tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49735156483141175962024-03-15T08:05:56.001-07:00The Heroic AgeThis is the blog of The Heroic Age, http://www.heroicage.org, an online journal dedicated to the study of European Northwest from 400-1100 AD. This space will be used to make announcements about news items, books, and other related medieval news of interest to The Heroic Age readers.theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.comBlogger2585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-44244192568726412212024-02-22T09:23:00.000-08:002024-02-22T09:23:15.912-08:00<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Call for Papers – Connecting Late Antiquities conference</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><i>(Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, 03-05.02.2025)</i></b> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">On behalf of Professors Julia Hillner (BCDSS) and Richard Flower (University of Exeter), we cordially invite colleagues to submit paper proposals for our conference on <i>Connecting Late Antiquities</i>, to be held at the University of Bonn, 3-5 February 2025. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>Connecting Late Antiquities</i>, generously sponsored by Germany’s Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, is a collaborative project to create open, digital prosopographical resources for the Roman and post-Imperial territories between the third and seventh centuries. Its main aim is to digitise, unite, and link existing resources to make them more accessible and enhance their reach and utility. The enterprise will dramatically improve access to information about late-antique people for all scholars of this period and allow the easy integration of prosopographical material with online geographical, textual, epigraphic, and papyrological resources. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Technological developments have provided new opportunities for prosopography, including allowing for both constant updating and an expansion beyond the traditional focus on the higher echelons of society. <i>The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire</i> and <i>Prosopography of the Byzantine World</i> projects provide excellent examples of the greater possibilities allowed by this approach. <i>Connecting Late Antiquities</i> will draw together material from a variety of major printed prosopographies and specialist digital databases, as well as incorporating entries for 'non-elite' individuals who are attested in ancient sources but have not been included in earlier publications. This approach will allow more extensive research into understudied figures and their social connections. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We have a limited number of slots for <b>papers of up to 20 minutes</b> in length and therefore invite colleagues to submit <b>abstracts of max. 300 words<i> </i>(plus a brief bio)</b> on any aspect of Late Antique prosopography. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We particularly welcome submissions suggesting new discoveries and approaches within the following themes: </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm 0px 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Prosopography and the rise of literature in Late Antique local languages, both western (e.g. Irish, Pictish, Welsh) and eastern (e.g. Armenian, Coptic, Syriac). </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm 0px 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Prosopography and the ‘usual suspects’ (aristocracies, rulers, office-holders, etc.). </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm 0px 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Prosopography and the ‘unusual suspects’ (e.g. anonymous individuals, marginalised individuals, religious minorities, non-privileged groups). </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm 0px 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Prosopography and gender. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm 0px 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Prosopography and the challenges, limits, and opportunities of digital humanities. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm 0px 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Methodological avenues to overcome traditional prosopographical segregations (e.g. clerical/secular, elite/lower-status, human/non-human). </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Confirmed roundtable participants and speakers include Yanne Broux, Niels Gaul, Rodrigo Laham Cohen, Hartmut Leppin, Ralph Mathisen, Muriel Moser, Silvia Orlandi, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Claire Sotinel, Scott Vanderbilt, and Lieve Van Hoof. </b> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We are hoping to cover three nights of accommodation in Bonn, travel expenses, plus all lunches and one conference dinner. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please send your abstract plus bio to Jeroen Wijnendaele ( </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:jwijnend@uni-bonn.de" id="m_6853353178423376953m_-5621785162072458804OWA1b5d04cd-b693-4e56-3f99-5cd3fa976ead" style="color: #0563c1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" target="_blank">jwijnend@uni-bonn.de</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> ) and Jessica van ’t Westeinde ( </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:jvantwes@uni-bonn.de" id="m_6853353178423376953m_-5621785162072458804OWA62fea2c7-85b2-978e-e978-ea935e09fcd0" style="color: #0563c1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" target="_blank">jwestend@uni-bonn.de</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> ) <b>no later than the 1st of May 2024.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">With very best wishes,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jeroen Wijnendaele & Jessica van ’t Westeinde</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies</span></p>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-45076203558414387992024-02-01T09:49:00.000-08:002024-02-01T09:49:50.166-08:00<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">44<sup>th</sup> Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The Mystical, the Supernatural, and All Things Unexplained in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Keene State College</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Keene, NH, USA</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Friday and Saturday April 12-13, 2024</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Call for Papers and Sessions</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">We are delighted to announce that the 44<sup>th</sup> Medieval and Renaissance Forum will take place in person on Friday, April 12 and Saturday April 13, 2024 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. The theme of this year’s conference, the sixth and last dedicated to the senses, is The Mystical, the Supernatural, and All Things Unexplained in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. As always, we also welcome papers on any and every topic related to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance as well as papers on medievalism. We plan to hold the 44<sup>th</sup> Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum in person with a limited number of virtual presentations.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">We welcome abstracts (one page or less) from faculty, students, and independent scholars. If you are an undergraduate student, we ask that you obtain a faculty member's approval and sponsorship.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Graduate students are eligible for consideration for the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award upon submission of their essays by April 1, 2024. The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will win $100 to be used for registration and/or travel expenses to the 45<sup>th</sup> Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (travel expenses including but not limited to transportation to and from the conference and accommodations while in Keene). The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will be announced at lunch on Friday, April 12, 2024.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Please submit abstracts and full contact information </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">on the google form available</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 17.6333px;"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sm8UprkXeU8zm6Z7iOwp7fpO5Kuh5iVfONgZAfbrAW8/edit&source=gmail&ust=1706895584191000&usg=AOvVaw2zRmuFsm1s8VM7nFNTghN5" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sm8UprkXeU8zm6Z7iOwp7fpO5Kuh5iVfONgZAfbrAW8/edit" id="m_-6984119813313364052m_6739328008447960752m_-956247607180076404OWA7579d9bf-4dde-3356-9203-50607dba1549" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sm8UprkXeU8zm6Z7iOwp7fpO5Kuh5iVfONgZAfbrAW8/edit. Click or tap if you trust this link.">here</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This year’s keynote speaker is Nahir Otaño Gracia, Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, who will speak about "Whiteness, Borders, and the Otherworld: <i>Yvain </i>in the Global North Atlantic." </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Otaño Gracia has published a number of articles on literature from the Global North Atlantic, including “Towards a Decentered Global North Atlantic," the winner of the MLA's article prize in critical race studies (<i>Literature Compass</i> 2019), “Gawain, Race, and the Borders in <i>The Turke and Sir Gawain"</i> (<i>Exemplaria</i> 2022), “<wbr></wbr>Presenting Kin(g)ship in Medieval Irish Literature” (<i>Enarratio</i> 2018), and “Vikings of the Round Table” (<i>Comitatus</i> 2016). Her co-edited volume of essays, <i>Women’s Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages</i>, was published in 2023, and she is currently working on her monograph, <i>The Other Faces of Arthur: Medieval Arthurian Texts from the Global North Atlantic.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Otaño Gracia is also an activist medievalist working to create a more inclusive medieval studies. The article “Constructing Prejudice in the Middle Ages and the Repercussions of Racism Today,” co-written with Daniel Armenti, appeared in <i>Medieval Feminist Forum</i>’s special issue<i> </i>on<i> Microaggressions, Harassment, and Abuse—Medieval and Modern,</i> and her essays “On hidden scars and the passive voice" (<i>Ecocide</i>), “Lost in Our Field” and “Welcome to a New Reality! Reflections on the Medieval Academy of America’s Panel” discuss the ways that medieval studies has begun to diversify the field and the ways it has fallen short. Dr. Otaño Gracia also helped create the Medieval Academy of America’s <i>Belle Da Costa Greene</i> award to be given annually to a medievalist of color for their research.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Abstract deadline: <b>FEBRUARY 1, 2024</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2024</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">As always, we look forward to greeting returning and first-time participants to Keene in April!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></p>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-874303139232707232023-11-03T11:20:00.002-07:002023-11-03T11:20:51.875-07:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Please see the call for proposals for a forthcoming special issue of the journal <i>Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art! </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Please consider submitting and sharing widely; </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">contact us if you have questions. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">More information can be found here: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://differentvisions.org/call-for-proposals-environmental-narratives/&source=gmail&ust=1699121859281000&usg=AOvVaw3oWzGzCbUGgfRajY0YTSIP" href="https://differentvisions.org/call-for-proposals-environmental-narratives/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://differentvisions.org/<wbr></wbr>call-for-proposals-<wbr></wbr>environmental-narratives/</a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Environmental Narratives and the Eremitic Turn (due Nov. 30)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This encompasses the <em>locus</em> of eremitic experience, which might be from any religious tradition or geographical location, whether wilderness, mountain, or desert, broadly conceived. It also encompasses the bodies – individual and communal – who chose to inhabit that landscape (as a real or imagined place), and their lived experience. This special issue seeks to explore the diverse ways in which eremitic bodies, ascetic practice, and the landscape of the wilderness, were represented and imagined in visual culture. We welcome submissions that:</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">consider the resonance and meaning of the ascetic tradition across time and space</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">investigate the ascetic tradition and its entanglement with notions of the landscape as wilderness and holy mountain</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">adopt an environmental or ecocritical approach to the eremitic experience</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">explore the tensions between, for example, wilderness and cultivation, inhospitable and fertile landscapes, ascetic practice and the eremitic impulse</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">consider the re-imagining or invocation of the historical desert in monastic, mendicant or other contexts</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">explore the continuing resonance of the eremitic, in symbolic or ecologic terms, in our contemporary world</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">approach the themes above from a global perspective</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This special issue engages with urgent contemporary concerns about the impact of human activity on the earth that sustains us. It resonates with recent scholarly interest in the relationship between humanity and nature in the pre- and early modern period, seeking a broad, inclusive, and cross-disciplinary reflection on the visual representation of this interdependence.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thank you!<br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jennifer Borland and Nancy Thompson </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">managing editors, <i>Different Visions </i></span><a href="mailto:differentvisionsjournal@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">differentvisionsjournal@gmail.<wbr></wbr>com</a></p>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-36647076625682398872023-10-24T09:37:00.000-07:002023-10-24T09:37:04.884-07:00<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Light: Art, Metaphysics, and Science in the Middle Ages</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deadline: 15. November 2023<br /><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span>Jena, September 25–28, 2024</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In numerous creation myths, light stands at the beginning of the cosmos. In the Middle Ages, the concepts of light, beauty, and the good were inseparable. Darkness, ugliness, and the evil formed the opposite pole. The degree of perfection of nature, people, and artifacts could be measured by their beauty, which was essentially determined by brightness, brilliance, and luminosity. This concept applied to Byzantium as well as to the Christian West, Judaism, and Islam. To communicate this idea and to enable its experience was not only the highest goal of religious art in the Middle Ages, but also shaped secular and courtly culture. Centering around the topic of light, the 7th “Forum Kunst des Mittelalters” (Jena, September 25–28, 2024) will focus on the multifaceted connections between art, metaphysics, and science in the Middle Ages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">By emphasizing the light-related properties of materials (transparency, reflectivity), medieval artists imbued their creations with an aesthetic quality that pointed beyond the beautiful to the divine as the origin of all things. Questions about the relationship between luminous or light-reflecting materials (gold, silver, gemstones, alabaster, bronze, ivory, silk) and objects, as well as the connection between material, light, and aura were of highest significance across cultures and genres. Rock crystal objects between East and West have recently been the focus of several exhibitions and scholarly studies. Glass as a translucent material par excellence also raises transcultural questions, ranging from the significance of the material as a substitute for gemstones to the realm of its allegorical readings and its function in making the sacred visible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In architecture, the topic of artists working with and manipulating light can be addressed with reference to cathedrals, castles, and palaces as well as mosques, madrasas, and synagogues. Possible fields of investigation are the relationship between light and built space, the role of light in the design of facades, wall openings, and windows, or the function of dark, windowless spaces in the staging of the sacred.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Luminiferous objects such as candles, chandeliers, and other sorts of lamps served to mark meaningful places or to stage prominent persons and ritual actions, thus offering great potential for further studies. Questions about illumination and light design at masses, coronations, or funerals as well as about lights in motion, for example at processions and festive entries, could contribute to a more precise understanding of the performative potential of light in the Middle Ages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In encyclopedias, diagrams, and calendars, Western art of the Middle Ages dealt with the connection between light, cosmos, and man. From the 13th century onward, the rational exploration of light and the optical knowledge imported from the Arab world increasingly shaped medieval art. Deepened knowledge of the human vision influenced linear perspective and the representation of light in the arts of the late Middle Ages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Painters and sculptors now devoted themselves to studying and depicting light phenomena. It remains intriguing to examine how painting and sculpture react to the lighting conditions at their place of installation, how an artwork’s gilding combines aesthetic and theological aspirations, and how the painterly representation of light may reference the divine or may simply be profane surface gloss.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Finally, the topic of light and the sciences builds a bridge to radiation-based art-technological investigation methods of the present day, such as X-ray fluoroscopy, UV or infrared reflectography, which can make the process of the creation of an artwork visible. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Session 1: Light and Time. Narrating in light and darkness (Double Session) - Session 2: Semantics of Light and Light Openings in Early Medieval Sacred Buildings - Session 3: Stained Glass and Light (Double Session) - Session 4: Light and Lampstands in Medieval Churches - Session 5: Manufacturing and Manipulating Light in Byzantium: Objects, Diagrams, Architecture - Session 6: Light on Sculpture - Session 7: Goldsmithing and lighting effects. Manipulating shadows, the diaphanous and transparency - Session 8: “Shining with Truth”: Silver as Material and Medium - Session 9: In Its True Light: Problems and Perspectives of Research on Medieval Enamels (9th–15th c.) - Session 10: Light Phenomena and Light Effects in German Painting of the Late Middle Ages - Session 11: (In)visible – Monochrome Textiles in the Middle Ages - Session 12: Splendor Librorum – the Radiance of Books. Books, Light, and Movement - Session 13: Luminous writing: On Materiality and Reception of Light in Inscriptions - Session 14: Mirror and reflection - Session 15: Tenebrae / Darkness - Session 16: Illuminating Shadows - Session 17: Controlled strategies in the production and reception aesthetic treatment of daylight and artificial light (Double Session) - Session 18: ‘Light’- and ‘Soundscapes’. Conceptualizing Medieval Liturgies Through Light and Sound - Session 19: Synchrotron radiation based techniques for the investigation of medieval objects</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">For a detailed description of each session please visit</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dvfk-berlin.de/en/call-2/&source=gmail&ust=1698251519335000&usg=AOvVaw3nCY5yt6mYY1CPh8r41NdZ" href="https://www.dvfk-berlin.de/en/call-2/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.dvfk-berlin.de/en/<wbr></wbr>call-2/</a><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We now invite applicants – senior and junior researchers alike – to submit paper proposals</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (preferably in German or English) to these individual sessions. Sessions include one chair and a maximum of three speakers. Presentations usually last 20–30 minutes. Paper proposals of max. 200 words (+ contact details) may be submitted to <b><a href="mailto:kontakt@dvfk-berlin.de" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">kontakt@dvfk-berlin.de</a> by November 15 2023</b>. <b>Please note that only one person is scheduled per presentation at a time</b>. The results of the selection and the programme will be published in the first quarter of 2024 at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dvfk-berlin.de&source=gmail&ust=1698251519335000&usg=AOvVaw0O473q5NAcCg8pPeRxFWQI" href="http://www.dvfk-berlin.de/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.dvfk-berlin.de</span></a> and through other relevant online channels.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-2622352256470133662023-09-25T11:44:00.002-07:002023-09-25T11:44:45.294-07:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The editing of texts in many versions is one of the most difficult and most promising areas at the intersection of textual scholarship and digital humanities.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">A two-day virtual conference, “Editing the Text, Editing the Page” on October 5 and 6, will focus on one of the core problems in this domain: how do we edit a text existing in many documents so that we can reflect the richness of every page while still being able compare the text of every page across every document? This virtual conference will bring together scholars from areas ranging from pre-CE texts, Biblical Texts, medieval, renaissance and modern texts, from Zoroastrian texts to Shakespeare and Beckett and beyond, together with experts in text-encoding and digital tool-making. The first day of the conference will have four one-hour workshop presentations on digital tools and environments; on the second day eight papers (with time for questions) will offer different perspectives on the field.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Conference presenters are: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Peter Boot, Barbara Bordalejo, Gerrit Brüning, Alberto Cantera, Ionut Valentin Cucu, Roland Dekker, Gabriel Egan, Franz Fischer, Dirk Van Hulle, Diane Jakacki, Janelle Jenstad, Agnese Macchiarelli, Vincent Neyt, Daniel O’Donnell, Peter Robinson, Ulrich Schmid, Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Raffaele Viglianti.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">The conference is organized by <span lang="EN-US">Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities and the University of Saskatchewan.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Please register at <span style="color: #1155cd;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdOCtqT4qGt1QdE-6nZyiXOcaCLQ1pVIJ&source=gmail&ust=1695753679502000&usg=AOvVaw2RcBtxm0agk7mSwWLVlIJo" href="https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdOCtqT4qGt1QdE-6nZyiXOcaCLQ1pVIJ" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://unive.zoom.us/<wbr></wbr>meeting/register/<wbr></wbr>tZUqdOCtqT4qGt1QdE-<wbr></wbr>6nZyiXOcaCLQ1pVIJ</a></span>. Once you have registered, you will get the link to the Zoom room.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Info: <span style="color: #1155cd;"><a href="mailto:agnese.macchiarelli@unive.it" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">agnese.macchiarelli@<wbr></wbr>unive.it</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1155cd;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">The full program is attached. See also <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/2/?pagina%3D1%26dal%3D2023-09-19%26al%3D%26testo%3Dinternational%2Bconference&source=gmail&ust=1695753679502000&usg=AOvVaw0ENSQxeA4nK_u7dLJoZB4e" href="https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/2/?pagina=1&dal=2023-09-19&al=&testo=international+conference" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.unive.it/data/<wbr></wbr>agenda/2/?pagina=1&dal=2023-<wbr></wbr>09-19&al=&testo=international+<wbr></wbr>conference</a>.<span lang="EN-US"></span></p><div><br /></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-82647301941596021592023-09-14T09:43:00.002-07:002023-09-14T09:43:39.031-07:00<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">CALL FOR PAPERS </span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Devil 2024 Conference</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">15-18 May 2024</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">University of King’s College,</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0px 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Keynote Speakers</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theology.exeter.ac.uk/staff/stavrakopoulou/&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw1LPqW5kQCYWUzlkIR_3Knp" href="https://theology.exeter.ac.uk/staff/stavrakopoulou/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">Francesca Stavrakopoulou</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> University of Exeter, UK</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://history.cofc.edu/about/faculty-and-staff/poole-wscott.php&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw3a6G4i_b9PvaeleMA4dpG_" href="https://history.cofc.edu/about/faculty-and-staff/poole-wscott.php" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">W. Scott Poole</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> College of Charleston, US</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Keynote Panel, “the Satanic Renaissance”</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922193&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw3dPY-510PK8nVObtReslC6" href="https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922193" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">Joseph Laycock</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">, Texas State University</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ohnopodcast.com/about-us&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw0AkUBQfkZxdBuuoSQHB1_p" href="https://ohnopodcast.com/about-us" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">Ross Blotcher</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">, co-host of “Oh No, Ross and Carrie”</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://psychsciences.case.edu/faculty/julie-exline/&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw2pJ0vusHJuPDf_LUEggqQr" href="https://psychsciences.case.edu/faculty/julie-exline/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">Julie Exline</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">, Case Western University</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://my.wlu.edu/directory/profile?ID%3Dx9671&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw2McVihwa-tqOTczsQGEWR4" href="https://my.wlu.edu/directory/profile?ID=x9671" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">Michelle Brock</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">, Washington and Lee University</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> “The Devil 2024” conference explores the nature, significance, and operation of demonism and demonization across the western tradition. The conference will bring together scholars interested in the social and cultural construction of the devil and the impact of demonism across different chronological periods and from diverse methodological backgrounds. It aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that addresses challenging questions about how notions of the demonic are shaped by cultural priorities and anxieties, by professional discerners and the media, and by discourses of fear and safety.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">“The Devil 2024” will investigate why these images repeat through the ages and why they continue to have still have resonance in the modern world.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers, for panels (generally consisting of three papers), and workshops or round-tables dealing with any aspect of demonism and its manifestation in the western tradition.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Themes may include but are not limited to:<br /><br /></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-color: white; font-family: "EB Garamond"; font-size: 11pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Binaries and contrarieties</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Colonialism and demonism</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Constructions and reconstructions of the demonic</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Demonic and authority</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Demonisation and its application</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Demonism and the pursuit of knowledge</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Demon possession</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Demons and panics</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Demons and the environment</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Devil, exclusion and social cohesion</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Devil, perception and cognition</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Devil in the media and popular culture</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Diagnosing, engaging and challenging the demonic</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Gender, power and social order</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Inversions and subversions</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Representations of the devil</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond"; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond"; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond"; text-align: justify;">Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted through our online submission portal at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://devil2024.co/&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw3as_OE6HCeOdDmWPdscT5Y" href="https://devil2024.co/" style="color: #1155cc; text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">https://devil2024.co/</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond"; text-align: justify;"> by <b>15 October 2023</b>.</span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://discoverhalifaxns.com/&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw1HQKxQa4_wob-9ZyaUQyJH" href="https://discoverhalifaxns.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">Halifax </span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">(pop. 500,000) is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia. It is serviced by direct flights from Boston, New York, London, Montreal, and a number of other major North American and European cities. It has a range of services and attractions and has become a leading regional centre for dining and entertainment. The temperature in May generally ranges from 7C (44F) to 15C (59F).</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">Programme Committee: Michelle D. Brock (W&L Univ.), Peter Dendle (Penn State, Mont Alto), Sarah Hughes (Temple), Vera Kirk (Univ. of Malta), Kathryn Morris (Univ. of King’s College), Richard Raiswell (Univ. of Prince Edward Island), David R. Winter (Brandon Univ.).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";">For more information, please visit us at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://devil2024.co/&source=gmail&ust=1694795547996000&usg=AOvVaw3as_OE6HCeOdDmWPdscT5Y" href="https://devil2024.co/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">https://devil2024.co/</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "EB Garamond";"> or contact us at </span><a href="mailto:devil2024conference@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "EB Garamond";">devil2024conference@gmail.com</span></a></p></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-63117578930271784662023-09-01T11:22:00.002-07:002023-09-01T11:22:29.529-07:00<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Le centenaire de la mort de l’érudit breton <strong>François Duine</strong> (1870-1924), <em>clericus dolensis</em>, nous invite à célébrer cet anniversaire en lui consacrant le volume 26 de « <span style="color: red;">PECIA. LE LIVRE ET L’ÉCRIT</span> » (BREPOLS). La Bretagne et les pays celtiques en général lui doivent nombre d’études hagiographiques, liturgiques, touchant plus généralement l’histoire religieuse mais bien d’autres thèmes qu’il abordait toujours avec érudition dans son style si particulier.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The centenary of the death of the Breton scholar <strong>François Duine</strong> (1870-1924), <em>clericus dolensis</em>, invites us to celebrate this anniversary by dedicating to him volume 26 of “<span style="color: red;">PECIA. LE LIVRE ET L’ÉCRIT</span>” (BREPOLS). Brittany, and Celtic lands more generally, owe him a number of hagiographic and liturgical studies concerning religious history, as well as many other themes that he always addressed with erudition and in his own distinctive style.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nous appelons donc à contribution sur les champs de recherche de l’historien dolois dans un espace temps correspondant au grand Moyen Âge. L’histoire des bibliothèques, des <em>scriptoria</em> monastiques, l’hagiographie, la liturgie et ses manuscrits, autant de thèmes touchant l’ensemble du monde occidental trouveront place dans ce volume, avec un objectif commun : le recours aux sources.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We are therefore calling for contributions to the areas of research explored by the historian from Dol in the time period broadly corresponding to the Middle Ages. The history of libraries, monastic <em>scriptoria</em>, hagiography, liturgy and manuscripts, as well as themes concerning the whole of the Western world, will find their place in this volume, with a common objective: the use of primary sources.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nous invitons les chercheuses / chercheurs à nous faire parvenir <span style="color: red;"><strong>avant le 1<sup>er</sup> octobre 2023</strong></span> un court résumé de leur projet de contribution ainsi qu’un bref curriculum vitae.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We invite researchers to send us a short summary of their proposed contribution and a brief curriculum vitae <span style="color: red;"><strong>by 1 October 2023.</strong></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Contact : Jean-Luc Deuffic</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:jldeuffic@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">jldeuffic@gmail.com</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Site de <strong>PECIA </strong>: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sites.google.com/view/pecia/accueil&source=gmail&ust=1693678727621000&usg=AOvVaw1wgw2JMyx5hhwTUrD96aVz" href="https://sites.google.com/view/pecia/accueil" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/<wbr></wbr>pecia/accueil</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Site de <strong>BREPOLS </strong>: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.brepols.net/series/PECIA&source=gmail&ust=1693678727621000&usg=AOvVaw0eUN_GDaH4nzf-_xIGdvRh" href="https://www.brepols.net/series/PECIA" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.brepols.net/<wbr></wbr>series/PECIA</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 13.91px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pecia.blog.tudchentil.org/&source=gmail&ust=1693678727621000&usg=AOvVaw0gIJyDMjzy5kpVNs_zNzX9" href="https://pecia.blog.tudchentil.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://pecia.blog.tudchentil.<wbr></wbr>org/</a></span></p>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-78463244857708966992023-07-25T17:06:00.000-07:002023-07-25T17:06:52.995-07:00<p> <b style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Epic in the Latin West (4<sup>th</sup>-15<sup>th</sup> Centuries)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Nuremberg, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Saturday, 28 September 2024<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">Congress organizer: Lehrstuhl für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari), Friedrich-Alexander-<wbr></wbr>Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Kochstr. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">4/3, D-91054 Erlangen (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mittellatein.phil.fau.de&source=gmail&ust=1690416193574000&usg=AOvVaw2Hs-nw5WmZveooi-mMV25Z" href="http://www.mittellatein.phil.fau.de/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.mittellatein.phil.fau.de</a>)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Epic, beyond other genres, has been both a guarantor of cultural continuity for millennia and a site of fundamental innovations in literary style and content in Western culture. It has also occasioned heated controversies, because of the complex associations it bears, e.g., with nationalism, colonialism or racism. How do such debates relate to Medieval Latin – or do they?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">The conference <i>Epic in the Latin West (4<sup>th</sup>–15<sup>th</sup> Centuries)</i> proposes to explore the genre in its highly varied developments from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Medieval Latin gave expression to an overwhelming number of epics, many of them still little studied. The centre of gravity will be the Latin of the Middle Ages, but connections with Classics, other vernaculars, and modernity from the Renaissance to the present day are also possible topics. What do these earlier centuries have to say to the twenty-first?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Many avenues might be investigated, such as:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">- Epic Heroes and Heroines: adaptation of classical heroes (from Homer, Virgil, Lucan, and others); questions of gender; rise of new heroes (biblical and saintly); effects of Christianity on the nature of heroism.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">- Texts and Genres: epic and other genres (e.g., historical writing, hagiography, philosophy, or theology); defining features of epic; orality and literacy in composition and transmission; stylistics and metrics; verse in relation to prose.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">- Reception: intertextuality, concentrating on Latin but also relating to the vernaculars; text transmission and philological aspects; quotation and paraphrase; text and image; text and music; epic and other media (romances, novels, film, and recent media forms, so long as the connection with Medieval Latin is strong).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">The conference will take place under the aegis of the International Medieval Latin Committee (president: Prof. Dr. Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard). Mornings will feature plenary lectures (keynote speeches) by internationally recognized specialists, while the afternoon will have papers given in panel sessions (each 20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion). The conference languages are German, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">This <b>call for papers</b> is open to scholars at all career stages who would like to present in the panel sessions. Interested individuals should submit their proposals <b>by 1 March 2024 </b>(starting from <b>1 November 2023</b>) here:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.conftool.net/kongress-epos2024&source=gmail&ust=1690416193575000&usg=AOvVaw3yKDLaQCGeUqixd-elnwb-" href="http://www.conftool.net/kongress-epos2024" id="m_-3203205825548118962m_4638120069961832570LPlnk172097" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">www.conftool.net/kongress-<wbr></wbr>epos2024</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Please note that presenters must also register for the congress. Please send, in addition to your C.V., the title of your contribution and an abstract <b>in English </b>(max. 300 words). The papers themselves may be delivered in any of the conference languages named above. In selecting papers, the organizers are looking to create a spectrum that is thematically and methodologically as broad as possible.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Some <i>Sebaldus Bursaries</i> in the amount of 400€ each will be available to travelling speakers under 35 years of age whose proposals are accepted.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">After the proposal has been accepted and the speaker has agreed to attend, successful recipients will be notified by the conference organizers. A separate application for a <i>Sebaldus Bursary</i> is not necessary. It is not possible to combine a <i>Sebaldus Bursary</i> with a bursary from the <i>HWB Mittellatein Foundation</i> (see below).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">For more information about the conference and accompanying program, see our homepage:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mittellatein.phil.fau.de/epos-2024/&source=gmail&ust=1690416193575000&usg=AOvVaw2rw73t1ZvJtr81h1L7kt90" href="http://www.mittellatein.phil.fau.de/epos-2024/" id="m_-3203205825548118962m_4638120069961832570LPlnk149264" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">www.mittellatein.phil.fau.de/<wbr></wbr>epos-2024/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Prospective presenters and audience members may register <b>by 15 September 2024 </b>(starting from <b>1 November 2023</b>) here:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.conftool.net/kongress-epos2024&source=gmail&ust=1690416193575000&usg=AOvVaw3yKDLaQCGeUqixd-elnwb-" href="http://www.conftool.net/kongress-epos2024" id="m_-3203205825548118962m_4638120069961832570LPlnk443414" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">www.conftool.net/kongress-<wbr></wbr>epos2024</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">For 10 young scholars, travel bursaries in the amount of 400€ each will be available on a competitive basis through the generosity of the <i>HWB Mittellatein</i> Foundation. Please send your application before <b>30 June 2024</b>, including a full C.V. and a short statement describing your interest in Medieval Latin to: </span><span lang="FR">Dr. iur. </span>Felix Berschin, Kennwort „HWB Mittellatein“, Max-Reger-Str. 41, 69121 Heidelberg (Germany).</p>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-75827313372319377932023-05-01T09:09:00.002-07:002023-05-01T09:09:43.159-07:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><div style="direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for</span></b><u></u><u></u></div><div style="direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">U.S. Citizens at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem</span></b><u></u><u></u></div><div style="direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Academic Years 2024/5</span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="direction: rtl;">Fell</span><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;">owships are open to researchers in all academic disciplines and support research programs in Israel for up to 20 months (two academic years).</span></span><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Benefits:</span><u></u><u></u></span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" type="disc"><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Stipend: $95,000 ($47,500 per academic year for two years)</span><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Reimbursement of up to $1,700 for airfare expenses for Fulbright fellows (and spouses)</span><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Partial reimbursement of children’s education expenses and fees</span><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Relocation support of up to $9,000 provided by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem</span><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apply by September 15, 2023</span></b><u></u><u></u></span></div><p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Visit the program page on our website at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fulbright.org.il/program/2/627&source=gmail&ust=1683043527313000&usg=AOvVaw2TEvKp5b13W298Wg-MDVZm" href="https://fulbright.org.il/program/2/627" style="color: purple;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://fulbright.org.il/<wbr></wbr>program/2/627</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For further information or inquiries, please contact:</span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Assaf Levinton</span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tel: +972 3 5213804</span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><a href="mailto:USprograms@fulbright.org.il" style="color: purple;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">USprograms@fulbright.org.il</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">HUJI host supervisor should obtain the institutional letter of commitment from the Hebrew University International Office, Email: </span><a href="mailto:kerensa@savion.huji.ac.il" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">kerensa@savion.huji.ac.<wbr></wbr>il</a></span></div></div></blockquote>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-13681556216631077062023-04-28T08:51:00.002-07:002023-04-28T08:51:52.637-07:00<p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination%3Dnode/12758731&source=gmail&ust=1682783308187000&usg=AOvVaw1fkO7aAHrjaU8hoYFZw8Vd" href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/12758731" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Deadline Extension: CFP Midwest Conference for British Studies</a></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by David Pennington</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deadline Extended!!! The Midwest Conference for British Studies is proud to announce that its 70th Annual Meeting will be held at Bowling Green State University on October 13-14, 2023.</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The MWCBS 2023 has extended its deadline for paper and panel proposals to May 26, 2023. The MWCBS 2023 will feature a wide variety of papers and panels from established and early career scholars, and a keynote speech from Christopher Otter, professor of history at the Ohio State University and author most recently of <i>Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology </i>(2020). Perhaps the only thing that could make the conference any better would be YOUR PAPER!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Britain’s Empire and the Commonwealth from Roman Britain to the modern age. We welcome scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to history, literature, political science, gender studies, art and music history. We welcome scholars at all stages of their careers, from graduate students to emeriti, as well as independent scholars, people working in associated careers, and more traditional academics. We accept full panel proposals and individual proposals equally. The MWCBS encourages scholars to use H-Albion to find additional panelists. Our organization can also help find chairs, commentators, and additional panelists, if needed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The MWCBS welcomes individual proposals and proposals for panels (of three participants plus chair/commentator), roundtables (of four participants plus chair), poster sessions, and panels featuring the pre-circulation of papers among participants and audience members.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The MWCBS welcomes proposals that:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">• Examine new trends in British Studies<br />• Explore new developments in digital humanities, pedagogies, and/or research methodologies<br />• Present professional development sessions on collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the British Studies classroom or on topics of research, publication, public outreach, or employment relevant to British Studies scholars<br />• Offer comparative analyses of different periods of British Studies, such as comparing medieval and early modern issues in context<br />• Situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context<br />• Present new research on the political, social, cultural, and economic history of the British Isles<br />• Examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national identities, including the construction of identities shaped by race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and dis/ability<br />• Consider Anglo-American relations, past and present<br />• Assess a major work or body of work by a scholar</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The MWCBS welcomes presentations by advanced graduate students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference. A limited number of Jim Sack Travel Awards will also be available, and all graduate students are encouraged to apply. Further details will be available on the MWCBS website: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://mwcbs.edublogs.org/&source=gmail&ust=1682783308187000&usg=AOvVaw1h6etW2tNsTUAn363SJs1Q" href="http://mwcbs.edublogs.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2e6eb0;">http://mwcbs.<wbr></wbr>edublogs.org/</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Proposal Requirements and Deadline:</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">• Include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators.<br />• For full panels, also include a 200-word abstract for the panel as a whole.<br />• Please place the panel abstract, accompanying paper proposals, and vitas in one Word or PDF file and submit it as a single attachment. Also identify, within the e-mail, the panel’s contact person.</span></span></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">• All proposals should be submitted electronically by May 26 to the Program Committee Chair, David Pennington at </span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:dpennington41@webster.edu" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2e6eb0;">dpennington41@webster.edu</span></span></span></a></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For information on shuttles from Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Dayton airports to Bowling Green State University, go to: </span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/purchasing/documents/contracted-suppliers/BGAirportShuttle.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1682783308188000&usg=AOvVaw074eqcUjW-f8OXMRNmwOjx" href="https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/purchasing/documents/contracted-suppliers/BGAirportShuttle.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; 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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">, University of Galway, will deliver this year’s Memorial Lecture, which will take place in-person at UCC on <b>Thursday 27<sup>th</sup> April 2023 at 4pm (BST)</b>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Lecture, titled: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #231f20;">‘</span><i><span style="color: #231f20;">Pater</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #231f20;"> Ecgberct of Rath Melsigi: the hero of Bede's </span><i><span style="color: #231f20;">Historia Ecclesiastica</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #231f20;">?’</span> will take place in <b>ORB 255 Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building, University College Cork</b>.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><b><i><u><span lang="EN-GB">NOTE</span></u></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">: For those of you who will not be able to attend the 2023 Jennifer O’Reilly Memorial Lecture in person, the following <b>weblink will allow you to watch the live stream</b>:<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%253ameeting_MTlmODkwZmMtMjE2NC00YmE1LTgyMmYtNzgwMmY4MThiMGRl%2540thread.v2/0?context%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%252246fe5ca5-866f-4e42-92e9-ed8786245545%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522d90f8895-d653-4bed-affc-e85602ade037%2522%257d&source=gmail&ust=1682525542172000&usg=AOvVaw1mPTWBLj4aU0czPRpXH8PZ" href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTlmODkwZmMtMjE2NC00YmE1LTgyMmYtNzgwMmY4MThiMGRl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2246fe5ca5-866f-4e42-92e9-ed8786245545%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d90f8895-d653-4bed-affc-e85602ade037%22%7d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://teams.microsoft.com/l/<wbr></wbr>meetup-join/19%3ameeting_<wbr></wbr>MTlmODkwZmMtMjE2NC00YmE1LTgyMm<wbr></wbr>YtNzgwMmY4MThiMGRl%40thread.<wbr></wbr>v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%<wbr></wbr>2246fe5ca5-866f-4e42-92e9-<wbr></wbr>ed8786245545%22%2c%22Oid%22%<wbr></wbr>3a%22d90f8895-d653-4bed-affc-<wbr></wbr>e85602ade037%22%7d</a></span></u><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Memorial Lecture in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly was established in 2017 by the School of History. Each year a distinguished scholar is invited to speak on either the writings of Bede or medieval iconography, two subjects that Dr O’Reilly explored in her research and teaching:<b> </b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ucc.ie/en/history/drjenniferoreillymemorialpage/thejenniferoreillymemoriallectureseries/&source=gmail&ust=1682525542172000&usg=AOvVaw1q7WaJlbeVRs4IDqarmvXk" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/history/drjenniferoreillymemorialpage/thejenniferoreillymemoriallectureseries/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="https://www.ucc.ie/en/history/drjenniferoreillymemorialpage/thejenniferoreillymemoriallectureseries/"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.ucc.ie/<wbr></wbr>en/history/<wbr></wbr>drjenniferoreillymemorialpage/<wbr></wbr>thejenniferoreillymemoriallect<wbr></wbr>ureseries/</span></a><b> </b></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Please, distribute the information about the event via your own networks and mailing lists.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Looking forward to seeing you at the lecture.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Colette.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #767171; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">Colette Pettit, School of History, University College Cork, 5 Perrott Avenue, Cork.</span></b><span style="color: #767171;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #767171; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">Email:</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #767171; font-size: 9pt; 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font-size: 9pt;">https://www.ucc.ie/en/<wbr></wbr>history/</span></a></span><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="color: #767171;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #767171; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><u></u> </p></span>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-22107023931040364292023-04-24T12:40:00.002-07:002023-04-24T12:40:33.044-07:00<p> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Digital Classicist London seminar invites proposals for the Summer 2023 series. We are looking for seminars on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds, including history, archaeology, language, literature, cultural heritage or reception, that address innovative digital approaches to research, teaching, dissemination or engagement. Seminars that speak to the ancient world beyond Greco-Roman antiquity are especially welcome.</span></p><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Seminars will be held fortnightly through June and July in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London, and will be simultaneously streamed to remote audiences on Youtube, but we hope most speakers will be physically present in London. We have a small budget to support travel for speakers within the UK.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Please send an abstract of 300 words to <<a href="mailto:gabriel.bodard@sas.ac.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">gabriel.bodard@sas.ac.uk</a>> (clearly marked "Digital Classicist London") by the end of Monday May 1.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blog.stoa.org/archives/4210&source=gmail&ust=1682451238599000&usg=AOvVaw2ssGEH7GI0RBDvKE9k6a__" href="https://blog.stoa.org/archives/4210" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">https://blog.stoa.org/<wbr></wbr>archives/4210</a>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-31057164129102837012023-04-10T11:11:00.002-07:002023-04-10T11:11:47.829-07:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">CFP via The Bryn Mawr College Graduate Group Symposium Committee</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Call for Papers<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Timecraft: From Interpreting the Past to Shaping the Future<u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Fourteenth Biennial Symposium organized by Graduate Students in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art at Bryn Mawr College<u></u> <u></u></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">November 10th-11th, 2023<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Deadline for Abstract Submissions</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Friday May 5th, 2023, 5:00 PM EST. <a style="color: #222222;">biensymp@brynmawr.edu</a><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Past, present, and future are not universal truths but ideas that emerge in relation to human existence. The social construction of time takes many forms. From the collection of relics and repatriation of antiquities to the creation of memorials and the removal of monuments, traces of the past help us to make sense of the current moment. Performances of epics collapse the past into the present and wish-fulfilling rituals tie the present to the future. Questions about time are accordingly wide ranging. For instance, how do researchers identify the cultural strategies people use to define their own time? What does the archaeological record tell us about continuities with and breaks from the past? How do objects and texts reflect attitudes and anxieties about the future?<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Timecraft</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> invites you to consider the ways in which people use the concept of time to understand the past, define the present, and envision the future. This will be the fourteenth biennial symposium organized by students in the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.brynmawr.edu/gsas/about-school/graduate-group-archaeology-classics-history-art/biennial-symposia&source=gmail&ust=1681236131823000&usg=AOvVaw0oekBKSyiZjXJNqVzFHJ3p" href="https://www.brynmawr.edu/gsas/about-school/graduate-group-archaeology-classics-history-art/biennial-symposia" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Graduate Group of Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art at Bryn Mawr College</a>. We encourage graduate students in relevant disciplines, working in any time period, to send us paper proposals on timecraft. Applicants may choose to present their research in the following formats:<u></u> <u></u></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Several <b>regular panels </b>are intended for full-length paper presentations. 15- to 20-minute papers will be followed by individual, 10-minute Q&A sessions in these panels. While we are planning the regular panels as in-person sessions, we hope to provide space for remotely-delivered papers to those participants who are unable to travel to the area.<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One <b>lightning panel</b> is intended as an opportunity to share works-in-progress, and is geared towards fostering a hybrid mode of participation, allowing both remote and in-person participants to bring ideas into conversation. Five-to seven-minute introductions of the works-in-progress will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A after each paper.<u></u> <u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Application process</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts to either or both types of panels, provided that the two submissions are separate works. We will consider submissions from graduate students at any point in their degree. All proposals should be sent to the BMC Graduate Symposium Committee at <a style="color: #222222;">biensymp@brynmawr.edu</a> by <b>Friday May 5th, 2023, 5:00 PM EST</b>.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To apply for the regular panel please send an abstract of 300-words to us, specifying your preferred panel format in the subject line of your email.<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To apply for the lightning panel, please send a 150-word abstract to us, specifying your preferred panel format in the subject line of your email.<u></u> <u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Review and Acceptance Process</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: The committee will assess submissions through a blind review process. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submission by Monday May 22nd, 2023.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please contact us with any questions regarding the symposium at <a style="color: #222222;">biensymp@brynmawr.edu</a>.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FjukCB84x7ARReR3o-W87YC8RtmDUg2A/view&source=gmail&ust=1681236131823000&usg=AOvVaw0_uSDQvVjSP-L0FMrdVuiP" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FjukCB84x7ARReR3o-W87YC8RtmDUg2A/view" id="m_-8969587234130530649m_-6705086940340426649m_-537428651859580685m_-7533253725223049227m_-1090929190644790615OWA98d3f456-a18f-c0a5-3b7a-777776baddb7" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">this link</a> to see a list of some suitable topics for <i>Timecraft</i>. </span></p></div></div></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-79952863013110738262023-03-29T11:28:00.002-07:002023-03-29T11:28:43.480-07:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies will be held on 24 to 29 August 2026 in Vienna, Austria.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div><br /></div><div><div title="Page 1"><p>Dear Colleagues,</p><p>Following the online meeting of the Organizing Committee of the 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies -Vienna 2026 with the members of the AIEB Bureau on 16 March 2023, we would like to inform you about the preliminary profile and structure of the Congress program and to appeal to all National Committees to send us their proposals for Round Tables by 31 December 2023. The call for Free Communications will be sent in spring 2025. You may find below the main theme of the Congress, the themes of six Plenary Sessions, as well as the timetable and procedures for Round Tables, to be confirmed and approved at the Inter Congress meeting in Athens on 12 April 2024.</p><p>INFORMATION ON THE PROFILE AND STRUCTURE OF THE 25th CONGRESS OF BYZANTINE STUDIES- Vienna 2026</p><p>Date:</p><p>The 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies will be held on 24 to 29 August 2026 in Vienna, Austria.</p><p>Main Theme:</p><p>“Byzantium beyond Byzantium”, “Byzance au-delà de Byzance”, “Το Βυζάντιο πέρα από το Βυζάντιο”</p><p>General Rule:</p><p>Scholars can participate in no more than two sessions throughout the Congress. (i.e., as speaker in two sessions, or as speaker in one session plus as convener, or as convener in two sessions).</p></div><div title="Page 2"><p>Plenary Sessions:</p><p>There will be six Plenary Sessions. The list of Plenary Session themes and speakers will be approved at the Inter-Congress meeting in Athens on 12 April 2024. National Committees will be informed about the details shortly before the meeting. The themes for Plenary Sessions are:</p><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Byzantium lost and found</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Romanitas beyond Byzantium. Diffusion and impact of ideas of Rome in a „post-Roman”</p><p>world</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>The beasts, the crops and the bones. Biological perspectives on the Byzantine world</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Byzantine Diversities</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Reading Byzantine literature across the centuries</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Byzantium in Central Europe</p></li></ol><p>Round Tables:</p><p>General rules</p><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Round Tables must be proposed through the National Committee of the proposer. There is also the option of joint proposals by more than one National Committee.</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Round Tables are allocated 90 minutes. They should consist of no fewer than four and no more than six speakers, plus the convener(s), in order to ensure adequate time for discussion.</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>The professional affiliation of the speakers should represent at least two countries. We particularly encourage the inclusion of young researchers.</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>We strongly encourage those who propose Round Tables to follow the Congress main theme.</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>The most important criterion for accepting a Round Table proposal will be its innovative scholarly contribution.</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>The number of proposals, including joint proposals by each National Committee is limited to ten.</p></li></ol></div><div title="Page 3"><ol start="7"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Proposals should include a title, an abstract of 250 words, 5 key words, the names of the convener(s) and speakers as well as the name of the person sending the proposal, his/her affiliated institution and his/her mail address.</p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p>Proposals should be written in English or French. Timetable</p></li></ol><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;">The deadline for submission of Round Table proposals by National Committees to the Organizing Committee is 31 December 2023. Any Round Table proposal sent after the deadline will not be accepted. The proposals should be sent to <a href="mailto:program.ICBS2026@univie.ac.at" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">program.ICBS2026@univie.ac.at</a>.</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">Conveners of Round Tables will be informed about the decision of the Program Committee (in accordance with the Bureau of the AIEB) in mid-February 2024. Proposed Round Tables will either be accepted or rejected or the option of an Organized Session will be offered.</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">Conveners of accepted Round Tables will be asked to confirm their participation and the organization of their Round Tables by 31 March 2024.</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">The list of Round Tables will be presented at the Inter-Congress meeting in Athens on 12 April 2024.</li></ul><p>Vienna, March 2023<br />The Organizing Committee</p></div></div></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p></p>--<br />The BSANA listserv exists to inform the Byzantine studies community of academic news and opportunities in the field. Such bulletins include the announcement of calls for papers, job listings, fellowships, exhibitions of Byzantine art, colloquia and symposia, obituaries of prominent Byzantinists, and other matters of academic interest. 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The Communications Officer will have discretion in determining what is appropriate material for the listserv.<br /> <br />Send your announcements to <a href="mailto:bsana.communications@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">bsana.communications@gmail.com</a><wbr></wbr>.<br />---</span>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-8237006888670619442023-03-27T09:26:00.002-07:002023-03-27T09:26:16.073-07:00<p> </p><div id="m_8028198834628551932m_1022824193445721009gmail-post-8060" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The officers of UCLA </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cmrs.ucla.edu/students/memsa/&source=gmail&ust=1680020615797000&usg=AOvVaw1h_sRQAukVWXcBTDFz3ILV" href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/students/memsa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MEMSA</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> announce this year’s conference, “Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World,” to be held in the UCLA Humanities Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall, on June 2, 2023, as a hybrid event. MEMSA invites submissions from graduate students in any discipline of medieval and early modern studies, at UCLA and beyond. Abstracts of 250 words are </span><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">due April 10</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">. Please email them to </span><a href="mailto:memsa.ucla@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">memsa.ucla@gmail.com</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">. Acceptances will be sent by April 20. More information at</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cmrs.ucla.edu/memsa/cfp-frontiers-borders-borderlands-in-the-early-global-world/&source=gmail&ust=1680020615797000&usg=AOvVaw0duiGTnBJSw_ydRlOdiEVy" href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/memsa/cfp-frontiers-borders-borderlands-in-the-early-global-world/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://cmrs.ucla.edu/<wbr></wbr>memsa/cfp-frontiers-borders-<wbr></wbr>borderlands-in-the-early-<wbr></wbr>global-world/</a><span style="color: #888888;"><br /></span></h2></div><span style="color: #888888;"><div id="m_8028198834628551932m_1022824193445721009gmail-post-8050" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background-color: white;" /></div></div></div></span>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-21768051248925742862023-03-23T09:09:00.001-07:002023-03-23T09:09:07.494-07:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Israeli Forum of Early Medieval Studies and Utrecht University invite PhD students to submit their proposals for a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ph.D. Student Workshop "Textual Communities in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Formation, Influence, and Afterlife."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The aim of this workshop is to open up the discussion of textual communities in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We welcome speakers from various disciplines, studying varying periods and religions (such as late-antique Judaism, early Islam, and Eastern, Western, and Syriac Christianity). </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">We will offer partial financial support to a few select students.<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;">Please find further information in the attached document.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">The workshop will be held<b> in Jerusalem on</b> </span></span><b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: arial, sans-serif;">5-7 September 2023</span></b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. </span></span></div><div><b><u><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;">Deadline for proposals: April 23rd, 2023</span></span></u></b></div></div><div><b><u><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></u></b></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Interested students are requested to send an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short CV (max. 1 page) to </span><a href="mailto:FEMS@mail.huji.ac.il" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">FEMS@mail.huji.ac.il</a><span style="font-size: 14px;">. </span></p></div><div><b><u><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"><br /></span></span></u></b></div><div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; 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color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div></div><div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>———</div><div><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Shachar F. Orlinski<br />Ph.D. Candidate, <br />Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br />The Israeli Forum of Early Medieval Studies<br /><br /><a href="mailto:shachar.orlinski@mail.huji.ac.il" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">shachar.orlinski@mail.huji.ac.<wbr></wbr>il</a><br /><a href="mailto:s.f.orlinski@berkeley.edu" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">s.f.orlinski@berkeley.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-1106210412550923352023-03-15T12:06:00.001-07:002023-03-15T12:06:06.864-07:00<p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination%3Dnode/12544063&source=gmail&ust=1678993244175000&usg=AOvVaw3sujcMdNE5Hs3TkVFvy0xU" href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/12544063" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Outcasts, Pariahs, and Criminals: Midwest World History Association 2023 Conference's Call for Proposals</a></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jeanne E. Grant</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><span style="line-height: 36.8px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Outcasts, Pariahs, and Criminals: Histories of Others and Othering</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 27.6px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Call for Proposals</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Midwest World History Association</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">September 22-23, 2023</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2023</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Midwest World History Association is pleased to announce a call for paper, poster, panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals for its annual conference to be held at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois on September 22-23, 2022. The conference theme is “Outcasts, Pariahs, and Criminals: Histories of Others and Othering.” This theme builds off of last year’s “Difficult Histories” by highlighting the histories of and by those who have been othered. As many political leaders move to “shield people from feeling ‘discomfort’ over historic actions by their race, nationality or gender,” this theme is intended to invite presentations and discussions on how world historians at all levels – high school, community college, or university - can best create spaces within which to explore, share, teach and learn about contested topics. This year’s theme is also a recognition of the change in federal law that once again makes incarcerated citizens eligible for Pell grants and the hopeful increase of educational opportunities for those most impacted by the carceral state. As always, while designed to spark discussion, the conference theme is not intended to limit possibilities: paper and panel proposals on any theme and time period in world history are welcome. Similarly, proposals that focus on teaching and those that showcase research are equally encouraged. The MWWHA seeks to bring together college and K-12 faculty, and welcomes proposals from K-12 teachers, college faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, high school students, and public historians, as well as scholars and teachers working in allied fields.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This conference will be held in person at Roosevelt University in Chicago’s South Loop.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Please submit a 250-word proposal abstract and short CV to </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://midwestworldhistory.wildapricot.org/&source=gmail&ust=1678993244175000&usg=AOvVaw3xHkH0tkLCJsb_6SNdjbS0" href="https://midwestworldhistory.wildapricot.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #008bae;">http://www.mwwha.org</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> by May 15, 2023.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Questions about the conference can be directed to MWWHA's public discussion forum on its site, or you can email the conference chair at </span><a href="mailto:chair@mwwha.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">chair@mwwha.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">. Where a complete panel of papers, roundtable, or workshop is proposed, the convener should also include a 250-word abstract of the panel theme. Individual paper presentations should be planned to last no longer than 20 minutes.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The MWWHA will offer up to three competitive Graduate Student Awards to help offset travel costs. Graduate students interested in applying should include a letter with their conference proposal explaining how the conference helps them with their studies, teaching, and/or future career plans as well as how their paper fits with the conference theme and the mission of the MWWHA.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We also invite accepted papers to be submitted to our journal, <i>The Middle Ground Journal, </i>for potential publication: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://themiddlegroundjournal.org/&source=gmail&ust=1678993244175000&usg=AOvVaw0dWuOloTeCidttqi0KMXDW" href="http://themiddlegroundjournal.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #008bae;">http://themiddlegroundjournal.<wbr></wbr>org/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">. Extra consideration will be given to papers for a special issue of the journal based on the conference theme.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Further information about the MWWHA, including membership and conference registration (when it becomes available), can be found at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://midwestworldhistory.wildapricot.org/&source=gmail&ust=1678993244175000&usg=AOvVaw3xHkH0tkLCJsb_6SNdjbS0" href="https://midwestworldhistory.wildapricot.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #008bae;">http://www.mwwha.org</span></span></a><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #008bae;">.</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></p></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-83510092160672793282023-03-03T09:01:00.002-08:002023-03-03T09:01:53.316-08:00<p> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">CfP: Dissolving Kinship in the Early Middle Ages, ca. AD 400-1000</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The University of York, 1-2 June 2023</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Confirmed external participants: Catherine Cubitt (UEA); Erin Dailey (Leicester), Rachel Stone (Bedfordshire & KCL),</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Kinship is often treated as a social phenomenon that binds people together permanently through the creation of mutual ties, obligations, and emotions between individuals. Over the last decades, work on family and kinship in the early Middle Ages has addressed the basis of this claim through considering two key issues: i) how new types of kinship ties emerged in the early Middle Ages; ii) how far early-medieval kinship was derived from spiritual or blood ties. <span style="color: #b4a7d6;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">However, kinship can also be used to separate as much as bring together, and kinship ties were not always as permanent as might be inferred. The<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> moments where kinship ties were considered to cease offer us the opportunity to investigate how these conceptual differences might shape or be expressed in social behaviour</span>. <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">By considering the extent to which moments of imposed (or initiated) separation can be considered <i>dissolvement </i>of kinship ties, our workshop addresses two related issues.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">First, our workshop seeks to investigate how such separations occurred, and by whom they were acknowledged.<b> </b>Second, it seeks to establish comparable factors that can be extended to kinship ties in early-medieval European and Mediterranean societies that did not necessarily share the same ideological underpinning of family, systems of enforcement, or agreement on which ties were intra- or extra-familial.<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Throughout the event and during a final roundtable discussion, we hope to interrogate the extent to which revealing the processes through which kinship may have been dissolved can improve our understanding of how kinship ties were created and sustained in the first place</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Proposals for 30-minute papers are invited from late-stage postgraduates and ECRs.</span></b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> We suggest a few suggested moments to stimulate but not limit the scope of enquiry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The status of hostages and their familial dependents; their status and reception on return</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The treatment of absent or missing relatives and their partners and dependents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The negotiation of familial ties between relatives of differing free/unfree statuses</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The treatment of imprisoned, convicted or executed relatives and their dependents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Remarriage, adoption, and other methods to restore familial relationships</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Adultery, assault and other (non-legal) modes of instigating separation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Concubinage, fosterage and other modes of quasi-familial status</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Familial ties across ethnic, racial or religious divisions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(In)consistent alienation of specific familial rights or duties within separations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 60pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Due to the generosity of the Past & Present Society and the Department of History, University of York, accepted speakers who wish to present in person will receive at least a 150-pound bursary towards travel and accommodation. We also welcome applications for virtual presentations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Please send ca. 300 word abstracts and a brief bio to<b> both </b>organisers, Dr Alex Traves (</span><a href="mailto:alex.traves@york.ac.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">alex.traves@york.ac.uk</span></a><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">) and Dr Becca Grose (</span><a href="mailto:becca.grose@york.ac.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">becca.grose@york.ac.uk</span></a><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">), by<b> 7 April 2023.</b></span></p>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-38241657106554034332023-03-02T09:00:00.002-08:002023-03-02T09:00:23.747-08:00<p> </p><h2><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination%3Dnode/12427838&source=gmail&ust=1677862531611000&usg=AOvVaw1qAv2RkL0HwltfGzNHdAgt" href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/12427838" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Call for Papers – CEMS Graduate Conference 2023, 30-31 May (Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna)</a></h2><div>by Osman Kocabal</div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna</span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Call for Papers – CEMS Graduate Conference 2023, 30-31 May (Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna)</span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Keynote Speaker: Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University, Newark)</span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape</b><b> </b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">The consequences of global warming, pandemics, and ecological catastrophes serve as painful reminders of the contingency of human history on its natural environment. These issues have provided a forceful impetus to the study of history with environmental considerations in mind, leading to what scholars coined as an ecological turn. Since Fernand Braudel, several conceptualizations of the Mediterranean and its surroundings as a subject of historical research emphasized how common patterns of climate, geography, flora, and fauna give rise to shared models of ecology, agriculture, and social organization. Subsequently, environmental history, as well as various approaches centering on the environment in several other disciplines, inspired scholars working on a broad range of topics related to the history of the Mediterranean and led to the emergence of various perspectives on the problems of nature, landscape, sustainability, environment, and ecology. </span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">We would like to highlight chase the broad variety of approaches to these topics and to show that themes of nature, environment, and ecology are not only a concern of environmental historians, but they could serve as shared spaces of encounter between scholars arriving from an array of backgrounds and disciplines. To this end, we would like to encourage the application of any participants whose interest relates to these fields, even if they don’t consider themselves “environmental historians proper.” Also, we hope to grope toward a conceptualization of the relations between humans and nature, which complements the agricultural and rural focus of the discipline with a thematization of urban landscapes and spaces as parts of ecologies. </span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">We welcome the application of scholars working on but not limited to Anthropology, Archeology, Art History, Classics, Environmental Science and History, Gender Studies, History, Languages and Literatures, Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology. We hope that this lax interpretation of the boundaries of environmental history will engender new avenues of dialogues on past ecologies that would help participants and audiences think anew and appreciate the diversity of environments and their historical representations in the context of Mediterranean history. </span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">We welcome any topics related but not limited to the following themes and disciplines: </span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Climate, climate change and natural catastrophes</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Botanical and meteorological history</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of ecologies and landscapes </span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Landscapes and ecologies as cultural heritage</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Folklores, religions, belief systems and the natural world</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of sacred spaces and their heritage</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of agriculture, resource management and sustainability</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of public health</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of pandemics and plagues</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Animal history and human-animal relations</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Representations of ecologies, nature, landscapes, animals and pandemics in art, architecture literature.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of cosmologies, natural sciences and natural philosophies</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Everyday lives and nature</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of urban and rural landscapes</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of things, material history</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History of commerce, trades and industry</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Geo-politics</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">Submit your proposals at <a href="mailto:cemsconference@ceu.edu" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">cemsconference@ceu.edu</a> by 10. 04. 2023.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Limited funding is available for travel and accommodation</b></span></span></span></span></p></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-45463579082943915952023-02-28T09:15:00.001-08:002023-02-28T09:15:11.234-08:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Please see the attached call for submissions for vol. 14, issue 2 of the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">St. Nersess Theological Review</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">.</span></p><div class="gs" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: 916px;"><div class=""><div class="ii gt" id=":p2" jslog="20277; u014N:xr6bB; 4:W251bGwsbnVsbCxbXV0." style="direction: ltr; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aiL " id=":nx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: hidden;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br />The next issue invites submissions of original research articles relevant to Armenian theology and the Armenian Church in the “long eighth century,” the period of Armenian history between the Arab conquest and the reemergence of independent Armenian kingdoms in the ninth century. Articles with an interest in ecumenical relations between the Armenian, Syriac, and Byzantine churches are very welcome. <br /><br />Further inquiries can be directed to Dr. Christopher Sheklian, Editor of SNTR, at <a href="mailto:sntr@stnersess.edu" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sntr@stnersess.edu</a>. The submission deadline is June 1, 20</div></div></div></div></div><div class="hq gt" id=":od" style="clear: both; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 15px 0px;"><div class="ho" id=":r9" style="margin: 12px 0px; position: relative;"><div class="aZi J-J5-Ji" style="display: flex; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: -1px;"><div aria-disabled="false" aria-label="Add all to Drive" class="T-I J-J5-Ji aZj T-I-ax7 L3" data-tooltip="Add all to Drive" id=":rk" role="button" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; align-items: center; background: transparent; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-shadow: none; color: #444444; cursor: pointer; display: inline-flex; font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; justify-content: center; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; user-select: none; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div id=":rc"></div><div class="aQH" id=":rb" style="margin-bottom: -16px; margin-left: -16px;"><div class="aZK" style="clear: both; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"></div></div></div><div class="hi" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-bottom-left-radius: 1px; border-bottom-right-radius: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"></div></div></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-10984657159936987082023-02-24T11:38:00.002-08:002023-02-24T11:38:09.239-08:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another fascinating conference of note:</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.afterconstantine.com/post/easter-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages-abstract-booklet&source=gmail&ust=1677353689134000&usg=AOvVaw1_b5V6aLqnzQ6oLA9yheZZ" href="https://www.afterconstantine.com/post/easter-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages-abstract-booklet" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.afterconstantine.<wbr></wbr>com/post/easter-in-late-<wbr></wbr>antiquity-and-the-middle-ages-<wbr></wbr>abstract-booklet</a><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p id="m_8866398018104745157m_8359046086225592851gmail-viewer-foo" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303131; direction: ltr; font-family: avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: initial; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1155cc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Medievalists.net</u></a>, and the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.oac.gr/en/&source=gmail&ust=1677353689134000&usg=AOvVaw0jIwKymYexgR_RD0F7bW1j" href="https://www.oac.gr/en/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1155cc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Orthodox Academy of Crete </u></a>are inviting you to attend the conference <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Easter in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages</em>, which will take place on Zoom and YouTube on April 1st, 2023. </span></span></p><div style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303131; font-family: avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div id="m_8866398018104745157m_8359046086225592851gmail-viewer-2qsua" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; 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display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This conference will examine how Easter was celebrated and viewed from Late Antiquity throughout the medieval period. Every year this would be a high point of the Christian life, and late antique and medieval people were keenly interested in many aspects of this event.</span></span></p><div style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303131; font-family: avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div id="m_8866398018104745157m_8359046086225592851gmail-viewer-cjc92" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303131; direction: ltr; font-family: avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; height: 465px; margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 329px;" tabindex="0" /></span></div></div></div></div></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-1932971808574952852023-02-23T09:20:00.002-08:002023-02-23T09:20:31.346-08:00<p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination%3Dnode/12406159&source=gmail&ust=1677258993536000&usg=AOvVaw1e2KQ0yDiUwF85WcjIXh42" href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/12406159" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">CFP International Conference: Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614)</a></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by James Wilson</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p style="text-align: right;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: black;">CFP International Conference: Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614)</span></span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: black;">Konstanz, 21–23 March 2024 (hybrid format)</span></span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Conference organisers: Hossameldin Ali, Eric Böhme, Alejandro Peláez Martín, James Wilson (University of Konstanz)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From the beginning of the Arab-Islamic expansion in the early seventh century, Muslim and Christian communities interacted daily for sustained periods in several different geographical areas, from Iberia to Sicily, southern Italy and the Near East. In the last three decades, a new wave of revisionist and interdisciplinary methodologies, ranging from gender and global history to medievalism and the history of emotions, have broadened our epistemological horizons, creating innovative avenues of enquiry that provide new ways of thinking about the historical roots of Christian-Muslim relations. However, despite recent methodological advances and the various ways in which they enhance our understanding of the pre-modern Mediterranean (c. 630–1614), few conferences have attempted to apply these new approaches in a trans-Mediterranean context. By exploring the complex and much-studied topic of Christian-Muslim relations through the changing lens of methodologies, this conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary debate that, through comparison and collaboration between scholars from different fields, bridges rigid geographical and temporal frameworks. Early career scholars and all others interested in participating are thus invited to help demonstrate the historical value of new or nuanced methodologies by applying them to specific case studies (to be presented in c. 20–25 min papers). The conference has three main themes:</span></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Innovative approaches to the source material</span></b></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Revised, new, experimental methodologies</span></b></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Macro-historical perspectives</span></b></span></span></li></ul><p style="margin-left: 8px;"> </p><ol><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Select list of possible methodologies</span></b></span></span></li></ol><p style="margin-left: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">i) Sources</span></i></span></span></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Material culture</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The study of space, place and cartography</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Vernacular literature, poetry, liturgy, songs & music</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Climate change and environmental history</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Bilingual manuscripts and codicology (Judeo-Arabic, Aljamiado, Coptic, Syriac etc.)</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Human body/medical history</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Legal traditions</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><p style="margin-left: 48px;"> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">ii) Methodologies</span></i></span></span></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Gender history</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Manuscript studies, codicology</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Medievalism, post-colonial studies, translation studies</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Legal frameworks (charters, laws, treaties, court cases etc.)</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Questioning the value of ‘eye-witness’ testimonies</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Historiographical approaches and the role of authorial ‘agency’</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Digital humanities (large scale analysis of text)</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Emotions</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ceremonial interactions and rituals</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Trade and economic history</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Prosopography</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><p style="margin-left: 48px;"> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">iii) Macro-historical perspectives</span></i></span></span></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Comparative approaches – across regions or temporalities</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Legal sources & theories</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Network analysis</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Micro-historical <i>Quellenkritik</i></span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Diplomacy and international relations</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Frontier theory</span></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Transregional / Mediterranean / Global history</span></span></li></ul></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 7px; width: 302px;"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Potential topics for discussion</span></b><b></b></span></span></li></ol><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please apply one or more of the above approaches to one or more of the topics outlined below. <b>Any other combinations of approaches and topics are highly welcomed as well.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Q1 – Christian-Muslim relations during periods of transition or crisis</span></i></span></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To what extent are periods of transition or crisis discernible in the source materials and how might they have influenced Christian-Muslim ties?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Did some crises / transitions increase or reduce tensions more than others? Were they a cause for renewed attention to historical episodes of conflict or oppression?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Were there standardised practices or mechanisms for negotiating periods of crisis/transition, or did these alterations produce new modes of communication or collaboration?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">What were the linguistic, cultural and ceremonial practicalities of cross-cultural contact following periods of rupture? Did written material need to be translated, or provided in multiple languages, who translated it and how?</span></span></li></ul><p style="margin-left: 48px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Q2 – Christian-Muslim relations during periods of stability</span></i></span></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Did periods of sustained contact facilitate new forms of communication, trade, settlement or political and military cooperation?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Did behaviour around sites of devotional significance and shared sacred spaces change as a result to sustained periods of Christian-Muslim cohabitation? How did this compare to sites of strategic importance?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Did periods of stability necessitate multi-cultural courts and shared mechanisms of legitimisation or diplomacy?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Why was emphasis placed on translating scientific, medical and philosophical knowledge at the expense of historical writings? What does this suggest about the nature of Muslim-Christian contact in the Mediterranean? Was there any regional variation in this seemingly trans Mediterranean trend?</span></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Q3 – The variation or preservation of political, legal, ceremonial or cultural norms in different geographical, topographical or temporal contexts</span></i></span></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Were there variations in attitudes towards Christian-Muslim interactions in rural and urban communities?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">What were the similarities and differences between Christians living under Muslim rule and Muslims living under Christian rule for sustained periods? Were any differences linked to local factors?</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">How aware were communities of the customs of Christian-Muslim interactions in other geographical regions in the Mediterranean? How was this knowledge acquired?</span></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><ol><li style="margin-left: 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Further details about the conference</span></b></span></span></li></ol><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The conference will take place at the University of Konstanz from 21–23 March 2024. The organisers plan to cover the full accommodation and travel costs (EU and UK) of all active participants. However, this is dependent upon securing sufficient funding. A publication of the conference proceedings is envisaged as well. Scholars interested in participating actively as speakers are invited to submit an abstract (about 250–500 words) as well as a short bio (about 150–250 words) to </span><a href="mailto:emerging-historical-perspectives@uni-konstanz.de" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">emerging-historical-<wbr></wbr>perspectives@uni-konstanz.de</a><span style="color: black;"> by <b>31 March, 2023</b>. Any inquiries about the conference and the modalities of participation can also be directed to this address.</span></span></span></p></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-60592200645140459702023-02-16T09:13:00.000-08:002023-02-16T09:13:01.630-08:00<p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination%3Dnode/12365351&source=gmail&ust=1676653745787000&usg=AOvVaw1Jh9TWeBpGwEAvBynobq_s" href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/12365351" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Call for Participants-GSA Seminar: Premodern Representations of Race (800–1700) and their Reception in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Network] (GSA Conference, Oct. 2023, Montreal)</a></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Annegret Oehme</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The past decade has seen an expanding turn to Critical Race Studies within medieval studies, highlighting the importance of the concept through the context of what has been traditionally considered a time “before race.” While German Studies has not produced a similarly broad body of scholarship as French and English Studies, there has been sustained interest in critical race studies. This interest has led to a more prominent positioning of applying and revising the findings of CRS to our field (see the recent special issue of the <i>German Quarterly</i> on Black German Studies). It is essential to examine this discourse's long history and roots. In the seminar, we will look at representations of race in premodern primary sources. The reception of this material and its impact on the formation of German studies in the 18th and 19th centuries are of further importance. We hope this seminar can foster a dialogue beyond the GSA by bringing together scholars working on the topic in various disciplines to establish an interdisciplinary network spanning literature, history, religion, art history, and more.</span></span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Format</b>: Each participant will draft a 1000–1200-word discussion paper focusing on a specific case /question (papers due August 15th), which will then be pre-circulated together with two scholarly articles.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Please submit <b>an abstract (500 words max)</b> and a <b>short biography (300 words max)</b> through the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thegsa.secure-platform.com/47&source=gmail&ust=1676653745787000&usg=AOvVaw2EdP-X8Qbohrt0p3F8Y8FE" href="https://thegsa.secure-platform.com/47" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">GSA OpenWater platform </a>by <b>March 2, 2023</b>. Please note that all participants must be members of the GSA at the time of submission. Please contact Tina Boyer (<a href="mailto:boyertm@wfu.edu" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">boyertm@wfu.edu</a>) and Annegret Oehme (<a href="mailto:oehme@uw.edu" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">oehme@uw.edu</a>) with any questions about this seminar.</span></span></span></p></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-50084266483967899332023-02-15T11:05:00.002-08:002023-02-15T11:05:55.835-08:00<p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination%3Dnode/12301294&source=gmail&ust=1676574086827000&usg=AOvVaw2OS1dba_edeYJGlG40QGlz" href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/12301294" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">CFP: Politische Lyrik in Europa vom 12. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert (Universität Freiburg, Schweiz)</a></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cornelia Herberichs</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Freiburger Colloquium 2023</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mediävistisches Institut, Universität Freiburg (Schweiz)</p><p style="text-align: center;">vom 06.–08. September 2023</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Politische Lyrik in Europa vom 12. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert</b></span></p><p>Zu Beginn des zweiten Buches von ,De vulgari eloquentia‘ behandelt Dante die Frage, welche Themen es verdienen, von den besten Dichtern in der ehrwürdigen Volkssprache behandelt zu werden, und nennt als die drei wichtigsten (<i>magnalia</i>): <i>salus videlicet, venus et virtus</i> (II ii 8), was meint: Waffentauglichkeit (<i>armorum</i> <i>probitas</i>), Leidenschaft der Liebe (<i>amoris</i> <i>accensio</i>) und Rechtschaffenheit des Willens (<i>directio</i> <i>voluntatis</i>). Diese Themenaufzählung – Waffenkampf-, Liebes- sowie moralisch-didaktische Dichtung – schliesst also unter anderem die Gattung der politischen Lyrik aus, obgleich diese in Dantes Heimatland Italien durchaus sehr verbreitet war und gepflegt wurde. Der Grund für diese Aussparung mag wohl darin liegen, dass in den Augen des florentinischen Poeten politische Dichtung eine hybride Gattung darstellt, sei es, weil in ihr sowohl moralische als auch gesellschaftliche sowie militärische Themen zusammenfliessen, sei es, weil politische Lyrik zuweilen in der Form fiktiver oder allegorisch verbrämter Liebeslieder daherkommt und damit als eine Variante oder Untergattung der erotischen Lyrik zu klassifizieren ist. Für Dante müssen die <i>magnalia</i> von den besten Dichtern jeweils in ihrer reinen Form oder aber anhand von Themen behandelt werden, die sich direkt und unmittelbar aus ihnen ableiten (Dve II iv 9); in die politische Dichtung hingegen bricht eine Dimension des Unvorhersehbaren und Zufälligen ein. Insofern sich letztere zumeist auf bestimmte historische Ereignisse bezieht, ist sie parteiisch und verfolgt – indem sie ermahnend, persuasiv, propagierend oder diffamierend ist – pragmatische Ziele. </p><p>Obwohl die in ,De vulgari eloquentia‘ angestellten Reflexionen zu den <i>magnalia</i> sich nur bedingt anderen literarischen Traditionen als der italienischen Lyrik zuordnen lassen, vermögen sie dennoch, das Feld der politischen Dichtung insgesamt einzugrenzen und zu charakterisieren. Auf dieser Grundlage und um komparatistische Diskussionen anzustossen, will das Freiburger Colloquium europäische Traditionen politischer Dichtung erforschen und lädt Expertinnen und Experten ein, die sich mit lyrischen Traditionen verschiedener mittelalterlicher Literaturen und geographischer Räume (zwischen Island und dem Kaukasus) befassen. Im Fokus steht der Zeitraum zwischen dem 12. und der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Neben den Volkssprachen werden auch die ,heiligen‘ und/oder ,imperialen‘ Sprachen (Latein, Griechisch, Arabisch, Hebräisch) berücksichtigt.</p><p>Mögliche Fragestellungen sind: Welchen Stellenwert hat die politische Lyrik innerhalb einer spezifischen literarischen Tradition oder im Rahmen verwandter Traditionen? Welche formalen Merkmale besitzt sie (metrische Formen, Mise en texte, Mise en page)? Wer sind die Autorinnen und Autoren und welches Publikum adressieren die Texte? Um welche historischen Ereignisse herum entsteht politische Lyrik? Unter welchen Bedingungen wurde sie überliefert? Steht sie in einem Dialog mit bildlichen Medien? Sind sprachübergreifende und/oder transnationale Themen und Debatten erkennbar? Unter welchen Bedingungen lässt sich von politischer Propaganda in Versen sprechen? – Das Freiburger Colloquium sucht Antworten auf diese und weitere Fragen mit dem Ziel, Grundlagen zu erarbeiten sowie erste Umrisse zu skizzieren im Hinblick auf ein Gesamtbild der europäischen politischen Lyrik im hohen und späten Mittelalter.</p><p>Das Mediävistische Institut der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) organisiert im Rhythmus von zwei Jahren interdisziplinäre Kolloquien, anlässlich derer sich Spezialistinnen und Spezialisten verschiedener Fachbereiche versammeln, um sich über ein bestimmtes mediävistisches Forschungsgebiet auszutauschen. Vorgesehen ist die Teilnahme von ca. 12–15 Forschenden, welche nach Möglichkeit die verschiedenen Fachbereiche der Mediävistik vertreten (die Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften: Romanistik, Germanistik, Anglistik, Nordistik, Slavistik; Geschichte, Philosophie, Kunstgeschichte, Theologie). Die Vorträge können in Französisch, Deutsch, Englisch oder Italienisch gehalten werden. Für jeden Beitrag ist ein Zeitfenster von 45 Minuten vorgesehen (Vortrag von ca. 30 Minuten sowie Diskussion). Wie bei den Freiburger Colloquien des Mediävistischen Instituts üblich, werden die Ergebnisse der Veranstaltung in der institutseigenen Buchreihe „Scrinium Friburgense“ veröffentlicht, die beim Reichert Verlag in Wiesbaden erscheint.</p><p>Unkosten für Reise, Unterkunft und Verpflegung werden übernommen.</p><p>Vortragsangebote mit einem etwa einseitigen Exposé werden bis zum <b>05. März 2023</b> erbeten an:<br /> </p><p>Prof. Dr. Paolo Borsa</p><p>Lehrstuhl für italienische Literatur und Philologie</p><p>Universität Freiburg</p><p><a href="mailto:paolo.borsa@unifr.ch" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">paolo.borsa@unifr.ch</a></p><p>oder</p><p>Mediävistisches Institut / Institut d’études médiévales</p><p>Universität Freiburg / Université de Fribourg</p><p><a href="mailto:iem@unifr.ch" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">iem@unifr.ch</a></p><p>Die Organisator:innen werden auf Grundlage der eingegangenen Exposés ein Tagungsprogramm erstellen und den Einsenderinnen und Einsendern zeitnah Rückmeldung geben.</p><p>Die Organisator:innen:</p><p>Prof. Dr. Paolo Borsa (Letteratura e filologia italiane)</p><p>Prof. Dr. Hugo O. Bizzarri (Filología hispánica)</p><p>Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Dutton (English Philology)</p><p>Prof. Dr. Cornelia Herberichs (Germanistische Mediävistik)</p><p>Prof. Dr. Marion Uhlig (Langues et littératures françaises du Moyen Âge)</p><p>Dr. Martin Rohde (Geschäftsführer des Mediävistischen Instituts)</p><p> </p><p>Aktuelle Informationen finden Sie unter: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/de/veranstaltungen/freiburger-kolloquien/&source=gmail&ust=1676574086827000&usg=AOvVaw1v9dMleKJIJRHpzUgFNm-C" href="https://www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/de/veranstaltungen/freiburger-kolloquien/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.unifr.ch/<wbr></wbr>mediaevum/de/veranstaltungen/<wbr></wbr>freiburger-kolloquien/</a></p></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973515648314117596.post-2573207373460500462023-02-14T09:12:00.002-08:002023-02-14T09:12:51.750-08:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;">"The After Constantine Journal has published its 4th Call for Papers. Candidates are invited to submit their papers by September 20, 2023, to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="mailto:afterconstantine@mail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">afterconstantine@mail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;">".</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;">The link is here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.afterconstantine.com/post/call-for-papers-after-constantine-issue-4-2024&source=gmail&ust=1676480950555000&usg=AOvVaw0L9IscqoYZST45Zx9nET2V" href="https://www.afterconstantine.com/post/call-for-papers-after-constantine-issue-4-2024" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>afterconstantine.com/post/<wbr></wbr>call-for-papers-after-<wbr></wbr>constantine-issue-4-2024</a></span></div>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0