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
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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.
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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.
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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.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Call for Papers: The 32nd annual conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies
Call for Papers: The 32nd annual conference of the Australasian
Society for Classical Studies (ASCS)
The Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of
Auckland is pleased to host the 32nd annual conference of the
Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS), which this year
will also incorporate the Triennial Conference of New Zealand
Universities' Classics Departments. The conference will be held from
Monday 24 January 2011 to Thursday 27 January 2011 at the University
of Auckland's main city campus (Auckland, New Zealand).
We hereby invite abstracts for papers (20 - 25 minutes long, followed
by discussion) from academic staff, graduate students and other
interested parties on any aspect of the classical world. We are
particularly keen to encourage papers on a broad range of literary,
historical, and archaeological topics.
Some suggested areas of interest include: Classical literature;
Greco-Roman history; Ancient Egypt; Late Antiquity; Ancient
Philosophy; Warfare; Trade and Economy; Ancient Art and Material
Culture
Please register and submit individual abstracts via the conference
website (www.ascs32.com). Offers of coordinated panels are also
welcome. Please contact the conference conveners (Info@ascs32.com)
for additional information. All abstracts should be submitted by 1
October 2010.
Conference convenors:
Dr Jeremy Armstrong [js.armstrong@auckland.ac.nz]
Assoc. Prof. Anne Mackay [anne.mackay@auckland.ac.nz]
Society for Classical Studies (ASCS)
The Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of
Auckland is pleased to host the 32nd annual conference of the
Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS), which this year
will also incorporate the Triennial Conference of New Zealand
Universities' Classics Departments. The conference will be held from
Monday 24 January 2011 to Thursday 27 January 2011 at the University
of Auckland's main city campus (Auckland, New Zealand).
We hereby invite abstracts for papers (20 - 25 minutes long, followed
by discussion) from academic staff, graduate students and other
interested parties on any aspect of the classical world. We are
particularly keen to encourage papers on a broad range of literary,
historical, and archaeological topics.
Some suggested areas of interest include: Classical literature;
Greco-Roman history; Ancient Egypt; Late Antiquity; Ancient
Philosophy; Warfare; Trade and Economy; Ancient Art and Material
Culture
Please register and submit individual abstracts via the conference
website (www.ascs32.com). Offers of coordinated panels are also
welcome. Please contact the conference conveners (Info@ascs32.com)
for additional information. All abstracts should be submitted by 1
October 2010.
Conference convenors:
Dr Jeremy Armstrong [js.armstrong@auckland.ac.nz]
Assoc. Prof. Anne Mackay [anne.mackay@auckland.ac.nz]
Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application
Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of
Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application
(MEARCSTAPA) invites submissions for either of its sessions at the
46th International Medieval Congress.
Panel 1: Outlaws, Outliers, and Outsiders
This panel explores the intersection of myth and reality, of
boundaries and borders between this world, other worlds and their
inhabitants. From tales of outlaws exiled by law to those who lurk on
the boundaries of "civilization," this panel welcomes papers on all
manner of outsiders in any genre.
Panel 2: Prehuman, Nonhuman, Posthuman: Monsters in the Middle Ages
This panel explores the concept of monstrosity in the Middle Ages, as
well as connections between understandings of the monstrous in the
medieval and all subsequent periods. Submissions are welcome on all
aspects of the monstrous in all fields of study from the medieval to
modern medievalism.
Submissions (abstracts of 300 words and PIFs, available on the
Congress website) should be sent no later than 15 September 2010 to
the contact information below.
Renee Ward
Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Dept. of English and Film Studies
75 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Canada
Phone: 519-884-0839
Fax: 519-884-8307
rward@wlu.ca
Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application
(MEARCSTAPA) invites submissions for either of its sessions at the
46th International Medieval Congress.
Panel 1: Outlaws, Outliers, and Outsiders
This panel explores the intersection of myth and reality, of
boundaries and borders between this world, other worlds and their
inhabitants. From tales of outlaws exiled by law to those who lurk on
the boundaries of "civilization," this panel welcomes papers on all
manner of outsiders in any genre.
Panel 2: Prehuman, Nonhuman, Posthuman: Monsters in the Middle Ages
This panel explores the concept of monstrosity in the Middle Ages, as
well as connections between understandings of the monstrous in the
medieval and all subsequent periods. Submissions are welcome on all
aspects of the monstrous in all fields of study from the medieval to
modern medievalism.
Submissions (abstracts of 300 words and PIFs, available on the
Congress website) should be sent no later than 15 September 2010 to
the contact information below.
Renee Ward
Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Dept. of English and Film Studies
75 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Canada
Phone: 519-884-0839
Fax: 519-884-8307
rward@wlu.ca
“Travel in the World of Arthur”
CFP, International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University
(“Kalamazoo”): May 12-15, 2011
(With apologies for cross-posting)
“Travel in the World of Arthur”
The International Arthurian Society, North American Branch is hosting a
session on Traveling in (and out of) the World of Arthur for the
46thInternational Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. The topic is broadly
envisioned, to include travel both physical and metaphorical/allegorical, in
any branch of Arthurian Studies – Literary, Historical, Art Historical, and
any other discipline; the English, French, Welsh, German, and any other
Arthurian tradition; the historical, chronicle, romance, poem cycle, epic,
novel, or any other Arthurian literary form or genre, and treating any
figure or figures featured within the world of Arthur. Special consideration
will be given to papers which explore (or “travel to”) the concept of Arthur
from a nontraditional viewpoint, i.e. Arthurian narratives in South American
and/or Asian/Middle Eastern/African contexts. There is room in this session
for three, twenty-minute papers on this subject.
Please send a 250-300 word abstract or proposal and completed participation
form to Dr. Kevin Harty, (harty@lasalle.edu) by September 10, 2010.
Questions about the session should be directed to the session organizer,
Melissa Ridley Elmes at melissaelmes@carlbrook.org.
(“Kalamazoo”): May 12-15, 2011
(With apologies for cross-posting)
“Travel in the World of Arthur”
The International Arthurian Society, North American Branch is hosting a
session on Traveling in (and out of) the World of Arthur for the
46thInternational Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. The topic is broadly
envisioned, to include travel both physical and metaphorical/allegorical, in
any branch of Arthurian Studies – Literary, Historical, Art Historical, and
any other discipline; the English, French, Welsh, German, and any other
Arthurian tradition; the historical, chronicle, romance, poem cycle, epic,
novel, or any other Arthurian literary form or genre, and treating any
figure or figures featured within the world of Arthur. Special consideration
will be given to papers which explore (or “travel to”) the concept of Arthur
from a nontraditional viewpoint, i.e. Arthurian narratives in South American
and/or Asian/Middle Eastern/African contexts. There is room in this session
for three, twenty-minute papers on this subject.
Please send a 250-300 word abstract or proposal and completed participation
form to Dr. Kevin Harty, (harty@lasalle.edu) by September 10, 2010.
Questions about the session should be directed to the session organizer,
Melissa Ridley Elmes at melissaelmes@carlbrook.org.
Medieval Cognitive Literary and Scientific Studies
The Medieval Cognitive Literary and Scientific Studies group seeks
submissions for three panels to be held at the 2011 Medieval Congress
at Kalamazoo. This year each of the three panels will have a specific
focus under the wider umbrella, “Cognitive Approaches to the Middle
Ages,” as the general CFP explains:
Cognitive Approaches to the Middle Ages I–III: I. Theory of Mind and
Literature; II. Perception of Visual and Acoustic Phenomena; III.
Philosophies of Remembering (Amnesia and Memory) (3)
Ronald Ganze
Univ. of South Dakota
Dept. of English, 212 Dakota Hall
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: 605-670-0744
Fax: 605-677-5298
ron.ganze@usd.edu
submissions for three panels to be held at the 2011 Medieval Congress
at Kalamazoo. This year each of the three panels will have a specific
focus under the wider umbrella, “Cognitive Approaches to the Middle
Ages,” as the general CFP explains:
Cognitive Approaches to the Middle Ages I–III: I. Theory of Mind and
Literature; II. Perception of Visual and Acoustic Phenomena; III.
Philosophies of Remembering (Amnesia and Memory) (3)
Ronald Ganze
Univ. of South Dakota
Dept. of English, 212 Dakota Hall
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: 605-670-0744
Fax: 605-677-5298
ron.ganze@usd.edu
Special Session: Neuming Medieval Literary Manuscripts: Text, Theory, Case Study
Call for Papers
ICMS, Kalamazoo, MI 2011
*Special Session: Neuming Medieval Literary Manuscripts: Text, Theory, Case
Study
*Following a line of inquiry put forward by Jan Ziolkowski in *Nota
Bene,*this panel seeks to build out a more robust understanding of uses of
neumes
(medieval musical notations) in non-performative spaces in the Middle Ages.
The appearance of neumes in historical, homiletic and literary manuscripts
troubles the designations performative/non-performative and raises
questions
about literacy and performance from the 10th-12th centuries.
This panel invites papers exploring the appearance of neumes in unexpected
texts and contexts. Was literary neuming widespread geographically, and
long-lived? Was it more likely to occur in specific locations or times?
What role do neumes play in relation to developing forms of punctuation? Just how
broad is the list of neumed "literary" works? Was it restricted to the
Classics, or much more open-ended? Does neuming reveal or cross the
boundaries between texuality, orality and aurality, and if so, how?
Send abstracts for twenty-minute papers to:
Sharon M. Rowley
Department of English
Christopher Newport University
1 University Place
Newport News, VA 23606
ICMS, Kalamazoo, MI 2011
*Special Session: Neuming Medieval Literary Manuscripts: Text, Theory, Case
Study
*Following a line of inquiry put forward by Jan Ziolkowski in *Nota
Bene,*this panel seeks to build out a more robust understanding of uses of
neumes
(medieval musical notations) in non-performative spaces in the Middle Ages.
The appearance of neumes in historical, homiletic and literary manuscripts
troubles the designations performative/non-performative and raises
questions
about literacy and performance from the 10th-12th centuries.
This panel invites papers exploring the appearance of neumes in unexpected
texts and contexts. Was literary neuming widespread geographically, and
long-lived? Was it more likely to occur in specific locations or times?
What role do neumes play in relation to developing forms of punctuation? Just how
broad is the list of neumed "literary" works? Was it restricted to the
Classics, or much more open-ended? Does neuming reveal or cross the
boundaries between texuality, orality and aurality, and if so, how?
Send abstracts for twenty-minute papers to:
Sharon M. Rowley
Department of English
Christopher Newport University
1 University Place
Newport News, VA 23606
Rich Names, Poor Names: Social Status and Naming Patterns in the Middle Ages: CFP
===================================================================
Rich Names, Poor Names: Social Status and
Naming Patterns in the Middle Ages
Call for Papers
Leeds International Medieval Congress
11 - 14 July 2011
===================================================================
Onomastics, the study of names and naming practice, has long provided
a useful window into cultural behavior, including differences in
wealth, power, and social standing. In light of the special thematic
focus
"Poor...Rich" for the 2011 International Medieval Congress in Leeds, we
are soliciting paper proposals for inclusion in a session exploring the
relationships between social status and naming patterns in all areas
and times of medieval Europe. Questions which we hope to address in
this session include, but are not limited to:
* How did the names of poor people differ from the names of rich people?
* How did naming patterns disperse from the metropolitan centers into
the country side?
* How did one's occupational status affect one's names?
* How do names express differences in wealth and power?
* What shifts in names and naming practices can we see as people rise
in social rank?
* What effect did (change of) ownership have on names of places?
We are interested in proposals which cover not only personal names, but
also names of places and other non-personal names such as names of
guilds, military companies and orders, ships, university colleges,
clans, heraldic titles, etc.
Proposals for papers (max. 1 page) on any of these or related topics
should be submitted to Sara L. Uckelman at S.L.Uckelman@uva.nl by 15
September 2010. Authors will be notified whether their paper has been
selected for inclusion in the session proposal by 25 September 2010.
Note that papers will only be selected for inclusion in the session
proposal; the final decision of the inclusion of the session rests with
the Congress organizers and will be announced sometime in early November
2010.
For more information about the Leeds Medieval Congress, see
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/index.html
Rich Names, Poor Names: Social Status and
Naming Patterns in the Middle Ages
Call for Papers
Leeds International Medieval Congress
11 - 14 July 2011
===================================================================
Onomastics, the study of names and naming practice, has long provided
a useful window into cultural behavior, including differences in
wealth, power, and social standing. In light of the special thematic
focus
"Poor...Rich" for the 2011 International Medieval Congress in Leeds, we
are soliciting paper proposals for inclusion in a session exploring the
relationships between social status and naming patterns in all areas
and times of medieval Europe. Questions which we hope to address in
this session include, but are not limited to:
* How did the names of poor people differ from the names of rich people?
* How did naming patterns disperse from the metropolitan centers into
the country side?
* How did one's occupational status affect one's names?
* How do names express differences in wealth and power?
* What shifts in names and naming practices can we see as people rise
in social rank?
* What effect did (change of) ownership have on names of places?
We are interested in proposals which cover not only personal names, but
also names of places and other non-personal names such as names of
guilds, military companies and orders, ships, university colleges,
clans, heraldic titles, etc.
Proposals for papers (max. 1 page) on any of these or related topics
should be submitted to Sara L. Uckelman at S.L.Uckelman@uva.nl by 15
September 2010. Authors will be notified whether their paper has been
selected for inclusion in the session proposal by 25 September 2010.
Note that papers will only be selected for inclusion in the session
proposal; the final decision of the inclusion of the session rests with
the Congress organizers and will be announced sometime in early November
2010.
For more information about the Leeds Medieval Congress, see
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/index.html
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Special session: Translating and Adapting Old Testament Wisdom
International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University
May 12-15, 2011
Special session: Translating and Adapting Old Testament Wisdom
We are seeking papers focused on the translation, adapation and use of
proverbs and other types of Old Testament wisdom in all forms of
expression including textual, and musical.
Please send abstracts to:
Professor Laurie Postlewate
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
212-854-2053
lpostlew@barnard.edu
May 12-15, 2011
Special session: Translating and Adapting Old Testament Wisdom
We are seeking papers focused on the translation, adapation and use of
proverbs and other types of Old Testament wisdom in all forms of
expression including textual, and musical.
Please send abstracts to:
Professor Laurie Postlewate
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
212-854-2053
lpostlew@barnard.edu
Societas Daemoniaci
The Societas Daemoniaci has room for one more paper in their 2011 ICMS session "Hell Studies"! Papers addressing any aspect of the study of Hell, demons, the devil or the damned are welcome. More information can be found at the Societas Daemoniaci website, at http://societasdaemoniaci.blogspot.com, or contact organizer Richard Burley at societas.daemoniaci@gmail.com.
Mearstapa
Call for Papers:
MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research
of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application)
The 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI (as ever)
May 12-15, 2011
Panel 1:
Outlaws, Outliers, and Outsiders
This panel explores the intersection of myth and reality, of
boundaries and borders between this world, other worlds and their
inhabitants. From tales of outlaws exiled by law to those who lurk on
the boundaries of "civilization," this panel welcomes papers on all
manner of outsiders in any genre.
Panel 2:
Prehuman, Nonhuman, Posthuman: Monsters in the Middle Ages
This panel explores the concept of monstrosity in the Middle Ages, as
well as connections between understandings of the monstrous in the
medieval and all subsequent periods. Submissions are welcome on all
aspects of the monstrous in all fields of study from the medieval to
modern medievalism.
Send abstracts via email to:
Renee Ward
rmward@ualberta.ca
rward@wlu.ca
MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research
of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application)
The 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI (as ever)
May 12-15, 2011
Panel 1:
Outlaws, Outliers, and Outsiders
This panel explores the intersection of myth and reality, of
boundaries and borders between this world, other worlds and their
inhabitants. From tales of outlaws exiled by law to those who lurk on
the boundaries of "civilization," this panel welcomes papers on all
manner of outsiders in any genre.
Panel 2:
Prehuman, Nonhuman, Posthuman: Monsters in the Middle Ages
This panel explores the concept of monstrosity in the Middle Ages, as
well as connections between understandings of the monstrous in the
medieval and all subsequent periods. Submissions are welcome on all
aspects of the monstrous in all fields of study from the medieval to
modern medievalism.
Send abstracts via email to:
Renee Ward
rmward@ualberta.ca
rward@wlu.ca
Teaching off the Grid: The Promise and Perils of Using Non-Canonical Texts in the Classroom
Teaching off the Grid: The Promise and Perils of Using Non-Canonical Texts in the Classroom (Roundtable discussion)
The “canon wars” of the 1980s and 90s may seem a distant memory, yet literary canonicity continues to be a vexed and embattled concept. While the list of texts considered canonical for the medieval and early modern periods is constantly growing, the canon by nature is exclusive and omits a large number of important, interesting, and very teachable non-canonical literary texts. Often, practical difficulties—including departmental requirements, a lack of suitable editions, and the absence of pedagogical discussion about these texts—hinder the inclusion of such promising texts in our classrooms.
This session seeks to overcome some of these difficulties by exploring specific pedagogical strategies for including non-canonical medieval and early modern literary texts in the classroom. Short (10-15 min.) papers will discuss approaches to teaching specific non-canonical texts, with particular attention to how these texts can be placed in dialogue with more canonical course readings. (The session will attempt to avoid papers that debate the canonicity of any particular text.) What unique insights do non-canonical texts offer students? What might we lose by introducing non-canonical texts into our classrooms? Papers focusing on early modern literary texts are particularly encouraged.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to Gina Brandolino (g.brandolino@gmail.com) and Nate Smith (smith2nb@cmich.edu) by Sept. 15, although early submissions are appreciated.
The “canon wars” of the 1980s and 90s may seem a distant memory, yet literary canonicity continues to be a vexed and embattled concept. While the list of texts considered canonical for the medieval and early modern periods is constantly growing, the canon by nature is exclusive and omits a large number of important, interesting, and very teachable non-canonical literary texts. Often, practical difficulties—including departmental requirements, a lack of suitable editions, and the absence of pedagogical discussion about these texts—hinder the inclusion of such promising texts in our classrooms.
This session seeks to overcome some of these difficulties by exploring specific pedagogical strategies for including non-canonical medieval and early modern literary texts in the classroom. Short (10-15 min.) papers will discuss approaches to teaching specific non-canonical texts, with particular attention to how these texts can be placed in dialogue with more canonical course readings. (The session will attempt to avoid papers that debate the canonicity of any particular text.) What unique insights do non-canonical texts offer students? What might we lose by introducing non-canonical texts into our classrooms? Papers focusing on early modern literary texts are particularly encouraged.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to Gina Brandolino (g.brandolino@gmail.com) and Nate Smith (smith2nb@cmich.edu) by Sept. 15, although early submissions are appreciated.
Desire (and Its Malcontents) in Late Medieval England
This is a call for papers for Kalamazoo in May 2011, for a session
called "Desire (and Its Malcontents) in Late Medieval England."
Desire--for another, for some object, or for some objective--is
fairly universal among people, but as a strong emotion it can either
overcome rational control or be brutally suppressed, at either
extreme. Most of us control it and act with reason to fulfill our
desires or deny them, depending on the socially acceptable means of
obtaining them and on circumstances regarding the objects themselves.
Late medieval England witnessed a burgeoning of lay interest in
literature and piety in ways not previously documented closely; that
is, the growth of a literate middle class produced a growth of written
and other materials that reflected their interests, even as these
materials pandered to those interests. It also produced a large and
growing body of vernacular literature, increasingly secular in nature.
This session intends to bring together historical, literary,
pastoral, devotional, artistic, and other studies that investigate the
emotion of desire, whether through its depiction as a natural feature
of human existence, as a feature to be suppressed and inhibited, as
one to be sublimated in other directions, or as one to be viewed in
some other fashion.
Comparisons with our own attitudes will be unavoidable, but the
papers should focus on late-medieval attitudes as revealed through
physical remains. At the same time, the remains should be allowed to
speak for themselves as contemporaries would have intended and
understood them, not as modern theories would prefer to interpret them
in ahistorical ways.
Since this is not a pre-organized session with empty slots, 3 or 4
papers (which will be limited to 20 or 15 minutes' speaking time,
respectively) are welcome. Please send abstracts by September 15th to
me privately (not to the list) by e-mail (lidaka@wvstateu.edu or
j.g.lidaka@gmail.com) or s-mail, as below. Please be sure to supply
the other documentation the Medieval Congress requires:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
called "Desire (and Its Malcontents) in Late Medieval England."
Desire--for another, for some object, or for some objective--is
fairly universal among people, but as a strong emotion it can either
overcome rational control or be brutally suppressed, at either
extreme. Most of us control it and act with reason to fulfill our
desires or deny them, depending on the socially acceptable means of
obtaining them and on circumstances regarding the objects themselves.
Late medieval England witnessed a burgeoning of lay interest in
literature and piety in ways not previously documented closely; that
is, the growth of a literate middle class produced a growth of written
and other materials that reflected their interests, even as these
materials pandered to those interests. It also produced a large and
growing body of vernacular literature, increasingly secular in nature.
This session intends to bring together historical, literary,
pastoral, devotional, artistic, and other studies that investigate the
emotion of desire, whether through its depiction as a natural feature
of human existence, as a feature to be suppressed and inhibited, as
one to be sublimated in other directions, or as one to be viewed in
some other fashion.
Comparisons with our own attitudes will be unavoidable, but the
papers should focus on late-medieval attitudes as revealed through
physical remains. At the same time, the remains should be allowed to
speak for themselves as contemporaries would have intended and
understood them, not as modern theories would prefer to interpret them
in ahistorical ways.
Since this is not a pre-organized session with empty slots, 3 or 4
papers (which will be limited to 20 or 15 minutes' speaking time,
respectively) are welcome. Please send abstracts by September 15th to
me privately (not to the list) by e-mail (lidaka@wvstateu.edu or
j.g.lidaka@gmail.com) or s-mail, as below. Please be sure to supply
the other documentation the Medieval Congress requires:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
Updates and Reminder
I think as we approach a three day weekend in the USA and the end of the second week of classes at my new station in life, I should highlight that the deadlines for submissions to the Kalamazoo Congress are coming up in 2 weeks. Keep that in mind folks!
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