Religious Worlds of Late Antiquity

Religious Worlds of Late Antiquity (RWLA) will be sponsoring three sessions at the SBL in San Francisco in Nov 2011
This is the Call for Papers:
Religious World of Late Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Group
Accepting Papers? Until 3/1/2011
Call For Papers:

1)Beyond the Sensible: Religious Objects, Perception and Power

Some of the objects with the greatest religious meaning or function in the religions of Late Antiquity were not perceptible by the five human senses, either because they were deliberately kept hidden, because they no longer existed, or because they were literally insensible - incapable of being apprehended through the body. What is the relationship between the importance of an object in ancient religiosity and its ability to be perceived? Were hidden objects regarded as more or less powerful than perceivable objects? Did formerly sensible objects, like relics, lose or gain power or authority once they were hidden?

2)The Materiality of Texts / The Word as Object

At some point in the development of sacred texts, readers became aware of them as material entities. How did this awareness affect their adornment, both inside with ornate calligraphy and illuminations, and outside with ornamented covers? How did this development influence ritual practices? What happens to our understanding or even interpretation of text when it depends as much, if not more on the materiality of the text than on the words themselves? How does thinking about the materiality of ancient texts (and attendant technologies) provide insight into the development of ritual practices and other embodied ideas of the sacred? Co-sponsored with Art and Religions of Antiquity and Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism. Submit proposals for this session to only one of the three co-sponsoring units.

3) Material remains of violence

We invite proposals for a shared panel on the material remains of violence. Papers addressing the destruction and/or reuse of cult sites and the memorializing of violent acts through relics, objects, altars and tombs and spaces are especially welcome. Submit proposals to the Violence and Representation of Violence unit

Program Unit Chairs

Jason BeDuhn (jason.beduhn@nau.edu)
Naomi Koltun-Fromm (nkoltunf@haverford.edu)

SCRIPTO SEMINARS

SCRIPTO SEMINARS

As it is tradition, SCRIPTO offers some open seminars on palaeographical
and codicological matters:

Rudolf Gamper (Vadiana St Gall)
Writing in the late Middle Ages, Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek, 10th May 2011

Nicole Bériou (IRHT Paris)
The preacher and his manuscripts, Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, 9th
June 2011

Kartin Wenig (Würzburg)
Sermons from Heilsbronn, Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, 21st June 2011


The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information &
Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of
medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines
research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely
innovative course, at
the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from
Friedrich-Alexander University.

SCRIPTO sessions will take place in Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek),
Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek) and
Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) at a fee of 1080 € (which
includes travel
and accommodations for seminars outside of Erlangen: Munich; four days in
Prague; Wolfenbüttel) per participant.
Participants admitted to the course must have at least a Bachelor's degree.
Students must apply for the course in writing. The language of instruction
is German. Foreign participants, however, will be able to take German
language courses at Friedrich Alexander University if they so wish.
Applicants should write enclosing a full CV to:

Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari,
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Mittellatein und Neulatein,

CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2011 (Naples, 29.9.-1.10.2011)

CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2011 (Naples, 29.9.-1.10.2011)

The study of medieval legal documents (charters, deeds, instruments …) makes increasingly use of digital tools. The massive growth of documents online – as images, as calendars, as texts – and the attempts made to analyze and discuss diplomatics in the web has motivated us to organize a second international conference on “Digital Diplomatics”. It will take place in Naples 29.9.-1.10.2011 and we are looking for proposals. You can find the full presentation of the conference at

http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/

We would like to encourage in particular young scholars and graduate
students to present their ideas and projects on using the new technologies for studying old documents. Travel grants will be provided.

We are looking forward to hear from you

for the organization comitee

Georg Vogeler

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).



URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/cfp-digital-diplomatics-2011-naples-29-9-1-10-2011/

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From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies, 23-25 August 2011

« Des manuscrits antiques � l’ère digitale. Lectures et littératies »
(23-25 août 2011)
From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies,
23-25 August 2011

With the support of :
• Institut Romand des Sciences Bibliques (IRSB, FTSR, Unil)
• Fonds National Suisse (FNS)
• Anthropos (Unil)
• Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire (FDi, Unil)
• CUSO Théologie
• CUSO EDOCSA
• Association pour l’histoire du livre et de la lecture en Suisse Romande

Organisation
Claire Clivaz (IRSB, FTSR),
Jérôme Meizoz (FDi, Arts and Humanities)
François Vallotton (SHC, Arts and Humanities)

This conference in Arts and Humanities seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital turn. Details on :

www.unil.ch/digitalera2011

Conferences : Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard, USA), David Bouvier
(Unil , CH), François Bovon (Harvard, USA), Claire Clivaz (Unil ,
CH), Michel Fuchs (Unil , CH), Christian Grosse (Unil , CH),
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Cornell, USA), Philippe Kaennel (Unil , CH),
Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL, CH), Thomas Kraus (independant researcher),
Rudolf Mahrer (Unil , CH), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis
University, USA), David Parker (Birmingham, UK), Holt Parker
(Cincinnati, USA), Lukas Rosenthaler (Basel, CH), Ulrich Schmid
(Münster, DE), Paul Schubert (Unige, CH), François Vallotton
(Unil , CH), Christian Vandendorpe (Ottawa, CA),
Joseph Verheyden (Leuven, BE).

Call for papers for scholars and PhD students in Sciences of Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christianity, Biblical Sciences, Modern History, French and English Literature.
Deadline : 30th April 2011.

The colloquium will be concluded by a public evening, on august 25th with posters, editors’ booth, artistic animations and a round table discussion, bringing together publishers and scholars and led by a journalist from Radio-télévision Suisse : “What Will Come After the Book ?”
Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).



URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/from-ancient-manuscripts-to-the-digital-era-readings-and-literacies-23-25-august-2011/

Revealing Records, a one-day postgraduate research conference on medieval records

Revealing Records, a one-day postgraduate research conference on medieval records is now in its third year at King's College London.
This year's conference will take place on 27 May at the Strand Campus, 9.30 - 17.30hrs.
I've attended this event for the past two years, and it's well worth it!
For more information see below, and check out: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/history/events/revealingrecords.html

Kathleen

Program details are:
Morning Session

Keynote Speech by Professor Peter Heather (KCL)
Henry Fairbairn (KCL), Coins and Politics in King Stephen’s Reign
Katherine Buchanan (Stirling), Tracing Footprints: Assessing Medieval Scottish Castle Landscapes
Gerald Mako (Cambridge), Ibn Fadlan and the Islamization of the Volga Bulgars
Julia McClure (Sheffield), The Franciscans and the Anxieties of Discourse

Afternoon Session
Keynote Speech by Professor Nicholas Vincent (UEA)
Johanna Dale (UEA), Saints’ feasts, the liturgical calendar and royal coronations c.1050-c.1250
Claudia Tripodi (Florence), Florentine Ricordanze in the Early Renaissance
Thomas Smith (Royal Holloway), The Papal Registers of Honorius III and the Concept of Responsive Government
Simon John (Swansea), Perceptions of the First Crusade in thirteenth-century Exempla
Daniel Brown (Queen’s, Belfast), The Evolution of Formulae and Protocol in the Charters of Hugh de Lacy, 1191x1243
William Stewart-Parker (KCL), The Compton Bassett Charters: Charter Production and Replication

Registration £5 (includes lunch, refreshments and reception). Please send contact details (including email) with a cheque payable to ‘King’s College London’, to Sophie Ambler, Department of History, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS by 1 May 2011. For further information, please contact: revealingrecords@gmail.com

The 11th international conference on Origen studies

The 11th international conference on Origen studies:

Colloquium Origenianum Undecimum

‘Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Thought’



Aarhus University

26-31 August 2013



First Circular

Dear colleagues

It is a pleasure for me to invite you to attend the 11th international conference on Origen studies: Colloquium Origenianum Undecimum.

The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 26-31 August 2013.

The theme of the conference will be ‘Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Thought’. This theme includes a number of sub-themes, such as the reception of Origen and Origenism in philosophy and theology, from the earliest reception in the third and fourth centuries through the Middle Ages to the most recent reception in the 20th century; the philological work on Origen’s texts; the use or rejection of Origen’s exegetical principles etc. The programme may also include a section on Origen and Origenism in other traditions, for example in Orthodox theology.

The conference will have a special focus on young scholars as the conference programme will include workshops specifically designed for the presentation and discussion of doctoral and postdoctoral projects. Presentations at these workshops do not necessarily have to be on the conference theme.

We are presently negotiating with different hotels to obtain the most favourable prices and intend to provide a variety of accommodation possibilities at different price levels, including cheap rooms for doctoral students. Our next circular will provide information about the possibilities.

This circular has been sent to all scholars appearing on our various lists of e-mail addresses. However, as we have not been able to include all potential attendees, we would like to encourage you to forward the circular to anyone else who you think may be interested in taking part in the conference. It is especially important that you make doctoral students and young scholars who have not attended previous conferences aware of this conference. Please ask those to whom you forward the letter to respond directly to me so that they can be put on our mailing list.

The conference website will be available later this year. More information about that will follow in the next circular.

Education and Ignorance: The Use of Knowledge in the Medieval World c.550-1550

The University of Manchester Medieval Postgraduate Conference
Education and Ignorance:
The Use of Knowledge in the Medieval World c.550-1550

John Rylands Library, Deansgate
Monday 6 - Tuesday 7th June 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern historiography has often depicted the Middle Ages as a period of
ignorance, dogma and superstition– a period in which knowledge stagnated
and education was both restricted to a privileged minority and dominated
by the institutional and ideological authority of the Church. From the
Carolingian Renaissance and the rise of the medieval universities to the
condemnations of heretical teachings and the intellectual and spiritual
ferment of the Reformation, the reality about education and knowledge in
the medieval world is undoubtedly far more complex and contested than this
picture suggests. This two day conference seeks to explore that reality
through a diverse range of disciplines and across the full historical span
of the period. We aim to address the questions – How was education
theorised, institutionalised and practiced throughout the middle ages? How
was knowledge controlled, transmitted and transformed? and To what uses
were they put both by established ecclesiastical and feudal powers and the
social and religious formations that opposed them?
With these questions in mind, we invite proposals for twenty minute papers
from postgraduates and early career researchers on a variety of topics
including but, not limited to –
- the losses and restoration of Classical knowledge in the early
Middle Ages
- the development of the medieval universities
- the educational role of the monasteries and the mendicant orders
- scholasticism, scepticism and humanism
- heresy, censorship and reformation ideas about education
- didacticism in medieval literature, drama, art and architecture
- material culture and education: manuscripts, libraries, printing etc.
- theories and methods of learning – memory and scriptural exegesis
- unconventional and popular learning –alchemy, folk, and occult
practice

Please e-mail abstracts of 250-300 words to
mancmedievalconference2011@gmail.com along with your name, affiliation
and title of paper. All queries should also be directed to this address.

The deadline for submission is 31st March 2011. Selection of papers will
be made by 15th April.

Call for Applications for Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography at Harry Ransom Center

Call for Applications for Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish
Paleography at Harry Ransom Center

Applications are being accepted by the Harry Ransom Center for the
Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography, occurring in Austin
June 6-24, 2011. The institute is an opportunity for scholars to
acquire intensive training in reading late medieval and early modern
manuscripts of Spain and Latin America.

Application materials must be received by Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
Information and forms are available at http://budurl.com/f5vx . Late
applications will not be reviewed.

Manuscripts from the collections of the Ransom Center, a humanities
research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, and
the university's Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection will be
used to supplement and enrich course content. Attention will also be
given to research tools for using the archives of other manuscript
repositories.

This institute will enroll 15 participants, and the course will be
conducted in Spanish. First consideration will be given to advanced
graduate students and junior faculty from colleges and universities in
the United States and Canada, but applications will also be accepted
from professional staff from museums and libraries and from
independent scholars. Participants, who must have advanced Spanish
language skills, will receive a stipend to help defray the costs of
housing and travel.

Participants will learn to transcribe a variety of Spanish documentary
and book scripts found in primary sources from Spain and the Americas
in the late medieval and early modern periods, ranging from the 15th
to the 18th centuries.

Dr. Consuelo Varela, of Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de
Sevilla, will lead the institute. Varela has published extensively on
Christopher Columbus, the early years of the discovery of America and
Spanish voyages across the Pacific. She taught the Summer Institute in
the Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences at the Newberry
Library in Chicago in 1996 and 2002.

The institute is part of a four-year initiative for vernacular
paleography supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and headquartered at the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance
Studies.

If you have any questions, please contact Anna Chen by phone at (512)
471-5365 or by e-mail at anna.chen@mail.utexas.edu.

CET Academic Programs

CET Academic Programs is accepting applications for the summer 2011
Crossroads of Islam, Judaism and Christianity program in Avila,
Spain. The 8-week program focuses on Spain's medieval history and
also includes an academically oriented traveling seminar to Morocco.
The rigorous curriculum includes 9 credits of course work. Classes
are taught in Spanish, and special measures are taken to make the
lectures and assignments accessible to students with intermediate
Spanish language skills. The program pre-requisite is two semesters
of college-level Spanish. Applications must be submitted by March 1.
For more details, please visit
www.cetacademicprograms.com.

Rachel Howard
Senior Manager, Czech Republic and Spain Programs
CET Academic Programs
rhoward@academic-travel.com
www.cetacademicprograms.com

The University of Manchester Medieval Postgraduate Conference

The University of Manchester Medieval Postgraduate Conference
Education and Ignorance:
The Use of Knowledge in the Medieval World c.550-1550

John Rylands Library, Deansgate
Monday 6 - Tuesday 7th June 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern historiography has often depicted the Middle Ages as a period of
ignorance, dogma and superstition– a period in which knowledge stagnated
and education was both restricted to a privileged minority and dominated
by the institutional and ideological authority of the Church. From the
Carolingian Renaissance and the rise of the medieval universities to the
condemnations of heretical teachings and the intellectual and spiritual
ferment of the Reformation, the reality about education and knowledge in
the medieval world is undoubtedly far more complex and contested than this
picture suggests. This two day conference seeks to explore that reality
through a diverse range of disciplines and across the full historical span
of the period. We aim to address the questions – How was education
theorised, institutionalised and practiced throughout the middle ages? How
was knowledge controlled, transmitted and transformed? and To what uses
were they put both by established ecclesiastical and feudal powers and the
social and religious formations that opposed them?
With these questions in mind, we invite proposals for twenty minute papers
from postgraduates and early career researchers on a variety of topics
including but, not limited to –
- the losses and restoration of Classical knowledge in the early
Middle Ages
- the development of the medieval universities
- the educational role of the monasteries and the mendicant orders
- scholasticism, scepticism and humanism
- heresy, censorship and reformation ideas about education
- didacticism in medieval literature, drama, art and architecture
- material culture and education: manuscripts, libraries, printing
etc.
- theories and methods of learning – memory and scriptural exegesis
- unconventional and popular learning –alchemy, folk, and occult
practice

Please e-mail abstracts of 250-300 words to
mancmedievalconference2011@gmail.com along with your name, affiliation
and title of paper. All queries should also be directed to this address.

The deadline for submission is 31st March 2011. Selection of papers will
be made by 15th April.

Crossroads of Islam, Judaism and Christianity

CET Academic Programs is accepting applications for the summer 2011
Crossroads of Islam, Judaism and Christianity program in Avila,
Spain. The 8-week program focuses on Spain's medieval history and
also includes an academically oriented traveling seminar to Morocco.
The rigorous curriculum includes 9 credits of course work. Classes
are taught in Spanish, and special measures are taken to make the
lectures and assignments accessible to students with intermediate
Spanish language skills. The program pre-requisite is two semesters
of college-level Spanish. Applications must be submitted by March 1.
For more details, please visit
www.cetacademicprograms.com.

Call for Presentations: The Digital Classicist

Call for Presentations

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars in
Summer 2011, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has
an innovative digital component. Themes could include, but are by no
means limited to, visualization, information and data linking, digital
textual and linguistic studies, and geographic information and network
analysis; so long as the content is likely to be of interest both to
classicists/ancient historians/archaeologists and information
scientists/digital humanists, and would be considered serious research
in at least one of those fields.

The seminars run on Friday afternoons (16:30 - 19:00) from June to
mid-August in Senate House, London, and are hosted by the Institute of
Classical Studies (University of London). In previous years collected
papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published in an online special
issue of Digital Medievalist, a printed volume from Ashgate Press, a
BICS supplement (in production), and the last three years have been
released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in
further print volumes from more than one publisher.

We have a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within
the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international
presenters to attend, so please enquire).

Please send a 300-500 word abstract to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by April
15th, 2011. We shall announce the full programme at the end of April.

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html

(Coörganised by Will Wootton, Charlotte Tupman, Matteo Romanello, Simon
Mahony, Timothy Hill, Alejandro Giacometti, Juan Garcés, Stuart Dunn &
Gabriel Bodard.)

The study of medieval legal documents (charters, deeds, instruments ...)
makes increasingly use of digital tools. The massive growth of documents
online - as images, as calendars, as texts - and the attempts made to
analyze and discuss diplomatics in the web has motivated us to organize
a second international conference on "Digital Diplomatics". It will take
place in Naples 29.9.-1.10.2011 and we are looking for proposals. You
can find the full presentation of the conference at

http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/

We would like to encourage in particular young scholars and graduate
students to present their ideas and projects on using the new
technologies for studying old documents. Travel grants will be provided.

PhD Studentship: Digital Resource of Palaeography

PhD Studentship: Digital Resource of Palaeography

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, is pleased to announce a PhD studentship in digital palaeography funded by a European Research Council project, Digital Resource of Palaeography. The studentship is to be held in the CCH as part of a PhD in Digital Humanities.

Context

The aim of Digital Resource of Palaeography is to bringing the methods and resources of digital humanities to bear on palaeographical exploration, citation and teaching. It involves a web resource which will allow scholars to rapidly retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the text in which it is found and the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of searching, using images, maps, timelines and image-processing as well as conventional text-based browsing and searching. The palaeographical content will focus on a case-study of vernacular English script from the eleventh century, but the project will allow scholars to test and apply new general developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but which have hitherto proven difficult or impossible to implement in practice. Some further details of the project are available on the KCL news page s.

The studentship

Applicants should propose a research project which can benefit from and contribute to the Digital Resource in Palaeography project but which remains distinct from it. Possibilities may include the detailed study of a particular manuscript or small group of manuscripts from the corpus of eleventh-century vernacular English script. A comparative study could apply the research methodologies of the ERC project to a different corpus, perhaps focusing on the products of a single scriptorium or scribe, looking at variance and variation in script; or focusing on a corpus that has proven difficult to manage with conventional approaches, such as manuscript fragments. Another possibility may be more methodological, focusing on the possibilities and limits of Digital Humanities in palaeographical scholarship.

The student will be based at King’s College London, in the Centre for Computing in Humanities and will benefit from the CCH PhD Seminar. A second supervisor will be assigned according to the requirements of the project. It is also expected that the student will maintain contact with other departments in King’s, such as History or English. The student will also have access to resources and seminars across the University of London more widely, including Senate House Library and its Palaeography Room, the Institute of Historical Research’s seminars and library, and seminars and expertise at the Institute of English Studies.

Value

For the three years of the studentship (starting no later than October 2011) the grant is c.￡14,000 per annum. Students liable to pay fees at the overseas rate are welcome to apply, but should make sure that they can cover the difference between the award and the full overseas fee. The studentship must be held full-time.

Eligibility, Timetable & Application Process

Applicants for these awards are expected to begin PhD study on 1 October 2011. Applicants should hold (or have nearly completed) a Master’s degree or equivalent in Old English, Anglo-Saxon/early Anglo-Norman history, or another relevant area of medieval studies. A good knowledge of the language(s) of the manuscripts under study is required (Old/Middle English and/or Latin), and a background or demonstrable interest in manuscript studies is highly desirable.

Applicants must submit the following documentation by the deadline of 1 March 2011:

1. An Admissions Application form & all supporting documents – submitted to the Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions (CASA) via the online admissions portal at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/
2. A one page statement of interest including a description of the proposed research, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
3. A one-page statement of your research training, background and suitability to the project, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
4. A sample of written work (3000-5000 words), submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk

An interview will be arranged with shortlisted applicants, either face to face or by teleconference, after the closing date.

Enquiries

Please email Dr Peter Stokes or telephone him on +44 (0)20 7848 2813 in the first instance with any queries about this studentship.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk).



URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/phd-studentship-digital-resource-of-palaeography/

International Association for the History of Religions Special Conference 2012

International Association for the History of Religions Special Conference 2012

Religions, Science and Technology in Cultural Contexts: Dynamics of Change

Venue: NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1-3 March 2012

In current public and academic debates, the complex relationships between ‘religion’ and ‘science’ tend to be reduced into one between monolithic entities. By exploring historical and contemporary interactions between religions, science and technology, a more complex understanding may be reached of the areas and ways in which they overlap, correspond, challenge and conflict with each other.

This conference seeks to explore how religions, science and technology interact and generate change (progressive, reactive, regressive), particularly in relation to such issues as the environment and climate change; the economy; welfare; life expectancy; popular representation; and sexual equality.

Of particular interest are explorations of dynamic relationships between worldviews/cosmologies, socio-cultural practices and technologies; and of ‘the politics of change’, i.e. how different actors seek to convince the public of the benefits of their own approaches or of the detriment of ‘the others’ approaches.

The conference is organized by the Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Registration fee until 1 December 2011 is 250 EUR, which includes conference materials, lunches and refreshments. There will also be bursaries for participants from lower income countries.

Abstracts of 200 words and affiliation details should be submitted by 1st August 2011. For submitting your abstracts and for any type of inquiries, you are welcome to contact the Conference secretary, Filip Ivanovic (filip.ivanovic@ntnu.no).

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
invites articles for a special issue called /Anomalous Ethnographies:
Wild Wonders, Diminutive People and Reticent Races/, scheduled for
publication in fall 2012. We are seeking academic articles from any
discipline and period. Topics might include (but are not limited to)
Abatwa, djinn, elves, elementals, fairies, fauns, goblins, gremlins,
Homo Floresiensis, incubi/succubi, mermaids, mummies, Plinian races,
reptilians, Sasquatch, selkie, the undead, werewolves, wild men and
wild women, Yaksa, and such alternate forms of humanity, as
represented in anthropologies, fiction, folk-lore, media,
mythologies, sermons, travel literatures, and urban legends.
Contributions should highlight their cultural role or historical
significance in either popular narrative or academic discourse.

For more on the journal, please consult .

Abstracts of 500 words are due on April 1, 2011. Final contributions
should be roughly 8,000 - 12,000 words (with the possibility of
longer submissions in exceptional cases), including all documentation
and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will
be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition
(style 1, employing footnotes).

/Preternature/ also welcomes original editions or translations of
texts related to the topic that have not otherwise been made
available in recent editions or in English.

Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed,
or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors:

Peter Dendle
Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, USA
pjd11@psu.edu

Kirsten C. Uszkalo
CIRCA Scholar
University of Alberta, Canada
circe@ufies.org

Richard Raiswell
Department of History
University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
rraiswell@upei.ca

Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550

Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550

The University of Melbourne: 13th to 15th July 2011

Convenors: Andrew Turner, Giulia Torello Hill

In 2011 the University of Melbourne, in association with the
University of Queensland, will host an international conference with
the title Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late
antiquity to 1550. Illustrated manuscripts of classical authors often
transmitted an insight for much later readers into how ancient
illustrators (and thus audiences) visualized these works, but also
provided current reinterpretations of the texts. Both tendencies are
best exemplified in a cycle of illustrations to the plays of Terence,
which provides an almost unbroken continuum from the Carolingian era
through to the dawn of the age of printing. But despite the fact that
these illustrations represented the action on stage, even down to
details of masks and props, there is no evidence at all that the
plays were performed in the mediaeval period—they were simply
literary texts, to be studied and at the most recited by a lector.
Rather, revivals of the Classics on stage began in the Ita!
lian Renaissance, and the theoretical knowledge which critics
gleaned from writers like Vitruvius were poured back into the
illustrated tradition, providing an extraordinary amalgam of ancient
and ‘modern’. This conference will explore the connections between
text, illustration, and revival.
Confirmed speakers so far include Gianni Guastella (University of
Siena), who has written several seminal publications on the reception
of Roman comedy in the Italian Renaissance, Dorota Dutsch (University
of California, Santa Barbara), author of Feminine Discourses in Roman
Comedy (Oxford 2008), who has most recently been investigating the
semiotics of gesture in the illustrated Terence manuscripts; and
Bernard Muir (University of Melbourne), a world authority on the
digitization of manuscripts, who has published extensively on Latin
palaeography and on the mediaeval transmission of texts, and who most
recently, with Andrew Turner, is the editor of a digital facsimile of
a 12th-century manuscript of Terence from Oxford (Terence’s Comedies,
Bodleian Digital Texts 2, Oxford 2010). We are hopeful that selected
proceedings will eventually be published following the conference.
You are now invited to submit proposals for papers (lasting 30
minutes). We are particularly interested in submissions on the
following topics, although we will look at other submissions on the
broad area of classical drama between Late Antiquity and 1550
sympathetically.
• The manuscript traditions of the classical dramatists;
• Mediaeval scholia and commentary traditions;
• Illustrations of drama in the manuscript and early printed
traditions;
• The physical environment of performances of ancient drama;
• Reception and translation of Greek dramatists in the West
before 1550.
The deadline for submission of a title and an abstract of 100 words
is 25th February 2011. We intend establishing a web site early next
year which will progressively include information on the conference,
registration, and accommodation. For the meantime, please direct any
enquiries (including proposals for papers), to:

MARGINALIA

Call for Submissions

"MARGINALIA", an interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages,
invites submissions for its 2011 Issue on the theme of "Taste".

Suggestions for topics include, but are not limited to:

patronage

the liturgical: 'gustate et videte', 'O taste and see'

connotations of 'sapere' in Latin: 'to taste of', 'to resemble' 'to be
inspired by' and 'to exercise discernment'

extremes: starvation, gluttony and their moral implications

medieval aesthetics

vicissitudes: sweetness and bitterness

conspicuous consumption and material culture

Eve and the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

feasting and fasting

applications of sociological analyses of taste, e.g. the work of Pierre
Bourdieu

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

Proposals for papers should be sent via email, no later than 20th February
2010, to submissions@marginalia.co.uk. We will be happy to answer queries
before the deadline.

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

"Challenging the Myths of Art History: A Symposium in Honor of Linda Seidel"

Sunday, February 13, 2011 (weekend of the College Art Association meeting)
9:30am-5:30pm, followed by a reception
Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street, New York City
12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Building

This one-day symposium celebrates the career of Linda Seidel, an influential scholar of medieval art history and inspiring teacher. Professor Seidel’s research often aimed at debunking art historical myths, as is evident in her books on Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini portrait, rider imagery at Aquitaine, and artistic identity at Autun. Her interest in pivotal figures and moments in the history and historiography of medieval art continues to be pioneering and to inspire many generations of art historians in many fields.

The program features lectures by four distinguished scholars of medieval and early modern art, Madeline Caviness, Anne Derbes, Andrée Hayum, and Christine Verzar. In addition, a series of brief presentations by former students celebrates Professor Seidel's legacy as a teacher and scholar.

Registration is Free if completed by February 8, 2011. (Registration after February 8 will incur a $10 fee.)

For a complete program and to register go to: http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/conference11/arthistory/index.html

Summer School in Medieval Codicology and Palaeography

Subject: Summer School in Medieval Codicology and Palaeography,
Budapest, 18-23 July 2011

Announcement of a one-week Summer School in Medieval Codicology and
Palaeography at the Central European University, Budapest, 18-23 July
2011.

The one-week course provides practical training at an intermediate
level in Latin and Greek palaeography combined with codicological and
diplomatic lectures based on a new approach toward manuscript studies
and the latest trends in research. The intensive classes are
complemented by visits to manuscript holding libraries and archives.
In addition the course includes a one-day workshop on manuscript and
document layouts and the cognitive processes they reflect.

Application deadline: 15 February.

For further details on the course and the application procedure go to

http://www.summer.ceu.hu/02<
/A>-courses/course-sites/codicology/index-codicology.php

The programme for next summer's International Medieval Congress
(Leeds; 11.-14. July 2011) is available at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011.html

New this year is an opportunity for on-line registration for delegates:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/IMC2011/registration.html

The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces

The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

*"Crises of Categorization****"** *
* University of Toronto*

*Saturday, February 12, 2011 *

*Conference Program*

All events to be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies (third
floor, 125 Queen’s Park) unless otherwise noted.

9:00 Breakfast & registration

9:45 Welcome

10:00 Session I: Transhistorical Anglo-Saxon England

Eric Weiskott (Yale University): “Where They Please: the punctuation
of Old English poetry”
Respondent: Patrick Meusel (University of Toronto)
Sarah Miller (Trent University): “The Battle of Maldon: A Medieval Screenplay”
Respondent: Kathleen Ogden (University of Toronto)
Stephen Pelle (University of Toronto): ““The Fifteen Signs before
Doomsday” and Post-Conquest English Identity”
Respondent: Carla Thomas (New York University)
Camin Melton (Fordham University): “Vernacular Authority in a
Materialized God: Reading the Text of Christ’s Body in Old and Middle
English”
Respondent: Emma Gorst (University of Toronto)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session II: Storms Within and Without
Paul Langeslag (University of Toronto): “Winter: Landscape and Season”
Respondent: Josephine Livingstone (New York University)
James Paz (King’s College London): “Internal/External Interactions in
the Exeter Book ‘Storm’ Riddles”
Respondent: Alex Fleck (University of Toronto)
David Lennington (Princeton University): “The Anglo-Saxon Death
Lists: Crisis and Categorization”
Respondent: Julia Bolotina (University of Toronto)

2:30 Coffee break

3:00 Session III: Sex and Magic in Anglo-Saxon England
Grant Leyton Simpson (Indiana University): “Crises in the Pronoun
Paradigm and the Transgendered Body: Crossdressing in the Old English
Saints’ Lives of Euphrosyne and Eugenia”
Respondent: Kristen Mills (University of Toronto)
Richard Shaw (University of Toronto): “At the Borders of Medicine and
Magic: A New Work by Ælfric?”
Respondent: Jessica Lockhart (University of Toronto)
Leif Einarson (University of Western Ontario): “Sex and the Smithy:
(mis-)representations of sexuality in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse
narratives of metalworkers”
Respondent: Elizabeth Walgenbach (Yale University)

4:30 Coffee break

5:15 Tour of the Dictionary of Old English
Hosted by Professor Antonette diPaolo Healey
Robarts Library, University of Toronto
130 St. George Street

6:00 Dinner & reception
Hosted by Professor Andy Orchard
Provost’s Lodge, Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue

Conference Website: http://medieval.utoronto.ca/events/ASSCGC/about.html