On behalf of the conference organizing committee, I am pleased to present the preliminary program for CAPAL16: Beyond the Library: Agency, Practice, and Society, the third annual conference of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL). The program can be viewed in full online at: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/program/ 

In keeping with the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2016 theme, Energizing Communities, CAPAL16 seeks to look “Beyond the Library” to rethink how academic librarians engage with their communities within which our institutions are situated or those with whom we share disciplinary concerns or approaches. Such communities may be physical, epistemic, academic, or imagined communities, communities of identity, or those communities around us and to which we contribute. 

We are honored to welcome keynote speakers Leroy Little Bear, Ry Moran, and Dr. Bonnie Stewart. Long-time advocate for First Nations education, Leroy Little Bear served as Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, and helped to design the Bachelor of Management in First Nations Governance at the University of Lethbridge. Dr. Bonnie Stewart serves as the Coordinator for Adult Teaching for the University of Prince Edward Island, where she directs and develops professional education and career development initiatives for a suite of adult education programs. Ry Moran is Director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at the University of Manitoba, which is tasked with preserving, protecting and providing access to all materials, statements and documents collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). A Metis and graduate of the University of Victoria where he studied political science and history, Moran worked in traditional language preservation with a focus on Michif. In 2008, he received a National Aboriginal Role-Model Award, which led an invitation to Rideau Hall and his involvement with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as Director of Statement Gathering, and eventually Directorship of the National Research Centre.

Registration for the conference is now open and available at the following link: http://congress2016.ca/register 

Note that Congress fees are cheaper if you register before March 31st.

Please visit our website for further information and updates:  http://conference.capalibrarians.org

The CAPAL Research & Scholarship Committee is pleased to offer a CAPAL 2016 Preconference Workshop at the University of Calgary on May 28, 2016. For further information and updates, see the pre-conference workshop webpage: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/preconference-workshop/               

Also, follow us on Twitter at #CAPAL16 and join our Facebook page at https://goo.gl/dedxUU to connect with others attending.

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Chères/chers collègues,

Au nom du comité organisateur du congrès, je suis heureuse de vous présenter le programme préliminaire de ACBAP16 : Au-delà de la Bibliothèque: action, pratique et société, la troisième conférence annuelle de l'Association canadienne des bibliothécaires académiques professionnels (ACBAP). Le programme complet peut être consulté en ligne à l’adresse suivante:http://conference.capalibrarians.org/programme/

En continuité avec le thème du Congrès 2016, L’énergie des communautés, ACBAP16 vise à aller « Au-delà de la bibliothèque » afin de repenser les interactions des bibliothécaires académiques avec les collectivités soutenues par nos institutions ou avec celles qui partagent nos préoccupations et approches disciplinaires. Il peut s’agir de communautés physiques, épistémiques, universitaires ou imaginées, ainsi que de collectivités auxquelles nous contribuons autour de nous.

Nous sommes honorés d'accueillir les conférenciers Leroy Little Bear, Ry Moran, et Dre Bonnie Stewart. Militant depuis longtemps pour l'éducation des Premières Nations, Leroy Little Bear a été directeur du programme « Native American » de l’Université Harvard et il a contribué à la conception du baccalauréat « Management in First Nations Governance » à l'Université de Lethbridge. Dre Bonnie Stewart est coordinatrice à l’enseignement des adultes à l’Université de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard. Elle dirige et développe des initiatives d'éducation et de développement de carrière professionnelle pour plusieurs programmes d'éducation des adultes. Elle donne des cours dans les domaines des technologies, des communications, des pédagogies numériques et de l'éducation des adultes. Ry Moran est le directeur du Centre national pour la vérité et réconciliation (CNVR), à l’Université du Manitoba, qui a pour mandat de préserver, de protéger et de donner accès à tout le matériel, déclarations et documents rassemblés par la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada (CVR). Membre de la Nation Métisse et diplômé de l’Université de Victoria où il a étudié la science politique et l’histoire, Ry Moran a travaillé à la préservation des langues traditionnelles et s’est intéressé plus particulièrement au michif. En 2008, il a reçu un prix national des modèles autochtones, qui l’a conduit à être invité à Rideau Hall ainsi qu’à son implication auprès de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation en tant que directeur de la consignation des témoignages et éventuellement à son rôle de directeur du Centre national de recherche.

L'inscription à la conférence peut se faire dès maintenant à l'adresse suivante :http://congres2016.ca/inscriptions

Veuillez noter que les frais d’inscription au congrès sont moins élevés si vous vous inscrivez avant le 31 mars.

Visitez notre site Web pour de l’information supplémentaire et des mises à jour :http://conference.capalibrarians.org/accueil/

Le comité de la recherche et des bourses de l'ACBAP est heureux de présenter un atelier préconférence à l'Université de Calgary le 28 mai 2016: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/atelier-prconfrence/        

Suivez-nous sur Twitter (#CAPAL16) et rejoignez notre page Facebook au https://goo.gl/dedxUU pour vous joindre aux autres conférencier(e)s.

Meilleures salutations,

Harriet Sonne de Torrens

We would welcome everyone who is interested in the reception of "Late Antiquity" in Slavonic Apocrypha to join us this summer in Leuven (17-20 July 2016).

Slavonic Apocrypha
link: https://eabs.net/site/slavonic-apocrypha-workshop/ 
 
EABS Annual Meeting 2016, Leuven 
17-20 July, 2016

Programme
This workshop provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of the scholarship on Slavonic Apocrypha. It is an intentionally broad workshop. Besides the traditionally understood Slavonic Apocrypha as Slavonic translations of Hellenistic pseudepigrapha, it also includes diverse sacred literature in Slavonic that accompanied the canonical biblical texts. As theological discourses, historiographies, hagiographies, epic poems, liturgical texts, and folk tales, they are intertwined with biblical texts in both Slavonic manuscripts and religious practice.

As a broad outline, the workshop will focus on the study of Slavonic Apocrypha as biblical reception history. The mechanism of intertextuality in Slavic religious literature was more powerful and longstanding than the assessment of marginality and the differentiation of the texts according to canonical/non-canonical. The study of the appropriation of the biblical canon in Slavonic sacred Christian texts may help the ongoing discussion among biblical scholars in finding a comprehensive term for apocalyptic, pseudepigraphical, and apocryphal literature,

This workshop addresses the pressing need for a platform where European scholars of Slavonic Apocrypha can express their concerns, discuss solutions, and set mutual goals in studying these texts in their own right. It will promote the publication of critical editions of Slavonic Apocrypha and discuss the concerns over the digitization project of Slavonic manuscripts.

Call for Papers

Papers that address any aspect of the scholarship on Slavonic Apocrypha are welcome. We will especially welcome the engagement of the study of Slavonic Apocrypha as biblical reception history, among the Slavs as well as before their translation into Slavonic. Special attention will be paid to the apocryphal material preserved within the Slavonic versions of some biblical and other books.

Current studies of Slavonic Apocrypha, as well as the future of the field itself, will be also discussed. It includes the interaction with scholars of Hellenistic Jewish texts on the matter of comprehensive terminology for apocryphal, apocalyptic, and pseudepigraphical literature. The proposals that set realistic and innovative goals to the study of the Slavonic religious literature will be favorably considered.

Among the open call for papers the chairs envision one session of invited papers that address the current status and the future of the scholarship of Slavonic Apocrypha.

Chairs
Ljubica Jovanovic, Vanderbilt University, APUS
ljubica.kotsiris@gmail.com
Basil Lourié
hieromonk@gmail.com

Please send your proposals to mailto:ljubica.kotsiris@gmail.com/ mailto:hieromonk@gmail.com
Abstracts may be submitted via the EABS website (https://eabs.net/site/). Non-EABS members will need to join EABS to present a paper. 
Abstract submissions for all EABS research units are managed through a submission system for which a free account is needed. The submission system can be found here: https://eabs.net/ocs/index.php/index/2016/login.

As part of the competitions organized for the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, we organise a competition focussed on (Latin) Medieval Scripts, as described here: ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script | Écriture médiévale & numérique

The challenge for Computer Scientists is to identify correctly the main script types (e.g. uncial, caroline, textualis, humanistic), having two aims in mind: 1) automated cataloguing in large digital libraries, not only for whole volumes, but even at a page level; 2) preparing text recognition. As many of you, we are well aware that the given categories are far from representing the complexity and the dynamics, but it is a first step. 

Best regards, 

Dominique Stutzmann, Marlène Helias-Baron, Florence Cloppet, Véronique Eglin, Nicole Vincent

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
5th - 12th August 2016University of Iceland

Reykjavík

An 8-day intensive course in medieval and early-modern Scandinavian manuscript studies.

The course, which will comprise both lectures and practical sessions, is intended chiefly for graduate students (MA/PhD-level) but may also be of interest to more established scholars hoping to improve their manuscript reading and editorial skills. A sound background in Old Norse-Icelandic and/or Old Danish is essential. Familiarity with one or more of the modern Scandinavian languages, while a distinct advantage, is not required, as all teaching will be in English.

As in previous years there will be both a basic group, focusing on palaeography, codicology, manuscript description and transcription, and an advanced group, focusing on editorial technique and the theory and practice of textual criticism; to qualify for the latter one must normally have successfully completed the former.

There will also be a Master class for those who have completed the basic and advanced groups and want to try their hand at preparing an edition of a previously unedited text.

The deadline for registration for this year's summer school is 31 March 2016.

See: http://arnamagnaean.org/

For further information contact <arnastofnun@hi.is>

Leslie Lockett (Ohio State University):

Talking to himself? Demystifying Augustine's Soliloquies in the Early Middle Ages

Tuesday March 8, 5pm, 300 Wheeler, UC Berkeley

Reception to follow.

Prof. Lockett's first book, Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions (Toronto, 2012), received the Medieval Academy's John Nicholas Brown Prize in 2015 and the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize from the British Academy in 2013. She is currently editing the Old English version of Augustine's Soliloquies for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and will be speaking about the reception of the Latin text in England.

Presented by the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, and sponsored by the Department of English, Program in Medieval Studies, and the Clyde and Evelyn Slusser Chair in English.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Texts and Contexts, October 21-22, 2016, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and the vernacular languages. The conference solicits papers particularly in the general discipline of manuscript studies, including palaeography, codicology, reception and text history. In addition to the general papers (of roughly 20 minutes), the conference also hosts the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, established in memory of the late Virginia Brown, who taught paleography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for some 40 years.  We also welcome proposals for sessions of two to three papers which might treat a more focused topic. Please send abstracts to epig@osu.edu.  Deadline for abstracts: August 15, 2016.

Call For Papers

 

MEDIEVAL POLITICS

 

Internet forum & e-book

 

The topics for _Medieval Politics_ are history of political science in the Middle Ages (V-XV century).
(eg. Medieval Christianity, St. Thomas Aquinas, Islamic political philosophy, Medieval Europe, European Renaissance, Machiavelli etc.)

 

Sections:
a) Short papers: 1000-3000 words.
b) Long papers: 3001-10000 words.

 

Languages: English, Italiano, Deutsch, Español, Português, Français, Polski, Nederlands.

Contributor guidelines:

1. Abstract (100-300 words).
2. Brief CV or resume for each author and co-author.
3. Submission deadline for abstracts: May 15, 2016.
4. Submission deadline for final papers: July 1, 2016.
5. Manuscripts may be sent to: segreteria (AT) sisaem.it

Scholars at all stages of their careers are equally welcome.
Please email abstracts with a brief CV to: segreteria at sisaem.it

All papers will be published in "Filosofia e Politica" E-Journal (www.Filosofiapolitica.org).

For application instructions and further information about Medieval Politics, contact us:
SISAEM – Società Internazionale per lo Studio dell’Adriatico nell’Età Medievale
Dr. Roberta Fidanzia (Ph.D)
Viale Oscar Sinigaglia, 48
I-00143 Roma, Italy
E-mail: segreteria (at) sisaem.it
Web: http://www.sisaem.it
Tel. +39.06.916501181
Fax +39.06.62277258