Wednesday, December 30, 2020

41stAnnual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:    

Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance  

Friday and Saturday April 16-17, 2021 

  

Call for Papers and Sessions 

We are delighted to announce that the 41stMedieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance will take place virtually on Friday, April 16 and Saturday April 17, 2021.   

 

We welcome abstracts (one page or less) or panel proposals that discuss smell and fragrance 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 Deirdre Larkin, Managing Horticulturist at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens from 2007 to 2013,who will speak on “Every Fragrant Herb: The Medieval Garden and the Gardens of The Cloisters.” 

 

Deirdre Larkin is a horticulturist and historian of plants and gardens. She holds an MA in the history of religions from Princeton University and received her horticultural training at the New York Botanical Garden. She was associated with the Gardens of The Cloisters for more than twenty years and was responsible for all aspects of their development, design, and interpretation. Ms. Larkin was the originator of and principal contributor to the Medieval Garden Enclosed blog, published on the MMA website from 2008 through 2013. Ms. Larkin lectures frequently for museums, historical societies, and horticultural organizations. In 2017, she was a Mellon Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Institute of the New York Botanical Garden, where she researched the fortunes and reputations of medieval European plants now naturalized in North America. Her gardens in upstate New York serve as a laboratory for further investigations in the field.  

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.  

 

Graduate students will be eligible for consideration for the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award. More information about this new award will be available soon.  

 

We welcome undergraduate sessions but ask that students obtain a faculty member's approval and sponsorship.   

 

Please submit abstracts and full contact information on the google form available at https://forms.gle/CHdqrEK8pVps7Wa89. 

  

Abstract deadline: January 15, 2021 

 

Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2021 

 

As always, we look forward to seeing (virtually) returning and first-time participants in April! 


Wednesday, December 23, 2020

 Call for Papers – Cornell Medieval Studies Student Colloquium at Cornell 2021 – Movement


Movement: 2021 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium

The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University is pleased to announce its thirty-first annual graduate student colloquium (MSSC). The conference will take place on the 26th and the 27th of March, to be held virtually over Zoom.

This year’s colloquium focuses on the theme of movement. Movement denotes the movement of peoples, cultures, thoughts and goods, the migration of plants and of animals. What happens to movement when it is frozen in stone (the swoop of hair across a person’s face in a marble statue)? How does an idea change when it is translated from one language to another? We are interested in movement defined broadly and represented across a range of disciplines.

We invite 20-minute papers that investigate movement in the Middle Ages as defined by/within a range of different disciplines and perspectives. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):

The migration of people, animals, and plants;
Cultures of movement;
Translation and adaptation (of cultures, languages, etc.);
Traditions that involve physical or spiritual movement;
Cosmology and the movement of celestial bodies;
Trade and movement in economics;
The stagnation or absence of “movement;”
Detainment;
The representation of “movement;”
Displacement, dispersal, or diaspora;
Moving into the “unknown;”
Temporal movement;
Effects of movement;
Ethics of movement.
Preference will be given to papers from underrepresented backgrounds and disciplines. We strongly encourage submissions that expand these themes and categories of inquiry beyond Christian, Western European contexts. We invite submissions in all disciplines allied to Medieval Studies, including Asian Studies, Africana Studies, Critical Race Studies, Near Eastern Studies, literature, history, the history of art, archaeology, philosophy, classics, theology, and others. Abstracts on all topics will be considered, though priority will be given to those which address our thematic strand.

Please send abstracts by January 15, 2021 to Alice Wolff at acw262@cornell.edu.

Friday, December 18, 2020

 Society for Classical Studies 153rd Annual Meeting


January 5–8, 2022
San Francisco

Call for Papers for a Panel Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity

Panel Title: Gender, Power, and the Body in Late Antiquity

Organized by Melissa Harl Sellew, Classical & Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota

We invite paper proposals that address some aspect of the interconnections amongst gender, embodiment, and expressions of power in the late ancient world.

Recent work (Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, 2006; Cawthorn, Becoming Female, 2008; Graybill, Are We Not Men? 2018; Marchal, Appalling Bodies, 2020) has advanced our understanding of how power of various sorts (whether that be in political, military, familial, civic, or religious contexts) is presented and effected through one’s bodily presence. These negotiations and claims can often involve compelling gestures of gendered presentation and performance, which sometimes challenge — or more often underscore — prevailing social norms. The diverse cultures of late antiquity and Byzantium offer rich sites for exploring how bodily practices work to express claims for power and its active expression.

We hope to convene a panel of papers that draw on a broad range of literary, visual, or documentary material, encompassing historical, medical, philosophical, religious, or other relevant sources. Presentations may involve communities from any geographical or linguistic location of the Mediterranean and Near East. The time span for the panel is more or less from the third century CE into the middle Byzantine period (ca. 200 – 1100 CE).

Examples of research questions might include (but not be limited to): how contemporary disability studies inform ideologies of ascetic practice; how gender variance potentially modulates effects in oratory or juridical speech; how literary texts (prose or verse) project notions of power via images of gendered presence; how practitioners of ritual power (“magic”) compel divine forces through bodily action; how discourses of suffering, “virginity,” or sexuality operate in martyrological contexts; or how sculpture, mosaics, coinage, painting, or other visual sources convey messages of embodied potency. Proposals evincing a robust use of theoretical interpretive approaches would be especially welcome.

Please send abstracts of no longer than 500 words that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) as an email attachment to Melissa Harl Sellew, University of Minnesota, at sellew@umn.edu by February 1, 2021. Please ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. The organizer will have all submissions reviewed anonymously, and the decision will be communicated to the authors of abstracts by the end of March 2021, leaving enough time that those whose abstracts are not chosen can participate in the individual abstract submission process for the 2022 SCS meeting. 



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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

On January 13–15, 2022, the Index of Medieval Art (Princeton University), the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum (New York), and the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University will host a conference to accompany the exhibition, “Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500,” presented at the Morgan Library from October 15, 2021 to January 23, 2022. The conference will include two days of papers as well as a study day at the Morgan Library. For each paper, 30 minutes of speaking time, followed by 15 minutes of discussion, will be allotted. In addition to a viewing of the exhibition, the study day will include an opportunity to view other, unexhibited materials in the Morgan’s collections.

 

Despite its scope, the exhibition cannot comprehend all the relevant material in American collections. Nor can the accompanying book treat all the exhibited items in depth. With this in mind, we solicit proposals for papers. Pending the usual peer-review process, the contributions will be published.

 

Paper proposals, no more than one page in length, should fall into one of the following categories or address one of the following topics:

 

– in-depth monographic discussion of a single manuscript in an American collection, whether or not it is included in the exhibition. Please contact Joshua O'Driscoll (jodriscoll@themorgan.org) for a list of objects that will be discussed in the book accompanying the exhibition (many but not all of which will be exhibited) and a list of all relevant materials in the Morgan Library’s collections. More information on many of these manuscripts, also those in other American collections, can be found at Digital Scriptorium: https://digital-scriptorium.org/.

 

– thematic treatment of one of a number of broader issues relevant to the exhibition’s concerns; these include but are by no means limited to the following:

 

Art & the politics of empire

Art & reform/Reformation

Borders of empire

Cosmopolitan contacts and exchanges

Geographic foci (e.g., Helmarshausen, Prague, Salzburg, Weingarten)

Humanism in Central Europe

Imperial patronage

Monastic networks

Manuscript illumination and the other arts

Paper, parchment & pen-drawing/production techniques

Patrician patronage in imperial cities

Panel painting

Psalters

Reception/collecting of German medieval art in the United States

Urbanism & the art of the book

Visualization & the vernacular

 

Proposals should be submitted to Prof. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Harvard University (jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu) by

February 1, 2021. A response indicating whether or not any given proposal has been accepted will be forthcoming

by April 1, 2021. Finalized abstracts, which will be circulated to all participants, would then be due by 

August 1, 2021. The organizers will do their best to accommodate all relevant proposals within the confines of the

program, the scope and format of which will be determined by the funding available and the current public health

situation. In the event that an in-person meeting is feasible, speakers' costs for travel and accommodation in 

Princeton and New York will be covered. Colleagues submitting proposals are asked to indicate their interest in 

presenting a paper by video call, should travel not be possible.


Friday, November 20, 2020

 The Italian Society for the History of Religions invites papers, posters, and workshops proposals for the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), which will take place at the University of Pisa, 30 August – 3 September 2021. 


Though hoping to be able to run an IRL conference, the organizers are ready for the conference to be held in a hybrid form and streamed on a dedicated platform. 

This year's theme is resilient religion. The submission deadline for papers, posters, and session proposals is 31 January 2021. For additional information, please visit https://www.easr2021.org/.

 

Thursday, November 19, 2020

 Dear Colleagues,


I am writing to encourage you all to send in your abstracts for the next meeting of Shifting Frontiers in June of 2021.  The CFP is attached.  Deadline for submissions is December 4, 2020.

The theme of the conference is "Scale and the Study of Late Antiquity."  We are pleased to announce that M.C. Chin and Ann Marie Yasin will be the featured keynote speakers.  This will be an all virtual meeting.

The website for the conference is: https://u.osu.edu/shiftingfrontiersxiv/

Please let me know if you have questions!

Best, Tina

Kristina Sessa
Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies
Book Review Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity
Department of History
The Ohio State University
230 Annie and John Glenn Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210





Tuesday, October 27, 2020

 


Via Milan Vukašinović, Uppsala University:


*Medieval literature** across languages**: a multi-lingual summer school*

*Online Summer School*

*17–28 May 2021*

*Second Revised Call*

*https://cml.sdu.dk/event/summer-school-medieval-literature-across-languages
<https://cml.sdu.dk/event/summer-school-medieval-literature-across-languages>*



This online summer school seeks to provide PhD students with a first
immersion into

the study of medieval literature across languages. Language training, with
the aim of inviting PhD students to become acquainted with new medieval
languages, will here be combined with lectures on case studies, addressing
various methodological issues and approaches. The summer school focuses on
five medieval languages: *Georgian, Arabic, Greek, Latin, and French*.



*Note: The programme has been changed to a completely online format to
address the ongoing barriers to travel. All instruction will take place
online between 14:00-17:00 (CEST, Danish local time).*

The online summer school will be organized around language teaching and
tutoring, lectures and presentations, and an introduction to TEI encoding.
Substantial work will be required of students in advance of the summer
school (learning of new alphabets, initial reading and encoding exercises).



*Language Teaching*

Beginning each day at 14:00 (CEST) language teaching will be followed by
language tutoring, in which PhD students assist each other as tutors and
will themselves receive help from others.

*Lectures and Presentations*

On alternating days, invited speakers will deliver lectures on a range of
topics related to the study of medieval literatures across languages; on
other days, students will be expected to deliver short presentations on
their findings.

*TEI Encoding*

Students will receive an introduction to encoding texts using a TEI
compliant architecture of XML tagging. Prior to the summer school, students
will be provided with preliminary orientation materials; during the summer
school, they will receive hands-on experience encoding a short section of
the Barlaam and Josaphat text in their chosen target language.



*Applications*

Applications should be sent before *15 December 2020* to hogel@sdu.dk.
We encourage applications from PhD students from any field in medieval
studies. Applicants are asked to specify one language they wish to study,
and at least one language they can offer tutoring in (please indicate level
of proficiency).

Lectures and seminars will be held in English. Your application should
include an abstract of your current research and a statement addressing the
contributions you can make to the summer school and what you hope to gain
from participating (together no more than a single A4 page, single spaced).
You must also name one referee who will be willing to write in support of
your application. Referees of short-listed applicants will be contacted
directly by the organizers of the summer school.

There is no cost for attending the Summer School.


Wednesday, October 14, 2020

 *CALL FOR PAPERS *





*RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES *46th Annual New England Medieval Conference,
Virtual Meeting

Thursday, December 3, 2020



*Keynote Speaker: *

Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin

 “The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages”







With the world-wide resurgence of anti-racist activism following the
killing of George Floyd, we as medievalists feel compelled to reexamine
notions of race in the pre-modern period. Can speaking of “race” in the
Middle Ages help us today? How was race conceived in the Middle Ages? Did
race already dictate the lives of men and women in medieval Europe? To what
extent did race and religion overlap in the Middle Ages? We invite
medievalists of all disciplines and specializations to explore these and
other questions relating to the topic of race. We welcome papers that deal
with the origins and development of race from a variety of different
perspectives. We are likewise very interested in essays focusing on the
treatment of race without medieval Western Europe.



Please send an abstract of 250 words and a recent CV to Meriem Pagès (
mpages@keene.edu). Please make sure to provide your name and full
professional affiliation (institution and level of study) in your proposal.
Abstracts are due *October 15, 2020*.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Shifting Frontiers

 *This event will take place virtually via Zoom.


For the Fourteenth Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity, we
invite papers that investigate scale, which can be defined as a
graduated range of values or measurements, whether, for example, of
time, space, social organization, cosmology, or agency. Participants
are encouraged to explore scale either as a methodological framework
used by modern historians to interpret the past and/or as a type of
late Roman analytic category, developed and employed by late ancient
persons for their own heuristic purposes. Questions papers might ask
include: To what extent does the world of Late Antiquity look
different if we approach its events, institutions, and processes
(whether political, economic, social, or religious) from a micro scale
rather than a macro scale, and vice versa? How can we better
understand the late Roman Empire through the examination of macro- and
micro-scalar environmental phenomena, such as volcanic eruptions and
mutating plague DNA, which were only partially (if at all) perceptible
to the late Romans themselves? Alternatively, what graduated
categories of measurement and values did late ancient thinkers deploy
in their philosophical, scientific (including astrological), and
religious works to make sense of metaphysical, ethical, or even
physical quandaries? And what did scale mean to individuals on an
everyday level, for agriculturalists or merchants whose livelihoods
were embedded within multi-scalar economic, environmental, legal,
social, and religious networks? Other papers might consider the
fractal replication of structures and relationships across the Empire,
for example in conciliar operations (Senate, local curia, church
councils), patterns of deference across the social scale, or in the
provincial extensions of imperial authority. Comparativists are
encouraged to consider how problems of scale inflect transhistorical
arguments that encompass both late antiquity and other periods of
history.

Featured Keynote Speakers:

C. Michael Chin, Department of Classics, UC Davis
Ann Marie Yasin, Department of Art History and Classics, University of
Southern California

Special Directions for Virtual Format

The program committee recognizes that online conferencing opens
opportunities for scholarly presentations and discussions that deviate
from the traditional model of “present a paper and then take
questions.” The past few months have been a time of experimentation
for all of us. Rather than define (and thereby limit) those
alternative modes in advance, we encourage you to propose them to us,
and so our task will be to decide not only which papers will be
included, but which formats too. Options include thematically linked
papers that are posted before the conference so that attendees can
read them before their authors hold a panel discussion at the
conference; or scholars who wish to pre-post textual, visual, video,
or audio material and then take only five minutes to present their
argument, leaving more time for discussion. Each submission will still
need to have a regular abstract, but please indicate whether you would
like to experiment with an alternative mode of presentation.

To apply to present at Shifting Frontiers XIV, please fill out the
application/abstract form
<https://u.osu.edu/shiftingfrontiersxiv/files/2020/10/Shifting-Frontiers-Application-Abstract-Form.pdf>
. Please provide all the requested information, but do not include
your name anywhere on the form.  All completed application/abstract
forms should be emailed to
shiftingfrontiersxiv@gmail.com<mailto:shiftingfrontiersxiv@gmail.com>.
Applications must be received by December 4, 2020 in order to be
considered for participation at the conference.

Friday, October 9, 2020

 The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of

Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 13th Annual (Virtual)
Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age:

*Manuscript Studies in the Digital Covid-19 Age*

November 18-20, 2020

 In the early spring of 2020, as the world shut down, scholarship and
teaching were thrown into a virtual, online world. In the hands-on world of
manuscripts studies, students, teachers, researchers, librarians, and
curators lost physical access to the very objects upon which their work
centered. But we were ready. Thanks to world-wide digitization efforts over
the past twenty years, scholars at all levels and around the world have, by
all counts, virtual access to more manuscripts and manuscript-related
metadata than even a generation ago and are benefited by a broad array of
digital tools, technologies, and resources that allow them to locate,
gather, analyze, and interrogate digitized manuscripts and related metadata.

But in a Covid-19 Age, have these resources and tools been enough to
continue manuscript research and study? Has scholarship and teaching been
supported by these resources and tools in the ways that those who created
them intended? Has access to these artifacts of our shared intellectual
heritage become more open and equitable or are there still hurdles for
scholarship around the world to overcome?  Has a forced reckoning with
digital tools, technologies, and resources spurred new questions or avenues
of research or thrown up barriers? As creators and users of digital tools,
technologies, and resources, have we learned anything since March about the
success or failure of such projects? We will consider these questions and
the opportunities and limitations offered by digital images and
manuscript-related metadata as well as the digit al and conceptual
interfaces that come between the data and us as users. Our goal is to offer
a (virtual) space to discuss lessons learned since March and how those
lessons can push us to better practice and development of strategies in the
future.

The symposium will take Wednesday, November 18 to Friday, November 20. Each
day will consist of a 90-minute session with papers in the morning,
followed by a 90-minute panel discussion led by invited moderators in the
afternoon.  All sessions will be recorded and made available after each
session.

Two events will be held conjunction with the symposium:

   - *Scholarly Editing Covid19-Style*: Laura Morreale will lead a 3-day
   crowd-sourcing effort to transcribe, edit, and submit for publication an
   edition of *Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience*, fr om UPenn MS Codex
   660 <https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cr5nc34> (f.
   86r-95v).

   - *Virtual Lightning Round*: Pre-recorded 5-minute lightning round talks
   featuring digital projects at all stages of development, from ideas to
   implementation. Want to feature your digital project? *Submit your
   proposal here <https://forms.gle/aW4eRSr8fK%0D%20tU6kPq8> by Friday,
   October 28, to be considered**.*

*For program information and to register, go
to: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13
<https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13>.
Registration is free and open to the public but required. *A Zoom link for
all three days will be provided upon regi stration.



Tuesday, September 29, 2020

 The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of

Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 13th Annual
(Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital
Age:

Manuscript Studies in the Digital Covid-19 Age
November 18-20, 2020


In the early spring of 2020, as the world shut down, scholarship and
teaching were thrown into a virtual, online world. In the hands-on
world of manuscripts studies, students, teachers, researchers,
librarians, and curators lost physical access to the very objects upon
which their work centered. But we were ready. Thanks to world-wide
digitization efforts over the past twenty years, scholars at all
levels and around the world have, by all counts, virtual access to
more manuscripts and manuscript-related metadata than even a
generation ago and are benefited by a broad array of digital tools,
technologies, and resources that allow them to locate, gather,
analyze, and interrogate digitized manuscripts and related metadata.

But in a Covid-19 Age, have these resources and tools been enough to
continue manuscript research and study? Has scholarship and teaching
been supported by these resources and tools in the ways that those who
created them intended? Has access to these artifacts of our shared
intellectual heritage become more open and equitable or are there
still hurdles for scholarship around the world to overcome?  Has a
forced reckoning with digital tools, technologies, and resources
spurred new questions or avenues of research or thrown up barriers? As
creators and users of digital tools, technologies, and resources, have
we learned anything since March about the success or failure of such
projects? We will consider these questions and the opportunities and
limitations offered by digital images and manuscript-related metadata
as well as the digital and conceptual interfaces that come between the
data and us as users. Our goal is to offer a (virtual) space to
discuss lessons learned since March and how those lessons can push us
to better practice and development of strategies in the future.

The symposium will take Wednesday, November 18 to Friday, November 20.
Each day will consist of a 90-minute session with papers in the
morning, followed by a 90-minute panel discussion led by invited
moderators in the afternoon.  All sessions will be recorded and made
available after each session.

Two events will be held conjunction with the symposium:

  *   Scholarly Editing Covid`19-Style: Laura Morreale will lead a
3-day crowd-sourcing effort to transcribe, edit, and submit for
publication an edition of Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience, from
UPenn MS Codex 660<https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cr5nc34>
(f. 86r-95v).

  *   Virtual Lightning Round: Pre-recorded 5-minute lightning round
talks featuring digital projects at all stages of development, from
ideas to implementation. Want to feature your digital project? Submit
your proposal here<https://forms.gle/aW4eRSr8fKtU6kPq8> by Friday,
October 28, to be considered.

For program information and to register, go to:
https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13.
Registration is free and open to the public but required. A Zoom link
for all three days will be provided upon registration.

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

 "It Spread Without Stop": New Insights on Plagues and Epidemics in the

Medieval and Early Modern Eras

February 19-21, 2021

This conference will bring together academics and researchers from around
the world to present current research on all aspects of epidemics in the
Medieval and Early Modern periods (ca. 500-1800 C.E.) including:

   - Identification of historical epidemics
   - Contemporary and historical medical approaches
   - Effects of epidemics on historical populations
   - Social and cultural reactions to disease

Titles and abstracts for 20-minute presentations or posters due by October
15, 2020 to avianello@usf.edu


Monday, September 21, 2020

 Marco Manuscript Workshop 2021: “Immaterial Culture”


February 5-6, 2021
Remotely from the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Details at http://marco.utk.edu/ms-workshop/

The sixteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday,
February 5, and Saturday, February 6, 2021. Sessions will meet
virtually via an online platform. The workshop is led by Professors
Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), and is
hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

This year’s workshop will consider some of the recent challenges that
researchers have faced with the suspension of travel, the closing of
libraries and universities, and the quarantine restrictions that have
kept so many of us in our homes. How can our field, which has always
emphasized the importance of physical place and tactile artifacts,
work successfully in isolation and at a distance? What does it mean
for us when our work takes place in an incorporeal world of light and
numbers rather than ink and flesh, in matrices of data rather than
dusty rooms? We propose to explore the advantages and disadvantages of
this “immaterial culture,” and to think about how our work is shaped
by access or lack of access to manuscripts, texts, catalogues, and
objects. We would like to hear about experiences working remotely,
discoveries made using virtual archives or catalogues, or advice on
how to study manuscripts without visiting archives or how to teach
codicology without a library. We welcome stories of scholars who have
been productive in constrained circumstances. We would also like to
learn from the experience of those for whom archives have been
inaccessible for other reasons – scholars who are homebound, visually
impaired, or otherwise physically challenged, or those whose access to
libraries and collections has been restricted or denied. How have
these constraints shaped your work? What can these experiences tell us
about our discipline? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this
topic, broadly imagined.

The workshop is open to scholars and graduate students in any field
who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy.
This year’s workshop will be virtual, but we hope to retain as much of
the format and the flavor of our in-person meetings as possible.
Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project;
participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context,
discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange
ideas and information with other participants. We will prepare an
online repository where presenters can place abstracts, presentations,
or supporting material for access by all attendees. As in previous
years, the workshop is intended to be more like a class than a
conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and
unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to
offer practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together
towards developing better professional skills for textual and
codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works
in progress, unusual problems, practical difficulties, and new or
experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts.
Presenters will receive a $500 honorarium for their participation.

The deadline for applications is October 9, 2020. Applicants are asked
to submit a current CV and a two-page abstract of their project to Roy
M. Liuzza, preferably via email to
rliuzza@utk.edu<mailto:rliuzza@utk.edu>.

The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do
not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a
lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. In
order to keep the virtual sessions manageable, preregistration will be
required and spaces will be limited. Further details will be available
later in the year; please contact the Marco Institute at
marco@utk.edu<mailto:marco@utk.edu> for more information.