Sponsored by Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures

Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (Binghamton University, SUNY)

The prevalent use of digital tools and online environments to edit medieval texts is resulting in a myriad of projects in which unique solutions are deployed to offer optimal representations of very different textual objects. Single manuscripts, library collections, authorial corpora, and works preserved in several witnesses, for instance, all beg for different editorial and archival approaches. The possibilities for study and representation, in addition, are multiplied not only by the technologies employed or designed ad hoc for each project, but also by the scholars’ ideas on the very nature of what is being studied. We invite paper submissions that reflect on the theory, developments, and challenges of editing and archiving medieval texts, including, but not limited to:

•theories of digital edition.

•the making of digital editions.

•technologies employed in the making of digital archives.

•examples of digital editions and archives. 

Please send a 100-word abstract and a Participant Information Form (available here: https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u434/2017/medieval-pif-2018.doc ) to Albert Lloret at lloret@umass.edu by September 15.

The 17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is currently seeking paper abstracts on any topic related to the Middle Ages. The conference will take place from March 22nd-24th, 2018 at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

Vagantes is North America’s largest graduate-student conference for medieval studies. Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across all disciplines. The 17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies will feature thirty graduate-student papers and three distinguished keynote speakers. Out of consideration for graduate students' budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee. The organizers of Vagantes believe that a diverse and inclusive view of the medieval period is essential. As such, graduate students in all disciplines are invited to submit paper abstracts of no more than 300 words on any topic relating to the Middle Ages.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 3rd, 2017. More information about the conference can be found on the attached PDF. The online CFP is live and accessible here - http://bit.ly/2pZcJIE

Questions? Contact the organizers at organizers@vagantesconference.org

Medieval Collections (a roundtable) 

In recent decades, philosophical writing about things has paid significant attention to networks, to how things interact with each other or with humans in a variety of contexts. Scholars such as Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett have provided medievalists with sophisticated theoretical frameworks for understanding the complicated relationships between and among things, people, and nature. In 2016, the Material Collective also took up ideas having to do with collections and collecting in both medieval and modern moments. Our special issue of postmedieval, Hoarders and Hordes: Responses to the Staffordshire Hoard, allowed us to think about the Hoard as a thing that is simultaneously singular and collective. As Karen Overbey and I asked in the introduction to that volume, “How do we historians of material culture deal with such a displaced and enigmatic group of objects, especially while they are still in fragments?” 

This roundtable proposes to continue and expand that conversation about hordes to consider the broader category of collections. What kinds of things and texts were collected in the Middle Ages, and for what purposes? How do medieval collections relate to the curated groupings of modern scholars and institutions? Participants in the session might consider those questions in the contexts of archaeology, art/visual/material history, or the history of texts. Possible topics might include medieval collections of ideas, like Isidore of Seville’s seventh-century Etymologies, or medieval assemblages of things, like church treasuries, hoards, or composite manuscripts containing multiple texts.  Speakers might also include archaeologists who continue to unearth medieval “hoards,” as witnessed by an excellent session on the topic at the 52nd Congress in 2017. (Abstracts of no more than 500 words to drmaggie2110@gmail.com by Sept. 15)

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Maggie M. Williams

Associate Professor of Art History

William Paterson University

973-720-3279/6212

williamsm11@wpunj.edu

www.thematerialcollective.org

Editor-in-Chief, Tiny Collections (punctum books)

10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 2-4, 2017

Intertwined Worlds

 

Registration now open!

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.

Despite the linguistic and cultural complexity of many regions of the premodern world, religion supplies the basis of a strong material and textual cohesion that both crosses and intertwines boundaries between communities. This year’s theme, “Intertwined Worlds,” will highlight the confluence of expressions of belief, ritual, and social engagement emerging in technologies and traditions of the world's manuscript cultures, often beyond a single religious context. It will consider common themes and practices of textual, artistic, literary, and iconographic production in religious life across time and geography, from ancient precedents to modern reception and dissemination in the digital age.

For more information and to register, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium10.html .

Participants include:

• Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University
• Paul Dilley, University of Iowa
• Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
• Ellen Gough, Emory University
• Thibaud d'Hubert, University of Chicago
• Ayesha Irani, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Shazia Jagot, University of Southern Denmark
• Samantha Kelly, Rutgers University
• Jinah Kim, Harvard University
• Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Studies
• Gila Prebor, Bar-Ilan University
• Michael Pregil, Boston University
• Michael Stanley-Baker, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Columba Stewart, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
• Tyler Williams, University of Chicago
• Saymon Zakaria, Bangla Academy, Dhaka
• Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Bar-Ilan University

From 9 to 13 October 2017 the University of Cologne is hosting an Epidoc Autumn school in combination with an expert workshop on digital sigillography. During the first three days the autumn school will introduce the participants to Epidoc, the encoding standard for epigraphic texts and materials. Wednesday afternoon is dedicated to presentations on advanced imaging technologies in the fields of epigraphy, papyrology and sigillography. On Thursday and Friday there will be an expert workshop focusing on digital formats and standards for the description and publication of seals and similar materials.

Time: 9-13 October 2017
Place: Universität zu Köln, Thomas Institut, Universitätsstraße 22, Ground floor
Language: English
Deadline for registration: 24 September 2017
Registration contact: martina.filosa@gmail.com
School participants: max. 25
Website: http://cceh.uni-koeln.de/2017/09/05/epidoc-and-sigillography/

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Programme (details to be confirmed)

Monday, 9.10.2017:
(Thomas Institut, Seminar room, Universitätsstraße 22)

Introduction to Epidoc: 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30

Tuesday, 10.10.2017:
(Thomas Institut, Seminar room, Universitätsstraße 22)

Exercises in Epidoc: 09.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30

Wednesday, 11.10.2017:
(Thomas Institut, Seminar room, Universitätsstraße 22)

Morning
Exercises in Epidoc: 09:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30

Afternoon
Presentations on advanced imaging technologies for digitizing seals (RTI, 3D, etc.): 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30

Evening
Brauhaus (Restauration Pütz)

Thursday, 12.10.2017:
(Neues Seminargebäude / Seminar room S13 / 1. floor)

Seals expert workshop, part I: Encoding Seals, 09:00-12:30 / 14:00-17:30

Introduction & Overview
- Seal digitization projects: state of affairs
- Adjacent projects and encoding standards (TEI, NUML, CEI)
- Vocabularies and terminology

Towards an encoding standard in digital sigillography:
- Metadata
- Physical description
- Iconography
- Transcription

Public lecture:
Charlotte Roueche: Back to Socrates: Publication as Dialogue, 18:00-19:30

Friday, 13.10.2017:
(Neues Seminargebäude / Seminar room S13 / 1. floor)

Seals expert workshop, part II: Presenting Seals, 09:00-12:30

Topics to be discussed:
- Interfaces
- Presentation systems
- Portals

Conclusions, Plans & Perspectives

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Organizers:
- Gabriel Bodard
- Martina Filosa
- Franz Fischer
- Patrick Sahle
- Claudia Sode
- Simona Stoyanova

Institutions involved:
- Institut für Altertumskunde, Abteilung Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie
- Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Arbeitsstelle für Papyrologie, Epigraphik und Numismatik am Institut für Altertumskunde
- Historisches Institut, Abteilung Alte Geschichte
- Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)

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Dr. Franz Fischer
Cologne Center for eHumanities
Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln
+49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056
franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de
@vranzvischer

cceh.uni-koeln.de, dixit.uni-koeln.de
i-d-e.de, ride.i-d-e.de
digitalmedievalist.org, digitalmedievalist.org/journal
guillelmus.uni-koeln.de, confessio.ie

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.

https://latemedievalpoliticalliterature.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/cfps-boundaries-of-negotiations-interpreting-unfinished-later-medieval-mss-kalamazoo-2018/ 

Best wishes,

Kristin

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Dr Kristin Bourassa
Academic Manager and Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Medieval Literature
University of Southern Denmark and University of York

CFP: ‘Memories of the Anglo-Saxon Mission’ (IMC Leeds, 2-5 July 2018)
(Extended deadline CFP: 20 September 2017)

These sessions at IMC hope to bring together papers that deal with the memories of the Anglo-Saxon mission. Paper proposals are welcome from all disciplines, including literary studies, art history, history, religion studies and archaeology.

Possible topics/themes include but are not limited to:

-        Constructions and representations of the Anglo-Saxon mission in medieval and modern historiography.
-       The representations of missionaries in art history
-       Hagiography on individual missionaries
-       The development of cults of individual missionaries
-       The Anglo-Saxon mission and gender (e.g., the representation of male and female missionaries)
-       Remembering the Anglo-Saxon mission in England and on the Continent

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Thijs Porck (Leiden University; m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nlilto:m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl>) by September 20, 2017.

(for full CfP please see attached)


Dr. M.H. (Thijs) Porck

Assistant Professor Medieval English
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
Department of English
P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 101a
PO Box 9515, 2300 RA  Leiden, The Netherlands
E-mail m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nlilto:m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl>
Personal website: http://www.dutchanglosaxonist.com
Institutional website http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucas/organisation/members/porckmh.html
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thijsporck