COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE

FRAMING THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY 

MEDIEVAL ECONOMY

FLAME

APRIL 29-30, 2016 (EAST PYNE 010)

AN ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE ON MAY 1, 2016 (DICKINSON HALL 211)

For further information visit coinage.princeton.edu

Florin Curta, Merle Eisenberg, Andrei Gandila, Stefan Heidemann, Richard Hobbs, Marek Jankowiak, Jonathan Jarrett, Tommi Lankila, Lee Mordechai, Cecile Morrisson, Rory Naismith, Vivien Prigent, Jane Sancinito, Peter Sarris, Alejandro G. Sinner, Alan Stahl, Paolo Tedesco, Jan Van Doren, Luca Zavagno, Ruth Pliego

Cosponsored by:

Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Firestone Library, Center for Collaborative History, Department of History, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies), Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, Program in the Ancient World, Graduate School, Department of Art and Archaeology, Program in Medieval Studies, Center for Digital Humanities

 think this list is an excellent audience to properly present our research project in progress, Arnau DB. Digital corpus on Arnau de Vilanova. You are invited to visit our website < http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/en >, where you will find:

• A rigorous up-to-date view of the figure and works of the physician and religious reformer Arnau de Vilanova (Arnold of Villanova, Arnaldus de Villanova), in contrast to the distorted perception that is still all too common today even in academy.
• Access to the databases that our team is developing on 1) The works attributed to Arnau, both authentic and apochryphal (medical, religious and alchimical), more than 300 titles including translations and different versions, 2) the manuscripts transmitting these works (c. 900 mss. so far recorded), 3) the early modern editions of Arnau's or Pseud-Arnau's works (more than 200 so far recorded, 4) the archive documents related to Arnau's biography, and 5) the secondary literature referring to Arnau de Vilanova and to his corpus (more than 1100 references). By now only databases 1 (works) and 5 (bibliography) are open to any visitor, while we are finishing the others.
• news about the research on Arnau de Vilanova.

We hope it will be useful to you,

Sebastià Giralt
Professor agregat
Departament de Ciències de l'Antiguitat i l'Edat Mitjana
Filologia llatina

Edifici B, Campus de la UAB  08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) 

Please pass this message along to graduate students in your department. The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is now accepting applications for our 2018 host institution. The conference is an itinerant, interdisciplinary graduate student conference focusing on the Middle Ages, and is entirely organized and run by graduate students. Vagantes in a unique opportunity to showcase the Medieval Studies community at your institution, as well as to gain valuable professional development experience in planning and organizing the event, and to meet and interact with top medievalist graduate students. Applications can be found on the conference website, athttp://vagantesconference.org/hosting-vagantes/. Please submit any questions and completed applications to Kyle G. Sweeney [kgsweene@rice.edu] by 4 May 2016. The 2018 host will be selected at the Vagantes Board Meeting at Kalamazoo.

Sincerely,

The Vagantes Board of Directors

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies 19th Conference, 24-26 February
2017, Monash University, Melbourne http://www.aabs.org.au/conferences/dreams-memory-and-imagination-in-byzantium/ In the last two decades, the role of dreams, memory and the imagination in
the ancient world and its cultural productions have come to receive
increased attention, along with the importance of emotions in the
Greco-Roman and medieval worlds. This conference will focus on the ways that
the Byzantine imagination shaped its dreams and memories from the fourth to
fifteenth centuries and the many ways in which these were recorded in the
Byzantine world, in its historiography, literature, religion, art and
architecture. Professor Derek Krueger of Greensboro University, North Carolina, will be
our guest speaker at this international conference. We welcome papers on any aspect of the topic, including reception studies.
The deadline for the first call for papers is 31st July 2016. Two student
bursaries will be offered to HDR students who present papers. Further information will be available on the web site or from the Convenor,
Dr Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, at eva.anagnostoulaoutides@monash.edu, or for
general enquiries conference@aabs.org.au. Andrew Stephenson
Treasurer
Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
http://www.aabs.org.au/

The University of Rochester, in cooperation with the University of St.
Andrews, Scotland, will sponsor a two-day conference (9-10 May 2016) on Older
Scots Literature and Culture. Seventeen scholars, from the UK, EU, Canada and
the US, will present cutting-edge research in a series of plenary panels. The
event is open to all, from specialists to those in the general public who
simply love Scots poetry and culture. The program and instructions on how to
take part in the proceedings are available at the conference website:
http://olderscots.weebly.com/ . For further information, get in touch with
Tom Hahn (thomas.hahn@rochester.edu ) or Rhiannon Purdie (rp6@st-
andrews.ac.uk ).

The fourth annual conference of the International Society for Late Antique Literary Studies (ISLALS) will convene on the campuses of Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College on October 21–22, 2016. The organizers for this year’s conference, in despair of capturing under a single rubric all the exciting new work being done in late antique literary studies, issue an open call for all papers on late antique literature qua literature. Close analyses of a single textual moment in poetry or prose; sweeping surveys of author, genre, image, or trope; precise detective work on a long nettlesome crux; and paradigm-shifting theoretical diatribe are all encouraged.  

If you would like to participate, please send a brief abstract of your paper via email attachment to Bret Mulligan (bmulliga@haverford.edu) by June 15, 2016. Papers should run no longer than thirty minutes. Also welcome are abstracts for shorter papers and proposals for other forms of scholarly presentations (panels, lightning talks, posters, etc.).

ISLALS requires no dues and there is no registration fee for the conference. ISLALS will provide transportation, refreshments, breakfast, and lunch during the conference. A closing banquet for all conference participants will round out this year’s gathering. Expenses for lodging and travel to and from the conference will be the responsibility of participants. The organizers will help participants secure lodging on campus (limited) or at nearby hotels.

Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College are located ten miles from downtown Philadelphia. Additional information about the conference can be found at: iris.haverford.edu/islals2016

Please send queries about conference particulars to Bret Mulligan at bmulliga@haverford.edu. General queries about ISLALS may be sent to any member of the steering committee: smcgill@rice.edu, Joseph_Pucci@brown.edu, dbright@emory.edu.

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