SUMMER SCHOOL
SCHOOL OF CELTIC STUDIES,
DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
18-29 JULY 2011
Details of the Summer School are now available on our website
(http://www.celt.dias.ie).
The final date for registration is 31 January 2011.
SCOIL SHAMHRAIDH
SCOIL AN LÉINN CHEILTIGH
INSTITIÚID ARD-LÉINN BHAILE ÁTHA CLIATH:
18-29 IÚIL 2011.
Tá eolas faoin Scoil Shamhraidh anois ar fáil ar ár suíomh idirlín
(http://www.celt.dias.ie).
Is é an dáta deireanach le clárú a dhéanamh an 31 Eanáir 2011.
Iarrtar orthu siúd a gheobhaidh an fógra seo é a chóipeáil agus a
scaipeadh ar dhaoine eile a mbeadh spéis acu ina bhfuil ann.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Comitatus
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. Submissions should be in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
8-WEEK INTENSIVE GREEK AND LATIN SUMMER SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND
June 27th – August 18th 2011
Director of the Summer School: Dr Konstantin Doulamis
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/summerschool/
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277, email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html
June 27th – August 18th 2011
Director of the Summer School: Dr Konstantin Doulamis
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/summerschool/
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277, email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html
Within the conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies Neoplatonism in the East - ex oriente lux, to be held in Haifa, 22-24 March 2011, we invite abstract submissions for the panel session Platonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages :
The relationship between Platonism and Christianity, and philosophy and theology, in late antique and medieval thinkers has been a subject of a wide range of studies in modern scholarship. However, the positions on this issue are not as uniform as one might think. While one party argues that what happened was just a conventional use of Platonic features by Christian thinkers, the others seem to embrace a true interaction between Christian theology and platonic philosophy.
What did actually happen – was the Platonic element just a mere convenience as to the language and philosophical tools, or was there a genuine unification between Platonism and Christianity? Was the “collaboration” between the two limited to simple borrowings of linguistic and logical tools, or can there be traced an essential influence of one on another? These are the questions on which the papers included in this panel should try to elaborate.
Papers should be concentrated on, but not limited to, some of the following themes: relationship between philosophy and theology; specific authors (such as Augustine, Dionysius Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, etc.) and their use of (neo)platonic doctrines; the use of the same language by Platonists and Christians – similarities and differences; new shapes and meanings of Platonic doctrines in the Christian context…
Abstracts of no more than a single page should be sent to:
Filip Ivanovic
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim
The relationship between Platonism and Christianity, and philosophy and theology, in late antique and medieval thinkers has been a subject of a wide range of studies in modern scholarship. However, the positions on this issue are not as uniform as one might think. While one party argues that what happened was just a conventional use of Platonic features by Christian thinkers, the others seem to embrace a true interaction between Christian theology and platonic philosophy.
What did actually happen – was the Platonic element just a mere convenience as to the language and philosophical tools, or was there a genuine unification between Platonism and Christianity? Was the “collaboration” between the two limited to simple borrowings of linguistic and logical tools, or can there be traced an essential influence of one on another? These are the questions on which the papers included in this panel should try to elaborate.
Papers should be concentrated on, but not limited to, some of the following themes: relationship between philosophy and theology; specific authors (such as Augustine, Dionysius Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, etc.) and their use of (neo)platonic doctrines; the use of the same language by Platonists and Christians – similarities and differences; new shapes and meanings of Platonic doctrines in the Christian context…
Abstracts of no more than a single page should be sent to:
Filip Ivanovic
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim
Comitatus
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. Submissions should be in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
Call for Papers
Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year’s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.
Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
genealogies
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
gender roles
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
arranged marriages
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
sibling rivalry
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
language families
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
relationships
incest
polygamy
childbearing and childrearing
dynasties
Please send 300-word abstracts to pennmedieval@gmail.com by January 15, 2011
Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year’s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.
Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
genealogies
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
gender roles
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
arranged marriages
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
sibling rivalry
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
language families
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
relationships
incest
polygamy
childbearing and childrearing
dynasties
Please send 300-word abstracts to pennmedieval@gmail.com by January 15, 2011
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney (12-14 August 2011) Information & CFP
Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney (12-14 August 2011) Information & CFP
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA) 12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia
CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both fields.
For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/
email: antiqua2011@gmail.com
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA) 12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia
CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both fields.
For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/
email: antiqua2011@gmail.com
Thursday, December 2, 2010
SCRIPTO IV at Erlangen starts in May
SCRIPTO IV at Erlangen starts in May
The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely innovative course, at the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich-Alexander-University.
SCRIPTO is made up of a broad spectrum of subjects and offers the following courses:
- History and principles of cataloguing
- Text typology (philosophical and theological texts; literary texts; liturgy; music; law, medicine; medieval Latin)
- Book illumination (technology, stylistic history, illustrational typology, iconography); palaeography
- Codicology; incunabula studies
- Informatics (use and construction of databanks for the interpretation, drawing up and administration of information about manuscripts; preparation of printed catalogues).
SCRIPTO IV offers research seminars by Guglielmo Cavallo (La Sapienza, Rome), Nicole Bériou (IRHT, Paris) and Rudolf Gamper (Vadiana St Gall).
The German Manuscript Centres in Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart and Wolfenbüttel are supportive of the SCRIPTO programme.
SCRIPTO sessions will take place in Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek), Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek) and Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) at a fee of 1080 € (which includes travel and accommodations for seminars outside of Erlangen (Munich; four days in Prague; Wolfenbüttel) per participant. Further information may be obtained online:
http://www.mittellatein.phil.uni-erlangen.de/scripto/scripto.html
SCRIPTO IV will run from 2 May 2011 until 13 July 2011. Applicants should write enclosing a full CV to:
Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Mittellatein und Neulatein
Kochstr. 4/3
D-91054 Erlangen (Germany)
The application deadline is 4 April 2011. The language of instruction is German. Foreign participants, however, will be able to take German language courses at Friedrich-Alexander-University if they so wish. They should mention this in their application.
Those applicants accepted for the course will be charged 1080 € Euros and will receive a document stating the terms of agreement and detailed information about the course, including the timetable.
The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely innovative course, at the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich-Alexander-University.
SCRIPTO is made up of a broad spectrum of subjects and offers the following courses:
- History and principles of cataloguing
- Text typology (philosophical and theological texts; literary texts; liturgy; music; law, medicine; medieval Latin)
- Book illumination (technology, stylistic history, illustrational typology, iconography); palaeography
- Codicology; incunabula studies
- Informatics (use and construction of databanks for the interpretation, drawing up and administration of information about manuscripts; preparation of printed catalogues).
SCRIPTO IV offers research seminars by Guglielmo Cavallo (La Sapienza, Rome), Nicole Bériou (IRHT, Paris) and Rudolf Gamper (Vadiana St Gall).
The German Manuscript Centres in Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart and Wolfenbüttel are supportive of the SCRIPTO programme.
SCRIPTO sessions will take place in Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek), Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek) and Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) at a fee of 1080 € (which includes travel and accommodations for seminars outside of Erlangen (Munich; four days in Prague; Wolfenbüttel) per participant. Further information may be obtained online:
http://www.mittellatein.phil.uni-erlangen.de/scripto/scripto.html
SCRIPTO IV will run from 2 May 2011 until 13 July 2011. Applicants should write enclosing a full CV to:
Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Mittellatein und Neulatein
Kochstr. 4/3
D-91054 Erlangen (Germany)
The application deadline is 4 April 2011. The language of instruction is German. Foreign participants, however, will be able to take German language courses at Friedrich-Alexander-University if they so wish. They should mention this in their application.
Those applicants accepted for the course will be charged 1080 € Euros and will receive a document stating the terms of agreement and detailed information about the course, including the timetable.
Newberry Library Symposium
Newberry Library Symposium
Mechanisms of Exchange: Transmission, Scale, and Interaction in the Arts and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean, 1000 to 1500
Friday, February 25, 2011
Organized by Heather E. Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Alicia Walker, Washington University in St. Louis
This symposium will bring together scholars working in art and architectural history to consider the mechanisms of cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean world and specifically the question of how styles, motifs, and techniques were transmitted in the architecture and the monumental arts versus the portable arts. Speakers include specialists in western European, Islamic, and Byzantine art and architectural history.
Preliminary program:
"Conveyance and Convergence: Painting and Architecture in Lusignan Cyprus"
Justine M. Andrews, University of New Mexico
"Coveting Greciscos: Byzantine Cloth and the Luxury Textile Market in Early Medieval Iberia"
Maria J. Feliciano, University of Washington
“Art and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean following 1204. Byzantium diluted or rejuvenated?”
Maria Georgopoulou, Gennadius Library, Athens
"Drawing, Memory, and Imagination in the Wolfenbüttel Musterbuch"
Ludovico V. Geymonat, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
“Translating Texts and Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean World between the Tenth through Thirteenth Centuries”
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts University
"Imported versus Native Medicine in a Thirteenth-Century Grave"
Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
"Portable Palaces? On the Circulation of People, Objects, and Ideas in Medieval Anatolia"
Scott Redford, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul
The symposium will conclude with a roundtable discussion. Audience participation in the conversation will be warmly welcomed.
Registration
While there is no fee to attend this program, participants must register in advance with the Newberry Library.
Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions are eligible to apply for travel funds to attend this event. Contact your Representative Council member for details.
Mechanisms of Exchange: Transmission, Scale, and Interaction in the Arts and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean, 1000 to 1500
Friday, February 25, 2011
Organized by Heather E. Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Alicia Walker, Washington University in St. Louis
This symposium will bring together scholars working in art and architectural history to consider the mechanisms of cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean world and specifically the question of how styles, motifs, and techniques were transmitted in the architecture and the monumental arts versus the portable arts. Speakers include specialists in western European, Islamic, and Byzantine art and architectural history.
Preliminary program:
"Conveyance and Convergence: Painting and Architecture in Lusignan Cyprus"
Justine M. Andrews, University of New Mexico
"Coveting Greciscos: Byzantine Cloth and the Luxury Textile Market in Early Medieval Iberia"
Maria J. Feliciano, University of Washington
“Art and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean following 1204. Byzantium diluted or rejuvenated?”
Maria Georgopoulou, Gennadius Library, Athens
"Drawing, Memory, and Imagination in the Wolfenbüttel Musterbuch"
Ludovico V. Geymonat, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
“Translating Texts and Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean World between the Tenth through Thirteenth Centuries”
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts University
"Imported versus Native Medicine in a Thirteenth-Century Grave"
Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
"Portable Palaces? On the Circulation of People, Objects, and Ideas in Medieval Anatolia"
Scott Redford, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul
The symposium will conclude with a roundtable discussion. Audience participation in the conversation will be warmly welcomed.
Registration
While there is no fee to attend this program, participants must register in advance with the Newberry Library.
Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions are eligible to apply for travel funds to attend this event. Contact your Representative Council member for details.
The Sons of Constantine
The Sons of Constantine
A one-day colloquium at Cardiff University
Date: 19th January 2011, 10am-5pm
Place: Room 2.03, Humanities Building, Colum Drive
Provisional Programme:
Nicholas Baker-Brian, Rehabilitating Constantius II: Ancient and Modern Views
Jill Harries, Constans the Hunter: A Late Roman Murder Mystery
Mark Humphries, The Year 350
Michael Saxby, The Coinage of Constantine I and his Sons: Symbols of Power
Alexander Skinner, Constantius II and the Senate of Constantinople
Shaun Tougher, Imperial Blood: Family Relationships in the Dynasty of
Constantine the Great
If you wish to attend please confirm by e-mail to either:
Baker-BrianNJ1@cardiff.ac.uk or TougherSF@cardiff.ac.uk
Dr Shaun Tougher
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History
Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
Wales
UK
A one-day colloquium at Cardiff University
Date: 19th January 2011, 10am-5pm
Place: Room 2.03, Humanities Building, Colum Drive
Provisional Programme:
Nicholas Baker-Brian, Rehabilitating Constantius II: Ancient and Modern Views
Jill Harries, Constans the Hunter: A Late Roman Murder Mystery
Mark Humphries, The Year 350
Michael Saxby, The Coinage of Constantine I and his Sons: Symbols of Power
Alexander Skinner, Constantius II and the Senate of Constantinople
Shaun Tougher, Imperial Blood: Family Relationships in the Dynasty of
Constantine the Great
If you wish to attend please confirm by e-mail to either:
Baker-BrianNJ1@cardiff.ac.uk or TougherSF@cardiff.ac.uk
Dr Shaun Tougher
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History
Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
Wales
UK
MAKING HISTORIES The Sixth International Insular Art Conference
MAKING HISTORIES
The Sixth International Insular Art Conference
University of York
July 18-22, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
The art of the insular world has been the focus of specific study through the International Insular
Art Conference meetings for over 25 years. The result has been a body of scholarship that has
advanced our understanding of the material on many fronts. The forthcoming Conference aims
to continue this trend, by addressing the various ways in which the art, in all media, can be
understood, as well as the ways in which that understanding itself has been constructed.
‘Making Histories’ thus invites papers that consider the processes involved in ‘making art’ (in
the broadest sense) in the early medieval, insular, world, as well as those that consider the
historical legacy of the scholarship on that art.
Abstracts of 350 words should be submitted to Dr Jane Hawkes (jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk) by 15
December, 2010.
Further queries should be address to: Dr Jane Hawkes
Department of History of Art
University of York
York YO10 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 434620
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433478
E-mail: jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk
The Sixth International Insular Art Conference
University of York
July 18-22, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
The art of the insular world has been the focus of specific study through the International Insular
Art Conference meetings for over 25 years. The result has been a body of scholarship that has
advanced our understanding of the material on many fronts. The forthcoming Conference aims
to continue this trend, by addressing the various ways in which the art, in all media, can be
understood, as well as the ways in which that understanding itself has been constructed.
‘Making Histories’ thus invites papers that consider the processes involved in ‘making art’ (in
the broadest sense) in the early medieval, insular, world, as well as those that consider the
historical legacy of the scholarship on that art.
Abstracts of 350 words should be submitted to Dr Jane Hawkes (jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk) by 15
December, 2010.
Further queries should be address to: Dr Jane Hawkes
Department of History of Art
University of York
York YO10 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 434620
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433478
E-mail: jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk
Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: From Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion
7-8 January 2011. “Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: From Justinian
I to the Coeur de Lion,” an International Conference to be held at
CAARI (the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute) in
Nicosia, Cyprus. This event will commemorate the 50th year
anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus and the researchers who have
endeavored to study its Byzantine history. An international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars will present on current knowledge
of Byzantine archaeology and art history on Cyprus.
Attendance is free and open to the Public. Program is attached.
For more information contact:
Ms. Vathoulla Moustoukki,
C A A R I
11 Andrea Demitriou Street
1066 Nicosia, Cyprus
Email: admin@caari.org.cy
I to the Coeur de Lion,” an International Conference to be held at
CAARI (the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute) in
Nicosia, Cyprus. This event will commemorate the 50th year
anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus and the researchers who have
endeavored to study its Byzantine history. An international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars will present on current knowledge
of Byzantine archaeology and art history on Cyprus.
Attendance is free and open to the Public. Program is attached.
For more information contact:
Ms. Vathoulla Moustoukki,
C A A R I
11 Andrea Demitriou Street
1066 Nicosia, Cyprus
Email: admin@caari.org.cy
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA)
12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia
CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from
Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars
interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the
ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded
significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier
centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now
beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that
historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build
systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of
historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary
value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in
the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this
conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern
historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both
fields.
For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/
email: antiqua2011@gmail.com
12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia
CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from
Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars
interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the
ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded
significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier
centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now
beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that
historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build
systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of
historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary
value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in
the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this
conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern
historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both
fields.
For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/
email: antiqua2011@gmail.com
CFP: Conference: Graduate Students: Paper Prize
To all graduate students in medieval studies (in any discipline):
The Jim Falls paper prize is awarded each year to the best paper
given by a graduate student at the Mid-American Medieval Association
meeting.
In order to be considered for the prize, graduate students must first
submit an abstract to the conference and have it accepted by the
program committee. (See below and on the MAMA website for more
info.) Then, the paper itself - 20-minute maximum, so the actual
conference paper not an article or chapter -- must be submitted
electronically to Dr. Shona Kelly Wray by February 1, 2011. Her
email is wrays@umkc.edu.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference XXXV: Medieval Recycling
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University,
"Recycling the Troubadours: Quotation and the Development of European Poetry"
February 26, 2011 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Deadline for one-page abstracts is December 15, 2010
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its
annual conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference
topic or any medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers,
with or without a chairperson - are also welcome.)
MEDIEVAL RECYCLING:
The medieval world saw the creative recycling of ideas, images,
materials and practices from classical antiquity and elsewhere
throughout the span of a thousand years. We would like for this
conference to explore the re-use and re-imagining of both material
objects and ideas in a variety of domains, from things like tropes
and citations used in texts and charters, to the copying of images,
to the re-using of materials such as parchment (for instance, the
discoveries found in things like palimpsests and binding fragments),
architectural elements, or building materials. Other possible ways
to think about the topic might include focusing on the transmission
of ideas or techniques through different cultural lenses and
perspectives.
Send a one-page abstract by December 15 to:
Dr. Kathy M. Krause
Email: KrauseK@umkc.edu
Fax: 816-235-1312
The Jim Falls paper prize is awarded each year to the best paper
given by a graduate student at the Mid-American Medieval Association
meeting.
In order to be considered for the prize, graduate students must first
submit an abstract to the conference and have it accepted by the
program committee. (See below and on the MAMA website for more
info.) Then, the paper itself - 20-minute maximum, so the actual
conference paper not an article or chapter -- must be submitted
electronically to Dr. Shona Kelly Wray by February 1, 2011. Her
email is wrays@umkc.edu.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference XXXV: Medieval Recycling
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University,
"Recycling the Troubadours: Quotation and the Development of European Poetry"
February 26, 2011 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Deadline for one-page abstracts is December 15, 2010
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its
annual conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference
topic or any medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers,
with or without a chairperson - are also welcome.)
MEDIEVAL RECYCLING:
The medieval world saw the creative recycling of ideas, images,
materials and practices from classical antiquity and elsewhere
throughout the span of a thousand years. We would like for this
conference to explore the re-use and re-imagining of both material
objects and ideas in a variety of domains, from things like tropes
and citations used in texts and charters, to the copying of images,
to the re-using of materials such as parchment (for instance, the
discoveries found in things like palimpsests and binding fragments),
architectural elements, or building materials. Other possible ways
to think about the topic might include focusing on the transmission
of ideas or techniques through different cultural lenses and
perspectives.
Send a one-page abstract by December 15 to:
Dr. Kathy M. Krause
Email: KrauseK@umkc.edu
Fax: 816-235-1312
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Ordo 8th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society - Paris CALL FOR PAPERS
Ordo
8th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society - Paris
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dates: 30 June – 2 July 2011
Location: Paris, France
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2011
The International Medieval Society in Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions
for its 2011 Symposium organized around the theme of ordo in medieval
France.
In the Middle Ages the Latin term, ordo, designated all kind of
concepts for classifying realities or ideas. Divine order as well as
various human ordines created a certain stability which had to be
reaffirmed time and again in order to retain its validity. Social,
ideal, iconographic and other orders were established, maintained,
and sometimes overturned, but even then the order had to be invoked.
What are these orders, these ways of thinking and ordering?
Particular emphasis will be placed on the question of knowing how
this medieval knowledge was ordered and classified.
We welcome papers on the following topics, and others:
• ordering, arranging, classifying
• organisation and reorganisation of knowledge
• envisioning an ordo and visual/pictorial strategies
• divine ordo and human ordines
• liturgical ordo and secular order
• musical ordo
Papers should focus on France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul, but are
not limited exclusively to this geographical area.
We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines including, but
not limited to, anthropology, history, urban history, history of
science and medicine, art history, gender studies, literary studies,
musicology, philosophy, religious sciences, and theology.
Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute
paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 15
January 2011.
In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information,
a CV and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required
for your presentation.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2011. The IMS will
review submissions and respond via e-mail by 1 February 2011. Titles
of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web site.
Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel
costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for
students, free for IMS members).
The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English)
organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who
research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information
about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see
our website: www.ims-paris.org.
IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize
This year the IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best
graduate student paper proposal. Applications should consist of:
1) Symposium paper abstract/proposal,
2) current research project (Ph.D. dissertation research),
3) names and contact information of two academic references.
The prizewinner will be determined by the board and a committee of
honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the
Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international
travel/accommodations (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the
Symposium.
Ordo
8e symposium annuel de la Société Internationale des Médiévistes - Paris
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Dates : 30 juin – 2 juillet 2011
Lieu : Paris, France
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 15 janvier 2011
La Société Internationale des Médiévistes de Paris (IMS-Paris)
sollicite l’envoi de communications et de thèmes de sessions
complètes pour son colloque 2011 portant sur le thème d’ordo dans la
France médiévale.
Le terme latin d’ordo désigne au moyen âge toutes sortes de concepts
visant à classer différentes réalités ou idées. L’ordre divin, mais
aussi les différents ordines humains créaient ainsi une stabilité qui
devait être réaffirmée de temps en temps afin de garder sa vigueur.
Un ordre social, idéel, iconographique etc. était établi, préservé et
parfois renversé, mais il fallait alors l’évoquer. Quels sont ces
ordres, ces façons de penser et d’ordonner ? Un accent particulier
sera mis sur la question de savoir comment ce savoir médiéval était
ordonné et classé.
Nous accueillerons volontiers des interventions sur les sujets
suivants ou autres :
• Ordonner, ranger, classer
• Organisation et réorganisation du savoir
• La visualisation d’un ordo et les strategies visuelles
• Ordo divin et ordines humains
• Ordo liturgique et ordre profane
• Ordo musical
Les contributions doivent porter sur la France, la Francie, ou la
Gaule post-romaine, sans être exclusivement limitées à cette aire
géographique. Nous encourageons les propositions de communications
provenant de disciplines variées comme l’anthropologie, l’histoire,
l’histoire urbaine, l’histoire des sciences et de la médecine,
l’histoire de l’art, les « gender studies », les études littéraires,
la linguistique, la musicologie, la philosophie, les sciences
religieuses, la théologie…
Les résumés de 300 mots maximum pour une communication de 20 minutes
devront être addressées par courriel à contact@ims-paris.org au plus
tard le 15 janvier 2011. Merci d’inclure également vos coordonnées
complètes, un CV, et une liste indicative de tout équipement
audiovisuel nécessaire pour votre présentation.
La date limite pour l’envoi des résumés de communication est le 15
janvier 2011. L’IMS-Paris examinera les propositions et fera
connaître sa réponse par courriel au 1er février 2011. Les titres des
communications retenues seront disponibles sur le site internet de
l’IMS. Les auteurs dont les communications auront été retenues
prendront en charge leurs dépenses personnelles de voyage et leurs
frais d’inscription au colloque (35 € par personne, tarif réduit pour
les étudiants, gratuit pour les membres de l’IMS).
L’IMS-Paris est une association interdisciplinaire et bilingue
(français-anglais) créée pour favoriser les échanges entre les
médiévistes qui effectuent des recherches, travaillent ou étudient en
France. Pour plus d’informations sur l’IMS et le calendrier des
colloques des années passées, merci de consulter notre site internet:
www.ims-paris.org
SIM-Paris Prix pour doctorants
Cette année la Société Internationale des Médiévistes (Paris) propose
un prix qui sera décerné pour la meilleure proposition de
communication par un(e) doctorant(e). Le dossier de candidature
consistera en
1) la proposition de communication,
2) une esquisse du projet de recherche actuel (thèse de doctorat),
3) les noms et coordonnées de deux références universitaires.
Le lauréat sera choisi par le bureau de la SIM et un comité de
membres honoraires ; il en sera informé dès l’acceptation de sa
proposition. Une prime de 150 euro pour défrayer une partie des coûts
de transport et d’hébergement à Paris depuis la France (350 euros
depuis l’étranger) lui sera versée lors du Symposium.
8th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society - Paris
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dates: 30 June – 2 July 2011
Location: Paris, France
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2011
The International Medieval Society in Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions
for its 2011 Symposium organized around the theme of ordo in medieval
France.
In the Middle Ages the Latin term, ordo, designated all kind of
concepts for classifying realities or ideas. Divine order as well as
various human ordines created a certain stability which had to be
reaffirmed time and again in order to retain its validity. Social,
ideal, iconographic and other orders were established, maintained,
and sometimes overturned, but even then the order had to be invoked.
What are these orders, these ways of thinking and ordering?
Particular emphasis will be placed on the question of knowing how
this medieval knowledge was ordered and classified.
We welcome papers on the following topics, and others:
• ordering, arranging, classifying
• organisation and reorganisation of knowledge
• envisioning an ordo and visual/pictorial strategies
• divine ordo and human ordines
• liturgical ordo and secular order
• musical ordo
Papers should focus on France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul, but are
not limited exclusively to this geographical area.
We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines including, but
not limited to, anthropology, history, urban history, history of
science and medicine, art history, gender studies, literary studies,
musicology, philosophy, religious sciences, and theology.
Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute
paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 15
January 2011.
In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information,
a CV and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required
for your presentation.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2011. The IMS will
review submissions and respond via e-mail by 1 February 2011. Titles
of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web site.
Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel
costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for
students, free for IMS members).
The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English)
organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who
research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information
about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see
our website: www.ims-paris.org.
IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize
This year the IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best
graduate student paper proposal. Applications should consist of:
1) Symposium paper abstract/proposal,
2) current research project (Ph.D. dissertation research),
3) names and contact information of two academic references.
The prizewinner will be determined by the board and a committee of
honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the
Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international
travel/accommodations (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the
Symposium.
Ordo
8e symposium annuel de la Société Internationale des Médiévistes - Paris
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Dates : 30 juin – 2 juillet 2011
Lieu : Paris, France
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 15 janvier 2011
La Société Internationale des Médiévistes de Paris (IMS-Paris)
sollicite l’envoi de communications et de thèmes de sessions
complètes pour son colloque 2011 portant sur le thème d’ordo dans la
France médiévale.
Le terme latin d’ordo désigne au moyen âge toutes sortes de concepts
visant à classer différentes réalités ou idées. L’ordre divin, mais
aussi les différents ordines humains créaient ainsi une stabilité qui
devait être réaffirmée de temps en temps afin de garder sa vigueur.
Un ordre social, idéel, iconographique etc. était établi, préservé et
parfois renversé, mais il fallait alors l’évoquer. Quels sont ces
ordres, ces façons de penser et d’ordonner ? Un accent particulier
sera mis sur la question de savoir comment ce savoir médiéval était
ordonné et classé.
Nous accueillerons volontiers des interventions sur les sujets
suivants ou autres :
• Ordonner, ranger, classer
• Organisation et réorganisation du savoir
• La visualisation d’un ordo et les strategies visuelles
• Ordo divin et ordines humains
• Ordo liturgique et ordre profane
• Ordo musical
Les contributions doivent porter sur la France, la Francie, ou la
Gaule post-romaine, sans être exclusivement limitées à cette aire
géographique. Nous encourageons les propositions de communications
provenant de disciplines variées comme l’anthropologie, l’histoire,
l’histoire urbaine, l’histoire des sciences et de la médecine,
l’histoire de l’art, les « gender studies », les études littéraires,
la linguistique, la musicologie, la philosophie, les sciences
religieuses, la théologie…
Les résumés de 300 mots maximum pour une communication de 20 minutes
devront être addressées par courriel à contact@ims-paris.org au plus
tard le 15 janvier 2011. Merci d’inclure également vos coordonnées
complètes, un CV, et une liste indicative de tout équipement
audiovisuel nécessaire pour votre présentation.
La date limite pour l’envoi des résumés de communication est le 15
janvier 2011. L’IMS-Paris examinera les propositions et fera
connaître sa réponse par courriel au 1er février 2011. Les titres des
communications retenues seront disponibles sur le site internet de
l’IMS. Les auteurs dont les communications auront été retenues
prendront en charge leurs dépenses personnelles de voyage et leurs
frais d’inscription au colloque (35 € par personne, tarif réduit pour
les étudiants, gratuit pour les membres de l’IMS).
L’IMS-Paris est une association interdisciplinaire et bilingue
(français-anglais) créée pour favoriser les échanges entre les
médiévistes qui effectuent des recherches, travaillent ou étudient en
France. Pour plus d’informations sur l’IMS et le calendrier des
colloques des années passées, merci de consulter notre site internet:
www.ims-paris.org
SIM-Paris Prix pour doctorants
Cette année la Société Internationale des Médiévistes (Paris) propose
un prix qui sera décerné pour la meilleure proposition de
communication par un(e) doctorant(e). Le dossier de candidature
consistera en
1) la proposition de communication,
2) une esquisse du projet de recherche actuel (thèse de doctorat),
3) les noms et coordonnées de deux références universitaires.
Le lauréat sera choisi par le bureau de la SIM et un comité de
membres honoraires ; il en sera informé dès l’acceptation de sa
proposition. Une prime de 150 euro pour défrayer une partie des coûts
de transport et d’hébergement à Paris depuis la France (350 euros
depuis l’étranger) lui sera versée lors du Symposium.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Jim Falls Paper Prize
Attention Graduate Students,
papers accepted for the 35th Mid-America Medieval Conference can be
submitted for the Jim Falls Paper Prize. Send an electronic copy of
your presentation--it MUST fit within the 20-minute time
limit--including university affiliation and degree program to me, the
Treasurer-Secretary of MAMA by February 1, 2011. Don't forget the CFP
deadline is December 15, 2010 (copied below). See the MAMA website
for a list of previous winners and more information on MAMA 35.
papers accepted for the 35th Mid-America Medieval Conference can be
submitted for the Jim Falls Paper Prize. Send an electronic copy of
your presentation--it MUST fit within the 20-minute time
limit--including university affiliation and degree program to me, the
Treasurer-Secretary of MAMA by February 1, 2011. Don't forget the CFP
deadline is December 15, 2010 (copied below). See the MAMA website
for a list of previous winners and more information on MAMA 35.
Latin and Greek in the Summer
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school
for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses
are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines
who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for
further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like
to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar
and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/summ_sch.html
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College
Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277,
email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses
are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines
who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for
further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like
to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar
and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/summ_sch.html
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College
Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277,
email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The 11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals that engage broadly with the notion of community. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions ranging in historical focus from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Our topic is intended to be expansive rather than limiting; papers may conceive of community as a social, economic, intellectual, political, religious, ethnic, regional, or familial entity. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: patronage, readership and interpretive practice, scientific or medical communities, family and kinship, faith communities, identity and subjectivity, membership and exclusion, manuscripts and printing, relations within or between groups, or the rhetoric of community.
This interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 18 and 19, 2011. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Deborah McGrady, professor of French at the University of Virginia and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, delivering a paper on French patronage and literary production during the Hundred Years War. The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies is a cooperative venture between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.
The time limit for essays is 20 minutes. Paper proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted to ncmems@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010.
This interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 18 and 19, 2011. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Deborah McGrady, professor of French at the University of Virginia and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, delivering a paper on French patronage and literary production during the Hundred Years War. The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies is a cooperative venture between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.
The time limit for essays is 20 minutes. Paper proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted to ncmems@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010.
IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM
ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS - LUICD Graduate Conference 2011
Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines
27 and 28 January 2011
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
University
THE CONFERENCE
‘Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique’. Otto von Bismarck's
elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander
Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted
statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a
geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more
often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere
geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul
Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with ‘a consciousness
acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of
the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical
coincidences’. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different
representations. Europe has always signified different things to different
people in different places – inside Europe as well as outside. Europe
meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l’aubergiste
d’Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a
century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today.
This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been
imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from
classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the
historical range of the LUICD’s three research programmes (Classics and
Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and
Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the
institute’s research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic
perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular
attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these
images were created and the media and genres in which they have been
presented.
Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing
perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore
the notion of similarity – are there any aspects that keep recurring in
the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically
European?
The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the
humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands
and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and
interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that
Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our
invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions
during the conference.
PROPOSALS
The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s
interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes
proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the
humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The
conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe
(from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working
in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to
submit a proposal.
Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual
and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-
colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues.
Questions that could be raised include: how did (and do) oppositions such
as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old
versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe? What role
does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions? What
ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept
of Europe? In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism
compete with identity formation on a continental level? How have
individual artists represented Europe? How do different (literary) genres,
such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a
particular image of Europe or Europe’s relations with other cultures? Is
it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing
perceptions of Europe? How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the
changing identity of Europe today?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to
C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl . The deadline for the proposals is 1 November
2010 – you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected
before 15 November 2010.
After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or
in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.
A conference website ( http://hum.leiden.edu/icd/imagining-europe ), with
more information about the programme, speakers, accommodation and other
conference matters, will be launched later this autumn, but if you have
any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not
hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address.
The organizing committee:
Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas
ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS - LUICD Graduate Conference 2011
Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines
27 and 28 January 2011
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
University
THE CONFERENCE
‘Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique’. Otto von Bismarck's
elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander
Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted
statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a
geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more
often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere
geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul
Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with ‘a consciousness
acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of
the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical
coincidences’. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different
representations. Europe has always signified different things to different
people in different places – inside Europe as well as outside. Europe
meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l’aubergiste
d’Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a
century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today.
This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been
imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from
classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the
historical range of the LUICD’s three research programmes (Classics and
Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and
Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the
institute’s research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic
perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular
attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these
images were created and the media and genres in which they have been
presented.
Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing
perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore
the notion of similarity – are there any aspects that keep recurring in
the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically
European?
The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the
humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands
and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and
interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that
Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our
invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions
during the conference.
PROPOSALS
The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s
interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes
proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the
humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The
conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe
(from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working
in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to
submit a proposal.
Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual
and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-
colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues.
Questions that could be raised include: how did (and do) oppositions such
as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old
versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe? What role
does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions? What
ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept
of Europe? In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism
compete with identity formation on a continental level? How have
individual artists represented Europe? How do different (literary) genres,
such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a
particular image of Europe or Europe’s relations with other cultures? Is
it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing
perceptions of Europe? How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the
changing identity of Europe today?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to
C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl . The deadline for the proposals is 1 November
2010 – you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected
before 15 November 2010.
After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or
in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.
A conference website ( http://hum.leiden.edu/icd/imagining-europe ), with
more information about the programme, speakers, accommodation and other
conference matters, will be launched later this autumn, but if you have
any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not
hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address.
The organizing committee:
Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas
Sixth North American Syriac Symposium
Duke University is hosting the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium on
June 26-29, 2011. Information can be found at the following link:
http://syriacsymposium.trinity.duke.edu/
The organizing committee now invites paper proposals on any topic in the
field of Syriac studies. Standard papers are 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10
minutes discussion). Paper proposals will be accepted until January 1,
2011, but early submissions are very much encouraged. To submit a paper
proposal, please use the form on the website.
The website also contains information about Registration and Travel &
Lodging.
June 26-29, 2011. Information can be found at the following link:
http://syriacsymposium.trinity.duke.edu/
The organizing committee now invites paper proposals on any topic in the
field of Syriac studies. Standard papers are 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10
minutes discussion). Paper proposals will be accepted until January 1,
2011, but early submissions are very much encouraged. To submit a paper
proposal, please use the form on the website.
The website also contains information about Registration and Travel &
Lodging.
PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V
PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V
INFIRMITAS
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CURE, CARING AND HEALTH
August 23 – 26, 2012
Call for Papers
University of Tampere, Finland
Department of History and Philosophy
Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the
Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health
and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability.
These topics are of major importance for communities and societies
both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still
fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are
rare.
We welcome papers which focus on different actors – institutions,
communities, families or individuals – and have a sensitive approach
to social differences: gender, age and status. Thus, the focus lies
on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and
similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the
expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the
practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental
disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social
consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in
caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families,
communities and in society? We aim not to concentrate on medical or
technical aspects of health and illness, but rather to integrate them
in a larger social and cultural context.
The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but
also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and
Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions having
themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective.
If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out
thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your
contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by
e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi. The
deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2011, and the notification
of paper acceptance will be made in November 2011. Conference papers
may be presented in major scientific languages, however supplied with
English summary or translation if the language of presentation is not
English. The registration fee is 100 € (post-graduate students: 50 €).
For further information, please visit
http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or contact the organizers by
e-mailing to passages@uta.fi. The registration opens in November 2011.
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Katariina Mustakallio, Dr. Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa and Dr. Ville Vuolanto
INFIRMITAS
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CURE, CARING AND HEALTH
August 23 – 26, 2012
Call for Papers
University of Tampere, Finland
Department of History and Philosophy
Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the
Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health
and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability.
These topics are of major importance for communities and societies
both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still
fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are
rare.
We welcome papers which focus on different actors – institutions,
communities, families or individuals – and have a sensitive approach
to social differences: gender, age and status. Thus, the focus lies
on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and
similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the
expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the
practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental
disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social
consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in
caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families,
communities and in society? We aim not to concentrate on medical or
technical aspects of health and illness, but rather to integrate them
in a larger social and cultural context.
The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but
also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and
Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions having
themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective.
If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out
thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your
contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by
e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi. The
deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2011, and the notification
of paper acceptance will be made in November 2011. Conference papers
may be presented in major scientific languages, however supplied with
English summary or translation if the language of presentation is not
English. The registration fee is 100 € (post-graduate students: 50 €).
For further information, please visit
http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or contact the organizers by
e-mailing to passages@uta.fi. The registration opens in November 2011.
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Katariina Mustakallio, Dr. Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa and Dr. Ville Vuolanto
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
New HA Issue and Share postmedieval cluster
It is with very great pleasure that I announce the publication of The Heroic Age Issue 14.1! This issue marks a number of rather exciting firsts. It is the first, so far as I know, joint publication of a shared cluster of essays between two different organizations, with two different emphases in the field, in two different formats (one entirely online and the other chiefly [though not exclusively] in print. For us at HA it is also the first of a series of new practices: in this case, guest editors putting together a section of essays in their areas of expertise. In this inaugural issue, we have Eileen Joy of postmedieval and the Babel Working Group has put together a cluster of essays published in both HA and in postmedieval: Essays by Elaine Treharne, Gillian Overing and Clare Lees, and Mary Dockray-Miller appear in HA at http://www.heroicage.org. At the Palgrave website for a limited time, essays appearing in the postmedieval authored by Jacqueli!
ne A Stodnick and Renée R Trilling , Kathleen Davis, Carol Braun Pasternack, and Lisa M. C. Weston and appear at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/v1/n3/index.html#Critical-exchange-II:-The-State-of-Early-English-Studies-(Editor:-Eileen-A.-Joy). In addition, John Sodeberg contributes the first of a new column for us in the field of late antique/early medieval archaeology.
Another first for HA is that we have an embarrassment of riches. So we have split the issue slightly in order to give each section its due and recognize each set of authors for their excellent work. 14.2 which will appear later this month is guest edited by Andrew Rabin on Anglo-Saxon Law. We are pleased to have Kathryn Powell, Lisa Oliver, Nathan Breen, Jay Paul Gates, Rebecca Brackman, Daniela Fruscione. Along with these fine articles, we are quite pleased to have a review essay by Marijane Osborn. A full table of contents is available at: http://www.heroicage.org/issues/14/toc.php
I'd like to thank Deanna Forsman, Eileen Joy, Andrew Rabin, and Brad Eden for their hard work in helping all this come to fruition. I would also like to mention and thank Bill Hamilton, Kris Vetter, and Heather Flowers for editing and copy editing; without them performing this task, this issue would not appear. Thank you all. I hope you, the reader enjoy the issue(s), and as always, commentary is welcome.
ne A Stodnick and Renée R Trilling , Kathleen Davis, Carol Braun Pasternack, and Lisa M. C. Weston and appear at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/v1/n3/index.html#Critical-exchange-II:-The-State-of-Early-English-Studies-(Editor:-Eileen-A.-Joy). In addition, John Sodeberg contributes the first of a new column for us in the field of late antique/early medieval archaeology.
Another first for HA is that we have an embarrassment of riches. So we have split the issue slightly in order to give each section its due and recognize each set of authors for their excellent work. 14.2 which will appear later this month is guest edited by Andrew Rabin on Anglo-Saxon Law. We are pleased to have Kathryn Powell, Lisa Oliver, Nathan Breen, Jay Paul Gates, Rebecca Brackman, Daniela Fruscione. Along with these fine articles, we are quite pleased to have a review essay by Marijane Osborn. A full table of contents is available at: http://www.heroicage.org/issues/14/toc.php
I'd like to thank Deanna Forsman, Eileen Joy, Andrew Rabin, and Brad Eden for their hard work in helping all this come to fruition. I would also like to mention and thank Bill Hamilton, Kris Vetter, and Heather Flowers for editing and copy editing; without them performing this task, this issue would not appear. Thank you all. I hope you, the reader enjoy the issue(s), and as always, commentary is welcome.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK—TEXTS AND RECEPTION
I am pleased to announce that the 9th Annual Comitatus Graduate
Student Medieval Conference will be held at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, on Feb 4th-5th, 2011.
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK—TEXTS AND RECEPTION
9th Comitatus Graduate Conference on Medieval Studies, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 4-5th, 2011.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Graduate Student Organization,
is pleased to announce its ninth annual Graduate Conference on
Medieval Studies to be held on February 4-5, 2011. The theme of this
year’s conference is "The History of the Book: Texts and Reception,"
and it will feature a keynote address from Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, The
Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Kerby-Fulton has written many works on manuscript studies, religious
writers and visionaries, and textual reception, and is author of
_Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing
in Late Medieval England_ (Winner of the 2007 Snow Prize from the
North American Conference on British Studies, as well as the Medieval
Academy of America Haskins Gold Medal in 2010).
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of the
history of the book and its reception in the medieval to the early
modern period. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. Textual studies of manuscripts and early printed books
2. The material culture surrounding the text
3. The history of textual dissemination and its impact
4. The contents of libraries
5. Textual illuminations, artwork, and its relationship to text
6. Cultural support for literary production
7. The relationship between the text and the reader
8. Reception theory
9. Book or textual fetishism
10. Trust in the written record
11. Religious and secular theories of the book
12. The social life of texts
13. Marginalia and glosses
14. Medieval literacy and the text
15. Sponsored educational and literacy programs and the use of the text
16. Renaissances and renewals, and their impact on readers and texts
17. Political uses for the text and literacy
18. Writing and memory
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to
cjudkins@purdue.edu by Dec. 1st, 2010.
Please see http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~comitatu/conference.html for
further details and for registration.
Student Medieval Conference will be held at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, on Feb 4th-5th, 2011.
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK—TEXTS AND RECEPTION
9th Comitatus Graduate Conference on Medieval Studies, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 4-5th, 2011.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Graduate Student Organization,
is pleased to announce its ninth annual Graduate Conference on
Medieval Studies to be held on February 4-5, 2011. The theme of this
year’s conference is "The History of the Book: Texts and Reception,"
and it will feature a keynote address from Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, The
Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Kerby-Fulton has written many works on manuscript studies, religious
writers and visionaries, and textual reception, and is author of
_Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing
in Late Medieval England_ (Winner of the 2007 Snow Prize from the
North American Conference on British Studies, as well as the Medieval
Academy of America Haskins Gold Medal in 2010).
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of the
history of the book and its reception in the medieval to the early
modern period. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. Textual studies of manuscripts and early printed books
2. The material culture surrounding the text
3. The history of textual dissemination and its impact
4. The contents of libraries
5. Textual illuminations, artwork, and its relationship to text
6. Cultural support for literary production
7. The relationship between the text and the reader
8. Reception theory
9. Book or textual fetishism
10. Trust in the written record
11. Religious and secular theories of the book
12. The social life of texts
13. Marginalia and glosses
14. Medieval literacy and the text
15. Sponsored educational and literacy programs and the use of the text
16. Renaissances and renewals, and their impact on readers and texts
17. Political uses for the text and literacy
18. Writing and memory
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to
cjudkins@purdue.edu by Dec. 1st, 2010.
Please see http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~comitatu/conference.html for
further details and for registration.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The Newberry Library Anglo-Saxon Seminar
Having attended a few of these in my graduate student days, including one by Allen Frantzen, I can only highly recommend these to any grad student in the consortium.
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar:
Masculinity and the Anglo-Saxons
2010-11 Graduate Seminar
2:00-5:00 pm Fridays, January 7 – March 11, 2011
Professor Allen Frantzen, Loyola University Chicago
The class will focus on models of
male identity and various scales of
masculinity as they emerge from a
selection of the most famous Old
English poems, including “The
Wanderer,” “The Seafarer,” and
“The Battle of Maldon,” and from
Old English prose texts. In addition
to some supplementary texts
(handouts), reading will include
excerpts from Clare A. Lees, ed.,
Medieval Masculinities.
Class meetings will be divided
between Old English—reviewing
the basics of grammar as we
translate—and analyzing the cultural
and theoretical aspects of
masculinity in our readings. Advanced skills in Old English are not required,
just familiarity with the basics acquired in an introductory course. Two papers,
one at the mid-point (6-7 pp.) and one at the end of the course (10-12 pp.);
Loyola students and others on a semester calendar will have until mid-April to
complete the final paper requirement.
Prerequisite: An introductory course in Old English.
Enrollment is limited. To register, contact the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. To
receive credit you must also enroll in either a Newberry course at your campus (available at several
Chicago-area schools) or an independent study; the course is cross-listed at Loyola University Chicago as
as English 540. Please contact the consortium Representative Council member at your home institution
for your university’s policies and to apply for travel reimbursement.
See www.newberry.org/renaissance
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar:
Masculinity and the Anglo-Saxons
2010-11 Graduate Seminar
2:00-5:00 pm Fridays, January 7 – March 11, 2011
Professor Allen Frantzen, Loyola University Chicago
The class will focus on models of
male identity and various scales of
masculinity as they emerge from a
selection of the most famous Old
English poems, including “The
Wanderer,” “The Seafarer,” and
“The Battle of Maldon,” and from
Old English prose texts. In addition
to some supplementary texts
(handouts), reading will include
excerpts from Clare A. Lees, ed.,
Medieval Masculinities.
Class meetings will be divided
between Old English—reviewing
the basics of grammar as we
translate—and analyzing the cultural
and theoretical aspects of
masculinity in our readings. Advanced skills in Old English are not required,
just familiarity with the basics acquired in an introductory course. Two papers,
one at the mid-point (6-7 pp.) and one at the end of the course (10-12 pp.);
Loyola students and others on a semester calendar will have until mid-April to
complete the final paper requirement.
Prerequisite: An introductory course in Old English.
Enrollment is limited. To register, contact the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. To
receive credit you must also enroll in either a Newberry course at your campus (available at several
Chicago-area schools) or an independent study; the course is cross-listed at Loyola University Chicago as
as English 540. Please contact the consortium Representative Council member at your home institution
for your university’s policies and to apply for travel reimbursement.
See www.newberry.org/renaissance
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Vagantes
Call for Papers for the
Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference
March 3–5, 2011
University of Pittsburgh
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 junior scholars from all fields of medieval
studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four
student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. 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. 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 vitae and
abstract of no more than 300 words by 25 October 2010 to:
Karen Adams
kda9@pitt.edu
Department of French and Italian
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference
March 3–5, 2011
University of Pittsburgh
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 junior scholars from all fields of medieval
studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four
student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. 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. 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 vitae and
abstract of no more than 300 words by 25 October 2010 to:
Karen Adams
kda9@pitt.edu
Department of French and Italian
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
POST-ICONOGRAPHY, BEYOND INFLUENCE
POST-ICONOGRAPHY, BEYOND INFLUENCE
A session on method and medieval art research, IMC 2011
Sponsored by the AHRC Research Network “Postcolonising the Medieval Image”
Twenty years ago, the Index of Christian Art hosted a conference
titled, in an ironic homage to Panofsky, “Iconography at the
Crossroads”. More recently art historians have begun to question both
the value and meaning of terms such as “iconography” and “influence”.
The convenors of the IMC session “Post-Iconography, Beyond
Influence”, Catherine Karkov and Eva Frojmovic, invite papers that
explicitly interrogate and probe the limits of iconographic research
on medieval art. What are the limitations of a text-centred approach
to medieval art? What are the alternatives? We would welcome both
theoretical papers and case studies showcasing colleagues’ own
current research “beyond iconography”. In addition, what exactly do
we mean when we use terms like “influence”? Are encounters between
cultures, artists or works of art really as passive and
unidirectional as the term implies?
We invite paper proposals (title, short abstract) to be received by
email to post-col-med@leeds.ac.uk by
29 September 2010.
Eva Frojmovic & Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds)
Please see our website
details of the research network's activities.
___________
A session on method and medieval art research, IMC 2011
Sponsored by the AHRC Research Network “Postcolonising the Medieval Image”
Twenty years ago, the Index of Christian Art hosted a conference
titled, in an ironic homage to Panofsky, “Iconography at the
Crossroads”. More recently art historians have begun to question both
the value and meaning of terms such as “iconography” and “influence”.
The convenors of the IMC session “Post-Iconography, Beyond
Influence”, Catherine Karkov and Eva Frojmovic, invite papers that
explicitly interrogate and probe the limits of iconographic research
on medieval art. What are the limitations of a text-centred approach
to medieval art? What are the alternatives? We would welcome both
theoretical papers and case studies showcasing colleagues’ own
current research “beyond iconography”. In addition, what exactly do
we mean when we use terms like “influence”? Are encounters between
cultures, artists or works of art really as passive and
unidirectional as the term implies?
We invite paper proposals (title, short abstract) to be received by
email to post-col-med@leeds.ac.
29 September 2010.
Eva Frojmovic & Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds)
Please see our website
details of the research network's activities.
___________
Shifting Frontiers
Call For Papers
Deadline: November 15, 2010
The Society for Late Antiquity announces the Ninth Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Penn State University (University Park) from June 23-26, 2011. The conference will explore the theme of “Politics in Late Antiquity, ca. 200-700.”
Along with the cultural and religious transformations of the late Roman and post-Roman eras, the political culture of the empire was transformed, from the aristocratic and senatorial monarchy of the early empire to the equestrian and military government of the third and fourth centuries to the emerging Christian monarchy of the Theodosian empire and beyond. Each of these traditions had a long afterlife in the post-Roman West and Byzantine East. The Program Committee seeks contributions that address any aspect of the political life of late antiquity, with particular emphasis on 1) the functioning of Roman and post-Roman government and the tensions between center and periphery 2) the gap between rhetoric and reality in the practice of politics 3) the material _expressions of politics and government, as reflected in art, architecture, and archaeological evidence.
As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for ancient historians, philologists, art historians, archaeologists, and specialists in the early Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European, Middle-Eastern and African evidence for cultural transformation in late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference theme, stating both the problem to be discussed and the nature of the presenter’s conclusions.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, for 20-minute presentations, should be sent as email (attachments in MS Word only) addressed to:
Professor Michael Kulikowski
c/o Tiffany Mayhew
108 Weaver Building
Dept of History
Penn State
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-1367
Email: ShiftingFrontiers2011@gmail.com
Deadline: November 15, 2010
The Society for Late Antiquity announces the Ninth Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Penn State University (University Park) from June 23-26, 2011. The conference will explore the theme of “Politics in Late Antiquity, ca. 200-700.”
Along with the cultural and religious transformations of the late Roman and post-Roman eras, the political culture of the empire was transformed, from the aristocratic and senatorial monarchy of the early empire to the equestrian and military government of the third and fourth centuries to the emerging Christian monarchy of the Theodosian empire and beyond. Each of these traditions had a long afterlife in the post-Roman West and Byzantine East. The Program Committee seeks contributions that address any aspect of the political life of late antiquity, with particular emphasis on 1) the functioning of Roman and post-Roman government and the tensions between center and periphery 2) the gap between rhetoric and reality in the practice of politics 3) the material _expressions of politics and government, as reflected in art, architecture, and archaeological evidence.
As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for ancient historians, philologists, art historians, archaeologists, and specialists in the early Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European, Middle-Eastern and African evidence for cultural transformation in late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference theme, stating both the problem to be discussed and the nature of the presenter’s conclusions.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, for 20-minute presentations, should be sent as email (attachments in MS Word only) addressed to:
Professor Michael Kulikowski
c/o Tiffany Mayhew
108 Weaver Building
Dept of History
Penn State
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-1367
Email: ShiftingFrontiers2011@gmail.com
Imbas 2010
Imbas 2010
We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas 2010, an interdisciplinary postgraduate medievalists’ conference, to be held on 12th – 14th November 2010 in NUI Galway, Ireland. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including languages, history, literature, art, archaeology, palaeography and philosophy.
The theme for 2010 is Representations: Image, Word, Artefact, and we are delighted to announce that Professor Michelle P. Brown of the University of London will be our keynote speaker.
Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive, and all variations on this theme will be welcome.
A selection of papers will be published in our peer-reviewed Imbas Journal. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts.
Abstracts of 250 words for a twenty minute paper must be submitted before September 30, 2010. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded to Imbas/Trish NMhaoileoin, c/o Roinn na Gaeilge, as na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na hreann, Gaillimh, re.
Further information can be found at our website http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/63 and on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=324841995338&ref=ts .
Posted by: Imbas Committee (imbasnuig@gmail.com).
We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas 2010, an interdisciplinary postgraduate medievalists’ conference, to be held on 12th – 14th November 2010 in NUI Galway, Ireland. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including languages, history, literature, art, archaeology, palaeography and philosophy.
The theme for 2010 is Representations: Image, Word, Artefact, and we are delighted to announce that Professor Michelle P. Brown of the University of London will be our keynote speaker.
Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive, and all variations on this theme will be welcome.
A selection of papers will be published in our peer-reviewed Imbas Journal. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts.
Abstracts of 250 words for a twenty minute paper must be submitted before September 30, 2010. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded to Imbas/Trish NMhaoileoin, c/o Roinn na Gaeilge, as na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na hreann, Gaillimh, re.
Further information can be found at our website http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/63 and on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=324841995338&ref=ts .
Posted by: Imbas Committee (imbasnuig@gmail.com).
RBMS Regional Workshop: Latin for Rare Materials Catalogers
RBMS Regional Workshop: Latin for Rare Materials Catalogers
Friday, October 22, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Indiana University Bloomington
Herman B Wells Library, Room E174
1320 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana, 47405
This workshop is intended for rare materials catalogers with little or no familiarity with Latin. The workshop will provide tools for navigating the title page, identifying the key verbs and inflected forms of nouns for persons, places, and things, in order to accurately record title and remainder of title information, author(s) and other names, editions, publication information, and privilege statements (i.e. DCRM(B)/AACR2 descriptive areas 1, 2, and 4), and any related notes. Among the issues addressed will be identifying and expanding contracted forms, Latin terminology used for illustrations and publishing, and other issues unique to Latin materials.
Presenters:
Jennifer Nelson, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
Jennifer MacDonald, University of Delaware Library
Registration:
Deadline is October 1, 2010. Limited to 30 participants.
Register online at: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/rbmsworkshoplatin.cfm
Fees:
ACRL member - $189
Nonmember - $239
Questions:
Contact Jane Gillis, Yale University Library, Jane.gillis@yale.edu or 203-432-2633
Friday, October 22, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Indiana University Bloomington
Herman B Wells Library, Room E174
1320 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana, 47405
This workshop is intended for rare materials catalogers with little or no familiarity with Latin. The workshop will provide tools for navigating the title page, identifying the key verbs and inflected forms of nouns for persons, places, and things, in order to accurately record title and remainder of title information, author(s) and other names, editions, publication information, and privilege statements (i.e. DCRM(B)/AACR2 descriptive areas 1, 2, and 4), and any related notes. Among the issues addressed will be identifying and expanding contracted forms, Latin terminology used for illustrations and publishing, and other issues unique to Latin materials.
Presenters:
Jennifer Nelson, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
Jennifer MacDonald, University of Delaware Library
Registration:
Deadline is October 1, 2010. Limited to 30 participants.
Register online at: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/rbmsworkshoplatin.cfm
Fees:
ACRL member - $189
Nonmember - $239
Questions:
Contact Jane Gillis, Yale University Library, Jane.gillis@yale.edu
CFP: Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
CFP: Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce:
Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010
Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011
www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html
We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.
We hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.
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Faculty and graduate students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Contact your school’s faculty representative for details: www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html. The Center’s main web page is: www.newberry.org/renaissance.
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce:
Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010
Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011
www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html
We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.
We hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.
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Faculty and graduate students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Contact your school’s faculty representative for details: www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html. The Center’s main web page is: www.newberry.org/renaissance.
38th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium April 8-9, 2011
38th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium April 8-9, 2011
on the theme of Voice, Gesture, Memory, and Performance in Medieval
Texts, Culture, and Art
Plenary speaker: Bruce Holsinger, UVA; also TBA
We invite 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of
voice, gesture, memory or performance. We also welcome proposals for
3-paper sessions on particular topics related the theme. Please
submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and brief c.v., electronically
if possible, no later than 1 October 2010. If you wish to propose a
session, please submit abstracts and vitae for all participants in
the session. Commentary is traditionally provided for each paper
presented; completed papers, including notes, will be due no later
than 1 March 2011. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize will be
awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD
recipient (degree awarded since July 2008). For further information
on the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium,
seehttp://www.sewanee.edu/Medieval/main.html.
on the theme of Voice, Gesture, Memory, and Performance in Medieval
Texts, Culture, and Art
Plenary speaker: Bruce Holsinger, UVA; also TBA
We invite 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of
voice, gesture, memory or performance. We also welcome proposals for
3-paper sessions on particular topics related the theme. Please
submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and brief c.v., electronically
if possible, no later than 1 October 2010. If you wish to propose a
session, please submit abstracts and vitae for all participants in
the session. Commentary is traditionally provided for each paper
presented; completed papers, including notes, will be due no later
than 1 March 2011. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize will be
awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD
recipient (degree awarded since July 2008). For further information
on the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium,
seehttp://www.sewanee.edu/Medieval/main.html.
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference XXXV: Medieval Recycling
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference XXXV: Medieval Recycling
February 26, 2011 at the University of Missouri‹Kansas City
Deadline for one-page abstracts is December 15, 2010
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University,
³Recycling the Troubadours: Quotation and the Development of European
Poetry²
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its annual
conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference topic or any
medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers, with or without a
chairperson - are also welcome.)
MEDIEVAL RECYCLING:
The medieval world saw the creative recycling of ideas, images, materials
and practices from classical antiquity and elsewhere throughout the span of
a thousand years. We would like for this conference to explore the re-use
and re-imagining of both material objects and ideas in a variety of domains,
from things like tropes and citations used in texts and charters, to the
copying of images, to the re-using of materials such as parchment (for
instance, the discoveries found in things like palimpsests and binding
fragments), architectural elements, or building materials. Other possible
ways to think about the topic might include focusing on the transmission of
ideas or techniques through different cultural lenses and perspectives.
Send a one-page abstract by December 15 to:
Dr. Kathy M. Krause
Email:KrauseK@umkc.edu
Fax: 816-235-1312
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference XXXV: Medieval Recycling
February 26, 2011 at the University of Missouri‹Kansas City
Deadline for one-page abstracts is December 15, 2010
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University,
³Recycling the Troubadours: Quotation and the Development of European
Poetry²
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its annual
conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference topic or any
medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers, with or without a
chairperson - are also welcome.)
MEDIEVAL RECYCLING:
The medieval world saw the creative recycling of ideas, images, materials
and practices from classical antiquity and elsewhere throughout the span of
a thousand years. We would like for this conference to explore the re-use
and re-imagining of both material objects and ideas in a variety of domains,
from things like tropes and citations used in texts and charters, to the
copying of images, to the re-using of materials such as parchment (for
instance, the discoveries found in things like palimpsests and binding
fragments), architectural elements, or building materials. Other possible
ways to think about the topic might include focusing on the transmission of
ideas or techniques through different cultural lenses and perspectives.
Send a one-page abstract by December 15 to:
Dr. Kathy M. Krause
Email:KrauseK@umkc.edu
Fax: 816-235-1312
OCS (or Old Slavonic) resource
At long last my OCS (or Old Slavonic) resources are ready.
This is the URL:
www.biblical-data.org/OCS/Slavic New testament.htm
or also go to my "Ancient Versions" Page and navigate to the pages.
Focus is upon Slavic palaeography. Lots of good maps, tools, fonts,
and an essay upon the value of the OCS version for NT textual criticism.
This is the URL:
www.biblical-data.org/OCS/Slavic New testament.htm
or also go to my "Ancient Versions" Page and navigate to the pages.
Focus is upon Slavic palaeography. Lots of good maps, tools, fonts,
and an essay upon the value of the OCS version for NT textual criticism.
CALL FOR PAPERS: COLONISING, DECOLONISING AND POSTCOLONISING THE VIKING AGE
CALL FOR PAPERS: COLONISING, DECOLONISING AND POSTCOLONISING THE VIKING AGE
17–19 March 2011
Colonising, Decolonising and Postcolonising the Viking Age seeks to
revisit the Vikings through the lens of postcolonial theory, in order
to open the period to new research questions on such topics as
Viking-age aesthetics, the role of art in cultural translation and
identity formation, cultural hybridity in the Viking age, gender,
history and the landscape of memory, the work and preservation of
tangible and intangible heritage, the Vikings and historical/national
consciousness.
Papers are invited from all fields on any aspect of these or related
topics. Submissions from graduate students are particularly welcome,
and we do have a limited number of bursaries to support both UK and
international students.
Two days of the conference will be devoted to scholarly papers, with
the third day reserved for general discussion and workshops centred
on enhancing both funding and postgraduate resources.
Please send paper proposals or expressions of interest to:
Professor Catherine E. Karkov
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Old Mining Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk
The deadline for paper proposals is 31 January 2011
17–19 March 2011
Colonising, Decolonising and Postcolonising the Viking Age seeks to
revisit the Vikings through the lens of postcolonial theory, in order
to open the period to new research questions on such topics as
Viking-age aesthetics, the role of art in cultural translation and
identity formation, cultural hybridity in the Viking age, gender,
history and the landscape of memory, the work and preservation of
tangible and intangible heritage, the Vikings and historical/national
consciousness.
Papers are invited from all fields on any aspect of these or related
topics. Submissions from graduate students are particularly welcome,
and we do have a limited number of bursaries to support both UK and
international students.
Two days of the conference will be devoted to scholarly papers, with
the third day reserved for general discussion and workshops centred
on enhancing both funding and postgraduate resources.
Please send paper proposals or expressions of interest to:
Professor Catherine E. Karkov
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Old Mining Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk
The deadline for paper proposals is 31 January 2011
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: COURAGE AND COWARDICE
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: COURAGE AND COWARDICE
http://www.aema.net.au
AEMA's seventh annual conference will be held from 18-19 November 2010 at the Old Senate Room, Irwin St building, The University of Western Australia. This symposium will explore the subject of courage and cowardice in the early medieval world, c. 300-1100, across a range of disciplines.
Registration is now open and forms are available on the conference site, together with the full conference programme.
Convenor: Shane McLeod - conference@aema.net.au.
http://www.aema.net.au
AEMA's seventh annual conference will be held from 18-19 November 2010 at the Old Senate Room, Irwin St building, The University of Western Australia. This symposium will explore the subject of courage and cowardice in the early medieval world, c. 300-1100, across a range of disciplines.
Registration is now open and forms are available on the conference site, together with the full conference programme.
Convenor: Shane McLeod - conference@aema.net.au.
CET Academic Programs
CET Academic Programs announces its upcoming October 15 deadline for
the spring 2011 Crossroads of Islam, Judaism and Christianity study
abroad program based in Avila, Spain. Students study Spain's
medieval history and immerse in an authentic Spanish environment.
Program highlights include a core course from a local historian with
access to Avila's archives, traveling seminars to Andalucia and
Morocco, and housing in a Spanish student dormitory that is attached
to a monastery dating back to the 15th Century. For more information,
please contact Rachel Howard at
rhoward@academic-travel.com or
visit http://cetacademicprograms.com/?go=Avila.
the spring 2011 Crossroads of Islam, Judaism and Christianity study
abroad program based in Avila, Spain. Students study Spain's
medieval history and immerse in an authentic Spanish environment.
Program highlights include a core course from a local historian with
access to Avila's archives, traveling seminars to Andalucia and
Morocco, and housing in a Spanish student dormitory that is attached
to a monastery dating back to the 15th Century. For more information,
please contact Rachel Howard at
rhoward@academic-travel.com
visit http://cetacademicprograms.com/?go=Avila.
New England Medieval Conference
It is my pleasure to call your attention to the program and registration
information for this year's New England Medieval Conference "Other Worlds
and the Otherworldly," to be held at the University of Connecticut 6-7
November:
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/default.htm
Please note that the conference registration is free to students, so do
encourage your students to take advantage of the opportunity to hear these
papers and the Saturday night concert.
Thanks,
Mary
information for this year's New England Medieval Conference "Other Worlds
and the Otherworldly," to be held at the University of Connecticut 6-7
November:
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/default.htm
Please note that the conference registration is free to students, so do
encourage your students to take advantage of the opportunity to hear these
papers and the Saturday night concert.
Thanks,
Mary
32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Friday and Saturday April 15-16, 2011
*Call for Papers and Sessions*
"Love, Friendship, Marriage"
We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how
secular and religious love, affection, and devotion were perceived and
expressed in a variety of contexts.
Papers need not be confined to the theme, but may cover many aspects of
medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy,
theology, history and music. Student sessions with faculty sponsorship
welcome.
This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Thomas Luxon, Professor of English
and Cheheyl
Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of
Learning at Dartmouth College. Dr. Luxon has published widely on Milton,
Shakespeare, and Early Modern England. He is the author of *Single
Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship **(*Duquesne University Press,
2005), and *Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in
Representation **(*The University of Chicago Press, 1995), and the
creator/editor of *The Milton Reading Room*, a web edition of Milton's
poetry and selected prose.
The conference will conclude with a lesson in Renaissance dance and a
performance by the Ken Pierce Dance Company.
Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
For more information visit
www.plymouth.edu/medievalhttp://www.plymouth.edu/medieval
32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Friday and Saturday April 15-16, 2011
*Call for Papers and Sessions*
"Love, Friendship, Marriage"
We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how
secular and religious love, affection, and devotion were perceived and
expressed in a variety of contexts.
Papers need not be confined to the theme, but may cover many aspects of
medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy,
theology, history and music. Student sessions with faculty sponsorship
welcome.
This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Thomas Luxon, Professor of English
and Cheheyl
Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of
Learning at Dartmouth College. Dr. Luxon has published widely on Milton,
Shakespeare, and Early Modern England. He is the author of *Single
Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship **(*Duquesne University Press,
2005), and *Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in
Representation **(*The University of Chicago Press, 1995), and the
creator/editor of *The Milton Reading Room*, a web edition of Milton's
poetry and selected prose.
The conference will conclude with a lesson in Renaissance dance and a
performance by the Ken Pierce Dance Company.
Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
For more information visit
www.plymouth.edu/medievalhttp://www.plymouth.edu/medieval
Medieval Chronicle Society
The next conference to be hosted by the Medieval Chronicle Society
will be held in Peć on 25 to 30 July, 2011. The call for papers was
sent out some time ago, but I think it didn't receive as much
attention as it should have done, so I am taking this opportunity to
give it another push. You can find details online at
http://chronicle2011.pte.hu/menu/38. Despite what this website says,
however, the deadline for abstracts has not passed, and it would
still be possible to attend. If you have any difficulty with the
website, please contact me for help.
For details of the Society itself see: http://medievalchronicle.org/.
Membership of the society is free of charge - mail me off-list if you
are interested.
will be held in Peć on 25 to 30 July, 2011. The call for papers was
sent out some time ago, but I think it didn't receive as much
attention as it should have done, so I am taking this opportunity to
give it another push. You can find details online at
http://chronicle2011.pte.hu/menu/38. Despite what this website says,
however, the deadline for abstracts has not passed, and it would
still be possible to attend. If you have any difficulty with the
website, please contact me for help.
For details of the Society itself see: http://medievalchronicle.org/.
Membership of the society is free of charge - mail me off-list if you
are interested.
Comitatus: CFP
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. Please include an e-mail address.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011.
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.
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. Please include an e-mail address.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011.
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.
Carolingian Images
After two decades teaching medieval art history and doing photography
for my own use, I have started a photography business. As part of
that project I am posting my archive of images online for all to use
without charge. So far I have posted about 950 images, and I am
adding more all the time. The archive includes material from all
periods of western art starting with the Neolithic, but its greatest
strength is in late Roman and early medieval art. I am posting all
images at the right size for classroom use (PowerPoint friendly).
I am sharing my images partly out of loyalty to academe, and partly
in the hope of exchanging their free use for exposure. My web site
becomes increasingly visible to potential paying clients via Google
and other search engines as more people visit and link to it. I also
license my photographs for publication, so of course I want scholars
to know that they exist.
I am sending this message now so that people can use my archive
during the new academic term. Also, I am currently planning a
research/photography trip to Europe in October. I will be in London,
Paris, Mainz, Ravenna, Budapest, Szekszárd, and Kaposvár. Anyone who
needs images from places in or near the cities where I will be
working could piggyback a request on to the trip without having to
pay major travel expenses.
My general web address is www.KornbluthPhoto.com .
To go directly to the historical archive, the address is
www.KornbluthPhoto.com/archive-1.html .
Best regards to all,
Genevra Kornbluth
Kornbluth@KornbluthPhoto.com
for my own use, I have started a photography business. As part of
that project I am posting my archive of images online for all to use
without charge. So far I have posted about 950 images, and I am
adding more all the time. The archive includes material from all
periods of western art starting with the Neolithic, but its greatest
strength is in late Roman and early medieval art. I am posting all
images at the right size for classroom use (PowerPoint friendly).
I am sharing my images partly out of loyalty to academe, and partly
in the hope of exchanging their free use for exposure. My web site
becomes increasingly visible to potential paying clients via Google
and other search engines as more people visit and link to it. I also
license my photographs for publication, so of course I want scholars
to know that they exist.
I am sending this message now so that people can use my archive
during the new academic term. Also, I am currently planning a
research/photography trip to Europe in October. I will be in London,
Paris, Mainz, Ravenna, Budapest, Szekszárd, and Kaposvár. Anyone who
needs images from places in or near the cities where I will be
working could piggyback a request on to the trip without having to
pay major travel expenses.
My general web address is www.KornbluthPhoto.com .
To go directly to the historical archive, the address is
www.KornbluthPhoto.com/archive-1.html .
Best regards to all,
Genevra Kornbluth
Kornbluth@KornbluthPhoto.com
Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Editions and E-ditions: New Media and Old Texts" February 4–5, 2011
Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Editions and E-ditions: New Media and Old Texts"
February 4–5, 2011
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Fifth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday,
February 4 and 5, 2011, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville;
the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics)
and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
In this year’s workshop we hope to consider how the tools we use to
study texts have shaped, and continue to shape, our practice of
editing. Do the editorial principles we adopt arise from the reality
of medieval texts, or do they construct that reality? Does our choice
of one convention of presentation over another predispose us and our
readers to certain kinds of interpretations? Are concepts like
‘variant’, ‘apparatus’, even ‘text’, a reflection of the material we
study, or the social history of printed editions?
Meanwhile, changing technology for presenting and organizing texts
and images make it seem that the most venerable principles might
suddenly be negotiable and the most basic conventions unnecessary;
whatever can be imagined can be achieved. But do new tools for
studying manuscripts require new rules for reading and making
editions? What are the new principles and conventions used to create
electronic editions? And if these new tools free us from the
constraints of traditional printed text, do they impose other
constraints not yet apparent to us? 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 has been extended to October 15, 2010.
Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter
describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to
, or by mail to the Department of English,
University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.
The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do
not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a
lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies.
Further details will be available online later in the year; meanwhile
please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.
[The Marco Manuscript Workshop is sponsored by the Marco Institute
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee,
with support from the Hodges Better English Fund and the Office of
Research in the College of Arts and Sciences.]
February 4–5, 2011
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Fifth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday,
February 4 and 5, 2011, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville;
the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics)
and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
In this year’s workshop we hope to consider how the tools we use to
study texts have shaped, and continue to shape, our practice of
editing. Do the editorial principles we adopt arise from the reality
of medieval texts, or do they construct that reality? Does our choice
of one convention of presentation over another predispose us and our
readers to certain kinds of interpretations? Are concepts like
‘variant’, ‘apparatus’, even ‘text’, a reflection of the material we
study, or the social history of printed editions?
Meanwhile, changing technology for presenting and organizing texts
and images make it seem that the most venerable principles might
suddenly be negotiable and the most basic conventions unnecessary;
whatever can be imagined can be achieved. But do new tools for
studying manuscripts require new rules for reading and making
editions? What are the new principles and conventions used to create
electronic editions? And if these new tools free us from the
constraints of traditional printed text, do they impose other
constraints not yet apparent to us? 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 has been extended to October 15, 2010.
Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter
describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to
University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.
The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do
not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a
lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies.
Further details will be available online later in the year; meanwhile
please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.
[The Marco Manuscript Workshop is sponsored by the Marco Institute
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee,
with support from the Hodges Better English Fund and the Office of
Research in the College of Arts and Sciences.]
Early English Laws publishes online bibliography
Early English Laws publishes online bibliography
Early English Laws (EEL), a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research and King's College London, is pleased to announce the publication of its online bibliography. The bibliography is compiled and continuously updated to include items relating to any aspect of English legal history in the period between c. 600 and 1215. It is also searchable by category, author and date of publication. To access the bibliography, simply follow the link: http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/db/bibliography
Can I also remind everyone that we are still offering bursaries worth £2,000 each, designed to support scholars in the preparation of editions of early English legal texts for publication as part of the AHRC-funded EEL project. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, and reproduction and permission fees. Guidelines for proposals, together with a list of possible texts, are available on the Early English Laws website. If you have any enquiries, please contact the Project Officer: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk
Early English Laws (EEL), a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research and King's College London, is pleased to announce the publication of its online bibliography. The bibliography is compiled and continuously updated to include items relating to any aspect of English legal history in the period between c. 600 and 1215. It is also searchable by category, author and date of publication. To access the bibliography, simply follow the link: http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/db/bibliography
Can I also remind everyone that we are still offering bursaries worth £2,000 each, designed to support scholars in the preparation of editions of early English legal texts for publication as part of the AHRC-funded EEL project. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, and reproduction and permission fees. Guidelines for proposals, together with a list of possible texts, are available on the Early English Laws website. If you have any enquiries, please contact the Project Officer: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk
BABEL's Inaugural Biennial Meeting
he full program
for BABEL's Inaugural Biennial Meeting, to be held at the University
of Texas at
Austin from 4-6 November 2010, is now online:
http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htm
Full details about how to register, where to stay, etc., can be found here:
http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABEL_Biennial_Meeting_AustinTX.htm
for BABEL's Inaugural Biennial Meeting, to be held at the University
of Texas at
Austin from 4-6 November 2010, is now online:
http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htm
Full details about how to register, where to stay, etc., can be found here:
http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABEL_Biennial_Meeting_AustinTX.htm
Medieval Devotion: A Roundtable Discussion:
MEDIEVAL CLUB OF NEW YORK
Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:30 PM (followed by wine and cheese reception)
Medieval Devotion: A Roundtable Discussion:
Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sara Lipton, SUNY, Stonybrook
Michael Sargent, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Room 4406 (English Department Lounge)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.)
Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:30 PM (followed by wine and cheese reception)
Medieval Devotion: A Roundtable Discussion:
Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sara Lipton, SUNY, Stonybrook
Michael Sargent, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Room 4406 (English Department Lounge)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.)
"Mind, Soul, and In-Between: Mapping the Human Spirit in the Early Middle Ages."
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Announces a Colloquium
at UC Berkeley
"Mind, Soul, and In-Between: Mapping the Human Spirit in the Early
Middle Ages."
October 8, 2010
10 a.m.—3 p.m.. Wheeler Hall 306
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of English
Leslie Lockett (The Ohio State University), Emily Thornbury (English,
UC Berkeley), and Frank Bezner (Classics, UC Berkeley)
will lead a wide ranging seminar on theories of mind and soul in Old
English and Latin texts.
Pre-circulated materials will be available to participants.
Please RSVP for access (Thornbury@berkeley.edu).
Luncheon will be served. There are a limited number of places for
the seminar. Please sign-up early to ensure your place.
Announces a Colloquium
at UC Berkeley
"Mind, Soul, and In-Between: Mapping the Human Spirit in the Early
Middle Ages."
October 8, 2010
10 a.m.—3 p.m.. Wheeler Hall 306
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of English
Leslie Lockett (The Ohio State University), Emily Thornbury (English,
UC Berkeley), and Frank Bezner (Classics, UC Berkeley)
will lead a wide ranging seminar on theories of mind and soul in Old
English and Latin texts.
Pre-circulated materials will be available to participants.
Please RSVP for access (Thornbury@berkeley.edu).
Luncheon will be served. There are a limited number of places for
the seminar. Please sign-up early to ensure your place.
Monday, September 27, 2010
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
3rd ANNUAL
LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
November 19-20, 2010
Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song
In partnership with the Rare Book
Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of
Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence
J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and
early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to
music’s materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it
pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and
performers who will examine the ways the written text of music,
especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as
prescriptive; the multiple functions of music’s most important
technology – its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital
technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today.
The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of
Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early
music duo Asteria.
On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will
present papers on various topics relating to the history of music
manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable
to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and
related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval
musicology.
Special exhibitions of music manuscripts will be on view at both institutions.
Participants include:
Jane Alden, Wesleyan University
Julia Craig-McFeeley, Digital Image Archive of Music Manuscripts
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge
Anne Stone, City University of New York
Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania
For program and registration details, go to:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html
LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
November 19-20, 2010
Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song
In partnership with the Rare Book
Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of
Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence
J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and
early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to
music’s materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it
pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and
performers who will examine the ways the written text of music,
especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as
prescriptive; the multiple functions of music’s most important
technology – its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital
technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today.
The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of
Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early
music duo Asteria.
On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will
present papers on various topics relating to the history of music
manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable
to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and
related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval
musicology.
Special exhibitions of music manuscripts will be on view at both institutions.
Participants include:
Jane Alden, Wesleyan University
Julia Craig-McFeeley, Digital Image Archive of Music Manuscripts
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge
Anne Stone, City University of New York
Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania
For program and registration details, go to:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html
Cultures, Communities and Conflicts in the Medieval Mediterranean
Cultures, Communities and Conflicts in the Medieval Mediterranean
University of Southampton (UK), 4-6 July 2011
Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Keynote Speakers: Professor Graham Loud (University of Leeds)
Dr Anna Contadini (SOAS, London)
The University of Southampton is proud to host the 2011 second
biennial conference of the Society for the medieval Mediterranean.
This three-day conference will bring scholars together to explore the
interaction of the various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of
the medieval Mediterranean, a region which had been commonly
represented as divided by significant religious and cultural
differences. The objective of the conference is to highlight the
extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of
conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people,
goods and ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring cultures and
societies. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers in the fields of
archaeology, art and architecture, ethnography, history (including
the histories of science, medicine and cartography), languages,
literature, music, philosophy and religion. Submission on the
following topics would be particularly welcome:
• Activities of missionary orders
• Artistic contacts and exchanges
• Byzantine and Muslim navies
• Captives and slaves
• Cargoes, galleys and warships
• Cartography
• Costume and vestments
• Diplomacy
• Judaism and Jewish Mediterranean History
• Literary contacts and exchanges
• Material Culture
• Minority Populations in the Christian and Islamic Worlds.
• Mirrors for Princes
• Music, sacred and secular
• Port towns/city states
• Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims.
• Religious practices: saints, cults and heretics
• Scientific exchange, including astronomy, medicine and mathematics
• Seafaring, seamanship and shipbuilding
• Sufis & Sufi Orders in North Africa and the Levant
• Sultans, kings and other rulers
• Trade and Pilgrimage
• Travel writing
• Warfare: mercenaries and crusaders
Please send any enquiries and abstracts of papers of 300 words
maximum together with a brief CV to the organisers, Dr Francois Soyer
(f.j.soyer@soton.ac.uk) and Dr Rebecca Bridgman (rmb77@cam.ac.uk). We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 October
2010.
University of Southampton (UK), 4-6 July 2011
Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Keynote Speakers: Professor Graham Loud (University of Leeds)
Dr Anna Contadini (SOAS, London)
The University of Southampton is proud to host the 2011 second
biennial conference of the Society for the medieval Mediterranean.
This three-day conference will bring scholars together to explore the
interaction of the various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of
the medieval Mediterranean, a region which had been commonly
represented as divided by significant religious and cultural
differences. The objective of the conference is to highlight the
extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of
conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people,
goods and ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring cultures and
societies. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers in the fields of
archaeology, art and architecture, ethnography, history (including
the histories of science, medicine and cartography), languages,
literature, music, philosophy and religion. Submission on the
following topics would be particularly welcome:
• Activities of missionary orders
• Artistic contacts and exchanges
• Byzantine and Muslim navies
• Captives and slaves
• Cargoes, galleys and warships
• Cartography
• Costume and vestments
• Diplomacy
• Judaism and Jewish Mediterranean History
• Literary contacts and exchanges
• Material Culture
• Minority Populations in the Christian and Islamic Worlds.
• Mirrors for Princes
• Music, sacred and secular
• Port towns/city states
• Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims.
• Religious practices: saints, cults and heretics
• Scientific exchange, including astronomy, medicine and mathematics
• Seafaring, seamanship and shipbuilding
• Sufis & Sufi Orders in North Africa and the Levant
• Sultans, kings and other rulers
• Trade and Pilgrimage
• Travel writing
• Warfare: mercenaries and crusaders
Please send any enquiries and abstracts of papers of 300 words
maximum together with a brief CV to the organisers, Dr Francois Soyer
(f.j.soyer@soton.ac.uk
2010.
CFP: Shifting Frontiers
> Call For Papers
>
> Deadline:November 15, 2010
>
> The Society for Late Antiquity announces the Ninth Biennial
> Conference on Shifting
> Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Penn State University
> (University Park)
> June 23-26, 2011. The conference will explore the theme of “Politics in Late
> Antiquity, ca. 200-700.”
>
> Along with the cultural and religious transformations of the late Roman and
> post-Roman eras, the political culture of the empire was transformed,
> from the aristocratic and senatorial monarchy of the early empire to the
> equestrian and military government of the third and fourth centuries to the
> emerging Christian monarchy of the Theodosian empire and beyond.
> Each of these
> traditions had a long afterlife in the post-Roman West and Byzantine East.
> The Program Committee seeks contributions that address any aspect
> of the political
> life of late antiquity, with particular emphasis on 1) the
> functioning of Roman and
> post-Roman government and the tensions between center and periphery
> 2) the gap
> between rhetoric and reality in the practice of politics 3) the material
> expressions of politics and government, as reflected in art,
> architecture, and
> archaeological evidence.
>
> As in the past,the conference will provide an interdisciplinary
> forum for historians,
> philologists, art historians, archaeologists, and specialists in the early
> Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European,
> Middle-Eastern and African evidence for cultural transformation in late
> antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference
> theme, stating
> both the problem to be discussed and the nature of the presenter’s
> conclusions.
>
> Abstracts of no more than 500 words, for 20-minute presentations,
> should be sent as email (attachments in MS Word only) addressed to:
>
>
> Professor Michael Kulikowski
> c/o Tiffany Mayhew
> 108 Weaver Building
> Dept of History
> Penn State University
> University Park,
> PA 16802
> Phone: (814) 865-1367
> Email: ShiftingFrontiers2011@gmail.com
>
>
>
> Deadline:November 15, 2010
>
> The Society for Late Antiquity announces the Ninth Biennial
> Conference on Shifting
> Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Penn State University
> (University Park)
> June 23-26, 2011. The conference will explore the theme of “Politics in Late
> Antiquity, ca. 200-700.”
>
> Along with the cultural and religious transformations of the late Roman and
> post-Roman eras, the political culture of the empire was transformed,
> from the aristocratic and senatorial monarchy of the early empire to the
> equestrian and military government of the third and fourth centuries to the
> emerging Christian monarchy of the Theodosian empire and beyond.
> Each of these
> traditions had a long afterlife in the post-Roman West and Byzantine East.
> The Program Committee seeks contributions that address any aspect
> of the political
> life of late antiquity, with particular emphasis on 1) the
> functioning of Roman and
> post-Roman government and the tensions between center and periphery
> 2) the gap
> between rhetoric and reality in the practice of politics 3) the material
> expressions of politics and government, as reflected in art,
> architecture, and
> archaeological evidence.
>
> As in the past,the conference will provide an interdisciplinary
> forum for historians,
> philologists, art historians, archaeologists, and specialists in the early
> Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European,
> Middle-Eastern and African evidence for cultural transformation in late
> antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference
> theme, stating
> both the problem to be discussed and the nature of the presenter’s
> conclusions.
>
> Abstracts of no more than 500 words, for 20-minute presentations,
> should be sent as email (attachments in MS Word only) addressed to:
>
>
> Professor Michael Kulikowski
> c/o Tiffany Mayhew
> 108 Weaver Building
> Dept of History
> Penn State University
> University Park,
> PA 16802
> Phone: (814) 865-1367
> Email: ShiftingFrontiers2011@gmail.com
>
>
Friday, September 24, 2010
Vagantes 2011
Call for Papers for the
Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference
March 3–5, 2011
University of Pittsburgh
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 junior scholars from all fields of medieval
studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four
student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. 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. 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 vitae and
abstract of no more than 300 words by 25 October 2010 to:
Karen Adams
kda9@pitt.edu
Department of French and Italian
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference
March 3–5, 2011
University of Pittsburgh
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 junior scholars from all fields of medieval
studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four
student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. 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. 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 vitae and
abstract of no more than 300 words by 25 October 2010 to:
Karen Adams
kda9@pitt.edu
Department of French and Italian
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Plymouth State University 32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Friday and Saturday April 15-16, 2011
Call for Papers and Sessions
“Love, Friendship, Marriage”
We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how
secular and religious love, affection, and devotion were perceived and
expressed in a variety of contexts.
Papers need not be confined to the theme, but may cover many aspects of
medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy,
theology, history and music. Student sessions with faculty sponsorship
welcome.
This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Thomas Luxon, Professor of English and
Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement
of Learning at Dartmouth College. Dr. Luxon has published widely on Milton,
Shakespeare, and Early Modern England. He is the author of Single
Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship (Duquesne University Press,
2005), and Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in
Representation (The University of Chicago Press, 1995), and the
creator/editor of The Milton Reading Room, a web edition of Milton’s poetry
and selected prose.
Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval
Please submit abstracts and full contact information (email and post mail
addresses) to PSUForum@gmail.com
Or via US mail:
Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director
Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Dept. of English MSC 40
17 High Street
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264
Abstract deadline: January 21, 2011
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2011
Please send any further inquiries to:
PSUForum@gmail.com
32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Friday and Saturday April 15-16, 2011
Call for Papers and Sessions
“Love, Friendship, Marriage”
We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how
secular and religious love, affection, and devotion were perceived and
expressed in a variety of contexts.
Papers need not be confined to the theme, but may cover many aspects of
medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy,
theology, history and music. Student sessions with faculty sponsorship
welcome.
This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Thomas Luxon, Professor of English and
Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement
of Learning at Dartmouth College. Dr. Luxon has published widely on Milton,
Shakespeare, and Early Modern England. He is the author of Single
Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship (Duquesne University Press,
2005), and Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in
Representation (The University of Chicago Press, 1995), and the
creator/editor of The Milton Reading Room, a web edition of Milton’s poetry
and selected prose.
Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval
Please submit abstracts and full contact information (email and post mail
addresses) to PSUForum@gmail.com
Or via US mail:
Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director
Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Dept. of English MSC 40
17 High Street
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264
Abstract deadline: January 21, 2011
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2011
Please send any further inquiries to:
PSUForum@gmail.com
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
November 19-20, 2010
Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age . This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to music’s materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and performers who will examine the ways the written text of music, especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as prescriptive; the multiple functions of music’s most important technology – its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today.
The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early music duo Asteria . On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of music manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval musicology.
Special exhibitions of music manuscripts will be on view at both institutions.
Participants include:
Jane Alden, Wesleyan University
Julia Craig-McFeeley, Digital Image Archive of Music Manuscripts
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge
Anne Stone, City University of New York
Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania
For program and registration details, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html
November 19-20, 2010
Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age . This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to music’s materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and performers who will examine the ways the written text of music, especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as prescriptive; the multiple functions of music’s most important technology – its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today.
The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early music duo Asteria . On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of music manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval musicology.
Special exhibitions of music manuscripts will be on view at both institutions.
Participants include:
Jane Alden, Wesleyan University
Julia Craig-McFeeley, Digital Image Archive of Music Manuscripts
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge
Anne Stone, City University of New York
Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania
For program and registration details, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in the West
A new website:
http://handley-inscriptions.webs.com
It is devoted to Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in the West (roughly A.D. 300-900) - ranging from Ireland, to North Africa, to the Balkans, and all regions in between.
The website has two main functions:
1) Regionally-specific pages of links to articles, books, PhDs, websites, and databases on late antique and early medieval inscriptions covering:
* Britain / Anglo-Saxon England / Ireland;
* Gaul and the Rhineland;
* Iberia;
* Italy;
* North Africa; and
* the latin-speaking Balkans.
This is limited to what is freely available on-line, but currently there are over 470 live links to scholarly and reference material; and
2) A New Publications page, devoted to trying to list all new publications in the area. So far this covers the years 2008-2010, and has about 100 publications.
Feedback off-list is very welcome.
Mark Handley.
http://handley-inscriptions.webs.com
It is devoted to Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in the West (roughly A.D. 300-900) - ranging from Ireland, to North Africa, to the Balkans, and all regions in between.
The website has two main functions:
1) Regionally-specific pages of links to articles, books, PhDs, websites, and databases on late antique and early medieval inscriptions covering:
* Britain / Anglo-Saxon England / Ireland;
* Gaul and the Rhineland;
* Iberia;
* Italy;
* North Africa; and
* the latin-speaking Balkans.
This is limited to what is freely available on-line, but currently there are over 470 live links to scholarly and reference material; and
2) A New Publications page, devoted to trying to list all new publications in the area. So far this covers the years 2008-2010, and has about 100 publications.
Feedback off-list is very welcome.
Mark Handley.
Crises of Categorization
The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Crises of Categorization"
University of Toronto
Saturday, February 12, 2011
The University of Toronto, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon
Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Seventh Annual
Graduate Student Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
"Crises of Categorization."
Marjorie Garber defines crises of categorization as the “failure of
definitional distinction, a borderline that becomes permeable, that
permits of crossings from one (apparently distinct) category to
another,” in her work on the challenge of defining transvestism. This
recognition of the permeability of boundaries is particularly useful
in thinking through issues in the history and literature of
Anglo-Saxon England. For the 2011 ASSC Graduate Colloquium, we are
seeking papers which interrogate Anglo-Saxon systems of
categorization, both as they appear within the literature and
historical documents of the period and in terms of modern popular and
scholarly practices. In particular, the conference hopes to explore
points of cultural anxiety about and resistance towards hegemonic
practices of categorization.
Potential areas of investigation may include:
— Anglo-Saxon conceptions of time
— periodicity and historiography
— genre and stylistic practices
— negotiation of linguistic boundaries
— spatial discourse and practices
— representations of gender and sexuality
Please submit 250 word abstracts for 20-minute papers by 15 November
2010. Please include academic affiliation, e-mail address, street
address, phone number, and audio-visual requirements. Abstracts may
be sent to TorontoASSC@gmail.com.
— Peter Buchanan and Colleen Butler, conference organizers
Sponsored by: Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of English,
Trinity College
For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.
"Crises of Categorization"
University of Toronto
Saturday, February 12, 2011
The University of Toronto, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon
Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Seventh Annual
Graduate Student Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
"Crises of Categorization."
Marjorie Garber defines crises of categorization as the “failure of
definitional distinction, a borderline that becomes permeable, that
permits of crossings from one (apparently distinct) category to
another,” in her work on the challenge of defining transvestism. This
recognition of the permeability of boundaries is particularly useful
in thinking through issues in the history and literature of
Anglo-Saxon England. For the 2011 ASSC Graduate Colloquium, we are
seeking papers which interrogate Anglo-Saxon systems of
categorization, both as they appear within the literature and
historical documents of the period and in terms of modern popular and
scholarly practices. In particular, the conference hopes to explore
points of cultural anxiety about and resistance towards hegemonic
practices of categorization.
Potential areas of investigation may include:
— Anglo-Saxon conceptions of time
— periodicity and historiography
— genre and stylistic practices
— negotiation of linguistic boundaries
— spatial discourse and practices
— representations of gender and sexuality
Please submit 250 word abstracts for 20-minute papers by 15 November
2010. Please include academic affiliation, e-mail address, street
address, phone number, and audio-visual requirements. Abstracts may
be sent to TorontoASSC@gmail.com.
— Peter Buchanan and Colleen Butler, conference organizers
Sponsored by: Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of English,
Trinity College
For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: “INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES”
CALL FOR PAPERS: “INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES”
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures at the University of California,
Irvine invites submissions for its Third Annual Graduate Student
Conference:
INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES
Friday & Saturday, January 21-22, 2011
Keynote Address by Paul Strohm (Anna Garbedian Professor in the Humanities
at Columbia University)
Our contemporary understanding of interiority is tied to a sense of
domestic life, personal psychology, and the separation of public and
private spheres, all which suggest a model of human existence and
interaction that hinges on the delineation of what is ‘inside.’ This
conference revitalizes notions of the interior in premodern contexts,
ranging from the ancient era, through the medieval and early modern
periods, and into the eighteenth century. We define “interiority” loosely
as any terrain, such as conscience, mind, psyche, soul, or spirit, that
positions itself within a subject. Given this openness, we invite papers
across a variety of disciplines that investigate interiority in any of its
manifestations—literary, historical, visual, dramatic, legal, spiritual,
or philosophical—in early cultures. Fundamentally, we seek to question and
mobilize the borders between the interior and exterior as vital spaces of
containment and definition.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Religious Interiors: How do the concepts of the sacred and profane hinge
on an inner life? Can spiritual interiors conflict with one another? Do
dream visions and experiences of the sublime affectively challenge the
delineation of the interior?
Interior Bodies: Are interior spaces altered in concert with new
discourses of the body, disease, anatomy, and medical knowledge? Do
seemingly ‘exterior’ changes in consumption practices (food, goods,
clothing) rework internal awareness? How is queerness performed or
experienced within premodern interiority?
Political Interiors: Through what means do royal, national, and local
subjects construct interiorities? Does state power depend on constructing
interiority in its subjects? How do indigenous and colonial tensions
engage with sovereign interiority?
Textual Interiors: Do literary works contain interiorities through the
incorporation of authorial voice, as in memoirs or confessions? Are new
interiorities modified through translation?
Metaphorical Interiors: In what ways do material containers, such as
chambers, closets, or caskets, stand in for psychic interiors? How do
performed scenes gesture to, or create, a sense of interiority in their
spatial configuration?
All interested graduate students, from any university and discipline, are
welcome to submit a one-page abstract on any topic related to the self.
For more information. please visit the conference website at the Group for
the Study of Early Cultures at
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/
Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2010
Please limit the length of abstracts to no more than 300 words. Send
abstracts and CVs to earlycultures2010@gmail.com.
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures focuses mainly on fields that
investigate pre-modern societies, including but not limited to: Classics,
Late Antiquity, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, 18th Century
Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Islamic Studies.
We are also interested in a wide range of disciplinary approaches to Early
Cultures, including literary studies, history, art history, drama, visual
studies, sociology, culture studies, anthropology, political science,
philosophy, and religious studies. For more information about our
organization, please visit our website:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures at the University of California,
Irvine invites submissions for its Third Annual Graduate Student
Conference:
INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES
Friday & Saturday, January 21-22, 2011
Keynote Address by Paul Strohm (Anna Garbedian Professor in the Humanities
at Columbia University)
Our contemporary understanding of interiority is tied to a sense of
domestic life, personal psychology, and the separation of public and
private spheres, all which suggest a model of human existence and
interaction that hinges on the delineation of what is ‘inside.’ This
conference revitalizes notions of the interior in premodern contexts,
ranging from the ancient era, through the medieval and early modern
periods, and into the eighteenth century. We define “interiority” loosely
as any terrain, such as conscience, mind, psyche, soul, or spirit, that
positions itself within a subject. Given this openness, we invite papers
across a variety of disciplines that investigate interiority in any of its
manifestations—literary, historical, visual, dramatic, legal, spiritual,
or philosophical—in early cultures. Fundamentally, we seek to question and
mobilize the borders between the interior and exterior as vital spaces of
containment and definition.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Religious Interiors: How do the concepts of the sacred and profane hinge
on an inner life? Can spiritual interiors conflict with one another? Do
dream visions and experiences of the sublime affectively challenge the
delineation of the interior?
Interior Bodies: Are interior spaces altered in concert with new
discourses of the body, disease, anatomy, and medical knowledge? Do
seemingly ‘exterior’ changes in consumption practices (food, goods,
clothing) rework internal awareness? How is queerness performed or
experienced within premodern interiority?
Political Interiors: Through what means do royal, national, and local
subjects construct interiorities? Does state power depend on constructing
interiority in its subjects? How do indigenous and colonial tensions
engage with sovereign interiority?
Textual Interiors: Do literary works contain interiorities through the
incorporation of authorial voice, as in memoirs or confessions? Are new
interiorities modified through translation?
Metaphorical Interiors: In what ways do material containers, such as
chambers, closets, or caskets, stand in for psychic interiors? How do
performed scenes gesture to, or create, a sense of interiority in their
spatial configuration?
All interested graduate students, from any university and discipline, are
welcome to submit a one-page abstract on any topic related to the self.
For more information. please visit the conference website at the Group for
the Study of Early Cultures at
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/
Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2010
Please limit the length of abstracts to no more than 300 words. Send
abstracts and CVs to earlycultures2010@gmail.com.
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures focuses mainly on fields that
investigate pre-modern societies, including but not limited to: Classics,
Late Antiquity, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, 18th Century
Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Islamic Studies.
We are also interested in a wide range of disciplinary approaches to Early
Cultures, including literary studies, history, art history, drama, visual
studies, sociology, culture studies, anthropology, political science,
philosophy, and religious studies. For more information about our
organization, please visit our website:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/
ISAS New Voices
Attention all graduate student supervisors! The International Society of
Anglo-Saxonists is sponsoring two sessions at the International Medieval
Congress at Leeds in 2011. Proposals are welcomed from all areas of
Anglo-Saxon studies and on any topic. The conference theme in 2011 will
be
'Rich.Poor' and we particularly welcome proposals on this theme. Check out
the IMC conference website for more information on the theme:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011_call.html.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. If you have promising graduate
students with interesting papers, please encourage them to submit
proposals
to me (crec1@york.ac.uk) providing details of name, affiliation, title and
100 word abstract by 1 September 2010.
Katy Cubitt
Graduate Coordinator
ISAS
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of York, UK
Attention all graduate student supervisors! The International Society of
Anglo-Saxonists is sponsoring two sessions at the International Medieval
Congress at Leeds in 2011. Proposals are welcomed from all areas of
Anglo-Saxon studies and on any topic. The conference theme in 2011 will
be
'Rich.Poor' and we particularly welcome proposals on this theme. Check out
the IMC conference website for more information on the theme:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011_call.html.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. If you have promising graduate
students with interesting papers, please encourage them to submit
proposals
to me (crec1@york.ac.uk) providing details of name, affiliation, title and
100 word abstract by 1 September 2010.
Katy Cubitt
Graduate Coordinator
ISAS
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of York, UK
Anglo-Saxonists is sponsoring two sessions at the International Medieval
Congress at Leeds in 2011. Proposals are welcomed from all areas of
Anglo-Saxon studies and on any topic. The conference theme in 2011 will
be
'Rich.Poor' and we particularly welcome proposals on this theme. Check out
the IMC conference website for more information on the theme:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011_call.html.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. If you have promising graduate
students with interesting papers, please encourage them to submit
proposals
to me (crec1@york.ac.uk) providing details of name, affiliation, title and
100 word abstract by 1 September 2010.
Katy Cubitt
Graduate Coordinator
ISAS
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of York, UK
Attention all graduate student supervisors! The International Society of
Anglo-Saxonists is sponsoring two sessions at the International Medieval
Congress at Leeds in 2011. Proposals are welcomed from all areas of
Anglo-Saxon studies and on any topic. The conference theme in 2011 will
be
'Rich.Poor' and we particularly welcome proposals on this theme. Check out
the IMC conference website for more information on the theme:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011_call.html.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. If you have promising graduate
students with interesting papers, please encourage them to submit
proposals
to me (crec1@york.ac.uk) providing details of name, affiliation, title and
100 word abstract by 1 September 2010.
Katy Cubitt
Graduate Coordinator
ISAS
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of York, UK
Thursday, September 9, 2010
American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) and The Heroic Age CFP
The American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) seeks to engage a diverse group of medievalists in broad scholarly conversations about Ireland and its relationship to Britain and the continent. To that end, we have collaborated with The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe to co-sponsor an interdisciplinary session at the 2011 Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo.
Navigations Through Medieval Ireland: Physical, Mythological, and Virtual Journeys.
This session examines medieval voyages. We interpret the idea of voyages broadly to encompass literary themes of wandering, the idea of travels to other-worldly?locations, the actual movement of things and people among physical locales, the transmission of ideas across landscapes, and the material culture that facilitated voyaging. In addition to the geographical reality of Ireland as an island, the culture preserves a long history and tradition of actual and legendary sea-faring voyages. This interdisciplinary panel will offer a range of scholarly perspectives and case studies on the topic, addressing both the reception and adaptation of European models and uniquely Irish contributions.
We welcome submissions in any area of Medieval Studies. Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a completed Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) can be emailed to the organizer: Maggie Williams, William Paterson University, williamsm11@wpunj.edu no later than September 15, 2010.
Navigations Through Medieval Ireland: Physical, Mythological, and Virtual Journeys.
This session examines medieval voyages. We interpret the idea of voyages broadly to encompass literary themes of wandering, the idea of travels to other-worldly?locations, the actual movement of things and people among physical locales, the transmission of ideas across landscapes, and the material culture that facilitated voyaging. In addition to the geographical reality of Ireland as an island, the culture preserves a long history and tradition of actual and legendary sea-faring voyages. This interdisciplinary panel will offer a range of scholarly perspectives and case studies on the topic, addressing both the reception and adaptation of European models and uniquely Irish contributions.
We welcome submissions in any area of Medieval Studies. Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a completed Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) can be emailed to the organizer: Maggie Williams, William Paterson University, williamsm11@wpunj.edu no later than September 15, 2010.
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