2010 DHO Summer School

2010 DHO Summer School
in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative
28 June – 2 July 2010
http://dho.ie/ss2010

The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010. Following the highly successful 2009 Summer School, next year’s event will see the expansion of popular workshop strands such as:

* A Practical Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative
* Data Visualisation for the Humanities
* An Introduction to EpiDoc Markup and Editing Tools
* The One to Many Text: Text Transformations with XSLT

The Summer School will feature lectures by Dr. Hugh Denard (King’s College London Visualisation Lab) and Dr Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster). Workshop facilitators include Dr Gabriel Bodard (King’s College London), Dr James Cowey (University of Heidelberg), Professor Laura Mandell (Miami University of Ohio), Dr Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), Justin Tonra (NUI, Galway) and Dana Wheeles (University of Virginia).

Major workshop strands will be conducted over four days allowing delegates to choose a mini-workshop on Wednesday from one of the following offerings:

* Geospatial Methods for Humanities Research
* Using Digital Resources for Irish Research and Teaching
* Visualising Space, Time and Events: Using Virtual Worlds for Humanities Research
* Finding the Concepts In the Chaos – Building Relationships With Data Models
* Planning Digital Scholarly Resources: A Primer

The introduction of the one-day mini-workshops allows people to choose to attend a single-day event only at a reduced cost.

On Wednesday afternoon following the mini-workshops, Summer School staff, lecturers and facilitators will be available for private consultations.

Please note that the DHO Summer School takes place immediately before the annual Digital Humanities 2010 conference in London. Visit our DHO Summer School website (www.dho.ie/ss2010 ) for updates and announcements. Registration will open on 15th of January.

Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie) or Emily Cullen (e.cullen@dho.ie).

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)
list.
URL: http://digitalmedievawordpress.com/2009/12/15/dho-summer-school-2010/

Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop

The Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop, "Unruly Letters & Unbound
Texts," 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). As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more
a class than a conference; participants will be invited to share both
their successes and frustrations, and work together to develop better
professional skills for textual and paleographical work.

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 on 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.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any level who may be
interested in learning more about textual scholarship through this
informal discussion of practical examples. All workshop events,
including lunches on Friday and Saturday and a reception on Friday
night, are free, but registration is required; dinner on Friday
evening is available for an additional charge. You may download a
registration form (in .pdf format) with more information at
, or contact Roy
M. Liuzza, Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301
McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, email .

The following scholars will present their work:

Rebecca Brackmann (Lincoln Memorial University): “William Lambarde’s
marginal notes in his copy of Epitome Adagiorum de s. Erasmi”

Noah Gardiner (University of Michigan): “Mamluk-era Manuscripts on
Magic Attributed to the Egyptian Sufi Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad”

Dorothy Kim (Vassar College): “Musical Notation, Funny Letters, and
Acoustic Alterity in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MS McClean 123
(Nuneaton Book)”

Victoria Morse (Carleton College): “Preaching to the Eyes: Opicino de
Canistris and Christian Reform in the Fourteenth Century”

Aaron Pelttari (Cornell University): “Restoring Ambiguity to the
Script of Ausonius of Bordeaux’s Ep. 6”

Michael Penn (Mount Holyoke): “How to Tell a Heretic When You Read
One: Interventions in Syriac MSS”

Helene Scheck (University of Albany): “Glosses and Readers’ Marks in
Halle Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Quedlinburg Codex 74 —
Reading in Female Monastic Communities”

David Townsend (University of Toronto) & Maura Lafferty (University
of Tennessee): “Navigating Ambiguity: Interpretive Foreclosure and
Paratext in Manuscripts of Walter of Chatillon’s Alexandreis”

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. We prefer submissions in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format; paper submissions are also accepted. Please include an e-mail address.



SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 41 (2010): 1 FEBRUARY 2010.



The editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2010.

Please send submissions to sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu, or to Dr. Blair Sullivan, Publications Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 302 Royce Hall, Box 951485, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485.

Annual Gender and Medieval Studies

Registration is currently open for the Annual Gender and Medieval Studies
conference, on the subject of Gender and the Family, online through the
University of Birmingham's online shop at:
https://www.bhamonlineshop.co.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=130



This link is available on the conference website at
http://www.medievalgender.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=2,
as is the full programme plus accommodation and travel details, but you can
simply click on it in this email and get connected straight away.


The conference takes place at Birmingham 7th-10th January 2010. The
registration fee is £30 for postgraduates and £60 for full fee delegates; in
addition to conference attendance, pack etc. this includes all tea and
coffee, lunch on Friday and Saturday, two wine receptions and a music/drama
event.

The online shop also gives you the option to also sign up for the conference
dinner; we do need to give them an idea of numbers before Christmas, so if
you are coming to the conference would like to come to the dinner please
sign up sooner rather than later!

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University Ghosts: Ethereal and Material

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
Ghosts: Ethereal and Material
10 April 2010
Call for Papers

The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University invites
submissions for its seventeenth annual graduate conference. We are
pleased to announce this year's keynote speaker, Nancy Caciola,
Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San
Diego.

This conference invites participants to consider the idea of ghosts
in its broadest sense. We encourage papers not only on ghosts as
'ethereal' beings, but also submissions that play with the metaphor
of ghosts as it relates to things like memory and the material
remains of the medieval past. Thus, one successful proposal might
deal with ghosts as they appear in monastic literature, while others
might make the "ghost" of the Middle Ages in contemporary film or the
'ghostly' ruins of Cistercian monasteries in France their subjects of
inquiry.

In keeping with the Program's aim to promote interdisciplinary
exchange among medievalists, we encourage proposals from a variety of
chronologies, geographies, and disciplines. Topics might include but
are not limited to:

- The Liturgy of the Dead
- Spirit possessions and exorcisms
- Medieval near death experiences and otherworldly journeys
- Ghosts in monastic literature and exempla
- Ghosts in vernacular literature (epic, romance, sagas, etc.)
- Saints' lives and hagiography
- Medieval modes of remembrance
- Ruins in Medieval Europe
-The "ghost" of the Middle Ages today

In order to support participation of speakers from outside the
northeastern United States, we are offering a limited number of
modest subsidies to help offset the cost of travel to Princeton.
Financial assistance may not be available for every participant;
funding priority goes to those who have the furthest to travel.
Every speaker will have the option of staying with a resident
graduate student as an alternative to paying for a hotel room.
Papers should take no more than twenty minutes to deliver. Please
submit a 250-word abstract of your project by 15 February 2010 to
Troy Tice (ttice@princeton.edu) or Andrew Lemons
(alemons@princeton.edu).

NEH Foreign Study Fellowship Opportunity Summer 2010.

NEH Foreign Study Fellowship Opportunity Summer 2010.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring a summer
seminar for College and University Professors in July of 2010 in
Tunisia to be led by Professor Thomas Heffernan. Stipends of $3,900.
are available for all who are selected to participate. The subject of
the seminar will in part examine the representation of the self in
the autobiographies of Perpetua of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo.
Both subjects are Roman north African, both are converts, and both
are early proponents of a sustained investigation of human
personality. Although both of our subjects are widely studied this is
the first time that we will have an opportunity to study them in
their lived context against the backdrop of the material culture of
Imperial Rome which gave such a profound shape to their lives. If you
are interested in this seminar and would like a detailed presentation
of the full five weeks including the eight field trips, see my
National Endowment for the Humanities web site at the following
urlhttp://web.utk.edu/~theff/carthage/

Call for Papers: Terra incognita? Making space for medieval geographies

Call for Papers: Terra incognita? Making space for medieval geographies


The Royal Geographical Society in London will be holding its annual
international conference from September 1-3, 2010. The organizers of the
session: Terra incognita? Making space for 'medieval geographies' have
issued this call for papers:

Historical geographers appear to be increasingly occupied with the modern
or post-Enlightenment world, with 'medieval geographies' becoming, for
many in the field, a terra incognita. Yet over the past century, the
Latin, Byzantine and Arabic worlds of the Middle Ages (c. 500 - 1500 CE) have
been a key focus for geographical study. Whether in charting geography's
medieval history and historiography, or in reconstructing spatial
histories of medieval landscapes, territories and societies, geographers
have thus recognized the importance of geographies before the modern age.
H owever, during the past three decades, these geographies 'in' and
'of' the Middle Ages have noticeably shifted further to the margins
of Anglophone historical geography, at a time when, paradoxically,
the geographical and spatial are growing concerns among medievalists,
for example in art and literary history, and in architecture and
archaeology.

In the context of these shifting disciplinary terrains, this session seeks
to make space for medieval geographies by providing a forum for recent and
ongoing studies that encompass both geographies in and of the Middle Ages.
Papers of an empirical or theoretical nature are sought, particularly
those engaging in critical ways with medieval geographies and which
encourage further cross-disciplinary exchange with medievalists in cognate
areas. Far from being a terra incognita, the session will expose some of
the contemporary resonances of medieval geographies, and one of its
intended outcomes is to entice historical geographers to consider the
spatial and tempo! ral cont inuities, discontinuities and connections that
run between the 'medieval' and the 'modern'.

Paper proposals and abstracts should be sent to: Dr Keith Lilley
(k.lilley@qub.ac.uk) by January 31, 2010.

The session is being organized by Dr Lilley (Queen's University Belfast)
with Veronica Della Dora (University of Bristol) and Stuart Elden
(University of Durham).

For more information about the conference, please go to:
http://www.rgs.org/ac2010

Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" unit

The committee for the "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" unit of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is happy to announce
Calls for Papers for the following two conferences:




1) SBL International Conference - Tartu, Estonia:

The 2010 International Conference of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) will take place in Tartu, Estonia, July 25-29, 2010. You can read the details of the conference in general on the following URL:
http://sbl-site.org/Meetings/Internationalmeeting.aspx

Our unit's theme for this conference is: "The Antiochian School of Biblical Exegesis." Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers to explore the various aspects of biblical exegesis and hermeneutics developed and promoted in the churches of the Antiochian Patrimony. The steering committee of the unit especially encourages the submission of proposals for papers that explore and discuss the insights into contemporary biblical exegesis and scholarship that the distinct tradition of biblical interpretation of the school of Antioch may provide. Papers that explore the influence of the Antiochian school on later and other traditions of biblical exegesis will also be considered.

The deadline for submitting proposals to this conference in January 31, 2010.

You can submit the abstract of your paper online through the following URL:
http://sbl-site.org/Meetings/Congresses_Admin_ProgramUnitDetails.aspx?id=407&MeetingId=16
or e-mail it to: vartabed@stnersess.edu





2) SBL Conference - Atlanta, GA, USA:

The 2010 Annual SBL Conference will take place in Atlanta, GA, November 20-23, 2010. You can read about the meeting in general by clicking on the following URL:
http://sbl-site.org/Meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx

Our unit's theme for this conference is "Bible reception and interpretation in Orthodox Liturgy." Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers that examine the critical study of all the major aspects of incorporating the Bible in the liturgy of the various Orthodox churches. Among the various aspects we mention: the Biblical character of the liturgical year; the various interpretive methods used in Orthodox hymnology; the development of the liturgical theme through the various scriptural readings assigned; biblical practices as foundational elements in the liturgical _expressions, and other subjects related to the incorporation of the Bible in the Orthodox liturgy celebrated in Arabic, Armenian, Serbian, Romanian, Slavonic, Syriac and all other languages used in the various churches within the Orthodox family.

The deadline for submitting proposals to this conference is March 1, 2010.

You can submit the abstract of your paper online through the following URL:
http://sbl-site.org/Meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=17&VolunteerUnitId=386
or e-mail it to: vartabed@stnersess.edu

Medieval News: Oldish

A little old now, but I finally have had a little time to put together a list of news that I gathered almost two weeks ago. Hopefully the links are still active.


The "Little" Medieval Warm Period in the Bahamas


An Ancient Bath-house Dating Back to Byzantine Era Discovered in Syria

The mysterious death of James III

Viking Weapon-Recycling Site Found in England?

Talking about Medieval Archaeology The Society for Medieval Archaeology Postgraduate Colloquium

Talking about Medieval Archaeology
The Society for Medieval Archaeology Postgraduate Colloquium


Who are we?

The Society for Medieval Archaeology exists to further the study of the period from the 5th to the 16th century A.D. by publishing a journal of international standing dealing primarily with the archaeological evidence, and by other means such as by holding regular meetings and arranging conferences. While maintaining a special concern for the medieval archaeology of Britain and Ireland, the society seeks to support and advance the international study of this period (as broadly defined above) in Europe. It also aims to serve as a medium for co-ordinating the work of archaeologists with that of historians and scholars in any other discipline relevant to this field.

Members receive Medieval Archaeology, the Society's journal (published annually), together with a twice-yearly newsletter.


The Postgraduate Colloquium

On February 19th and 20th 2010, the Society will be hosting its annual postgraduate colloquium in conjunction with the University of Birmingham. The colloquium invites students to talk about their research and discuss their findings over a two-day conference. The conference is designed as a forum for informing others about your research, as well providing a research environment within which students can develop ideas and make new contacts.
Talking about medieval archaeology

The programme will run from Friday 19th February to Saturday 20th February 2010. It will involve four sessions loosely encompassing the broad themes of:



- Death & burial

- Ethnicity & identity

- Power & monument

- Society & settlement

- The material world



We also welcome posters on any topic.
Talking about your future

In addition to the research papers, the PG Colloquium will also include a Careers Question Time and an opportunity for some medieval networking over the conference buffet. The Careers Question Time will be organised in much the same way as its TV namesake (though without David Dimbleby!), with the panel representing a cross-section of the archaeological profession. The session will be hosted by the Society’s Student Rep Jill Campbell who will be asking for questions to put to the panel before and during the session. Panellists will all be available throughout the conference buffet for any informal questions and advice on careers in the heritage environment. Confirmed panellists include Dr Sally Foster (Historic Scotland), Kate Gearey (Institute for Archaeologists), Dr Dawn Hadley (University of Sheffield), Dr Amanda Forster (Birmingham Archaeology) and Dr Mike Hodder (Birmingham City Council).



If you have any specific ideas or questions regarding your career aspirations in archaeology, please include these on your registration form. In addition, we are keen for those who register (including speakers and non-speakers) to provide five keywords highlighting research interests and methods, with contact details. These will be included in the conference programme to help like-minded researchers find each other.


Food and entertainment

Throughout the two days, lunch, teas and coffees will be provided. Following the Careers Question Time on Friday, the conference buffet will be held in the Arts Faculty of the University of Birmingham. This will precede the conference keynote lecture, to be given by Professor Martin Carver of the University of York, hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham. A Wine Reception will close Friday’s proceedings and give conference delegates a chance to discuss the day over a glass of wine and some nibbles!


How to book your place
Download the booking form from our website www.medievalarchaeology.org and email it to us at medieval.archaeology@googlemail.comwith PG COLLOQUIUM in the subject header & send a cheque in the post

Religion and Community in the Roman Near East – Constantine to Mahomet

The 2010 Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, given by Professor Fergus Millar FBA

Religion and Community in the Roman Near East – Constantine to Mahomet

27 January, 3 & 10 February 2010
5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

Free Admittance

Wednesday 27 January 2010
I. The Legacy of Alexander and the Bible. A Greek Christian World?

When the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, acquired control of the Eastern provinces of the Empire and called the Council of Nicaea in 325, it was over six and a half centuries since Alexander had conquered the Near East. When the forces of Islam invaded in the 630s, Greek had been the primary public language there, from the Mediterranean to the Tigris and from the Taurus Mountains to the Red Sea, for almost a millennium.

But how deeply had Greek culture penetrated, and was the Christian Church in the Near East wholly Greek-speaking? What 'resistance' was offered by either an Aramaic or Syriac-speaking population, or by paganism. Where do the Jewish and Samaritan inhabitants of Palestine fit in? This long apparently ‘Greek’ phase in the Near East demands attention.

Wednesday 3 February 2010
II. Jews and Samaritans in a Greek Christian World

In the first few centuries CE, a network of Greek cities came to cover almost all of Palestine, and by the sixth century more than fifty of these places had bishops, who preached and wrote in Greek. In this context, what forms of religious, social or cultural self-expression were open to Jews or Samaritans?

In the fourth–sixth centuries churches were built almost everywhere – but so also were Jewish and Samaritan synagogues – and it was these, not the churches, which produced elaborate representational art on their mosaic floors. Jews also produced the vast corpus of rabbinic literature in Hebrew or Aramaic. But how separate was Jewish life in reality from its gentile environment? Should we think of separation into distinct geographical zones, of peaceful co-existence, or of communal conflict?

Wednesday 10 February 2010
III. Syrians and Saracens: Alternative Christianities?

Aramaic, in various dialects, persisted as a spoken language all through the centuries of Graeco-Roman rule. But, while Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic were long-established languages of culture in which religious texts were composed, at the moment of Constantine's conversion there was not a single community anywhere in the Roman Near East where Greek was not the dominant public language.

Christian literary composition in Syriac, which in origin was the Aramaic dialect and script used at Edessa, had however already begun before Constantine. The subsequent emergence of Syriac as a major language of Christian literary culture, and as expressed in the many beautiful contemporary manuscripts which survive, is of huge significance. But what was the role of Syriac-speaking Christianity in relation to Greek, and to the profound theological divisions of the time? Was it in Greek or in Syriac that the Bible and monotheism were transmitted to the Arabs of the desert?

About the Speaker
Fergus Millar was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2002. He is the author of The Roman Near East, 37 BC-AD 337 (1993) and A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II, 408-450 (2006). He was awarded the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies in 2005. Currently Senior Associate of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, he is writing on the linguistic, cultural and religious history of the Roman Near East in the fourth to sixth centuries.

Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund, set up in 1907, was a gift from Miss Constance Schweich in memory of her father. It provided for three public lectures to be delivered annually (now triennially) on subjects related to 'the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilization with reference to Biblical Study'.

A poster for your notice board can be downloaded here:

Please visit our website for full details of our forthcoming events.
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 / Email: lectures@britac.ac.uk

Please note our ticketing and seating policy:
British Academy Lectures are freely open to the general public and everyone is welcome; there is no charge for admission, no tickets will be issued, and seats cannot be reserved. The Lecture Room is opened at 5.00pm, and the first 80 audience members arriving at the Academy will be offered a seat in the Lecture Room; the next 60 people to arrive will be offered a seat in the Overflow Room, which has a video and audio link to the Lecture Room. Lectures are followed by a reception at 6.30pm, to which members of the audience are invited

Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium

EMASS 2010 – Call For Papers



(Please can you circulate this Call For Papers to colleagues, students, staff and other interested parties, and apologies to all for any cross-posting!)





We are pleased to announce that the 4th annual Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium will be held in University College Dublin on the 19-20 May 2010.



We would like to invite submissions for papers of c.20 minutes duration on any aspect of the early medieval period (400-1200AD) from any part of the world. In keeping with EMASS tradition, there is no set theme for the symposium but papers addressing theory in the early medieval period are particularly welcome, as are papers addressing other approaches such as experimental archaeology. As this is the first time that EMASS will visit Ireland, we also invite papers addressing ideas of regionality and difference in the early medieval period.



EMASS is a discussion group dedicated to the study of the early medieval period, run by and for postgraduates and early career researchers. It provides a forum for those interested in the early medieval period to discuss their ideas, methodologies, and theories in a friendly and open environment.



This year's symposium will take place over two days, featuring both oral and poster presentations, keynote lectures and a reception. The registration fee for the symposium is €20 and will cover refreshments and lunch on both days. As this is EMASS's first visit to Dublin, there may also be a fieldtrip to sites of interest either during or after the papers. We would appreciate it if you could tell us if you would be interested in participating in this, so that we can judge how best to organise this.



Keep an eye on our website at www.emass2010.com for further details on registration deadlines and payment details which will be posted soon. In the meantime if you have any queries, please contact us at info@emass2010.com.



The EMASS 2010 Committee

27th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference

The University of Connecticut Medieval Studies Program invites your
students to submit abstracts for the 27th Annual New England Medieval
Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference. The theme of the
conference is “Medieval Perspectives: From the Mundane to the
Miraculous.” The conference will be held on April 10, 2010 in
Storrs,CT.

Call for papers: Abstracts from graduate students are now being
accepted on all topics concerning late antiquity through the
lateMiddle Ages. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of
disciplines, including:

Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies
–Comparative Literature – Disability Studies – Drama –
Gerontology –History – History of Science – Language Studies
– Literary Studies – Manuscript Studies – Musicology –
Philosophy – Paleography – Religious Studies – Urban Studies
– Women’s and Gender Studies.

Papers are to be no more than 20 minutes long and read in English.

Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with affiliation and
contact details, to Pamela Longo and Jeanette Zissell, via email
(uconn.nemsc@gmail.com) as a Word attachment, or by post (University
of Connecticut Department of English, U-Box 4025, 215 Glenbrook
Road, Storrs, CT 06269). The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15
January 2010.

The conference has a Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=303296950220

MAMA: NOTE THE DATE TOMORROW!

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the February MAMA conference are due December 15; send them to thomassull@gmail.com

The Foreign, the Familiar, and the Fantastic in the Middle Ages

CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd Annual Medieval Studies Symposium
March 26-27, 2010
Indiana University, Bloomington

*Abstracts due February 2nd, 2010*


The Foreign, the Familiar, and the Fantastic in the Middle Ages


Traditional notions of the Middle Ages conceive of its peoples as
insular and close-minded, as living in a period of willful ignorance
that lies in stark contrast to the cosmopolitanism and
inquisitiveness that characterizes the Renaissance. This conception
of medieval peoples as being ignorant of other cultures has recently
been challenged by scholars who point to moments of contact with the
foreign. The fact remains, however, that in the Middle Ages there
existed a tenuous relationship between the familiar and the foreign.

The presence of the fantastic complicates the dichotomy of the
foreign and the familiar. Many instances of contact between foreign
peoples and ideas were occasioned, e.g., by religious convictions.
The most obvious example of this dynamic is the Crusades, but
numerous other cases exist where the fantastic - the divine, the
supernatural, etc. - is intimately bound up in navigating the tension
between the foreign and the familiar.
But scholars do not have to look only at the meetings of foreign
peoples to uncover a concern about foreignness-the foreign can also
be found at home. Here, too, in the realm of the familiar, religion
provided a conceptual framework for thinking about foreign ideas,
peoples, and phenomena. In such examples as demonic possession,
saints' miracles, and the romance tradition, among many others,
medieval peoples expressed concern with otherness and found ways to
bring it into dialogue with their own familiar worldview.

We welcome papers that interrogate notions of the foreign, the
familiar, and the fantastic in the Middle Ages. We seek papers from
both faculty and graduate students in any medieval field of study,
East or West. Topics may include, but are not limited to, those
related to spirituality, philosophy, history, science and learning,
art and architecture, music and literature, politics, influential
figures, law, commerce, ideology and belief, or language.

For examples, papers might address one of the following:
-- Contact between the East and West
-- Confrontations between different cultures during the Crusades
-- Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims
-- Notions of the human and the divine
-- Understanding/defining the categories "natural," "supernatural,"
and "unnatural"
-- Controversies of heresy and orthodoxy
-- Conceptions of the self and the other
-- Any other topics that examine notions of familiarity, foreignness,
and fantasy


Medievalists of all disciplines are encouraged to participate.
Please submit one-page abstracts by February 1, 2009, to the
following website:
http://www.indiana.edu/~medieval/symposium


Click on the link for "The Foreign, the Familiar, and the Fantastic
in the Middle Ages" and then the link to "Submit an Abstract." You
will be led to a page where you can create an account for the
symposium and submit your abstract to the conference committee. If
you have any questions, please send an e-mail to mest@indiana.edu.

Feel free to pass this CFP along to any other medieval listservs.

POST-DOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS IN BYZANTINE STUDIES

DUMBARTON OAKS

POST-DOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS IN BYZANTINE STUDIES

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (www.doaks.org)
announces a new three-year post-doctoral teaching fellowship within
the Program in Byzantine Studies. Our goal is to stimulate American
Byzantine Studies, especially in the DC area, through early career
fellowships for American or US-educated scholars. No support for
pursuit of visas will be provided. The fellowship will rotate among
disciplines, including history, literature, and religion. The
three-year fellowship held from 2009-2010 through 2011-2012 is in
early Christian and Byzantine art, architecture, and archaeology, at
Dumbarton Oaks and Catholic University of America. Beginning in the
academic year 2010-11 the fellowship will be in history, and in
2011-12 it is hoped that a fellowship will be offered in Byzantine
religious studies and/or theology or in post-classical Greek language
and literature.

Dumbarton Oaks Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellows in Byzantine Studies
will be provided study space at Dumbarton Oaks, and expected to spend
half of their time there on personal research projects. They will
also have the opportunity to teach on a half-time basis at a
Washington-area university (two semester-long courses per year). At
the end of the three years the university that has benefited from
their teaching will offer them the option of a fourth year of
full-time teaching, to be supported wholly by the university.

The purpose of these fellowships is to enable outstanding recent
recipients of the Ph.D. to advance their research, while gaining
experience in the classroom. Successful candidates will also be
expected to contribute to the intellectual life of the academic
community at Dumbarton Oaks by participating regularly in various
academic events such as colloquia and seminars.

The fellowship to be offered for 2010-2011 will be in Byzantine
history in its widest sense (CE 300-1500). The teaching component of
the fellowship will take place at George Washington University.
Candidates with interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interests will
be welcomed.

Applicants must have completed all requirements for the doctoral
degree by March 2009, but no earlier than June 2005. Candidates must
be citizens of the United States or Canada or graduates of a North
American university, and must have an excellent command of spoken and
written English.

The salary will be $60,000 per year, and fellows will be eligible for
health insurance. In addition to their salary, fellows will receive
$1000 per year for research expenses, and travel expenses when
presenting a paper at an academic conference (annual limit of $850
for a domestic conference or $1000 for an international conference).
Fellows are responsible for their own travel and moving expenses, as
well as for finding and paying for their housing in the Washington
area. The place of residence during the summer months will be
optional; fellows may work at Dumbarton Oaks or travel elsewhere.

The selection committee will award the post-doctoral teaching
fellowship on the basis of the following criteria: 1) demonstrated
scholarly accomplishment, and overall academic excellence and promise
2) potential future impact on the field of Byzantine studies through
teaching and writing 3) significance and quality of the research
project(s) to be carried out at Dumbarton Oaks 4) knowledge of the
relevant ancient and modern languages 5) ability to contribute to the
academic community at Dumbarton Oaks and local area universities.

By January 1, 2010 candidates should submit six copies of an
application consisting of a cover letter that includes a statement of
teaching experience and proposed courses, a curriculum vitae, and a
1000-word description of the research project(s) to be carried out
during the term of the fellowship. Three letters of recommendation
should also be submitted by this date. Please send all materials to:

Margaret Mullett
Director of Byzantine Studies
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St., NW
Washington, DC 20007
mullettm@doaks.org
202-339-6942
______________________________________________

Disney's Medievalisms

Call for Papers:
“Disney’s Medievalisms”

> From medieval fairs to modern films, the industries of popular culture
continually revisit and reinvent the Middle Ages, entertaining audiences while
generating a profit. And Disney’s--both Walt’s and the
Corporation’s—contribution to this field is virtually unparalleled. From its
many “medieval” films (Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, A Kid in King Arthur’s
Court) to its re-creations of fairy-tale romances (Cinderella,
Sleeping Beauty,
Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted), from its architecture of iconic
castles to its
renovation of outmoded identities (princesses, pirates), Disney’s multifaceted
medievalism is America’s most culturally visible monument to the
western Middle
Ages—a monument that, like all of Disney’s products, has been globally
disseminated. However, since Disney’s Middle Ages spans from his pre-Mickey
retellings of fairy tales, through the studio’s early princess films and into
“re-writings” of the company’s own traditions in more recent films, this
monument is itself continually under reconstruction. Our proposed essay
collection “Disney’s Medievalisms” will tackle this cultural legacy from a
variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including literary, cinematic,
architectural, and sociological. It will address such questions as: How do the
Middle Ages figure in Disney’s essentially American historical narrative? What
do Disney’s turns to medievalism reveal about twentieth- and
twenty-first-century cultural concerns, and why are the Middle Ages a
preferred
setting for modern’s children entertainment? How do the child and the medieval
intersect, and to what end?

Potential contributors should contact Susan Aronstein (aronstei@uwyo.edu) and
Tison Pugh (tpugh@mail.ucf.edu) with 200-word abstracts of their proposals by
May 1, 2010. Professor Aronstein is the author of Hollywood Knights: Arthurian
Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia, and Professor Pugh is the author of
Queering Medieval Genres and the co-editor of two collections addressing
“medieval” cinema: Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema and
Queer Movie
Medievalisms.

Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing

Please visit also the conference site
http://www.glossa.fi/authorities


Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing. Authorities in the Middle Ages
will be arranged in Helsinki 20-23 September 2010. This international
conference seeks to offer a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and
academics, enhance interdiscpilinary discussion, promote scholarly
networking, and set up an innovative platform for scholars who engage with
questions of power and authority.

The conference is aimed at established researchers, doctoral students and
those working on their master's thesis in medieval history or art history,
archaeology, theology, philosophy or literature. Conference sessions will
be open to the public. The conference will be held in English.

The conference is organised by Glossa, the Society for Medieval Studies in
Finland, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) and the
Written Culture in Medieval Finland Project at the University of Helsinki.

Selected conference papers will be published as a refereed theme issue in
Mirator, an electronic open access jourrnal on medieval studies.


Call for Papers
The Latin word auctoritas means not only authority and influence, but more
generally opinion, encouragement, decree or example. The concept thus
resonates deeply in the study of social structures, communication or
religious culture, for instance. Who had auctoritas, and how? How was
influence built and maintained, how was it lost? How was authority
contested? What about model and precedent?

Glossa - the society for medieval studies in Finland is arranging with the
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Sudies the multidisciplinary conference
SEEING, HEARING, READING AND BELIEVING. AUTHORITIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES in
Helsinki, 20-23 September 2010. The organisers seek proposals for papers
on the topic of authorities in the Middle Ages. Themes include (but are
not limited to) authority/-ies in politics, military history, trade and
communication, intellectual history, art and literature as well as
religious conformism, adaptation and dissidence. We invite explorations of
exercise of authority in different spheres of life, as well as of medieval
meditations on the nature of authority, or of the authority of texts and
traditions. The conference welcomes researchers across all scholarly
fields and disciplines.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor David Abulafia (University of
Cambridge), Professor Sverre Bagge (University of Bergen) and Professor
Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona).

We welcome working papers from established researchers, doctoral students
and those working on their Master's thesis. Please send proposals for
individual papers of twenty minutes or for whole sessions of three papers
with contact details and a 200 word abstract to Tuija Ainonen, at
tuija.ainonen@helsinki.fi by 15 December 2009.

Marginalia CFP

Call for Papers

"MARGINALIA", an interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages, invites submissions for its 2010 Issue on the theme of "Apocalypse".

Papers might address the idea of 'Apocalypse' in terms of:

visions and revelation
social and political crises
millennial anxiety
beasts
death and judgement
living the good life
the Ages of the World
literatures of pessimism and optimism
endings

We invite submissions in the form of long articles (approximately 5,000 words) and shorter Notes and Queries style articles (approximately 1,000 words). Please see our website www.marginalia.co.uk for further details.

Proposals for papers should be sent via email, no later than 31 January 2010, to Aisling Byrne (anb36@cam.ac.uk). We will be happy to answer queries before the deadline.

The editors of Marginalia are graduate students, advised by a board of academics from the University of Cambridge.

Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions

Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions"

Society of Biblical Literature



The committee for the program unit "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is happy to announce the Call for Papers for the 2010 International Conference in Tartu, Estonia .

The program unit's theme for this conference is "The Antiochian School of Biblical Exegesis." Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers to explore the various aspects of biblical exegesis and hermeneutics developed and promoted in the churches of the Antiochian Patrimony. The steering committee of the unit especially encourages the submission of proposals for papers that explore and discuss the insights into contemporary biblical exegesis and scholarship that the distinct tradition of biblical interpretation of the school of Antioch may provide. Papers that explore the influence of the Antiochian school on later and other traditions of biblical exegesis will also be considered.

All are welcome to propsoe abstracts for papers to participate in this unit's session. SBL members can submit their proposals online by accessing the SBL website (see link below) and uploading their proposal. Please make sure to click the "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" link on the list of participating Program Units.
(http://sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPapers.aspx?MeetingId=16)

For further information about the conference or if you are not an SBL member and would like to participate and submit a proposal, please contact the program unit chairman at: vartabed@stnersess.edu

Please note that the conference in Tartu, Estonia is scheduled for July 25-29, 2010, and the deadline for submitting proposals is January 31, 2010.



The program unit "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" publishes the proceedings of its conferences as volumes in the series "Bible in the Orthodox Trtaditions" by Peter Lang Inc. So far, two volumes have been published and the third volume is being editted. Papers presented at the program unit's session in Tartu, Estonia, will be considered for publication in the fourth volume of the series. The following are the two volumes available online:

Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East
(Select Papers from the SBL Meeting in San Diego, 2007)
http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=310495&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=5

The Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East
(Selected Papers from the SBL Meeting in Boston, 2008)
http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=310735&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=2

Medieval Perspectives : From the Mundane to the Miraculous

10 April 2010. "Medieval Perspectives : From the Mundane to the Miraculous", the 27th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, will be held at the University of Connecticut, in Storrs.

Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted on all topics concerning Late Antiquity through the late Middle Ages. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines, including : Anthropology - Archaeology - Art History - Classical Studies - Comparative Literature - Disability Studies - Drama - Gerontology - History - History of Science - Language Studies - Literary Studies - Manuscript Studies - Musicology - Philosophy - Paleography - Religious Studies - Urban Studies - Women's and Gender Studies.

Papers are to be no more than 20 minutes long and read in English.

Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with affiliation and contact details, to Pamela Longo and Jeanette Zissell, via email (uconn@nemsc@gmail.com) as a Word attachment, or by post (University of Connecticut Department of English, U-Box 4025, 215 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269). The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 January 2010.

CFP: "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions"

Call for Papers

"Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions"

Society of Biblical Literature



The committee for the program unit "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is happy to announce the Call for Papers for the 2010 International Conference in Tartu, Estonia .

The program unit's theme for this conference is "The Antiochian School of Biblical Exegesis." Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers to explore the various aspects of biblical exegesis and hermeneutics developed and promoted in the churches of the Antiochian Patrimony. The steering committee of the unit especially encourages the submission of proposals for papers that explore and discuss the insights into contemporary biblical exegesis and scholarship that the distinct tradition of biblical interpretation of the school of Antioch may provide. Papers that explore the influence of the Antiochian school on later and other traditions of biblical exegesis will also be considered.

All are welcome to propsoe abstracts for papers to participate in this unit's session. SBL members can submit their proposals online by accessing the SBL website (see link below) and uploading their proposal. Please make sure to click the "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" link on the list of participating Program Units.
(http://sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPapers.aspx?MeetingId=16)

For further information about the conference or if you are not an SBL member and would like to participate and submit a proposal, please contact the program unit chairman at: vartabed@stnersess.edu

Please note that the conference in Tartu, Estonia is scheduled for July 25-29, 2010, and the deadline for submitting proposals is January 31, 2010.



The program unit "Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions" publishes the proceedings of its conferences as volumes in the series "Bible in the Orthodox Trtaditions" by Peter Lang Inc. So far, two volumes have been published and the third volume is being editted. Papers presented at the program unit's session in Tartu, Estonia, will be considered for publication in the fourth volume of the series. The following are the two volumes available online:

Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East
(Select Papers from the SBL Meeting in San Diego, 2007)
http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=310495&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=5

The Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East
(Selected Papers from the SBL Meeting in Boston, 2008)
http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=310735&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=2

I'm a bit late on this one, but try anyway!!!

Liebe Paläographen und Kodikologen, dear scholars of palaeography and
Codicology,

you might have noticed the Call for Paper below. For organisational
reasons we have decided to prolongue the deadline for another week
(6. dec. 09).
Please feel free to send us your proposals.

Regards

Georg Vogeler



*CfP: Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter II*

Das Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) hat im letzten Jahr
die Initiative “Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter”
gestartet, um den Stand der Forschungen zum Einsatz von modernen
Informationstechnologien auf die Arbeit mit Handschriften zu
dokumentieren. In diesem Jahr konnten bereits die ersten Früchte dieser
Arbeit vorgelegt werden: Im Juli 2009 ist ein Sammelband “Kodikologie
und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter” erschienen
(http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter).
Zu seiner Präsentation fand in München eine internationale Fachtagung
statt, die erstmals die an diesen Fragen interessierte weltweite
Forschergemeinschaft zusammengebracht hat
(http://www.i-d-e.de/events-des-ide/internationale-tagung-kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter-codicology-and-paleography-in-the-digital-age-munchen/tagungsbericht-kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter).
Die Resonanz auf Sammelband und Tagung war bislang äußerst positiv, auch
von Experten aus den verschiedensten Bereichen der
Handschriftenforschung mit geringerer Vertrautheit mit digitalen
Arbeitsweisen. Zum ersten Mal lassen sich die ebenso zukunftsweisenden
wie disparat voran getriebenen Ansätze und Ergebnisse der
computergestützten kodikologischen und paläographischen Forschung als
Gesamtphänomen ins Auge fassen und von der Forschungsgemeinschaft
diskutieren.

Gleichwohl liegt es in der Natur der Sache, dass der vorliegende Band
zwar einen breitgefächerten Einblick in den state of the art gibt, viele
relevante Themengebiete und Fragestellungen jedoch nicht behandelt
werden konnten. Das Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik hat sich
daher entschlossen, einen weiteren Band zu Kodikologie und Paläographie
im digitalen Zeitalter herauszugeben. Es verfolgt die Absicht, die durch
den ersten Band aufgeworfenen Fragen zu vertiefen und das Gesamtbild zu
vervollständigen.

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Insbesondere soll nun zu folgenden Fragen Stellung genommen werden:

- Inwieweit lassen sich quantitative Ansätze und die Auswertung von
Datenbanken in der kodikologischen Forschung durch eine systematische
Auswertung digitaler Faksimilia von Handschriften ergänzen?
- Können kunsthistorische und musikwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und
Herangehensweisen an Handschriften in dem Maße formalisiert werden, dass
sie durch digitale Hilfsmittel und Methodiken unterstützt werden
können?
- Lassen sich Methoden aus den Naturwissenschaften (wie z.B. der
DNA-Analyse historischer Materialien) für die Analyse von Handschriften
nutzbar machen?
- Wie können elektronische Handschriftenkataloge und virtuelle
Bibliotheken in übergreifenden Portalen und hybriden Arbeitsumgebungen
zusammengeführt und somit breit angelegten semantischen Untersuchungen
zur Verfügung gestellt werden?
- Wie können die verfügbaren digitalen Hilfsmittel für paläographische
Transkriptionen zugänglich gemacht und verbessert, wie ihr
Anwendungsbereich erweitert und wie die philologische Aus- und
Weiterverwertbarkeit ihrer Ergebnisse vorangetrieben werden?
- Wie lassen sich Fragen an die Entwicklungsgeschichte von Schrift und
Schrifttypen mit Hilfe digitaler Methoden adressieren?
- Wie werden digitale Ressourcen an ihre materiellen Ausgangsobjekte im
Rahmen von Restauration und Konservation zurückgebunden? Welche Formen
der Rückbindung können für Archiven, Museen und Bibliotheken im Bereich
der Pädagogik und der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit sinnvoll sein?
- Inwieweit sind die mit Hilfe von Software generierten Antworten auf
Fragen der paläographischen und kodikologischen Forschung verlässlich
und nachprüfbar?

Beiträge, die zu dem hier anskizzierten Fragenhorizont Stellung beziehen
oder darüber hinausweisen (vgl. CfP zum ersten Band), sind herzlich
willkommen. Vorschläge werden bis zum 30. November 2009 erbeten und
können an kpdz-ii@ide.de eingereicht werden. Wie schon sein Vorgänger
soll auch dieser Band auf einer Internationalen Fachtagung im Sommer
2010 präsentiert und diskutiert werden.

Die Abstracts sollten einen Umfang von 500 Wörtern nicht überschreiten;
um dem internationalen Charakter der Forschungsgemeinschaft Rechnung zu
tragen, werden Beiträge auf Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch und
Italienisch akzeptiert.

Organisation:
- Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer@ria.ie
- Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities), fritze@bbaw.de
- Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich),
g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
- Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for eHumanities),
sahle@uni-koeln.de
- Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan@hab.de
- Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg),
malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
- Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as@ba.tuxomania.net

Termine:
6. Dezember 2009: Einsendeschluss Abstracts
30. April 2010: Einsendeschluss Beitäge

*CfP: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II*

It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly
Editing (IDE) undertook an initiative entitled "Codicology and
Palaeography in the Digital Age". Yet its first results have already
been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology "Codicology
and Palaeography in the Digital Age" was launched at an international
symposium in Munich. Here, experts from all over the world met as a
community to share their knowledge, interests and concerns regarding
digital issues in the various fields of manuscript research.

The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been
remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted with
digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed, cutting-edge
research in the field of computer-aided codicology and palaeography can
be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon.

Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into
theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not been
covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second volume of
"Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age". The following
questions in particular should now be addressed:

* To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of
codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of
digital manuscript facsimiles?
* How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or in
musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology?
* How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to the
analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)?
* How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries be
brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid research
environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive semantic
studies?
* How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription be
promoted and improved? How can the range of applications be expanded?
How can philological analysis and further use in literary studies be
enhanced?
* How can questions about the history of script be addressed by
digital methods?
* How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in the
context of restoration and preservation? How can archives, libraries and
museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public benefit?
* To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological
and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable?

Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous
CfP) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German or
Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an
international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be
sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii@ide.de or any of the editors listed
below.

Organisation:

* Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer@ria.ie
* Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities), fritze@bbaw.de
* Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich),
g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
* Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for
eHumanities), sahle@uni-koeln.de
* Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan@hab.de
* Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg),
malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
* Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as@ba.tuxomania.net

Dates:

6. December 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline
30. April 2010: Paper Submission Deadline

MAMA Reminder

paper abstracts for the upcoming MAMA conference on Saturday February 27, 2010 at Conception Abbey, Conception, MO, are due no later than December 15, 2009. They should be one page and emailed to Thomas Sullivan at ThomasSull@gmail.com. His phone is 660-944-2860 and fax is 660-944-2800.



Graduate students who wish to compete for the Jim Falls Graduate Paper Prize must submit a copy of their completed paper electronically to Jim Falls at fallsj@umkc.edu no later than February 1, 2010. If any questions, please contact Jim Falls.



The MAMA website has links to the hotels in Maryville, 10 miles west of Conception Abbey and in a few days there will be information on the website about lodging at the abbey and a Sunday night concert.



Thanks for your help and get the word out about paper abstracts.



Sincerely,



Jim Falls

Secretary-Treasurer, MAMA

medieval Greek and paleography

June 7 – July 2, 2010

Dumbarton Oaks will again offer an intensive four-week course in
medieval Greek and paleography in the early summer of 2010. A limited
number of places will be available for students from North America
and Europe .

Course Offerings

The principal course will be a daily 1 ½ hour session devoted to the
translation of sample Byzantine texts. Each week texts will be
selected from a different genre, e.g., historiography, hagiography,
poetry, and epistolography. Two afternoons a week hour-long sessions
on paleography will be held. In addition each student will receive a
minimum of one hour per week of individual tutorial. Students will
also have the opportunity to view facsimiles of manuscripts in the
Dumbarton Oaks Rare Books Collection, as well as original manuscripts
in the Byzantine
Collection. Thus approximately eleven hours per week will be devoted
to formal classroom instruction. It is anticipated that students will
require the remaining hours of the week to prepare their assignments.
If they should have extra time, they may conduct personal research in
the Dumbarton Oaks library.

Faculty

Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University/Dumbarto n Oaks; Alice-Mary
Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks

Accommodation and Costs

No tuition fees will be charged. Successful candidates from outside
the Washington area will be provided with housing in the guesthouse
at no cost and lunch on weekdays. Local area students will not be
offered accommodation, but will receive free lunch on weekdays.
Students are expected to cover their own transportation expenses.

Requirements for Admission

Applicants must be graduate students in a field of Byzantine studies
(or advanced undergraduates with a strong background in Greek) at a
North American or European university. Two years of college level
ancient Greek (or the equivalent) are a prerequisite; a diagnostic
test will be administered to finalist applicants before the final
selection of successful candidates is made.

Application Procedure

Applicants should send a letter by February 15, 2010, to Dr. Margaret
Mullett, Director of Byzantine Studies, describing their academic
background, career goals, previous study of Greek, and reasons for
wishing to attend the summer school. The application should also
include a curriculum vitae and a transcript of the graduate school or
undergraduate record. Two letters of recommendation should be sent
separately, one from the student's advisor, and one from an
instructor in Greek, assessing the candidate's present level of
competence in ancient or medieval Greek. Principles of selection will
include three considerations: previous meritorious achievement, need
for intensive study of Byzantine Greek, and future direction of
research. Awards will be announced in March 2010, and must be
accepted by April 1.

Please send all required materials to:

Dumbarton Oaks
Program in Byzantine Studies
1703 32nd Street, NW
Washington , DC 20007

Tel.: 202-339-6940 FAX: 202-298-8409, E-mail: Byzantine@doaks. org