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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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,

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University of Rijeka

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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).