Attention Graduate Students,
papers accepted for the 35th Mid-America Medieval Conference can be
submitted for the Jim Falls Paper Prize. Send an electronic copy of
your presentation--it MUST fit within the 20-minute time
limit--including university affiliation and degree program to me, the
Treasurer-Secretary of MAMA by February 1, 2011. Don't forget the CFP
deadline is December 15, 2010 (copied below). See the MAMA website
for a list of previous winners and more information on MAMA 35.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Latin and Greek in the Summer
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school
for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses
are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines
who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for
further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like
to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar
and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/summ_sch.html
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College
Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277,
email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses
are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines
who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for
further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like
to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar
and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/summ_sch.html
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College
Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277,
email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The 11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals that engage broadly with the notion of community. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions ranging in historical focus from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Our topic is intended to be expansive rather than limiting; papers may conceive of community as a social, economic, intellectual, political, religious, ethnic, regional, or familial entity. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: patronage, readership and interpretive practice, scientific or medical communities, family and kinship, faith communities, identity and subjectivity, membership and exclusion, manuscripts and printing, relations within or between groups, or the rhetoric of community.
This interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 18 and 19, 2011. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Deborah McGrady, professor of French at the University of Virginia and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, delivering a paper on French patronage and literary production during the Hundred Years War. The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies is a cooperative venture between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.
The time limit for essays is 20 minutes. Paper proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted to ncmems@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010.
This interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 18 and 19, 2011. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Deborah McGrady, professor of French at the University of Virginia and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, delivering a paper on French patronage and literary production during the Hundred Years War. The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies is a cooperative venture between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.
The time limit for essays is 20 minutes. Paper proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted to ncmems@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010.
IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM
ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS - LUICD Graduate Conference 2011
Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines
27 and 28 January 2011
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
University
THE CONFERENCE
‘Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique’. Otto von Bismarck's
elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander
Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted
statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a
geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more
often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere
geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul
Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with ‘a consciousness
acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of
the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical
coincidences’. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different
representations. Europe has always signified different things to different
people in different places – inside Europe as well as outside. Europe
meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l’aubergiste
d’Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a
century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today.
This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been
imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from
classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the
historical range of the LUICD’s three research programmes (Classics and
Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and
Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the
institute’s research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic
perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular
attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these
images were created and the media and genres in which they have been
presented.
Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing
perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore
the notion of similarity – are there any aspects that keep recurring in
the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically
European?
The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the
humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands
and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and
interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that
Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our
invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions
during the conference.
PROPOSALS
The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s
interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes
proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the
humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The
conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe
(from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working
in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to
submit a proposal.
Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual
and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-
colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues.
Questions that could be raised include: how did (and do) oppositions such
as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old
versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe? What role
does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions? What
ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept
of Europe? In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism
compete with identity formation on a continental level? How have
individual artists represented Europe? How do different (literary) genres,
such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a
particular image of Europe or Europe’s relations with other cultures? Is
it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing
perceptions of Europe? How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the
changing identity of Europe today?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to
C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl . The deadline for the proposals is 1 November
2010 – you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected
before 15 November 2010.
After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or
in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.
A conference website ( http://hum.leiden.edu/icd/imagining-europe ), with
more information about the programme, speakers, accommodation and other
conference matters, will be launched later this autumn, but if you have
any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not
hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address.
The organizing committee:
Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas
ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS - LUICD Graduate Conference 2011
Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines
27 and 28 January 2011
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
University
THE CONFERENCE
‘Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique’. Otto von Bismarck's
elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander
Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted
statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a
geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more
often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere
geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul
Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with ‘a consciousness
acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of
the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical
coincidences’. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different
representations. Europe has always signified different things to different
people in different places – inside Europe as well as outside. Europe
meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l’aubergiste
d’Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a
century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today.
This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been
imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from
classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the
historical range of the LUICD’s three research programmes (Classics and
Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and
Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the
institute’s research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic
perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular
attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these
images were created and the media and genres in which they have been
presented.
Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing
perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore
the notion of similarity – are there any aspects that keep recurring in
the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically
European?
The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the
humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands
and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and
interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that
Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our
invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions
during the conference.
PROPOSALS
The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s
interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes
proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the
humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The
conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe
(from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working
in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to
submit a proposal.
Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual
and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-
colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues.
Questions that could be raised include: how did (and do) oppositions such
as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old
versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe? What role
does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions? What
ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept
of Europe? In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism
compete with identity formation on a continental level? How have
individual artists represented Europe? How do different (literary) genres,
such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a
particular image of Europe or Europe’s relations with other cultures? Is
it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing
perceptions of Europe? How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the
changing identity of Europe today?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to
C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl . The deadline for the proposals is 1 November
2010 – you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected
before 15 November 2010.
After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or
in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.
A conference website ( http://hum.leiden.edu/icd/imagining-europe ), with
more information about the programme, speakers, accommodation and other
conference matters, will be launched later this autumn, but if you have
any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not
hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address.
The organizing committee:
Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas
Sixth North American Syriac Symposium
Duke University is hosting the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium on
June 26-29, 2011. Information can be found at the following link:
http://syriacsymposium.trinity.duke.edu/
The organizing committee now invites paper proposals on any topic in the
field of Syriac studies. Standard papers are 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10
minutes discussion). Paper proposals will be accepted until January 1,
2011, but early submissions are very much encouraged. To submit a paper
proposal, please use the form on the website.
The website also contains information about Registration and Travel &
Lodging.
June 26-29, 2011. Information can be found at the following link:
http://syriacsymposium.trinity.duke.edu/
The organizing committee now invites paper proposals on any topic in the
field of Syriac studies. Standard papers are 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10
minutes discussion). Paper proposals will be accepted until January 1,
2011, but early submissions are very much encouraged. To submit a paper
proposal, please use the form on the website.
The website also contains information about Registration and Travel &
Lodging.
PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V
PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V
INFIRMITAS
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CURE, CARING AND HEALTH
August 23 – 26, 2012
Call for Papers
University of Tampere, Finland
Department of History and Philosophy
Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the
Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health
and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability.
These topics are of major importance for communities and societies
both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still
fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are
rare.
We welcome papers which focus on different actors – institutions,
communities, families or individuals – and have a sensitive approach
to social differences: gender, age and status. Thus, the focus lies
on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and
similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the
expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the
practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental
disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social
consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in
caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families,
communities and in society? We aim not to concentrate on medical or
technical aspects of health and illness, but rather to integrate them
in a larger social and cultural context.
The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but
also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and
Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions having
themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective.
If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out
thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your
contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by
e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi. The
deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2011, and the notification
of paper acceptance will be made in November 2011. Conference papers
may be presented in major scientific languages, however supplied with
English summary or translation if the language of presentation is not
English. The registration fee is 100 € (post-graduate students: 50 €).
For further information, please visit
http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or contact the organizers by
e-mailing to passages@uta.fi. The registration opens in November 2011.
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Katariina Mustakallio, Dr. Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa and Dr. Ville Vuolanto
INFIRMITAS
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CURE, CARING AND HEALTH
August 23 – 26, 2012
Call for Papers
University of Tampere, Finland
Department of History and Philosophy
Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the
Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health
and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability.
These topics are of major importance for communities and societies
both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still
fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are
rare.
We welcome papers which focus on different actors – institutions,
communities, families or individuals – and have a sensitive approach
to social differences: gender, age and status. Thus, the focus lies
on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and
similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the
expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the
practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental
disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social
consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in
caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families,
communities and in society? We aim not to concentrate on medical or
technical aspects of health and illness, but rather to integrate them
in a larger social and cultural context.
The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but
also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and
Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions having
themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective.
If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out
thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your
contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by
e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi. The
deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2011, and the notification
of paper acceptance will be made in November 2011. Conference papers
may be presented in major scientific languages, however supplied with
English summary or translation if the language of presentation is not
English. The registration fee is 100 € (post-graduate students: 50 €).
For further information, please visit
http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or contact the organizers by
e-mailing to passages@uta.fi. The registration opens in November 2011.
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Katariina Mustakallio, Dr. Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa and Dr. Ville Vuolanto
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
New HA Issue and Share postmedieval cluster
It is with very great pleasure that I announce the publication of The Heroic Age Issue 14.1! This issue marks a number of rather exciting firsts. It is the first, so far as I know, joint publication of a shared cluster of essays between two different organizations, with two different emphases in the field, in two different formats (one entirely online and the other chiefly [though not exclusively] in print. For us at HA it is also the first of a series of new practices: in this case, guest editors putting together a section of essays in their areas of expertise. In this inaugural issue, we have Eileen Joy of postmedieval and the Babel Working Group has put together a cluster of essays published in both HA and in postmedieval: Essays by Elaine Treharne, Gillian Overing and Clare Lees, and Mary Dockray-Miller appear in HA at http://www.heroicage.org. At the Palgrave website for a limited time, essays appearing in the postmedieval authored by Jacqueli!
ne A Stodnick and Renée R Trilling , Kathleen Davis, Carol Braun Pasternack, and Lisa M. C. Weston and appear at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/v1/n3/index.html#Critical-exchange-II:-The-State-of-Early-English-Studies-(Editor:-Eileen-A.-Joy). In addition, John Sodeberg contributes the first of a new column for us in the field of late antique/early medieval archaeology.
Another first for HA is that we have an embarrassment of riches. So we have split the issue slightly in order to give each section its due and recognize each set of authors for their excellent work. 14.2 which will appear later this month is guest edited by Andrew Rabin on Anglo-Saxon Law. We are pleased to have Kathryn Powell, Lisa Oliver, Nathan Breen, Jay Paul Gates, Rebecca Brackman, Daniela Fruscione. Along with these fine articles, we are quite pleased to have a review essay by Marijane Osborn. A full table of contents is available at: http://www.heroicage.org/issues/14/toc.php
I'd like to thank Deanna Forsman, Eileen Joy, Andrew Rabin, and Brad Eden for their hard work in helping all this come to fruition. I would also like to mention and thank Bill Hamilton, Kris Vetter, and Heather Flowers for editing and copy editing; without them performing this task, this issue would not appear. Thank you all. I hope you, the reader enjoy the issue(s), and as always, commentary is welcome.
ne A Stodnick and Renée R Trilling , Kathleen Davis, Carol Braun Pasternack, and Lisa M. C. Weston and appear at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/v1/n3/index.html#Critical-exchange-II:-The-State-of-Early-English-Studies-(Editor:-Eileen-A.-Joy). In addition, John Sodeberg contributes the first of a new column for us in the field of late antique/early medieval archaeology.
Another first for HA is that we have an embarrassment of riches. So we have split the issue slightly in order to give each section its due and recognize each set of authors for their excellent work. 14.2 which will appear later this month is guest edited by Andrew Rabin on Anglo-Saxon Law. We are pleased to have Kathryn Powell, Lisa Oliver, Nathan Breen, Jay Paul Gates, Rebecca Brackman, Daniela Fruscione. Along with these fine articles, we are quite pleased to have a review essay by Marijane Osborn. A full table of contents is available at: http://www.heroicage.org/issues/14/toc.php
I'd like to thank Deanna Forsman, Eileen Joy, Andrew Rabin, and Brad Eden for their hard work in helping all this come to fruition. I would also like to mention and thank Bill Hamilton, Kris Vetter, and Heather Flowers for editing and copy editing; without them performing this task, this issue would not appear. Thank you all. I hope you, the reader enjoy the issue(s), and as always, commentary is welcome.
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