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.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
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”
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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
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
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:
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
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
52nd 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
*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. 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.Sponsors
'Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age' is generously sponsored by JISC.Organising Committee: Orietta Da Rold, convenor (Leicester), the Manuscripts Online team, with the assistance of Freya Brooks (Leicester).
Call For Papers: "Lamentations"
The deadline for abstracts has been extended until Wednesday, December 19!
Call For Papers:
"Lamentations"
April 5-6
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo...” Thus begins the Vulgate
rendition of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, a prophetic book in which
memorializing lost political and religious wholeness takes the form of a
complex temporality in which present lament for the past reaches
forward even into the future. Laments—and their liturgical, poetic, and
artistic relations—marked particularly crucial moments associated with
ends and what’s left after things are over: death and apocalypses,
survivors and remnants.
Indiana University Medieval Studies Institute announces its Spring
Symposium, to be held April 4-6. On the topic of lamentation, the
symposium would like to pose a broad range of possible questions: What
social, political, ethical, or aesthetic purposes do laments or their
figurations serve? Who—or what, for that matter—is allowed to lament?
Where and when is lament appropriate? Who or what is one allowed to
lament for? What places or people(s) have laments left out? Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to:
- Laments over loss of cities, battles, or leaders
- Religious laments and commentaries
- Apocalyptic visions; utopian visions
- The afterlife
- Love complaints and their parodies
- Melancholy; enjoying mourning
- Tragic drama; performing lament; embodied affects
- Illustrations of sorrow in funerary art and manuscript illumination
- Ceremonial observances like funeral orations and eulogies
- Survivor stories; captive narratives
- The process of mourning and grief as understood in the Middle Ages
- Penitence manuals
- Non-human lament or sorrow
- Lament, spatiality, and temporality; spaces reserved for lament, burial, or grief
Please email an abstract of no more than 300 words by December 19, 2012 to: mest@indiana.edu
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Diane Fruchtman
Special Projects Assistant
Medieval Studies Institute
Indiana University
(812) 855-8201
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