SCRIPTO SEMINARS

SCRIPTO SEMINARS

As it is tradition, SCRIPTO offers some open seminars on palaeographical
and codicological matters:

Rudolf Gamper (Vadiana St Gall)
Writing in the late Middle Ages, Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek, 10th May 2011

Nicole Bériou (IRHT Paris)
The preacher and his manuscripts, Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, 9th
June 2011

Kartin Wenig (Würzburg)
Sermons from Heilsbronn, Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, 21st June 2011


The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information &
Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of
medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines
research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely
innovative course, at
the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from
Friedrich-Alexander University.

SCRIPTO sessions will take place in Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek),
Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek) and
Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) at a fee of 1080 € (which
includes travel
and accommodations for seminars outside of Erlangen: Munich; four days in
Prague; Wolfenbüttel) per participant.
Participants admitted to the course must have at least a Bachelor's degree.
Students must apply for the course in writing. The language of instruction
is German. Foreign participants, however, will be able to take German
language courses at Friedrich Alexander University if they so wish.
Applicants should write enclosing a full CV to:

Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari,
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Mittellatein und Neulatein,

CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2011 (Naples, 29.9.-1.10.2011)

CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2011 (Naples, 29.9.-1.10.2011)

The study of medieval legal documents (charters, deeds, instruments …) makes increasingly use of digital tools. The massive growth of documents online – as images, as calendars, as texts – and the attempts made to analyze and discuss diplomatics in the web has motivated us to organize a second international conference on “Digital Diplomatics”. It will take place in Naples 29.9.-1.10.2011 and we are looking for proposals. You can find the full presentation of the conference at

http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/

We would like to encourage in particular young scholars and graduate
students to present their ideas and projects on using the new technologies for studying old documents. Travel grants will be provided.

We are looking forward to hear from you

for the organization comitee

Georg Vogeler

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).



URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/cfp-digital-diplomatics-2011-naples-29-9-1-10-2011/

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From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies, 23-25 August 2011

« Des manuscrits antiques � l’ère digitale. Lectures et littératies »
(23-25 août 2011)
From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies,
23-25 August 2011

With the support of :
• Institut Romand des Sciences Bibliques (IRSB, FTSR, Unil)
• Fonds National Suisse (FNS)
• Anthropos (Unil)
• Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire (FDi, Unil)
• CUSO Théologie
• CUSO EDOCSA
• Association pour l’histoire du livre et de la lecture en Suisse Romande

Organisation
Claire Clivaz (IRSB, FTSR),
Jérôme Meizoz (FDi, Arts and Humanities)
François Vallotton (SHC, Arts and Humanities)

This conference in Arts and Humanities seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital turn. Details on :

www.unil.ch/digitalera2011

Conferences : Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard, USA), David Bouvier
(Unil , CH), François Bovon (Harvard, USA), Claire Clivaz (Unil ,
CH), Michel Fuchs (Unil , CH), Christian Grosse (Unil , CH),
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Cornell, USA), Philippe Kaennel (Unil , CH),
Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL, CH), Thomas Kraus (independant researcher),
Rudolf Mahrer (Unil , CH), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis
University, USA), David Parker (Birmingham, UK), Holt Parker
(Cincinnati, USA), Lukas Rosenthaler (Basel, CH), Ulrich Schmid
(Münster, DE), Paul Schubert (Unige, CH), François Vallotton
(Unil , CH), Christian Vandendorpe (Ottawa, CA),
Joseph Verheyden (Leuven, BE).

Call for papers for scholars and PhD students in Sciences of Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christianity, Biblical Sciences, Modern History, French and English Literature.
Deadline : 30th April 2011.

The colloquium will be concluded by a public evening, on august 25th with posters, editors’ booth, artistic animations and a round table discussion, bringing together publishers and scholars and led by a journalist from Radio-télévision Suisse : “What Will Come After the Book ?”
Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).



URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/from-ancient-manuscripts-to-the-digital-era-readings-and-literacies-23-25-august-2011/

Revealing Records, a one-day postgraduate research conference on medieval records

Revealing Records, a one-day postgraduate research conference on medieval records is now in its third year at King's College London.
This year's conference will take place on 27 May at the Strand Campus, 9.30 - 17.30hrs.
I've attended this event for the past two years, and it's well worth it!
For more information see below, and check out: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/history/events/revealingrecords.html

Kathleen

Program details are:
Morning Session

Keynote Speech by Professor Peter Heather (KCL)
Henry Fairbairn (KCL), Coins and Politics in King Stephen’s Reign
Katherine Buchanan (Stirling), Tracing Footprints: Assessing Medieval Scottish Castle Landscapes
Gerald Mako (Cambridge), Ibn Fadlan and the Islamization of the Volga Bulgars
Julia McClure (Sheffield), The Franciscans and the Anxieties of Discourse

Afternoon Session
Keynote Speech by Professor Nicholas Vincent (UEA)
Johanna Dale (UEA), Saints’ feasts, the liturgical calendar and royal coronations c.1050-c.1250
Claudia Tripodi (Florence), Florentine Ricordanze in the Early Renaissance
Thomas Smith (Royal Holloway), The Papal Registers of Honorius III and the Concept of Responsive Government
Simon John (Swansea), Perceptions of the First Crusade in thirteenth-century Exempla
Daniel Brown (Queen’s, Belfast), The Evolution of Formulae and Protocol in the Charters of Hugh de Lacy, 1191x1243
William Stewart-Parker (KCL), The Compton Bassett Charters: Charter Production and Replication

Registration £5 (includes lunch, refreshments and reception). Please send contact details (including email) with a cheque payable to ‘King’s College London’, to Sophie Ambler, Department of History, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS by 1 May 2011. For further information, please contact: revealingrecords@gmail.com

The 11th international conference on Origen studies

The 11th international conference on Origen studies:

Colloquium Origenianum Undecimum

‘Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Thought’



Aarhus University

26-31 August 2013



First Circular

Dear colleagues

It is a pleasure for me to invite you to attend the 11th international conference on Origen studies: Colloquium Origenianum Undecimum.

The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 26-31 August 2013.

The theme of the conference will be ‘Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Thought’. This theme includes a number of sub-themes, such as the reception of Origen and Origenism in philosophy and theology, from the earliest reception in the third and fourth centuries through the Middle Ages to the most recent reception in the 20th century; the philological work on Origen’s texts; the use or rejection of Origen’s exegetical principles etc. The programme may also include a section on Origen and Origenism in other traditions, for example in Orthodox theology.

The conference will have a special focus on young scholars as the conference programme will include workshops specifically designed for the presentation and discussion of doctoral and postdoctoral projects. Presentations at these workshops do not necessarily have to be on the conference theme.

We are presently negotiating with different hotels to obtain the most favourable prices and intend to provide a variety of accommodation possibilities at different price levels, including cheap rooms for doctoral students. Our next circular will provide information about the possibilities.

This circular has been sent to all scholars appearing on our various lists of e-mail addresses. However, as we have not been able to include all potential attendees, we would like to encourage you to forward the circular to anyone else who you think may be interested in taking part in the conference. It is especially important that you make doctoral students and young scholars who have not attended previous conferences aware of this conference. Please ask those to whom you forward the letter to respond directly to me so that they can be put on our mailing list.

The conference website will be available later this year. More information about that will follow in the next circular.

Education and Ignorance: The Use of Knowledge in the Medieval World c.550-1550

The University of Manchester Medieval Postgraduate Conference
Education and Ignorance:
The Use of Knowledge in the Medieval World c.550-1550

John Rylands Library, Deansgate
Monday 6 - Tuesday 7th June 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern historiography has often depicted the Middle Ages as a period of
ignorance, dogma and superstition– a period in which knowledge stagnated
and education was both restricted to a privileged minority and dominated
by the institutional and ideological authority of the Church. From the
Carolingian Renaissance and the rise of the medieval universities to the
condemnations of heretical teachings and the intellectual and spiritual
ferment of the Reformation, the reality about education and knowledge in
the medieval world is undoubtedly far more complex and contested than this
picture suggests. This two day conference seeks to explore that reality
through a diverse range of disciplines and across the full historical span
of the period. We aim to address the questions – How was education
theorised, institutionalised and practiced throughout the middle ages? How
was knowledge controlled, transmitted and transformed? and To what uses
were they put both by established ecclesiastical and feudal powers and the
social and religious formations that opposed them?
With these questions in mind, we invite proposals for twenty minute papers
from postgraduates and early career researchers on a variety of topics
including but, not limited to –
- the losses and restoration of Classical knowledge in the early
Middle Ages
- the development of the medieval universities
- the educational role of the monasteries and the mendicant orders
- scholasticism, scepticism and humanism
- heresy, censorship and reformation ideas about education
- didacticism in medieval literature, drama, art and architecture
- material culture and education: manuscripts, libraries, printing etc.
- theories and methods of learning – memory and scriptural exegesis
- unconventional and popular learning –alchemy, folk, and occult
practice

Please e-mail abstracts of 250-300 words to
mancmedievalconference2011@gmail.com along with your name, affiliation
and title of paper. All queries should also be directed to this address.

The deadline for submission is 31st March 2011. Selection of papers will
be made by 15th April.

Call for Applications for Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography at Harry Ransom Center

Call for Applications for Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish
Paleography at Harry Ransom Center

Applications are being accepted by the Harry Ransom Center for the
Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography, occurring in Austin
June 6-24, 2011. The institute is an opportunity for scholars to
acquire intensive training in reading late medieval and early modern
manuscripts of Spain and Latin America.

Application materials must be received by Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
Information and forms are available at http://budurl.com/f5vx . Late
applications will not be reviewed.

Manuscripts from the collections of the Ransom Center, a humanities
research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, and
the university's Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection will be
used to supplement and enrich course content. Attention will also be
given to research tools for using the archives of other manuscript
repositories.

This institute will enroll 15 participants, and the course will be
conducted in Spanish. First consideration will be given to advanced
graduate students and junior faculty from colleges and universities in
the United States and Canada, but applications will also be accepted
from professional staff from museums and libraries and from
independent scholars. Participants, who must have advanced Spanish
language skills, will receive a stipend to help defray the costs of
housing and travel.

Participants will learn to transcribe a variety of Spanish documentary
and book scripts found in primary sources from Spain and the Americas
in the late medieval and early modern periods, ranging from the 15th
to the 18th centuries.

Dr. Consuelo Varela, of Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de
Sevilla, will lead the institute. Varela has published extensively on
Christopher Columbus, the early years of the discovery of America and
Spanish voyages across the Pacific. She taught the Summer Institute in
the Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences at the Newberry
Library in Chicago in 1996 and 2002.

The institute is part of a four-year initiative for vernacular
paleography supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and headquartered at the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance
Studies.

If you have any questions, please contact Anna Chen by phone at (512)
471-5365 or by e-mail at anna.chen@mail.utexas.edu.