The Bonnie Wheeler 2013 Summer Research Fellowship is open to women medievalists below the rank of full professor, and for 2013 offers up to $10,000 in financial support. Candidates from previous years are welcome and encouraged to reapply. In the two years since our foundation, our recipients have been Lorraine Stock (English, U Houston) and Lois Huneycutt (History, U Missouri). Applicants should register at http://bonniewheelerfund.org/ and see the Application Instructions <http://bonniewheelerfund.org/content/application-instructions> for details. The Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Fund of The Dallas Foundation is designed to support the research of tenured women medievalists below the rank of full professor. This year’s financial award is to be used during the period of June 1–December 31, 2013. In the future, if more funds are available, Wheeler Fellowships will be awarded for full-year and half-year projects, but the Fellowship Committee recognizes the need in the current economic climate for the immediate support of women scholars. *Eligibility* Applicants must be women who hold a Ph.D. in any area of medieval studies and who are full-time faculty in an academic department. Preference will be given to candidates who are “caught in the middle” in the promotion ladder, as described in the MLA report “Standing Still: The Associate Professor Survey.” <http://www.mla.org/assocprof_survey> Budgets for Fellowship applications are simple: include not only your research costs, but also the costs of freeing up your time—for example, relief from summer teaching, daycare and/or eldercare expenses, and the like. *Mentoring*: A special feature of the Fellowship is that it will always connect the recipient with a mentor in her scholarly field. *Timetable*: Completed applications must be received no later than January 31, 2013. The award will be announced February 28, 2013. *Application Procedure*: Please register at http://bonniewheelerfund.org/ and see the Application Instructions <http://bonniewheelerfund.org/content/application-instructions> for details. On this site you will also find more information about the Fellowship, its rationale and goals, and contact information.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Bonnie Wheeler 2013 Summer Research Fellowship
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES ANCIENT HISTORY SEMINAR
University of London School of Advanced Study INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES ANCIENT HISTORY SEMINAR SPRING TERM 2013 Crossing boundaries in late antiquity Organisers: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (KCL) and Benet Salway (UCL) THURSDAYS 4.30 pm Location: either room G22/26 or 349 (Painted Ceiling room) South block, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU 17 Jan. Michael Crawford (UCL): Between laissez-faire and dirigisme in the late Roman economy. Room G22/26 24 Jan. Benet Salway (UCL): Divide and rule: boundaries and jurisdictions in late antiquity. Room G22/26 31 Jan. Philip Wood (Aga Khan University, ISMC): Sasanian Christian perspectives on the reign of Khusrau II. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room) 7 Feb. Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (KCL): The devil in disguise: diabolical dressing-up games in late antiquity. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room) - - - 28 Feb. Averil Cameron (Oxford): Culture wars: history and literature in late antiquity. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room) 7 Mar. Yannis Papadogiannakis (KCL): 'Strong fences for "good" neighbours?': the evidence from seventh-century question-and-answer collections. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room) 14. Mar. Eva-Maria Kuhn (MPIR, Frankfurt): Getting justice at the martyr's tomb. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room) 21 Mar. Tim Barnes (Edinburgh): Roman Emperors and Bishops of Constantinople, 324-428. Room 349 (Painted Ceiling room) ** ALL WELCOME **
HORTULUS CALL FOR PAPERS: WOUNDS, TORTURE, AND THE GROTESQUE
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past. Published semi-annually, the journal collects exceptional examples of work by graduate students on a number of themes, disciplines, subjects, and periods of medieval studies. We also welcome book reviews of monographs published or re-released in the past five years that are of interest to medievalists. For the spring issue we are highly interested in reviews of books which fall under the current special topic.
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Hortulus: The Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Our upcoming issue will be published in the spring of 2013, and concerns itself with the theme: wounds, torture, and the grotesque. These subjects have become increasingly popular in medieval scholarship. Ideas of the grotesque are being reconsidered in relation to concepts of race and racial theory, a discussion which has contemporary impacts far beyond the academic world. Concurrent to these developments in medieval studies has been an increase in scholarly attention paid to these subject areas in the field of medical humanities, which has further energized academic discussion of corporeality and the body. Such explorations include the analysis of suffering, personhood, and our responsibility to one another as human beings.
Hortulus invites full-length articles which consider these themes either individually or in tandem. We particularly encourage the submission of proposals that take a strongly theoretical and/or interdisciplinary approach, and that examine new and previously unconsidered aspects of these subjects. Possible topics may be drawn from any discipline: history, art history, archaeology, literature, linguistics, music, theology, etc. Work from every interpretive angle is encouraged – memory, gender, historiography, medievalism, consilience, etc. Most importantly, we seek engaging, original work that contributes to our collective understanding of the medieval era.
Contributions should be in English and roughly 6,000 – 12,000 words, including all documentation and citational apparatus; book reviews are typically between 500-1,000 words but cannot exceed 2,000. All notes must be endnotes, and a bibliography must be included; submission guidelines can be found on our website. Contributions may be submitted to hortulus@hortulus-journal.com and are due February 15, 2013. If you are interested in submitting a paper but feel you would need additional time, please send a query email and details about an expected time-scale for your submission. Queries about submissions or the journal more generally can also be sent to this address.
Hortulus: The Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Arthur of the North
‘Arthur of the North’ is the First International Conference organised by The Nordic Branch of the International Arthurian Society (IAS). It is dedicated to the Arthurian narratives in any of the medieval Scandinavian languages (Old Norse, Old Swedish, Old Danish). We welcome papers on any topic related to the medieval Scandinavian Arthurian traditions.
Among the themes that might be addressed are: theories and practices of translations, culture-historical contexts, literary style, form, structure, genre-related issues, and manuscript tradition of the Nordic Arthurian texts.
The Arthurian literary tradition, which the Scandinavian texts form part of, was transmitted in Latin and all the medieval vernacular languages. Therefore, we welcome also comparative papers on the various traditions as well as studies of Arthurian material which is of relevance for the Scandinavian context.
Papers should be given in English and be twenty minutes long. To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of your paper (max 300 words) to Sif Rikhardsdottir, sifr@hi.is, by 1 March, 2013.
All speakers should be members of the International Arthurian Society, and all participants are welcome to join the Society. For information on how to join, please visit the website of the IAS: http://www.internationalarthuriansociety.com/
or the Nordic Branch: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/networks/nordicarthur/
Detailed information about the conference, programme and registration will be available on the website of the
Nordic Branch of the IAS (from February 2013 onwards).
For further inquiries, please contact any of the members of the organising committee:
Stefka G. Eriksen, University of Oslo, s.g.eriksen@iln.uio.no
Sif Rikhardsdottir, University of Iceland, sifr@hi.is
Bjørn Bandlien, University of Oslo, bjorn.bandlien@iakh.uio.no
InScribe: Palaeography Learning materials, a new online training platform
InScribe: Palaeography Learning materials, a new online training platform
InScribe is an online course for the study of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies developed by several of the institutes within the School of Advanced Study (including the Institute of Historical Research and Institute of English Studies), with support from Senate House Library and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Devised by Prof Michelle Brown (IES) and Dr Jane Winters (IHR), InScribe aims to support the teaching of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at a postgraduate level.
At present we are releasing the introductory module which introduces some basic notions about Palaeography and provides an overview of the evolution of script in the medieval period (with particular reference to the English context). Similarly, it gives students the chance to transcribe text from a selection of newly digitised manuscripts from Senate House Library and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Later in the year, new modules will be released that will provide advanced training on Diplomatic, Script and Translation, Codicology and Illumination. The introductory module is free of charge.
To know more about InScribe click here (http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography).
CFP: Universitas Scholarium
Call for Papers
“Universitas scholarium. The social and cultural history of the European student from the Middle Ages to the Present”
(„Universitas scholarium. Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des europäischen Studenten vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart“)
Scientific colloquium (Pre- and Postdocs) accompanying the anniversary conference of the University of Cologne: “Back to the future? The “old” University of Cologne in the context of the history of the European university” („Zurück in die Zukunft? – Die „alte“ Kölner Universität im Kontext der europäischen Universitätsgeschichte“)
October 24th-25th, 2013, University of Cologne, Germany
Organization: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Andreas Speer (Cologne), Prof. Dr. Marian Füssel (Göttingen)
The mediaeval institution of the “universitas magistrorum et scholarium“ as a form of (self)organization of teachers and learners is the origin of the modern European universities. Despite the Reformation, Enlightenment, Humboldtian Reform and Bologna-Process, traces of the original mediaeval self-conception of “universitas” can still be found in both the contemporary higher education policies and in the daily life of today’s scholars and students. The unique development of the European university is the topic of the History of -2-
Universities, a partial discipline of constantly growing international importance and cross-linking.
625 years after the foundation of the “universitas studii sanctae civitatis coloniensis“ in 1388, the University of Cologne hosts a scientific conference to present and discuss the current state of research of the History of Universities. A special focus will be put on the question of how the “mediaeval” element in the history of the university developed to influence present and future challenges and perspectives of research, teaching and politics.
The conference will be opened with a two-day colloquium primarily addressing junior researchers from the disciplines History of Universities and History of Science, but also Cultural and Social History. Topic of the colloquium is the student as the protagonist of the history of the European university. The examination of the subject is supposed to be interdisciplinary, comprise different time periods and especially focus on the European perspective.
Possible thematic areas may include:
-Students as individuals and as a social group in written and non-written sources
-Student migration in the European and the extra-European context
-Journey through life: studies, profession, career, social rise and fall
-Student organization(s), the influence of students on research, teaching and politics
-Conflicts, town vs. gown, student protest, authorities and repression
-Minorities, fringe groups, foreigners and outsiders as part of the “universitas”
-Changes and continuities in student life in the longue durèe, from social class to citizen
We would be glad to receive proposals covering those or other relevant topics including an abstract of not more than 300 words and a significant CV until March 31st, 2013. Please send your papers to andreas.berger@uni-koeln.de. Accepted languages are German and English. Limited travel grants are possible.
Contact/Questions:
Andreas Berger
University of Cologne
Thomas-Institut
Universitaetsstrasse 22
50923 Cologne
Germany
Tel.: (+49) 0221 470 2985
eMail: andreas.berger@uni-koeln.de
“In Search of Lost Sound: Recovering Musical Experience from the Medieval Past
The UCLA Department of Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series is pleased to announce a talk by Professor Elizabeth Randell Upton, Assistant Professor of Musicology, UCLA.
“In Search of Lost Sound: Recovering Musical Experience from the Medieval Past”
Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 4:00pm
1440 Schoenberg Music Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Reception to follow in the SMB Green Room.
Abstract:
In her new book, Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2012), Professor Elizabeth Randell Upton asks how we can learn about the experience of music in the past even in the absence of explicit contemporary documents. Traditionally, polyphonic songs have been treated as purely aesthetic creations, and musicologists have looked for information about performance context primarily in non-musical historical documents rather than in the notated manuscript scores of the songs. In this talk Professor Upton explains how by re-conceptualizing these scores as preserving the material traces of a cultural process involving composer, performers, and listeners, they can be analyzed to reveal heretofore overlooked evidence of the negotiated transactions between these different actors. This evidence can then be used to illuminate the original performance context of the songs, as well as adding to our reconstruction of lost sounding phenomena.
The Distinguished Lecture Series is organized by graduate students in the Department of Musicology. Each year, we invite a number of outstanding scholars from this country and abroad to participate. Sponsored by the Musicology Graduate Student Society, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Department of Musicology, the content of lectures reflects the interests of visitors, faculty, and students, and has embraced diverse subjects pertaining to the study of music. For more information and to find out about upcoming lectures, please visit our website: http://uclamusicologydls.wordpress.com or email us at uclamusicologydls(at)gmail.com. You can also find us on Facebook.
We hope you will join us on the 24th.
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