Anglo-Saxon Riddles
CFP, IMC Leeds 2-5 July 2018
Sponsored by The Riddle Ages: An Anglo-Saxon Riddle Blog
After three successful years, we are again seeking papers for sessions on the Old English and Anglo-Latin riddles that allowed writers to explore, order and problematize the early medieval world. These sessions will bring together papers engaging with a wide range of thematic interests and methodological frameworks, including but not limited to: diction, style, sources, solutions, theoretical approaches, and cultural studies. Papers that compare Anglo-Saxon riddles with works in other medieval languages are also welcome, as are papers on this year's conference theme, 'Memory'.
If you would like to be considered for these sessions, please email an abstract of no more than 300 words, as well as your affiliation and contact details, to Megan Cavell (mccavell@gmail.com) and Jennifer Neville (J.Neville@rhul.ac.uk) by 18 September 2017.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Medieval Waterways
CFP, ICMS Kalamazoo, 10-13 May 2018
The Medieval Association of the Pacific welcomes papers that explore the significance of medieval waterways from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Waterways were the mainstay of travel, communication, and commerce in the Middle Ages. Roots of medieval economies, landscape management, agricultural production, and settlement patterns can be traced to waterway use. Routes of migration, trade, pilgrimage, and conquest align with networks of navigable rivers, canals, and sea crossings. These culturally and geographically fluid landscapes also served as borders and conduits in religious and literary imaginaries. Papers that offer a global perspective or that explore the medieval Pacific are especially encouraged.
Please submit a 300-word abstract to Miranda Wilcox (miranda_wilcox@byu.edu) by 15 September 2017.
Miranda Wilcox
Associate Professor of English
Brigham Young University
4165 JFSB
Provo, Utah 84602
(801) 422-3339
Friday, July 21, 2017
We are seeking submissions for the following session at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2018. These sessions are sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of York.
Session #1. Boundaries of Negotiations in Later Medieval Europe: political, cultural, economic
Recent research has demonstrated an increased interest in the various forms of negotiating in the Middle Ages. In late medieval Europe, in particular, amid political, social and religious conflicts, to negotiate is a prominent practice at different levels of society. A whole set of vocabulary in vernacular languages is used, for instance, to describe occurrences of transactions, diplomatic talks, social or even religious claims. This session welcomes papers using any disciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches that consider aspects of negotiating that may take place in, but not limited to, political, cultural, or economical contexts in later medieval Europe, including papers that consider the role of emotion in a negotiation. The aim of this session is to bring together scholars from different fields in order to examine aspects of intercommunication during that time period.
Session #2. Interpreting unfinished later medieval manuscripts: Interdisciplinary Approaches
In this session, we would like to address from an interdisciplinary standpoint questions regarding unfinished manuscripts in later medieval Europe. Were image programs planned and never finished? Was the text altered in a significant form? What can an informed understanding of the text/image relationship in a given case of an unfinished manuscript reveal? Are there extant sources of any unfinished manuscripts that might reveal how a later patron or artist/ script may envision adapting a work to suit his or her current needs? Why were specific manuscripts/versions of manuscripts never finished? This session will include visual elements such as images and marginalia, the physical layout of text and image, spaces for images that never got executed, and the codicological structure of the manuscripts themselves.
Abstracts for papers of 15-20 minutes or any questions should be sent to Anne-Hélène Miller (ahm@utk.edu). The deadline for submissions is September 15 2017. The submission guidelines and the required Participant Information Form are available at wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions.
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
601 Greve Hall
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Phone: 865-974-1859
Fax: 865-974-3655
Mailing Address:
915 Volunteer Blvd.
Dunford Hall, Sixth Floor
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065
Thursday, July 20, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
Integrating medieval manuscripts into an undergraduate curriculum changes the game. Students are transformed from passive learners to active scholars; observing objects and seeking to understand and interpret their context teaches critical thinking. Implementing programs to give students this opportunity requires the cooperation of special collection librarians and faculty, two disciplines that speak slightly different languages. Inspired by Les Enluminures's new program Manuscripts in the Curriculum, this session will also introduce a third perspective and explore the practical issues of how to build collections for teaching.
The session organizers wish to bring people together from these communities to share their experiences, to discuss successful results, to analyze problems, and to envision future directions. We invite papers that explore efforts to bring manuscripts into the classroom, and the challenges of implementing these programs at specific institutions from the perspectives of librarians, faculty, and booksellers. The session will be structured as a roundtable with a series of short ten- and fifteen-minute papers (the number and duration to be determined depending on response), with ample time for discussion.
Please send abstracts of no more than a page, along with a current CV and the Participation Information Form (available on the Medieval Congress Submissions page: http://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions) to lauralight@lesenluminures.com by September 10, and sooner if possible.
Please feel free to circulate and post this CFP.
Emily Runde
Text Manuscripts Specialist
Les Enluminures
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS: Celtic Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2018
On behalf of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, Professor Frederick Suppe is organizing two panels of papers for presentation at the annual International Medieval Studies Congress which will meet at Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA during May 10-13, 2018. The general topics for these two panels are:CFP: Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World
CFP: Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World
Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 10-13, 2018, Western Michigan University
The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium leading to the 2010 publication of San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice introduced
new perspectives on Byzantine and Venetian visual and material culture
that extended Otto Demus’s survey of Saint Mark’s basilica. The authors’
application of more recent approaches—such as the social function of
spolia, the act of display, the construction of identity, and cultural
hybridity—brought fresh analyses to a complex and richly decorated
monument. This panel seeks to expand this methodological discourse by
taking into account questions related to materials, materiality, and
intermediality between Venice and Byzantium. The arrival of material
culture from the Byzantine world to Venice as gifts, spoils, or ephemera
during the centuries surrounding the Fourth Crusade allowed for both
appropriation and conceptual transformation of material culture. In
light of the renewal in interest of Venice’s Byzantine heritage, this
panel seeks to reflect on the interaction of material culture between la
Serenissima and the Byzantine world, especially during the eleventh
through fifteenth centuries. Topics may be wide-ranging, including, but
not limited to: issues of reception and cultural translation; changing
concepts of preciousness; different valuation of materials between
Venice and Byzantium; the fluctuating simulation of material visual
effects; the transformation of Byzantine objects incorporated into
Venetian frames; intermedial dialogue between Byzantine and Venetian
art; and the process and technique of manufacture of works between
Byzantium and Venice. Some points of departure may include: the building
of San Marco itself; Byzantine objects in the Treasury; Byzantine
manuscripts included as part of the Cardinal Bessarion gift to the
Republic; the monuments on Torcello; or issues raised as a result of
recent conservation projects. New cross-cultural methodologies from art
historical, anthropological, or sociological fields are welcome.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a completed Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/
Brad Hostetler, Kenyon College, hostetler1@kenyon.edu
Joseph Kopta, Pratt Institute, jkopta@pratt.edu
In addition to the travel awards available to all Congress participants (http://www.wmich.edu/
1. Anatomizing Melancholy and Reliving Depression (a roundtable)
This session will be open to a diverse range of approaches, but we will be particularly interested in medievalists’ open experiences of mood disorders and how their work on the Middle Ages has helped, hindered, or informed their experience of depression—and, naturally, if and how modern experiences of depression help us understand the experience of melancholia. By exploring these issues transhistorically, I hope that this roundtable will both further our understanding of medieval melancholia and contribute to efforts among contemporary medievalists to foreground mental health issues in the academy that are increasingly affecting our colleagues and students.
This session will be open to a diverse range of approaches, but we will be particularly interested in medievalists’ open experiences of mood disorders and how their work on the Middle Ages has helped, hindered, or informed their experience of depression—and, naturally, if and how modern experiences of depression help us understand the experience of melancholia. By exploring these issues transhistorically, I hope that this roundtable will both further our understanding of medieval melancholia and contribute to efforts among contemporary medievalists to foreground mental health issues in the academy that are increasingly affecting our colleagues and students.
2. Getting Down with Anglo-Saxons: Depression and Related Conditions before the Conquest
The second session will be a panel of three or four papers that focuses on the phenomenology of “depressive states” in Anglo-Saxon England. Our goal will be to identify, if possible, commonalities between negative mental/emotional states in Anglo-Saxon society and culture that allow us to formulate and perhaps explain a pathology of mood disorders that is specific to this time and place, just as modern-day depression is thought to be a product of our social and cultural environments. Following on from the work of scholars like Leslie Lockett and Antonina Harbus, this session builds upon recent work in cognitive approaches to Anglo-Saxon culture, as well as tapping in to current trends in the burgeoning field of the “history of emotions.”
Please contact Chris Abram (cabram@nd.edu) with proposals or requests for further information.
Associate Professor of EnglishUniversity of Notre Dame
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