Sorry folks, I got busy doing a cross-continental move and left this one too long! So if you're interested in Hincmar, drop the organizers a quick note!
Call for Papers: Hincmar of Rheims at IMC 2012
The nineteenth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds from 9-12 July 2012. We are hoping to put together several sessions on Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims (845-882), whose text De Divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae we are currently translating. Hincmar is a central figure for historians working in a great number of fields, and to a great degree shapes our vision of the later Carolingian empire. However, though he and his writings have never been short of students, there has been no attempt to provide an overarching study since Devisse's book, published in 1976.
We would welcome 20 minute papers on any aspects of Hincmar's life and work as politician, author, liturgist, hagiographer and churchman. Please circulate this to anyone you know who might be interested in giving such a paper. We will be submitting proposal for sessions in September 2011, so please let us know if you are interested by the end of August. For further details, or to offer a paper, please contact:
Dr Rachel Stone (magistra@hotmail.co.uk) or Dr Charles West (c.m.west@sheffield.ac.uk)
Friday, August 12, 2011
Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
Call for Papers: Active Objects
Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13 2012
Active Objects I: Optics and Transparency
Active Objects II: Agency and Phenomenology
Inspired by the recent exhibitions of reliquaries in Cleveland, Baltimore, and London, these sessions invite considerations of how object-centered approaches develop our understanding of reliquaries, vasa sacra, and other instruments of faith. If we conceive of those objects as active agents, and not merely as passive elements in devotional practice, how does that change our perception of their function and their aesthetic nature? How did the vivid nature of these objects -- their mass and texture, their form, their brilliance, their aroma -- shape the way people acted with them, or simply behaved in their presence? Also, is it possible to track the ways in which the agency of a specific object changed over time? Finally, should we, can we, and do we want to consider how the agentic power of medieval objects influences our own relations with them in the present day?
“Active Objects” is organized by the Material Collective, a group of medievalists pursuing collaborative discoveries, humane histories, and the interpretive possibilities of the material. We invite proposals that engage phenomenology, optical theories, relational aesthetics, Actor-Network Theory, Thing Theory, notions of affect, and other object-centered approaches; we seek papers that consider how objects matter in medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, as well as in the interactions of faiths.
Please send paper proposals (abstract of no more than 300 words, and a completed Participant Information Form) by September 15, 2011 to Karen Overbey (karen.overbey@tufts.edu) and Ben C. Tilghman (btilghman@gmail.com).
Karen Eileen Overbey
Art & Art History
Tufts University
11 Talbot Ave
Medford, MA
Phone: 617.627.2597
Karen.overbey@tufts.edu<
mailto:Karen.overbey@tufts.edu>
Benjamin C. Tilghman
George Washington University
3002 Abell Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-963-2106
btilghman@gmail.com
Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13 2012
Active Objects I: Optics and Transparency
Active Objects II: Agency and Phenomenology
Inspired by the recent exhibitions of reliquaries in Cleveland, Baltimore, and London, these sessions invite considerations of how object-centered approaches develop our understanding of reliquaries, vasa sacra, and other instruments of faith. If we conceive of those objects as active agents, and not merely as passive elements in devotional practice, how does that change our perception of their function and their aesthetic nature? How did the vivid nature of these objects -- their mass and texture, their form, their brilliance, their aroma -- shape the way people acted with them, or simply behaved in their presence? Also, is it possible to track the ways in which the agency of a specific object changed over time? Finally, should we, can we, and do we want to consider how the agentic power of medieval objects influences our own relations with them in the present day?
“Active Objects” is organized by the Material Collective, a group of medievalists pursuing collaborative discoveries, humane histories, and the interpretive possibilities of the material. We invite proposals that engage phenomenology, optical theories, relational aesthetics, Actor-Network Theory, Thing Theory, notions of affect, and other object-centered approaches; we seek papers that consider how objects matter in medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, as well as in the interactions of faiths.
Please send paper proposals (abstract of no more than 300 words, and a completed Participant Information Form
Karen Eileen Overbey
Art & Art History
Tufts University
11 Talbot Ave
Medford, MA
Phone: 617.627.2597
Karen.overbey@tufts.edu<
mailto:Karen.overbey@tufts.edu>
Benjamin C. Tilghman
George Washington University
3002 Abell Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-963-2106
btilghman@gmail.com
The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces the CFP for
The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Philology"
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Deadline for Abstracts: 26 September 2011
The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Eighth
Annual Graduate Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
“Philology,” to be held on 25 February 2012 at UC Berkeley.
More than twenty years ago, in response to tectonic shifts in the
academic landscape, Speculum and Comparative Literary Studies almost
simultaneously published special issues asking the same question:
“What is Philology?” Since that watershed moment, scholars have
continued to debate which methodologies deserve the title “Philology”
(whether “old” or “new”). Meanwhile, these very methodologies have
undergone significant theoretical and practical revisions. Bearing in
mind that “Philology” lies at the historical, institutional, and
intellectual core of Anglo-Saxon Studies, this conference seeks to
consider not only “What is philology now?” but also “How and why does
philology matter, particularly to emerging scholars?”
We invite proposals for papers that reflect on the idea of “Philology”
at a theoretical, methodological, or institutional level, as well as
papers that demonstrate philological practices, particularly from an
interdisciplinary perspective, or that address the relationship
between philology and contemporary critical concerns, such as
historicism(s), aesthetics, cognitive studies, manuscript studies,
textual criticism, intellectual history, and the digital humanities.
Please submit 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers by September 26,
2011 and kindly include your academic affiliation, e-mail address,
street address, phone number, and any audio-visual requirements.
Abstracts may be sent to assc2012@gmail.com. We very much look forward
to welcoming you to our campus, and we are excited about the rich
discussion that will ensue.
Organized by: Marcos Garcia, Jacob Hobson, Jennifer Lorden, R. D.
Perry, Benjamin A. Saltzman
Sponsored by: the UC Berkeley Department of English, UC Berkeley
Program in Medieval Studies, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, and
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
For other ASSC events, please visit the main ASSC website at
www.columbia.edu/cu/assc. To join the ASSC mailing list, please e-mail
ASSC@columbia.edu.
For conference updates and ASSC events at UC Berkeley please visit:
http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html
announces the CFP for
The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Philology"
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Deadline for Abstracts: 26 September 2011
The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Eighth
Annual Graduate Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
“Philology,” to be held on 25 February 2012 at UC Berkeley.
More than twenty years ago, in response to tectonic shifts in the
academic landscape, Speculum and Comparative Literary Studies almost
simultaneously published special issues asking the same question:
“What is Philology?” Since that watershed moment, scholars have
continued to debate which methodologies deserve the title “Philology”
(whether “old” or “new”). Meanwhile, these very methodologies have
undergone significant theoretical and practical revisions. Bearing in
mind that “Philology” lies at the historical, institutional, and
intellectual core of Anglo-Saxon Studies, this conference seeks to
consider not only “What is philology now?” but also “How and why does
philology matter, particularly to emerging scholars?”
We invite proposals for papers that reflect on the idea of “Philology”
at a theoretical, methodological, or institutional level, as well as
papers that demonstrate philological practices, particularly from an
interdisciplinary perspective, or that address the relationship
between philology and contemporary critical concerns, such as
historicism(s), aesthetics, cognitive studies, manuscript studies,
textual criticism, intellectual history, and the digital humanities.
Please submit 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers by September 26,
2011 and kindly include your academic affiliation, e-mail address,
street address, phone number, and any audio-visual requirements.
Abstracts may be sent to assc2012@gmail.com. We very much look forward
to welcoming you to our campus, and we are excited about the rich
discussion that will ensue.
Organized by: Marcos Garcia, Jacob Hobson, Jennifer Lorden, R. D.
Perry, Benjamin A. Saltzman
Sponsored by: the UC Berkeley Department of English, UC Berkeley
Program in Medieval Studies, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, and
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
For other ASSC events, please visit the main ASSC website at
www.columbia.edu/cu/assc. To join the ASSC mailing list, please e-mail
ASSC@columbia.edu.
For conference updates and ASSC events at UC Berkeley please visit:
http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html
Forthcoming Book!
PATTERNS OF EPISCOPAL POWER
Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe
Ed. by Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven.
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops – whose general importance for the time around the first millennium has been revealed by recent scholarship – as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops’ room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about “A Europe of Bishops” (“Ein Europa der Bischöfe”) is presented in English translation for the first time.
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
226 pp. | Hardcover RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026202-5
eBook RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026203-2
Series: Prinz-Albert-Forschungen 6
to be published August 2011
More information can be obtained online (http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ge/detailEn.cfm?isbn=9783110262025).
A PDF file including an order form can be found at http://bit.ly/Patterns-of-Episcopal-Power
Contents
Ludger Körntgen: Introduction, p. 11
Timothy Reuter: A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms, p. 17
Monika Suchan: Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics, p. 39
Theo Riches: The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, p. 51
Ernst-Dieter Hehl: Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischöflichen Handelns
bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen, p. 63 (English Summary, p. 87)
Dominik Waßenhoven: Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings, p. 89
Catherine Cubitt: Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England, p. 111
Pauline Stafford: Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035–1042/1043, p. 127
Joyce Hill: Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190, p. 145
Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day, p. 163
Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe
Ed. by Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven.
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops – whose general importance for the time around the first millennium has been revealed by recent scholarship – as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops’ room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about “A Europe of Bishops” (“Ein Europa der Bischöfe”) is presented in English translation for the first time.
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
226 pp. | Hardcover RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026202-5
eBook RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026203-2
Series: Prinz-Albert-Forschungen 6
to be published August 2011
More information can be obtained online (http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ge/detailEn.cfm?isbn=9783110262025).
A PDF file including an order form can be found at http://bit.ly/Patterns-of-Episcopal-Power
Contents
Ludger Körntgen: Introduction, p. 11
Timothy Reuter: A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms, p. 17
Monika Suchan: Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics, p. 39
Theo Riches: The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, p. 51
Ernst-Dieter Hehl: Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischöflichen Handelns
bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen, p. 63 (English Summary, p. 87)
Dominik Waßenhoven: Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings, p. 89
Catherine Cubitt: Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England, p. 111
Pauline Stafford: Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035–1042/1043, p. 127
Joyce Hill: Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190, p. 145
Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day, p. 163
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
CFP
MEPlease forward to all and sundry.
The Heroic Age is currently inviting papers on the following topics:
LAST CALL: Issue 16: Alcuin and His Impact
Alcuin spans the Anglo-Saxon and Continental worlds and his influence is
felt far beyond his own period and place. This issue seeks to explore
the man, his times, and his influence on his contemporaries and on
subsequent generations.
Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and
conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found
under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two
readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be
sent to Larry Swain.
Issue 17: Carolingian Border-Lands
This issue seeks to explore the lands and peoples surrounding the
Carolingian kingdom(s) and the relationship between empire and
"periphery". Possible topics might include, but not be limited to: the
Spanish March, Carolingians and England and Ireland, the Scandinavian
countries, Carolingian "foreign policy" and trade,
cross-border/cultural/linguistic influences, Italy, Byzantine Empire and
the Carolingians, Saxons, Avars and Slavs just to name a few. The focus
is on the regions surrounding the Carolingians and possibly Carolingian
relationships with those borderlands whether political, religious, or
cultural.
Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and
conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found
under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two
readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be
sent to Larry Swain.
Issue 18: Occitan Poetry
We would like to invite submissions for the special 2012 issue of HA on
Occitan poetry, edited by Anna Klosowska (Miami U. of OH). We are
interested in submissions including but not limited to the following
topics and approaches:
editions or translations of a short text or texts or a portion of a
longer text (especially lesser known texts)
transnational and postcolonial approaches, Jewish, Arabic,
Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and cultural studies
feminism, queer theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, history of emotions,
history of subjectivity, critical animal studies
philology, musicology, poetics, manuscript study, material history and
history of ideas, medievalism
Publication: June 2012 (online)
Final revisions due: March 1, 2012
Response from anonymous readers by: December 1, 2012
Submission due: July 1, 2011
Submissions should be 3000 words including bibliography and endnotes,
and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be
found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by
two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should
be sent to Anna Klosowska, Special Issue Editor.
--
Larry Swain
The Heroic Age is currently inviting papers on the following topics:
LAST CALL: Issue 16: Alcuin and His Impact
Alcuin spans the Anglo-Saxon and Continental worlds and his influence is
felt far beyond his own period and place. This issue seeks to explore
the man, his times, and his influence on his contemporaries and on
subsequent generations.
Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and
conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found
under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two
readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be
sent to Larry Swain.
Issue 17: Carolingian Border-Lands
This issue seeks to explore the lands and peoples surrounding the
Carolingian kingdom(s) and the relationship between empire and
"periphery". Possible topics might include, but not be limited to: the
Spanish March, Carolingians and England and Ireland, the Scandinavian
countries, Carolingian "foreign policy" and trade,
cross-border/cultural/linguistic influences, Italy, Byzantine Empire and
the Carolingians, Saxons, Avars and Slavs just to name a few. The focus
is on the regions surrounding the Carolingians and possibly Carolingian
relationships with those borderlands whether political, religious, or
cultural.
Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and
conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found
under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two
readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be
sent to Larry Swain.
Issue 18: Occitan Poetry
We would like to invite submissions for the special 2012 issue of HA on
Occitan poetry, edited by Anna Klosowska (Miami U. of OH). We are
interested in submissions including but not limited to the following
topics and approaches:
editions or translations of a short text or texts or a portion of a
longer text (especially lesser known texts)
transnational and postcolonial approaches, Jewish, Arabic,
Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and cultural studies
feminism, queer theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, history of emotions,
history of subjectivity, critical animal studies
philology, musicology, poetics, manuscript study, material history and
history of ideas, medievalism
Publication: June 2012 (online)
Final revisions due: March 1, 2012
Response from anonymous readers by: December 1, 2012
Submission due: July 1, 2011
Submissions should be 3000 words including bibliography and endnotes,
and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be
found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by
two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should
be sent to Anna Klosowska, Special Issue Editor.
--
Larry Swain
Specular Reflections: The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture"
"Specular Reflections: The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture"
The Early Romance Studies Research Cluster, along with the Committee for Medieval Studies at the University of British Columbia, solicits contributions for the 40th Annual UBC Medieval Workshop, to be held on March 16-17, 2012. The conference will be held at Green College on the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver, Canada.
As Margot Schmidt suggests in the Dictionnaire de spiritualité, the mirror's multiple uses as an object translate into highly diversified symbolic functions. Thus, while they have long been associated with scientific exploration, knowledge, and contemplation, owing largely to analogies with their instrumental use-analogies that lead to the book as speculum, as explored by Herbert Grabes, for example--reflective surfaces also function as metaphors for the illusory nature of representation. They can create false, shadowy, or deformed images of earthly reality, as suggested both by the ubiquitous Ovidian theme of Narcissus at the fountain and the Pauline per speculum in aenigmate. The contradictory uses of mirrors in iconography mean they can stand as figures of virtue or vice, depending on whether they accompany Prudence or Venus, or represent Mary--the speculum sine macula--or Eve. Mirrors are not only ambivalent, but also Janus-like: whether examined as objects, in their instrumental, decorative, or other functions, or as visual or textual figures, mirrors have fascinated humankind, not least because they seem to serve as a kind of threshold phenomenon allowing for the contemplation of inner and outer worlds, as well as the otherworldly. While these thresholds promise access to other worlds--earthly, imaginary, or divine--they are also suggestive of the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom.
We are looking for papers dealing with any aspect of 'specular reflections' through text, image, music or any branch of learning, especially those that engage with the paradoxical ways mirror images are used in all periods, places, and disciplines from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Areas of interest might include, but are in no way limited to: literature, translation, history, art history, philosophy, science and optics, musicology, etc.
Submissions are invited for 20-minute papers and full panels (three papers and a chair). Selected papers from the workshop will be collected as part of a thematic volume of proceedings to be published with a major scholarly press. Proposals (250 words) for papers and panels should be sent by August 1, 2011 to:
Nancy Frelick, Chantal Phan, or Juliet O'Brien
Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
University of British Columbia
797-1873 East Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
CANADA
or by email to: ubcmedievalworkshop@gmail.com
For further details and updated information check: http://ubc2012medieval.blogspot.com
--
The Early Romance Studies Research Cluster, along with the Committee for Medieval Studies at the University of British Columbia, solicits contributions for the 40th Annual UBC Medieval Workshop, to be held on March 16-17, 2012. The conference will be held at Green College on the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver, Canada.
As Margot Schmidt suggests in the Dictionnaire de spiritualité, the mirror's multiple uses as an object translate into highly diversified symbolic functions. Thus, while they have long been associated with scientific exploration, knowledge, and contemplation, owing largely to analogies with their instrumental use-analogies that lead to the book as speculum, as explored by Herbert Grabes, for example--reflective surfaces also function as metaphors for the illusory nature of representation. They can create false, shadowy, or deformed images of earthly reality, as suggested both by the ubiquitous Ovidian theme of Narcissus at the fountain and the Pauline per speculum in aenigmate. The contradictory uses of mirrors in iconography mean they can stand as figures of virtue or vice, depending on whether they accompany Prudence or Venus, or represent Mary--the speculum sine macula--or Eve. Mirrors are not only ambivalent, but also Janus-like: whether examined as objects, in their instrumental, decorative, or other functions, or as visual or textual figures, mirrors have fascinated humankind, not least because they seem to serve as a kind of threshold phenomenon allowing for the contemplation of inner and outer worlds, as well as the otherworldly. While these thresholds promise access to other worlds--earthly, imaginary, or divine--they are also suggestive of the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom.
We are looking for papers dealing with any aspect of 'specular reflections' through text, image, music or any branch of learning, especially those that engage with the paradoxical ways mirror images are used in all periods, places, and disciplines from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Areas of interest might include, but are in no way limited to: literature, translation, history, art history, philosophy, science and optics, musicology, etc.
Submissions are invited for 20-minute papers and full panels (three papers and a chair). Selected papers from the workshop will be collected as part of a thematic volume of proceedings to be published with a major scholarly press. Proposals (250 words) for papers and panels should be sent by August 1, 2011 to:
Nancy Frelick, Chantal Phan, or Juliet O'Brien
Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
University of British Columbia
797-1873 East Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
CANADA
or by email to: ubcmedievalworkshop@gmail.com
For further details and updated information check: http://ubc2012medieval.blogspot.com
--
Friday, June 3, 2011
Kornbluth Photography
A very worthy website to visit for pictures of historical places and objects.
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/archive-1.html
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/archive-1.html
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