English/ Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton

The Department of English and Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at Southampton are pleased to host the Medium Aevum Day Conference on the theme of 'Neighbours and Strangers', on Saturday 21 October 2017.
The conference asks: how did medieval individuals and communities engage with those around them, both locally and further afield? In what ways did textual, performative and interpretative practices serve to police, challenge or re-negotiate these relationships? And where were distinctions between neighbours and strangers unstable, ambiguous or malleable?
In 2017, at a moment when relationships between international neighbours are the focus of intense political attention, and fraught conversations continue about how we might construct ‘neighbours’ and ‘strangers’ within our communities, this one-day conference will turn these charged, timely questions of identity and interaction back to the Middle Ages. Those presenting will include Joanna Bellis, Aisling Byrne, Clare Egan, Helen Fulton, Ryan Lavelle, John McGavin, Mark Ormrod.
All are welcome to attend. Discounted rates are available for students, retired, unwaged, and members for the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. For more information and to book your place, please visit the dedicated conference website at https://neighboursstrangers.wordpress.com/

Dr Marianne O'Doherty
Associate Professor in English
University of Southampton
Room 2005, Avenue Campus,
Highfield, Southampton,
SO17 1BF

+44 (0)2380 594534; m.o'doherty@soton.ac.ukdoherty@soton.ac.uk

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CFP: Medieval Academy 2018: Beyond East and West: Global Encounters and Transformations in the Long 14th Century

by Daniel Franke

Beyond East and West: Global Encounters and Transformations in the Long 14th Century  

DEADLINE: Friday, May 19!

Medieval Academy Session Proposal, 2018  Call for Papers  

Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1 – 3, 2018   

From the later decades of the 13th century to the middle decades of the 15th century profound changes occurred across the entire land mass of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Although the story in the United States is still mostly told from the perspective of western Europe (and often from northwest Europe in particular), this situation is gradually changing, and the theme of the “Long 14th Century” is ideally suited to bring together topics with diverse geographic orientations to consider large issues of global encounter and exchange.

Following the Medieval Academy of America’s extension of  its CFP deadline till Friday, May 19, for proposals to the 93rd Annual Meeting, I am seeking presentations of up to 25 minutes in length on encounters among Afro-Eurasian peoples. These encounters could be cultural, political, religious, economic in nature, and can span from Portugal and the Maghreb in the west to Mongolia and China in the east. I am particularly interested in paper topics that explore encounters around a) the transformation of the global system around 1350, b) the Ottoman and Timurid empires, c)  later European crusades, d) the Yuan/Ming dynasty transition, and e) the Maghreb states and Mali Empire.

The full Medieval Academy call for papers can be found here.

If interested, please send the following information  to Daniel Franke at dfranke@rbc.edu by 5 p.m. Friday, May 19:

Participant’s name, statement of Medieval Academy membership (or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy), professional status, email address, postal address, home or cell and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), 500-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements;

Inquiries should be sent to Daniel Franke, Assistant Professor of History, Richard Bland College of William and Mary, at dfranke@rbc.edu.

The Centre for Advanced Studies “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” at the University of Tübingen, Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), invites applications for resident fellowships starting in the year 2018. The fellowships are available for a duration between one and twelve months.

The Centre for Advanced Studies brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines working on migration and mobility in Europe and the Mediterranean between 250 and 900 CE. The overall aim of the Centre is to explore new approaches to migration and mobility in this period and to set the scholarly debate in the field on a new footing. For more details on the program, see http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/de/93696

Fellowships are available for scholars at all stages of their academic career who have completed their doctoral degree and established an independent research profile. Applicants should be engaged in a research project in any relevant discipline that is related to the Centre’s interests in migration and mobility in the period and area in question. The Centre also welcomes applications from scholars working on migration and mobility in the contemporary world whose research has a strong focus on theoretical and methodological issues. 
Fellows are required to reside in Tübingen, where they pursue their own research project while also participating in the colloquia held at the Centre and in its annual conference in July 2018. For the duration of their stay fellows receive a salary or a stipend covering  accommodation, travel, and/or living expenses in accordance with their needs and the pertinent regulations of Tübingen University and the DFG.
Applications should include a CV, a research proposal for the project pursued at Tübingen (2000 words), and an indication of the months the applicant wants to spend at the Centre and the kind of financial support they require. All materials should be sent in a single pdf document to julia.hagenlocher@uni-tuebingen.de by June 15, 2017.
Should you have any questions pertaining to the details of the fellowship program or the application, please contact the organizers: Mischa Meier (mischa.meier@unituebingen.de), Steffen Patzold (steffen.patzold@uni-tuebingen.de), and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (sebastian.schmidt-hofner@uni-tuebingen.de).

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft
Seminar für Alte Geschichte
Wilhelmstraße 36
72074 Tübingen
Phon ++49 / 07071/ 29-78501 oder -76078
Fax ++49 / 07071/ 29-5532

CALL FOR PAPERS
Late Medieval Towns in Transition to Early Modernity
2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop for postgraduates and postdocs by TZM (Trier Centre for Medieval Studies)
Trier University and City Library Trier
9-10 November 2017
Researching (late medieval) towns is a topic of genuine interdisciplinarity. The classic, but questionable incision of the year 1500 as a border between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era cannot be applied to the history of towns. With these preliminary thoughts in mind, our (post)doctoral workshop reflects the ways towns and their citizens react to the multiple factors (e.g. innovation of moveable type book printing, reactions to the Protestant Reformation) they are confronted with in the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
We are calling for papers that deal with relevant aspects like paradigm shift or persistency, change or continuity from different perspectives and establish connections to other disciplines in the humanities area. Topics of interest are a. o. questions about medial change, diversity, (re)construction of town knowledge, history of emotions or communication scenarios. Case studies, but also more general and theoretical papers are welcome.
This workshop is particularly dedicated to doctoral candidates and postdocs of different disciplines. Talks and discussions will be documented on a new blog at http://hypotheses.org/. Speakers will be expected to participate in this format in order to present at the conference. Björn Gebert of the ‘Mittelalter-Blog’ at hypotheses.org will give an introduction to scientific blogging at the conference. Travel expenses and accommodation will be reimbursed by TZM for invited speakers within the limited overall budget.
Conference languages are English and German. Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts of about 300 words to klaes@uni-trier.de by 15 May 2017.
Organisation/contact
Prof Dr Claudine Moulin (Trier University, German Historical Linguistics) moulin@uni-trier.de
Dr Falko Klaes (Trier University, German Historical Linguistics): klaes@uni-trier.de
Prof Dr Michael Embach (Library Director of City Library Trier (Stadtbibliothek Weberbach), Trier University, Medieval Literature: Michael.Embach@trier.de

Contact Info: 

Dr. Falko Klaes
Universität Trier
FB II - Ältere deutsche Philologie
54286 Trier
Tel.: +49-651-201-2322

 

Contact Email: 

klaes@uni-trier.de

URL: 

https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=61920

Call for Papers – Deadline for abstracts, May 20, 2017

The Mid-America Medieval Association’s 41^st annual meeting

Saturday, September 16, 2017

at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Conference Theme: Networks

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Cynthia J. Brown, Distinguished Professor of French, University of California-Santa Barbara

Plenary title: “Paratextual Cues in Late Medieval Books: Detecting Family Female Networks”

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers on the conference theme or on any medieval topic.  Panels of 3-4 papers are also welcome. The conference theme of “Networks” might include topics such as: family networks; monastic and other religious networks; intellectual, artistic, professional, or political networks; networks of texts, of manuscripts, of artworks, etc.

Dr. Brown’s most recent monograph, The Queen's Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) examines book production for late medieval elite women in France, including Anne of Britany’s contemporaries (including Louise de Savoy and Margaret of Austria) and successors, most notably her daughter Claude.  As a recent review puts it, Dr. Brown mobilizes “a truly interdisciplinary range of critical tools to analyze these books’ texts and paratexts, she makes a rigorous and deeply contextualized case for the complex negotiations and political stakes at play in the verbal and visual representation of such women.”  Dr. Brown’s plenary talk is drawn from her newest project which extends her examination of networks of female book owners beyond French borders to the city states of Italy.

Abstracts or panel proposals (with abstracts) to Dr. Kathy M. Krause (krausek@umkc.edu) by Saturday, May 20, 2017.

Graduate students are invited to submit their paper for the Jim Falls Paper Prize.  Full conference papers should be sent to mama@umkc.edu by September 1, 2017.  More information will be available shortly on the MAMA website: http://info.umkc.edu/mama/

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Kathy M. Krause

Professor of French

Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures

UMKC

Krausek@umkc.edu

Call for Papers – Deadline for abstracts, May 20, 2017

The Mid-America Medieval Association’s 41^st annual meeting

Saturday, September 16, 2017

at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Conference Theme: Networks

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Cynthia J. Brown, Distinguished Professor of French, University of California-Santa Barbara

Plenary title: “Paratextual Cues in Late Medieval Books: Detecting Family Female Networks”

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers on the conference theme or on any medieval topic.  Panels of 3-4 papers are also welcome. The conference theme of “Networks” might include topics such as: family networks; monastic and other religious networks; intellectual, artistic, professional, or political networks; networks of texts, of manuscripts, of artworks, etc.

Dr. Brown’s most recent monograph, The Queen's Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) examines book production for late medieval elite women in France, including Anne of Britany’s contemporaries (including Louise de Savoy and Margaret of Austria) and successors, most notably her daughter Claude.  As a recent review puts it, Dr. Brown mobilizes “a truly interdisciplinary range of critical tools to analyze these books’ texts and paratexts, she makes a rigorous and deeply contextualized case for the complex negotiations and political stakes at play in the verbal and visual representation of such women.”  Dr. Brown’s plenary talk is drawn from her newest project which extends her examination of networks of female book owners beyond French borders to the city states of Italy.

Abstracts or panel proposals (with abstracts) to Dr. Kathy M. Krause (krausek@umkc.edu) by Saturday, May 20, 2017.

Graduate students are invited to submit their paper for the Jim Falls Paper Prize.  Full conference papers should be sent to mama@umkc.edu by September 1, 2017.  More information will be available shortly on the MAMA website: http://info.umkc.edu/mama/

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Kathy M. Krause

Professor of French

Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures

UMKC

Krausek@umkc.edu

Dear Marco Friends and Colleagues,

Registration is still open for the Marco Institute’s 2017 Summer Latin Program, held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The beginner/review course will run from May 16-July 7; the intermediate and advanced readings classes will meet May 30-July 7. Full details of the schedule and course descriptions can be found here: http://marco.utk.edu/summer-latin/.

We particularly encourage graduate students to participate in the program. Thanks to the generous backing of our donors, the program is free for Marco students. The cost for non-UT participants is $400.

To sign up, please complete the attached registration form (also available online) and return it to our Program Coordinator, Katie Hodges-Kluck, at kthomp41@vols.utk.edu or marco@utk.edu, by May 8.

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

601 Greve Hall

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Phone: 865-974-1859

Fax: 865-974-3655

Mailing Address:

915 Volunteer Blvd.

Dunford Hall, Sixth Floor

Knoxville, TN 37996-4065