To Attend: Christian Bodies, Pagan Images (April 3, 2017)

by Brandie Ratliff

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2016–2017 lecture series:

Monday, April 3, 2017, 6:15 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Byzantium
Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College, explores how Byzantine women’s bodies were put in dialogue with visual and textual portrayals of pagan goddesses and heroines, and how these practices changed in fundamental ways from the early to middle Byzantine eras.

Details at maryjahariscenter.org/events/christian-bodies-pagan-images.
Contact: Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

Mary Jaharis Center lectures are co-sponsored by Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

Call for papers

"Feeding on Dreams: Exiles and Exile in Late Antiquity."

A Workshop at Yale University, 23-25 April 2018

Organized by Maria Doerfler (Yale University) and Geoffrey Nathan (University of New South Wales)

Being barred from one’s native lands, state and/or community was and continues to be a unique form of punishment.  Individuals or groups might not only suffer from physical, economic and legal privation, but also social and cultural exclusion to the point of a kind of social death.  In Late Antiquity, the degree of political and religious change made exile perhaps more likely for an increasingly diverse group, but may have also changed the nature of exile itself.  Recent work both on conceptual exile and the exile of clerics raises the possibility of expanding the scope of scholarly conversations surrounding the practice in this period.   This workshop’s purpose is to consider different experiences and conceptions of formal and informal banishment to arrive at a more holistic understanding of the social, cultural, and literary phenomenon of exile in late antiquity. 

The organizers thus invite papers to explore the nature of exile and exiles in Late Antiquity (ca.300-650 CE).  We welcome contributors to interpret these concepts broadly, and seek a wide variety of papers and disciplinary approaches.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

Political and religious exile

Relegatio, deportatio, postliminium: exile in law

Self-exile

Conceptual exile (spiritual and metaphorical exile)

Treatments of exile in the religions of Late Antiquity

Diasporas and refugees

The archaeology of exile

After the workshop, participants will be invited to submit their revised papers for publication. Please send abstracts of up to 500 words exileinlateantiquity@gmail.com.  Alternatively, abstracts may be sent to either Maria Doerfler (maria.doerfler@yale.edu) or Geoff Nathan (g.nathan@unsw.edu.au) by 14 May 2017. For queries, please email either organizer.

CFP: The Journal of Festive Studies

by Patrick Cox, H-NET VP and Editor

Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.

Type: 

Call for Papers

Date: 

November 1, 2017

Subject Fields: 

Sociology, Anthropology, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Social History / Studies

The Journal of Festive Studies, a new peer-reviewed journal published on H-Celebration, invites submissions for its first issue, scheduled for March 2018.

The journal’s stated aim is to draw together all academics who share an interest in festivities, including but not limited to holiday celebrations, family rituals, carnivals, religious feasts, processions and parades, and civic commemorations.

The editors in chief -- Dr. Ellen Litwicki, Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia and Aurélie Godet, Associate Professor of US History at Paris Diderot University -- welcome submissions of original research and analysis from both established and emerging scholars worldwide. Besides traditional academic essays, authors may submit video and photo essays, archival notes, opinion pieces, as well as contributions that incorporate digital media such as visualizations and interactive timelines and maps. Academic essays should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words; other pieces should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words. When submitting, please indicate whether the work is to be peer-reviewed as an article or whether you would like to offer something in a different format.

For its first issue, the journal will look at festive studies as an emerging academic sub-field since the late 1960s and seeks submissions that consider some of the methods and theories that scholars have relied on to apprehend festive practices across the world. The specific contributions of the historical, geographical, sociological, anthropological, ethnological, psychological, and economic disciplines to the study of festivities may be explored but, more importantly, authors should offer guidelines on how to successfully integrate them. How can one reconcile, for instance, the discourse of “festival tourism,” dominated by the positivistic, quantitative research paradigm of consumer behavior approaches, with a more classical discourse, mostly flowing from cultural anthropology and sociology, concerning the roles, meanings and impacts of festivals in society and culture?

Contributors may also choose to focus on some of the methodological issues faced by scholars doing qualitative research on festivities across the globe. For example, the practice of participant observation -- one of the main data-collection strategies used by scholars of festivities -- raises significant ethical and epistemological concerns, as affective involvement with the observed inevitably develops and may range from sympathetic identification to projective distortion.

Finally, authors may reflect on whether conclusions about festivities can be derived from the thousands of case studies that are produced every year by scholars, government agents, city officials, and various stakeholders. Can cross-cultural, interdisciplinary theoretical paradigms still be expected to emerge from this growing literature?

All texts should be sent by November 1 2017 to submissions-festive-studies@mail.h-net.msu.edu along with the author’s bio and an abstract of c. 250 words. Please contact Ellen Litwkicki (ellen.litwicki@fredonia.edu) and Aurélie Godet (augodet@yahoo.com) with any questions. Please consult the guidelines for authors in advance of submission.

Contact Info: 

Ellen Litwicki

Contact Email: 

ellen.litwicki@fredonia.edu

URL: 

https://networks.h-net.org/h-celebration

East of Byzantium Symposium: Cultural Heritage Across the Christian East

by Brandie Ratliff

The Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to announce CULTURAL HERITAGE ACROSS THE CHRISTIAN EAST, a symposium exploring the challenges of preserving the cultural heritage of the Christian East.

Friday, March 31, 2017, 9:30 am–5:00 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

SPEAKERS:
Alison E. Cuneo, American Schools of Oriental Research Cultural Heritage Initiatives
ASOR CHI’s Role in the Cultural Heritage of the Christian East

Laurent Dissard, University College London
The Presence-Absence of Arapgir’s Armenian Heritage in Present-Day Eastern Turkey

Karel C. Innemée, University of Amsterdam
Deir al-Surian, A Monastery on Cultural Crossroads

Anton Pritula, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and The State Hermitage Museum
Chaldean Manuscript Collections. ʽAdbīshōʽ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet, Scribe and Commissioner

Seating is limited. Additional information and registration at https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/cultural-hertiage/.

East of Byzantium is a partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.

For questions, please contact Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture.

A summer school on the study of medieval books with quantitative methods will take place in Paris from the 12th to the 16th of June 2017. It is organized by the Lamop (Université Paris I), the IRHT, the Ecole nationale des Chartes and the University of Namur.

During one week, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the use of quantitative methods in medieval book studies and to practice them with the best specialists. 

The full program and the application form can be found on http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/menu-haut/seminaires/francois-foronda/#c628055. The deadline for application is April the 13th.

Conferences and workshops will be in french. Registration is free of charge ; a few bursaries for travel and accomodation will be given depending on individual situations and needs.

Octave Julien

Docteur en histoire

Enseignant-chercheur (Pireh / Lamop)

Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval

vol. 24/2017

Original papers are sought to the scientific journal Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval, vol. 24 (2017), to be published in December 2017. The Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval is a yearly scholarly open access publication, indexed and peer-reviewed. The Revista is the official journal of SOFIME (Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval: http://www.sofime.eu), and it is distributed by the University of Zaragoza’s Press.

Our journal is continuously published since 1993, with scientific contributions in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. The submitted articles must be original contributions to the discussion on medieval thought and the transmission of knowledge (from the Middle Ages up to the Early-Modern Period), nonetheless contributions related to the intellectual tradition of Late Antiquity are welcomed too. Papers must be approximately between 5,000 and 25,000 words in length. The deadline for the submission is 1 July 2017. The contributions will be evaluated through a blind peer-review process. To submit a paper, sign up and follow the instructions on our OJS website:

https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/refime/index

For any further questions, do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Committee of the Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval: nicola.polloni@durham.ac.uk

On behalf of the conference organizing committee, I am pleased to present the preliminary program for CAPAL17: Foundations & Futures: Critical Reflections on the Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities of Academic Librarianship, the fourth 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/

We are excited to welcome our keynote speakers, Harsha Walia, a South Asian activist formally trained in the law and the author of the award-winning book Undoing Border Imperialism and, Lisa Sloniowski, Associate Librarian at York University and co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded Feminist Porn Archive and Research Project.

Registration for the conference is now open and available at the following link: http://congress2017.ca/register. Note that Congress fees are cheaper if you register before March 31st.

There will be a half day pre-conference workshop held on the afternoon of May 29 on the topic of "Exploring Critical Theory in Research and Scholarship" to be led by Dr. Tami Oliphant, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Alberta. Details can be found at: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/preconference-workshop/

Also, connect with other conference goers by following us on Twitter at #CAPAL17

Best,

Colleen Burgess, Communications Chair 

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*Prière de faire circuler dans vos réseaux* *Excusez les envois multiples*

Chères/chers collègues,

Au nom du comité organisateur, je suis heureux de présenter le programme préliminaire de l’ACBAP17 : Fondements et futurs : réflexions critiques sur les passés, les présents et les possibilités de la bibliothéconomie académique, la quatrième conférence annuelle de l'Association canadienne des bibliothécaires académiques professionnels (ACBAP). Le programme se trouve en ligne: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/programme/

Nous sommes ravis d’accueillir nos conférencières, Harsha Walia, militante sud-asiatique formée en droit et auteure du livre primé Undoing Border Imperialism, ainsi que Lisa Sloniowski, bibliothécaire adjointe (associate librarian) à York University et cochercheure dans le projet « Feminist Porn Archive and Research », financé par le CRSH.

Le formulaire d’inscription à la conférence est dès maintenant disponible en ligne :http://congres2017.ca/inscriptions.  Notez que les frais de congrès sont moins élevés si vous vous inscrivez avant le 31 mars.

Veuillez noter qu'un atelier pré conférence aura lieu l'après-midi du 29 mai, la veille de la conférence, au sujet de "Exploring Critical Theory in Research and Scholarship," animé par Mme Tami Oliphant, professeur adjointe à l'École de bibliothéconomie et de sciences de l'information de l'Université d'Alberta. Pour plus de détails, veuillez visiter:http://conference.capalibrarians.org/atelier-preconference/

Pour nous suivre sur Twitter et échanger avec les participants, vous pouvez utiliser les mots clic suivants : #CAPAL17 ou #ACBAP17.

Meilleures salutations,

Colleen Burgess, présidente du comité des communications