Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
invites articles for a special issue called /Anomalous Ethnographies:
Wild Wonders, Diminutive People and Reticent Races/, scheduled for
publication in fall 2012. We are seeking academic articles from any
discipline and period. Topics might include (but are not limited to)
Abatwa, djinn, elves, elementals, fairies, fauns, goblins, gremlins,
Homo Floresiensis, incubi/succubi, mermaids, mummies, Plinian races,
reptilians, Sasquatch, selkie, the undead, werewolves, wild men and
wild women, Yaksa, and such alternate forms of humanity, as
represented in anthropologies, fiction, folk-lore, media,
mythologies, sermons, travel literatures, and urban legends.
Contributions should highlight their cultural role or historical
significance in either popular narrative or academic discourse.

For more on the journal, please consult .

Abstracts of 500 words are due on April 1, 2011. Final contributions
should be roughly 8,000 - 12,000 words (with the possibility of
longer submissions in exceptional cases), including all documentation
and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will
be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition
(style 1, employing footnotes).

/Preternature/ also welcomes original editions or translations of
texts related to the topic that have not otherwise been made
available in recent editions or in English.

Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed,
or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors:

Peter Dendle
Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, USA
pjd11@psu.edu

Kirsten C. Uszkalo
CIRCA Scholar
University of Alberta, Canada
circe@ufies.org

Richard Raiswell
Department of History
University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
rraiswell@upei.ca

Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550

Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550

The University of Melbourne: 13th to 15th July 2011

Convenors: Andrew Turner, Giulia Torello Hill

In 2011 the University of Melbourne, in association with the
University of Queensland, will host an international conference with
the title Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late
antiquity to 1550. Illustrated manuscripts of classical authors often
transmitted an insight for much later readers into how ancient
illustrators (and thus audiences) visualized these works, but also
provided current reinterpretations of the texts. Both tendencies are
best exemplified in a cycle of illustrations to the plays of Terence,
which provides an almost unbroken continuum from the Carolingian era
through to the dawn of the age of printing. But despite the fact that
these illustrations represented the action on stage, even down to
details of masks and props, there is no evidence at all that the
plays were performed in the mediaeval period—they were simply
literary texts, to be studied and at the most recited by a lector.
Rather, revivals of the Classics on stage began in the Ita!
lian Renaissance, and the theoretical knowledge which critics
gleaned from writers like Vitruvius were poured back into the
illustrated tradition, providing an extraordinary amalgam of ancient
and ‘modern’. This conference will explore the connections between
text, illustration, and revival.
Confirmed speakers so far include Gianni Guastella (University of
Siena), who has written several seminal publications on the reception
of Roman comedy in the Italian Renaissance, Dorota Dutsch (University
of California, Santa Barbara), author of Feminine Discourses in Roman
Comedy (Oxford 2008), who has most recently been investigating the
semiotics of gesture in the illustrated Terence manuscripts; and
Bernard Muir (University of Melbourne), a world authority on the
digitization of manuscripts, who has published extensively on Latin
palaeography and on the mediaeval transmission of texts, and who most
recently, with Andrew Turner, is the editor of a digital facsimile of
a 12th-century manuscript of Terence from Oxford (Terence’s Comedies,
Bodleian Digital Texts 2, Oxford 2010). We are hopeful that selected
proceedings will eventually be published following the conference.
You are now invited to submit proposals for papers (lasting 30
minutes). We are particularly interested in submissions on the
following topics, although we will look at other submissions on the
broad area of classical drama between Late Antiquity and 1550
sympathetically.
• The manuscript traditions of the classical dramatists;
• Mediaeval scholia and commentary traditions;
• Illustrations of drama in the manuscript and early printed
traditions;
• The physical environment of performances of ancient drama;
• Reception and translation of Greek dramatists in the West
before 1550.
The deadline for submission of a title and an abstract of 100 words
is 25th February 2011. We intend establishing a web site early next
year which will progressively include information on the conference,
registration, and accommodation. For the meantime, please direct any
enquiries (including proposals for papers), to:

MARGINALIA

Call for Submissions

"MARGINALIA", an interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages,
invites submissions for its 2011 Issue on the theme of "Taste".

Suggestions for topics include, but are not limited to:

patronage

the liturgical: 'gustate et videte', 'O taste and see'

connotations of 'sapere' in Latin: 'to taste of', 'to resemble' 'to be
inspired by' and 'to exercise discernment'

extremes: starvation, gluttony and their moral implications

medieval aesthetics

vicissitudes: sweetness and bitterness

conspicuous consumption and material culture

Eve and the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

feasting and fasting

applications of sociological analyses of taste, e.g. the work of Pierre
Bourdieu

We invite submissions in the form of long articles (approximately 5,000
words) and shorter Notes and Queries style articles (approximately 1,000
words). Please see our website www.marginalia.co.uk for further details.

Proposals for papers should be sent via email, no later than 20th February
2010, to submissions@marginalia.co.uk. We will be happy to answer queries
before the deadline.

The editors of Marginalia are graduate students, advised by a board of
academics, from the University of Cambridge

"Challenging the Myths of Art History: A Symposium in Honor of Linda Seidel"

Sunday, February 13, 2011 (weekend of the College Art Association meeting)
9:30am-5:30pm, followed by a reception
Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street, New York City
12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Building

This one-day symposium celebrates the career of Linda Seidel, an influential scholar of medieval art history and inspiring teacher. Professor Seidel’s research often aimed at debunking art historical myths, as is evident in her books on Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini portrait, rider imagery at Aquitaine, and artistic identity at Autun. Her interest in pivotal figures and moments in the history and historiography of medieval art continues to be pioneering and to inspire many generations of art historians in many fields.

The program features lectures by four distinguished scholars of medieval and early modern art, Madeline Caviness, Anne Derbes, Andrée Hayum, and Christine Verzar. In addition, a series of brief presentations by former students celebrates Professor Seidel's legacy as a teacher and scholar.

Registration is Free if completed by February 8, 2011. (Registration after February 8 will incur a $10 fee.)

For a complete program and to register go to: http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/conference11/arthistory/index.html

Summer School in Medieval Codicology and Palaeography

Subject: Summer School in Medieval Codicology and Palaeography,
Budapest, 18-23 July 2011

Announcement of a one-week Summer School in Medieval Codicology and
Palaeography at the Central European University, Budapest, 18-23 July
2011.

The one-week course provides practical training at an intermediate
level in Latin and Greek palaeography combined with codicological and
diplomatic lectures based on a new approach toward manuscript studies
and the latest trends in research. The intensive classes are
complemented by visits to manuscript holding libraries and archives.
In addition the course includes a one-day workshop on manuscript and
document layouts and the cognitive processes they reflect.

Application deadline: 15 February.

For further details on the course and the application procedure go to

http://www.summer.ceu.hu/02<
/A>-courses/course-sites/codicology/index-codicology.php

The programme for next summer's International Medieval Congress
(Leeds; 11.-14. July 2011) is available at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011.html

New this year is an opportunity for on-line registration for delegates:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/IMC2011/registration.html

The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces

The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

*"Crises of Categorization****"** *
* University of Toronto*

*Saturday, February 12, 2011 *

*Conference Program*

All events to be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies (third
floor, 125 Queen’s Park) unless otherwise noted.

9:00 Breakfast & registration

9:45 Welcome

10:00 Session I: Transhistorical Anglo-Saxon England

Eric Weiskott (Yale University): “Where They Please: the punctuation
of Old English poetry”
Respondent: Patrick Meusel (University of Toronto)
Sarah Miller (Trent University): “The Battle of Maldon: A Medieval Screenplay”
Respondent: Kathleen Ogden (University of Toronto)
Stephen Pelle (University of Toronto): ““The Fifteen Signs before
Doomsday” and Post-Conquest English Identity”
Respondent: Carla Thomas (New York University)
Camin Melton (Fordham University): “Vernacular Authority in a
Materialized God: Reading the Text of Christ’s Body in Old and Middle
English”
Respondent: Emma Gorst (University of Toronto)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session II: Storms Within and Without
Paul Langeslag (University of Toronto): “Winter: Landscape and Season”
Respondent: Josephine Livingstone (New York University)
James Paz (King’s College London): “Internal/External Interactions in
the Exeter Book ‘Storm’ Riddles”
Respondent: Alex Fleck (University of Toronto)
David Lennington (Princeton University): “The Anglo-Saxon Death
Lists: Crisis and Categorization”
Respondent: Julia Bolotina (University of Toronto)

2:30 Coffee break

3:00 Session III: Sex and Magic in Anglo-Saxon England
Grant Leyton Simpson (Indiana University): “Crises in the Pronoun
Paradigm and the Transgendered Body: Crossdressing in the Old English
Saints’ Lives of Euphrosyne and Eugenia”
Respondent: Kristen Mills (University of Toronto)
Richard Shaw (University of Toronto): “At the Borders of Medicine and
Magic: A New Work by Ælfric?”
Respondent: Jessica Lockhart (University of Toronto)
Leif Einarson (University of Western Ontario): “Sex and the Smithy:
(mis-)representations of sexuality in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse
narratives of metalworkers”
Respondent: Elizabeth Walgenbach (Yale University)

4:30 Coffee break

5:15 Tour of the Dictionary of Old English
Hosted by Professor Antonette diPaolo Healey
Robarts Library, University of Toronto
130 St. George Street

6:00 Dinner & reception
Hosted by Professor Andy Orchard
Provost’s Lodge, Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue

Conference Website: http://medieval.utoronto.ca/events/ASSCGC/about.html