Vagantes

Call for Papers Vagantes 2012 March 29-31 Indiana University, Bloomington Vagantes is the largest conference in North America for graduate students studying the Middle Ages, and aims to provide an open dialogue among junior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Shannon Gayk (Professor of English, Indiana University) and Professor Jordan L. Zweck (Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison). They will be joined by at least twenty-four student presenters and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies come together to exchange ideas. In this manner, Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget. Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are welcome from graduate students on all topics considering the Middle Ages. In keeping with the mission of Vagantes to advance interdisciplinary studies, we invite submissions in areas including but not limited to history, literature, art history, philosophy, religious studies, and musicology. Vagantes is sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America. Please email a brief vitae and abstract of no more than 300 words by October 25, 2011 to: Diane Fruchtman dsfrucht@indiana.edu For more information, find us on the web at www.vagantesconference.org. Download our flyer at: www.vagantesconference.org/VagantesCFP.pdf Find us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Vagantes2012

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Vagantes 2012

Call for Papers Vagantes 2012 March 29-31 Indiana University, Bloomington Vagantes is the largest conference in North America for graduate students studying the Middle Ages, and aims to provide an open dialogue among junior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Shannon Gayk (Associate Professor of English, Indiana University) and Professor Jordan L. Zweck (Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison). They will be joined by at least twenty-four student presenters and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies come together to exchange ideas. In this manner, Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget. Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are welcome from graduate students on all topics considering the Middle Ages. In keeping with the mission of Vagantes to advance interdisciplinary studies, we invite submissions in areas including but not limited to history, literature, art history, philosophy, religious studies, and musicology. Vagantes is sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America. Please email a brief vitae and abstract of no more than 300 words by October 25, 2011 to: Diane Fruchtman dsfrucht@indiana.edu For more information, find us on the web at www.vagantesconference.org. Download our flyer at: www.vagantesconference.org/VagantesCFP.pdf Find us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Vagantes2012

Centre for e-Research

Please see below forthcoming seminars run by the Centre for e-Research. All take place in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London (for directions see http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) and are followed by drinks. All welcome. Wednesday 5 October 18:00 'Digital Humanities Centers and the New Humanities' Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/fraistat.aspx Tuesday 11 October 18:15 'Webometric Analyses of Social Web Texts: Case Studies Twitter and YouTube' Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/webometrics.aspx Tuesday 25 October 18:15 'BBC Genome Project' Andy O’Dwyer, BBC Research http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/bbcgenome.aspx Tuesday 8 November 18:15 'Watching the Detectives: Using digital forensic techniques to investigate the digital persona' Gareth Knight, King’s College London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/digforensics.aspx Tuesday 22 November 18:15 'Documenting and Exploring Material Surface Features with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)' Kathryn Piquette, UCL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/materialsurface.aspx Tuesday 6 December, 18:15 'The Ocropodium Project: Evaluating open-source tools for historical OCR' Mike Bryant, King’s College London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/ocropodium.aspx ___ Anna Ashton Communications Manager Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989

MASONS AT WORK

2012 Center for Ancient Studies Symposium MASONS AT WORK Architecture and Construction in the Pre-Modern World at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) 30 March-1 April 2012 The symposium aims to assemble specialists in various fields to examine building practices in the pre-modern world, with an emphasis on aspects of construction and structure in ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, medieval, and early-to-middle period Islamic architecture. While some technologies and built forms may be shared across pre-modern cultures (such as vault construction or the use of centering), other may be specific to a single period or region (such as the use of concrete or structural ribs in vaulting). In addition to a panel of invited speakers, we are soliciting 20-minute papers that examine the problems pre-modern masons commonly encountered – and the solutions they developed – in the process of design and construction. Evidence may be drawn from a variety of sources, including written evidence and the archaeological record, but for the purpose of the symposium we encourage studies based on the analysis of standing buildings. Keynote Address: Lynne Lancaster (Ohio University) Commentator: Kostis Kourelis (Franklin and Marshall University) Organizing committee: Lothar Haselberger, Renata Holod, Robert Ousterhout Call for papers: Those wishing to speak at the symposium should submit by email a letter to the organizing committee, including name, title, institutional affiliation, paper title, plus a summary of 200 words or fewer. Graduate students should include a note of support from their adviser. Deadline: 30 November 2011; the final program will be announced by the end of November. Submit proposals to ancient@sas.upenn.edu with “Masons at Work” in the subject line. Note: There is no registration fee; receptions and meals are provided to all speakers. However, speakers must arrange their own transportation and hotel accommodation. Philadelphia has a major international airport and is easily accessible by train. A conference hotel rate will be available at the Club Quarters in downtown Philadelphia, a short bus ride or walk from the campus. Those wishing to attend but not speak should register in advance to guarantee space is available. More information will be available in the second circular.

Brixworth Lecture

The twenty-ninth annual Brixworth Lecture is organised by The Friends of All Saints' Brixworth in conjunction with the University of Leicester. This year's lecture, on Saturday 29 October 2011 at 5.00pm, will be given by: Leslie Webster: "Wall-paintings to altar cloths: furnishing the Anglo-Saxon Church" Full details are here and a poster is attached: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mrc/events/the-brixworth-lecture Colleagues may also like to know that Richard Gem's 2009 Brixworth Lecture is now published (with a new colour phase plan of the AS church): "Architecture, Liturgy and 'Romanitas' at All Saints' Church, Brixworth". Copies can be purchased direct from the Friends of All Saints', Brixworth (brixworthfriends1@btinternet.com) or by contacting Jo Story at Leicester. School of Historical Studies University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH W: SHS http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/historical W: Medieval Research Centre: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mrc

Marco Manuscript Workshop: READERS

Marco Manuscript Workshop: READERS February 3–4, 2012 The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Seventh Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4, 2012, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English). For this year’s workshop we invite presentations that focus on the reading, interpretation, and use of manuscripts. The relationship between a text and its readers is reciprocal – the text speaks to readers, readers in turn talk back to the text, and meaning emerges through this series of encounters between readers and texts and negotiations among different readers. Readers sometimes create new texts to answer the ones they read – literary practices such as commentary, quotation, or reference. But they also leave traces of their reading in material ways: physical wear and tear, annotations and corrections, interpolations and excisions, glosses and marginalia, the purposeful grouping or arrangement of texts in a codex or books in a library. How is such evidence recognized and understood? How is it presented to modern readers? What does it tell us about the history of the text? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined. The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2011. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430. The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.