deserts, or in the mountain ranges, while on
medieval maps they might appear in peripheral spaces, in the uncharted
regions on the edges of the world. In such instances, they often represent
all that is other, different, dangerous... the unknown. But what happens
when the monster is local? Internal? This panel proposes to explore
instances of unexpected monstrosity or otherness within within medieval
imaginings—instances of difference that occur at the level of the local and
familiar, or within the self. Papers are invited that explore such
interpretations of monstrosity within literature, art, and architecture (or
in medieval culture at large).
Please send abstracts of 300 words, along with a completed Participant
Information Form (
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper), to
Renée Ward at rmward@ualberta.ca by 1 September 2009.
*45th International Congress on Medieval Studies*
*May 13–16, 2010***
*Western Michigan University/ Kalamazoo*
*MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of
Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application) *is
sponsoring two sessions at the 45th International Congress on Medieval
Studies (May 13–16, 2010). The call for papers and the contact details for
each session are below. All abstracts will also be made available for
viewing on the MEARCSTAPA blog (http://medievalmonsters.blogspot.com/).
* *
* *
*1. The Monstrous, the Marvelous, and the Miraculous*
Much critical attention is currently being directed at the monstrous in the
Middle Ages, but the category is, by its very nature, difficult to define. It
bleeds at the edges into other fundamental categories, most notably the
marvelous and the miraculous. On one end of this spectrum, we find
horrifying, homophagic nightmares and, on the other, direct evidence for the
power and mercy of God.
While these two extremes seem, at a glance, to have little in common, they
both were marvelous, deserving and inspiring our wonder on account of lying
outside of the realm of the everyday. Both were therefore viewed as signs of
God's divinity and divine plan for the universe. In this session, we will
interrogate the blurred boundaries between these richly ambiguous
epistemological categories, not striving to artificially sharpen their
boundaries but rather, seeking greater nuance in our understandings of all
three.
Please send abstracts of 300 words, along with a completed Participant
Information Form (
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper), to
Melissa Ridley-Elmes at melissaelmes@carlbrook.org by 1 September 2009.
*2. Unexpected Monsters: Close Encounters of the Other Kind *
Typically, in medieval imagination, monsters appear in liminal spaces, in
spaces outside of the civilized realm of the court. In literature they might
appear in the forests and deserts, or in the mountain ranges, while on
medieval maps they might appear in peripheral spaces, in the uncharted
regions on the edges of the world. In such instances, they often represent
all that is other, different, dangerous... the unknown. But what happens
when the monster is local? Internal? This panel proposes to explore
instances of unexpected monstrosity or otherness within within medieval
imaginings—instances of difference that occur at the level of the local and
familiar, or within the self. Papers are invited that explore such
interpretations of monstrosity within literature, art, and architecture (or
in medieval culture at large).
Please send abstracts of 300 words, along with a completed Participant
Information Form (
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper), to
Renée Ward at rmward@ualberta.ca by 1 September 2009.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
CFP: The Glamour of Grammar (Kalamazoo 2010)
CFP: The Glamour of Grammar (Kalamazoo 2010)
(With apologies for cross-posting)
If conventional, twenty-first-century thinking holds that grammar is a dull set of descriptions and prescriptions consisting only of skeletal schemes of morphology and syntax, it is worth remembering that these structures have crystallized out of a more dynamic mass of language. Grammar is theory—a way of seeing patterns and paradigms that only become visible when one steps back from mundane, everyday exchanges (which for the most part do not extend beyond immediate concerns—and can often be negotiated nonverbally) and seeks to comprehend the rules that permit more complex interactions.
Grammar, then, is not the province of pedants. Instead, it is a generative matrix for projects of inquiry. Just as mathematics and music have structures that provide the basis for more complicated operations (e.g., multiplication tables and scales), what the French call the “human sciences” (sciences humaines) and the Germans the “sciences of the spirit” (Geisteswissenschaften) rely upon grammar—elementary patterns distilled from the best exemplars of linguistic performance, literary or otherwise—to actuate their potential.
This panel takes its inspiration from the learned and stimulating explorations of medieval grammatical culture by scholars such as Martin Irvine, Vivien Law, and Rita Copeland. The session will be open to a variety of approaches: inventive readings of grammatical texts, discussions of medieval literature about grammar, literary analyses that are particularly attuned to questions of grammar, philosophies of grammar, and the relationship of 'grammatica' to literary theory, composition, and pedagogy. We hope for careful, reflective, and playful approaches to "la grammaire, qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois!"
Please send your abstract and the Participant Information Form to Erik Butler (hbutle2 – at – emory.edu) and Irina Dumitrescu (idumitrescu – at – smu.edu) by September 15, 2009. Papers will be a maximum of twenty minutes long.
Participant Information Form available at: http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF
(With apologies for cross-posting)
If conventional, twenty-first-century thinking holds that grammar is a dull set of descriptions and prescriptions consisting only of skeletal schemes of morphology and syntax, it is worth remembering that these structures have crystallized out of a more dynamic mass of language. Grammar is theory—a way of seeing patterns and paradigms that only become visible when one steps back from mundane, everyday exchanges (which for the most part do not extend beyond immediate concerns—and can often be negotiated nonverbally) and seeks to comprehend the rules that permit more complex interactions.
Grammar, then, is not the province of pedants. Instead, it is a generative matrix for projects of inquiry. Just as mathematics and music have structures that provide the basis for more complicated operations (e.g., multiplication tables and scales), what the French call the “human sciences” (sciences humaines) and the Germans the “sciences of the spirit” (Geisteswissenschaften) rely upon grammar—elementary patterns distilled from the best exemplars of linguistic performance, literary or otherwise—to actuate their potential.
This panel takes its inspiration from the learned and stimulating explorations of medieval grammatical culture by scholars such as Martin Irvine, Vivien Law, and Rita Copeland. The session will be open to a variety of approaches: inventive readings of grammatical texts, discussions of medieval literature about grammar, literary analyses that are particularly attuned to questions of grammar, philosophies of grammar, and the relationship of 'grammatica' to literary theory, composition, and pedagogy. We hope for careful, reflective, and playful approaches to "la grammaire, qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois!"
Please send your abstract and the Participant Information Form to Erik Butler (hbutle2 – at – emory.edu) and Irina Dumitrescu (idumitrescu – at – smu.edu) by September 15, 2009. Papers will be a maximum of twenty minutes long.
Participant Information Form available at: http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF
Monday, July 20, 2009
Society for Medieval Germanic Studies CFP
The Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (http://ll.truman.edu/smgsweb/) will offer
four sessions on New Research in Medieval German Literature at the 45th International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010.
The themes are:
*Space, place
and movement in medieval German literature
*Minnesang and maeren
*Translating
into and from medieval German
*Open topic
Papers may be in
English or German. Please send questions and abstracts (max. 1 page) to both
session organizers by 15 September to:
Alexander Sager
Associate
Professor of German
Universityof Georgia
Department of
Germanic & Slavic Studies
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-6211
Fax: 706-583-0349
asager@uga.edu
Evelyn Meyer
Assistant
Professor of German
Saint LouisUniversity
Department of
Modern & Classical Languages
314 Ritter Hall
St. Louis, MO 63103
314-977-7254
Fax:
314-977-1495
emeyer16@slu.edu
four sessions on New Research in Medieval German Literature at the 45th International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010.
The themes are:
*Space, place
and movement in medieval German literature
*Minnesang and maeren
*Translating
into and from medieval German
*Open topic
Papers may be in
English or German. Please send questions and abstracts (max. 1 page) to both
session organizers by 15 September to:
Alexander Sager
Associate
Professor of German
Universityof Georgia
Department of
Germanic & Slavic Studies
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-6211
Fax: 706-583-0349
asager@uga.edu
Evelyn Meyer
Assistant
Professor of German
Saint LouisUniversity
Department of
Modern & Classical Languages
314 Ritter Hall
St. Louis, MO 63103
314-977-7254
Fax:
314-977-1495
emeyer16@slu.edu
Isas Program Up
The final conference program and abstracts are now up on the official
conference website at:
http://www.arts.mun.ca/isas/index.php
conference website at:
http://www.arts.mun.ca/isas/index.php
CALL FOR PAPERS: LATE ANTIQUITY
CALL FOR PAPERS: LATE ANTIQUITY The Society for Late
Antiquity will be sponsoring three sessions at the International Medieval
Studies Congress, May 13-16, 2010, at Western Michigan University in
Kalamazoo,
Mich. As in the past, topics are open. One-page abstracts for 15-minute papers
are invited relating to the history, literature, religion, art, archaeology,
culture, and society of Late Antiquity (that is, the European, North African,
and Western Asian world ca. 250-750). Attention should be given to how the
paper relates to Late Antiquity as a discrete period with its own individual
characteristics. Abstracts may be forwarded, preferably by e-mail, to Ralph
Mathisen at ralphwm@illinois.edu.and ruricius@msn.com. Deadline for receipt of
abstracts is September 15, 2010. Please note that with the exception of a few
awards (information available from conference organizers at
http://www.wmich.edu/ medieval/congress) there is no travel funding available
for participants, and that the submission of an abstract carries with
it a commitment
to attend the conference should the abstract be accepted. Thank you, and with
apologies for cross-posting, Ralph W. Mathisen Professor, History, Classics,
and Medieval Studies Department of History, Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana, IL 61801
USA. Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity and Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity;
Director, Biographical Database for Late Antiquity; Administrator: LTANTIQ,
NUMISM-L, PROSOP-L. Phone: 217-244-5249 FAX: 217-333-2297
Antiquity will be sponsoring three sessions at the International Medieval
Studies Congress, May 13-16, 2010, at Western Michigan University in
Kalamazoo,
Mich. As in the past, topics are open. One-page abstracts for 15-minute papers
are invited relating to the history, literature, religion, art, archaeology,
culture, and society of Late Antiquity (that is, the European, North African,
and Western Asian world ca. 250-750). Attention should be given to how the
paper relates to Late Antiquity as a discrete period with its own individual
characteristics. Abstracts may be forwarded, preferably by e-mail, to Ralph
Mathisen at ralphwm@illinois.edu.and ruricius@msn.com. Deadline for receipt of
abstracts is September 15, 2010. Please note that with the exception of a few
awards (information available from conference organizers at
http://www.wmich.edu/ medieval/congress) there is no travel funding available
for participants, and that the submission of an abstract carries with
it a commitment
to attend the conference should the abstract be accepted. Thank you, and with
apologies for cross-posting, Ralph W. Mathisen Professor, History, Classics,
and Medieval Studies Department of History, Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana, IL 61801
USA. Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity and Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity;
Director, Biographical Database for Late Antiquity; Administrator: LTANTIQ,
NUMISM-L, PROSOP-L. Phone: 217-244-5249 FAX: 217-333-2297
CFP: Political Theology in the Middle Ages
CFP: Political Theology in the Middle Ages
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
This panel asks for papers which explore what medieval studies can
gain from the perspective of "political theology" -- a term which has
been widely known to medievalists (through Ernst Kantorowicz's The
King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology) but which
has lately gained new prominence through the work of theorists such as
Agamben, Zizek, Badiou, and Carl Schmitt, as well as that of
medievalists such as Kathleen Biddick and Kathleen Davis. We welcome
papers which explore the following questions: Does the study of
"political theology" differ from the traditional study of medieval
political thought? Can this perspective enter into dialogue with, or
render a critique of, those traditional studies? What sources and
methodologies are appropriate to it? Do medieval theological
conceptions of sovereignty persist in our own era, and if so, how? How
do theological conceptions of sovereignty relate to the themes of
secularity, periodization, biopower, legality, and colonialism in the
medieval period? Papers dealing with all geographical regions and
medieval periods are welcome.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information
to Matthew Brown at mbrown5@nd.edu no later than September 15, 2009
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
This panel asks for papers which explore what medieval studies can
gain from the perspective of "political theology" -- a term which has
been widely known to medievalists (through Ernst Kantorowicz's The
King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology) but which
has lately gained new prominence through the work of theorists such as
Agamben, Zizek, Badiou, and Carl Schmitt, as well as that of
medievalists such as Kathleen Biddick and Kathleen Davis. We welcome
papers which explore the following questions: Does the study of
"political theology" differ from the traditional study of medieval
political thought? Can this perspective enter into dialogue with, or
render a critique of, those traditional studies? What sources and
methodologies are appropriate to it? Do medieval theological
conceptions of sovereignty persist in our own era, and if so, how? How
do theological conceptions of sovereignty relate to the themes of
secularity, periodization, biopower, legality, and colonialism in the
medieval period? Papers dealing with all geographical regions and
medieval periods are welcome.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information
to Matthew Brown at mbrown5@nd.edu no later than September 15, 2009
The MHRA is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 9 in the
Critical Texts series: an edition of Istoire de la Chastelaine du
Vergier et de Tristan le Chevalier, prepared by Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine.
This is a critical edition of a short text of the 15th century
entitled Istoire de la Chastelaine du Vergier et de Tristan le
Chevalier -- a late prose version of the Chastelaine de Vergi which
had enjoyed great success and was much imitated in different European
literatures from the 15th to the 16th century (including the seventy
nouvelles of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559)).
The volume includes an introduction, a comparative study of the verse
and the prose versions, a description of the manuscript, and a study
of the language, as well as notes, a glossary, an index, and a
bibliography.
Full details, including a preview of the book, are available from
http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/kosta.html
Critical Texts series: an edition of Istoire de la Chastelaine du
Vergier et de Tristan le Chevalier, prepared by Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine.
This is a critical edition of a short text of the 15th century
entitled Istoire de la Chastelaine du Vergier et de Tristan le
Chevalier -- a late prose version of the Chastelaine de Vergi which
had enjoyed great success and was much imitated in different European
literatures from the 15th to the 16th century (including the seventy
nouvelles of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559)).
The volume includes an introduction, a comparative study of the verse
and the prose versions, a description of the manuscript, and a study
of the language, as well as notes, a glossary, an index, and a
bibliography.
Full details, including a preview of the book, are available from
http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/kosta.html
Aux origines d’une diplomatie méditerranéenne Conference Announcement and CFP
Universit̩ de Lorraine РC.R.U.L.H.
Universit̩ de Nantes РC.R.H.I.A.
Colloque international
14-15-16 octobre 2010
Aux origines d’une diplomatie méditerranéenne
Les ambassadeurs, moyens humains de la diplomatie.
(Antiquité romaine et Haut Moyen-Âge)
Cher(e) Collègue,
Le Centre Régional Universitaire Lorrain d’Histoire de l’Université
de Lorraine en collaboration avec le Centre de Recherches en Histoire
Internationale et Atlantique de l’Université de Nantes, organise du
jeudi 14 au samedi 16 octobre 2010, Ã Metz (UFR des Sciences Humaines et
des Arts), un colloque international consacré aux ambassadeurs comme
moyens humains de la diplomatie dans l’Antiquité romaine et au haut
Moyen Âge.
Nous serions heureux que vous puissiez participer à ce colloque, et
proposer une communication sur l’un des sujets abordés (elles dureront
25 minutes). Si tel est le cas, nous vous prions de nous faire part
d’un titre, même provisoire, pour le 1er octobre 2009, au plus
tard. Un long résumé de votre communication vous sera demandé pour la
seconde partie de l’été 2010. Vous pouvez envoyez ces documents Ã
l’une des adresses électroniques suivantes :
becker_piriou@univ-metz.fr
nicolas.drocourt@wanadoo.fr ; nicolas.drocourt@univ-nantes.fr
Nous souhaitons vivement qu’il vous soit possible de donner suite Ã
cette demande et restons à votre disposition pour toute information
complémentaire.
Dans l’attente de votre réponse, nous vous prions d’agréer, cher(e)
collègue, nos salutations les plus cordiales.
Audrey Becker-Piriou (Université de Metz), Nicolas Drocourt (Université
de Nantes)
Universit̩ de Nantes РC.R.H.I.A.
Colloque international
14-15-16 octobre 2010
Aux origines d’une diplomatie méditerranéenne
Les ambassadeurs, moyens humains de la diplomatie.
(Antiquité romaine et Haut Moyen-Âge)
Cher(e) Collègue,
Le Centre Régional Universitaire Lorrain d’Histoire de l’Université
de Lorraine en collaboration avec le Centre de Recherches en Histoire
Internationale et Atlantique de l’Université de Nantes, organise du
jeudi 14 au samedi 16 octobre 2010, Ã Metz (UFR des Sciences Humaines et
des Arts), un colloque international consacré aux ambassadeurs comme
moyens humains de la diplomatie dans l’Antiquité romaine et au haut
Moyen Âge.
Nous serions heureux que vous puissiez participer à ce colloque, et
proposer une communication sur l’un des sujets abordés (elles dureront
25 minutes). Si tel est le cas, nous vous prions de nous faire part
d’un titre, même provisoire, pour le 1er octobre 2009, au plus
tard. Un long résumé de votre communication vous sera demandé pour la
seconde partie de l’été 2010. Vous pouvez envoyez ces documents Ã
l’une des adresses électroniques suivantes :
becker_piriou@univ-metz.fr
nicolas.drocourt@wanadoo.fr ; nicolas.drocourt@univ-nantes.fr
Nous souhaitons vivement qu’il vous soit possible de donner suite Ã
cette demande et restons à votre disposition pour toute information
complémentaire.
Dans l’attente de votre réponse, nous vous prions d’agréer, cher(e)
collègue, nos salutations les plus cordiales.
Audrey Becker-Piriou (Université de Metz), Nicolas Drocourt (Université
de Nantes)
NEW SCHOLARS PROGRAM: The Bibliographical Society of America
NEW SCHOLARS PROGRAM
THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars
in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on
their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as
members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which takes
place in New York City in late January. The New Scholars Program seeks
to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of
bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with
the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception,
transmission, and subsequent history of texts as material objects (print
or manuscript). Papers of New Scholars are published in the December
issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America as part of
the proceedings of the annual meeting.
Junior (i.e., untenured) faculty and graduate students at the
dissertation level are eligible, as are professional librarians, members
of the book trade, and book collectors who are at the beginning of their
careers. Candidates should submit a letter of application, an abstract
of not more than 250 words, and a curriculum vitae. Graduate students
should also submit a letter of recommendation from their dissertation
director. For submissions to be considered for the following January,
materials should be received by July 31. Please address and send
applications (preferably via email) to:
New Scholars Program
Bibliographical Society of America
P.O. Box 1537
Lenox Hill Station
New York, NY 10021
email: bsa@bibsocamer.org
New Scholars selected for the panel receive a subvention of $600 toward
the cost of attendance at the annual meeting and a complimentary
one-year membership in the Bibliographical Society of America. For
further information on the Society, see http://www.bibsocamer.org.
Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to John Buchtel at
.
-John Buchtel
Chair, New Scholars Program
The Bibliographical Society of America
-- * * * * * * * * * * * *
John A. Buchtel, Ph.D.
Head, Special Collections Research Center
Lauinger Library, Georgetown University
37th and N Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20057-1174
Voice: (202) 687-7475; Fax: (202) 687-7501
jb593@georgetown.edu
THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars
in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on
their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as
members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which takes
place in New York City in late January. The New Scholars Program seeks
to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of
bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with
the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception,
transmission, and subsequent history of texts as material objects (print
or manuscript). Papers of New Scholars are published in the December
issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America as part of
the proceedings of the annual meeting.
Junior (i.e., untenured) faculty and graduate students at the
dissertation level are eligible, as are professional librarians, members
of the book trade, and book collectors who are at the beginning of their
careers. Candidates should submit a letter of application, an abstract
of not more than 250 words, and a curriculum vitae. Graduate students
should also submit a letter of recommendation from their dissertation
director. For submissions to be considered for the following January,
materials should be received by July 31. Please address and send
applications (preferably via email) to:
New Scholars Program
Bibliographical Society of America
P.O. Box 1537
Lenox Hill Station
New York, NY 10021
email: bsa@bibsocamer.org
New Scholars selected for the panel receive a subvention of $600 toward
the cost of attendance at the annual meeting and a complimentary
one-year membership in the Bibliographical Society of America. For
further information on the Society, see http://www.bibsocamer.org.
Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to John Buchtel at
-John Buchtel
Chair, New Scholars Program
The Bibliographical Society of America
-- * * * * * * * * * * * *
John A. Buchtel, Ph.D.
Head, Special Collections Research Center
Lauinger Library, Georgetown University
37th and N Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20057-1174
Voice: (202) 687-7475; Fax: (202) 687-7501
jb593@georgetown.edu
Florilegium CFP
CALL for PAPERS - with apologies for x-postings.
Florilegium, the journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists /
Société canadienne
des médiévistes, invites papers on any aspect of Late Antiquity and
the Middle Ages
(including the post-medieval representation of the medieval period).
Submissions
should reach the editor by about the end of September 2009.
Potential contributors
need not be members of CSM/SCM.
Submissions are refereed in a double-blind review by international
and Canadian
specialists. Papers must not contain any indication of authorship
and must not be
published or submitted elsewhere.
Manuscripts should normally not exceed 9,000 words, including notes
and bibliography,
and should be formatted according to Chicago style. Please keep notes
as spare as
possible. Papers may be written in either English or French. All
submissions will
be acknowledged. Please include both email and postal addresses.
Electronic submissions (in WordPerfect or MS Word) should be sent to
the editor at
.
Alternatively, hardcopy submissions (3 copies please) may be mailed to:
Dr. A. E. Christa Canitz
Editor, Florilegium
Department of English
University of New Brunswick
19 Macaulay Lane
Fredericton, NB
Canada E3B 5A3
Enquiries are welcome and should be addressed to the editor at
.
Florilegium, the journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists /
Société canadienne
des médiévistes, invites papers on any aspect of Late Antiquity and
the Middle Ages
(including the post-medieval representation of the medieval period).
Submissions
should reach the editor by about the end of September 2009.
Potential contributors
need not be members of CSM/SCM.
Submissions are refereed in a double-blind review by international
and Canadian
specialists. Papers must not contain any indication of authorship
and must not be
published or submitted elsewhere.
Manuscripts should normally not exceed 9,000 words, including notes
and bibliography,
and should be formatted according to Chicago style. Please keep notes
as spare as
possible. Papers may be written in either English or French. All
submissions will
be acknowledged. Please include both email and postal addresses.
Electronic submissions (in WordPerfect or MS Word) should be sent to
the editor at
Alternatively, hardcopy submissions (3 copies please) may be mailed to:
Dr. A. E. Christa Canitz
Editor, Florilegium
Department of English
University of New Brunswick
19 Macaulay Lane
Fredericton, NB
Canada E3B 5A3
Enquiries are welcome and should be addressed to the editor at
SEMA Registration Open
Dear colleagues,
Just a note to let everyone know that online registration for the 2009 Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting (October 15-17) is now up and running.
For more information, and to register, follow this link:
https://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/registration
Please direct any questions about registration or about the conference in general either to me (early.rachel@gmail.com) or to Lynn Ramey (lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu).
We look forward to seeing you in Nashville this coming October,
Rachel Early
Graduate Student, Department of French and Italian
Vanderbilt University
Just a note to let everyone know that online registration for the 2009 Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting (October 15-17) is now up and running.
For more information, and to register, follow this link:
https://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/registration
Please direct any questions about registration or about the conference in general either to me (early.rachel@gmail.com) or to Lynn Ramey (lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu).
We look forward to seeing you in Nashville this coming October,
Rachel Early
Graduate Student, Department of French and Italian
Vanderbilt University
2009 Deerhurst Lecture
The 2009 Deerhurst Lecture will take place on Saturday 12 September 2009
at 7.30 pm at St Mary's Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. The lecture
will be given by Professor Malcolm Thurlby of York University, Toronto,
on the subject of
'Deerhurst Priory: architectural developments in the later 11th and the
12th centuries'. Tickets will be available at the door or from Sue
Coggin on 01452-780412. Further information will be found at
www.deerhurstfriends.co.uk.
at 7.30 pm at St Mary's Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. The lecture
will be given by Professor Malcolm Thurlby of York University, Toronto,
on the subject of
'Deerhurst Priory: architectural developments in the later 11th and the
12th centuries'. Tickets will be available at the door or from Sue
Coggin on 01452-780412. Further information will be found at
www.deerhurstfriends.co.uk.
Pearl-Poet Society CFP K'zoo 2010
The Pearl-Poet Society is sponsoring the following five sessions at
the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 13-16 May 2009
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo):
I. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian Tradition
II. Teaching the Pearl-Poet: Techniques for Survey Courses (Roundtable)
III. "Teccheles termes of talkyng noble": Vows, Courtesy, and Social
Interactions in the Pearl-Poems
IV. Touching the Heart: What Draws Us to the Pearl-Poet? (Panel Discussion)
V. The Post-medieval Pearl-Poet: Contexts and Continuities of
Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
We invite abstracts from scholars of all levels, from graduate
student to senior academic. Please submit a one-page abstract and the
appropriate covering sheet
(http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions/index.html) to
the desired session. Papers are to be no more than 20 minutes, and
the deadline for submissions is September 15, 2009. Submissions and
inquiries may be sent to:
Adrienne J. Odasso
University of York
Centre for Medieval Studies
King's Manor, Exhibition Square
York YO1 7EP
UNITED KINGDOM
the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 13-16 May 2009
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo):
I. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian Tradition
II. Teaching the Pearl-Poet: Techniques for Survey Courses (Roundtable)
III. "Teccheles termes of talkyng noble": Vows, Courtesy, and Social
Interactions in the Pearl-Poems
IV. Touching the Heart: What Draws Us to the Pearl-Poet? (Panel Discussion)
V. The Post-medieval Pearl-Poet: Contexts and Continuities of
Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
We invite abstracts from scholars of all levels, from graduate
student to senior academic. Please submit a one-page abstract and the
appropriate covering sheet
(http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions/index.html) to
the desired session. Papers are to be no more than 20 minutes, and
the deadline for submissions is September 15, 2009. Submissions and
inquiries may be sent to:
Adrienne J. Odasso
University of York
Centre for Medieval Studies
King's Manor, Exhibition Square
York YO1 7EP
UNITED KINGDOM
Blockbooks in Bavaria
Dear colleagues,
since the start of this year, a project for the digitization and
cataloguing of all blockbooks in Bavarian collections (currently c.
90 blockbooks from 14 collections) is under way at the Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek in Munich.
Further information is available on the project homepage:
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=kurzauswahl&l=de&adr=mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?projekt=1236933450&recherche=ja&ordnung=sigAt the moment, 54 blockbooks from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,
Bibliothek Otto Schäfer in Schweinfurt and Kirchen-Kapitelsbibliothek
Schwabach are accessible in full colour digital reproductions with
short descriptions. Full descriptions will be created in the course
of the project.
Best wishes,
Bettina Wagner
since the start of this year, a project for the digitization and
cataloguing of all blockbooks in Bavarian collections (currently c.
90 blockbooks from 14 collections) is under way at the Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek in Munich.
Further information is available on the project homepage:
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=kurzauswahl&l=de&adr=mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?projekt=1236933450&recherche=ja&ordnung=sigAt the moment, 54 blockbooks from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,
Bibliothek Otto Schäfer in Schweinfurt and Kirchen-Kapitelsbibliothek
Schwabach are accessible in full colour digital reproductions with
short descriptions. Full descriptions will be created in the course
of the project.
Best wishes,
Bettina Wagner
Friday, July 17, 2009
CFP Redux: Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art
Session to be held at the 2010 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13-16 May
Sponsored by the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)
Organizer: Ben C. Tilghman (Walters Art Museum)
This session will consider the important role that the size of an art object, particularly smallness, plays in shaping the way that its beholders relate to it and thus understand it. Scale is one of the most important physical aspects of a work of art: large and small objects require different investments of time and resources, elicit different responses from their beholders, and reflect the varying purposes which works were meant to serve. Nonetheless, scale has rarely been considered in depth by art historians. The works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gaston Bachelard, and Susan Stewart form a basic theoretical foundation for considering small things, and John Mack has recently offered a general consideration of small art across cultures, but we remain far from a full account of the phenomenology of smallness in art.
Medieval art offers a particularly rich field for pursuing such an account. Whether in miniature books of hours, intricately carved ivories, portable altars, or architectural reliquaries, miniaturization plays a key role in many works of medieval art. This session is open to both broad-based thematic surveys and focused studies on specific objects, but all the papers will deepen our theoretical understanding of miniaturization and smallness as a whole. Possible themes to be considered include but are not limited to: economics and trade, portability and dislocation, gender differentiation, meditation and absorption, the concept of the simulacrum, intimacy and distance, sentimentality, marginalization, and magic.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: September 15, 2009
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
1. Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
2. Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#ACS)
3. CV with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number
Abstracts and enquiries should be directed to Ben Tilghman at:
btilghman@gmail.com (preferred)
or
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art
Session to be held at the 2010 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13-16 May
Sponsored by the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)
Organizer: Ben C. Tilghman (Walters Art Museum)
This session will consider the important role that the size of an art object, particularly smallness, plays in shaping the way that its beholders relate to it and thus understand it. Scale is one of the most important physical aspects of a work of art: large and small objects require different investments of time and resources, elicit different responses from their beholders, and reflect the varying purposes which works were meant to serve. Nonetheless, scale has rarely been considered in depth by art historians. The works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gaston Bachelard, and Susan Stewart form a basic theoretical foundation for considering small things, and John Mack has recently offered a general consideration of small art across cultures, but we remain far from a full account of the phenomenology of smallness in art.
Medieval art offers a particularly rich field for pursuing such an account. Whether in miniature books of hours, intricately carved ivories, portable altars, or architectural reliquaries, miniaturization plays a key role in many works of medieval art. This session is open to both broad-based thematic surveys and focused studies on specific objects, but all the papers will deepen our theoretical understanding of miniaturization and smallness as a whole. Possible themes to be considered include but are not limited to: economics and trade, portability and dislocation, gender differentiation, meditation and absorption, the concept of the simulacrum, intimacy and distance, sentimentality, marginalization, and magic.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: September 15, 2009
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
1. Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
2. Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#ACS)
3. CV with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number
Abstracts and enquiries should be directed to Ben Tilghman at:
btilghman@gmail.com (preferred)
or
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Medieval News of the Week
Document dating back to 1216 found at Brock
8th century Islamic vase found in Japan
Remains of a medieval castle at the gates between Gipuzkoa and Alava
Introduction to Medieval Aviculture
Medieval finds at university dig
World's oldest bible published in full online
Archaeology team get to work at Medieval Village
Cambridge yields Anglo-Saxon remains
Archeologists unearth early medieval village in Espoo, Finland
Ancient boat reveals shipbuilding skills of Java’s seafarers
Copernicus Had Blue Eyes
The Medieval Warm Period linked to the success of Machu Picchu, Inca
Empire
8th century Islamic vase found in Japan
Remains of a medieval castle at the gates between Gipuzkoa and Alava
Introduction to Medieval Aviculture
Medieval finds at university dig
World's oldest bible published in full online
Archaeology team get to work at Medieval Village
Cambridge yields Anglo-Saxon remains
Archeologists unearth early medieval village in Espoo, Finland
Ancient boat reveals shipbuilding skills of Java’s seafarers
Copernicus Had Blue Eyes
The Medieval Warm Period linked to the success of Machu Picchu, Inca
Empire
Sunday, July 12, 2009
CFP: Second Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES)
> Call for Papers
> Second Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and
Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES)
> Medieval and Early Modern Authorship
> 30 June – 2 July 2010, University of Geneva
> Confirmed keynote speakers:
> Colin Burrow (Oxford)
> Patrick Cheney (Penn State)
> Helen Cooper (Cambridge)
> Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
> Robert Edwards (Penn State)
> Alastair Minnis (Yale)
> Authorship has come to the forefront of medieval and early modern
English studies in recent years. The objective of this conference is
to take stock of a duly socialized form of authorship which
> recognizes that while authors have agency, that agency is
> circumscribed by the multi-faceted social, legal, institutional, and
intertextual pressures within which authorship takes place.
> Contributions are invited on any aspect of medieval and early modern
authorship. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
> • The history of authorship – The pre-history: authorship in
> antiquity; the history of medieval authorship; the reception of
Chaucer and/or other medieval authors in early modern England; the
history of early modern authorship; the post-history: from early
modern to modern authorship
> • Authorship and critical theory – Eliot, Bloom, Barthes, Foucault and
beyond: theorizing the medieval and/or early modern author
> • Authorship and its social contexts – Authorship and gender;
> authorship and censorship; authorship and patronage; the economics of
authorship; early professional authorship; authorship and
> copyright, authorship and the law; authorship, forgery and
> plagiarism; authorship and the culture of authority; authorship and
anonymity
> • Authorship and its literary contexts – Authorship, imitation,
intertextuality; authorship and literary style; authorship in
> medieval and/or early modern literary theory
> • Authorship and the theatre – Authorship and playwriting;
> authorship and theatrical collaboration; authorship and acting
> • Authorship and literary genres – Authorship and genre; authorship
and early ‘lives of the poets’; the ‘I’ in medieval and early modern
poetry; authorship and commendatory verse; authorship and miscellanies
• Authorship and the material text – Authorship and paratext;
> authorship and the book trade; authorship and the scriptorium;
authorship and publication; authorship and media: manuscript, and
print
> • Medieval and early modern literary careers – Authorship and the
Virgilian cursus; Spenser, Jonson, Milton and print-constructed
careers; careers of medieval and early modern female writers
> • Constructing the medieval and early modern author through the
centuries – The Making of ‘Chaucer’, ‘Gower’, ‘Langland’, ‘Malory’,
‘Marlowe’, ‘Sidney’, ‘Shakespeare’, ‘Donne’, ‘Milton’
> • Authorship attribution – Modern methods of determining medieval and
early modern authorship; Chaucer and the Chaucer apocrypha: authorship
and co-authorship questions; Shakespeare and the
> Shakespeare apocrypha: authorship and co-authorship questions; the
case of Middleton: collaboration, authorship, and The Collected Works;
disputed authorship attributions: from Shakespeare and the Funeral
Elegy to Milton and de doctrina Christiana; editing,
> authorship, and authorial intention
> Proposals for full panels are welcome. These should include three
proposed speakers, including, or in addition to, a chair and/or a
respondent. Individual papers will be grouped with two others.
Parallel sessions will last an hour and a half, which means that
papers should usually be no longer than 20 minutes to leave
> sufficient time for discussion.
> The final deadline for proposals is 15 January 2010, but early
submissions are encouraged. Proposals should contain a title, an
abstract (ca. 200 to 400 words) as well as a short bio sketch (no more
than 100 words). Proposals will be reviewed in the weeks
> following their submission, so that prospective participants will
usually be notified of the decision within a month of reception of the
proposal.
> Proposals should be sent to authorship2010@unige.ch. The conference
website can be accessed via http://www.samemes.org.
> A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in
a collection (in the SPELL series).
> For the conference organizers,
> Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)
> --
> President of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern
English Studies (SAMEMES)
> Département d'anglais
> Faculté des Lettres
> Université de Genève
> 5, Rue de Candolle
> CH-1211 Genève
> ph: +41 22 379 70 34 / +41 22 379 70 27
> fax: +41 22 320 04 97
> http://www.unige.ch/lettres/angle/index_en.html
> Second Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and
Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES)
> Medieval and Early Modern Authorship
> 30 June – 2 July 2010, University of Geneva
> Confirmed keynote speakers:
> Colin Burrow (Oxford)
> Patrick Cheney (Penn State)
> Helen Cooper (Cambridge)
> Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
> Robert Edwards (Penn State)
> Alastair Minnis (Yale)
> Authorship has come to the forefront of medieval and early modern
English studies in recent years. The objective of this conference is
to take stock of a duly socialized form of authorship which
> recognizes that while authors have agency, that agency is
> circumscribed by the multi-faceted social, legal, institutional, and
intertextual pressures within which authorship takes place.
> Contributions are invited on any aspect of medieval and early modern
authorship. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
> • The history of authorship – The pre-history: authorship in
> antiquity; the history of medieval authorship; the reception of
Chaucer and/or other medieval authors in early modern England; the
history of early modern authorship; the post-history: from early
modern to modern authorship
> • Authorship and critical theory – Eliot, Bloom, Barthes, Foucault and
beyond: theorizing the medieval and/or early modern author
> • Authorship and its social contexts – Authorship and gender;
> authorship and censorship; authorship and patronage; the economics of
authorship; early professional authorship; authorship and
> copyright, authorship and the law; authorship, forgery and
> plagiarism; authorship and the culture of authority; authorship and
anonymity
> • Authorship and its literary contexts – Authorship, imitation,
intertextuality; authorship and literary style; authorship in
> medieval and/or early modern literary theory
> • Authorship and the theatre – Authorship and playwriting;
> authorship and theatrical collaboration; authorship and acting
> • Authorship and literary genres – Authorship and genre; authorship
and early ‘lives of the poets’; the ‘I’ in medieval and early modern
poetry; authorship and commendatory verse; authorship and miscellanies
• Authorship and the material text – Authorship and paratext;
> authorship and the book trade; authorship and the scriptorium;
authorship and publication; authorship and media: manuscript, and
> • Medieval and early modern literary careers – Authorship and the
Virgilian cursus; Spenser, Jonson, Milton and print-constructed
careers; careers of medieval and early modern female writers
> • Constructing the medieval and early modern author through the
centuries – The Making of ‘Chaucer’, ‘Gower’, ‘Langland’, ‘Malory’,
‘Marlowe’, ‘Sidney’, ‘Shakespeare’, ‘Donne’, ‘Milton’
> • Authorship attribution – Modern methods of determining medieval and
early modern authorship; Chaucer and the Chaucer apocrypha: authorship
and co-authorship questions; Shakespeare and the
> Shakespeare apocrypha: authorship and co-authorship questions; the
case of Middleton: collaboration, authorship, and The Collected Works;
disputed authorship attributions: from Shakespeare and the Funeral
Elegy to Milton and de doctrina Christiana; editing,
> authorship, and authorial intention
> Proposals for full panels are welcome. These should include three
proposed speakers, including, or in addition to, a chair and/or a
respondent. Individual papers will be grouped with two others.
Parallel sessions will last an hour and a half, which means that
papers should usually be no longer than 20 minutes to leave
> sufficient time for discussion.
> The final deadline for proposals is 15 January 2010, but early
submissions are encouraged. Proposals should contain a title, an
abstract (ca. 200 to 400 words) as well as a short bio sketch (no more
than 100 words). Proposals will be reviewed in the weeks
> following their submission, so that prospective participants will
usually be notified of the decision within a month of reception of the
proposal.
> Proposals should be sent to authorship2010@unige.ch. The conference
website can be accessed via http://www.samemes.org.
> A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in
a collection (in the SPELL series).
> For the conference organizers,
> Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)
> --
> President of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern
English Studies (SAMEMES)
> Département d'anglais
> Faculté des Lettres
> Université de Genève
> 5, Rue de Candolle
> CH-1211 Genève
> ph: +41 22 379 70 34 / +41 22 379 70 27
> fax: +41 22 320 04 97
> http://www.unige.ch/lettres/angle/index_en.html
TOEBI Conference
'TOEBI' is the organisation of Teachers of Old English and Britain and
Ireland, which holds an annual meeting. This year's TOEBI meeting will be
held on Saturday 24 October at the University of St Andrews in Scotland,
and I would like to invite anyone interested in Old English to this event.
Further details about the meeting and St Andrews can be found on a
dedicated webpage:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cr30/meeting/2009.htm
The event webpage can also be accessed via a link from the general TOEBI
website:
http://www.toebi.org.uk
Please do get in touch with me if you have any questions about the meeting.
Have a good summer - it would be great to see many of you in St Andrews in
the autumn.
Christine Rauer
--
Dr Christine Rauer
Lecturer in Medieval English Literature
School of English
University of St Andrews
St Andrews KY16 9AL
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1334 462686
Fax +44 1334 462655
Ireland, which holds an annual meeting. This year's TOEBI meeting will be
held on Saturday 24 October at the University of St Andrews in Scotland,
and I would like to invite anyone interested in Old English to this event.
Further details about the meeting and St Andrews can be found on a
dedicated webpage:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cr30/meeting/2009.htm
The event webpage can also be accessed via a link from the general TOEBI
website:
http://www.toebi.org.uk
Please do get in touch with me if you have any questions about the meeting.
Have a good summer - it would be great to see many of you in St Andrews in
the autumn.
Christine Rauer
--
Dr Christine Rauer
Lecturer in Medieval English Literature
School of English
University of St Andrews
St Andrews KY16 9AL
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1334 462686
Fax +44 1334 462655
Leeds 2010 CFP
Medica, the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages invites submissions for a panel entitled:
Healing Journeys: Travelling for Body and Soul in Late Medieval Culture
at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 12-15 July 2010.
We encourage a broad interpretation of the theme from a variety of disciplines, such as history of medicine, literary studies, material culture and religious history.
Papers may consider:
- Portable Healing
- Physiology and the Ages of Man
- Bodily and Spiritual Journeys for Healing
- Medical Pilgrims and their Detractors
Please send proposals for twenty minute papers (title and abstract of 250-500 words) by email to Virginia Langum vel23@cam.ac.uk by 1 September 2009.
Healing Journeys: Travelling for Body and Soul in Late Medieval Culture
at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 12-15 July 2010.
We encourage a broad interpretation of the theme from a variety of disciplines, such as history of medicine, literary studies, material culture and religious history.
Papers may consider:
- Portable Healing
- Physiology and the Ages of Man
- Bodily and Spiritual Journeys for Healing
- Medical Pilgrims and their Detractors
Please send proposals for twenty minute papers (title and abstract of 250-500 words) by email to Virginia Langum vel23@cam.ac.uk by 1 September 2009.
bibliographic database
We would like to draw your attention to a conference on the German
national bibliographic database for the 17th century which will be held
at Munich on 27 and 28 October 2009.
More details can be found on
http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Einzeldarstellung.408+M556df96ce9f.0.html
national bibliographic database for the 17th century which will be held
at Munich on 27 and 28 October 2009.
More details can be found on
http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Einzeldarstellung.408+M556df96ce9f.0.html
From Bob Peckham:
CONSULTING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html
and have recently added a number of links. This will be transfered as
a part of a section on medieval manuscripts for the Andy Holt Virtual
Library.
It appears that the
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
has stopped adding new manuscripts to the database. I suspect they
are merely making adjustments, and hope that UCLA's $132 million
budget shortfall has nothing to to with this vital project.
CONSULTING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html
and have recently added a number of links. This will be transfered as
a part of a section on medieval manuscripts for the Andy Holt Virtual
Library.
It appears that the
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
has stopped adding new manuscripts to the database. I suspect they
are merely making adjustments, and hope that UCLA's $132 million
budget shortfall has nothing to to with this vital project.
CFP: Political Theology in the Middle Ages
CFP: Political Theology in the Middle Ages
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
This panel asks for papers which explore what medieval studies can
gain from the perspective of "political theology" -- a term which has
been widely known to medievalists (through Ernst Kantorowicz's The
King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology) but which
has lately gained new prominence through the work of theorists such as
Agamben, Zizek, Badiou, and Carl Schmitt, as well as that of
medievalists such as Kathleen Biddick and Kathleen Davis. We welcome
papers which explore the following questions: Does the study of
"political theology" differ from the traditional study of medieval
political thought? Can this perspective enter into dialogue with, or
render a critique of, those traditional studies? What sources and
methodologies are appropriate to it? Do medieval theological
conceptions of sovereignty persist in our own era, and if so, how? How
do theological conceptions of sovereignty relate to the themes of
secularity, periodization, biopower, legality, and colonialism in the
medieval period? Papers dealing with all geographical regions and
medieval periods are welcome.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information
to Matthew Brown at mbrown5@nd.edu no later than September 15, 2009.
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
This panel asks for papers which explore what medieval studies can
gain from the perspective of "political theology" -- a term which has
been widely known to medievalists (through Ernst Kantorowicz's The
King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology) but which
has lately gained new prominence through the work of theorists such as
Agamben, Zizek, Badiou, and Carl Schmitt, as well as that of
medievalists such as Kathleen Biddick and Kathleen Davis. We welcome
papers which explore the following questions: Does the study of
"political theology" differ from the traditional study of medieval
political thought? Can this perspective enter into dialogue with, or
render a critique of, those traditional studies? What sources and
methodologies are appropriate to it? Do medieval theological
conceptions of sovereignty persist in our own era, and if so, how? How
do theological conceptions of sovereignty relate to the themes of
secularity, periodization, biopower, legality, and colonialism in the
medieval period? Papers dealing with all geographical regions and
medieval periods are welcome.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information
to Matthew Brown at mbrown5@nd.edu no later than September 15, 2009.
Seminar: "Edizioni Digitali alla ricerca di standards"
Seminar: "Edizioni Digitali alla ricerca di standards"
I would like to announce the next Montepulciano (Siena, Italy) seminar: “Edizioni Digitali alla ricerca di standards”, 4th meeting of the Arezzo DIGIMED series and part of the 1st Master Courses “Informatica del testo – Edizione digitale” of the Siena-Arezzo University. See please the program at http://www.infotext.unisi.it.
Posted by: Francesco Stella (stella@unisi.it).
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/seminar-edizioni-digitali-alla-ricerca-di-standards/
I would like to announce the next Montepulciano (Siena, Italy) seminar: “Edizioni Digitali alla ricerca di standards”, 4th meeting of the Arezzo DIGIMED series and part of the 1st Master Courses “Informatica del testo – Edizione digitale” of the Siena-Arezzo University. See please the program at http://www.infotext.unisi.it.
Posted by: Francesco Stella (stella@unisi.it).
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/seminar-edizioni-digitali-alla-ricerca-di-standards/
Teuchos - An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology
Teuchos - An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology
Seminar: Teuchos – An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology
Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar
Friday July 10th at 16:30
STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
*Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)*
*Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology*
The talk will describe the general architecture of a digital research environment for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and discuss some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research platform (Teuchos. Zentrum fr Handschriften- und Textforschung).
ALL WELCOME
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and audio and slides will be uploaded after the event.
Digital Classicist podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml
Posted by: Simon Mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/research-associate/
Seminar: Teuchos – An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology
Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar
Friday July 10th at 16:30
STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
*Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)*
*Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology*
The talk will describe the general architecture of a digital research environment for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and discuss some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research platform (Teuchos. Zentrum fr Handschriften- und Textforschung).
ALL WELCOME
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and audio and slides will be uploaded after the event.
Digital Classicist podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml
Posted by: Simon Mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/research-associate/
Today we are launching the first phase of the Virtual Manuscript Room, with full sets of digital images for 71 manuscripts from the Mingana collection (some 13000 images). You can find the site at http://www.vmr.bham.ac.uk. Among other things, the site has images of one of the oldest copies of the Qur'an in existence, Mingana Islamic Arabic 1572, recently dated as possibly 7th century.
The site has some interesting features. Firstly, it is completely integrated with the university's institutional repository: see http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/ (the manuscripts are at http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/view/series/Mingana.html). This gives them a presence in the online catalogues, which means they can be found by Google,and also provides a secure long-term maintenance strategy. Secondly, we developed a new image viewer, using the 'Open Layers' software. This is not finished yet, but already offers some nice developments: it does not use Flash (it is entirely javascript based); the viewer resizes horizontally as the window resizes; it has a 'carousel' which allows you to browse thumbnails of all the manuscript pages within the viewer. Finally, following my well-known philosophy, it is low-cost: the imaging cost around 50 pence a page; the whole cost of the site was a few pounds a page. Note that the imaging was done a few years ago and lacks some things (rulers, colour bars) which we should now include.
The site has some interesting features. Firstly, it is completely integrated with the university's institutional repository: see http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/ (the manuscripts are at http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/view/series/Mingana.html). This gives them a presence in the online catalogues, which means they can be found by Google,and also provides a secure long-term maintenance strategy. Secondly, we developed a new image viewer, using the 'Open Layers' software. This is not finished yet, but already offers some nice developments: it does not use Flash (it is entirely javascript based); the viewer resizes horizontally as the window resizes; it has a 'carousel' which allows you to browse thumbnails of all the manuscript pages within the viewer. Finally, following my well-known philosophy, it is low-cost: the imaging cost around 50 pence a page; the whole cost of the site was a few pounds a page. Note that the imaging was done a few years ago and lacks some things (rulers, colour bars) which we should now include.
CFP: STRANGERS IN PARIS: ALTERITY IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 13-16, 2010
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Medieval Society, Paris/Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris
STRANGERS IN PARIS: ALTERITY IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
The International Medieval Society-Paris invites proposals for an interdisciplinary session that will examine the notion of alterity in medieval France, particularly in the Paris region. While many conference sessions, journal articles and books focus on the notion of alterity and difference as an exploration of the monstrous, i.e. extreme difference, this session would complement these forms of the Other by giving preference to papers that that include literal and metaphorical alterity of place from a humanist perspective.
Papers might focus on the perspectives of foreign students or scholars and their depictions of university life (including town and gown issues), the alienation of Jews in medieval Paris, issues of otherness pertaining to the rising bourgeois class and the medieval guilds, the unique perspective of women in the urban environment, the nostalgia of medieval authors who either base themselves in Paris or write about the city from another place, or even those individuals who have been exiled from Paris through involvement with its criminal underworld. We encourage submissions from history, art history, literature and science that would shed light on the human perception of alterity in (or from) the urban environment that highlight issues of integration and alienation, and we welcome insights on both mainstream and under-examined examples of strangers in Paris.
A paper proposal comprises an abstract of no more than 300 words and a completed “Participant Information Form,” which is available on the Congress Web site:http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
Please e-mail paper proposal and “Participant Information Form to:
Karen (Casey) Casebier at kcasebier@francis.edu by 9/15/2009.
For more information about the International Medieval Society-Paris, please visit:
http://www.ims-paris.org/
May 13-16, 2010
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Medieval Society, Paris/Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris
STRANGERS IN PARIS: ALTERITY IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
The International Medieval Society-Paris invites proposals for an interdisciplinary session that will examine the notion of alterity in medieval France, particularly in the Paris region. While many conference sessions, journal articles and books focus on the notion of alterity and difference as an exploration of the monstrous, i.e. extreme difference, this session would complement these forms of the Other by giving preference to papers that that include literal and metaphorical alterity of place from a humanist perspective.
Papers might focus on the perspectives of foreign students or scholars and their depictions of university life (including town and gown issues), the alienation of Jews in medieval Paris, issues of otherness pertaining to the rising bourgeois class and the medieval guilds, the unique perspective of women in the urban environment, the nostalgia of medieval authors who either base themselves in Paris or write about the city from another place, or even those individuals who have been exiled from Paris through involvement with its criminal underworld. We encourage submissions from history, art history, literature and science that would shed light on the human perception of alterity in (or from) the urban environment that highlight issues of integration and alienation, and we welcome insights on both mainstream and under-examined examples of strangers in Paris.
A paper proposal comprises an abstract of no more than 300 words and a completed “Participant Information Form,” which is available on the Congress Web site:http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
Please e-mail paper proposal and “Participant Information Form to:
Karen (Casey) Casebier at kcasebier@francis.edu by 9/15/2009.
For more information about the International Medieval Society-Paris, please visit:
http://www.ims-paris.org/
A draft of the 25th issue of the bibliographical bulletin of the
Société François Villon is now online
http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/sfvb25.shtml
Société François Villon is now online
http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/sfvb25.shtml
CFP: Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art
Session to be held at the 2010 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13-16 May
Sponsored by the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)
Organizer: Ben C. Tilghman (Walters Art Museum)
This session will consider the important role that the size of an art object, particularly smallness, plays in shaping the way that its beholders relate to it and thus understand it. Scale is one of the most important physical aspects of a work of art: large and small objects require different investments of time and resources, elicit different responses from their beholders, and reflect the varying purposes which works were meant to serve. Nonetheless, scale has rarely been considered in depth by art historians. The works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gaston Bachelard, and Susan Stewart form a basic theoretical foundation for considering small things, and John Mack has recently offered a general consideration of small art across cultures, but we remain far from a full account of the phenomenology of smallness in art.
Medieval art offers a particularly rich field for pursuing such an account. Whether in miniature books of hours, intricately carved ivories, portable altars, or architectural reliquaries, miniaturization plays a key role in many works of medieval art. This session is open to both broad-based thematic surveys and focused studies on specific objects, but all the papers will deepen our theoretical understanding of miniaturization and smallness as a whole. Possible themes to be considered include but are not limited to: economics and trade, portability and dislocation, gender differentiation, meditation and absorption, the concept of the simulacrum, intimacy and distance, sentimentality, marginalization, and magic.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: September 15, 2009
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
1. Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
2. Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#ACS)
3. CV with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number
Abstracts and enquiries should be directed to Ben Tilghman at:
btilghman@gmail.com (preferred)
or
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art
Session to be held at the 2010 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13-16 May
Sponsored by the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)
Organizer: Ben C. Tilghman (Walters Art Museum)
This session will consider the important role that the size of an art object, particularly smallness, plays in shaping the way that its beholders relate to it and thus understand it. Scale is one of the most important physical aspects of a work of art: large and small objects require different investments of time and resources, elicit different responses from their beholders, and reflect the varying purposes which works were meant to serve. Nonetheless, scale has rarely been considered in depth by art historians. The works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gaston Bachelard, and Susan Stewart form a basic theoretical foundation for considering small things, and John Mack has recently offered a general consideration of small art across cultures, but we remain far from a full account of the phenomenology of smallness in art.
Medieval art offers a particularly rich field for pursuing such an account. Whether in miniature books of hours, intricately carved ivories, portable altars, or architectural reliquaries, miniaturization plays a key role in many works of medieval art. This session is open to both broad-based thematic surveys and focused studies on specific objects, but all the papers will deepen our theoretical understanding of miniaturization and smallness as a whole. Possible themes to be considered include but are not limited to: economics and trade, portability and dislocation, gender differentiation, meditation and absorption, the concept of the simulacrum, intimacy and distance, sentimentality, marginalization, and magic.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: September 15, 2009
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
1. Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
2. Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#ACS)
3. CV with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number
Abstracts and enquiries should be directed to Ben Tilghman at:
btilghman@gmail.com (preferred)
or
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Pen and Parchment
Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages," its website
is a wonderful new resource:
http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/the-achievement-of-anglo-saxon-draftsmen/
is a wonderful new resource:
http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/the-achievement-of-anglo-saxon-draftsmen/
CFP: Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles
Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles
Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS)
17-19 July 2010, University of Cambridge
The second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium
(CICS) follows the success of our inaugural proceedings held at
Cambridge in 2008. The theme for CICS 2010 is Authority and Gender in
Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, which will be debated over the
three days during open sessions of three twenty-five minute papers,
alternating with longer keynote addresses.
CICS intends to carry on the strong record of publication, with its
inaugural proceedings forthcoming in The Medieval Chronicle, vols IV
and V, 2009 and 2010. Brepols Publishers have expressed a firm
interest in publishing a thematic set of proceedings of the 2010
Symposium, subject to the text being submitted to peer review and
accepted by the editorial board.
The new symposium will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions,
a tour of Cambridge College Libraries, formal conference dinner,
publications fair and wine reception. Refreshments and lunches are
provided for conference guests and college accommodation is
available. As on the previous occasion, a limited number of small
bursaries will be awarded.
We invite proposals from scholars in the disciplines including but
not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy, and
Religious Studies.
Topics for discussion could include:
􀂙 Kingship and Queenship, Earls and Ealdormen;
􀂙 Abbots and abbesses, monks and nuns;
􀂙 Ecclesiastical and secular authorities;
􀂙 Institutional authority;
􀂙 National authority and identity;
􀂙 Masculine, feminine, and neuter: linguistic authority;
􀂙 Auctors and Auctoritas;
􀂙 Textual authority, witnesses, and scribal traditions;
􀂙 Kinglistsand genealogies;
􀂙 Nuns in the scriptorium;
ô€‚™ Female voices, male scribes –authority and authorship;
􀂙 Gender and legal practices;
􀂙 Moral authority;
􀂙 Ritual and authority;
􀂙 Establishment of authority: feuds, force, and warfare;
􀂙 The construction of gender in chronicles.
Abstract (of approximately 250 words) should be sent to
CambridgeICS@gmail.com, due no later than 15 December 2009. In
special cases, papers will be commissioned for publication without
presentation at the conference (contact the organisers for more
information). Please check the website for regular updates
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html
Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS)
17-19 July 2010, University of Cambridge
The second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium
(CICS) follows the success of our inaugural proceedings held at
Cambridge in 2008. The theme for CICS 2010 is Authority and Gender in
Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, which will be debated over the
three days during open sessions of three twenty-five minute papers,
alternating with longer keynote addresses.
CICS intends to carry on the strong record of publication, with its
inaugural proceedings forthcoming in The Medieval Chronicle, vols IV
and V, 2009 and 2010. Brepols Publishers have expressed a firm
interest in publishing a thematic set of proceedings of the 2010
Symposium, subject to the text being submitted to peer review and
accepted by the editorial board.
The new symposium will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions,
a tour of Cambridge College Libraries, formal conference dinner,
publications fair and wine reception. Refreshments and lunches are
provided for conference guests and college accommodation is
available. As on the previous occasion, a limited number of small
bursaries will be awarded.
We invite proposals from scholars in the disciplines including but
not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy, and
Religious Studies.
Topics for discussion could include:
􀂙 Kingship and Queenship, Earls and Ealdormen;
􀂙 Abbots and abbesses, monks and nuns;
􀂙 Ecclesiastical and secular authorities;
􀂙 Institutional authority;
􀂙 National authority and identity;
􀂙 Masculine, feminine, and neuter: linguistic authority;
􀂙 Auctors and Auctoritas;
􀂙 Textual authority, witnesses, and scribal traditions;
􀂙 Kinglistsand genealogies;
􀂙 Nuns in the scriptorium;
ô€‚™ Female voices, male scribes –authority and authorship;
􀂙 Gender and legal practices;
􀂙 Moral authority;
􀂙 Ritual and authority;
􀂙 Establishment of authority: feuds, force, and warfare;
􀂙 The construction of gender in chronicles.
Abstract (of approximately 250 words) should be sent to
CambridgeICS@gmail.com, due no later than 15 December 2009. In
special cases, papers will be commissioned for publication without
presentation at the conference (contact the organisers for more
information). Please check the website for regular updates
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html
ALL FOR PAPERS *International Joan of Arc Society
CALL FOR PAPERS
*International Joan of Arc Society/ Société Internationale de l’étude de
Jeanne d’Arc*
*SESSION I*. "*TheTrial to Nullify Joan of Arc's Condemnation."*
While much discussion has focused on Joan's Condemnation Trial of 1431, the
trial that took place twenty five years later and nullifed her condemnation
verdict has been frequently overlooked. This later trial represents the
efforts of clergy and the ruling elite to right a wrong that had been
committed against a layperson by inquisitorial authorities, and the
nullification trial's complex dossier of interrogations, *consilia* and
judgments suggest new scholarly verdicts on the impact of Joan of Arc upon
her surviving generation.
*SESSION II*. *“Joan of Arc and Place: Frontier, Periphery and Center.”*
That Joan of Arc was a peasant who negotiated the urban world as well as a
laywoman who frequented the worlds of the ruling and clerical hierarchy of
fifteenth-century France are realities that figure both in the historical
documents of her era as well as in interpretations of her life by subsequent
generations. Possible paper topics may touch upon theories of social and
cultural movements, such as Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" and
Kunio Yanagita's theory of "Centers and Peripheries," (to offer two
examples).
*A paper proposal comprises an abstract of no more than 300 words and a
completed “Participant Information Form,” which is available on the Congress
Web site:*
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
*Please e-mail paper proposal and “Participant Information Form to: *
*Jane Marie Pinzino at* jpinzino@mail.usf.edu by *9/05/2009*.
*International Joan of Arc Society/ Société Internationale de l’étude de
Jeanne d’Arc*
*SESSION I*. "*TheTrial to Nullify Joan of Arc's Condemnation."*
While much discussion has focused on Joan's Condemnation Trial of 1431, the
trial that took place twenty five years later and nullifed her condemnation
verdict has been frequently overlooked. This later trial represents the
efforts of clergy and the ruling elite to right a wrong that had been
committed against a layperson by inquisitorial authorities, and the
nullification trial's complex dossier of interrogations, *consilia* and
judgments suggest new scholarly verdicts on the impact of Joan of Arc upon
her surviving generation.
*SESSION II*. *“Joan of Arc and Place: Frontier, Periphery and Center.”*
That Joan of Arc was a peasant who negotiated the urban world as well as a
laywoman who frequented the worlds of the ruling and clerical hierarchy of
fifteenth-century France are realities that figure both in the historical
documents of her era as well as in interpretations of her life by subsequent
generations. Possible paper topics may touch upon theories of social and
cultural movements, such as Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" and
Kunio Yanagita's theory of "Centers and Peripheries," (to offer two
examples).
*A paper proposal comprises an abstract of no more than 300 words and a
completed “Participant Information Form,” which is available on the Congress
Web site:*
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
*Please e-mail paper proposal and “Participant Information Form to: *
*Jane Marie Pinzino at* jpinzino@mail.usf.edu by *9/05/2009*.
SCRIPTO III: Second Call and Seminaries
SCRIPTO III: Second Call and Seminaries
The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information
& Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-
Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented
introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and
their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the
framework of a uniquely innovative course, at the end of which each
candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich Alexander University.
SCRIPTO is made up of a broad spectrum of subjects and offers the
following courses:
- History and principles of cataloguing
- Text typology (philosophical and theological texts; literary texts;
liturgy, music; law, medicine; medieval Latin)
- Book illumination (technology, stylistic history, illustrational
typology, iconography); palaeography
- Codicology; incunabula studies
- Informatics (use and construction of databanks for the
interpretation, drawing up and administration of information about
manuscripts; preparation of printed catalogues).
There will be SCRIPTO three research seminars:
1) Xavier van Binnebeke (Oxford):
Florenz in Franken. Handschriften aus der Bibliothek von Coluccio
Salutati in Nürnberg
Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, November 12, 2009
2) Peter Meinlschmidt (Braunschweig)
Neue Methoden für die Bestimmung der Wasserzeichen
Erlangen, December 7, 2009
3) Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge) / Michele C. Ferrari (Erlangen)
Das karolingische Büchererbe
Bamberg, January 12, 2010
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.
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 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)
E-mail: mittellatein_in_erlangen@web.de
Web: http://www.mittellatein.phil.uni-erlangen.de/scripto/
scripto_III.html
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.
The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information
& Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-
Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented
introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and
their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the
framework of a uniquely innovative course, at the end of which each
candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich Alexander University.
SCRIPTO is made up of a broad spectrum of subjects and offers the
following courses:
- History and principles of cataloguing
- Text typology (philosophical and theological texts; literary texts;
liturgy, music; law, medicine; medieval Latin)
- Book illumination (technology, stylistic history, illustrational
typology, iconography); palaeography
- Codicology; incunabula studies
- Informatics (use and construction of databanks for the
interpretation, drawing up and administration of information about
manuscripts; preparation of printed catalogues).
There will be SCRIPTO three research seminars:
1) Xavier van Binnebeke (Oxford):
Florenz in Franken. Handschriften aus der Bibliothek von Coluccio
Salutati in Nürnberg
Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, November 12, 2009
2) Peter Meinlschmidt (Braunschweig)
Neue Methoden für die Bestimmung der Wasserzeichen
Erlangen, December 7, 2009
3) Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge) / Michele C. Ferrari (Erlangen)
Das karolingische Büchererbe
Bamberg, January 12, 2010
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.
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 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)
E-mail: mittellatein_in_erlangen@web.de
Web: http://www.mittellatein.phil.uni-erlangen.de/scripto/
scripto_III.html
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.
Call for applications
For wide dissemination: Call for applications
ESF Research Networking Programmes – 2009 Call for Proposals
An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science. Key objectives include:
* creating interdisciplinary fora;
* sharing knowledge and expertise;
* developing new techniques;
* training young scientists.
A successful Programme proposal must show high scientific quality and also demonstrate added value by being carried out at a European level rather than by individual research groups at the national level..
Proposals may be submitted in any scientific field. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 22 October 2009 (16:00 CET).. Full details at http://www.esf.org/programmes.
ESF Research Networking Programmes – 2009 Call for Proposals
An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science. Key objectives include:
* creating interdisciplinary fora;
* sharing knowledge and expertise;
* developing new techniques;
* training young scientists.
A successful Programme proposal must show high scientific quality and also demonstrate added value by being carried out at a European level rather than by individual research groups at the national level..
Proposals may be submitted in any scientific field. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 22 October 2009 (16:00 CET).. Full details at http://www.esf.org/programmes.
Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2009
Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2009
Friday July 3rd at 16:30
Note: STB 9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
*Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)*
*Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification*
ALL WELCOME
Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html, where a longer abstract is available, and the audio and slides will be posted shortly after the event.
Digital Classicist Podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml
Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/seminar-paper-watermark-location-and-identification/
Friday July 3rd at 16:30
Note: STB 9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
*Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)*
*Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification*
ALL WELCOME
Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html, where a longer abstract is available, and the audio and slides will be posted shortly after the event.
Digital Classicist Podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml
Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/seminar-paper-watermark-location-and-identification/
Early English Laws Project
The Early English Laws project is pleased to announce its next event:
Editing the Medieval Laws of England
Date: 24 October 2009
Location: Institute of Historical Research
Description: The Institute of Historical Research, London, will be hosting a free one-day workshop which will bring together established academics and postgraduate students with an interest in early English laws.
The workshop will facilitate discussion about editing the various legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215. It aims to provide participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their ideas about methodology and issues such as digitisation and linguistics in a friendly, informal atmosphere. This event will offer project presentations and demonstrations as well as practical sessions on editing and presenting the laws in the digital age.
Booking: Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first come basis. For more information and/or to register contact Dr Jenny Benham, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Kind regards,
Dr Jenny Benham
Project Officer
EARLY ENGLISH LAWS
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Direct line: 020 7862 8787
Email: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk
www.history.ac.uk
Editing the Medieval Laws of England
Date: 24 October 2009
Location: Institute of Historical Research
Description: The Institute of Historical Research, London, will be hosting a free one-day workshop which will bring together established academics and postgraduate students with an interest in early English laws.
The workshop will facilitate discussion about editing the various legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215. It aims to provide participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their ideas about methodology and issues such as digitisation and linguistics in a friendly, informal atmosphere. This event will offer project presentations and demonstrations as well as practical sessions on editing and presenting the laws in the digital age.
Booking: Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first come basis. For more information and/or to register contact Dr Jenny Benham, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Kind regards,
Dr Jenny Benham
Project Officer
EARLY ENGLISH LAWS
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Direct line: 020 7862 8787
Email: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk
www.history.ac.uk
Viking Day
Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, MA, USA will be holding a Viking
Day on July 18, featuring combat demonstrations and workshops, as
well as crafts, games, and other family-friendly activities. In
addition, I'll be doing a book signing for my new book, _Viking
Weapons and Combat Techniques_.
More information is available at the museum's website:
http://www.higgins.org/Calendar/vikings/
A flyer for the event is here:
http://www.williamrshort.com/pix/vikingday-sm.pdf
More information about the book is available here:
http://www.williamrshort.com/vik_wpn/index.html
Day on July 18, featuring combat demonstrations and workshops, as
well as crafts, games, and other family-friendly activities. In
addition, I'll be doing a book signing for my new book, _Viking
Weapons and Combat Techniques_.
More information is available at the museum's website:
http://www.higgins.org/Calendar/vikings/
A flyer for the event is here:
http://www.williamrshort.com/pix/vikingday-sm.pdf
More information about the book is available here:
http://www.williamrshort.com/vik_wpn/index.html
ICMA Get Together
Please join the ICMA for a casual get-together from 7:00pm to 7:30pm in
Weetwood Hall’s Brasserie on Tuesday, July 14. A no-host bar will be
available.
Although camaraderie and cocktails comprise the agenda, we encourage
questions about ICMA student membership, upcoming ICMA events and
opportunities, and participation on ICMA’s Student Committee.
ICMA Vice President Lawrence Nees and we, members of the Student Committee,
look forward to meeting you!
Please see the attached poster and maps for additional details. Contact
Carey Fee (careyfee@yahoo.com), Melanie Hackney (melaniehackney@gmail.com)
or Thomas Greene (tgreen3@luc.edu) for further information.
Weetwood Hall’s Brasserie on Tuesday, July 14. A no-host bar will be
available.
Although camaraderie and cocktails comprise the agenda, we encourage
questions about ICMA student membership, upcoming ICMA events and
opportunities, and participation on ICMA’s Student Committee.
ICMA Vice President Lawrence Nees and we, members of the Student Committee,
look forward to meeting you!
Please see the attached poster and maps for additional details. Contact
Carey Fee (careyfee@yahoo.com), Melanie Hackney (melaniehackney@gmail.com)
or Thomas Greene (tgreen3@luc.edu) for further information.
CFP: Consuming the Word: The Sensory Experience of the Eucharist in the Medieval West
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
13-16 May 2010
Consuming the Word:
The Sensory Experience of the Eucharist in the Medieval West
Recent scholarship on perception in the Middle Ages problematizes the
medieval understanding of the senses, with approaches grounded in
biology and psychology operating alongside (and often in opposition
to) the social construction of sensory experience. This panel seeks
to explore the sensory aspect of medieval life in the context of the
celebration of the Eucharist. This ritual was arguably the central
moment of Christian devotional practice in western Europe during the
medieval period. The theology, iconography and liturgy of the
Eucharist, however, were not static phenomena. Changes in the
interpretation, depiction and celebration of the sacrament affected
the devotional lives not just of clerics but of the laity as well.
We therefore invite papers which explore the experience of the
Eucharist throughout the medieval period (broadly construed, ca.
500-1500), specifically those which highlight the importance of the
role played by sensory perception for those who participated in the
Eucharistic celebration. E-mail a brief CV and an abstract of no more
than 300 words by 1 September 2009 to Thomas A. Greene
(tgreen3@luc.edu).
Thomas A. Greene
tgreen3@luc.edu
Loyola University, Chicago
Dept. of History
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Carey E. Fee
cef07d@fsu.edu
Florida State University
Dept. of Art History
530 W Call St
Tallahassee, FL 32306
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
13-16 May 2010
Consuming the Word:
The Sensory Experience of the Eucharist in the Medieval West
Recent scholarship on perception in the Middle Ages problematizes the
medieval understanding of the senses, with approaches grounded in
biology and psychology operating alongside (and often in opposition
to) the social construction of sensory experience. This panel seeks
to explore the sensory aspect of medieval life in the context of the
celebration of the Eucharist. This ritual was arguably the central
moment of Christian devotional practice in western Europe during the
medieval period. The theology, iconography and liturgy of the
Eucharist, however, were not static phenomena. Changes in the
interpretation, depiction and celebration of the sacrament affected
the devotional lives not just of clerics but of the laity as well.
We therefore invite papers which explore the experience of the
Eucharist throughout the medieval period (broadly construed, ca.
500-1500), specifically those which highlight the importance of the
role played by sensory perception for those who participated in the
Eucharistic celebration. E-mail a brief CV and an abstract of no more
than 300 words by 1 September 2009 to Thomas A. Greene
(tgreen3@luc.edu).
Thomas A. Greene
tgreen3@luc.edu
Loyola University, Chicago
Dept. of History
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Carey E. Fee
cef07d@fsu.edu
Florida State University
Dept. of Art History
530 W Call St
Tallahassee, FL 32306
CFP: “Susanna and the Elders: Medieval to Early Modern”
CFP: 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 13-16, 2010 Special Session, “Susanna and the Elders: Medieval to Early Modern”
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The story of Susanna and the Elders has always been a little suspect. After all, its sources weren’t Hebrew, but Greek. In Jerome’s edition it wasn’t even considered part of the true Bible: instead, it appears as an appendix to the Book of Daniel. But the story’s association with the prophet Daniel, and its vivid, economical–even miraculous, narrative made it a lively model for the moral inculcation of youth, especially young women.
Why Susanna? Susanna’s plot is inherently dramatic. It lends itself to an easy excuse to portray the female nude. Its emphasis on the strength of faith alone makes it popular with reformers of all denominations, and the crux of its plot hangs on how the testimony of witnesses is collected–and the importance of a tree. To us today, the story appeals to interests from a range of disciplines–literary study, legal history, art history, codicology.
Given ‘her’ popularity and profusion across the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries and across media, it is unusual that so little scholarship has been devoted to that model of a good woman who refused any compromise with her virtue. In an effort to redress that deficiency, we’ve proposed a session on the story of Susanna and the Elders, to put ‘Susanna’ on trial, so to speak. We hope to gather scholars from across fields and periods who are focusing on this story to generate a cross-disciplinary exchange to explore ‘her’ variations, be it in prose, poetry, drama, or art.
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Abstracts of 100-250 words, welcome until August 30, 2009. Contact Terry Wade, jt.wade@mac.com or Jamie Taylor, jktaylor@brynmawr.edu for further information, or to submit an abstract.
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/cfp-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-may-2010-special-session/
_______________________________
The story of Susanna and the Elders has always been a little suspect. After all, its sources weren’t Hebrew, but Greek. In Jerome’s edition it wasn’t even considered part of the true Bible: instead, it appears as an appendix to the Book of Daniel. But the story’s association with the prophet Daniel, and its vivid, economical–even miraculous, narrative made it a lively model for the moral inculcation of youth, especially young women.
Why Susanna? Susanna’s plot is inherently dramatic. It lends itself to an easy excuse to portray the female nude. Its emphasis on the strength of faith alone makes it popular with reformers of all denominations, and the crux of its plot hangs on how the testimony of witnesses is collected–and the importance of a tree. To us today, the story appeals to interests from a range of disciplines–literary study, legal history, art history, codicology.
Given ‘her’ popularity and profusion across the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries and across media, it is unusual that so little scholarship has been devoted to that model of a good woman who refused any compromise with her virtue. In an effort to redress that deficiency, we’ve proposed a session on the story of Susanna and the Elders, to put ‘Susanna’ on trial, so to speak. We hope to gather scholars from across fields and periods who are focusing on this story to generate a cross-disciplinary exchange to explore ‘her’ variations, be it in prose, poetry, drama, or art.
_______________________________________________
Abstracts of 100-250 words, welcome until August 30, 2009. Contact Terry Wade, jt.wade@mac.com or Jamie Taylor, jktaylor@brynmawr.edu for further information, or to submit an abstract.
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/cfp-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-may-2010-special-session/
CFP for MAM Costume in Medieval Literature Kzoo 2010
CFP for MAM Costume in Medieval Literature Kzoo 2010
After many years of organizing panels for Kalamazoo, Laura Hodges has
passed the baton to me. I will be organizing a session, sponsored by
the Medieval Association of the Midwest, on “Costume in Medieval
Literature” for the Medieval Institute Congress in Kalamazoo in 2010.
Any examination of medieval literary costume is welcome, including, but
not limited to, fabrics used, color, dyestuffs, ornamentation, etc. As
with Laura’s previous sessions, papers dealing with costume in
Chaucer’s works are welcome, although this session, as with the past
two, will be open to any medieval literatures in English or other
languages.
Please submit an abstract for a 15-20 minute presentation, and a
Participant Information Form (link below), by September 15, 2009 to
Kimberly Jack at either kimberly_jack@hotmail.com or
ksj0004@auburn.edu.
All panelists need to be members of the Medieval Association of the
Midwest by May 2010 in order to participate.
Participant Information Form:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html
MAM membership information:
http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/~pgoodric/mamindex.html
After many years of organizing panels for Kalamazoo, Laura Hodges has
passed the baton to me. I will be organizing a session, sponsored by
the Medieval Association of the Midwest, on “Costume in Medieval
Literature” for the Medieval Institute Congress in Kalamazoo in 2010.
Any examination of medieval literary costume is welcome, including, but
not limited to, fabrics used, color, dyestuffs, ornamentation, etc. As
with Laura’s previous sessions, papers dealing with costume in
Chaucer’s works are welcome, although this session, as with the past
two, will be open to any medieval literatures in English or other
languages.
Please submit an abstract for a 15-20 minute presentation, and a
Participant Information Form (link below), by September 15, 2009 to
Kimberly Jack at either kimberly_jack@hotmail.com or
ksj0004@auburn.edu.
All panelists need to be members of the Medieval Association of the
Midwest by May 2010 in order to participate.
Participant Information Form:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html
MAM membership information:
http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/~pgoodric/mamindex.html
CFP: Voices and Voicelessness
Voices and Voicelessness
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
In light of recent scholarly interest in the plurality of ways in
which speech was understood throughout the late medieval period -- as
one of the five chief senses, a force for good and evil, a form of
touching, an outward expression of an inner state -- the session
"Voices and Voicelessness" proposes to examine the uses of speech,
both salvific and illicit or idle, in late medieval literature. The
organizers of the sessions are specifically interested in papers
considering a wide range of speech acts, both orthodox/salvific
(confession, prayer) and non-orthodox/illicit (gossip, slander,
backbiting) as a form of action in Middle English romances and
penitential texts, as well as papers that consider the roles of
speechlessness and silence as both active choices and enforced
states. In addition, the organizers will welcome papers which will
purport to explore the relationship between different forms of
speech and late medieval narrative experimentations.
*Submission Details:* Submit one-page abstracts and contact
information to Olga Burakov at burakov@fordham.edu or to Rachel
Moss at rem117@york.ac.uk no
later than September 15, 2009.
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
In light of recent scholarly interest in the plurality of ways in
which speech was understood throughout the late medieval period -- as
one of the five chief senses, a force for good and evil, a form of
touching, an outward expression of an inner state -- the session
"Voices and Voicelessness" proposes to examine the uses of speech,
both salvific and illicit or idle, in late medieval literature. The
organizers of the sessions are specifically interested in papers
considering a wide range of speech acts, both orthodox/salvific
(confession, prayer) and non-orthodox/illicit (gossip, slander,
backbiting) as a form of action in Middle English romances and
penitential texts, as well as papers that consider the roles of
speechlessness and silence as both active choices and enforced
states. In addition, the organizers will welcome papers which will
purport to explore the relationship between different forms of
speech and late medieval narrative experimentations.
*Submission Details:* Submit one-page abstracts and contact
information to Olga Burakov at burakov@fordham.edu or to Rachel
Moss at rem117@york.ac.uk no
later than September 15, 2009.
Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
Call For Papers for a
Special Issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
“Teaching Medieval Studies at Minority-serving Colleges and Universities”
Deadline for Submission: October 1, 2009
In recent years, medievalists at high Hispanic- and African-American
serving institutions have discussed both the negative difficulties
and the positive challenges of offering medieval studies on their
campuses. We have noted that students, especially minority ones, may
often perceive a lack of real connection to literatures, languages,
and histories, that they do not feel they "own." There are,
therefore, serious challenges in maintaining enrollment in medieval
courses at institutions with diverse student populations, and in
keeping those courses in rotation in small colleges. Conversely, the
task of teaching history to minority students raises new and
potentially productive intellectual questions: for instance, about
the function of our disciplines in contemporary society, and about
the social and ideological underpinnings of these disciplines in the
past. The diversification of the classroom, in terms of both
ethnicity and class, may destabilize old paradigms, and point towards
new models of intellectual inquiry more deeply informed by a
commitment to social justice.
Two NEH-sponsored roundtables on "Teaching and Researching the Middle
Ages at Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities" were held at the
International Medieval Congress in 2009 in order to exchange ideas
regarding the teaching and study of medieval society and culture at
minority-serving colleges. These roundtables stimulated an interest
in a proposed Special Issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Teaching (SMART) titled "Teaching Medieval Texts at Minority-serving
Colleges and Universities." We are now seeking articles which
discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in teaching
medieval studies and texts in colleges and universities which serve
diverse populations.
Some topics which could be covered include but are not limited to:
* How to attract students of diverse backgrounds to courses in
medieval studies?
* How might we connect medieval texts to the scholarly concerns of
African American, Latino, or diasporic studies?
* How do we increase students' interest in a historical period which
appears superficially to be removed and irrelevant to contemporary
concerns?
* How can we use this challenge to create opportunities for
innovative teaching and research, for generating new paradigms and
for rethinking the social function of the university?
The deadline for article submissions is October 1, 2009. Papers
should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words, formatted in accordance with
The Chicago Manual of Style guidelines, and should be submitted as an
e-mail attachment in MS Word to:
Pearl Ratunil
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Harper College
1200 W. Algonquin Rd.
Palatine, IL 60067
pratunil@harpercollege.edu
or
James M. Palmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Director, Writing Center
Prairie View A&M University
P.O. Box 519; MS 2220
Prairie View, TX 77446
jmpalmer@pvamu.edu
Special Issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
“Teaching Medieval Studies at Minority-serving Colleges and Universities”
Deadline for Submission: October 1, 2009
In recent years, medievalists at high Hispanic- and African-American
serving institutions have discussed both the negative difficulties
and the positive challenges of offering medieval studies on their
campuses. We have noted that students, especially minority ones, may
often perceive a lack of real connection to literatures, languages,
and histories, that they do not feel they "own." There are,
therefore, serious challenges in maintaining enrollment in medieval
courses at institutions with diverse student populations, and in
keeping those courses in rotation in small colleges. Conversely, the
task of teaching history to minority students raises new and
potentially productive intellectual questions: for instance, about
the function of our disciplines in contemporary society, and about
the social and ideological underpinnings of these disciplines in the
past. The diversification of the classroom, in terms of both
ethnicity and class, may destabilize old paradigms, and point towards
new models of intellectual inquiry more deeply informed by a
commitment to social justice.
Two NEH-sponsored roundtables on "Teaching and Researching the Middle
Ages at Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities" were held at the
International Medieval Congress in 2009 in order to exchange ideas
regarding the teaching and study of medieval society and culture at
minority-serving colleges. These roundtables stimulated an interest
in a proposed Special Issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Teaching (SMART) titled "Teaching Medieval Texts at Minority-serving
Colleges and Universities." We are now seeking articles which
discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in teaching
medieval studies and texts in colleges and universities which serve
diverse populations.
Some topics which could be covered include but are not limited to:
* How to attract students of diverse backgrounds to courses in
medieval studies?
* How might we connect medieval texts to the scholarly concerns of
African American, Latino, or diasporic studies?
* How do we increase students' interest in a historical period which
appears superficially to be removed and irrelevant to contemporary
concerns?
* How can we use this challenge to create opportunities for
innovative teaching and research, for generating new paradigms and
for rethinking the social function of the university?
The deadline for article submissions is October 1, 2009. Papers
should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words, formatted in accordance with
The Chicago Manual of Style guidelines, and should be submitted as an
e-mail attachment in MS Word to:
Pearl Ratunil
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Harper College
1200 W. Algonquin Rd.
Palatine, IL 60067
pratunil@harpercollege.edu
or
James M. Palmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Director, Writing Center
Prairie View A&M University
P.O. Box 519; MS 2220
Prairie View, TX 77446
jmpalmer@pvamu.edu
Reading Multimedia: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Reading Multimedia: Interdisciplinary Approaches
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Session Sponsored by Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies
The “Reading Medieval Multimedia: Interdisciplinary Approaches” session seeks papers across the disciplines of medieval studies that explore avenues for understanding medieval multimedia works, that is, works which utilize multiple forms of media as a way of appealing to the minds and senses of their reader-viewers and thereby shape reception. The goal of these sessions is to bring into dialogue approaches from a variety of fields that acknowledge the interdisciplinary demands of studying multimedia but otherwise tend to direct their discussions to monodisciplinary audiences.
Scholars have increasingly attended in recent years to what Stephen G. Nichols terms the “manuscript matrix” of literary texts. For example, Jessica Brantley uses the manuscript context of an illustrated Carthusian miscellany to argue for the intersections between reading and performance, group and private study in late medieval devotional culture. For this session, we want to expand the discussion beyond manuscript contexts to address the varieties of media a single work might engage with to shape cultural experience. What did it mean to the viewer, in terms of visual and bodily experience, to walk through a manor hall bordered about with images and/or words, as in the Great Hall at Longthorpe Tower? How was the singing of mass inflected by standing in choir stalls decorated with images drawn from the story of Reynard the Fox, as at Gloucester Cathedral? How can we reconstruct or conceive of the import of the absent painted cloths on which some of John Lydgate’s verses were painted, or the intersection of food and verse in subtleties presented at feasts? How was the juxtaposition of image, text, music, spoken word, and taste used to stir the mind, the senses, and evoke affective and participatory responses in their audiences of these multimedia works? These sessions invite proposals that offer interdisciplinary approaches to further our understanding of the effects, contexts, and ramifications of medieval multimedia.
Please send proposals of 350 words to Heather Blatt at blatt@fordham.edu by September 15, 2009.
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Session Sponsored by Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies
The “Reading Medieval Multimedia: Interdisciplinary Approaches” session seeks papers across the disciplines of medieval studies that explore avenues for understanding medieval multimedia works, that is, works which utilize multiple forms of media as a way of appealing to the minds and senses of their reader-viewers and thereby shape reception. The goal of these sessions is to bring into dialogue approaches from a variety of fields that acknowledge the interdisciplinary demands of studying multimedia but otherwise tend to direct their discussions to monodisciplinary audiences.
Scholars have increasingly attended in recent years to what Stephen G. Nichols terms the “manuscript matrix” of literary texts. For example, Jessica Brantley uses the manuscript context of an illustrated Carthusian miscellany to argue for the intersections between reading and performance, group and private study in late medieval devotional culture. For this session, we want to expand the discussion beyond manuscript contexts to address the varieties of media a single work might engage with to shape cultural experience. What did it mean to the viewer, in terms of visual and bodily experience, to walk through a manor hall bordered about with images and/or words, as in the Great Hall at Longthorpe Tower? How was the singing of mass inflected by standing in choir stalls decorated with images drawn from the story of Reynard the Fox, as at Gloucester Cathedral? How can we reconstruct or conceive of the import of the absent painted cloths on which some of John Lydgate’s verses were painted, or the intersection of food and verse in subtleties presented at feasts? How was the juxtaposition of image, text, music, spoken word, and taste used to stir the mind, the senses, and evoke affective and participatory responses in their audiences of these multimedia works? These sessions invite proposals that offer interdisciplinary approaches to further our understanding of the effects, contexts, and ramifications of medieval multimedia.
Please send proposals of 350 words to Heather Blatt at blatt@fordham.edu by September 15, 2009.
SEMA Reminder
This is a reminder that abstracts for the 2009 Southeastern Medieval Conference, which will be held at Vanderbilt University the weekend of October 15-17, are due on July 1st (two days from now).
Please submit your abstracts using the conference website:
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/sema2009
Registration should open soon, also on the website.
Please submit your abstracts using the conference website:
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/sema2009
Registration should open soon, also on the website.
Manuscript Catalogues Online
By B. Pfeil, now in HTML:
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/amploniana/handschriftenkatalogeonline/
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/amploniana/handschriftenkatalogeonline/
IMBAS: Postgraduate Medieval Studies conference, NUI Galway, Nov 13-15th 2009
IMBAS: Postgraduate Medieval Studies conference, NUI Galway, Nov 13-15th 2009
IMBAS: The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference, November 13-15th 2009.
We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary medievalists’ conference being held in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway from November 13-15th 2009. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including language, history literature, art, archaeology and philosophy. The theme for 2009 is Alliances. Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive.
Papers might deal with but are not limited to such topics as:
* Religious, political and military alliances
* Relationships between cultural institutions
* Marriage
* Commerce and economics
* Patronage
* Rebellion and heresy
* Marginality
A selection of papers will be published in our new established peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts. The committee are also delighted to offer a number of travel bursaries to delegates on a competitive basis. Details of the above our available on our website and our blog, http://imbasnuig.blogspot.com.
Abstracts of 250 words for a 20 minute paper (with ten minutes allowed for questions and discussion) should be sent either electronically to or by post to Imbas, English Department, NUIG, University Road, Galway, Ireland. For further information, contact us at imbasnuig@gmail.com. Posted by: Francesca Bezzone (imbasnuig@gmail.com).
IMBAS: The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference, November 13-15th 2009.
We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary medievalists’ conference being held in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway from November 13-15th 2009. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including language, history literature, art, archaeology and philosophy. The theme for 2009 is Alliances. Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive.
Papers might deal with but are not limited to such topics as:
* Religious, political and military alliances
* Relationships between cultural institutions
* Marriage
* Commerce and economics
* Patronage
* Rebellion and heresy
* Marginality
A selection of papers will be published in our new established peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts. The committee are also delighted to offer a number of travel bursaries to delegates on a competitive basis. Details of the above our available on our website and our blog, http://imbasnuig.blogspot.com.
Abstracts of 250 words for a 20 minute paper (with ten minutes allowed for questions and discussion) should be sent either electronically to or by post to Imbas, English Department, NUIG, University Road, Galway, Ireland. For further information, contact us at imbasnuig@gmail.com. Posted by: Francesca Bezzone (imbasnuig@gmail.com).
Sculpture and the Medieval City CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Sculpture and the Medieval City
Session to be held at the 2010 International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13-16 May
Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizers: Mark Rosen (University of Texas at Dallas) and Ittai
Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center, NY).
This session aims to explore the role, meaning, function, and even
dysfunction of sculpture in the medieval city. From the ontological
value of their being objects occupying space, sculpture has always
been part of an environment. This session invites papers that ask how
the use and re-use of sculpture shaped the medieval city's definition
of itself, how sculpture illuminated medieval daily life, and how
meaning was generated through the performance of sculpture, its
interaction with its site, and its adaptation of pictorial themes
resonant to local populations. Church facades, governmental
buildings, antique monuments, fountains, and even wellheads are all
suitable topics for this session.
Disciplinary and interdisciplinary developments in scholarship over
the past forty years have resulted not only in the transformation of
our understanding of sculpture and its function within civic space
but also our understanding of what medieval space and specifically
medieval civic space meant in the Middle Ages. We are seeking papers
that will illuminate, revisit and even rephrase old notions of the
relationship between the place, the media and the materiality of
sculpture within the medieval city. Papers on issues of centrality
and marginality of sculpture around sacred or secular spaces within
the medieval city are also welcomed.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 15 September 2009
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
1. Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
2. Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#ACS
3. CV with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number
4. Statement of ICMA membership status (note: all participants in
ICMA sponsored sessions are required to be members of the ICMA)
ALL PROPOSALS AND INQUIRIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO:
Mark Rosen
Arts and Humanities
University of Texas at Dallas
Mailing Station JO 31
800 W. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080
medieval.sculpture.city@gmail.com
Sculpture and the Medieval City
Session to be held at the 2010 International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13-16 May
Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizers: Mark Rosen (University of Texas at Dallas) and Ittai
Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center, NY).
This session aims to explore the role, meaning, function, and even
dysfunction of sculpture in the medieval city. From the ontological
value of their being objects occupying space, sculpture has always
been part of an environment. This session invites papers that ask how
the use and re-use of sculpture shaped the medieval city's definition
of itself, how sculpture illuminated medieval daily life, and how
meaning was generated through the performance of sculpture, its
interaction with its site, and its adaptation of pictorial themes
resonant to local populations. Church facades, governmental
buildings, antique monuments, fountains, and even wellheads are all
suitable topics for this session.
Disciplinary and interdisciplinary developments in scholarship over
the past forty years have resulted not only in the transformation of
our understanding of sculpture and its function within civic space
but also our understanding of what medieval space and specifically
medieval civic space meant in the Middle Ages. We are seeking papers
that will illuminate, revisit and even rephrase old notions of the
relationship between the place, the media and the materiality of
sculpture within the medieval city. Papers on issues of centrality
and marginality of sculpture around sacred or secular spaces within
the medieval city are also welcomed.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 15 September 2009
Paper proposals should consist of the following:
1. Abstract of proposed paper (300 words maximum)
2. Completed Abstract Cover Sheet (available at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#ACS
3. CV with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number
4. Statement of ICMA membership status (note: all participants in
ICMA sponsored sessions are required to be members of the ICMA)
ALL PROPOSALS AND INQUIRIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO:
Mark Rosen
Arts and Humanities
University of Texas at Dallas
Mailing Station JO 31
800 W. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080
medieval.sculpture.city@gmail.com
Friday, July 3, 2009
Congress 2010
The CFP for Congress 2010 seems to be up. http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Sessions10.pdf
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