> Acknowledging Loss and Building Anew: The Meanings of Medieval 

> Mourning (A Roundtable)
>
> This panel explores medieval conceptions of grief and expressions of 
> mourning through interdisciplinary methods, entailing an array of 
> historical, literary, artistic, musical or related approaches, and 
> investigations of sources from a variety of cultural registers. 
> Drawing on relevant scholarly dialogues, and acknowledging our 
> current climate of pandemic and loss, we investigate meanings of 
> mourning—as public performance, private contemplation, secular 
> remembrance, or religious devotion. For example, in the ubi sunt 
> tradition, mourning could contemplate the transitory nature of life, 
> process liminal experiences, and commemorate lost peoples, places, 
> or cultures. Further, mourning was often understood as gendered, 
> especially tied to feminized motifs of abandoned women and the Mater 
> Dolorosa.
>
> Please submit abstracts through the ICMS Confex system by September 15.
>
> https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call
>
> Thank you!
> Mary Dzon

 Rome Global Gateway*

*Digital Palaeography Workshop*



January 18-22, 2021

 Instructors

*Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis*

Department of Classics, Princeton University

*David Jenkins*

Firestone Library, Princeton University



            This tuition-free online Greek Palaeography workshop is being
offered as part of Princeton University's participation in the Rome-based
graduate seminars jointly sponsored with the universities of Notre Dame and
Stanford, and supported by funding from Princeton's Humanities Council. It
is intended to provide graduate students from various fields, including
Mediaeval and Early Modern Literature and History, Classics, Religion, and
Art & Archaeology with an intensive initiation to Greek palaeography while
also  exploring the potential for original scholarship in digitized
manuscript libraries. The workshop will simultaneously examine how the
constraints of remote research may prove consonant with the digital
resources increasingly at our disposal and the expanded possibilities for
what used to be privileged access to otherwise rarefied historical sources.

*Course Description*

The workshop will pivot mainly from the Vatican Library's Greek manuscript
collection and cover the gamut of palaeographical skills and analyses
required to conduct research on various aspects of mediaeval books and
literature. We will survey the main mediaeval Greek scripts and the
characteristics which enable us to date codices; we will review the online
(and print) tools for doing Greek manuscript research and how to make
efficient use of them for a variety of research aims.

 *Assignments*

 In addition to daily transcription assignments designed to instill
proficiency in the various Byzantine Greek scripts, students will draw up a
palaeographical profile of a topic of their choice using the growing number
of online materials and platforms.

*Dates*

The workshop will run from January 18 to 22, 2021. It will meet online for
two hours per day, from *10am–12pm (EST)*, with an anticipated 2-3 hours of
work each day outside of class.

*Requirements*

We welcome applications from qualified graduate students who can
demonstrate a level of Classical/Mediaeval Greek commensurate with the
demands of reading a broad range of mostly higher register texts (in most
cases that means at least 2-3 years of university-level Greek). As all
meetings will be held live online and make use of high-resolution images,
participation will require a stable high-speed internet connection.

*How to Apply*

Students should send PDFs of the following to *ebourbou@princeton.edu
<ebourbou@princeton.edu>*:

– a short letter describing your interest in Greek palaeography and its
bearing on your current doctoral work or future research,

– a one-page CV detailing your studies thus far,

– a letter of reference from a faculty member familiar with your work

*Application Deadline: October 15, 2020**

** *We expect to notify all applicants by November 2, 2020.

 For all inquires about the course or the requirements, please write
to  *ebourbou@princeton.edu
<ebourbou@princeton.edu>*

Call for Papers

The Total Library: Aspirations for Complete Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

The 27^th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program of Barnard College 

Barnard College, New York City

December 5, 2020

ONLINE CONFERENCE

Plenary Speakers:

Ann Blair (Harvard University) 

Elias Muhanna (Brown University)

According to Borges, “The fancy or the imagination or the utopia of the Total Library has certain characteristics that are easily confused with virtues.” This one-day conference will explore the aspiration for complete knowledge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, an aspiration expressed in atlases, herbals, encyclopedias that were meant to mirror and maybe tame the diversity of the earth by including in their pages everything. Whether virtuous or problematic, the fantasy of the complete mastery of knowledge created utopias of learning. In our current moment when the value of knowledge is under question, we invite scholars of multiple disciplines (art history, history, literary studies, religion, history of science) to raise questions about the technologies, social structures, and modes of thought that shape what knowledge means at a given moment.

PLEASE NOTE THAT, DUE TO COVID-19, THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ONLINE VIA ZOOM. WE ARE EXTENDING THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE TO SEPTEMBER 1. Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words and a 2-page CV to Rachel Eisendrath, reisendr@barnard.edu.

Call for Papers Marco Manuscript Workshop 2021: “Immaterial Culture” February 5-6, 2021

The sixteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday, February 5, and Saturday, February 6, 2021. Sessions will meet virtually via an online platform. The workshop is led by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), and is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This year’s workshop will consider some of the recent challenges that researchers have faced with the suspension of travel, the closing of libraries and universities, and the quarantine restrictions that have kept so many of us in our homes. How can our field, which has always emphasized the importance of physical place and tactile artifacts, work successfully in isolation and at a distance? What does it mean for us when our work takes place in an incorporeal world of light and numbers rather than ink and flesh, in matrices of data rather than dusty rooms? We propose to explore the advantages and disadvantages of this “immaterial culture,” and to think about how our work is shaped by access or lack of access to manuscripts, texts, catalogues, and objects. We would like to hear about experiences working remotely, discoveries made using virtual archives or catalogues, or advice on how to study manuscripts without visiting archives or how to teach codicology without a library. We welcome stories of scholars who have been productive in constrained circumstances. We would also like to learn from the experience of those for whom archives have been inaccessible for other reasons – scholars who are homebound, visually impaired, or otherwise physically challenged, or those whose access to libraries and collections has been restricted or denied. How have these constraints shaped your work? What can these experiences tell us about our discipline? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined. The workshop is open to scholars and graduate students in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. This year’s workshop will be virtual, but we hope to retain as much of the format and the flavor of our in-person meetings as possible. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. We will prepare an online repository where presenters can place abstracts, presentations, or supporting material for access by all attendees. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more like a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts.

The deadline for applications is October 9, 2020. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page abstract of their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu. Presenters will receive a $500 honorarium for their participation.

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

Big Dating: Using Big Data to Date Medieval Texts

Applicants are sought for a fully-funded four-year Provost’s Project Award
PhD doctoral award at Trinity College Dublin on the Big Dating project to
start in September 2020 (or later, if Covid-19 does not permit it). The
award comprises the student’s full tuition fees (EU or non-EU) and an
annual stipend of €16,000. These doctoral awards are generously funded
through alumni donations and Trinity’s Commercial Revenue Unit.

The Big Dating project explores quantitative and/or computational
approaches to the language of medieval texts, particularly those from
England in the long twelfth century, which evade the periodisation of
English into ‘Old’ and ‘early Middle’. The successful applicant will be
expected to devote up to 24 hours per month of work to this project, as
well as complete a PhD thesis.

The topic of the student’s PhD thesis is not prescribed, but will be
developed between the student and the supervisor. Possible approaches
include (but are by no means limited to):

   - Computer-assisted philological analyses of particular texts or groups
   of texts
   - Cluster analysis of text languages to identify potential dating
   criteria
   - Work towards developing an automated parser and/or lemmatiser for late
   Old English and early Middle English
   - Bottom-up periodisations of Old and Middle English

Students interested in the doctoral award are invited to email the
Principal Investigator, Dr Mark Faulkner (faulknem@tcd.ie) with expressions
of interest by 22 May 2020. They may subsequently be invited to submit a
CV, academic transcripts, a sample of written work and the names of two
academic referees and asked to take part in a Skype interview. The final
stage of the application process will involve the submission of a formal
PhD proposal to Trinity.

The following may be considered the essential and desirable qualifications
for the award:

Essential

   - A Master’s (completed or in progress) in linguistics or Medieval
   Studies
   - A first-class (or equivalent) undergraduate degree in a relevant
   subject
   - Demonstrable communicative competence in English

Desirable

   - Good working knowledge of Old and Middle English
   - Experience using major medieval corpora and electronic resources (e.
   g. Dictionary of Old English Corpus, Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle
   English, Penn Parsed Corpus of Middle English Prose)
   - Familarity with the techniques of quantitative and/or computational
   linguistics

CFP: Inducing a Passion for the Medieval: Student-led Activities with
Manuscripts, A Roundtable
by Vicky McAlister
Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Spartanburg SC, 5-7 November
2020 [1]

We invite proposals for c. 10 minute presentations for this proposed
roundtable for SEMA 2020. Submissions are invited from all disciplines.
Topics might include, but are not limited to: using manuscripts in the
classroom, using digitized manuscripts, experiential activities influenced by
manuscripts, and how teaching with manuscripts can be done remotely in the
Covid-19 era. We are especially keen to hear from participants based in
libraries, archives, and museums.

Please email a proposal of 100-200 words length and a short bio to Vicky
McAlister vmcalister@semo.edu [2] and Roxanne Dunn rdunn@semo.edu [3] before
Friday 22 May. We will submit accepted proposals to SEMA for their
consideration by the 5 June deadline.


[1] https://southeasternmedieval.wordpress.com/conference/
[2] mailto:vmcalister@semo.edu
[3] mailto:rdunn@semo.edu
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Led by Prof. Michele Tomasi, the Art History Department of the
University of Lausanne is hosting an international conference titled
"Within and without the manuscript: interactions between illumination
and the other arts" on October 22nd-23rd, 2020.

The call for papers is open until May 15th, and we would like to
explore this question with papers from a broad geographical and
chronological range, including the Early Middle Ages, too often set
aside in such methodological approaches.


Could you please forward this call for paper to the EMF list?


Thank you very much in advance.


Kind regards,



Sabine Utz

Head Curator

Musée cantonal d'archéologie et d'histoire

Lausanne






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