CFP: VAGANTES Graduate Student Conference 2009
VAGANTES Graduate Student Conference 2009
Florida State University
www.vagantesconference.org
The medievalists of Florida State University have the
honor of hosting the eighth annual Vagantes Medieval
Graduate Student Conference on March 5-7, 2009.
Vagantes is now the largest conference in North
America for graduate students studying the Middle
Ages. The goal of Vagantes is to provide an open
dialogue among young scholars from all fields of
medieval studies. It seeks to create a sense of
community for junior medievalists of diverse
backgrounds within the margins of a graduate student
budget.
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are welcome from
graduate students on all topics considering the Middle
Ages. In keeping with the mission of Vagantes to
advance interdisciplinary studies, we invite
submissions in areas including but not limited to
history, literature, art history, philosophy,
religious studies, and musicology.
Please email a brief vitae and abstract of no more
than 300 words by October 1, 2008 to:
Carey Fee
careyfee@yahoo.com
Department of Art History
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Explicit Content: Ends and Endings in Medieval Texts
Explicit Content: Ends and Endings in Medieval Texts
The manuscript context of medieval literature often means that we are
uncertain where one text ends and another begins. The Old English
poems in the Exeter Book are a classic example of this phenomenon.
Within certain genres, such as hagiography, conventional endings
develop which structure the concluding sections of various texts in
parallel ways. Moreover, if a work features a colophon or signature,
it will be appended to the end of the text. In fact, Geoffrey of
Vinsauf wrote in his Poetria Nova, "Let the conclusion, like a herald
when the race is over, dismiss it honourably." This session will
bring together scholars from a range of periods, languages, and
genres to examine how various medieval writers closed the texts they
were penning "honourably," and what issues their sense of an ending,
whether authorial or scribal, raises for audiences both then and now.
The manuscript context of medieval literature often means that we are
uncertain where one text ends and another begins. The Old English
poems in the Exeter Book are a classic example of this phenomenon.
Within certain genres, such as hagiography, conventional endings
develop which structure the concluding sections of various texts in
parallel ways. Moreover, if a work features a colophon or signature,
it will be appended to the end of the text. In fact, Geoffrey of
Vinsauf wrote in his Poetria Nova, "Let the conclusion, like a herald
when the race is over, dismiss it honourably." This session will
bring together scholars from a range of periods, languages, and
genres to examine how various medieval writers closed the texts they
were penning "honourably," and what issues their sense of an ending,
whether authorial or scribal, raises for audiences both then and now.
position
I would like to point you to an open position at the Telota-Initiative
("The electronic life of the Academy") of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy
of Sciences and Humanities (http://www.bbaw.de/). Though the job
advertisement is in German and knowledge of German is advantageous
the project language is not necessarily German.
http://www.bbaw.de/schein/stelle/Ausschreibung_Telota_2008-08-01.pdf
Basic data:
- position: research associate
- duration: 1 October 2008 until 31 December 2009
- qualifications:
- knowledge in developing digital humanities resources
- knowledge of XML and related technologies
- knowledge of a programming language
You can find an overview of our last projects at
http://www.telota.de and http://pom.bbaw.de/index-en.html
Applications via email should be addressed to Renate Neumann
(neumann@bbaw.de) referring to reference number AG/06/08.
Please don't hesitate to contact me for further informations.
Best Regards,
Alexander Czmiel
--
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
"Telota-LAB - The electronic life of the Academy"
Jaegerstrasse 22/23 Tel: +49-(0)30-20370-276
10117 Berlin - http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de
("The electronic life of the Academy") of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy
of Sciences and Humanities (http://www.bbaw.de/). Though the job
advertisement is in German and knowledge of German is advantageous
the project language is not necessarily German.
http://www.bbaw.de/schein/stelle/Ausschreibung_Telota_2008-08-01.pdf
Basic data:
- position: research associate
- duration: 1 October 2008 until 31 December 2009
- qualifications:
- knowledge in developing digital humanities resources
- knowledge of XML and related technologies
- knowledge of a programming language
You can find an overview of our last projects at
http://www.telota.de and http://pom.bbaw.de/index-en.html
Applications via email should be addressed to Renate Neumann
(neumann@bbaw.de) referring to reference number AG/06/08.
Please don't hesitate to contact me for further informations.
Best Regards,
Alexander Czmiel
--
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
"Telota-LAB - The electronic life of the Academy"
Jaegerstrasse 22/23 Tel: +49-(0)30-20370-276
10117 Berlin - http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de
No, People! Write in Please!
The Department for Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology in
Heidelberg, Germany, headed until 2005 by Prof. W.
Berschin, is threatened with closure!
If you want to help to save the Seminar für Lateinische
Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit in
Heidelberg, you may sign an online-petition which can
be accessed at the following address:
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak9/mlat/
Heidelberg, Germany, headed until 2005 by Prof. W.
Berschin, is threatened with closure!
If you want to help to save the Seminar für Lateinische
Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit in
Heidelberg, you may sign an online-petition which can
be accessed at the following address:
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak9/mlat/
Fragmentation in the MIddle Ages
Please follow this link for the call for papers for a session at the
forthcoming Theoretical Archaeology Conference 2008 (University of
Southampton), entitled:
Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages
The session is organised by Ben Jervis and myself and is supported by
the Society for Medieval Archaeology in the UK.
http://scambimedievali.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/fragmentation-in-the-middle-ages-call-for-papers/
Members of this Forum may be particularly interested in one of the
themes which is:
"Transitions between periods, e.g. Saxon to Norman, early to high
medieval, late to post medieval"
Other themes on fragmentation for which we are particularly seeking
papers are:
• Divisions between material specialists, e.g. ceramicists,
numismatists, small finds or metalwork specialists
• Geographic boundaries, e.g. studies according to modern regional
and national boundaries (Kent, Italy) or those according to
contemporary boundaries (Wessex, Normandy)
• Landscape and settlement vs. object-based archaeology
• Cultural focus vs. biological/environmental focus (including human
and animal remains)
• Life and death archaeology, e.g. finds and settlements relating to
people’s lifestyles and those found within funerary landscapes
• Relationships between urban and rural archaeology
• Theme-based divisions, e.g. social, economic, cultural, military
• Fragmentation between professions, e.g. academia, heritage
(including museums), commercial archaeology and conservation
Please forward far and wide. The paper deadline is 1 September and
all submissions should be made via email to myself and Ben Jervis
(bpj106@soton.ac.uk) as well as submitted via the TAG 2008 online
submission form:
http://www.tagconference.org/submit-abstract
forthcoming Theoretical Archaeology Conference 2008 (University of
Southampton), entitled:
Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages
The session is organised by Ben Jervis and myself and is supported by
the Society for Medieval Archaeology in the UK.
http://scambimedievali.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/fragmentation-in-the-middle-ages-call-for-papers/
Members of this Forum may be particularly interested in one of the
themes which is:
"Transitions between periods, e.g. Saxon to Norman, early to high
medieval, late to post medieval"
Other themes on fragmentation for which we are particularly seeking
papers are:
• Divisions between material specialists, e.g. ceramicists,
numismatists, small finds or metalwork specialists
• Geographic boundaries, e.g. studies according to modern regional
and national boundaries (Kent, Italy) or those according to
contemporary boundaries (Wessex, Normandy)
• Landscape and settlement vs. object-based archaeology
• Cultural focus vs. biological/environmental focus (including human
and animal remains)
• Life and death archaeology, e.g. finds and settlements relating to
people’s lifestyles and those found within funerary landscapes
• Relationships between urban and rural archaeology
• Theme-based divisions, e.g. social, economic, cultural, military
• Fragmentation between professions, e.g. academia, heritage
(including museums), commercial archaeology and conservation
Please forward far and wide. The paper deadline is 1 September and
all submissions should be made via email to myself and Ben Jervis
(bpj106@soton.ac.uk) as well as submitted via the TAG 2008 online
submission form:
http://www.tagconference.org/submit-abstract
CFP---Teaching off the Grid: The Promise and Perils of Using Non-Canonical Texts in the Classroom
CFP---Teaching off the Grid: The Promise and Perils of Using Non-Canonical Texts in the Classroom
44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 7-10, 2009
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
Teaching off the Grid: The Promise and Perils of Using Non-Canonical Texts in the Classroom
Canonicity is an increasingly embattled concept, and the lists of what texts are considered canonical for the medieval and early modern period are constantly growing. Despite this, every medievalist and early modernist can name at least three (and probably more) interesting or important texts that are considered non-canonical. This is not surprising. However open the canon seems, it is, by nature, exclusive and necessarily omits some texts. Many texts that have long been known to exist have, for one reason or another, simply not received the study that inclusion in the canon seems to require. Recently found texts, however significant they might be, face a similar obscurity and lack of attention.
Texts that, for one reason or another, are left out of what is currently considered the canon are often promising for use in the classroom. However, practical difficulties including departmental requirements, a lack of suitable editions, and the absence of pedagogical discussion about these texts often hampers their inclusion in our classes.
This session will attempt to remedy this dearth of discussion by exploring the pedagogical issues surrounding non-canonical texts of the medieval and early modern periods. Short (10-15 min.) papers will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of teaching non-canonical texts; approaches to teaching specific non-canonical texts; what unique insights non-canonical texts offer students; student reactions to non-canonical works; what we might lose by introducing non-canonical texts into our classrooms; and other topics with a pedagogical focus. The session will attempt to avoid papers which debate the canonicity of any particular text.
A respondent will address such larger questions as "what counts as non-canonical anymore?" and "what determines canonicity?" and speak to issues raised in the session's papers.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to Gina Brandolino (ginabrandolino@depauw.edu) or Nate Smith (nbsmith@indiana.edu) by Sept. 15. Kindly send along with your proposal a completed Participant Information Form , which can be found at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html
44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 7-10, 2009
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
Teaching off the Grid: The Promise and Perils of Using Non-Canonical Texts in the Classroom
Canonicity is an increasingly embattled concept, and the lists of what texts are considered canonical for the medieval and early modern period are constantly growing. Despite this, every medievalist and early modernist can name at least three (and probably more) interesting or important texts that are considered non-canonical. This is not surprising. However open the canon seems, it is, by nature, exclusive and necessarily omits some texts. Many texts that have long been known to exist have, for one reason or another, simply not received the study that inclusion in the canon seems to require. Recently found texts, however significant they might be, face a similar obscurity and lack of attention.
Texts that, for one reason or another, are left out of what is currently considered the canon are often promising for use in the classroom. However, practical difficulties including departmental requirements, a lack of suitable editions, and the absence of pedagogical discussion about these texts often hampers their inclusion in our classes.
This session will attempt to remedy this dearth of discussion by exploring the pedagogical issues surrounding non-canonical texts of the medieval and early modern periods. Short (10-15 min.) papers will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of teaching non-canonical texts; approaches to teaching specific non-canonical texts; what unique insights non-canonical texts offer students; student reactions to non-canonical works; what we might lose by introducing non-canonical texts into our classrooms; and other topics with a pedagogical focus. The session will attempt to avoid papers which debate the canonicity of any particular text.
A respondent will address such larger questions as "what counts as non-canonical anymore?" and "what determines canonicity?" and speak to issues raised in the session's papers.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to Gina Brandolino (ginabrandolino@depauw.edu) or Nate Smith (nbsmith@indiana.edu) by Sept. 15. Kindly send along with your proposal a completed Participant Information Form , which can be found at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html
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Ruins may be Viking hunting outpost in Greenland
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Dante heir urged to accept apology
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