Sunday, December 9, 2012

Canada Chaucer Seminar


Saturday, April 27, 2013

Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto


Call for Papers


The fifth annual Canada Chaucer Seminar will be held at the University of
Toronto on Saturday, April 27th, 2013. The aim of the seminar is to provide
a one-day forum that will bring together scholars, from Canada and
elsewhere, working on Chaucer and on late medieval literature and culture.

The 2013 gathering will include plenary papers by Ardis Butterfield (Yale)
and James Weldon (Wilfrid Laurier), several sessions of conference papers,
and a concluding roundtable.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute conference papers on any aspect late
medieval English literary culture. Submit one-page abstracts by 15 January
2013 to:

william.robins@utoronto.ca

and

gisellegos@fas.harvard.edu


William Robins
Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
416-585-4432
william.robins@utoronto.ca


Dr. Giselle Gos
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of English
Harvard University
gisellegos@fas.harvard.edu
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34 th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth, NH, USA 
Friday and Saturday April 19 -20, 2013 

Call for Papers and Sessions 
“Travel, Contact, Exchange” 
Keynote speaker: David Simon, Art History, Colby College 

We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how travel, contact, and exchange functioned in personal, political, religious, and aesthetic realms. 

    * How, when, where, and why did cultural exchange happen? 
    * What are the roles of storytelling or souvenirs in experiences of pilgrimage or Crusade? 
    * What is exchanged, lost, or left behind in moments of contact? 
    * How do such moments of contact and exchange hold meaning today ? 


Papers need not be confined to the theme but may cover many aspects of medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history and music. 

Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome. 
Undergraduate student papers or sessions require faculty sponsorship. 

This year’s keynote speaker is David L. Simon. He is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he has received the Basset Award for excellence in teaching. He holds graduate degrees from Boston University and the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London. Among his publications are the catalogue of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters and studies on Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Aragon and Navarra, Spain. He is co-author of recent editions of Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition and Janson’s Basic History of Western Art. Since 2007 he has co-directed an annual summer course and conference on Romanesque art for the University of Zaragoza, Spain. 

For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval 

Please submit abstracts and full contact information to Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director or 
Jini Rae Sparkman, Assistant Director: PSUForum@gmail.com . 

Abstract deadline: Monday January 14, 2013 
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2013 --
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AEMA IX CONFERENCE
Growth and Decay
The Dynamics of Early Medieval Europe
Sunday 10 to Monday 11 February 2013
Monash University, Caulfield Campus

Early medieval Europe (c. 400­–1100) was a dynamic era in which the nexus of power shifted away from the Mediterranean-centred Roman Empire to the former ‘barbarians’ of the north. It saw the triumph of Christianity over diverse traditional religions and the growth of a powerful Church supported by nascent secular states. Technological advances in agriculture, ship-building and warfare opened up new trade routes and settlements, sometimes to the detriment of existing populations, but in places also to their lasting benefit. This is the era of expanding urban growth beyond the Roman Empire. With the burgeoning of urban trade-based settlements this became a period of change in the domestic sphere. Migrations brought mixed populations and new family relationships, and new ways of living. This was also a period of linguistic change, with dominant cultures achieving some degree of linguistic hegemony while minority languages produced some outstanding literature. And yet those dominant cultures in places took on local qualities from the minority cultures.
This conference invites papers which address aspects of this theme and which reflect on the linkage of growth and decay. Can growth be achieved without decay? Does decay take place with no compensating growth? Can decay by one standard be considered growth by another? And by what standards or values can such matters really be judged?
Abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers are now sought from interested participants. Panel proposals (3 x 20-minute papers) are also welcome. All submissions should be sent to: conference@aema.net.au by 20 December 2012.
Enquiries should be directed to the conference convenors, Carol Williams and J
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52nd  Annual Midwest Medieval History Conference
18-19 October 2013
Hosted by Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN

Call for Papers: “Masters, Means & Methods: The (Liberal) Arts in the Medieval World”
The theme of this year’s conference concerns the transmission of knowledge, from masters to students, from practitioners to audience. It includes the liberal arts, the fine arts, and even the practical arts. Topics might include monastic as well as university education; the trivium and quadrivium; the history of theology, science, music, mathematics, and dialectic; art history, especially the training of artists; the education of women; and professional training in guilds.
Scholars from all disciplines of medieval studies and from all regions of the United States encouraged to submit abstracts.
For more information visit: http://mmhc.slu.edu
Please submit abstracts and contact information to:
Amy K. Bosworth
History Department
Muskingum University
163 Stormont Street
New Concord, OH 43762

Abstracts due: Monday, 1 April 2013
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*Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500: Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age*

Manuscripts Online: 1000 to 1500

 Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500:

Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age

11th January 2013

University of Leicester

Gartree and Rutland Room 
Fourth Floor, Charles Wilson Building 
 
Manuscripts Online: Written Culture 1000 to 1500 was funded by JISC, in November 2011, with the aim to study the written culture of medieval Britain between 1000 and 1500 by pulling together and providing access to written and early printed primary sources in this period. It is a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Glasgow, Sheffield, Queen's University Belfast and York.  Manuscripts Online will provide access to a wealth of data which are central to the study of English language, literature and history during the middle ages, ranging from small, AHRC-funded editions to large cataloguing projects and including resources which are freely available to the public, available via subscription as well as those currently unavailable. On our blog we have already published a list of resources that we plan to include in the first launch of Manuscripts Online at the end of January 2013. 
'Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500: Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age' is the final project conference and you are cordially invited to join us in celebrating the conclusion of the project. Papers will explore the significance of our approach to data mining and federated searching to manuscript studies and early written culture. Speakers will also talk about the value and benefit of the project for teaching and researching early written cultures, and discuss how the resource, which is created by the project, is an opportunity to explore different techniques and approaches across disciplines. We are aiming to build in plenty of space for participation/discussion.

Plenary speakers

  • Andrew Prescott (King's College,London)
  • William Noel (University of Pennsylvania)

Registration

Registration, lunch and refreshments are free, but please register using the online form by 3 January 2013. Places are limited, book early to avoid disappointment.

Sponsors

'Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age' is generously sponsored by JISC.
Organising Committee: Orietta Da Rold, convenor (Leicester),  the Manuscripts Online team, with the assistance of Freya Brooks (Leicester).
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Call For Papers: "Lamentations"

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until Wednesday, December 19!

Call For Papers:
"Lamentations"
April 5-6
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo...” Thus begins the Vulgate rendition of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, a prophetic book in which memorializing lost political and religious wholeness takes the form of a complex temporality in which present lament for the past reaches forward even into the future. Laments—and their liturgical, poetic, and artistic relations—marked particularly crucial moments associated with ends and what’s left after things are over: death and apocalypses, survivors and remnants.
Indiana University Medieval Studies Institute announces its Spring Symposium, to be held April 4-6. On the topic of lamentation, the symposium would like to pose a broad range of possible questions: What social, political, ethical, or aesthetic purposes do laments or their figurations serve? Who—or what, for that matter—is allowed to lament? Where and when is lament appropriate? Who or what is one allowed to lament for? What places or people(s) have laments left out?
Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Laments over loss of cities, battles, or leaders
  • Religious laments and commentaries
  • Apocalyptic visions; utopian visions
  • The afterlife
  • Love complaints and their parodies
  • Melancholy; enjoying mourning
  • Tragic drama; performing lament; embodied affects
  • Illustrations of sorrow in funerary art and manuscript illumination
  • Ceremonial observances like funeral orations and eulogies
  • Survivor stories; captive narratives
  • The process of mourning and grief as understood in the Middle Ages
  • Penitence manuals
  • Non-human lament or sorrow
  • Lament, spatiality, and temporality; spaces reserved for lament, burial, or grief
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are welcome from scholars across all fields relevant to the study of the Middle Ages, broadly conceived. In keeping with the Medieval Studies Institute’s interdisciplinary mission, we invite submissions in areas including but not limited to art history, history, language, literature, musicology, philosophy, and religious studies.
Please email an abstract of no more than 300 words by December 19, 2012 to: mest@indiana.edu



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Diane Fruchtman
Special Projects Assistant
Medieval Studies Institute
Indiana University
(812) 855-8201
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Seasonal and Local Dining in the Middle Ages

The Jackman Humanities Institute invites you to attend the following event:

Seasonal and Local Dining in the Middle Ages
Nov 29th, 4:00 pm at 170 St.George Street room 100a
Lecture by Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University

Please follow this link for full details on this event:
http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/event_details/id=756
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