Second Call for Papers: First Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) Conference, 15-16 December 2011

Second Call for Papers: First Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) Conference, 15-16 December 2011 Senate House Malet Place London WC1E 7HU We are now accepting abstracts for the first Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World, a two-day postgraduate conference which will take place on the 15th and 16th of December 2011. AMPRAW aims to establish an international postgraduate community for those researching the reception of the ancient world, focused around an annual conference dedicated to the discussion of the evolving nature of reception studies and their place within the study of the Ancient World. Reception of the ancient world is concerned with the way it has been interpreted, used, constructed and perceived, both within antiquity itself and since, by various cultures. It includes not only a wide range of different media and modes of reception but also how these different modes and media intersect and impact one another. We welcome submissions on all topics concerning the reception of the ancient world, including 'work-in-progress' papers as well as presentations of completed research. Papers might discuss the reception of the ancient world in art, literature, visual and material culture, theatre, film and popular culture, museology, politics and the discipline of Classics. Possible focuses might include (but are not limited to) the nature and direction of reception studies, reader response, deconstruction, postcolonialism, gender studies, transmission, translation or on specific theorists. Postgraduate students from the UK and abroad are invited to participate in the conference, and to submit proposals for papers 20-30 minutes in length. Please send a title and an abstract of 300-500 words to AMPRAW2011@gmail.com with 'Abstract' as the subject by 15 SEPTEMBER 2011. Please include your name, level of study and academic institution. We welcome postgraduates from departments outside of Classics who work on reception topics. To register for attendance, e-mail AMPRAW2011@gmail.com with 'Registration' in the subject and your name, level of study and academic institution in the body. Registration for this event is free.

THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF BEDE’S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA

New book announcement: THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF BEDE’S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA SHARON M. ROWLEY The Old English version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and most substantial surviving works of Old English prose. Translated anonymously around the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century, the text, which is substantially shorter than Bede’s original, was well known and actively used in medieval England, and was highly influential. However, despite its importance, it has been little studied. In this first book on the subject, the author places the work in its manuscript context, arguing that the text was an independent, ecclesiastical translation, thoughtfully revised for its new audience. Rather than looking back on the age of Bede from the perspective of a king centralizing power and building a community by recalling a glorious English past, the Old English version of Bede’s Historia transforms its source to focus on local history, key Anglo-Saxon saints, and their miracles. The author argues that its reading reflects an ecclesiastical setting more than a political one, with uses more hagiographical than royal; and that rather than being used as a class-book or crib, it functioned as a resource for vernacular preaching, as a corpus of vernacular saints’ lives, for oral performance, and episcopal authority. UK: Boydell & Brewer, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF. Tel. 01394 610 600 Fax. 01394 610 316 Email trading@boydell.co.uk When ordering please quote this reference: 11283 US: Boydell & Brewer Inc, 668 Mount Hope Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. USA Tel. 558 275 0419 Fax. 585 571 8778 Email boydell@boydellusa.net When ordering, please remember to mention this promotion code: $11201 List Price: £60.00/$99.00 September 2011 ISBN: 9781843842736 7 b/w & 2 line illustrations; 272 pp., cloth Anglo-Saxon Studies Series

“Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama”

“Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama” International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan 10-13 May 2012 In their Introduction to The Affect Theory Reader (2010), Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth argue that “affect is found in those intensities that pass body to body (human, nonhuman, part-body, and otherwise), in those resonances that circulate about, between, and sometimes stick to bodies and worlds, and in the very passage or variations between these intensities and resonances themselves.” Affect, then, “is the name we give to those forces…that can serve to drive us toward movement, toward thought.” Likewise, in her recent book Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (2010), Sarah McNamer examines affectively oriented medieval texts and argues that these texts supplied their users with “‘intimate scripts’…quite literally scripts for the performance of feeling—scripts that often explicitly aspire to performative efficacy.” Work like this has productively complicated our understanding of affect and its relation to emotional production. This panel invites work that critically examines the relationship between affect and emotional production in medieval and Renaissance performance. How did devices such as gesture, sound and silence, music, rhythm and choreography, props and performing objects, staging and scenic choices, spatial arrangements, or visual and textual elements generate the kinds of intensities and resonances that Gregg and Seigworth describe? How were these forces specifically employed to enhance or complicate emotional responses in spectators and/or performers? What were the goals and stakes of such emotional production? Given the slipperiness of these terms—and the many theories of affect and emotion—the organizer is open to a range of interpretive possibilities, approaches, and methodologies. The organizer also invites topics from across all geographies and performance traditions in the Middle Ages and/or Renaissance. Please submit one-page abstracts and a completed Participant Information form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to Jill Stevenson at jillstevenson@gmail.com no later than September 15, 2011. Feel free to contact Jill with questions about the session. For general information about the 2012 Medieval Congress, visit: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

Studies in Medievalism

I would like to invite you to submit short proposals for contributions to two sections sponsored by Studies in Medievalism and Medievally Speaking at next year's Kalamazoo congress: 1) Imagining the Crusades in the Nineteenth Century. We welcome any and all contributions that consider the medieval crusades in literature, music, the fine arts, politics, etc. This is a traditional session with three to four 20-minute papers. 2) Coming to Terms with Medievalism. For this round table, we welcome contributions that would extend existing conceptual histories of the English term, "medievalism," to other languages/linguistic traditions/cultures. For the Anglophone world, HERE is a recent definition of the conceptual history of the English term I published in the European Journal of English Studies. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination

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Special Call for Papers:
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
May 10-13, 2012

“Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination”
Sponsored by Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies

This session welcomes scholars working on medieval representations of
spatial order, or on the sense of place in the construction of social
identities. We are seeking papers which investigate any time and place in
medieval Europe in which a strong local or regional identity was
emphasized; the papers should explore how an imagined order of space, or
the meaning of a particular place, aided in defining those identities. The
topic encourages literary scholars, historians and art historians to
consider the meaning of space in the past by situating it in its precise
historical context.

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words, along with the
conference Participant Information Form, to Meghan Glass at
*m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk* by September 14, 2011. The Participant
Information Form can be found on the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html.

Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal
has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent
on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general
sessions at Kalamazoo. All proposals will additionally be considered for
special publication in Hortulus Journal. For further information:
http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/Call_for_Papers

Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to Ninth-Century World

Call For Papers: 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2012

"Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to
Ninth-Century World"

Potsherds are the most ubiquitous archaeological evidence present from
the Late Antique and early medieval periods. From the complete amphora,
preserved intact through the passing centuries, to the smallest
fragments of a cooking pot’s rim, nearly unidentifiable to all but the
trained eye, pottery has provided generations of historians and
archaeologists with information about the date of a site, the trade
networks on which it relied, and the general economic status of its
inhabitants.

The focus of this sessions is on a different aspect of what ceramics are
capable of illuminating: the culture of a site’s inhabitants. Pottery
was among the most prevalent man-made item in the lives of most people,
and the meals cooked and eaten with pottery were among the most
important aspects of day-to-day existence. The common medium for
transactions of processed agricultural goods, pottery also speaks to the
range of individual economic exchanges and social structures that
underpinned relations between buyers and sellers. As the scholarship of
Paul Arthur, Nicholas Hudson, and Joanita Vroom has shown, these
ceramics are essential for the study of what is usually the most
inaccessible part of the lives of the ancients: the quotidian, ordinary
activities that make up such an important part of culture, economy, and
identity. These scholars use ceramics to explain, respectively, the
relationship between diet and cultural boundaries, the impact of
Christianity on dining practice, and cultural change over the longue
durée in Boeotia.

For this session we invite scholars working on ceramics from the eastern
and western Mediterranean –- and beyond –- to come together to discuss
the various ways pottery can be used to enhance modern understanding of
the cultures which produced it.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Andrew Donnelly at
adonnel@luc.edu along with a participant information form (available
here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF)
by September 15, 2011. Any papers not included in this session will be
forwarded to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the
General Sessions.

Andrew Donnelly
Department of History
Loyola University Chicago

Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the
Blasphemous"

Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference
October 27-29, 2011

The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation
in its second bi-annual meeting from October 27-29, 2011 in Dandridge, TN.
Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the
beautiful Fall color season!

Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the
teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.

In honor of All Saints Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing
with the teaching of Saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are
welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.

Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight
double-spaced pages).

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized
panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts
will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF
attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler
(kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30,
2011.