Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ordo 8th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society - Paris CALL FOR PAPERS

Ordo
8th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society - Paris
CALL FOR PAPERS

Dates: 30 June – 2 July 2011
Location: Paris, France
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2011

The International Medieval Society in Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions
for its 2011 Symposium organized around the theme of ordo in medieval
France.

In the Middle Ages the Latin term, ordo, designated all kind of
concepts for classifying realities or ideas. Divine order as well as
various human ordines created a certain stability which had to be
reaffirmed time and again in order to retain its validity. Social,
ideal, iconographic and other orders were established, maintained,
and sometimes overturned, but even then the order had to be invoked.
What are these orders, these ways of thinking and ordering?
Particular emphasis will be placed on the question of knowing how
this medieval knowledge was ordered and classified.

We welcome papers on the following topics, and others:
• ordering, arranging, classifying
• organisation and reorganisation of knowledge
• envisioning an ordo and visual/pictorial strategies
• divine ordo and human ordines
• liturgical ordo and secular order
• musical ordo

Papers should focus on France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul, but are
not limited exclusively to this geographical area.

We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines including, but
not limited to, anthropology, history, urban history, history of
science and medicine, art history, gender studies, literary studies,
musicology, philosophy, religious sciences, and theology.

Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute
paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 15
January 2011.

In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information,
a CV and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required
for your presentation.

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2011. The IMS will
review submissions and respond via e-mail by 1 February 2011. Titles
of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web site.
Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel
costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for
students, free for IMS members).

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English)
organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who
research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information
about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see
our website: www.ims-paris.org.

IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize

This year the IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best
graduate student paper proposal. Applications should consist of:
1) Symposium paper abstract/proposal,
2) current research project (Ph.D. dissertation research),
3) names and contact information of two academic references.
The prizewinner will be determined by the board and a committee of
honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the
Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international
travel/accommodations (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the
Symposium.

Ordo
8e symposium annuel de la Société Internationale des Médiévistes - Paris
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

Dates : 30 juin – 2 juillet 2011
Lieu : Paris, France
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 15 janvier 2011

La Société Internationale des Médiévistes de Paris (IMS-Paris)
sollicite l’envoi de communications et de thèmes de sessions
complètes pour son colloque 2011 portant sur le thème d’ordo dans la
France médiévale.

Le terme latin d’ordo désigne au moyen âge toutes sortes de concepts
visant à classer différentes réalités ou idées. L’ordre divin, mais
aussi les différents ordines humains créaient ainsi une stabilité qui
devait être réaffirmée de temps en temps afin de garder sa vigueur.
Un ordre social, idéel, iconographique etc. était établi, préservé et
parfois renversé, mais il fallait alors l’évoquer. Quels sont ces
ordres, ces façons de penser et d’ordonner ? Un accent particulier
sera mis sur la question de savoir comment ce savoir médiéval était
ordonné et classé.

Nous accueillerons volontiers des interventions sur les sujets
suivants ou autres :
• Ordonner, ranger, classer
• Organisation et réorganisation du savoir
• La visualisation d’un ordo et les strategies visuelles
• Ordo divin et ordines humains
• Ordo liturgique et ordre profane
• Ordo musical

Les contributions doivent porter sur la France, la Francie, ou la
Gaule post-romaine, sans être exclusivement limitées à cette aire
géographique. Nous encourageons les propositions de communications
provenant de disciplines variées comme l’anthropologie, l’histoire,
l’histoire urbaine, l’histoire des sciences et de la médecine,
l’histoire de l’art, les « gender studies », les études littéraires,
la linguistique, la musicologie, la philosophie, les sciences
religieuses, la théologie…

Les résumés de 300 mots maximum pour une communication de 20 minutes
devront être addressées par courriel à contact@ims-paris.org au plus
tard le 15 janvier 2011. Merci d’inclure également vos coordonnées
complètes, un CV, et une liste indicative de tout équipement
audiovisuel nécessaire pour votre présentation.

La date limite pour l’envoi des résumés de communication est le 15
janvier 2011. L’IMS-Paris examinera les propositions et fera
connaître sa réponse par courriel au 1er février 2011. Les titres des
communications retenues seront disponibles sur le site internet de
l’IMS. Les auteurs dont les communications auront été retenues
prendront en charge leurs dépenses personnelles de voyage et leurs
frais d’inscription au colloque (35 € par personne, tarif réduit pour
les étudiants, gratuit pour les membres de l’IMS).

L’IMS-Paris est une association interdisciplinaire et bilingue
(français-anglais) créée pour favoriser les échanges entre les
médiévistes qui effectuent des recherches, travaillent ou étudient en
France. Pour plus d’informations sur l’IMS et le calendrier des
colloques des années passées, merci de consulter notre site internet:
www.ims-paris.org

SIM-Paris Prix pour doctorants

Cette année la Société Internationale des Médiévistes (Paris) propose
un prix qui sera décerné pour la meilleure proposition de
communication par un(e) doctorant(e). Le dossier de candidature
consistera en
1) la proposition de communication,
2) une esquisse du projet de recherche actuel (thèse de doctorat),
3) les noms et coordonnées de deux références universitaires.

Le lauréat sera choisi par le bureau de la SIM et un comité de
membres honoraires ; il en sera informé dès l’acceptation de sa
proposition. Une prime de 150 euro pour défrayer une partie des coûts
de transport et d’hébergement à Paris depuis la France (350 euros
depuis l’étranger) lui sera versée lors du Symposium.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Jim Falls Paper Prize

Attention Graduate Students,
papers accepted for the 35th Mid-America Medieval Conference can be
submitted for the Jim Falls Paper Prize. Send an electronic copy of
your presentation--it MUST fit within the 20-minute time
limit--including university affiliation and degree program to me, the
Treasurer-Secretary of MAMA by February 1, 2011. Don't forget the CFP
deadline is December 15, 2010 (copied below). See the MAMA website
for a list of previous winners and more information on MAMA 35.

Latin and Greek in the Summer

The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school
for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses
are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines
who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for
further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like
to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar
and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.

For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/summ_sch.html
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College
Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277,
email: v.janssens@ucc.ie

11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

The 11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals that engage broadly with the notion of community. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions ranging in historical focus from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Our topic is intended to be expansive rather than limiting; papers may conceive of community as a social, economic, intellectual, political, religious, ethnic, regional, or familial entity. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: patronage, readership and interpretive practice, scientific or medical communities, family and kinship, faith communities, identity and subjectivity, membership and exclusion, manuscripts and printing, relations within or between groups, or the rhetoric of community.



This interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 18 and 19, 2011. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Deborah McGrady, professor of French at the University of Virginia and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, delivering a paper on French patronage and literary production during the Hundred Years War. The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies is a cooperative venture between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.



The time limit for essays is 20 minutes. Paper proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted to ncmems@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010.

IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT

IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM
ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT

REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS - LUICD Graduate Conference 2011

Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines
27 and 28 January 2011



Confirmed keynote speakers:

Professor Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
University


THE CONFERENCE

‘Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique’. Otto von Bismarck's
elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander
Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted
statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a
geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more
often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere
geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul
Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with ‘a consciousness
acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of
the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical
coincidences’. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different
representations. Europe has always signified different things to different
people in different places – inside Europe as well as outside. Europe
meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l’aubergiste
d’Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a
century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today.

This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been
imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from
classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the
historical range of the LUICD’s three research programmes (Classics and
Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and
Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the
institute’s research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic
perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular
attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these
images were created and the media and genres in which they have been
presented.

Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing
perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore
the notion of similarity – are there any aspects that keep recurring in
the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically
European?

The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the
humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands
and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and
interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that
Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our
invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions
during the conference.

PROPOSALS

The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s
interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes
proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the
humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The
conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe
(from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working
in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to
submit a proposal.

Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual
and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-
colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues.
Questions that could be raised include: how did (and do) oppositions such
as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old
versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe? What role
does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions? What
ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept
of Europe? In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism
compete with identity formation on a continental level? How have
individual artists represented Europe? How do different (literary) genres,
such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a
particular image of Europe or Europe’s relations with other cultures? Is
it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing
perceptions of Europe? How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the
changing identity of Europe today?

Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to
C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl . The deadline for the proposals is 1 November
2010 – you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected
before 15 November 2010.

After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or
in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.

A conference website ( http://hum.leiden.edu/icd/imagining-europe ), with
more information about the programme, speakers, accommodation and other
conference matters, will be launched later this autumn, but if you have
any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not
hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address.




The organizing committee:

Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas

Sixth North American Syriac Symposium

Duke University is hosting the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium on
June 26-29, 2011. Information can be found at the following link:

http://syriacsymposium.trinity.duke.edu/

The organizing committee now invites paper proposals on any topic in the
field of Syriac studies. Standard papers are 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10
minutes discussion). Paper proposals will be accepted until January 1,
2011, but early submissions are very much encouraged. To submit a paper
proposal, please use the form on the website.

The website also contains information about Registration and Travel &
Lodging.

PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V

PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V

INFIRMITAS
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CURE, CARING AND HEALTH

August 23 – 26, 2012

Call for Papers

University of Tampere, Finland
Department of History and Philosophy
Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the
Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health
and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability.
These topics are of major importance for communities and societies
both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still
fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are
rare.

We welcome papers which focus on different actors – institutions,
communities, families or individuals – and have a sensitive approach
to social differences: gender, age and status. Thus, the focus lies
on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and
similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the
expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the
practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental
disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social
consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in
caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families,
communities and in society? We aim not to concentrate on medical or
technical aspects of health and illness, but rather to integrate them
in a larger social and cultural context.

The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but
also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and
Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions having
themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective.

If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out
thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your
contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by
e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi. The
deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2011, and the notification
of paper acceptance will be made in November 2011. Conference papers
may be presented in major scientific languages, however supplied with
English summary or translation if the language of presentation is not
English. The registration fee is 100 € (post-graduate students: 50 €).
For further information, please visit
http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or contact the organizers by
e-mailing to passages@uta.fi. The registration opens in November 2011.

Organizing Committee:
Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Katariina Mustakallio, Dr. Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa and Dr. Ville Vuolanto

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

New HA Issue and Share postmedieval cluster

It is with very great pleasure that I announce the publication of The Heroic Age Issue 14.1! This issue marks a number of rather exciting firsts. It is the first, so far as I know, joint publication of a shared cluster of essays between two different organizations, with two different emphases in the field, in two different formats (one entirely online and the other chiefly [though not exclusively] in print. For us at HA it is also the first of a series of new practices: in this case, guest editors putting together a section of essays in their areas of expertise. In this inaugural issue, we have Eileen Joy of postmedieval and the Babel Working Group has put together a cluster of essays published in both HA and in postmedieval: Essays by Elaine Treharne, Gillian Overing and Clare Lees, and Mary Dockray-Miller appear in HA at http://www.heroicage.org. At the Palgrave website for a limited time, essays appearing in the postmedieval authored by Jacqueli!
ne A Stodnick and Renée R Trilling , Kathleen Davis, Carol Braun Pasternack, and Lisa M. C. Weston and appear at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/v1/n3/index.html#Critical-exchange-II:-The-State-of-Early-English-Studies-(Editor:-Eileen-A.-Joy). In addition, John Sodeberg contributes the first of a new column for us in the field of late antique/early medieval archaeology.

Another first for HA is that we have an embarrassment of riches. So we have split the issue slightly in order to give each section its due and recognize each set of authors for their excellent work. 14.2 which will appear later this month is guest edited by Andrew Rabin on Anglo-Saxon Law. We are pleased to have Kathryn Powell, Lisa Oliver, Nathan Breen, Jay Paul Gates, Rebecca Brackman, Daniela Fruscione. Along with these fine articles, we are quite pleased to have a review essay by Marijane Osborn. A full table of contents is available at: http://www.heroicage.org/issues/14/toc.php

I'd like to thank Deanna Forsman, Eileen Joy, Andrew Rabin, and Brad Eden for their hard work in helping all this come to fruition. I would also like to mention and thank Bill Hamilton, Kris Vetter, and Heather Flowers for editing and copy editing; without them performing this task, this issue would not appear. Thank you all. I hope you, the reader enjoy the issue(s), and as always, commentary is welcome.