Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Edited Collection: Early Modern Ciphers
Katherine Ellison
Contact: keellis@ilstu.edu
Deadline: 500-1,000 word abstracts due by September 1, 2015.
Abstracts are solicited for an edited collection on
medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century cryptography, ciphering,
deciphering, coding, or decoding. The goal of this volume is to bring together
innovative and interdisciplinary research in the early history of cryptography
as a linguistic, mathematical, scientific, and literary discipline that
underwent significant change prior to the twentieth century and influenced
cognitive and narrative practices across the arts the sciences. Essays might
engage with actual solved or unsolved ciphers of this broad period and close
analysis of typographies, inks, papers, printing and publishing, and
circulation. Also encouraged are discussions of the cognitive and/or narrative
processes required to engage with ciphered or coded documents, cryptography as
a model for changing ideas about intelligence and disability, deciphering as a
test, puzzle, or game, the influences of cryptography on the evolution of
mathematics, practical or theoretical sciences, the occult, and universal
language, feminist readings of cryptography/ciphering, or literary/artistic
depictions of cryptography or ciphering more abstractly. Consideration of popular culture interest in solved
or unsolved historical ciphers is also welcome, as are essays that survey
twentieth- and twenty-first assumptions about cryptography’s past. Special attention
will be given to essays that engage with the material forms of cryptography and
the ways in which the subject highlights the reading and production of texts.
How is cryptography embodied? In what ways do the practices of ciphering and
deciphering challenge our assumptions about materiality, the history of
reading, or early multimodalities? Studies engaging with cryptography and
colonialism, capitalism, surveillance, early computing, and global economies
and cultures are also invited.
Abstracts of 500-1000 words, with citations in Chicago
style, should be sent via email to Prof. Katherine Ellison, Department of
English, Illinois State University, at keellis@ilstu.edu
by September 1, 2015. Please send original proposals not under consideration in
other venues.
AMARC Autumn Meeting: The Book of Kells: Rethinking and Researching a Great National Treasure
The Book of Kells: Rethinking and Researching a Great National Treasure
10 – 11 September 2015
Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections (AMARC) Autumn Meeting
Trinity College Dublin. http://www.amarc.org.uk/
AMARC website: http://www.amarc.org.uk/
This meeting will focus on the Book of Kells, the world's most famous medieval manuscript, with presentations on recent research trends and techniques, and on the challenges faced in displaying great manuscript treasures.
Sessions will run from 10:30-17:00 on Thursday 10th and from 09:30-16:00 on Friday 11th.
On Thursday evening there will be aspecial after-hours visit to the National Museum of Ireland and a reception at Trinity College Dublin Library including a private visit to the Book of Kells. The detailed programme will be published shortly.
The cost of the meeting is £50 (GBP) for members and students and £60 (GBP) for non-members which includes Thursday lunch, teas and coffees, and the reception. To book, please complete the online form athttp://tinyurl.com/
Accommodation has been reserved at TCD for participants. Two grades of single rooms are available at 52 or 70 euros per night.
To book a room, please go tohttps://accommodation.tcd.
10 – 11 September 2015
Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections (AMARC) Autumn Meeting
Trinity College Dublin. http://www.amarc.org.uk/
AMARC website: http://www.amarc.org.uk/
This meeting will focus on the Book of Kells, the world's most famous medieval manuscript, with presentations on recent research trends and techniques, and on the challenges faced in displaying great manuscript treasures.
Sessions will run from 10:30-17:00 on Thursday 10th and from 09:30-16:00 on Friday 11th.
On Thursday evening there will be aspecial after-hours visit to the National Museum of Ireland and a reception at Trinity College Dublin Library including a private visit to the Book of Kells. The detailed programme will be published shortly.
The cost of the meeting is £50 (GBP) for members and students and £60 (GBP) for non-members which includes Thursday lunch, teas and coffees, and the reception. To book, please complete the online form athttp://tinyurl.com/
Accommodation has been reserved at TCD for participants. Two grades of single rooms are available at 52 or 70 euros per night.
To book a room, please go tohttps://accommodation.tcd.
CFP: Æthelred II and Cnut the Great: Millennial Conference to Commemorate the Siege of London in 1016
London a thousand years ago: a lively port, the centre of trade, cross-roadsfor armies going north and south, seat of political government and dispute, all against the backdrop of a war between Æthelred II and Cnut with its culmination in the Siege of 1016. In exactly one year the academics (inassociation with the UCL Centre for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesCentreand Birkbeck College) and interested public of London will commemorate
this siege and its times with a three-day international conference. Please come and join us! Taking London as the hub, and looking outwards, we seek to redefine the history, literature and archaeology of England
during this period of major transition. How well served, how poorly judged was King Æthelred II up to this time? What it did mean to be ‘English’ or ‘Danish’ in London in 1016? And what new relation thereafter to Europe did Cnut Sveinsson bring? Through literature, history, and archaeology, we aim to study the civilizing and modernizing effects of Scandinavian warfare, trade and settlement on England; the influence which Anglo-Saxon culture andsystems of government had on Scandinavia, and the early Norman presence which led to England’s orientation towards France.
Our plenary lectures are by:
1. Prof Simon Keynes of the University of Cambridge on Ealdorman Eadric Streona in the reigns of Æthelred and Cnut.
2. Prof Roberta Frank of Yale University on Skaldic poetry in the reigns of Æthelred and Cnut
3. Prof Andrew Reynolds of the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, on the archaeology of London relating to the Vikings and the siege of 1016.
4. Prof Andy Orchard of the University of Oxford, on the contemporary Beowulf manuscript, BL MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV and Old English literature.
The conference will begin with a welcome and the first plenary lecture on the afternoon of Wednesday 6 July 2016. We will proceed in archaeological, historical, and Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse literary divisions in single session from then until the end of Friday. The conference will conclude with a day excursion to Winchester on the Saturday, in which specialists from the University of Winchester will present papers and lead a tour of the town and Old Minster.
Papers are invited in the fields of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian history, literature, and archaeology in and around the Siege of London in 1016. Possible subjects might include, but are not limited to:
Old English literature of the Benedictine Reform
Old English poetry (including Beowulf)
Anglo-Saxon palaeography of the tenth and eleventh centuries
Æthelred II and the Danish Wars
Cnut and early medieval historiography
Skaldic poetry at the court of Cnut
Material culture in the later Viking Age
Cnut and coinage of the British Isles
The archaeology of London
Anglo-Scandinavian cultural exchange
Knýtlinga saga and Icelandic and Norwegian sagas
The Danish empire
Cnut and the Baltic
Cnut and Rome
Queens Emma and Ælfgifu
Cnut’s Laws
The Beowulf manuscript in the context of Cnut’s reign
Please send abstracts (say of 100-300 words) to Richard North (richard.north@ucl.ac.uk <mailto:richard.north@ucl.ac.
All papers will be considered on the understanding that speakers have a maximum of half an hour. We plan to arrange a manuscript exhibition, to be able to reserve student accommodation for attendees, and to invite speakers and other contributors to submit papers for a volume of Conference Proceedings for publication in the following year.
this siege and its times with a three-day international conference. Please come and join us! Taking London as the hub, and looking outwards, we seek to redefine the history, literature and archaeology of England
during this period of major transition. How well served, how poorly judged was King Æthelred II up to this time? What it did mean to be ‘English’ or ‘Danish’ in London in 1016? And what new relation thereafter to Europe did Cnut Sveinsson bring? Through literature, history, and archaeology, we aim to study the civilizing and modernizing effects of Scandinavian warfare, trade and settlement on England; the influence which Anglo-Saxon culture andsystems of government had on Scandinavia, and the early Norman presence which led to England’s orientation towards France.
Our plenary lectures are by:
1. Prof Simon Keynes of the University of Cambridge on Ealdorman Eadric Streona in the reigns of Æthelred and Cnut.
2. Prof Roberta Frank of Yale University on Skaldic poetry in the reigns of Æthelred and Cnut
3. Prof Andrew Reynolds of the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, on the archaeology of London relating to the Vikings and the siege of 1016.
4. Prof Andy Orchard of the University of Oxford, on the contemporary Beowulf manuscript, BL MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV and Old English literature.
The conference will begin with a welcome and the first plenary lecture on the afternoon of Wednesday 6 July 2016. We will proceed in archaeological, historical, and Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse literary divisions in single session from then until the end of Friday. The conference will conclude with a day excursion to Winchester on the Saturday, in which specialists from the University of Winchester will present papers and lead a tour of the town and Old Minster.
Papers are invited in the fields of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian history, literature, and archaeology in and around the Siege of London in 1016. Possible subjects might include, but are not limited to:
Old English literature of the Benedictine Reform
Old English poetry (including Beowulf)
Anglo-Saxon palaeography of the tenth and eleventh centuries
Æthelred II and the Danish Wars
Cnut and early medieval historiography
Skaldic poetry at the court of Cnut
Material culture in the later Viking Age
Cnut and coinage of the British Isles
The archaeology of London
Anglo-Scandinavian cultural exchange
Knýtlinga saga and Icelandic and Norwegian sagas
The Danish empire
Cnut and the Baltic
Cnut and Rome
Queens Emma and Ælfgifu
Cnut’s Laws
The Beowulf manuscript in the context of Cnut’s reign
Please send abstracts (say of 100-300 words) to Richard North (richard.north@ucl.ac.uk <mailto:richard.north@ucl.ac.
All papers will be considered on the understanding that speakers have a maximum of half an hour. We plan to arrange a manuscript exhibition, to be able to reserve student accommodation for attendees, and to invite speakers and other contributors to submit papers for a volume of Conference Proceedings for publication in the following year.
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