Kirkleatham Museum to display jewels from Cleveland grave of Anglo-Saxon
princess
Ancient skull unearthed on farm
Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery
Skeleton revealed by excavation
Video: Bodies found in a Peterborough garden
Vikings 'were warned to avoid Scotland'
Staffordshire Gold Hoard:
This of course is the big news of the week. There's been a huge amount
of coverage, so the below is a selection of links to articles and such.
Perhaps the most important link is to the Staffordshire Hoard site
On this site there's all kinds of info including a link to the Flickr
site that has a number of images in addition to those in the news and on
the site
The Beeb's Coverage
Largest Anglo-Saxon hoard found
Anglo-Saxon treasures uncovered (largely images)
What happens to a hoard of old gold?
The 'wonderful, wonderful' hoard
Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found
Hoard shines light on Dark Ages
Crowds visit Anglo-Saxon hoard
Anglo-Saxon gold hoard is the biggest - and could get bigger
The Great Nokes of Unlocked Wordhoard has a video roundup
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
FELLOWSHIPS IN CYPRUS 2010
FELLOWSHIPS IN CYPRUS 2010
The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) invites
applications for research fellowships in Cyprus. Opportunities
include CAARI-sponsored fellowships as well as fellowships sponsored
by other institutions listed below. CAARI is located in central
Nicosia close to the Cyprus Museum, major libraries, and the main
business and commercial district. The institute has hostel
accommodations and excellent research facilities.
For information on CAARI see www.caari.org
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS SPONSORED BY CAARI:
CAARI sponsors the following three fellowships for graduate students
whose research requires work on Cyprus itself.
APPLICATION FORM for all 3 fellowships is online at:
www.caari.org/Fellowships.htm
THE DANIELLE PARKS MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP:
Danielle Parks, author of The Roman Coinage of Cyprus (Nicosia,
2004), is memorialized here by a fellowship of US$1,000 for a
graduate student of any nationality who needs to work in Cyprus to
further his/her research on a subject of relevance to Cypriot
archaeology and culture. Applications in 2010 are invited especially
from students of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus. While in Cyprus, the
fellow will reside at CAARI, and give a presentation there on a
subject related to his/her research. The fellow will periodically
keep the Director of CAARI apprised of his/her research activities.
The fellow will acknowledge CAARI and the Danielle Parks Memorial
Fellowship in any publication that emerges from the research carried
during the fellowship.
THE HELENA WYLDE SWINY AND STUART SWINY FELLOWSHIP:
One grant of US$1,000 to a graduate student of any nationality in a
college or university in the U.S. or Canada to pursue a research
project that is relevant to an ongoing field project in Cyprus or
that requires work on Cyprus itself; to be used to fund research time
in residence at CAARI and to help defray costs of travel. Residence
at CAARI is required.
THE ANITA CECIL O'DONOVAN FELLOWSHIP:
Founded in memory of musician, composer, and homemaker Anita Cecil
O'Donovan, this fellowship offers one grant of US$1000 to a graduate
student of any nationality, enrolled in a graduate program in any
nation, to pursue research on a project relevant to the archaeology
and/or culture of Cyprus; to be used to fund a period of research
time in residence at CAARI and to help defray costs of travel.
Residence at CAARI is required.
APPLICATION DEADLINE for all three: February 1, 2010
FURTHER INFORMATION is available from:
CAARI
656 Beacon Street (Fifth Floor)
Boston, MA 02215
Fax: 617-353-6575
Email: caari@bu.edu
------------------------------------
SENIOR SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE AT CAARI:
An established scholar who commits to stay at least 30 days in
succession at CAARI, ideally in the summer, and to be available in
evenings and weekends to younger scholars working there, in return
for 50% reduction in residency rate. Must have PhD in archaeology or
ancillary field for at least 5 years prior to visit, be fluent in
English (but may be of any nationality), and be committed to
mentoring students. Travel, other expenses not covered.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: Letter detailing the applicant's proposed
schedule; summary curriculum vitae.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 15, 2010
INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS:
Director, CAARI
11 Andreas Demitriou St.
1066 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Email: director@caari.org.cy
-------------------------------------
THE COUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTER (CAORC):
MULTI-COUNTRY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Approximately ten awards of up to $9,000 each will be given to U.S.
doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D.
who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-country
significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and
related natural sciences. Scholars must carry out research in two or
more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts
a participating American overseas research center. CAARI is among
these centers. Preference will be given to candidates examining
comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible
to apply as individuals or in teams.
INFORMATION, APPLICATION FORM, and APPLICATION DEADLINE are available
online at: http://www.caorc.org/programs/multi.htm
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
P.O. Box 37012 - MRC 178
Washington, D.C. 20013-701
Tel: (202) 633-1599. Fax: (202) 786-2430
------------------------------------
2010 GETTY RESEARCH EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN
BASIN AND MIDDLE EAST: The Council of American Overseas Research
Centers announces a fellowship program for Citizens of Cyprus that
supports advanced regional research. This new fellowship program is
open to scholars who are citizens of Afghanistan, Algeria, Cyprus,
Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine,
Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen, and who wish to undertake a specific
research project at CAARI (or an American overseas research centers
in another participating country). Period of residency is one to two
months. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree or professional
experience in the study or preservation of cultural heritage. Cypriot
scholars must select a center other than CAARI. Applications are
submitted to the American overseas research center in the scholar's
home country.
INFORMATION, APPLICATION FORM, and APPLICATION DEADLINE:
http://www.caorc.org/programs/getty.htm or e-mail: director@caari.org
SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS:
Director, CAARI
11 Andreas Demitriou St.
1066 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Email: director@caari.org.cy
--------------------------------------
KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS IN ART HISTORY AT FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS:
Four US$22,500-per-year Kress Institutional Fellowships in the
History of European Art for a two-year research appointment in
association with one of a list of foreign institutes, among them
CAARI. Restrictions: Restricted to pre-doctoral candidates in the
history of art. Nominees must be U.S. citizens or individuals
matriculated at an American university. Dissertation research must
focus on European art before 1900. Candidates must be nominated by
their art history department.
INFORMATION, APPLICATION FORM, AND APPLICTION DEADLINE are available
online at: http://www.kressfoundation.org/fellowships
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
174 East 80th Street
New York, NY 10021
Tel: (212)-861-4993. Fax: (212)-628-3146
Email: info@kressfoundation.org
-------------------------------------
FULBRIGHT RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS:
FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS PROGRAM for postdoctoral research in Cyprus. For
information, see http://www.fulbrightonline.org/ or:
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
3007 Tilden Street NW, Suite 5 M
Washington, DC 20008-3009;
Telephone: 202-686-7877
FULBRIGHT STUDENT PROGRAM for pre-doctoral research in Cyprus. For
information see http://www.fulbrightonline.org/ or:
Fulbright Student Program
Institute of International Education
809 U.N. Plaza
New York, NY 10017-3580
Tel: 212-883-8200
-- Donald Keller
CAARI Boston Office
Administration
The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) invites
applications for research fellowships in Cyprus. Opportunities
include CAARI-sponsored fellowships as well as fellowships sponsored
by other institutions listed below. CAARI is located in central
Nicosia close to the Cyprus Museum, major libraries, and the main
business and commercial district. The institute has hostel
accommodations and excellent research facilities.
For information on CAARI see www.caari.org
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS SPONSORED BY CAARI:
CAARI sponsors the following three fellowships for graduate students
whose research requires work on Cyprus itself.
APPLICATION FORM for all 3 fellowships is online at:
www.caari.org/Fellowships.htm
THE DANIELLE PARKS MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP:
Danielle Parks, author of The Roman Coinage of Cyprus (Nicosia,
2004), is memorialized here by a fellowship of US$1,000 for a
graduate student of any nationality who needs to work in Cyprus to
further his/her research on a subject of relevance to Cypriot
archaeology and culture. Applications in 2010 are invited especially
from students of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus. While in Cyprus, the
fellow will reside at CAARI, and give a presentation there on a
subject related to his/her research. The fellow will periodically
keep the Director of CAARI apprised of his/her research activities.
The fellow will acknowledge CAARI and the Danielle Parks Memorial
Fellowship in any publication that emerges from the research carried
during the fellowship.
THE HELENA WYLDE SWINY AND STUART SWINY FELLOWSHIP:
One grant of US$1,000 to a graduate student of any nationality in a
college or university in the U.S. or Canada to pursue a research
project that is relevant to an ongoing field project in Cyprus or
that requires work on Cyprus itself; to be used to fund research time
in residence at CAARI and to help defray costs of travel. Residence
at CAARI is required.
THE ANITA CECIL O'DONOVAN FELLOWSHIP:
Founded in memory of musician, composer, and homemaker Anita Cecil
O'Donovan, this fellowship offers one grant of US$1000 to a graduate
student of any nationality, enrolled in a graduate program in any
nation, to pursue research on a project relevant to the archaeology
and/or culture of Cyprus; to be used to fund a period of research
time in residence at CAARI and to help defray costs of travel.
Residence at CAARI is required.
APPLICATION DEADLINE for all three: February 1, 2010
FURTHER INFORMATION is available from:
CAARI
656 Beacon Street (Fifth Floor)
Boston, MA 02215
Fax: 617-353-6575
Email: caari@bu.edu
------------------------------------
SENIOR SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE AT CAARI:
An established scholar who commits to stay at least 30 days in
succession at CAARI, ideally in the summer, and to be available in
evenings and weekends to younger scholars working there, in return
for 50% reduction in residency rate. Must have PhD in archaeology or
ancillary field for at least 5 years prior to visit, be fluent in
English (but may be of any nationality), and be committed to
mentoring students. Travel, other expenses not covered.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: Letter detailing the applicant's proposed
schedule; summary curriculum vitae.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 15, 2010
INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS:
Director, CAARI
11 Andreas Demitriou St.
1066 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Email: director@caari.org.cy
-------------------------------------
THE COUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTER (CAORC):
MULTI-COUNTRY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Approximately ten awards of up to $9,000 each will be given to U.S.
doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D.
who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-country
significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and
related natural sciences. Scholars must carry out research in two or
more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts
a participating American overseas research center. CAARI is among
these centers. Preference will be given to candidates examining
comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible
to apply as individuals or in teams.
INFORMATION, APPLICATION FORM, and APPLICATION DEADLINE are available
online at: http://www.caorc.org/programs/multi.htm
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
P.O. Box 37012 - MRC 178
Washington, D.C. 20013-701
Tel: (202) 633-1599. Fax: (202) 786-2430
------------------------------------
2010 GETTY RESEARCH EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN
BASIN AND MIDDLE EAST: The Council of American Overseas Research
Centers announces a fellowship program for Citizens of Cyprus that
supports advanced regional research. This new fellowship program is
open to scholars who are citizens of Afghanistan, Algeria, Cyprus,
Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine,
Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen, and who wish to undertake a specific
research project at CAARI (or an American overseas research centers
in another participating country). Period of residency is one to two
months. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree or professional
experience in the study or preservation of cultural heritage. Cypriot
scholars must select a center other than CAARI. Applications are
submitted to the American overseas research center in the scholar's
home country.
INFORMATION, APPLICATION FORM, and APPLICATION DEADLINE:
http://www.caorc.org/programs/getty.htm or e-mail: director@caari.org
SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS:
Director, CAARI
11 Andreas Demitriou St.
1066 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Email: director@caari.org.cy
--------------------------------------
KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS IN ART HISTORY AT FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS:
Four US$22,500-per-year Kress Institutional Fellowships in the
History of European Art for a two-year research appointment in
association with one of a list of foreign institutes, among them
CAARI. Restrictions: Restricted to pre-doctoral candidates in the
history of art. Nominees must be U.S. citizens or individuals
matriculated at an American university. Dissertation research must
focus on European art before 1900. Candidates must be nominated by
their art history department.
INFORMATION, APPLICATION FORM, AND APPLICTION DEADLINE are available
online at: http://www.kressfoundation.org/fellowships
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
174 East 80th Street
New York, NY 10021
Tel: (212)-861-4993. Fax: (212)-628-3146
Email: info@kressfoundation.org
-------------------------------------
FULBRIGHT RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS:
FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS PROGRAM for postdoctoral research in Cyprus. For
information, see http://www.fulbrightonline.org/ or:
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
3007 Tilden Street NW, Suite 5 M
Washington, DC 20008-3009;
Telephone: 202-686-7877
FULBRIGHT STUDENT PROGRAM for pre-doctoral research in Cyprus. For
information see http://www.fulbrightonline.org/ or:
Fulbright Student Program
Institute of International Education
809 U.N. Plaza
New York, NY 10017-3580
Tel: 212-883-8200
-- Donald Keller
CAARI Boston Office
Administration
ISAS New Voices sessions at the IMC at the University of Leeds (12 July-15 July 2010)
Please know that we are still eagerly accepting abstracts for
consideration for the 2010 ISAS New Voices sessions at the IMC at the
University of Leeds (12 July-15 July 2010). "New Voices" are defined as
graduate students, junior faculty, or anyone working in an area, field, or
combination of fields within Anglo-Saxon Studies which is new to them or
is experimental in nature.
Papers are welcome on any issue or topic in Anglo-Saxon Studies.
Please do consider submitting an abstract or, if you are not a new voice,
please encourage your junior colleagues or graduate students to submit an
abstract.
Send abstracts to: Stacy Klein, at ssklein@rci.rutgers.edu
consideration for the 2010 ISAS New Voices sessions at the IMC at the
University of Leeds (12 July-15 July 2010). "New Voices" are defined as
graduate students, junior faculty, or anyone working in an area, field, or
combination of fields within Anglo-Saxon Studies which is new to them or
is experimental in nature.
Papers are welcome on any issue or topic in Anglo-Saxon Studies.
Please do consider submitting an abstract or, if you are not a new voice,
please encourage your junior colleagues or graduate students to submit an
abstract.
Send abstracts to: Stacy Klein, at ssklein@rci.rutgers.edu
So, You Teach Medieval Art History?: Incorporating New Technologies
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Medieval Congress, Leeds
12-15 July 2010
So, You Teach Medieval Art History?: Incorporating New Technologies
and Multi-Media into Undergraduate Art History Classrooms and Beyond
The Student Committee of the International Center for Medieval Art
aims to give a voice to all students interested in medieval art and
architectural history. For our session at the 2010 International
Medieval Congress in Leeds we invite papers that address incorporating
new technologies and multi-media into undergraduate art history
classrooms and beyond. We seek presenters who explore, for example:
the technological resources available to students and teachers; the
transition from previous technologies (microfilm, slides, etc.) to
digital formats (Powerpoint, MDID, etc.); the benefits and perhaps
limitations of new media in the classroom; and the ways new
technologies impact both the study and the teaching of art and
architecture. We also welcome participants who consider issues
interdisciplinary in nature, such as: the incorporation of
technologies from other disciplines in art history classes; and the
extent to which new technologies associated with art history may be
applied in the classrooms of related disciplines.
To apply, please submit a brief CV and an abstract of no more than 300
words to Melanie Hackney (melaniehackney@gmail.com) by September 27,
2009.
Melanie Hackney
melaniehackney@gmail.com
Louisiana State University
Dept. of French Studies
404 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
International Medieval Congress, Leeds
12-15 July 2010
So, You Teach Medieval Art History?: Incorporating New Technologies
and Multi-Media into Undergraduate Art History Classrooms and Beyond
The Student Committee of the International Center for Medieval Art
aims to give a voice to all students interested in medieval art and
architectural history. For our session at the 2010 International
Medieval Congress in Leeds we invite papers that address incorporating
new technologies and multi-media into undergraduate art history
classrooms and beyond. We seek presenters who explore, for example:
the technological resources available to students and teachers; the
transition from previous technologies (microfilm, slides, etc.) to
digital formats (Powerpoint, MDID, etc.); the benefits and perhaps
limitations of new media in the classroom; and the ways new
technologies impact both the study and the teaching of art and
architecture. We also welcome participants who consider issues
interdisciplinary in nature, such as: the incorporation of
technologies from other disciplines in art history classes; and the
extent to which new technologies associated with art history may be
applied in the classrooms of related disciplines.
To apply, please submit a brief CV and an abstract of no more than 300
words to Melanie Hackney (melaniehackney@gmail.com) by September 27,
2009.
Melanie Hackney
melaniehackney@gmail.com
Louisiana State University
Dept. of French Studies
404 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Vagantes CFP
Call for Papers for the
Vagantes Graduate Student Conference 2010
University of New Mexico
http://vagantesconference.org
In spring 2010 the medievalist graduate students of the University of New Mexico will have the honor of hosting the ninth annual Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference from 11 through 13 March, 2010. (For information on the program, transportation, and accommodations, please visit http://vagantesconference.org.)
Vagantes is one of the largest conferences in North America for graduate students studying the Middle Ages. Vagantes aims to provide an open dialogue among j un ior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies, come together to exchange ideas at Vagantes. In this manner Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget.
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited from graduate students working on any medieval topic . E-mail a brief curriculum vita and abstract of no more than 300 words by 9 October 2009 to:
Marisa Sikes
msikes@unm.edu
Department of English Language and Literature
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque , New Mexico
Vagantes Graduate Student Conference 2010
University of New Mexico
http://vagantesconference.org
In spring 2010 the medievalist graduate students of the University of New Mexico will have the honor of hosting the ninth annual Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference from 11 through 13 March, 2010. (For information on the program, transportation, and accommodations, please visit http://vagantesconference.org.)
Vagantes is one of the largest conferences in North America for graduate students studying the Middle Ages. Vagantes aims to provide an open dialogue among j un ior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies, come together to exchange ideas at Vagantes. In this manner Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget.
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited from graduate students working on any medieval topic . E-mail a brief curriculum vita and abstract of no more than 300 words by 9 October 2009 to:
Marisa Sikes
msikes@unm.edu
Department of English Language and Literature
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque , New Mexico
Marco MSS Workshop
There is still time to submit a proposal for this year's workshop; we
invite anyone interested in the topic to contact us.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Unruly Letters &
Unbound Texts"
The Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and
Saturday, February 5 and 6, 2010, at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty
(Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
Last year's workshop focused on "textual trauma" -- instances of
violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. This year our focus
will be on texts and manuscripts that cross or confound the
boundaries scholars have tried to place around them, that do not fit
neatly into the genres or categories of modern scholarship, or that
pose peculiar difficulties of definition, categorization or reading.
These might include: macaronic and multilingual texts, prosi-metric
and metri- prosaic texts, glosses and commentaries, diagrams and
tables, ciphers and strange alphabets, incongruous or appropriated
forms and textual designs, interpolations and conflations, marginal
commentaries that overwhelm their texts, miscellanies and composite
manuscripts, and manuscripts in the age of print. We welcome
presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any
field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or
epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each
project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its
context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and
exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in
previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a
conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and
unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations,
to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work
together towards developing better professional skills for textual
and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of
works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical
difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or
representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of
$500 for their participation.
The deadline for applications is October 1, 2009. Applicants are
asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their
project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, University of
Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email
to.
The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to
present work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of
discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. More information will
be available at
, or by
contacting Roy Liuzza at the address above.
invite anyone interested in the topic to contact us.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Unruly Letters &
Unbound Texts"
The Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and
Saturday, February 5 and 6, 2010, at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty
(Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
Last year's workshop focused on "textual trauma" -- instances of
violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. This year our focus
will be on texts and manuscripts that cross or confound the
boundaries scholars have tried to place around them, that do not fit
neatly into the genres or categories of modern scholarship, or that
pose peculiar difficulties of definition, categorization or reading.
These might include: macaronic and multilingual texts, prosi-metric
and metri- prosaic texts, glosses and commentaries, diagrams and
tables, ciphers and strange alphabets, incongruous or appropriated
forms and textual designs, interpolations and conflations, marginal
commentaries that overwhelm their texts, miscellanies and composite
manuscripts, and manuscripts in the age of print. We welcome
presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any
field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or
epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each
project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its
context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and
exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in
previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a
conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and
unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations,
to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work
together towards developing better professional skills for textual
and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of
works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical
difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or
representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of
$500 for their participation.
The deadline for applications is October 1, 2009. Applicants are
asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their
project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, University of
Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email
to
The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to
present work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of
discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. More information will
be available at
contacting Roy Liuzza at the address above.
Leeds Reminder
Just a reminder that session proposals for 2010 Leeds are due WEDNESDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER !
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Medieval News of the Week
Inquest decides ring is treasure
Ninth century settlements found in northwest Qatar
Hundreds of Saxon graves unearthed on new pub site
Gothic architectural treasures found in Hungarian monastery
12 sepulchers found in Teghut
Bulgaria: Archaeologists Discovered Unique Vessel Fragment in Trapezita
Town's past recovered from graves
In France, a journey of faith
Vale of York Viking Hoard goes on show at the Yorkshire Museum in York
Ninth century settlements found in northwest Qatar
Hundreds of Saxon graves unearthed on new pub site
Gothic architectural treasures found in Hungarian monastery
12 sepulchers found in Teghut
Bulgaria: Archaeologists Discovered Unique Vessel Fragment in Trapezita
Town's past recovered from graves
In France, a journey of faith
Vale of York Viking Hoard goes on show at the Yorkshire Museum in York
Sunday, September 20, 2009
CFP: Medieval Urban Life: New Ideas and New Contexts
CFP: Medieval Urban Life: New Ideas and New Contexts
8th Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 5-6, 2010.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Student Organization, is pleased to
announce its eighth annual Conference on Medieval Studies to be held
on February
5-6th, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference is "Medieval Urban Life: New
Ideas and New Contexts," and it will feature a keynote address from Lawrence
Clopper, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and author of _Drama, Play,
and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period_.
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of medieval urban
culture and history. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. The medieval city in literature
2. Guilds and local politics
3. The medieval city in history and architecture
4. Daily urban life
5. Festivals, fairs, and plays
6. Urban ballads and minstrelsy
7. Social change in developing towns
8. Siege and warfare
9. Urban economics
10. Importation and trade
11. Guildmasters and apprentices
12. Urban childhood
13. Urban planning and excavation
14. Statues and monuments
15. Justice and law enforcement
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to jctompki@purdue.edu by
November 1st, 2009.
P. S. Please find attached a small poster announcing the conference.
Feel free to print and hang this poster to help us spread word. Thank you.
8th Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 5-6, 2010.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Student Organization, is pleased to
announce its eighth annual Conference on Medieval Studies to be held
on February
5-6th, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference is "Medieval Urban Life: New
Ideas and New Contexts," and it will feature a keynote address from Lawrence
Clopper, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and author of _Drama, Play,
and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period_.
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of medieval urban
culture and history. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. The medieval city in literature
2. Guilds and local politics
3. The medieval city in history and architecture
4. Daily urban life
5. Festivals, fairs, and plays
6. Urban ballads and minstrelsy
7. Social change in developing towns
8. Siege and warfare
9. Urban economics
10. Importation and trade
11. Guildmasters and apprentices
12. Urban childhood
13. Urban planning and excavation
14. Statues and monuments
15. Justice and law enforcement
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to jctompki@purdue.edu by
November 1st, 2009.
P. S. Please find attached a small poster announcing the conference.
Feel free to print and hang this poster to help us spread word. Thank you.
Holinshed's Chronicles
Many have probably already seen this, but:
Holinshed's Chronicles
Subject: Holinshed’s Chronicles
From: Ian Archer
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce a new freely available resource for all
those interested in historical writing (and much else besides) in
the early modern period: Holinshed’s Chronicles of England,
Scotland and Wales.
An Oxford based team comprising myself (History, Oxford), Dr
Felicity Heal (History, Oxford), Dr Paulina Kewes (English,
Oxford), and Dr Henry Summerson (The Oxford Holinshed Project
Research Assistant) has been working on a parallel text
electronic edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles. The Chronicles are
best known as the source text for many of Shakespeare’s plays,
but they were a gold mine for other dramatists and poets, and for
lawyers, politicians, and general readers. We’ve been aware for a
long time of the existence of differences between the two
editions of 1577 and 1587, but systematic analysis has proved
elusive because of the sheer volume of the texts. What we offer
is a means of reading the two editions alongside each other, a
privilege hitherto only available to those in particularly well
endowed libraries. Users with access to EEBO will be able to move
from our edition to the EBO hosted facsimiles of the pages.
The edition would have been impossible without the co-operation
of EEBO-TCP who undertook the keying of the 1577 edition (in
addition to the 1587 edition already on their site), as well as
granting us permission to make use of the two texts in our
version.
We have also benefited from the assistance of the Research
Services Team at Oxford University Computing Services who
developed the TEI Comparator Tool, enabling comparison between
the two texts. We think that this tool may be of use to other
projects. See the link to James Cummings’ blog below.
The resource is freely available, and has been funded by Oxford
University’s Fell Fund.
To access the texts go to:
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
But you can get there from the project website:
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
I send you there simply to alert you to the amount of additional
content, including a comprehensive analysis of the sources behind
the Chronicles undertaken by Henry Summerson.
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/chronicles.shtml
There is also a comprehensive Holinshed bibliography, and a
number of working papers.
To read James Cummings’ blog and to find out more about the TEI
Comparator Tool, go to:
http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jamesc/2009/09/04/tei-comparator/
The parallel text edition is one of several outputs envisaged by
the Oxford Holinshed Project. We have commsioned forty essays
which will be published by OUP as The Oxford Handbook to
Holinshed’s Chronicles in 2011. We also hope to receive funding
to enhance the electronic edition with scholarly annotation.
All best wishes,
Ian W. Archer
–
Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG
Acting Warden, Keble College
Fellow and Tutor in Modern History
General Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British
History
Literary Director, Royal Historical Society
Website addresses
Personal webpage:
http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/dr-ian-archer
RHS Bibliography:
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/
Royal Historical Society:
http://royalhistoricalsociety.org
The Holinshed Project:
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
Keble Past and Present:
http://www.tmiltd.com/shop/home/pId/66
Holinshed's Chronicles
Subject: Holinshed’s Chronicles
From: Ian Archer
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce a new freely available resource for all
those interested in historical writing (and much else besides) in
the early modern period: Holinshed’s Chronicles of England,
Scotland and Wales.
An Oxford based team comprising myself (History, Oxford), Dr
Felicity Heal (History, Oxford), Dr Paulina Kewes (English,
Oxford), and Dr Henry Summerson (The Oxford Holinshed Project
Research Assistant) has been working on a parallel text
electronic edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles. The Chronicles are
best known as the source text for many of Shakespeare’s plays,
but they were a gold mine for other dramatists and poets, and for
lawyers, politicians, and general readers. We’ve been aware for a
long time of the existence of differences between the two
editions of 1577 and 1587, but systematic analysis has proved
elusive because of the sheer volume of the texts. What we offer
is a means of reading the two editions alongside each other, a
privilege hitherto only available to those in particularly well
endowed libraries. Users with access to EEBO will be able to move
from our edition to the EBO hosted facsimiles of the pages.
The edition would have been impossible without the co-operation
of EEBO-TCP who undertook the keying of the 1577 edition (in
addition to the 1587 edition already on their site), as well as
granting us permission to make use of the two texts in our
version.
We have also benefited from the assistance of the Research
Services Team at Oxford University Computing Services who
developed the TEI Comparator Tool, enabling comparison between
the two texts. We think that this tool may be of use to other
projects. See the link to James Cummings’ blog below.
The resource is freely available, and has been funded by Oxford
University’s Fell Fund.
To access the texts go to:
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
But you can get there from the project website:
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
I send you there simply to alert you to the amount of additional
content, including a comprehensive analysis of the sources behind
the Chronicles undertaken by Henry Summerson.
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/chronicles.shtml
There is also a comprehensive Holinshed bibliography, and a
number of working papers.
To read James Cummings’ blog and to find out more about the TEI
Comparator Tool, go to:
http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jamesc/2009/09/04/tei-comparator/
The parallel text edition is one of several outputs envisaged by
the Oxford Holinshed Project. We have commsioned forty essays
which will be published by OUP as The Oxford Handbook to
Holinshed’s Chronicles in 2011. We also hope to receive funding
to enhance the electronic edition with scholarly annotation.
All best wishes,
Ian W. Archer
–
Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG
Acting Warden, Keble College
Fellow and Tutor in Modern History
General Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British
History
Literary Director, Royal Historical Society
Website addresses
Personal webpage:
http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/dr-ian-archer
RHS Bibliography:
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/
Royal Historical Society:
http://royalhistoricalsociety.org
The Holinshed Project:
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
Keble Past and Present:
http://www.tmiltd.com/shop/home/pId/66
Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain
Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval BritainWhile England,
Scotland, and Wales each produced their own bodies of literature in
the Middle Ages, their physical proximity at times engendered a sense
of shared literary culture, even as the fraught political relations
among them complicated any notion of a shared identity. This panel
seeks to explore Britain's insular identities through an examination
of its borders, and invites papers dealing with depictions of
borders, bordered identities, border theory, or cross-border
relations in medieval Britain. Send abstracts to Katherine H.
Terrell: kterrell@hamilton.edu by 30 September.
Katherine H. Terrell
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY 13323
Scotland, and Wales each produced their own bodies of literature in
the Middle Ages, their physical proximity at times engendered a sense
of shared literary culture, even as the fraught political relations
among them complicated any notion of a shared identity. This panel
seeks to explore Britain's insular identities through an examination
of its borders, and invites papers dealing with depictions of
borders, bordered identities, border theory, or cross-border
relations in medieval Britain. Send abstracts to Katherine H.
Terrell: kterrell@hamilton.edu by 30 September.
Katherine H. Terrell
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY 13323
THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY: symposium in memory of Angeliki Ε . Laiou
THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY
is announcing a symposium
in memory of Angeliki Ε . Laiou
“Migration, Gender, and the Economy in Byzantium:
A Conference in Memory of Angeliki Laiou”
participants:
Haralambos Bouras, Gilbert Dagron, Koray Durak,
Maria Georgopoulou, Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, Ioli Kalavrezou,
Haris Kalligas, Dimitri Kyritsis, Chryssa Maltezou,
Nevra Necipoğlu, Panagiotis Vocotopoulos
on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 9:00 p.m.
in Cotsen Hall
9 Anapiron Polemou Street
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS
61 Souidias st, 106 76 Athens, tel. 210-72.10.536, www.gennadius.gr
is announcing a symposium
in memory of Angeliki Ε . Laiou
“Migration, Gender, and the Economy in Byzantium:
A Conference in Memory of Angeliki Laiou”
participants:
Haralambos Bouras, Gilbert Dagron, Koray Durak,
Maria Georgopoulou, Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, Ioli Kalavrezou,
Haris Kalligas, Dimitri Kyritsis, Chryssa Maltezou,
Nevra Necipoğlu, Panagiotis Vocotopoulos
on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 9:00 p.m.
in Cotsen Hall
9 Anapiron Polemou Street
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS
61 Souidias st, 106 76 Athens, tel. 210-72.10.536, www.gennadius.gr
CFP: Medieval Urban Life: New Ideas and New Contexts
CFP: Medieval Urban Life: New Ideas and New Contexts
8th Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 5-6, 2010.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Student Organization, is pleased to
announce its eighth annual Conference on Medieval Studies to be held
on February
5-6th, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference is "Medieval Urban Life: New
Ideas and New Contexts," and it will feature a keynote address from Lawrence
Clopper, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and author of _Drama, Play,
and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period_.
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of medieval urban
culture and history. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. The medieval city in literature
2. Guilds and local politics
3. The medieval city in history and architecture
4. Daily urban life
5. Festivals, fairs, and plays
6. Urban ballads and minstrelsy
7. Social change in developing towns
8. Siege and warfare
9. Urban economics
10. Importation and trade
11. Guildmasters and apprentices
12. Urban childhood
13. Urban planning and excavation
14. Statues and monuments
15. Justice and law enforcement
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to jctompki@purdue.edu by
November 1st, 2009.
P. S. Please find attached a small poster announcing the conference.
Feel free to print and hang this poster to help us spread the word. Thank you.
Chad Judkins
Comitatus Vice-President
Doctoral Student
Purdue University
judkinsc@gmail.com
8th Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 5-6, 2010.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Student Organization, is pleased to
announce its eighth annual Conference on Medieval Studies to be held
on February
5-6th, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference is "Medieval Urban Life: New
Ideas and New Contexts," and it will feature a keynote address from Lawrence
Clopper, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and author of _Drama, Play,
and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period_.
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of medieval urban
culture and history. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. The medieval city in literature
2. Guilds and local politics
3. The medieval city in history and architecture
4. Daily urban life
5. Festivals, fairs, and plays
6. Urban ballads and minstrelsy
7. Social change in developing towns
8. Siege and warfare
9. Urban economics
10. Importation and trade
11. Guildmasters and apprentices
12. Urban childhood
13. Urban planning and excavation
14. Statues and monuments
15. Justice and law enforcement
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to jctompki@purdue.edu by
November 1st, 2009.
P. S. Please find attached a small poster announcing the conference.
Feel free to print and hang this poster to help us spread the word. Thank you.
Chad Judkins
Comitatus Vice-President
Doctoral Student
Purdue University
judkinsc@gmail.com
36th ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES (16-17 OCTOBER 2009)
36th ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES (16-17 OCTOBER 2009)
The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis
University and its journal, "Manuscripta," are pleased to announce
the program and registration information for the Thirty-Sixth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies to be held at Saint
Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, 16-17 October 2009. This
annual conference features papers on medieval and Renaissance
manuscript studies, including such topics as paleography, codicology,
illumination, book production, library history, reading and literacy,
and text editing.
Guest Speaker:
PATRICIA STIRNEMANN
Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes
Conference sessions will be on the following themes:
I. Visualizing the Crusades
II. Catena Commentary vs. Interlinear Gloss: Patterns of Transmission
of Commentary Texts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
III. Analysis and Scientific Representation in Medieval Manuscripts
IV. Making Manuscripts in Facsimile: History and Technique
V. Assembling the Truth: Critiquing the Practice of Compilation
during the Middle Ages
VI. Book Production Practices in Late Medieval and Renaissance
Europe: Connecting Material Evidence to a Cultural Production of
Objects
VII. Near Eastern Manuscripts
Program, registration, and accommodation information:
http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/conference/index.html
Established in 1953, the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library is
a research collection for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies
that holds on microfilm more than 37,000 manuscripts from the
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, as well as manuscripts from other
collections. The Library maintains an extensive reference collection,
including catalogues for all Vatican Library manuscripts and those
for many other libraries, in addition to numerous works on
paleography, codicology, illumination, and other disciplines to
support the study of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and their
texts. Research in the collections is supported by two fellowship
programs. For further information, see
http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/index.html.
-- Gregory A. Pass
Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives
Director, Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library
Editor, Manuscripta
Pius XII Memorial Library
Saint Louis University
3650 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63108
Tel. (314) 977-3096 / Fax (314) 977-3108
passga@slu.edu
The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis
University and its journal, "Manuscripta," are pleased to announce
the program and registration information for the Thirty-Sixth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies to be held at Saint
Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, 16-17 October 2009. This
annual conference features papers on medieval and Renaissance
manuscript studies, including such topics as paleography, codicology,
illumination, book production, library history, reading and literacy,
and text editing.
Guest Speaker:
PATRICIA STIRNEMANN
Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes
Conference sessions will be on the following themes:
I. Visualizing the Crusades
II. Catena Commentary vs. Interlinear Gloss: Patterns of Transmission
of Commentary Texts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
III. Analysis and Scientific Representation in Medieval Manuscripts
IV. Making Manuscripts in Facsimile: History and Technique
V. Assembling the Truth: Critiquing the Practice of Compilation
during the Middle Ages
VI. Book Production Practices in Late Medieval and Renaissance
Europe: Connecting Material Evidence to a Cultural Production of
Objects
VII. Near Eastern Manuscripts
Program, registration, and accommodation information:
http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/conference/index.html
Established in 1953, the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library is
a research collection for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies
that holds on microfilm more than 37,000 manuscripts from the
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, as well as manuscripts from other
collections. The Library maintains an extensive reference collection,
including catalogues for all Vatican Library manuscripts and those
for many other libraries, in addition to numerous works on
paleography, codicology, illumination, and other disciplines to
support the study of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and their
texts. Research in the collections is supported by two fellowship
programs. For further information, see
http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/index.html.
-- Gregory A. Pass
Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives
Director, Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library
Editor, Manuscripta
Pius XII Memorial Library
Saint Louis University
3650 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63108
Tel. (314) 977-3096 / Fax (314) 977-3108
passga@slu.edu
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009)
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009)
This year’s International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009) is a month away. The theme of DC 2009 is Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data. The conference will be held on 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.
Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site till October 5th. On-site registration will be available while conference is in session. Please go to the registration page http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php to register for the conference and related events including Dublin Core tutorials on Monday, 12 October and following the conference on Friday, 16 October. The basic tutorials introduce “Dublin Core in historical context, Interoperability options in a complex Web of data, Other metadata standards, and Interoperability issues and basic approaches”. The advanced tutorials include “Ontology Design and Interoperability”, and “Transforming, Mapping, and Merging OS: Methodologies and Challenges”.
For registration, program, accommodation information and more, please go to links below:
* DC 2009 home page: http://www.dc2009.kr/
* Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php
* Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php
* Accommodation: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uacco_01.php
Thank you,
–
Myung-Ja “MJ” Han
Metadata Librarian
220 Main Library
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1408 W. Gregory Dr. (MC-522)
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-9515 (Main Library)
217-244-7809 (Grainger)
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/international-conference-on-dublin-core-and-metadata-applications-dc-2009/
This year’s International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009) is a month away. The theme of DC 2009 is Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data. The conference will be held on 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.
Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site till October 5th. On-site registration will be available while conference is in session. Please go to the registration page http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php to register for the conference and related events including Dublin Core tutorials on Monday, 12 October and following the conference on Friday, 16 October. The basic tutorials introduce “Dublin Core in historical context, Interoperability options in a complex Web of data, Other metadata standards, and Interoperability issues and basic approaches”. The advanced tutorials include “Ontology Design and Interoperability”, and “Transforming, Mapping, and Merging OS: Methodologies and Challenges”.
For registration, program, accommodation information and more, please go to links below:
* DC 2009 home page: http://www.dc2009.kr/
* Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php
* Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php
* Accommodation: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uacco_01.php
Thank you,
–
Myung-Ja “MJ” Han
Metadata Librarian
220 Main Library
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1408 W. Gregory Dr. (MC-522)
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-9515 (Main Library)
217-244-7809 (Grainger)
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/international-conference-on-dublin-core-and-metadata-applications-dc-2009/
Case studies in the humanities - call for _expressions of interest
Case studies in the humanities - call for _expressions of interest
The RIN (Research Information Network) is looking to fund a series of case studies that will provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The case studies will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. They follow a first round of case studies in the life sciences (to be published shortly). We are making available up to ￡120,000 for this project, which is intended to run from November 2009 to September 2010. Closing date for this call is call is 30 September 2009.
More information available at the URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies.
——-
Sarah Gentleman
Communications Officer
**Research Information Network**
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
telephone: 020 7412 7241
email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk
website: http://www.rin.ac.uk/
The RIN (Research Information Network) is looking to fund a series of case studies that will provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The case studies will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. They follow a first round of case studies in the life sciences (to be published shortly). We are making available up to ￡120,000 for this project, which is intended to run from November 2009 to September 2010. Closing date for this call is call is 30 September 2009.
More information available at the URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies.
——-
Sarah Gentleman
Communications Officer
**Research Information Network**
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
telephone: 020 7412 7241
email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk
website: http://www.rin.ac.uk/
Monday, September 14, 2009
Case studies in the humanities - call for _expressions of interest
Case studies in the humanities - call for _expressions of interest
The RIN (Research Information Network) is looking to fund a series of case studies that will provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The case studies will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. They follow a first round of case studies in the life sciences (to be published shortly). We are making available up to ￡120,000 for this project, which is intended to run from November 2009 to September 2010. Closing date for this call is call is 30 September 2009.
More information available at the URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies.
——-
Sarah Gentleman
Communications Officer
**Research Information Network**
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
telephone: 020 7412 7241
email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk
website: http://www.rin.ac.uk/
*Freedom of information: what’s in it for researchers?* – free RIN workshop, 14 September 2009 in Glasgow, more information and booking at http://www.rin.ac.uk/foi-scotland.
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/case-studies-in-the-humanities-call-for-_expressions-of-interest/
The RIN (Research Information Network) is looking to fund a series of case studies that will provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The case studies will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. They follow a first round of case studies in the life sciences (to be published shortly). We are making available up to ￡120,000 for this project, which is intended to run from November 2009 to September 2010. Closing date for this call is call is 30 September 2009.
More information available at the URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies.
——-
Sarah Gentleman
Communications Officer
**Research Information Network**
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
telephone: 020 7412 7241
email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk
website: http://www.rin.ac.uk/
*Freedom of information: what’s in it for researchers?* – free RIN workshop, 14 September 2009 in Glasgow, more information and booking at http://www.rin.ac.uk/foi-scotland.
URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/case-studies-in-the-humanities-call-for-_expressions-of-interest/
Medieval Romance Society
The Medieval Romance Society still has an opening in the following session at the ICMS in Kalamazoo, May 13-16, 2010:
“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.
Please send an abstract and PIF to me, Rebecca Wilcox, at rawilcox122@yahoo.com or rwilcox@wtamu.edu. Deadline is this Tuesday!
“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.
Please send an abstract and PIF to me, Rebecca Wilcox, at rawilcox122@yahoo.com or rwilcox@wtamu.edu. Deadline is this Tuesday!
two sessions on pedagogy
We invite proposals for two sessions on pedagogy that focus upon
teaching oral theory and/or oral tradition in courses typically
taught by medievalists.
Though recent scholarship in the field of oral theory has made
enormous strides in articulating the incredibly complex relationships
between oral tradition and literate culture in the medieval world,
the subtleties involved can often be difficult to convey within the
confines of a class hour or syllabus unit. The task of even modestly
integrating what amounts to decades of work on such issues as the
persistence of oral poetics long after the advent of literacy, the
performance and performativity of medieval texts, and ambiguous
depictions of oral traditions as conveyed within surviving medieval
manuscripts into a single semester, or, more often, a single unit or
class period, can be incredibly daunting. Further, the capacity for
students to appreciate and understand the implications of
oral-connected and oral-derived medieval texts is largely dependent
upon the treatment of such issues in available translations,
editions, and audio-visual media. These
sessions offer an opportunity to bridge the potential divide
between theory and practice, closely examining how oral theory can
best be utilized in planning text-selection, assignment development,
organization of units, and in-class activities.
We welcome presentations about a variety of pedagogical practices,
including those that can be applied in upper-level and lower-level
courses, in survey courses as well as those focused exclusively on
medieval literature, in classes working in translation and in
original-languages, and in teaching both canonical and
less-frequently taught texts.
When submitting an abstract, please specify either the session of
papers or the panel discussion. The session of papers would involve
presentations of 15-20 minutes, and the panel discussion would
consist of more informal 5-10 minute presentations followed by more
extensive discussion. If you are already presenting in another
session, the panel discussion would be best, since the Congress does
not allow two papers to be presented by a single speaker. The
Congress does allow one to present in a session of papers and also
participate in a separate panel discussion.
Send the abstract to Heather Maring (heather.maring@asu.edu) or Lori
Garner (garnerl@rhodes.edu) no later than September 15.
teaching oral theory and/or oral tradition in courses typically
taught by medievalists.
Though recent scholarship in the field of oral theory has made
enormous strides in articulating the incredibly complex relationships
between oral tradition and literate culture in the medieval world,
the subtleties involved can often be difficult to convey within the
confines of a class hour or syllabus unit. The task of even modestly
integrating what amounts to decades of work on such issues as the
persistence of oral poetics long after the advent of literacy, the
performance and performativity of medieval texts, and ambiguous
depictions of oral traditions as conveyed within surviving medieval
manuscripts into a single semester, or, more often, a single unit or
class period, can be incredibly daunting. Further, the capacity for
students to appreciate and understand the implications of
oral-connected and oral-derived medieval texts is largely dependent
upon the treatment of such issues in available translations,
editions, and audio-visual media. These
sessions offer an opportunity to bridge the potential divide
between theory and practice, closely examining how oral theory can
best be utilized in planning text-selection, assignment development,
organization of units, and in-class activities.
We welcome presentations about a variety of pedagogical practices,
including those that can be applied in upper-level and lower-level
courses, in survey courses as well as those focused exclusively on
medieval literature, in classes working in translation and in
original-languages, and in teaching both canonical and
less-frequently taught texts.
When submitting an abstract, please specify either the session of
papers or the panel discussion. The session of papers would involve
presentations of 15-20 minutes, and the panel discussion would
consist of more informal 5-10 minute presentations followed by more
extensive discussion. If you are already presenting in another
session, the panel discussion would be best, since the Congress does
not allow two papers to be presented by a single speaker. The
Congress does allow one to present in a session of papers and also
participate in a separate panel discussion.
Send the abstract to Heather Maring (heather.maring@asu.edu) or Lori
Garner (garnerl@rhodes.edu) no later than September 15.
Dante meets MTV: Studying Medieval Literature in a Post-Medieval Context
Dante meets MTV: Studying Medieval Literature in a Post-Medieval Context
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
This roundtable aims to create a discussion about the role and
methods of the study of medieval
literature in the contemporary world. In the modern context,
seemingly so far removed from the
medieval context, scholars and students of medieval literature are
presented with numerous
problems as we try to read, interpret, and understand across the
chronological divide. How do we
approach medieval literature and culture from an analytical
perspective? How can we (or can we at
all) appropriately use modern interpretative tools with medieval
texts? As teachers, how do we
help students approach the radically different worldview of the
Middle Ages and appreciate
medieval literature for what it is rather than what it is not? What
is the relationship between the
modern reader or student and the medieval writer, and how can that
relationship be drawn out in
productive ways? How far can that relationship then be pushed in the
interests of bringing
medieval literature to a modern audience? The potential answers to
these questions, and the
methods of answering, involve perceptions of relevance, historicity,
aesthetics, cultural
communication, and translation as well as textual interpretation.
This roundtable welcomes not
only case studies representing specific instances and examples of
approaches to medieval
literature but also ideas related to wider pedagogical issues and
methods. Please send 250-word
abstracts in English to Anna Strowe, astrowe@complit.umass.edu.
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)
The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions,
as well as dynamic speakers
and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for
the 2010 Convention will be
posted in June: www.nemla.org.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA
session; however panelists
can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a
panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please
get your passport application in
early.
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
This roundtable aims to create a discussion about the role and
methods of the study of medieval
literature in the contemporary world. In the modern context,
seemingly so far removed from the
medieval context, scholars and students of medieval literature are
presented with numerous
problems as we try to read, interpret, and understand across the
chronological divide. How do we
approach medieval literature and culture from an analytical
perspective? How can we (or can we at
all) appropriately use modern interpretative tools with medieval
texts? As teachers, how do we
help students approach the radically different worldview of the
Middle Ages and appreciate
medieval literature for what it is rather than what it is not? What
is the relationship between the
modern reader or student and the medieval writer, and how can that
relationship be drawn out in
productive ways? How far can that relationship then be pushed in the
interests of bringing
medieval literature to a modern audience? The potential answers to
these questions, and the
methods of answering, involve perceptions of relevance, historicity,
aesthetics, cultural
communication, and translation as well as textual interpretation.
This roundtable welcomes not
only case studies representing specific instances and examples of
approaches to medieval
literature but also ideas related to wider pedagogical issues and
methods. Please send 250-word
abstracts in English to Anna Strowe, astrowe@complit.umass.edu.
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)
The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions,
as well as dynamic speakers
and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for
the 2010 Convention will be
posted in June: www.nemla.org.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA
session; however panelists
can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a
panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please
get your passport application in
early.
MAMA Sessions K'zoo
The Mid-America Medieval Association has been granted two sessions at the
International Medieval Congress to be held at Western Michigan University in
Kalamazoo May 13-16, 2010. As of right now, I have one open slot for the
following session.
>
European Monasticism I: Theory and Practice from Late Antiquity to the
Gregorian Reform. Chair: Janet Pope, Hiram College
The deadline for submissions is September 15th. Please consider sending in
an abstract.
International Medieval Congress to be held at Western Michigan University in
Kalamazoo May 13-16, 2010. As of right now, I have one open slot for the
following session.
>
European Monasticism I: Theory and Practice from Late Antiquity to the
Gregorian Reform. Chair: Janet Pope, Hiram College
The deadline for submissions is September 15th. Please consider sending in
an abstract.
ISTANBUL SYMPOSIUM: Some Suggested Panel and Paper Topics
ISTANBUL SYMPOSIUM: Some Suggested Panel and Paper Topics
As the 1 October deadline nears for proposals for the symposium
“Byzantine and Ottoman Civilizations in World History” to be held in
Istanbul, 21-24 October 2010, the program committee thought it
appropriate to suggest some panel and/or paper topics for persons
still wondering whether or not to offer a proposal. This list of
suggestions represents only a small fraction of possible topics, but
it might help some colleagues to understand better what the organizers
mean by “world history”. Persons who still might be unclear whether or
not a particular topic is “world historical” should consult the
panel/paper proposal form, a link to which can be found on the top of
the World History Association’s home page at www.thewha.org. There
they will find a short definition of world history. All proposals, by
the way, should be submitted electronically and on this form to the
WHA. Simply download it, fill it out, and e-mail the file to
thewha@hawaii. edu with the subject heading ?Istanbul Symposium
Proposal.?
Suggested Topics:
Byzantines and/or Turks in the literature of World History
Constantinople/ Istanbul as a Global City
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the steppe peoples
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the European West
Byzantium and Islam
The Ottoman Empire and Christendom beyond its borders
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the Slavic World
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the Silk Road(s)
Slaves from Afar: Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the Slave
Trade
Organizing and Deploying Multi-cultural Armed Forces: A Comparative
Study of Byzantine and Ottoman Military History
Byzantines and Ottomans: Intellectual, cultural, and artistic
transmissions before and after 1453.
Byzantine and Ottoman Empires: continuities and discontinuities
The Mediterranean and the Byzantine and/or Ottoman World
Byzantine/Ottoman long-distance travelers
Courtly women and transregional connections
Byzantine and/or Ottoman peasants and artisans and the larger world
(N. B. such phenomena as migration, relocation, resettlement, and
conquests provide a rich avenue though which to integrate Anatolian
peasants into world history)
A comparative study of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires
Magic and prophecies across borders and cultures
As the 1 October deadline nears for proposals for the symposium
“Byzantine and Ottoman Civilizations in World History” to be held in
Istanbul, 21-24 October 2010, the program committee thought it
appropriate to suggest some panel and/or paper topics for persons
still wondering whether or not to offer a proposal. This list of
suggestions represents only a small fraction of possible topics, but
it might help some colleagues to understand better what the organizers
mean by “world history”. Persons who still might be unclear whether or
not a particular topic is “world historical” should consult the
panel/paper proposal form, a link to which can be found on the top of
the World History Association’s home page at www.thewha.org. There
they will find a short definition of world history. All proposals, by
the way, should be submitted electronically and on this form to the
WHA. Simply download it, fill it out, and e-mail the file to
thewha@hawaii. edu with the subject heading ?Istanbul Symposium
Proposal.?
Suggested Topics:
Byzantines and/or Turks in the literature of World History
Constantinople/ Istanbul as a Global City
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the steppe peoples
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the European West
Byzantium and Islam
The Ottoman Empire and Christendom beyond its borders
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the Slavic World
Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the Silk Road(s)
Slaves from Afar: Byzantium and/or the Ottoman Empire and the Slave
Trade
Organizing and Deploying Multi-cultural Armed Forces: A Comparative
Study of Byzantine and Ottoman Military History
Byzantines and Ottomans: Intellectual, cultural, and artistic
transmissions before and after 1453.
Byzantine and Ottoman Empires: continuities and discontinuities
The Mediterranean and the Byzantine and/or Ottoman World
Byzantine/Ottoman long-distance travelers
Courtly women and transregional connections
Byzantine and/or Ottoman peasants and artisans and the larger world
(N. B. such phenomena as migration, relocation, resettlement, and
conquests provide a rich avenue though which to integrate Anatolian
peasants into world history)
A comparative study of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires
Magic and prophecies across borders and cultures
Exploring the Monstrous (I, II, .. For Leeds
CFP: 2010 International Medieval Congress, Leeds
Title of Session(s): Exploring the Monstrous (I, II, ...)
Sponsor: Mearcstapa
This year's theme of Travel and Exploration seems tailor-made for work
on monsters, many of which were believed to dwell in far-off lands, in
'the East,' or the far North or even, late in the period, in the 'New
World.' We invite papers dealing with travel to monstrous lands and
travel accounts describing interactions with monsters and monstrous
peoples, as well as those dealing more abstractly with medieval
explorations of the monstrous. We welcome papers in any discipline,
dealing with any aspect of monstrosity in the Middle Ages. Depending on
the submissions, we will propose between one and four full sessions to
the selection committee at Leeds. Possibility exists for the collective
publication of the papers, following the Congress.
Please send a paper title and abstract, along with you name,
affiliation, mailing address and email address to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) by _*September 23*_, as we need to vote on
these and submit as a unit to the IMC by October 1. Also please note if
you will need any A/V equipment.
For more information, see the general CFP:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2010_call.html
If you are interested in joining MEARCSTAPA (we have no dues) and our
listserv, please send Asa an email. All are welcome. A website is in
development, but in the meantime, some information can be found here:
http://www.csuchico.edu/monsters
Title of Session(s): Exploring the Monstrous (I, II, ...)
Sponsor: Mearcstapa
This year's theme of Travel and Exploration seems tailor-made for work
on monsters, many of which were believed to dwell in far-off lands, in
'the East,' or the far North or even, late in the period, in the 'New
World.' We invite papers dealing with travel to monstrous lands and
travel accounts describing interactions with monsters and monstrous
peoples, as well as those dealing more abstractly with medieval
explorations of the monstrous. We welcome papers in any discipline,
dealing with any aspect of monstrosity in the Middle Ages. Depending on
the submissions, we will propose between one and four full sessions to
the selection committee at Leeds. Possibility exists for the collective
publication of the papers, following the Congress.
Please send a paper title and abstract, along with you name,
affiliation, mailing address and email address to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) by _*September 23*_, as we need to vote on
these and submit as a unit to the IMC by October 1. Also please note if
you will need any A/V equipment.
For more information, see the general CFP:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2010_call.html
If you are interested in joining MEARCSTAPA (we have no dues) and our
listserv, please send Asa an email. All are welcome. A website is in
development, but in the meantime, some information can be found here:
http://www.csuchico.edu/monsters
Sights, sounds, and species
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Sights, sounds, and species:
Performance, Performativity and Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria
Over twenty years have passed since Ana Domínguez suggested that iconographic evidence from the thirteenth-century Cantigas de Santa Maria points to Alfonso X’s own theatrical participation in the songs of praise. Responding to Domínguez in 1991, John Keller writes, “Alfonso… seems to have arranged for portrayals of drama, ritual, and incipient opera to be painted in many of the miniatures....” Despite these observations, and the fact that the collection of 427 Marian devotional songs derived from Iberian and French troubadour performance traditions, the corpus of criticism on the theatrical and performative aspects of the songs is slight. This session proposes to rekindle interest in these issues by encouraging submissions that follow one of two related methodological approaches. First, papers may consider elements of historical staging, instrumentation, embodied behavior and gesture, and audience reception of the songs. Second, papers may employ critical tools from performance and manuscript studies to investigate processes of readerly engagements with the verse, music, and illuminations of the manuscripts themselves; this following Pamela Sheingorn’s definition of “performative reading,” which “constitutes the reader-viewer as a practitioner of affective devotion,” and casts him/her in the role of creative participant in the production of spiritual and social values.
Research questions might include (but are not limited to):
* How might the multimedia aspects of the manuscripts have contributed to a performative reading? Did the combination of musical, textual, and pictorial elements in the manuscripts contribute to a devotional or political practice for its readers?
* Can medieval theories of the senses help us understand how the Marian narratives may have been received by manuscript readers and/or audiences to a staging of the Cantigas?
* Can we draw from our knowledge of thirteenth-century poetic-musical forms, like the zajal, muwashshah, or virelai, to help us understand performance methods, such as musical rhythm and duration?
* How have contemporary early music ensembles used images of instruments from the MS illuminations, or other medieval evidence, to interpret the songs?
* What might performances of the Cantigas in the Cathedral of Seville have looked and sounded like? Can we use evidence from the manuscript to draw conclusions about performance, or do we need to look at the broader Galician-Portuguese performance culture?
E-mail an abstract of no more than 300 words by 1 October 2009 to Christopher Swift (cswift@gc.cuny.edu) or Anne Stone (astone@gc.cuny.edu).
The Medieval Studies Certificate Program
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Sights, sounds, and species:
Performance, Performativity and Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria
Over twenty years have passed since Ana Domínguez suggested that iconographic evidence from the thirteenth-century Cantigas de Santa Maria points to Alfonso X’s own theatrical participation in the songs of praise. Responding to Domínguez in 1991, John Keller writes, “Alfonso… seems to have arranged for portrayals of drama, ritual, and incipient opera to be painted in many of the miniatures....” Despite these observations, and the fact that the collection of 427 Marian devotional songs derived from Iberian and French troubadour performance traditions, the corpus of criticism on the theatrical and performative aspects of the songs is slight. This session proposes to rekindle interest in these issues by encouraging submissions that follow one of two related methodological approaches. First, papers may consider elements of historical staging, instrumentation, embodied behavior and gesture, and audience reception of the songs. Second, papers may employ critical tools from performance and manuscript studies to investigate processes of readerly engagements with the verse, music, and illuminations of the manuscripts themselves; this following Pamela Sheingorn’s definition of “performative reading,” which “constitutes the reader-viewer as a practitioner of affective devotion,” and casts him/her in the role of creative participant in the production of spiritual and social values.
Research questions might include (but are not limited to):
* How might the multimedia aspects of the manuscripts have contributed to a performative reading? Did the combination of musical, textual, and pictorial elements in the manuscripts contribute to a devotional or political practice for its readers?
* Can medieval theories of the senses help us understand how the Marian narratives may have been received by manuscript readers and/or audiences to a staging of the Cantigas?
* Can we draw from our knowledge of thirteenth-century poetic-musical forms, like the zajal, muwashshah, or virelai, to help us understand performance methods, such as musical rhythm and duration?
* How have contemporary early music ensembles used images of instruments from the MS illuminations, or other medieval evidence, to interpret the songs?
* What might performances of the Cantigas in the Cathedral of Seville have looked and sounded like? Can we use evidence from the manuscript to draw conclusions about performance, or do we need to look at the broader Galician-Portuguese performance culture?
E-mail an abstract of no more than 300 words by 1 October 2009 to Christopher Swift (cswift@gc.cuny.edu) or Anne Stone (astone@gc.cuny.edu).
The Medieval Studies Certificate Program
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Exploring Performative Gestures in the Middle Ages
Exploring Performative Gestures in the Middle Ages
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Recent work by David McNeill suggests that gestures do not merely support or illustrate speech, but that they play a crucial role in creating thoughts and ideas. Research in cognitive psychology that explores embodied thought affirms this suggestion. But McNeill’s conclusions also echo conceptualizations of gesture that were pervasive throughout the medieval world. In the Middle Ages, gestures did not simply make abstractions concrete, but they were also expected to give ideas, relationships, agreements, promises, and theologies actuality and reality; gesture constituted a fundamental way to make meaning in both formal and informal settings. This panel invites papers that explore how gestures and their performances functioned throughout medieval cultures. The panel welcomes diverse approaches to gesture that explore how we might identify, reconstruct, and theorize the value of gesture across a range of medieval contexts. Such contexts might include plays, spectacles, literature, devotion, music, art images and objects, domestic life, royal rituals, legal practices, courtship, warfare, professional negotiations, etc. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later thanSeptember 15, 2009 .
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Recent work by David McNeill suggests that gestures do not merely support or illustrate speech, but that they play a crucial role in creating thoughts and ideas. Research in cognitive psychology that explores embodied thought affirms this suggestion. But McNeill’s conclusions also echo conceptualizations of gesture that were pervasive throughout the medieval world. In the Middle Ages, gestures did not simply make abstractions concrete, but they were also expected to give ideas, relationships, agreements, promises, and theologies actuality and reality; gesture constituted a fundamental way to make meaning in both formal and informal settings. This panel invites papers that explore how gestures and their performances functioned throughout medieval cultures. The panel welcomes diverse approaches to gesture that explore how we might identify, reconstruct, and theorize the value of gesture across a range of medieval contexts. Such contexts might include plays, spectacles, literature, devotion, music, art images and objects, domestic life, royal rituals, legal practices, courtship, warfare, professional negotiations, etc. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later thanSeptember 15, 2009 .
Sensuous Performances: How did medieval plays engage the five senses?
Sensuous Performances: How did medieval plays engage the five senses?
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
In trying to recapture the “liveness” of medieval performances, many scholars have analyzed these events’ aural and visual elements, examining how performances in the Middle Ages engaged the eye and ear. However, performances engage all five senses for performers and audience members—both intentionally and unintentionally. This was especially true in the Middle Ages, when performances regularly took place as part of ceremonies, rituals, celebrations, and domestic events. Medieval plays not only incorporated smells, tastes, physical contact, sights, and sounds into their design, but performance events were also performed alongside other (sometimes competing, sometimes complementary) sensualities. This panel seeks work that examines not only how medieval performances engaged one or more of the senses, but also how this sensuality may have impacted a performance’s meaning and value. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later thanSeptember 15, 2009 .
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
In trying to recapture the “liveness” of medieval performances, many scholars have analyzed these events’ aural and visual elements, examining how performances in the Middle Ages engaged the eye and ear. However, performances engage all five senses for performers and audience members—both intentionally and unintentionally. This was especially true in the Middle Ages, when performances regularly took place as part of ceremonies, rituals, celebrations, and domestic events. Medieval plays not only incorporated smells, tastes, physical contact, sights, and sounds into their design, but performance events were also performed alongside other (sometimes competing, sometimes complementary) sensualities. This panel seeks work that examines not only how medieval performances engaged one or more of the senses, but also how this sensuality may have impacted a performance’s meaning and value. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details: Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later thanSeptember 15, 2009 .
CFP: Words and Deeds in Anglo-Saxon England
CFP: Words and Deeds in Anglo-Saxon England
Last Call!
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010.
We invite the submission of abstracts for our session on “Words and Deeds in
Anglo-Saxon England,” sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are broadly interested in
papers that investigate the interrelationship of words and deeds in
Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. Avenues for exploration could include
(but aren't limited to) the role of words and deeds in Anglo-Saxon laws and
customs, the importance of words and deeds in shaping and transforming the
self and community, the relationship between acts and intentions, or the
ways in which the orality of Anglo-Saxon culture formalizes language,
transforming words into deeds through performance. We anticipate that this
topic could intersect with the concerns of ritual theory and performance
theory, as well as more traditional cultural and literary studies.
Please submit an abstract of 100-300 words and a completed Participant
Information Form (found at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper) to
Stephanie Clark at sclark1@illinois.edu by September 15, 2009.
Last Call!
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010.
We invite the submission of abstracts for our session on “Words and Deeds in
Anglo-Saxon England,” sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are broadly interested in
papers that investigate the interrelationship of words and deeds in
Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. Avenues for exploration could include
(but aren't limited to) the role of words and deeds in Anglo-Saxon laws and
customs, the importance of words and deeds in shaping and transforming the
self and community, the relationship between acts and intentions, or the
ways in which the orality of Anglo-Saxon culture formalizes language,
transforming words into deeds through performance. We anticipate that this
topic could intersect with the concerns of ritual theory and performance
theory, as well as more traditional cultural and literary studies.
Please submit an abstract of 100-300 words and a completed Participant
Information Form (found at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper) to
Stephanie Clark at sclark1@illinois.edu by September 15, 2009.
CFP: WHAT'S IN A NAME
CFP: WHAT'S IN A NAME
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010
*Apologies for cross-posting!*
We are still accepting submissions of abstracts for the special session on
"What's in a Name", sponsored by Professor Julia Smith of Eastern Washington
University. Papers on medieval names and naming practices, especially
anthroponymy and toponymy are sought-the emphasis in on Europe and the UK
but other areas having sustained cultural contact with Europe are welcome.
Please submit an abstract of 100-300 words and a completed Participant
Information Form (found at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper) to
Julia Smoth at 'julia.smith@ewu.edu' by September 15, 2009.
N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD
Professor Emeritus
history & languages
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010
*Apologies for cross-posting!*
We are still accepting submissions of abstracts for the special session on
"What's in a Name", sponsored by Professor Julia Smith of Eastern Washington
University. Papers on medieval names and naming practices, especially
anthroponymy and toponymy are sought-the emphasis in on Europe and the UK
but other areas having sustained cultural contact with Europe are welcome.
Please submit an abstract of 100-300 words and a completed Participant
Information Form (found at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper) to
Julia Smoth at 'julia.smith@ewu.edu' by September 15, 2009.
N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD
Professor Emeritus
history & languages
CFP: “Transitions of Power” at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo
CFP: “Transitions of Power” at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan May 13-16, 2010
Seigneurie, the society for the study of lordship in the middle ages, invites paper proposals for a panel entitled “Transitions of Power.” Our goal is to create a forum in which to uncover commonalities and contrasts of this difficult and recurrent stage in the histories of noble lineages and lordships by bringing together scholars working on different regions, eras, and disciplines. Papers might address (but are, of course, not limited to):
--the strategies employed to ease the peaceful transference of a lordship
--disputes over succession
--the composition and activities of regencies
--the responsibilities and practices of guardians
--the roles sex and gender played in transitions of power
--considerations of age, marital status, social ranking within the nobility, or vocation
--similar topics of your own devising
Please submit a one-page abstract (for a 20-minute paper) with contact information (name, postal address, email, and affiliation) and a list of the audio-visual equipment you will require to either Katie Sjursen (ksjursen@gmail.com) or Don Fleming (FlemingDF@hiram.edu) by September 15, 2009.
Also, if you have an interest in medieval lordship, please do stop by our business meeting, time and place to be determined by the Kalamazoo Powers That Be. All are welcome.
Seigneurie, the society for the study of lordship in the middle ages, invites paper proposals for a panel entitled “Transitions of Power.” Our goal is to create a forum in which to uncover commonalities and contrasts of this difficult and recurrent stage in the histories of noble lineages and lordships by bringing together scholars working on different regions, eras, and disciplines. Papers might address (but are, of course, not limited to):
--the strategies employed to ease the peaceful transference of a lordship
--disputes over succession
--the composition and activities of regencies
--the responsibilities and practices of guardians
--the roles sex and gender played in transitions of power
--considerations of age, marital status, social ranking within the nobility, or vocation
--similar topics of your own devising
Please submit a one-page abstract (for a 20-minute paper) with contact information (name, postal address, email, and affiliation) and a list of the audio-visual equipment you will require to either Katie Sjursen (ksjursen@gmail.com) or Don Fleming (FlemingDF@hiram.edu) by September 15, 2009.
Also, if you have an interest in medieval lordship, please do stop by our business meeting, time and place to be determined by the Kalamazoo Powers That Be. All are welcome.
E-PERIODIZATION: QUESTIONING DISCIPLINARY DIVISIONS OF TIME IN THE ENGLISH MIDDLE AGES
LAST CALL! CFP: RE-PERIODIZATION: QUESTIONING DISCIPLINARY DIVISIONS OF TIME
IN THE ENGLISH MIDDLE AGES
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010
*Apologies for cross-posting!*
We are still accepting submissions of abstracts for our session on
“Re-periodization: Questioning Disciplinary Divisions of Time in the English
Middle Ages”, sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recent scholarship in the history,
literature and culture of medieval England has begun to challenge
conventional boundaries between eras: for instance, pushing Anglo-Saxon
studies past 1066, extending the Middle Ages through the 16th century, and
paying more attention to literature and manuscripts marginalized by
traditional periodization. Scholars have also argued for continuities
between periods, seen ways that earlier literature or structures of thought
continue into and influence later periods, or asserted new boundaries for
significant or cohesive units of time. This session seeks to provide a forum
to discuss issues of periodization surrounding the study of England
throughout the Middle Ages.
Please submit an abstract of 100-300 words and a completed Participant
Information Form (found at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper) to
Shannon Godlove at godlove@illinois.edu by September
15, 2009. Feel free to email me with any inquiries as well!
IN THE ENGLISH MIDDLE AGES
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010
*Apologies for cross-posting!*
We are still accepting submissions of abstracts for our session on
“Re-periodization: Questioning Disciplinary Divisions of Time in the English
Middle Ages”, sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recent scholarship in the history,
literature and culture of medieval England has begun to challenge
conventional boundaries between eras: for instance, pushing Anglo-Saxon
studies past 1066, extending the Middle Ages through the 16th century, and
paying more attention to literature and manuscripts marginalized by
traditional periodization. Scholars have also argued for continuities
between periods, seen ways that earlier literature or structures of thought
continue into and influence later periods, or asserted new boundaries for
significant or cohesive units of time. This session seeks to provide a forum
to discuss issues of periodization surrounding the study of England
throughout the Middle Ages.
Please submit an abstract of 100-300 words and a completed Participant
Information Form (found at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper) to
Shannon Godlove at godlove@illinois.edu
15, 2009. Feel free to email me with any inquiries as well!
Reading Medieval Multimedia: Interdisciplinary Approaches
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
13-16 May 2010
Reading Medieval Multimedia: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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.
Organizers: Maija Birenbaum (Fordham), Heather Blatt (Fordham), Janice McCoy (University of Virginia)
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
13-16 May 2010
Reading Medieval Multimedia: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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.
Organizers: Maija Birenbaum (Fordham), Heather Blatt (Fordham), Janice McCoy (University of Virginia)
Pearl-Poet Society
The Pearl-Poet Society is still accepting proposals for, and
volunteers to chair, the following sessions for the Medieval
Institute Congress in Kalamazoo in May, 2010.
I. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian Tradition
II. Teaching the Pearl-Poet: Techniques for Survey Courses (Rountable)
III. “Teccheles termes of talkyng noble”: Vows, Courtesy, and Social
Interacions in the Pearl-Poems
IV. Touching the Heart: What Draws Us to the Pearl-Poet?
V. The Post-Medieval Pearl-Poet: Contexts and Continuities of
Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Proposals for 20-minute presentations, accompanied by the Congress
participant information form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF),
may be submitted to Adrienne Odasso at ajodasso@googlemail.com NO
LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 15.
volunteers to chair, the following sessions for the Medieval
Institute Congress in Kalamazoo in May, 2010.
I. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian Tradition
II. Teaching the Pearl-Poet: Techniques for Survey Courses (Rountable)
III. “Teccheles termes of talkyng noble”: Vows, Courtesy, and Social
Interacions in the Pearl-Poems
IV. Touching the Heart: What Draws Us to the Pearl-Poet?
V. The Post-Medieval Pearl-Poet: Contexts and Continuities of
Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Proposals for 20-minute presentations, accompanied by the Congress
participant information form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF),
may be submitted to Adrienne Odasso at ajodasso@googlemail.com NO
LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 15.
Session V: “Studies in Medieval Iberian Philology
The Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM) invites proposals for
presentations for Session V: “Studies in Medieval Iberian Philology”.
Submissions on all philological aspects will be considered. Although of
special interest are papers on paleographical and textual studies that
focus on the challenges of transcribing, editing and interpreting
problematic texts as well as electronic and digital methods of
representing and encoding such texts, we also invite papers on more
traditional philological approximations.
Proposals for 20-minute presentations, accompanied by the Congress
participant information form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF), may
be submitted to Abraham Quintanar(quintana@dickinson.edu) or Alison
Ganze(alison.ganze@wku.edu) no later than September 15.
presentations for Session V: “Studies in Medieval Iberian Philology”.
Submissions on all philological aspects will be considered. Although of
special interest are papers on paleographical and textual studies that
focus on the challenges of transcribing, editing and interpreting
problematic texts as well as electronic and digital methods of
representing and encoding such texts, we also invite papers on more
traditional philological approximations.
Proposals for 20-minute presentations, accompanied by the Congress
participant information form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF), may
be submitted to Abraham Quintanar(quintana@dickinson.edu) or Alison
Ganze(alison.ganze@wku.edu) no later than September 15.
Early Irish Glossaries Project
Beta version of the Early Irish Glossaries Project available
The Early Irish Glossaries Project is currently editing a series of medieval texts, compiled c. 700-1000 and written in Old/Middle Irish, with a mixture of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other languages. There are five inter-related texts (c. 50,000 words in total) and 18 manuscript witnesses (incl. fragments).
A traditional print edition will be supplemented with a digital resource, providing manuscript transcriptions, links to manuscript images and other resources, and search and concordance tools. We are currently testing a beta version at the address below:
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossariesdev/
We aim to make our XML source freely available and (hopefully) well-documented. To these ends, you can find XML/TEI files, our schema and documentation on transcription practices on our downloads page:
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossariesdev/downloads.php
We would really appreciate any feedback regarding our TEI implementation, our documentation, or indeed the resource in general.
Dr Pádraic Moran
Classics, National University of Ireland, Galway
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/
http://www.pmoran.ie/
The Early Irish Glossaries Project is currently editing a series of medieval texts, compiled c. 700-1000 and written in Old/Middle Irish, with a mixture of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other languages. There are five inter-related texts (c. 50,000 words in total) and 18 manuscript witnesses (incl. fragments).
A traditional print edition will be supplemented with a digital resource, providing manuscript transcriptions, links to manuscript images and other resources, and search and concordance tools. We are currently testing a beta version at the address below:
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossariesdev/
We aim to make our XML source freely available and (hopefully) well-documented. To these ends, you can find XML/TEI files, our schema and documentation on transcription practices on our downloads page:
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossariesdev/downloads.php
We would really appreciate any feedback regarding our TEI implementation, our documentation, or indeed the resource in general.
Dr Pádraic Moran
Classics, National University of Ireland, Galway
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/
http://www.pmoran.ie/
Today's the Day!
I will try and post all the remaining CFPs I have in the ol' box before end of business my time. But just as a reminder to everyone: THIS IS IT! Proposals are due tomorrow, so if you have not submitted and are thinking of doing so for 2010 Congress at K'zoo, get them in today!
I missed the paper deadline for Leeds which was August 31. But the deadline for Leeds 2010 session proposals is Sept. 30...and I will attempt to be more dutiful in announcing those deadlines henceforth. (Somewhere I got it into my head that the deadlines for papers for both conferences was the 15th of Sept....but alas, no.)
I missed the paper deadline for Leeds which was August 31. But the deadline for Leeds 2010 session proposals is Sept. 30...and I will attempt to be more dutiful in announcing those deadlines henceforth. (Somewhere I got it into my head that the deadlines for papers for both conferences was the 15th of Sept....but alas, no.)
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Durham Medieval Archaeologists
Durham Medieval Archaeologists (DMA) would like to invite you to the fourth
and final workshop in an AHRC funded workshop series entitled "The Sensory
Perceptions in Medieval Life AD450-1600".
Following our successful workshops on taste, vision and sound, the final
workshop will be on the subject of "Magic Touch: tactile experience in the
medieval past", to be held in the Department of Archaeology, Durham
University on Saturday 10th October, 2009 beginning at 1:30pm.
Confirmed speakers for this workshop include:
Professor Charlotte Robert (Durham University) Leprosy in Medieval England:
The experience of those with leprosy
Professor Liz James (University of Sussex)
'Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth': the touching nature of
Byzantine art
Dr Sue Niebrzydowski (Bangor University)
Food, Fabric and Flesh: The Erotics of Touch in Late Medieval Literature
Mr. Stuart Frost (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Tactile Experience in the V&A's Medieval and Renaissance Galleries
Ms. Clare Wright (University of Nottingham)
A Touch of Sin: the representation of vice in late medieval English drama
After the workshop there will be a selection of early medieval replicas for
you to handle, provided by Liz and Richard Walsh, members of Regia Anglorum.
This workshop is free and open to the public. Tea, coffee and wine will be
provided.
If you would like to attend or if you have any questions, please contact us
by e-mail at
archaeology.dma@durham.ac.uk.
Durham Medieval Archaeologists
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
and final workshop in an AHRC funded workshop series entitled "The Sensory
Perceptions in Medieval Life AD450-1600".
Following our successful workshops on taste, vision and sound, the final
workshop will be on the subject of "Magic Touch: tactile experience in the
medieval past", to be held in the Department of Archaeology, Durham
University on Saturday 10th October, 2009 beginning at 1:30pm.
Confirmed speakers for this workshop include:
Professor Charlotte Robert (Durham University) Leprosy in Medieval England:
The experience of those with leprosy
Professor Liz James (University of Sussex)
'Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth': the touching nature of
Byzantine art
Dr Sue Niebrzydowski (Bangor University)
Food, Fabric and Flesh: The Erotics of Touch in Late Medieval Literature
Mr. Stuart Frost (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Tactile Experience in the V&A's Medieval and Renaissance Galleries
Ms. Clare Wright (University of Nottingham)
A Touch of Sin: the representation of vice in late medieval English drama
After the workshop there will be a selection of early medieval replicas for
you to handle, provided by Liz and Richard Walsh, members of Regia Anglorum.
This workshop is free and open to the public. Tea, coffee and wine will be
provided.
If you would like to attend or if you have any questions, please contact us
by e-mail at
archaeology.dma@durham.ac.uk.
Durham Medieval Archaeologists
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
Latinities in England, 894-1135
two workshops on
"Latinities in England, 894-1135"
Friday, October 23
both at New York University
in the Great Room of 19 University Place
***
Martin Chase
(Fordham University)
"Siðbót´: A Late Medieval Icelandic Trúarkvæði about the Judgment of
Susannah."
Wednesday, November 18th
at Columbia University
Co-Sponsored with the Columbia University Medieval Studies Seminar
***
To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
ASSC@columbia.edu
For further updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc
"Latinities in England, 894-1135"
Friday, October 23
both at New York University
in the Great Room of 19 University Place
***
Martin Chase
(Fordham University)
"Siðbót´: A Late Medieval Icelandic Trúarkvæði about the Judgment of
Susannah."
Wednesday, November 18th
at Columbia University
Co-Sponsored with the Columbia University Medieval Studies Seminar
***
To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
ASSC@columbia.edu
For further updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc
medieval or Renaissance simulacra, automata, or mirabilia CFP
As of Sept. 3:
SUBMISSIONS STILL SOUGHT
2010 International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo
Seeking papers on any aspect of medieval or Renaissance simulacra, automata, or mirabilia, whether textual or material. Subjects that would be welcome would include aspects of mirabilia in Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate, depictions of marvels in medieval romance, clocks and machines as metaphors, mechanical automata unmasked, the history of the Golem, the use of puppetry in medieval drama, folklore of living dolls or wooden toys, and any theoretical aspects of idols and images, simulations/simulacra, and “thing theory” as applied to medieval studies.
Papers could also involve research into the history of science, Arabic studies, manuscript illumination, or other related fields, that touches upon the presence of simulacra as object or as metaphor.
Please send 250–500 word abstracts to Anthony_Adams@brown.edu by September 15.
Full CFP
***
Puppets, marionettes, golems, androids, automata, moving statues, mannequins, shadow figures—sometimes comic, sometimes creepy, these figures of fun and fright engage us with their similarity, albeit grotesque, to ourselves. Recent researches into the field of medieval automata have convincingly established the the power of these living or life-like machines as both performing objects and as metaphor. They have featured as ‘actors’, or performing objects, in legend, epic, chanson, and wonder tale; they also have served as metaphors for personal freedom or manipulation, for the presence of a human soul or its terrifying absence. As early as Plato, the image of the puppet on a string was used to suggest that delightful appearances were only a manifestation of a secret consciousness, that there was a marked division between animated matter and the soul itself, the anima. Such musings have been at or near the center of philosophy since, coming to life in medieval Jewish tales of the golem, through Descartes’s mind–body dualism, and continuing through the fascination with galvanic bio-energy, and Romantic and Gothic notions of immanence. Conversely, writers, dramatists, filmmakers, and sculptors have wondered at the possibility of animating lifeless matter. This image has been characterized in several ways, such as the modern figures of the wicked yet childlike Pinocchio, or in the grotesque and horrifying visage of Frankenstein’s monster. Medieval figures were equally powerful portents of occult magic and ‘eastern’ wisdom, as well as technological marvels. Underneath the awesome and God-like fascination with machines and dolls coming to life lies a terror at the likelihood of it going wrong.
I am seeking papers from scholars working on some aspect of these topics for presentation at a session to be held at the 2010 International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. Contributions are welcome from those working in literary history, the history of technology and science, archaeology, and religious history; those working in either Western European or Byzantine traditions, as well those exploring the confluence of the two cultures, as well as those working in the tradition of medieval Arabic scientific sources, are especially welcome. Please send 500-word abstracts, your current affiliation and status, and relevant contact information to Anthony Adams, Anthony_Adams@brown.edu. Submit any queries to same address. Submissions from junior scholars and current graduate students welcome.
SUBMISSIONS STILL SOUGHT
2010 International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo
Seeking papers on any aspect of medieval or Renaissance simulacra, automata, or mirabilia, whether textual or material. Subjects that would be welcome would include aspects of mirabilia in Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate, depictions of marvels in medieval romance, clocks and machines as metaphors, mechanical automata unmasked, the history of the Golem, the use of puppetry in medieval drama, folklore of living dolls or wooden toys, and any theoretical aspects of idols and images, simulations/simulacra, and “thing theory” as applied to medieval studies.
Papers could also involve research into the history of science, Arabic studies, manuscript illumination, or other related fields, that touches upon the presence of simulacra as object or as metaphor.
Please send 250–500 word abstracts to Anthony_Adams@brown.edu by September 15.
Full CFP
***
Puppets, marionettes, golems, androids, automata, moving statues, mannequins, shadow figures—sometimes comic, sometimes creepy, these figures of fun and fright engage us with their similarity, albeit grotesque, to ourselves. Recent researches into the field of medieval automata have convincingly established the the power of these living or life-like machines as both performing objects and as metaphor. They have featured as ‘actors’, or performing objects, in legend, epic, chanson, and wonder tale; they also have served as metaphors for personal freedom or manipulation, for the presence of a human soul or its terrifying absence. As early as Plato, the image of the puppet on a string was used to suggest that delightful appearances were only a manifestation of a secret consciousness, that there was a marked division between animated matter and the soul itself, the anima. Such musings have been at or near the center of philosophy since, coming to life in medieval Jewish tales of the golem, through Descartes’s mind–body dualism, and continuing through the fascination with galvanic bio-energy, and Romantic and Gothic notions of immanence. Conversely, writers, dramatists, filmmakers, and sculptors have wondered at the possibility of animating lifeless matter. This image has been characterized in several ways, such as the modern figures of the wicked yet childlike Pinocchio, or in the grotesque and horrifying visage of Frankenstein’s monster. Medieval figures were equally powerful portents of occult magic and ‘eastern’ wisdom, as well as technological marvels. Underneath the awesome and God-like fascination with machines and dolls coming to life lies a terror at the likelihood of it going wrong.
I am seeking papers from scholars working on some aspect of these topics for presentation at a session to be held at the 2010 International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. Contributions are welcome from those working in literary history, the history of technology and science, archaeology, and religious history; those working in either Western European or Byzantine traditions, as well those exploring the confluence of the two cultures, as well as those working in the tradition of medieval Arabic scientific sources, are especially welcome. Please send 500-word abstracts, your current affiliation and status, and relevant contact information to Anthony Adams, Anthony_Adams@brown.edu. Submit any queries to same address. Submissions from junior scholars and current graduate students welcome.
K'zoo 2010: Sessions in Honor of Larry Clopper
Tom Goodmann, Gina Brandolino, and I are organizing three sessions at next
year's ICMS in honor of Lawrence M. Clopper, who retired recently from
Indiana University. The sessions center upon three of Larry's continuing
academic interests: (1) Medieval Drama, (2) Langland (a panel discussion),
and Ecclesiology and Theology, including Franciscanism and the work of the
Pearl-poet. We are interested in a mix of established scholars who have
worked in dialogue and critique with Larry's work and younger scholars who
are working in similar areas. We are also discussing a festschrift to
include essays that come from next year's sessions.
If you are interested, please send your proposals, with any AV requirements
you might have, to me via fax or email.
Best wishes from Anchorage,
Dan
_____________________________________
Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & MA Coordinator
3211 Providence Drive, PSB-212C
U of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
907.786.4364 | afdtk@uaa.alaska.edu
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
http://www.kankedort.net
year's ICMS in honor of Lawrence M. Clopper, who retired recently from
Indiana University. The sessions center upon three of Larry's continuing
academic interests: (1) Medieval Drama, (2) Langland (a panel discussion),
and Ecclesiology and Theology, including Franciscanism and the work of the
Pearl-poet. We are interested in a mix of established scholars who have
worked in dialogue and critique with Larry's work and younger scholars who
are working in similar areas. We are also discussing a festschrift to
include essays that come from next year's sessions.
If you are interested, please send your proposals, with any AV requirements
you might have, to me via fax or email.
Best wishes from Anchorage,
Dan
_____________________________________
Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & MA Coordinator
3211 Providence Drive, PSB-212C
U of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
907.786.4364 | afdtk@uaa.alaska.edu
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
http://www.kankedort.net
The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice
*FINAL REMINDER, DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 15*
The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice
(http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the
Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10,
2009. See below for session names and descriptions.
Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to
Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached
to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF
formats from the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF.
Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009.
Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and
analysis for medieval documents
Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten
documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years,
and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition
systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the
increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might
be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis.
We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas,
or which seek to establish methodologies.
Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship
Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation
of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide
applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the
nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of
collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which
have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools
and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration.
Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations
to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be
attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word
and PDF formats from the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF.
The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice
(http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the
Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10,
2009. See below for session names and descriptions.
Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to
Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached
to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF
formats from the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF.
Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009.
Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and
analysis for medieval documents
Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten
documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years,
and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition
systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the
increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might
be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis.
We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas,
or which seek to establish methodologies.
Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship
Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation
of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide
applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the
nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of
collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which
have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools
and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration.
Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations
to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be
attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word
and PDF formats from the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF.
4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 18 & 19, 2010
University of South Florida Libraries
Tampa, Florida
*Encountering the “Other” in the Medieval World: Textual Examinations of
Resistance and Reconciliation *
*Across the Traditions, 500-1500 *
Papers are welcome on, but not limited to, Judaism, Christianity or Islam in
Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages (500-1500):
· Views of difference, diversity and pluralism
· Expressions of shared identities and common values
· Texts of threat, terror and violence
· Traditions affirming connection, inclusivity and reconciliation
· Patterns of religious, political and cultural imperialism
· Forms of cross-cultural exchange and dialogue
· Delineations of ethnic and vernacular boundaries
Exempla may be drawn from manuscripts and illuminations, critical editions,
and portrayals in art and architecture.
Please email an abstract of no more than 500 words to Elizabeth Tucker,
Symposium Coordinator, at etucker@lib.usf.edu by November 20, 2009.
Notification of acceptances will be emailed by December 11, 2009. Please
include the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email address. Each
paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation. Presenters
will be asked to submit their complete paper by February 1, 2010.
The DEADLINE for the abstract submission is November 20, 2009.
Presenters will be notified by December 11, 2009.
This year’s keynote speaker and senior scholar is Dr. David Nirenberg, the
Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor - John U. Nef Committee on Social
Thought, Department of History, and in the College - The University of
Chicago.
Submit papers via email to the attention of:
Elizabeth Tucker, Assistant to the Director - Special & Digital Collections
// Coordinator - Sacred Leaves Symposium
University of South Florida Libraries
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa FL 33620-5400
etucker@lib.usf.edu
813.974.1198 FAX: 813.396.9006
For more information about the symposium, and to download a PDF of the Call
for Papers,
please visit:
http://MedievalStudies.lib.usf.edu
4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 18 & 19, 2010
University of South Florida Libraries
Tampa, Florida
*Encountering the “Other” in the Medieval World: Textual Examinations of
Resistance and Reconciliation *
*Across the Traditions, 500-1500 *
Papers are welcome on, but not limited to, Judaism, Christianity or Islam in
Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages (500-1500):
· Views of difference, diversity and pluralism
· Expressions of shared identities and common values
· Texts of threat, terror and violence
· Traditions affirming connection, inclusivity and reconciliation
· Patterns of religious, political and cultural imperialism
· Forms of cross-cultural exchange and dialogue
· Delineations of ethnic and vernacular boundaries
Exempla may be drawn from manuscripts and illuminations, critical editions,
and portrayals in art and architecture.
Please email an abstract of no more than 500 words to Elizabeth Tucker,
Symposium Coordinator, at etucker@lib.usf.edu by November 20, 2009.
Notification of acceptances will be emailed by December 11, 2009. Please
include the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email address. Each
paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation. Presenters
will be asked to submit their complete paper by February 1, 2010.
The DEADLINE for the abstract submission is November 20, 2009.
Presenters will be notified by December 11, 2009.
This year’s keynote speaker and senior scholar is Dr. David Nirenberg, the
Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor - John U. Nef Committee on Social
Thought, Department of History, and in the College - The University of
Chicago.
Submit papers via email to the attention of:
Elizabeth Tucker, Assistant to the Director - Special & Digital Collections
// Coordinator - Sacred Leaves Symposium
University of South Florida Libraries
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa FL 33620-5400
etucker@lib.usf.edu
813.974.1198 FAX: 813.396.9006
For more information about the symposium, and to download a PDF of the Call
for Papers,
please visit:
http://MedievalStudies.lib.usf.edu
Marco at Kalamazoo: Problems and Progress in Ongoing Manuscript Studies
Marco at Kalamazoo: Problems and Progress in Ongoing Manuscript Studies
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13th-16th, 2010
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville is soliciting abstracts for a
session focused on manuscript study and featuring research in
progress. The session is to be held at the next International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo on May 13th-16th, 2010.
For the past several years the Marco Institute has offered a forum
for members of the scholarly community to converse informally about
research in progress on manuscripts; we would like to bring this
format to a wider audience at Kalamazoo. Our goal is for each
presenter to introduce a single, specific problem in their ongoing
manuscript studies, explain their goals and critical approach to the
problem, and then discuss them with one another and the audience. We
are specifically looking for papers showcasing ongoing research
rather than completed projects; the ultimate goal is to improve our
practices and enrich our understanding of manuscript studies by
exchanging ideas across disciplinary boundaries. We therefore
welcome submissions on any topic of paleography and codicology as
well as a broad range of research areas, languages, and time periods.
The goals of the session require some alteration of the customary
format. Each of the three selected presenters will give a fifteen
minute overview of their research in progress and then have a further
fifteen minutes of discussion time to maximize interaction with the
other panel members and the audience. Since presentation time is
compressed and we would like the audience to be informed as possible
on the projects, we would also make the text of each presentation and
other pertinent information available for reading on the Marco
website sometime before the Congress.
Applicants should send their submission forms and 300-word abstracts
detailing their proposals to the Marco Institute by September 15th;
full instructions can be found on the Congress website at
.
Paper or faxed submissions are welcome, but electronic submissions
by e-mail are preferred.
For electronic submissions or any other questions, please contact
Teresa Hooper at. Paper submissions should be
addressed to:
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13th-16th, 2010
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville is soliciting abstracts for a
session focused on manuscript study and featuring research in
progress. The session is to be held at the next International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo on May 13th-16th, 2010.
For the past several years the Marco Institute has offered a forum
for members of the scholarly community to converse informally about
research in progress on manuscripts; we would like to bring this
format to a wider audience at Kalamazoo. Our goal is for each
presenter to introduce a single, specific problem in their ongoing
manuscript studies, explain their goals and critical approach to the
problem, and then discuss them with one another and the audience. We
are specifically looking for papers showcasing ongoing research
rather than completed projects; the ultimate goal is to improve our
practices and enrich our understanding of manuscript studies by
exchanging ideas across disciplinary boundaries. We therefore
welcome submissions on any topic of paleography and codicology as
well as a broad range of research areas, languages, and time periods.
The goals of the session require some alteration of the customary
format. Each of the three selected presenters will give a fifteen
minute overview of their research in progress and then have a further
fifteen minutes of discussion time to maximize interaction with the
other panel members and the audience. Since presentation time is
compressed and we would like the audience to be informed as possible
on the projects, we would also make the text of each presentation and
other pertinent information available for reading on the Marco
website sometime before the Congress.
Applicants should send their submission forms and 300-word abstracts
detailing their proposals to the Marco Institute by September 15th;
full instructions can be found on the Congress website at
Paper or faxed submissions are welcome, but electronic submissions
by e-mail are preferred.
For electronic submissions or any other questions, please contact
Teresa Hooper at
addressed to:
Woodlands, Trees, and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World
Woodlands, Trees, and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World
*14th -15th November, 2009*
*The Institute of Archaeology*
*University College London
*Keynote speakers:*
> Oliver Rackham
> John Blair
With a guided tour of the Museum of London stores and new Medieval Gallery
by Damian Goodburn on Nov 13th
Panels: (14th -15th November)
€ Trees and Woodland in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: (John Baker)
Sarah Semple, ŒGarden's of the God's: plants, trees and groves in the pre
Christian landscape¹
Jane Sidell, [title tbc]
€ Wood and Timber in Anglo-Saxon Material Culture: (Gustav Milne, Andrew
Reynolds)
Martin Comey, ŒThe wooden drinking vessels in the Sutton Hoo ship burial:
materials, morphology and usage¹
Richard Darrah, ŒFrom tool marks to tree rings: the archaeological evidence
for timber use in Anglo-Saxon England¹
Damian Goodburn, ŒThe humble dugout boat: the Volkswagen of Anglo-Saxon
England¹
Carole Morris, ŒAnglo-Saxon lathe-turning: tools, techniques and products¹
€ Trees and Woodland in Anglo-Saxon Religion, Art, and Literature: (Richard
North)
Michael Bintley, ŒThe south Sandbach Cross ŒAncestors of Christ Œ panel in
its cultural contexts
Clive Tolley ŒWhat is a ŒWorld Tree¹, and why should we expect to find one
in Anglo-Saxon England?¹
€ Timber Buildings in the Anglo-Saxon World: **(Eric Fernie)*
Mark Gardiner, ŒWrought by human hand: the employment and image of timber in
late Saxon buildings¹
Michael Shapland, ŒThe great stone divide: timber as the secular building
material of Anglo-Saxon society¹
*Registration: £25
Contact: uclwoodlands@googlemail.com*
*http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/events/conferences/timber-2009*
*14th -15th November, 2009*
*The Institute of Archaeology*
*University College London
*Keynote speakers:*
> Oliver Rackham
> John Blair
With a guided tour of the Museum of London stores and new Medieval Gallery
by Damian Goodburn on Nov 13th
Panels: (14th -15th November)
€ Trees and Woodland in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: (John Baker)
Sarah Semple, ŒGarden's of the God's: plants, trees and groves in the pre
Christian landscape¹
Jane Sidell, [title tbc]
€ Wood and Timber in Anglo-Saxon Material Culture: (Gustav Milne, Andrew
Reynolds)
Martin Comey, ŒThe wooden drinking vessels in the Sutton Hoo ship burial:
materials, morphology and usage¹
Richard Darrah, ŒFrom tool marks to tree rings: the archaeological evidence
for timber use in Anglo-Saxon England¹
Damian Goodburn, ŒThe humble dugout boat: the Volkswagen of Anglo-Saxon
England¹
Carole Morris, ŒAnglo-Saxon lathe-turning: tools, techniques and products¹
€ Trees and Woodland in Anglo-Saxon Religion, Art, and Literature: (Richard
North)
Michael Bintley, ŒThe south Sandbach Cross ŒAncestors of Christ Œ panel in
its cultural contexts
Clive Tolley ŒWhat is a ŒWorld Tree¹, and why should we expect to find one
in Anglo-Saxon England?¹
€ Timber Buildings in the Anglo-Saxon World: **(Eric Fernie)*
Mark Gardiner, ŒWrought by human hand: the employment and image of timber in
late Saxon buildings¹
Michael Shapland, ŒThe great stone divide: timber as the secular building
material of Anglo-Saxon society¹
*Registration: £25
Contact: uclwoodlands@googlemail.com*
*http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/events/conferences/timber-2009*
Anglo-Saxon Secular Learning in the Vernacular
Call for essays (Apologies for cross-posting.)
Anglo-Saxon Secular Learning in the Vernacular
The new edition of Ælfric's De temporibus anni by Martin Blake
(Cambridge, 2009) and the proceedings of the research projects
Storehouses of Wholesome Learning and Leornungcræft demonstrate that
the fruits of Anglo-Saxon learning continue to captivate
Anglo-Saxonists and scholars of natural science and medicine. To
consolidate this ongoing interest in scholarship by Anglo-Saxons, we
would like to invite Anglo-Saxonists to contribute essays to a volume
dedicated to secular learning in the vernacular in the Anglo-Saxon
period. The volume will be published in the series Amsterdamer
Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik.
The field of secular learning in the vernacular has been
delimited by Stephanie Hollis and Michael Wright in Old English Prose
of Secular Learning (Cambridge, 1992) and comprises subjects from all
three classes of the medieval arts, particularly from the artes
mechanicae and magicae. We would like to concentrate on scientific
and magico-medical writings and welcome essays on the following
topics: agriculture, arithmetic, astronomy, charms, chronology,
computus, cosmology, grammar, herbalism, horticulture, incantations,
magic, medicine, meteorology, notes and prognostication.
Contributions may focus on one or a combination of the above topics,
or may explore the relationship between vernacular learning and
non-vernacular sources, as long as emphasis lies on (the relevance
of) Old English as a vehicle of learning.
Prospective contributors are asked to submit a brief
abstract for an essay of 15-25 pages to Bryan Carella or Sándor
Chardonnens, preferably before 30 September 2009. Detailed submission
guidelines will be given upon acceptance of the abstract. Publication
of the volume is scheduled in late 2010, so first drafts of the
article are asked to be submitted to the editors in February 2010.
For any questions related to the volume, please feel free to contact
one of the editors:
Bryan Carella, Assumption College, Worcester, MA
László Sándor Chardonnens, Radboud University Nijmegen
Anglo-Saxon Secular Learning in the Vernacular
The new edition of Ælfric's De temporibus anni by Martin Blake
(Cambridge, 2009) and the proceedings of the research projects
Storehouses of Wholesome Learning and Leornungcræft demonstrate that
the fruits of Anglo-Saxon learning continue to captivate
Anglo-Saxonists and scholars of natural science and medicine. To
consolidate this ongoing interest in scholarship by Anglo-Saxons, we
would like to invite Anglo-Saxonists to contribute essays to a volume
dedicated to secular learning in the vernacular in the Anglo-Saxon
period. The volume will be published in the series Amsterdamer
Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik.
The field of secular learning in the vernacular has been
delimited by Stephanie Hollis and Michael Wright in Old English Prose
of Secular Learning (Cambridge, 1992) and comprises subjects from all
three classes of the medieval arts, particularly from the artes
mechanicae and magicae. We would like to concentrate on scientific
and magico-medical writings and welcome essays on the following
topics: agriculture, arithmetic, astronomy, charms, chronology,
computus, cosmology, grammar, herbalism, horticulture, incantations,
magic, medicine, meteorology, notes and prognostication.
Contributions may focus on one or a combination of the above topics,
or may explore the relationship between vernacular learning and
non-vernacular sources, as long as emphasis lies on (the relevance
of) Old English as a vehicle of learning.
Prospective contributors are asked to submit a brief
abstract for an essay of 15-25 pages to Bryan Carella or Sándor
Chardonnens, preferably before 30 September 2009. Detailed submission
guidelines will be given upon acceptance of the abstract. Publication
of the volume is scheduled in late 2010, so first drafts of the
article are asked to be submitted to the editors in February 2010.
For any questions related to the volume, please feel free to contact
one of the editors:
Bryan Carella, Assumption College, Worcester, MA
László Sándor Chardonnens, Radboud University Nijmegen
SEMA Early Reg
Please note that early registration for the Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting (October 15-17) will be extended for a few more days. After that, the registration fee will be increased to $130.00 (rather than the normal fee of $100.00).
We encourage you to register soon, especially if you are a conference participant. You can use the following link to register: https://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/registration.
If you have any questions, please email me (early.rachel@gmail.com) or Lynn Ramey (lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu).
Thanks!
Rachel Early
Graduate Student, Department of French and Italian
Vanderbilt University
We encourage you to register soon, especially if you are a conference participant. You can use the following link to register: https://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/registration.
If you have any questions, please email me (early.rachel@gmail.com) or Lynn Ramey (lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu).
Thanks!
Rachel Early
Graduate Student, Department of French and Italian
Vanderbilt University
Crossing Borders: Hybridity and Hegemony in Post-Conquest England
As of Sept. 1 (I'm still behind posting):
We are still soliciting submissions for the following session
sponsored by the International Long Twelfth Century Society:
"Crossing Borders: Hybridity and Hegemony in Post-Conquest England:
There are many kinds of borders being crossed in recent studies
regarding post-Conquest England: temporal, political, cultural,
gendered… to name but a few. This session proposes to explore new
ways of thinking about Anglo-Norman England by examining how writers
blurred (or confirmed) the boundaries of time and space, identity and
being, or thinking and writing. Papers of particular interest will
demonstrate continuity between the Anglo-Saxon or late medieval
periods and the long twelfth century. By shedding new light on a
historically undervalued period of medieval experience, this session
will be essential to promoting a more complete understanding of
England's literary history."
Deadline for submissions is, of course, Sept 15th to me at
wendy.hoofnagle@uni.edu -- thank you!
We are still soliciting submissions for the following session
sponsored by the International Long Twelfth Century Society:
"Crossing Borders: Hybridity and Hegemony in Post-Conquest England:
There are many kinds of borders being crossed in recent studies
regarding post-Conquest England: temporal, political, cultural,
gendered… to name but a few. This session proposes to explore new
ways of thinking about Anglo-Norman England by examining how writers
blurred (or confirmed) the boundaries of time and space, identity and
being, or thinking and writing. Papers of particular interest will
demonstrate continuity between the Anglo-Saxon or late medieval
periods and the long twelfth century. By shedding new light on a
historically undervalued period of medieval experience, this session
will be essential to promoting a more complete understanding of
England's literary history."
Deadline for submissions is, of course, Sept 15th to me at
wendy.hoofnagle@uni.edu -- thank you!
Liminal Spaces: A Symposium in honor of Pamela Sheingorn
Liminal Spaces: A Symposium in honor of Pamela Sheingorn
Friday, October 30th at Princeton University
The Index of Christian Art in Princeton University is pleased to host Liminal Spaces, a symposium in honor of Pamela Sheingorn. This one day-event will highlight work that explores spaces “in-between”—between text/image/reader/viewer, performance/spectator, medieval/modern. The symposium will feature the kind of interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged scholarship that Professor Sheingorn continues to publish, as well as cultivate among her colleagues and students.
The conference will be held on Friday, October 30th 2009 in the Multi-Purpose Room, Frist campus Center in Princeton University . Participants include: Jonathan Alexander, New York University; Adelaide Bennett, Princeton University ; Glenn Burger, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Madeline Caviness, Emerita, Tufts University; Robert L. Clark, Kansas State University; Susannah Crowder, Hunter College, CUNY; Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University; Rachel Dressler, University at Albany, SUNY ; Rick Emmerson, Manhattan College; Colum Hourihane, Princeton University; Lucy Freeman Sandler, Emerita, New York University; Kathryn Smith, New York University.
The full program and registration details are available through the “Conferences” link on the Index of Christian Art website: http://ica.Princeton.edu. The registration deadline is October 20th. Registration is required. There is no charge for this conference.
This symposium is organized by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson, and co-sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Friday, October 30th at Princeton University
The Index of Christian Art in Princeton University is pleased to host Liminal Spaces, a symposium in honor of Pamela Sheingorn. This one day-event will highlight work that explores spaces “in-between”—between text/image/reader/viewer, performance/spectator, medieval/modern. The symposium will feature the kind of interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged scholarship that Professor Sheingorn continues to publish, as well as cultivate among her colleagues and students.
The conference will be held on Friday, October 30th 2009 in the Multi-Purpose Room, Frist campus Center in Princeton University . Participants include: Jonathan Alexander, New York University; Adelaide Bennett, Princeton University ; Glenn Burger, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Madeline Caviness, Emerita, Tufts University; Robert L. Clark, Kansas State University; Susannah Crowder, Hunter College, CUNY; Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University; Rachel Dressler, University at Albany, SUNY ; Rick Emmerson, Manhattan College; Colum Hourihane, Princeton University; Lucy Freeman Sandler, Emerita, New York University; Kathryn Smith, New York University.
The full program and registration details are available through the “Conferences” link on the Index of Christian Art website: http://ica.Princeton.edu. The registration deadline is October 20th. Registration is required. There is no charge for this conference.
This symposium is organized by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson, and co-sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY.
CALL FOR PAPERS MAMA XXXIV
CALL FOR PAPERS MAMA XXXIV
The 34th annual meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association will
be held at Conception Abbey, near Maryville, MO, on Saturday,
February 28, 2010. The theme of the conference is "Monastic and
Religious Life in the Middle Ages" but papers on any medieval topic
will be considered. The keynote speaker will be William Courtenay,
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; his topic is
"Medieval Universities as Religious Communities."
Please send a one-page abstract to Brother Thomas Sullivan at
thomassull@gmail.com. His telephone number is 660-944-2860; his fax
is 660-944-2800. The abstracts are due no later than December 15,
2009.
Graduate students are eligible for the Jim Falls Paper Prize and must
submit a copy of their completed paper electronically to Jim Falls at
fallsj@umkc.edu no later than February 1, 2010
For updates, info on registration and more, check the MAMA website:
www.midamericamedievalassociation.org
Conception Abbey website:
http://www.conceptionabbey.org/
The 34th annual meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association will
be held at Conception Abbey, near Maryville, MO, on Saturday,
February 28, 2010. The theme of the conference is "Monastic and
Religious Life in the Middle Ages" but papers on any medieval topic
will be considered. The keynote speaker will be William Courtenay,
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; his topic is
"Medieval Universities as Religious Communities."
Please send a one-page abstract to Brother Thomas Sullivan at
thomassull@gmail.com. His telephone number is 660-944-2860; his fax
is 660-944-2800. The abstracts are due no later than December 15,
2009.
Graduate students are eligible for the Jim Falls Paper Prize and must
submit a copy of their completed paper electronically to Jim Falls at
fallsj@umkc.edu no later than February 1, 2010
For updates, info on registration and more, check the MAMA website:
www.midamericamedievalassociation.org
Conception Abbey website:
http://www.conceptionabbey.org/
Sunday, September 6, 2009
MAMA CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS MAMA XXXIV
The 34th annual meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association will
be held at Conception Abbey, near Maryville, MO, on Saturday,
February 28, 2010. The theme of the conference is "Monastic and
Religious Life in the Middle Ages" but papers on any medieval topic
will be considered. The keynote speaker will be William Courtenay,
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; his topic is
"Medieval Universities as Religious Communities."
Please send a one-page abstract to Brother Thomas Sullivan at
thomassull@gmail.com. His telephone number is 660-944-2860; his fax
is 660-944-2800. The abstracts are due no later than December 15,
2009.
Graduate students are eligible for the Jim Falls Paper Prize and must
submit a copy of their completed paper electronically to Jim Falls at
fallsj@umkc.edu no later than February 1, 2010
For updates, info on registration and more, check the MAMA website:
www.midamericamedievalassociation.org
Conception Abbey website:
http://www.conceptionabbey.org/
The 34th annual meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association will
be held at Conception Abbey, near Maryville, MO, on Saturday,
February 28, 2010. The theme of the conference is "Monastic and
Religious Life in the Middle Ages" but papers on any medieval topic
will be considered. The keynote speaker will be William Courtenay,
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; his topic is
"Medieval Universities as Religious Communities."
Please send a one-page abstract to Brother Thomas Sullivan at
thomassull@gmail.com. His telephone number is 660-944-2860; his fax
is 660-944-2800. The abstracts are due no later than December 15,
2009.
Graduate students are eligible for the Jim Falls Paper Prize and must
submit a copy of their completed paper electronically to Jim Falls at
fallsj@umkc.edu no later than February 1, 2010
For updates, info on registration and more, check the MAMA website:
www.midamericamedievalassociation.org
Conception Abbey website:
http://www.conceptionabbey.org/
CFP: Cultural Connections in Medieval Britain, France, and Ireland
Call for Papers: 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 13–16, 2010
Cultural Connections in Medieval Britain, France, and Ireland
Please send 300-word abstract and completed Participant Information
Form (available on line at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to:
Michael Evans
513 E. Maple St.
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
Phone: 989-560-2582
Fax: 989-774-1156
evans2m@cmich.edu
www.chsbs.cmich.edu/History/
Submissions may be sent electronically or in paper format.
Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2009
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 13–16, 2010
Cultural Connections in Medieval Britain, France, and Ireland
Please send 300-word abstract and completed Participant Information
Form (available on line at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to:
Michael Evans
513 E. Maple St.
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
Phone: 989-560-2582
Fax: 989-774-1156
evans2m@cmich.edu
www.chsbs.cmich.edu/History/
Submissions may be sent electronically or in paper format.
Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2009
CFP: Picturing the Medieval and Pre-Modern Jewish Woman
Call for Papers (2010) — 45th International Congress on
Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University,
May 13-16, 2010, Kalamazoo,
Michigan USA
“Picturing the Medieval and Pre-Modern Jewish Woman”This panel seeks
papers that examine visualizations of
non-biblical Jewish women in European Art from the Middle Ages into the
Pre-Modern period. The aims of this session are twofold. First, a
goal is to locate visual parallels to or points of inspiration for
Shakespeare’s character of Jessica in the Merchant of Venice. A second
aim is to answer the question of whether images of Jewish women were loaded
with the same antisemitism so clearly articulated in images of Jewish men.
Contact: Carlee A. Bradbury, Assistant Professor, Art Department,
Radford University
carlee_bradbury@hotmail.com
Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University,
May 13-16, 2010, Kalamazoo,
Michigan USA
“Picturing the Medieval and Pre-Modern Jewish Woman”This panel seeks
papers that examine visualizations of
non-biblical Jewish women in European Art from the Middle Ages into the
Pre-Modern period. The aims of this session are twofold. First, a
goal is to locate visual parallels to or points of inspiration for
Shakespeare’s character of Jessica in the Merchant of Venice. A second
aim is to answer the question of whether images of Jewish women were loaded
with the same antisemitism so clearly articulated in images of Jewish men.
Contact: Carlee A. Bradbury, Assistant Professor, Art Department,
Radford University
carlee_bradbury@hotmail.com
Fifteenth-Century Studies: CFP
I would like to encourage those of you specializing in
late-medieval/early modern German to participate in the German
session sponsored by Fifteenth-Century Studies at the International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, in 2010. Papers on
sixteenth-century topics will again be considered. Our deadline for
abstract submissions is September 5. The German session ran
successfully last year and Fifteenth-Century Studies would very much
like to see it continue as part of its offerings at the conference.
Please see below for details and contact information.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Fifteenth-Century Studies
Call for Papers (2010) — 45th International Congress on Medieval
Studies at Western Michigan University, May 13-16, 2010, Kalamazoo,
Michigan USA
1) The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Dr. Rosanne Gasse, Department of
English, Brandon University, 270 18th St. Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9,
Canada, Phone: 204727-9795; Fax 204-726-0473; Emai1:
gasse@brandonu.ca
2) Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Prof. Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian,
Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, WI
54901-8693. Phone: 715-256-1261. Fax: 920- 424-7289. e-mail:
wade@uwosh.edu
3) Spanish Language and Literature in the Late Middle Ages (including
Catalan). Abstracts to: Prof. Roxana Recio, Modern Languages,
Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178 (USA). Phone: 402-614-7370.
FAX: 402-884-5691. e-mail: roxrecio@creighton.edu
4) Late-Medieval French Language and Literature. Abstracts to: Prof.
Steven M. Taylor, French and Coordinator, Medieval Studies, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA). Phone: 414-288-6309. FAX:
414-288-7653. E-mail: Steven.Tavlor@Marquette.edu
5) The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in
Northern Europe. Abstracts to: Prof. Edward L. Risden, Department of
English, St. Norbert College, 100 Grant St., Boyle Hall 330, De Pere,
WI 54115-2099 (USA). Phone: 920-403-3938; Fax: 920-403-4086. E-mail:
edward.risden@snc.edu
Requirements: one-page abstracts (with complete address of
applicant) must reach the individual organizers or the contact person
by September 5. Please fill out the A-V form, whether you need
material or not. All presentations are limited to 20 minutes.
Presenters are invited to submit their work in publishable form.
Those inquiring about publication should contact Matthew Z.
Heinzelmann (email: mheinzelma@csbsju.edu), Barbara I. Gusick (email:
bgtsud@aol.com), or Martin W. Walsh (email: narenlob@umich.edu).
Contact Person: Prof. Steven M. Taylor, Coordinator, Medieval
Studies, Marquette University. Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA). Phone:
414-288-6309. Fax: 414-288-7653. e-mail: Steven.taylor@marquette.edu
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
Professor of German
Co-Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Radford Hall 316; 800 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh, WI 54901 USA
Office: Radford 307
Phone: (920) 424-0909
late-medieval/early modern German to participate in the German
session sponsored by Fifteenth-Century Studies at the International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, in 2010. Papers on
sixteenth-century topics will again be considered. Our deadline for
abstract submissions is September 5. The German session ran
successfully last year and Fifteenth-Century Studies would very much
like to see it continue as part of its offerings at the conference.
Please see below for details and contact information.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Fifteenth-Century Studies
Call for Papers (2010) — 45th International Congress on Medieval
Studies at Western Michigan University, May 13-16, 2010, Kalamazoo,
Michigan USA
1) The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Dr. Rosanne Gasse, Department of
English, Brandon University, 270 18th St. Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9,
Canada, Phone: 204727-9795; Fax 204-726-0473; Emai1:
gasse@brandonu.ca
2) Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Prof. Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian,
Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, WI
54901-8693. Phone: 715-256-1261. Fax: 920- 424-7289. e-mail:
wade@uwosh.edu
3) Spanish Language and Literature in the Late Middle Ages (including
Catalan). Abstracts to: Prof. Roxana Recio, Modern Languages,
Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178 (USA). Phone: 402-614-7370.
FAX: 402-884-5691. e-mail: roxrecio@creighton.edu
4) Late-Medieval French Language and Literature. Abstracts to: Prof.
Steven M. Taylor, French and Coordinator, Medieval Studies, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA). Phone: 414-288-6309. FAX:
414-288-7653. E-mail: Steven.Tavlor@Marquette.edu
5) The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in
Northern Europe. Abstracts to: Prof. Edward L. Risden, Department of
English, St. Norbert College, 100 Grant St., Boyle Hall 330, De Pere,
WI 54115-2099 (USA). Phone: 920-403-3938; Fax: 920-403-4086. E-mail:
edward.risden@snc.edu
Requirements: one-page abstracts (with complete address of
applicant) must reach the individual organizers or the contact person
by September 5. Please fill out the A-V form, whether you need
material or not. All presentations are limited to 20 minutes.
Presenters are invited to submit their work in publishable form.
Those inquiring about publication should contact Matthew Z.
Heinzelmann (email: mheinzelma@csbsju.edu), Barbara I. Gusick (email:
bgtsud@aol.com), or Martin W. Walsh (email: narenlob@umich.edu).
Contact Person: Prof. Steven M. Taylor, Coordinator, Medieval
Studies, Marquette University. Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA). Phone:
414-288-6309. Fax: 414-288-7653. e-mail: Steven.taylor@marquette.edu
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
Professor of German
Co-Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Radford Hall 316; 800 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh, WI 54901 USA
Office: Radford 307
Phone: (920) 424-0909
CFP: Church and Culture I: Exploring Worship in the Church
Proposals are invited for the following sessions which will be
sponsored by Christianity and Culture (University of York)
Church and Culture I: Exploring Worship in the Church
This session will explore worship in the Anglo-Saxon and later
medieval church, making connections between developments in liturgy
and music and their influence on literature and material culture.
One further 20 minute paper is required. Please send proposals,
accompanied by the Congress participant information form (available
from the Medieval Congress website) to Dee Dyas (dd11@york.ac.uk
) no later than September 10.
York Minster: Cathedral in Context
This will be the fifth session in a series on York Minster.
Continuing the exploration of the role and development of this great
metropolitical cathedral, this session will set the Minster in the
context of relationships within the city of York and beyond
Please send proposals for 20-minute presentations, accompanied by the Congress
participant information form, to Louise Hampson (lah101@york.ac.uk
) no later than September 15.
sponsored by Christianity and Culture (University of York)
Church and Culture I: Exploring Worship in the Church
This session will explore worship in the Anglo-Saxon and later
medieval church, making connections between developments in liturgy
and music and their influence on literature and material culture.
One further 20 minute paper is required. Please send proposals,
accompanied by the Congress participant information form (available
from the Medieval Congress website) to Dee Dyas (dd11@york.ac.uk
York Minster: Cathedral in Context
This will be the fifth session in a series on York Minster.
Continuing the exploration of the role and development of this great
metropolitical cathedral, this session will set the Minster in the
context of relationships within the city of York and beyond
Please send proposals for 20-minute presentations, accompanied by the Congress
participant information form, to Louise Hampson (lah101@york.ac.uk
CFP: *Old Testament Saints in the Medieval Latin West*
*Old Testament Saints in the Medieval Latin West*
Organizer: Alison Locke Perchuk, Yale University
Presider: Edward Schoolman, UCLA
Christianity's Judaic roots meant that it inherited an extensive roster
of worthy men and women whose deeds were memorialized in the books that
came to comprise the Old Testament and related apocrypha. These
worthies included the ancestors of Christ, and those who predicted
Christ in word or deed, enjoyed a special relationship with the God of
Israel, or fought or suffered for that God. When the Western Church
began to build its community of saints, it focused primarily upon
martyrs of the Apostolic and post-Apostolic ages, to the near exclusion
of its Jewish forefathers and -mothers. This proscription loosened
slightly across the Middle Ages, in particular during the martyrological
explosion of the Carolingian era, but cults of Old Testament figures
never became as prominent in the Latin West as they did in the Greek
East and in the Holy Land itself, where sites connected to these men and
women could serve as the impetus to devotion. Not surprisingly,
scholarship mirrors this pattern, with the bulk of research focusing on
the Patristic period and Byzantium.
This session seeks to draw attention to that void, by revealing traces
and exploring structures of the consideration of and devotion to Old
Testament figures as holy men and women—saints—in the Medieval Latin
West. It encourages contributions from scholars working on any aspect
of this topic, including archaeology, art history, history, liturgical
studies, musicology, and theology. Papers might include case studies of
specific figures or cultic locations, examinations of the cultural or
intellectual positioning of Old Testament figures at particular moments
or in particular locations, or analyses of the intersections between
pre-Christian figures and the cultic needs of Christianity at the
various stages of its development. While the focus is on the Latin
Christian West, comparative papers that consider the Latin West in
relation to the Greek East or Christianity in relation to Judaism and/or
Islam are also welcome.
Please send 300-word abstract and completed Participant Information Form
(available on line at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to:
Alison Locke Perchuk
1052 S Mansfield Ave
Los Angeles CA 90019
213 210 2311
alison.locke@gmail.com
Submissions may be sent electronically or in paper format. Applications
must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2009.
Organizer: Alison Locke Perchuk, Yale University
Presider: Edward Schoolman, UCLA
Christianity's Judaic roots meant that it inherited an extensive roster
of worthy men and women whose deeds were memorialized in the books that
came to comprise the Old Testament and related apocrypha. These
worthies included the ancestors of Christ, and those who predicted
Christ in word or deed, enjoyed a special relationship with the God of
Israel, or fought or suffered for that God. When the Western Church
began to build its community of saints, it focused primarily upon
martyrs of the Apostolic and post-Apostolic ages, to the near exclusion
of its Jewish forefathers and -mothers. This proscription loosened
slightly across the Middle Ages, in particular during the martyrological
explosion of the Carolingian era, but cults of Old Testament figures
never became as prominent in the Latin West as they did in the Greek
East and in the Holy Land itself, where sites connected to these men and
women could serve as the impetus to devotion. Not surprisingly,
scholarship mirrors this pattern, with the bulk of research focusing on
the Patristic period and Byzantium.
This session seeks to draw attention to that void, by revealing traces
and exploring structures of the consideration of and devotion to Old
Testament figures as holy men and women—saints—in the Medieval Latin
West. It encourages contributions from scholars working on any aspect
of this topic, including archaeology, art history, history, liturgical
studies, musicology, and theology. Papers might include case studies of
specific figures or cultic locations, examinations of the cultural or
intellectual positioning of Old Testament figures at particular moments
or in particular locations, or analyses of the intersections between
pre-Christian figures and the cultic needs of Christianity at the
various stages of its development. While the focus is on the Latin
Christian West, comparative papers that consider the Latin West in
relation to the Greek East or Christianity in relation to Judaism and/or
Islam are also welcome.
Please send 300-word abstract and completed Participant Information Form
(available on line at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to:
Alison Locke Perchuk
1052 S Mansfield Ave
Los Angeles CA 90019
213 210 2311
alison.locke@gmail.com
Submissions may be sent electronically or in paper format. Applications
must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2009.
Mearcstapa CFP
I'm re-sending this CFP, as the deadline for submissions is fast
approaching. Please circulate widely and feel free to email me with any
questions.
*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.
approaching. Please circulate widely and feel free to email me with any
questions.
*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.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)