Saturday, December 15, 2012

CFP: Postgraduate Late Antiquity Workshop
23 March 2013
London, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House.

The Postgraduate Late Antiquity Network would like to invite papers for the inaugural Late Antiquity Workshop.

The Workshop is designed to give Postgraduates and Early Career Scholars studying Late Antiquity the opportunity to present works-in-progress to peers for review and dialogue. Papers, which will be organised into panel sessions, should be no longer than 20 minutes, and will be followed by questions and discussion. Papers may be collected, with the speaker’s permission, and published online on the Proceedings page of the London Work-In-Progress website (pgwip.org.uk). Themes can span the width of Late Antique disciplines, from archaeology and epigraphy, to patristics, reception and history.

The workshop will conclude with an informal round table discussion, for which we are inviting chairs and proposals, about new challenges and new approaches for students of Late Antiquity. Themes for this roundtable are open but should be relevant to all disciplines.

Students of Late Antiquity from any background and discipline are invited to submit papers, panel sessions or roundtable proposals of 250 words to lateantiquenetwork@gmail.com by 4 Feb 2013. Inquiries may be directed to the same address.

University of London School of Advanced Study

INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

ANCIENT HISTORY SEMINAR

SPRING TERM 2013

Crossing boundaries in late antiquity

Organisers: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (KCL) and Benet Salway (UCL)

sophie.lunn-rockliffe@kcl.ac.uk ; r.salway@ucl.ac.uk

THURSDAYS 4.30 pm

Location: either room G22/26 or 349 (Painted Ceiling room)

South block, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

17 Jan. Michael Crawford (UCL): Between laissez-faire and dirigisme in the late Roman economy. Room G22/26

24 Jan. Benet Salway (UCL): Divide and rule: boundaries and jurisdictions in late antiquity. Room G22/26

31 Jan. Philip Wood (Aga Khan University, ISMC): Sasanian Christian perspectives on the reign of Khusrau II. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room)

7 Feb. Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (KCL): The devil in disguise: diabolical dressing-up games in late antiquity. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room)

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28 Feb. Averil Cameron (Oxford): Culture wars: history and literature in late antiquity. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room)

7 Mar. Yannis Papagodiannakis (KCL): title to be confirmed. Room 349 Room G22/26

14. Mar. Eva-Maria Kuhn (MPIR, Frankfurt): Getting justice at the martyr's tomb. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room)

21 Mar. Tim Barnes (Edinburgh): Roman Emperors and Bishops of Constantinople, 324-428. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room)

** ALL WELCOME **

- workshop "Hebrew Manuscripts Studies: An Introduction", Berlin,
15-19 July 2013, registration by 15 January 2013 (participants' number
is limited to 25 persons), for details and application modalities see
http://www.ihiw.de/w/scriptorium/hebrew-manuscripts-studies-an-introduction/



- Islamic Codicology Course, Stanford, 26-30 August 2013, for details
and to apply visit
http://tirnscholars.org/2012/12/05/islamic-manuscript-association-codicology-short-course-at-standford-university/



- 10 postdoctorate fellowships for the research program "Europe in the
Middle East - The Middle East in Europe" (Berlin, deadline 15 January
2013), for details and application modalities see
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/aktuelles/EUME_call.html

Windows

Their Literary, Cultural, Artistic and Psychological Significance in the German-Speaking Territories from the Middle Ages to the Present

An interdisciplinary conference at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

University of London

Thursday, 4 – Friday, 5 July 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘[…] und aus dem Fenster eines kleines Kabinetts übersieht er mit einem Blick das ganze Panorama […]’

E.T.A. Hoffmann, “Des Vetters Eckfenster”

Windows: those thinner patches in the external skins of buildings that function as a barrier or channel between the individual and the outside world, shielding us from noise, the environment, weather, potential threat and intrusion; allowing entry to light, images, sounds, sun. They structure the façades of buildings, thereby helping to construct their identity, to locate them in time and space and, in the process, to construct our everyday environment, signalling to us when we are elsewhere. Windows frame our view and reception of the outside world and its inhabitants if we look out; of interiors and their inhabitants if we look in; we, in our turn, are framed by them as we move through space. They reflect us and our surroundings back at us, locating us in two dimensions at once; far from static, they allow us to see landscapes and cityscapes move by through windows of trains, cars, planes, marking our location on a journey. Shop windows display and entice, advertising cultural values and concerns; indeed, memory itself has been compared by Proust to a shop window. Window furniture – curtains, blinds – also influences our view of the world, revealing and obscuring, denying or granting fuller vision. Windows signal new departures (Bauhaus); they have even changed European history (Prager Fenstersturz (1618)).

Windows also allow us ingress into the symbolic: the Virgin Mary is the translucent pane of glass through which the Light, Christ, entered this world; the jewelled colours of mediaeval stained glass recall the heavenly Jerusalem. They also allow us ingress into ourselves: in the Bible, eyes are described as windows to the heart (Mark 7:20-23); for the Classical and Middle Ages they were the windows to the soul (an idea that has resurfaced in recent medical research:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-436932/Scientists-discover-eyes-really-window-soul.html). In film, literature and art, windows function to introduce, structure and direct narrative: setting the scene (Adolph Menzel: View from a Window in the Marienstrasse); introducing characters Das Nibelungenlied; Adolph Menzel: The Artist’s Bedroom in the Ritterstrasse); furthering the plot; allowing alternative viewpoints onto the narrative world or onto alternative worlds within the narrative (Iwein; “Des Vetters Eckfenster”); condensing the narrative (Carl Spitzweg, The Intercepted Love Letter) or hinting at events undepicted; signalling containment, threat or liberation (Wolfram’s Tagelieder; Caspar David Friedrich, Frau am Fenster); anchoring the reader / viewer in this world or opening a passage into the next. The Avant-Garde introduced the window as a metaphor of mediality (cf. Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener “fenster” (1958)). In music the Hollies exhorted us to “Look Through Any Window” (1966); myths provide windows into the past that simultaneously illuminate the present, providing models for its understanding; mystical writing opens windows onto the divine; whilst psychoanalysis opens windows into the individual or collective psyche. Museums, libraries, archives, literature itself are windows onto culture and society past and present; books have been described as “windows on the world” (Schopenhauer); computer interface systems claim similar opportunities and insights . . .

However, for all their resonance, the literary, cultural, artistic and psychological significance of windows has yet to be investigated in any systematic way. Thus the organizers invite the submission of abstracts of c. 300 words on any aspect of “Windows” in the literature, art, thought, science, technology, architecture, film, politics, history and music of the German-speaking territories from the Middle Ages to the present.

Date of submission: Monday 7th January 2013

Submit to: Anne Simon Anne.Simon@saas.ac.uk and Heide Kunzelmann Heide.Kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk

Jane Lewin

Institute Administrator/Consortium Publications Manager

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

University of London School of Advanced Study

Room ST 277a (new), Senate House

Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966

Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk

Please note that, owing to building work in Stewart House, access to
IGRS events and offices is through Senate House only

The IGRS is part of the IGRS/IMR/IP Administrative Consortium

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Call for Papers

Mid-America Medieval Association [MAMA] 2013 Conference

22-23 February 2013

University of Missouri—Kansas City

Remembering and Honoring Shona Kelly Wray

Plenary Address: Professor Stanley Chojnacki (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Wives and Goods in the Venetian Palazzo”

This year’s MAMA Conference will focus on the intellectual and scholarly legacy of Shona Kelly Wray (1963-2012), our beloved colleague, friend, and mentor. Paper and session proposals in any area of medieval studies will be welcome, but we hope to pay particular attention to the following topics:

Women, gender, families

Interdisciplinary studies

Italian history, literature, culture

Legal history and analysis

Paleography, manuscript studies, diplomatics, codicology

The medieval university

The Black Death, medicine, disease

In addition, the organizers will be hosting a roundtable discussion, “Teaching with Shona” that will focus on pedagogical issues such as using technology in the classroom, interdisciplinary teaching, and teaching interpretation of varied sources.

Submissions should be in the form of abstracts (300 word limit) for both individual papers and sessions, and should include all contact information. Presenters in session proposals must be listed, with all contact information.

Deadline for submission of paper and session proposals: ~~Friday, 7 December 2012~~ Saturday, 15 December 2012

Send all submissions via email to:

Linda E. Mitchell mitchellli@umkc.edu

Graduate Students whose papers have been accepted and who wish to submit them for the Jim Falls Prize must send their papers (no more than 10 pages, and including full citations) NO LATER THAN 1 FEBRUARY to Linda Mitchell at the same email address.

Registration and Program information, including hotel info, will be sent out in mid-January.

Canada Chaucer Seminar

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

Call for Papers

The fifth annual Canada Chaucer Seminar will be held at the University of
Toronto on Saturday, April 27th, 2013. The aim of the seminar is to provide
a one-day forum that will bring together scholars, from Canada and
elsewhere, working on Chaucer and on late medieval literature and culture.

The 2013 gathering will include plenary papers by Ardis Butterfield (Yale)
and James Weldon (Wilfrid Laurier), several sessions of conference papers,
and a concluding roundtable.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute conference papers on any aspect late
medieval English literary culture. Submit one-page abstracts by 15 January
2013 to:

william.robins@utoronto.ca

and

gisellegos@fas.harvard.edu

William Robins
Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
416-585-4432
william.robins@utoronto.ca

Dr. Giselle Gos
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of English
Harvard University
gisellegos@fas.harvard.edu

34 th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 19 -20, 2013

Call for Papers and Sessions
“Travel, Contact, Exchange”
Keynote speaker: David Simon, Art History, Colby College

We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how travel, contact, and exchange functioned in personal, political, religious, and aesthetic realms.

* How, when, where, and why did cultural exchange happen?
* What are the roles of storytelling or souvenirs in experiences of pilgrimage or Crusade?
* What is exchanged, lost, or left behind in moments of contact?
* How do such moments of contact and exchange hold meaning today ?

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.

Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
Undergraduate student papers or sessions require faculty sponsorship.

This year’s keynote speaker is David L. Simon. He is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he has received the Basset Award for excellence in teaching. He holds graduate degrees from Boston University and the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London. Among his publications are the catalogue of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters and studies on Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Aragon and Navarra, Spain. He is co-author of recent editions of Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition and Janson’s Basic History of Western Art. Since 2007 he has co-directed an annual summer course and conference on Romanesque art for the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval

Please submit abstracts and full contact information to Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director or
Jini Rae Sparkman, Assistant Director: PSUForum@gmail.com .

Abstract deadline: Monday January 14, 2013
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2013 --

AEMA IX CONFERENCE

Growth and Decay
The Dynamics of Early Medieval Europe

Sunday 10 to Monday 11 February 2013

Monash University, Caulfield Campus

Early medieval Europe (c. 400–1100) was a dynamic era in which the nexus of power shifted away from the Mediterranean-centred Roman Empire to the former ‘barbarians’ of the north. It saw the triumph of Christianity over diverse traditional religions and the growth of a powerful Church supported by nascent secular states. Technological advances in agriculture, ship-building and warfare opened up new trade routes and settlements, sometimes to the detriment of existing populations, but in places also to their lasting benefit. This is the era of expanding urban growth beyond the Roman Empire. With the burgeoning of urban trade-based settlements this became a period of change in the domestic sphere. Migrations brought mixed populations and new family relationships, and new ways of living. This was also a period of linguistic change, with dominant cultures achieving some degree of linguistic hegemony while minority languages produced some outstanding literature. And yet those dominant cultures in places took on local qualities from the minority cultures.

This conference invites papers which address aspects of this theme and which reflect on the linkage of growth and decay. Can growth be achieved without decay? Does decay take place with no compensating growth? Can decay by one standard be considered growth by another? And by what standards or values can such matters really be judged?

Abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers are now sought from interested participants. Panel proposals (3 x 20-minute papers) are also welcome. All submissions should be sent to: conference@aema.net.au by 20 December 2012.

Enquiries should be directed to the conference convenors, Carol Williams and J

52^nd Annual Midwest Medieval History Conference

18-19 October 2013

Hosted by Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN

Call for Papers: “Masters, Means & Methods: The (Liberal) Arts in the Medieval World”

The theme of this year’s conference concerns the transmission of knowledge, from masters to students, from practitioners to audience. It includes the liberal arts, the fine arts, and even the practical arts. Topics might include monastic as well as university education; the trivium and quadrivium; the history of theology, science, music, mathematics, and dialectic; art history, especially the training of artists; the education of women; and professional training in guilds.

Scholars from all disciplines of medieval studies and from all regions of the United States encouraged to submit abstracts.

For more information visit: http://mmhc.slu.edu

Please submit abstracts and contact information to:

Amy K. Bosworth

History Department

Muskingum University

163 Stormont Street

New Concord, OH 43762

Bosworth@muskingum.edu

Abstracts due: Monday, 1 April 2013

Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500: Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age

Manuscripts Online: 1000 to 1500

Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500:

Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age

11th January 2013

University of Leicester

Gartree and Rutland Room

Fourth Floor, Charles Wilson Building

Manuscripts Online: Written Culture 1000 to 1500 was funded by JISC, in November 2011, with the aim to study the written culture of medieval Britain between 1000 and 1500 by pulling together and providing access to written and early printed primary sources in this period. It is a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Glasgow, Sheffield, Queen's University Belfast and York. Manuscripts Online will provide access to a wealth of data which are central to the study of English language, literature and history during the middle ages, ranging from small, AHRC-funded editions to large cataloguing projects and including resources which are freely available to the public, available via subscription as well as those currently unavailable. On our blog we have already published a list of resources that we plan to include in the first launch of Manuscripts Online at the end of January 2013.

'Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500: Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age' is the final project conference and you are cordially invited to join us in celebrating the conclusion of the project. Papers will explore the significance of our approach to data mining and federated searching to manuscript studies and early written culture. Speakers will also talk about the value and benefit of the project for teaching and researching early written cultures, and discuss how the resource, which is created by the project, is an opportunity to explore different techniques and approaches across disciplines. We are aiming to build in plenty of space for participation/discussion.

Plenary speakers

Andrew Prescott (King's College,London)
William Noel (University of Pennsylvania)

Registration

Registration, lunch and refreshments are free, but please register using the online form by 3 January 2013. Places are limited, book early to avoid disappointment.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Seasonal and Local Dining in the Middle Ages

The Jackman Humanities Institute invites you to attend the following event:

Seasonal and Local Dining in the Middle Ages
Nov 29th, 4:00 pm at 170 St.George Street room 100a
Lecture by Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University

Please follow this link for full details on this event:
http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/event_details/id=756

Revealing Records

Revealing Records V – Call for Papers
Revealing Records V will be held at King’s College London on 24th May 2013. This postgraduate conference series brings together researchers working with a wide range of sources from across the medieval world; papers that adopt an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon palaeography, archaeology or other related disciplines are particularly welcome.
Postgraduate students who are interested in giving a paper should send an abstract of no more than 200 words, providing their name, institution, contact information, paper title and synopsis by Friday 14th December 2012.
For more information or to submit an abstract, please contact: revealingrecords@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Heroic Age 15

The editorial staff of The Heroic Age is pleased to announce the release of
Issue 15. Issue 15 contains articles on Late Antiquity, Arthuriana, and
Folklore, as well as an edition of the Annales Cambriae from the time of St.
Patrick through 682. The issue can be found at
http://www.heroicage.org/issues/15/toc.php. The editorial staff would like
to thank all our contributors, staff, and volunteer copy-editors. We would
also like to thank Memorial University of Newfoundland for continuing to
host The Heroic Age.

Larry Swain

EIC, Heroic Age

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Call for Papers for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2013

Session Sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon Hagiography Society (ASHS): Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Prose Saints' Lives We invite paper abstracts for a session dedicated to anonymous Anglo-Saxon
hagiographical prose in either Old English or Anglo-Latin. There is a long tradition of studying vernacular saints’ lives in Anglo-Saxon Studies, but a disproportionate amount of scholarly attention has been given to verse hagiographies and to those by Ælfric of Eynsham, the most famous named author of Old English prose saints’ lives. Even though 40% of the extant prose corpus is non-Ælfrician, there remains a considerable gap in scholarship when it comes to anonymous Old English prose; similarly, Anglo-Latin saints’ lives have received little attention. These texts warrant close study, not only because they remain understudied, but also because they can provide valuable insight into Anglo-Saxon religious culture and its concerns when approached as independent literary products in their own right.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words
and the Participant Information Form
(available at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) by September
15 to the session organizers: Robin Norris (robin_norris@carleton.ca) and Johanna Kramer
(kramerji@missouri.edu). If preferred, hard copies may be sent to
Johanna Kramer, Dept. of English, 114 Tate Hall, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211.

Monsters

MONSTERS I: Haunting the Middle Ages
Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman, California State University-Chico; Sarah
Alison Miller, Duquesne University

This panel proposes to explore those monstrous figures that haunt the
borders between the living and the dead: ghosts, revenants, animated
corpses and skeletons. What do these figures reveal about the porous
boundaries between life and death, soul and body? What do they communicate
about the relationship between haunting, trauma and memory? How is
haunting associated with space, whether that space be a geographical
location, a physical structure, a fantasized realm, or human
consciousness? How were these figures depicted in art and material
culture? How might monster studies be considered a haunted domain? How
might the Middle Ages be considered a haunted age?

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) or Sarah Alison Miller (millers2578@duq.edu).
Also, please include a completed Participant Information Form:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF). 
Deadline for submissions to this session: September 15. Any papers not
included in this session will be forwarded to the Congress Committee for
possible inclusion in the General Sessions. Note, paper proposals will
appear on the Mearcstapa blog: http://medievalmonsters.blogspot.com/

MONSTERS II: Down to the skin: Images of Flaying in the Middle Ages
Organizers: Larissa Tracy, Longwood University and Asa Simon Mittman,
California State University-Chico

Presider: Larissa Tracy

>From images of Saint Bartholomew holding his skin in his arms, to scenes
of demons flaying the damned within the mouth of hell, to grisly execution
in Havelok the Dane, to laws that prescribed it as a punishment for
treason, this session explores the gruesome, even monstrous, practice of
skin removal—flaying—in the Middle Ages. This session proposes to examine
the widely diverse examples of this grisly practice, and explore the
layered responses to skin-removal in art, history, literature, manuscript
studies and law. How common was this punishment in practice? How does art
reflect spiritual response? How is flaying, in any form, used to further
political or religious goals? The papers in this session will literally
get beneath the skin of medieval sensibilities regarding punishment and
sacrifice in a nuanced discussion of medieval flaying.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Asa Simon Mittman
(asmittman@csuchico.edu) or Larissa (Kat) Tracy (kattracy@comcast.net).
Also, please include a completed Participant Information Form:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF).
Deadline for submissions to this session: September 15. Any papers not
included in this session will be forwarded to the Congress Committee for
possible inclusion in the General Sessions. Note, paper proposals will
appear on the Mearcstapa blog: http://medievalmonsters.blogspot.com/
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Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World

AMPRAW 2012

10th – 11th December 2012 at the University of Birmingham

We are now welcoming abstracts (of 200 words) for proposed papers of 20 minutes.

We welcome proposals for all areas of research in the reception of the ancient world, including work-in-progress.

Confirmed Guest Speakers:

Keynote: Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham) and Dr Fiona Cox (Exeter)

Practitioner-led Workshops:

Josephine Balmer (Author, Translator)

Gwyneth Lewis (Poet and Writer)

Dr Tony Keen (Associate Lecturer at the Open University)

AMPRAW is an opportunity for postgraduates working in the reception of the ancient world, from a variety of disciplines, to present research papers to their academic peers. New for AMPRAW 2012 postgraduate papers will be supplemented with practitioner-led workshops enabling early career researchers to actually speak to and hear from the kinds of people on whom their research is based.

Please send abstracts to ampraw2012@gmail.com by 30th September 2012.

Details to Register will be sent out in July 2012.

Please see our website for updates www.ampraw2012.wordpress.com

Best wishes,

The AMPRAW 2012 Committee

Polly Toney, Sarah Wilkowski, Holly Ranger.

34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH, USA

Friday and Saturday April 19-20, 2013

“Travel, Contact, Exchange”

Keynote speaker: David Simon, Art History, Colby College

We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how travel, contact, and
exchange functioned in personal, political, religious, and aesthetic realms.
● How, when, where, and why did cultural exchange happen?
● What are the roles of storytelling or souvenirs in experiences of pilgrimage or Crusade?
● What is exchanged, lost, or left behind in moments of contact?
● How do such moments of contact and exchange hold meaning today?

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.

Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
Undergraduate student papers or sessions require faculty sponsorship.

This year’s keynote speaker is David L. Simon. He is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he has
received the Basset Award for excellence in teaching. He holds graduate degrees from Boston University
and the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London. Among his publications are the catalogue
of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The
Cloisters and studies on Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Aragon and Navarra, Spain. He is coauthor
of recent editions of Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition and Janson’s Basic History of
Western Art. Since 2007 he has co-directed an annual summer course and conference on Romanesque
art for the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval

Please submit abstracts and full contact information to Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director or
Jini Rae Sparkman, Assistant Director: PSUForum@gmail.com.

Abstract deadline: Monday January 14, 2013
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2013

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Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
MSC 40
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264
www.plymouth.edu/medieval
603-535-2402
PSUForum@gmail.com

Sunday, August 26, 2012

CFP

Call for Papers: Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon Cross-Cultural

Connections (1)

This session builds on a previous session in 2012 comparing the Heliand and Beowulf. Two similar cultures that in part at least grew out of the same roots in the late Roman period and certainly at various points in time influenced one another. Yet, other than studies in comparative metrics, there has been very little comparative study of these two cultures or much of any depth on their mutual influence nor how they developed differently after the migration of some Saxons to England. Such comparative analysis is long overdue and promises to yield a greater understanding of the medieval Northwest in Europe.

Send abstracts to: lswain@bemidjistate.edu

Monday, June 25, 2012

call for posters: ARCHAEOLOGY OF FARMING AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE

The Research Group on Heritage and Cultural Landscapes   (GIPyPAC) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) organises the  International Conference ARCHAEOLOGY OF FARMING AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN EARLY   MEDIEVAL EUROPE (5th-10th centuries), which will be held at the Faculty of   Letters during the 15th and 16th of November 2012 in Vitoria-Gasteiz. We are   planning to host a poster sesion related to the topics of the Conference  (mainly Archaeobotany, Zooarchaeology, pollen analysis, etc.). 

The call for posters will finish the 1st of July 2012. We invite you to submit an abstract of 300 words  (maximum) and the following information: 
- Title of the  poster:
- Keywords (5):
- Name(s) of the  author(s):
- e-mail:
- University/Department/Institution:

Once your  poster is accepted, we will send you the guidelines for the poster   presentation.

For more information:
- Web   page: https://sites.google.com/site/farmingandhusbandry/
-  e-mail: gipypac@gmail.com
- Address:
             Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
            Departamento de Geografía,   Prehistoria y Arqueología,
            Facultad de Letras, UPV/EHU, 
            Calle Francisco   Tomás y Valiente s/n,  C.P. 01006 
            Vitoria-Gasteiz,   Spain

24th International Conference on Medievalism

I'm a little late on this, but still time for the student essay contest and of course, time for registering!

24th International Conference on Medievalism
Hosted by Kent State University Regional Campuses
October 18-20, 2012
ON-CAMPUS LOCATION: Kent State University Stark
ONLINE LOCATION: A portion of this year's conference will be hosted online (October 15 to November 15) in a password-protected location.

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES: Select papers may be published in THE YEAR'S WORK IN MEDIEVALISM, as well as be considered for publication in MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING and STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM.

VIDEO GAME POSTER SESSION & WORKSHOP: Co-sponsored by Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization.

STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST: Undergraduate students might consider submitting completed papers to be judge by several members of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism; prizes are available for the top three essays.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: June 1, 2012
DEADLINE FOR STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST: July 15, 2012

THEME: Medievalism(s) & Diversity
Is there diversity in medievalism? How has medievalism represented diversity of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender,...? How have medievalist works supported issues concerning equity and inclusion? How have medievalist works oppressed and suppressed? Are there elements of bigotry and discrimination? What about human rights as a medieval concept, as a contemporary concept? Media to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: novels, plays, poetry, films, art works, the Internet, television, historical works, political works, comics, video games. Angles to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: race, gender, sexuality, disability/ability, religion, corporation and/or class, nationality, human rights, political correctness, marginalization, anti-marginalization tactics, rewritten codes, rewritten ideologies, re-affirmed codes, re-affirmed ideologies.

Proposals for papers, paper sessions, round table sessions, workshops, and video game poster presentations will be considered.

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.medievalism.net/conferences/ksu2012conference.html

Putting England in Its Place

Call For Papers

Putting England in Its Place:
Cultural Production and Cultural Relations in the High Middle Ages

33rd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, Manhattan
March 9-10 2013

Speakers Include:
Oliver Creighton, Julia Crick, Robert W. Hanning, Sarah Rees Jones, Elizabeth Tyler, Carol Symes, Paul R. Hyams, Kathryn A. Smith

The Deadline for Submissions is September 5, 2012

Please send an abstract and cover letter with contact information to Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, or by email to medievals@fordham.edu or by fax to (718) 817-3987.

Kristen Mapes
Administrative Assistant
Center for Medieval Studies
Fordham University
medievals@fordham.edu
(t) 718.817.4655
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David J. Wallace

Judith Rodin Professor

University of Pennsylvania

The Digital World of Art History

Databases, Initiatives, Policies and Practices Thursday July 12th

2012, Room 106 McCormick Hall Princeton University A one day

conference Full program is available at

http://ica.princeton.edu/conference.php

There is no charge to attend and all are welcome but registration is necessary as spaces are limited.

To register please contact Fiona Barrett at fionab@princeton.edu before July 7th.

Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts

An Interdisciplinary Conference: April 26-7, Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York

CFP: http://www2.binghamton.edu/cemers/conferences/boccaccio.html

Panel seeking submissions: Boccaccio in Medieval England

Every Middle English scholar is familiar with Boccaccio’s presence in Chaucer’s work. In 1378, Chaucer went to Lombardy under the direction of the King and John of Gaunt. On this trip Chaucer is thought to have his first encounter with Boccaccio’s Teseida, the source of his Knight’s Tale, and also to have possibly come in contact with Boccaccio’s Filostrato at this time. Much work has been done on the textual, cultural, and historical connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio.

But what about other Middle English authors? With such a well-known and diverse body of work in both Latin and Italian, it is clear that Giovanni Boccaccio would have been known to other Middle English authors besides Chaucer. This panel seeks to explore the intertextual reverberations between the corpus of Boccaccio and Middle English texts beyond Chaucer. For instance, contemporary and friend of Chaucer, John Gower undoubtedly was affected by Boccaccio’s writings, but little work has been done showing the Florentine’s impact on Gower. Likewise, the presence of Boccaccio’s Latin texts, like his De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, in Lydgate’s work would benefit from further investigation. No single approach, theory, Middle English text or author (with exception to Chaucer) is beyond the purview of this panel. One of the primary goals of this panel is to explore, on the occasion of his 700^th birthday, the extent of Boccaccio’s reach into late medieval English textual cultures.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20 minute papers to:

christianbeck@ucf.edu Deadline: September 1, 2012.

Reframing Ekphrasis

“Reframing Ekphrasis”

Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

King’s College London

Friday, November 9^th, 2012

Keynote Speaker:

Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol)

Ekphrasis is a literary mode that spans the entire breadth of literature, from Achille’s shield to Auden’s ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’. Defined by James Heffernan as “the verbal representation of graphic representation,” the referential scope of ekphrasis has expanded and contracted according to critical taste. In the light of the increasingly complex way contemporary scholars have come to view visual literacy and culture, ekphrasis once again demands reconsideration. The “visual turn” in criticism, alongside the upsurge of interest in digital and material cultures, has enlarged the boundaries of what representation entails, and has questioned its stability. In an age of interdisciplinarity, ekphrasis could provide a model for comparison that moves beyond binary encounters between discrete categories, such as national literature, art history, and the classics? Rather than sublating image to word, might we resituate ekphrasis as a multi-media negotiation of meaning and form?

In this conference, we are interested in questioning not only the nature of ekphrasis, but also the supposedly essential nature of representation. What dualisms, such as literature/visual arts, subject/authority, are implicit in traditional modes of ekphrasis, and how might other creative forms, like music, subvert this? What kinds of power structures or hierarchies are embedded in ekphrasis, and how might we negotiate these, especially in the light of post-colonial and transnational theory? What type of gaze does ekphrasis entail, and is this related to anxieties about the form? What other art forms might be included in ekphrastic poetics that would contribute to interdisciplinary modes of thinking, such as architecture, performance art, or digital media? How far can ekphrasis provide a self-reflexive model for comparison?

Potential topics for papers might include, but are not limited, to:

- Literature as a translation of the visual

- Ekphrasis and the Modern Languages

- Ekphrastic hierarchies: word/image, dominant/submissive, etc.

- Taste and aesthetics

- Relations of space and time in ekphrasis

- Stasis and movement

- The reverse: art depicting literature

- Anxieties of ekphrasis

- Ekphrasis in the digital age reproduction

- Music and ekphrasis

- New media and ekphrasis

- Icononology and iconoclasm

- Metapictures

- Architecture and ekphrasis

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers exploring any aspect of ekphrasis as an inherently comparative mode. Please send 300 word abstracts plus a short biography to reframingekphrasis@gmail.com. Deadline for abstracts is 31^st July 2012. We will inform participants of acceptance by 15^th August 2012.

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