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

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