Call for papers:

"The Micropolitics of Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"

2nd Research Forum of the Tübingen Center of Advanced Studies

“Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”

Tübingen, Germany, 19-20 July 2018

organized by
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/de/115759

Narratives of the age of migrations tend to privilege the large-scale mobility of ethnically denominated groups. Recent research has questioned this focus from many angles and has led to a growing consensus that new approaches are needed which put the large-scale migrations into perspective, integrate other forms of mobility into the picture, and develop a clearer understanding of the social processes involved, both among the mobile groups and individuals as well as within the societies where they arrive. This conference proposes to explore an approach to the age of migrations that takes account of these redirections in scholarship by focusing on the micropolitics of mobility in late antique and early medieval local societies in a broad timeframe from ca. 250 to 900 CE.

By exploring the micropolitics of mobility on a broad basis of case studies we hope to achieve a clearer understanding of a number of key problems in the social history of migration and mobility in the period. Questions we wish to address include:

• How did local societies accommodate and integrate immigrants of different kinds?
• What were fields of ensuing social conflict (e.g. in the areas of religion, economy, political participation) and how were these conflicts settled?
• How did local societies transform in reaction to immigrant groups?
• Which differences can we observe between individual and group immigrations?
• How did geographical mobility translate into social mobility?

We invite papers from younger as well as established scholars working in all relevant fields (history, archaeology, literature) which discuss these or other related aspects of the micropolitics of mobility. Applicants are requested to submit a short abstract for a paper of 25 minutes, a title, and a short CV by 22 January 2018 to luisa.luiz@altegeschichte.uni-tuebingen.de. We will cover travel and accommodation costs for the speakers.

For organizational questions, please contact luisa.luiz@altegeschichte.uni-tuebingen.de, for all other issues write to mischa.meier@uni-tuebingen.de, steffen.patzold@uni-tuebingen.de or sebastian.schmidt-hofner@uni-tuebingen.de.

39^th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: 

Image and Visual Experience in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Keene State College

Keene, NH, USA

Friday and Saturday April 13-14, 2018

Call for Papers and Sessions

We are delighted to announce that the 39^th Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Image and Visual Experience in the Middle Ages and Renaissance will take place on April 13 and 14, 2018 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. 

We welcome abstracts (one page or less) or panel proposals that discuss images and visual experience in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Papers and sessions, however, need not be confined to this theme but may cover other aspects of medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history, and music.

This year’s keynote speaker is Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University who will speak on “The Diagram Paradigm in the Middle Ages—and Beyond.”

 

Professor Hamburger's teaching and research focus on the art of the High and later Middle Ages. Among his areas of special interest are medieval manuscript illumination, text-image issues, the history of attitudes towards imagery and visual experience, German vernacular religious writing of the Middle Ages, especially in the context of mysticism, and, most recently, diagrams, the topic of his forthcoming book: From Cross to Crucifix: Typology, Diagrams and Devotion in Berthold of Nuremberg's Commentary on Hrabanus Maurus' In honorem sanctae crucis.  Dr. Hamburger is also the author of several other books, including St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York: Zone Books, 1998), Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996), and The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).

All papers presented at this year’s Forum are eligible for inclusion in Selected Proceedings of the 39^th Medieval and Renaissance Forum, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press.  Contributors interested in publishing their work in this volume should submit their revised essays by May 15, 2018.

Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome. Please indicate your status (undergraduate, graduate, or faculty), affiliation (if relevant), and full contact information, including email address on your proposal.

We welcome undergraduate sessions, but require faculty sponsorship.  

Please submit abstracts, audio/visual needs, and full contact information to Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at sullivan@german.umass.edu.

Abstract deadline: January 15, 2018

Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2018

We look forward to greeting returning and first-time participants to Keene in April!

MEDITERRANEAN PALIMPSESTS

Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval Early Modern Cities

Call for Participation:

The Cyprus Institute, with support through the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new research seminar project: Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities. Interested scholars at a formative stage of their careers are encouraged to apply for participation in the project’s three planned workshops in Nicosia, Cordoba/Granada and Thessaloniki/Rhodes.

Directed by Nikolas Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute) and D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the project investigates the layered art histories of medieval Mediterranean cities as the basis for scholarly connections that challenge and move beyond the boundaries of modern historiographies, national narratives and contemporary socioeconomic realities. Set in a region where issues of cultural heritage and identity are currently highly contested, the project looks at the material past to understand its relevance for the present and future. The project’s focus expands on collaborative research on historic Mediterranean cities pursued by the Cyprus Institute’s Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) and the Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Department of Landscape Architecture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mediterranean Palimpsests explicitly avoids nation-based models that emphasize unique, disconnected histories, and instead challenges scholars to consider the medieval Mediterranean as a matrix of cities that, united by the connections forged through trade, royal courts, migrations, pilgrimages, and conquests, produced the material culture and spaces that we encounter today. Questions about spatial context, scale and complexity are not particular to any one city in the Mediterranean, and thus provide common ground for research collaboration.

Addressing these issues, the project’s directors will convene three research seminars that will engage expert advisors and selected emerging scholars, that will explore transition, appropriation and identity in art and architectural history; these will be ten-day programs held in Nicosia (May 7-16, 2018), Granada Cordoba (January, 2019), and Rhodes Thessaloniki (May 2019).

The intense focus on these cities addresses their formation during the medieval and early modern periods, which significantly shaped their subsequent growth and in turn framed the production and experience of art and architecture in the following centuries. But the comparison also extends to Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Palermo, and other important Mediterranean nodes with the goal of considering the Mediterranean as a connected field, in which medieval cities share the experience of survival, appropriation and reconstruction for modern use.

Eligible scholars, primarily from the Mediterranean region, are invited to apply for one of twelve positions. The program provides travel and lodging costs and museum entrance fees for participating scholars.

Eligibility: Scholars and researchers who received their PhD in or after 2008 (i.e. within past 10 years) in the fields of art history, architectural history, landscape history, and archaeology are eligible to apply.  Scholars must be willing and able to participate in all three workshops.

Deadline: February 15, 2018. Applicants will be notified of results by the end of February

Application: Applicants should send as email attachments a 3-page Statement of Interest and a Curriculum Vitae to mcities@cyi.ac.cy. The C.V. should clearly state the field of doctoral study and date degree was received, applicant’s nationality, and applicant’s current place of employment or research. 

Project website: https://mcities.cyi.ac.cy

Call for Papers: 2018 McGill-Queen's Graduate 

Conference in History: Violence and the Mind

Please note that we have extended the submissions deadline for the 15^th annual McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference in History, taking place inMontreal on March 1-3, 2018. Abstracts of no more than 400 words and a brief academic biography (in Word or PDF format) can be sent to mcgillqueens2018@gmail.com.

The theme of this year’s conference, “Violence and the Mind,” will provide a platform for graduate students to explore violence historically by foregrounding the interior lives of historical subjects. We welcome emerging scholars from across the disciplines to present research that questions how violence is produced, elaborated, interpreted and experienced by the mind. For more on this year’s theme, please refer to the attached PDF. To learn more about the McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference in History, please visit https://mcgillhcgsa.wixsite.com/home/about. 

This year’s keynote speaker is Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her book, Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Best regards,

The McGill-Queen’s 2018 Planning Committee 

Department of History and Classical Studies

McGill University

Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University

March 22-23, 2018

We are committed to bringing a wide-ranging and diverse group of participants and presenters for our conference. To further this end, there will be funds available to assist or offset the costs of travel. There is an option to request consideration for travel funds in the proposal form. If you have any questions, please email dh@msu.edu.

Call for Proposals Deadline to submit a proposal: Friday, December 15, 11:59pm EST

msuglobaldh.org

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that which MSU champions, values digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural positions, and diverse ways of valuing cultural production and knowledge work. Particularly valuable are strategies in which the digital form manifests a critical perspective on the digital content and the position of the researcher to their material.
With the growth of the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including, among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation, digital rights, endangered data, and the digital divide. We view the 2018 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is especially welcome.
Michigan State University has been intentionally global for more than 60 years, with over 1,400 faculty involved in international research, teaching, and service. For the past 20 years, MSU has developed a strong research area in culturally engaged, global digital humanities. Matrix, a digital humanities and social science center at MSU, has done dozens of digital projects in West and Southern Africa that have focused on ethical and reciprocal relationships and capacity building. WIDE has set best practices for doing community engaged, international, archival work with the Samaritan Collections, Archive 2.0. Today many scholars in the humanities at MSU are engaged in digital projects relating to global, indigenous, and/or underrepresented groups and topics.
This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and particularly on the following themes and topics by Friday, December 15, 11:59pm EST:

• Critical cultural studies and analytics
• Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
• DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
• Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance, especially in a postcolonial context
• DH responses to crisis
• How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work
• Global research dialogues and collaborations
• Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
• Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
• Global digital pedagogies
• Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
• Digital and global languages and literatures
• The state of global digital humanities community
• Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
• Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and economies
• Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context

Presentation Formats:

• 3-5-minute lightning talk
• 15-minute presentation
• 90-minute workshop
• 90-minute panel

Proposal form: http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/

Kristen Mapes

Digital Humanities Coordinator

College of Arts and Letters

Michigan State University

kristenmapes.com

kmapes@msu.edu

kmapes86@gmail.com

Call for papers: Conference on Time and Chronology in Creation

 

14th-16th June 2018

 

University of Wales Trinity St David, Lampeter

 

 

 

The stories told about the beginnings of the universe, of places, or of peoples explore how the unfamiliar space and time before us came to be the word in which we live now. Most give a clear explanation of how the space of our world came to be, but fewer of them give a clear explanation of how the chronological framework in which we live came into existence.

 

This conference will explore the ways in which ideas about time and chronology are integrated into the stories about the beginnings of places, spaces and peoples. This could include (but is not limited to):

 

- the linear or cyclical structure of time in cosmogonies

- the personification of time

- deities associated with time and creation

- the starting or restarting of chronological structures at the point of someone’s birth or the founding of a new location

- philosophical approaches to the origin or nature of time

- ideas about origins of peoples or places before the beginning of time

 

We are seeking speakers from across the arts and humanities. We are therefore interested in receiving abstracts from academics and PGRs working on ancient or contemporary religions and philosophy, and scholars working on literary, textual, epigraphic and iconographic sources.

 

Papers will last 30 minutes each with 15 minutes of discussion.

 

If you are interested in giving a paper, please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Fiona Mitchell attimeandchronologyconference@gmail.com by 1st February 2018. Abstracts should be word documents (.doc/.docx) or PDFs. Please do not include your name or email address in your abstract.

 

Information about the conference will be available at https://timeandchronology.hcommons.org/

 

For updates, please feel free to follow us on Twitter (@timeconfrence) or on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/timeandchronology/)

CFP: "Where does it end?": Limits on imperial authority in Late Antiquity

Organizer: Jacqueline Long, Loyola University Chicago
Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity

 

At the meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego, California, JANUARY 3–6, 2019, the Society for Late Antiquity will sponsor a session on limits to imperial authority in Late Antiquity.

 

No other mortal man commanded more authority in empire. The late-Roman emperor was source of law, head of government, victor of his armies' wars (whether or not he led in battle), exemplar and enforcer of orthodoxy even after repudiating his ancient presidency over state cults, because public order relied on him. How was such a man to “remember [he was] mortal”? If the famous triumphal counterpoint was no more than a Christian interjection to the tradition of ceremony (Beard, Roman Triumph [2007] 85-92), nevertheless it had currency amid the ideological and historical changes of the later Empire. Its question generalizes: what limits on imperial power were recognized, after Roman imperialism proved its geographical limit? The Society for Late Antiquity seeks to compose a panel of papers addressing this multifarious question. Both events and ideas are welcome for consideration. How were usurpers able to reject rivals' rule and claim imperial title for themselves? What failed when they fell short? In what ways could laws rein in rulers? Could criticism or consent regulate their actions, or only opposed force? What cultural values shaped judgment of reigning and past emperors; did such judgments matter? How did alternative organs of empire-wide power, such as bureaucracy or armies or Church, or local constituencies seeking accommodation, work with emperors so as to achieve ends of their own?

 

Abstracts for papers requiring a maximum of twenty minutes to deliver should be sent no later than February 16, 2018 by email attachment to Mark Masterson at Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz (Note: please don't mail abstracts to the organizer of this panel). All submissions will be judged anonymously by two referees. Prospective panellists must be members in good standing of the SCS at the time of submission and must include their membership number in the cover letter accompanying their abstract. Please follow the SCS’s instructions for the format of individual abstracts: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts. The submission of an abstract represents a commitment to attend the 2019 meeting should the abstract be accepted. No papers will be read in absentia and the SLA is unable to provide funding for travel to San Diego.

The Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e le Culture Digitali (AIUCD, Italian Association for Digital Humanities  and Digital Cultures) is pleased to announce the seventh edition of its annual conference. Registration to the conference is open through Conftool at https://www.conftool.net/aiucd2018.

The AIUCD2018 Conference will take place from January 31th to February 2nd in Bari, Italy, and it is organized by Università di Bari "Aldo Moro" (Piazza Cesare Battisti, 1, 70121 Bari),

The main topic of AIUCD2018 is Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age. Memory, Humanities and Technologies. Keynote speakers: Prof. Paola Buzi (Università di Roma Sapienza); Prof. Riccardo Pozzo (Università di Verona).

For more details on registration fees, organization and local infos, please visit the Conference website http://www.aiucd2018.uniba.it or send an email to aiucd2018@aiucd.it

NB. For fiscal and legal reasons the registration to the conference includes the annual membership to AIUCD and to EADH (AIUCD is EADH Associated Partner).

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Dip. di Studi Umanistici     roberto.rossellidelturco at fileli.unipi.it
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Center for Iconographic Studies invites you to submit proposals for the Twelfth International Conference of Iconographic Studies ICONOGRAPHY OF PAIN that will be held in Rijeka, Croatia 31 May-1 June 2018 – dead-line for proposals is 20 January 2018.

Please find attached the Call for the Conference.

We would be grateful if you could disseminate the information to your colleagues and through your mailing list.

We're looking forward to hearing from you soon!

Best wishes,

Center for Iconographic Studies

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Rijeka

Sveucilisna avenija 4

51000 Rijeka

Croatia

+385 51 265776

http://ikon.ffri.hr

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium announces two upcoming Fall 2017 events: Patricia Dailey  (Columbia University) Paul Strohm  (NYU, emeritus Columbia University) "Who has an I?: Testimony in Medieval England" Friday, November 3rd 5:00 pm at Barnard College 405 Barnard Hall The speakers will give short presentations, followed by general discussion.   Paul Strohm will offer brief observations on typical features of medieval legal testimony, and will then move to some more specific suggestions (drawn from the documents of the Gunpowder Plot) about the emergence within legal discourse of what he calls the "Testimonial I."  Patricia Dailey will explore some of the complexities of the testimonial I  in the Old English “Swerian” — oath taking, looking at the relation between the individual and the community, the role of formulaic language, and the role of the body in the absence of the I. Sponsored by the Columbia University Medieval Colloquium *** Jay Gates (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) workshop on "Genesis" Friday, November 17th 4:30 pm at Columbia University 754 Schermerhorn Extension Co-sponsored by the Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Please contact assc@columbia.edu for workshop materials. **** To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:  ASSC@columbia.edu For updates and future talks, please check our website:  http://english.columbia.edu/assc ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; The Office of the Dean for the Humanities, FAS, New York University; The Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; The Department of English, Rutgers University; University of Rhode Island; The Department of English, UC Berkeley.

10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 2-4, 2017

Intertwined Worlds

 

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.

Despite the linguistic and cultural complexity of many regions of the premodern world, religion supplies the basis of a strong material and textual cohesion that both crosses and intertwines boundaries between communities. This year’s theme, “Intertwined Worlds,” will highlight the confluence of expressions of belief, ritual, and social engagement emerging in technologies and traditions of the world's manuscript cultures, often beyond a single religious context. It will consider common themes and practices of textual, artistic, literary, and iconographic production in religious life across time and geography, from ancient precedents to modern reception and dissemination in the digital age.

This year’s symposium features a keynote address by Phyllis Granoff, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University, on “The Mystery of Mistakes: Reflections on Indian Illustrated Manuscripts,” to be held at the Free Library of Philadelphia at 6pm,on November 2, 2017 (reception beginning at 5pm).

The exhibition Intertwined Worlds, curated by co-organizer Benjamin J. Fleming, will be on view in the Goldstein Family Gallery throughout the symposium. All registered symposium attendees are invited to attend the closing dinner reception for a special viewing of the exhibition.

For more information and to register, please go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium10.html .

Direct link to the full program: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium10_program.html

Call for Papers and Posters
PhD Colloquium on Late Antiquity 

University of Reading
4-5th May 2018

Keynote speech: Dr. Chiara O. Tommasi (University of Pisa): Esotericism in Classical and Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity was once regarded as an age of decadence and barbarisation as well as a ‘marginal’ field of study. Those days are over. Late Antiquity has now its own  place in academia and is considered a hot topic by both Classicists and historians of the Early Middle Ages, as well as scholars of religious studies, archaeology, art and philosophy in a fruitful exchange among disciplines.

The study of Late Antiquity involves a wide variety of disciplines. Our PhD Colloquium on Late Antiquity will take place at the University of Reading in May 4-5, 2018. The aim of our Colloquium is to make the most of such diversification by bringing together  and achieving synergy among PhD Students from across the UK and abroad working on Late Antiquity. 

Each paper (15 min) will be followed by a personalised response from a senior scholar (10 min) assigned by the organisers and a plenary discussion. Each delegate will circulate  his or her paper a week in advance to his or her respondent. 

Additionally, we will also host a poster session, with a £50 voucher prize for the best poster.

Lastly, the Colloquium will include a visit to the Ure Museum of Classical Archaeology of the University of Reading. 

We welcome submissions of papers and/or posters from disciplines including (but not limited to) Greek and Latin Literature, History, Archaeology, Art, Philosophy and Theology: 

Option A: papers (15  min)
 
Send an abstract of your paper (400 words) to readinglateantiquity@gmail.com by 10  November 2017. Please also specify your affiliation.

Option B: posters
 
Send a brief abstract (200 words) or outline of your poster to readinglateantiquity@gmail.com by 15  November 2017. Please also specify your affiliation.  

Please note that, as the event is specifically aimed at PhD students, we can only accept submissions from PhD students. However, Masters students and early career researchers  are warmly invited to attend and participate in the debates.

 For further enquiries, please contact Lorenzo Livorsi (l.livorsi@pgr.reading.ac.uk),  Ilaria Scarponi (ilaria.scarponi@reading.ac.uk) or Fiona McMeekin (f.p.mcmeekin@pgr.reading.ac.uk).