SELIM Conference on Old and Middle English

CFP XXVI SELIM CONFERENCE

www.selimxxvi.uji.es

The Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, and the Department of English Studies at the Jaume I University, Spain, are pleased to invite members of the Society and other scholars interested in the field to participate in the 26th International SELIM Conference. This year's venue will take place at the Medieval town of Morella (Spain) from September 18th to 20th, 2014. 

Morella is a city which has become a well-known tourist destination in the last decade. This year marks a special event in the city: Les Converses de Morella. Six hundred years ago, Ferran d'Antequera, St Vicent Ferrer and Benedicto XIII, known as El Papa Luna, spent two months in Morella discussing the possible abdication of the Pope, which may have solved the problem of the division of the Church. We hope it will be a wonderful framework for the conference. If you want to check on the different aspects of the town and everything it offers, you can go to www.morellaturistica.com

The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation (see Programme): Dr. Jorge Luis Bueno (Universidade de Vigo), Dr. Juan Camilo Conde (University of Murcia), Dr. Richard Dance (University of Cambridge) and Dr. Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow).

Scholars interested in offering 20-minute papers (followed by a 10-minute discussion) must send a 100-to-250 word abstract using the on-line form in the Papers and Registration section (see Abstract&Registration) before April 13th.

Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed by April.

If you are thinking about coming to Morella, it would be highly advisable to arrange your accomodation as soon as possible, as Morella can still be very busy in September (seeAccommodation). For further information please contact the Organising Committee.

On-line registration and payment will be available in May.

The Organizers welcome papers dealing with any aspect of Medieval English Language and Literature and particularly encourage the submission of papers offering multidisciplinary readings or perspectives on Medieval English texts. We would also like to encourage contributions dealing with the teaching of Old and Middle English. 

A selection of articles will be proposed for publication after the conference. Details will appear on the website

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María José Esteve Ramos

Professora Titular d'Universitat,  Filologia Anglesa

Dpt d'Estudis Anglesos, Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials

Universitat Jaume I

12071 Castelló

resteve@ang.uji.es

American Folklore Society (Medieval and Early Modern Folklore Section

Call for Papers: American Folklore Society (Medieval and Early Modern Folklore Section)

 

Santa Fe, New Mexico November 5-8

 

Abstracts due Mar. 26, 2014

 

I invite all interested scholars to propose papers for panels sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern Folklore section of the American Folklore Society, to be presented at the Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Nov. 5–8, 2014). We are organizing two panels at this year's meeting:

 

 

1) Shakespeare and Folklore: How do Shakespeare and his contemporaries incorporate folklore into the theater of the Early Modern period, and help preserve knowledge and tradition in a changing world? How has the continued popularity of Shakespeare fostered its own traditions and incorporated new material into its performance. Papers that deal with media representations are welcome.

 

2) Open Topics: The theme for the conference this year is "Folklore at the Crossroads" (http://www.afsnet.org/?page=2014AMTheme), but papers may deal with any aspect of medieval or early modern folklore.

 

Please send BOTH the short abstract (100 words) AND the long abstract (300) for your 15-20-minute paper to Kerry Kaleba at kerry.kaleba@gmail.com by March 26, 2014. I will also need to submit your institutional affiliation (or status as an independent scholar), and presentation title to AFS. Please include an e-mail address or a phone number where you can be reached before March 31. If your proposal is accepted, you will need to complete and submit the AFS online registration form for a participant in an organized panel at www.afsnet.org by March 31, 2014.

 

 

Best, 

Kerry Kaleba

Co-Convener, AFS Medieval and Early Modern Section 

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Kerry Kaleba

MA Folklore, George Mason University 2012

BA Theatre Arts, Virginia Tech 2009

 

kerry.kaleba@gmail.com

CFP International Workshop 'Linking the Mediterranean: Regional and Transregional Interactions (300-800CE)' Vienna 11-13 December 2014

 

With apologies for any cross-posting:

We intend to host a workshop, on 11 to 13 December 2014, at Austrian Academy, Vienna. True to the nature of a workshop, the format will consist of a discussion of pre-circulated papers.
The political fragmentation of the Roman Empire also meant a reduction in the scope of economic, social and cultural relationships that had developed across different hierarchical levels and between distant places on Roman soil. New social and cultural relationships developed in the polities that followed the Roman Empire. Nonetheless, the survival of regional and interregional interactions assured certain homogeneity in political, cultural and social forms across post-Roman Europe. This phenomenon has been the topic of exciting academic debate in the last decade and different interpretations and methodological approaches have been proposed.
In this workshop, we intend to focus discussion especially on the issue of interactions beyond the local level between 300 and 800 CE in order to assess 1) to what extent these interactions were affected by the end of the Roman Empire as a political entity, and 2) how these connections contributed to lasting patterns that shaped the post-Roman world in social, cultural and political terms. We are interested in both Mediterranean-wide and smaller regional networks and would welcome papers that deal with all the regions of the (former) Roman Empire (including North Africa, Egypt, Syria, etc.) and its periphery (Ireland, Armenia, etc.).
The theme of this workshop has grown out of research undertaken through the ENFLAWE project (‘Episcopal Networks and Fragmentation in Late Antique Western Europe’). Funded by the EU-Marie Curie Actions and hosted at the Division for Byzantine Research (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences-OEAW) this project analyses episcopal interactions in the late fourth and fifth century from a social network approach.
We would like to invite proposals from colleagues for papers on any of the following topics.

1. Functioning and structure of regional and trans-regional networks (aristocratic, ecclesiastical,
   diplomatic, familiar, etc.):
   
   1. Tensions between individual agency and structural constraint: how did new social
      relationships and regional networks affect individuals’ social and political strategies?
      
   2. Interactions and social capital: how were extra-local networks used for constructing
      authority and prestige at the local level and beyond?
      
2. Symbolic interactions (secular or episcopal letters, relic distribution, gift exchange, etc.):
   
   1. Interactions and identity: how effective were these extra-local relationships for constructing and displaying cohesion and belonging?
      
   2. Cultural mobility: critical evaluation of Greenblatt’s model of mimetic capital and Christopher Gregory’s work on gift and commodity exchange
      
3. Changing horizons in the late- and post-Roman World:
   
   1. Tensions between centre and periphery: did the end of the Roman Empire change the
      relationship between centre(s) and periphery/ies?
      
   2. How did contemporaries conceptualise geographical distance and explain the process of
      fragmentation? 
      

 

https://www.academia.edu/6127735/CfP_Linking_the_Mediterranean_Regional_and_Trans-Regional_Interactions_in_Times_of_Fragmentation_300_-800_CE_

 

Please feel free to distribute to those who might be interested.

 

With best wishes from Vienna,

 

David Natal

Registration open: 'Transforming Scripture' (Oxford, 29-31 May, 2014)

Registration open: 'Transforming Scripture' (Oxford,
29-31 May, 2014)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:28:40 +0000

I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for 'Transforming
Scripture: Biblical translations and adaptations in Old and Middle
English' (Oxford, 29-31 May, 2014).

The conference programme and registration are available via
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/transforming-scripture-biblical-translations-and-adaptations

If you have any questions about the conference please feel free to email
transforming-scripture@ell.ox.ac.uk

Dr Elizabeth Solopova
Faculty of English Language and Literature and Brasenose College, Oxford

Call for Papers (Extended) The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Southern African Society for 
Medieval and Renaissance Studies

22nd International 
Biennial Conference

28-31 August 2014, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen, 
Lincoln College, University of Oxford

Deadline for proposals: 14 March 2014

The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 
promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines concerned with 
Medieval and Renaissance studies. 


We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Medieval and Renaissance 
studies addressing the conference theme - with the notion of 'reading'
interpreted as broadly as may be desired. We therefore welcome papers on
art and architecture, manuscripts, marginalia, iconicity, drama,
performance,
and any other topic in which the act of reading as interpretation is
involved.


For information about previous conferences, and the conference venue,
please
consult the society website:
<http://www.sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com>.

Upcoming ASSC Event

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces

a lecture and seminar


      *Joshua Davies*
      *(KIng's College, The University of London)*


        “‘Visions and Ruins: History, Temporality, and Affect in the
      Ruin and St Erkenwald"


*Friday, February 21st*
12:00-2:45 pm

lunch will be served

*at Columbia University*
754 Schermerhorn Extension
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/schermerhorn_ext.html



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To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
ASSC@columbia.edu

ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York University; The
Department of English, University of Rhode Island; The Department of
English, Rutgers University; King's College, The University of London;
The Department of English, UC Berkeley.

Writing Britain: CxP a reminder

*With apologies for cross-posting*

 

 

Dear Colleagues, 

 

 

This is just a note to remind interested scholars and students  about the deadline for abstracts for the Writing Britain conference to be held in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts. Please submit your abstract by Thursday 20 February by following this link https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain/abstract-submission-form/fg_base_view_p3

 

Alternatively,  contact one of the organisers. Please, also do alert students about this event. 

 

The conference is generously sponsored by the Faculty of English and the University of Cambridge and the School of English at the University of Leicester.

 

We are looking forward to welcoming many of you in Cambridge

 

Orietta, Richard, Phil and Aidan.

 

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Writing Britain: 500-1500 

University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 30 June - 2 July 2014

Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts

Writing Britain is a biennial event which aims to draw on a range of approaches and perspectives to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the medieval period. The 2014 iteration of the Writing Britain Conference will take place in the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts. Some of the topics which we are keen to explore are literary and non-literary agencies and their significance and/or relevance in the medieval period across British medieval written culture in English, French, Latin, Norse and the Celtic languages. More broadly, we are interested in other questions such as: How did local writers, compilers and readers use writing to inscribe regional identity within broader conventions or, on the other hand, impress 'universal' practices and constructs on local populations? What were the different markets for books? Can we characterize their developments and differences? What new or existing methodologies can be employed to localise texts and books across Britain? What is the role of the Digital Humanities in the study of medieval book culture?

 

Plenary speakers: Jonathan Wilcox (University of Iowa), Richard Beadle (University of Cambridge) and Simon Horobin (University of Oxford)

We welcome proposals from scholars working on any aspects of British medieval written culture up to 1500. Please visit our conference web site in order to submit an abstract (300 words or fewer) for a twenty-minute paper. Please send your abstract by 20 February 2014. Abstracts from postgraduate students are welcome and graduate rates will be provided.For further information please visit the website where contact details of the organisers will also be available. 

 

Conference website: 

 

www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr Orietta Da Rold

University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500

Faculty of English

9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

01223 335089

 

Fellow of St John´s College

Cambridge, CB2 1TP

01223 768181

 

od245@cam.ac.uk