Call for Papers Afterlives: Survival and Revival

Further Call for Papers

Afterlives: Survival and Revival

SASMARS 2010, Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2010




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We are pleased to announce that the 20th Biennial Conference of the Southern
African Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont
Fleur , Stellenbosch
, South
Africa , on 2-5
September 2010.


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00/Sandy+Johnson.bmpKEYNOTE SPEAKER: Alexandra F. Johnston, Ph.D., FRSC,
Past President of the Academy of the Royal Society of Canada.


The theme of the Conference is "Afterlives: Survival and Revival". In an
effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we
encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing
this theme. The conference theme is designed to promote reflection on
appropriations, adaptations and continuities in cultural production. A
selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a
special issue of The Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance
Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).
Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
. new ways of looking at old texts
. textual appropriation and imitation
. textual transmission
. translation
. cross-currents in word and image
. ideological appropriation
. political myth creation
. archaeological recovery
. ethnicities
. retrospection
. life writing
. history of music/art/theatre

Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to Professor M
Bratchel, (bratchelm@social.wits.ac.za) Department of History, University of
the Witwatersrand, JOHANNESBURG 2050, South Africa by 31 January 2010 .

Call for Papers 2010 Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies

Call for Papers 2010
Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies
Issues 1-2-3-4 / 2010

http://www.archeomatica.it/call-for-papers

Archeomatica is a new, multidisciplinary journal, printed in Italy, devoted to the presentation and the dissemination of advanced methodologies, emerging technologies and techniques for the knowledge, documentation, safeguard, conservation and exploitation ofcultural heritage. The journal aims to publish papers of significant and lasting value written by scientists, conservators and archaeologists involved on this field with the diffusion of specific new methodologies and experimental results. Archeomatica will also emphasize fruitful discussion on the best up-to-date scientific applications and exchanging ideas and findings related to any aspect of the cultural heritage sector.

Archeomatica is intended also to be a primary source of multidisciplinary and divulgatia information for the sector of cultural heritage.

The journal is divided in three sections: Documentazione (Survey and documentation), Rivelazioni (Analysis, diagnostics and monitoring), Restauro (Materials and intervention techniques).

The issues are also published on-line at the website http://www.archeomatica.it/.

Archeomatica invites submissions of high-quality papers and interdisciplinary works for the next issues in all areas related to science and technology in cultural heritage, particularly on recent developments. If you are interested please submit an original paper to paper-submission@archeomatica.it. The papers will be subject to review by the scientific board after which they are accepted or rejected in order to maintain quality. Applicants will be notified by email as to their acceptance. Topics and trends relevant to the Archeomatica Issues include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Methodologies and analytical techniques for the characterization and for the evaluation of the preservation state of historical masterpieces
* On-site and remotely sensed data collection
* Digital artefact capture, representation and manipulation
* Experiences in cultural heritage conservation
* Methods for data elaboration and cataloguing
* Setting of historical architectures
* Intelligent tools for digital reconstruction
* Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
* Applications in Education and Tourism
* Archaeological reconstruction
* Electronic corpora
* XML and databases and computational interpretation
* Three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds
* Image capture, processing, and interpretation
* 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis Technology
* Metadata of material culture
* Optical 3D measurement
* Cultural heritage recording
* Terrestrial laser scanning
* Virtual reality data acquisition
* Photogrammetric processing
* GPS
* GIS
* Remote sensing
* Culture portals
* Advanced systems for digital culture in museums, archives and art institutions
* Digitalization of cultural property
* Web 2.0 and development of social networks on the top of cultural heritage portals
* Applications of mobile technologies for digital culture and cultural heritage
* Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
* Methodologies and approaches to digitization
* Augmented reality, virtual reality and digital culture
* Access to archives in Europe
* Books and electronic publishing
* 2/3/4D Data Capture and Processing in Cultural Heritage
* Web-based museum guides
* Applications of Semantic Web technologies in Cultural Heritage
* Non-Destructive analytical techniques for the study of the composition and decay of cultural heritage components
* Management of heritage knowledge and data Visualization for cultural heritage

Publication Frequency
The journal is published quarterly a year.

Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance withall of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Copyright Notice
Copyright for articles published in this journal is transferred by the authors to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this journal, articles can be reproduced or copied in whole or in part, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. Interested authors should download and read the Instructions to Authors Manual for all details of requirements, procedures, paper mechanics, referencing style, and the technical review process for submitted papers. Color diagrams, figures, and photographs are encouraged. Papers should be submitted in a plain text, single-spaced Word or RTF file. Formatting should be kept to an absolute minimum. Do not embed graphics, tables, figures, or photographs in the text, but supply them in separate files, along with captions. Papers, diagrams, tables, etc. should be emailed as attached files to the email address listed in the Instructions Manual.

CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY http://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/home/location
9TH MARCH 2010

http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/

Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/n.hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke University).
Keynote: Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/ (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).

The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new ‘computational turn’ takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev Manovich has called ‘Cultural Analytics’ and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are important deb ates about the contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft interdisciplinarity).

Papers are encouraged in the following areas:

- Distant versus Close Reading
- Database Structure versus Argument
- Data mining/Text mining/Patterns
- Pattern as a new epistemological object
- Hermeneutics and the Data Stream
- Geospatial techniques
- Big Humanities
- Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities
- Tool Building
- Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities
- Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances
- Language and Code (software studies)
- Information visualization in the Humanities
- Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn

Participation Requirements

Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational turn, research focus or research questions related to computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be invited to present their paper at the workshop.

Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010
Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010

Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire http://www.swansea.ac.uk/humanities/ResearchCentres/CallaghanCentrefortheStudyofConflict/, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts and Humanities http://www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah/ (RIAH) at Swansea University.

Organised by Dr David M. Berry http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University. d.m.berry@swansea.ac.uk

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/cfp-the-computational-turn-with-website/

Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: A Symposium

Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: A Symposium

A celebratory colloquium for Bella Millett organised by her friends
with papers by Vincent Gillespie, Beth Robertson, Josephine Koster,
Alexandra Barratt, Johnny Jakobsen, Anna Gottschall, Mishtooni Bose

Southampton University, 10th July 2010, 10 am- 5 pm, followed by a
wine reception

Hosted by English, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture,
and the University of Southampton, this one-day colloquium addresses
academic issues which have been at the heart of Bella Millett's own
distinguished academic career and of those specialists with whom she
has worked most closely. It is related to, but extends, the
cutting-edge scholarship in Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral
Care: Essays in Honour of Bella Millett, ed. by Cate Gunn and
Catherine Innes-Parker (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in
association with the Boydell Press, 2009).

full details at http://www.humanities.soton.ac.uk/conferences
or email Prof. John McGavin j.j.mcgavin@soton.ac.uk

or email me for this information on an A4 poster (with picture!) or
with any questions you may have

Cate Gunn
cateandtim@btinternet.com

Via Niamh Whitfield:

Sad news from Ireland.

In the small hours of Christmas Day morning St Mel's Cathedral, Longford (one of the first Catholic cathedrals to be built in Ireland after Catholic Emancipation), was engulfed by a terrible fire, which destroyed not only the neo-classical cathedral itself, but also the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Diocesan Museum at the back of the cathedral.

The museum housed the 10th-century St Mel's Crozier; the 16th-century book-shrine of St Caillin; the Bell of Fenagh (perhaps originally a chalice/cup dating to the 12th century); an iron bell from Wheery, Co Offaly; an Irish Romanesque crucifix figure from Longford; and a Limoges crozier head (one of only two such finds from Ireland). It also housed a host of other things, including papel bullae, 'penal' crosses, and some good prehistoric bronzes and lithics. There is very little hope of any of these objects surviving intact. Also lost are the Harry Clarke windows within the cathedral.

In a recent email to colleagues, Cormac Bourke commented that this was the closest thing in Ireland to a cathedral treasury on Continental lines and its loss is second only to that of the Dublin Public Records Office in 1922. It is a catastrophe.

Subject: Centre for Medieval Studies - Half Day Conference

Subject: Centre for Medieval Studies - Half Day Conference

Approved: itenot

Centre for Medieval Studies

Half-Day Conference

Princess Eadgyth of Wessex and her World
Wednesday 20 January 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, 43 Woodland road

In 2008, the probable remains of the Saxon Princess Eadgyth were located in
a tomb at Magdeburg Cathedral, her bones wrapped in Byzantine silk. This
conference will be the first opportunity in the UK to hear about this
remarkable discovery and the scientific project that has been undertaken to
confirm the identification of the remains. It will also place the
discovery within the context of late ninth century Merica and Wessex, where
Eadgyth grew up, the role of the Church, and especially the cult of St
Oswald, that flourished in tenth-century southern Germany.
Speakers

Speakers:

Harald Meller and Veit Dresely (Landesmusuem fuer Vorgeschichte,
Sachsen-Anhalt) 'The Editha -Project and its science'

Michael Hare 'The Hwicce Church in the ninth and tenth centuries'

Carolyn Heighway, 'The Minster of St Oswald's, Gloucester and his cult'

Mark Horton (University of Bristol) 'Berkeley Minster - a monastery at the
boundary between Wessex and Mercia'


Free Entrance (but to be sure of a ticket, please contact Professor Mark
Horton, Mark.Horton@bristol.ac.uk)


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Dear Stacy,

A friend passed me details of this short conference in Bristol the other day, and I wondered if it was worth circulating them to the membership. I've seen no other publicity for it.

New Year's greetings,

Peter Jackson


Subject: Centre for Medieval Studies - Half Day Conference

Approved: itenot

Centre for Medieval Studies

Half-Day Conference

Princess Eadgyth of Wessex and her World
Wednesday 20 January 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, 43 Woodland road

In 2008, the probable remains of the Saxon Princess Eadgyth were located in
a tomb at Magdeburg Cathedral, her bones wrapped in Byzantine silk. This
conference will be the first opportunity in the UK to hear about this
remarkable discovery and the scientific project that has been undertaken to
confirm the identification of the remains. It will also place the
discovery within the context of late ninth century Merica and Wessex, where
Eadgyth grew up, the role of the Church, and especially the cult of St
Oswald, that flourished in tenth-century southern Germany.
Speakers

Speakers:

Harald Meller and Veit Dresely (Landesmusuem fuer Vorgeschichte,
Sachsen-Anhalt) 'The Editha -Project and its science'

Michael Hare 'The Hwicce Church in the ninth and tenth centuries'

Carolyn Heighway, 'The Minster of St Oswald's, Gloucester and his cult'

Mark Horton (University of Bristol) 'Berkeley Minster - a monastery at the
boundary between Wessex and Mercia'


Free Entrance (but to be sure of a ticket, please contact Professor Mark
Horton, Mark.Horton@bristol.ac.uk)

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University Ghosts: Ethereal and Material

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
Ghosts: Ethereal and Material
10 April 2010
Call for Papers

The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University invites
submissions for its seventeenth annual graduate conference. We are
pleased to announce this year's keynote speaker, Nancy Caciola,
Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San
Diego.

This conference invites participants to consider the idea of ghosts
in its broadest sense. We encourage papers not only on ghosts as
'ethereal' beings, but also submissions that play with the metaphor
of ghosts as it relates to things like memory and the material
remains of the medieval past. Thus, one successful proposal might
deal with ghosts as they appear in monastic literature, while others
might make the "ghost" of the Middle Ages in contemporary film or the
'ghostly' ruins of Cistercian monasteries in France their subjects of
inquiry.

In keeping with the Program's aim to promote interdisciplinary
exchange among medievalists, we encourage proposals from a variety of
chronologies, geographies, and disciplines. Topics might include but
are not limited to:

- The Liturgy of the Dead
- Spirit possessions and exorcisms
- Medieval near death experiences and otherworldly journeys
- Ghosts in monastic literature and exempla
- Ghosts in vernacular literature (epic, romance, sagas, etc.)
- Saints' lives and hagiography
- Medieval modes of remembrance
- Ruins in Medieval Europe
- The "ghost" of the Middle Ages today

In order to support participation of speakers from outside the
northeastern United States, we are offering a limited number of
modest subsidies to help offset the cost of travel to Princeton.
Financial assistance may not be available for every participant;
funding priority goes to those who have the furthest to travel.
Every speaker will have the option of staying with a resident
graduate student as an alternative to paying for a hotel room.
Papers should take no more than twenty minutes to deliver. Please
submit a 250-word abstract of your project by 15 February 2010 to
Troy Tice (ttice@princeton.edu) or Andrew Lemons
(alemons@princeton.edu).