Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical

Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applications for its 2021–23 cohort of
junior fellows. The deadline is Monday, 2 November 2020.

Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical
Bibliography (2012–17), this scholarly society works to advance the
study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through
capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship—and to enrich humanistic
inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training
promising early-career scholars. Junior Fellows will be encouraged and
supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into
their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about
historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and
sharing their knowledge with broader publics.

The fellowship includes tuition waivers for two Rare Book School
courses, as well as funding for Junior Fellows to participate in the
Society’s annual meeting and orientation. Additional funds are
available for fellows to organize symposia at their home institutions,
and fellows will have the option of attending a bibliographical field
school to visit libraries, archives, and collections in a major
metropolitan area. After completing two years in good standing as
Junior Fellows, program participants will have the option to become
Senior Fellows in the Society.

The Society is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the
scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual
orientation, creed, and socioeconomic background, and to enhancing the
diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents,
including those of the professoriate, museums, libraries, archives,
public humanities, and digital humanities. We warmly encourage
prospective applicants from a wide range of disciplines, institutions,
and areas of expertise.

For more information and to apply, please visit:
http://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/

For more information about diversity and the SoFCB, please visit the
SoFCB Diversity & Outreach Committee’s Welcome Letter:
https://rarebookschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SoFCB_Welcome_Letter_2020.pdf

Inquiries about the SoFCB Junior Fellows Program can be directed to
Sonia Hazard, SoFCB Selection Committee Chair, at
shazard@fsu.edu<mailto:shazard@fsu.edu>, or Donna Sy, SoFCB
Administrative Director, at
rbs-mellon@virginia.edu<mailto:rbs-mellon@virginia.edu>.

We would be most grateful if you would pass along this call for
applications to anyone you know who might be interested in applying,
or to those who might advise early-career scholars with an interest in
the study of material objects.

With many thanks, and apologies for cross-posting,
Donna
—
Donna A. C. Sy
Administrative Director, Andrew W. Mellon
  Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
rbs-mellon@virginia.edu<mailto:rbs-mellon@virginia.edu>
(434) 243-4296 direct line

Rare Book School
at the University of Virginia
(434) 924-8851 main office
(434) 924-8824 fax

 The *American Research Institute in Turkey* (*ARIT*)

<http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/> is pleased to announce 2021-2022
fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada:


*ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for
Research in Turkey* <http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/NEHFellowships.html> cover
all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art,
archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary
aspects of cultural history.  The fellowships support applicants who have
completed their academic training.  The fellowships may be held for terms
ranging from four months to a full year.  Stipend per month is $4,200.

*ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey*
<http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/ARITFellowships.html>are offered for
research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the
humanities and social sciences.  Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral
fellowships may be held for various terms, for terms from one month up to
one academic year.  Stipends range from $2,500 to $15,500.

Applications for ARIT and ARIT-NEH fellowships must be submitted to
ARIT by *November
1, 2020*.  The fellowship committee will notify applicants in late January
2021.

*ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language*
<http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/ARITSummerLanguageProgram.html> in Istanbul
offers intensive advanced study of Turkish at Bogazici University for
summer 2021.  Participants must have two years of Turkish language study or
the equivalent.  The application deadline will be in early February 2021.  The
fellowships cover round-trip airfare to Istanbul, application and tuition
fees, and a maintenance stipend.

 Call for Papers: “The Lost Latin Historiography of Late Antiquity” **at

the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 5-8 July 2021*

*Sponsor:* National Science Centre Poland project “The Missing Link. The
Lost Latin Historiography of the Later Roman Empire (3rd - 5th century)”

*Organizers:* Paweł Janiszewski and Aleksander Paradziński

            “The Missing Link. The Lost Latin Historiography of the Later
Roman Empire (3rd-5th century)” project, funded by the National Science
Centre Poland, aims to collect and study cases of lost or fragmentarily
preserved history works composed in Latin in the Later Roman Empire in
accordance with Classical historiographic models, such as political
narratives, chronicles, annals and biographies. In line with this goal we
invite scholars at all career stages to submit proposals for twenty-minute
papers relating to the subject of “The Lost Latin Historiography of Late
Antiquity”.

            Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

   - Identity and biographies of authors of lost history works
   - Reception of Classical historiographic models in Late Antiquity
   - Transmission of fragments
   - Regional idiosyncrasies of history writing in the Roman Empire
   - Audiences and author’s networks– composing history as a social activity
   - Defining history – categories and boundaries of form and content of
   historical genres in Late Antiquity
   - History writing in the post-Roman West – continuity or a break?
   - History of the scholarship on the lost and fragmentarily preserved
   Latin historiography

Please send paper proposals in English of no more than 300 words to
Aleksander Paradziński (a.k.paradzinski@uw.edu.pl) by 18 September 2020.
Please note that conveners are, regrettably, unable to cover the congress
registration fee and travel expenses.

Call for Papers: Ovid in the Middle Ages

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes abstracts for three sessions of
20-minute papers to be held at the 56th International Congress on
Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, 13-15 May 2021). Those
interested should submit their proposals through the ICMS Confex
system by September 15th, 2020
(https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call).

1) Ovid's Transformations in the Middle Ages
This session aims to attract papers that deal with the knowledge and
use of Ovid's Metamorphoses in medieval literature, thought, art, and
education.  While the influence of the Metamorphoses, especially in
the later Middle Ages, is widely acknowledged, the research done on
its reception is often siloed on the basis of discipline and language.
This session intends to help remedy the situation by soliciting papers
from classicists, Neo-Latinists, art historians, and scholars of the
various vernacular literary traditions alike in order, through a
diversity of perspectives, to come to a better overall understanding
of the presence of the Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages.

2) Medieval Commentaries on Ovid
Commentaries on classical authors constitute a relatively neglected
source for medieval literary culture owing to their protean nature and
the special difficulties often involved in consulting and working with
them.  Recent work has, however, increasingly recognized the role that
such commentaries played in the common intellectual armature of the
Middle Ages.  This session will seek to explore both the Latin
commentaries on Ovid themselves and the ways in which those
commentaries mediated medieval readers' understanding of classical
literature and so influenced medieval Latin and vernacular literary
productions.

3) Ovid and his Heirs at Court (co-sponsored with the International
Courtly Literature Society, North American Branch)
This proposed session, which is co-sponsored by the International
Courtly Literature Society and the Societas Ovidiana, will examine the
way the Ovidian amatory discourse of the Amores, Ars Amatoria,
Heroides, and Metamorphoses, as well as poems by imitators of Ovid,
influence courtly literature. Besides the influence of Ovid on courtly
poetry, session papers could also consider the way that moralizing
Ovid commentaries and poems, such as Pierre Bersuire’s Ovidius
moralizatus and the anonymous Ovide moralisé, relate to courtly
literature. This session will build on the dialogue begun in the “What
is Courtly Love?” session sponsored by the ICLS-NAB at the 2018
Medieval Congress, which, among other themes, discussed Ovid’s
influence on the ideas of Andreas Capellanus and other medieval
writers on love.

Nota bene for the panel on “Ovid and his Heirs at Court”: Those who
are not currently members of the International Courtly Literature
Society are welcome to submit to sessions sponsored by the ICLS, but
are expected to become members upon acceptance.

Race and the Middle Ages," a Virtual Conference on December 3, 2020

 CALL FOR PAPERS

RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES
46th Annual New England Medieval Conference, Virtual Meeting

Thursday, December 3, 2020



Keynote Speaker:

Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin

 “The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages”





With the world-wide resurgence of anti-racist activism following the
killing of George Floyd, we as medievalists feel compelled to
reexamine notions of race in the pre-modern period. Can speaking of
“race” in the Middle Ages help us today? How was race conceived in the
Middle Ages? Did race already dictate the lives of men and women in
medieval Europe? To what extent did race and religion overlap in the
Middle Ages? We invite medievalists of all disciplines and
specializations to explore these and other questions relating to the
topic of race. We welcome papers that deal with the origins and
development of race from a variety of different perspectives. We are
likewise very interested in essays focusing on the treatment of race
without medieval Western Europe.



Please send an abstract of 250 words and a recent CV to Meriem Pagès
(mpages@keene.edu<mailto:mpages@keene.edu>). Please make sure to
provide your name and full professional affiliation (institution and
level of study) in your proposal. Abstracts are due October 15, 2020.

 > Acknowledging Loss and Building Anew: The Meanings of Medieval 

> Mourning (A Roundtable)
>
> This panel explores medieval conceptions of grief and expressions of 
> mourning through interdisciplinary methods, entailing an array of 
> historical, literary, artistic, musical or related approaches, and 
> investigations of sources from a variety of cultural registers. 
> Drawing on relevant scholarly dialogues, and acknowledging our 
> current climate of pandemic and loss, we investigate meanings of 
> mourning—as public performance, private contemplation, secular 
> remembrance, or religious devotion. For example, in the ubi sunt 
> tradition, mourning could contemplate the transitory nature of life, 
> process liminal experiences, and commemorate lost peoples, places, 
> or cultures. Further, mourning was often understood as gendered, 
> especially tied to feminized motifs of abandoned women and the Mater 
> Dolorosa.
>
> Please submit abstracts through the ICMS Confex system by September 15.
>
> https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call
>
> Thank you!
> Mary Dzon

 Rome Global Gateway*

*Digital Palaeography Workshop*



January 18-22, 2021

 Instructors

*Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis*

Department of Classics, Princeton University

*David Jenkins*

Firestone Library, Princeton University



            This tuition-free online Greek Palaeography workshop is being
offered as part of Princeton University's participation in the Rome-based
graduate seminars jointly sponsored with the universities of Notre Dame and
Stanford, and supported by funding from Princeton's Humanities Council. It
is intended to provide graduate students from various fields, including
Mediaeval and Early Modern Literature and History, Classics, Religion, and
Art & Archaeology with an intensive initiation to Greek palaeography while
also  exploring the potential for original scholarship in digitized
manuscript libraries. The workshop will simultaneously examine how the
constraints of remote research may prove consonant with the digital
resources increasingly at our disposal and the expanded possibilities for
what used to be privileged access to otherwise rarefied historical sources.

*Course Description*

The workshop will pivot mainly from the Vatican Library's Greek manuscript
collection and cover the gamut of palaeographical skills and analyses
required to conduct research on various aspects of mediaeval books and
literature. We will survey the main mediaeval Greek scripts and the
characteristics which enable us to date codices; we will review the online
(and print) tools for doing Greek manuscript research and how to make
efficient use of them for a variety of research aims.

 *Assignments*

 In addition to daily transcription assignments designed to instill
proficiency in the various Byzantine Greek scripts, students will draw up a
palaeographical profile of a topic of their choice using the growing number
of online materials and platforms.

*Dates*

The workshop will run from January 18 to 22, 2021. It will meet online for
two hours per day, from *10am–12pm (EST)*, with an anticipated 2-3 hours of
work each day outside of class.

*Requirements*

We welcome applications from qualified graduate students who can
demonstrate a level of Classical/Mediaeval Greek commensurate with the
demands of reading a broad range of mostly higher register texts (in most
cases that means at least 2-3 years of university-level Greek). As all
meetings will be held live online and make use of high-resolution images,
participation will require a stable high-speed internet connection.

*How to Apply*

Students should send PDFs of the following to *ebourbou@princeton.edu
<ebourbou@princeton.edu>*:

– a short letter describing your interest in Greek palaeography and its
bearing on your current doctoral work or future research,

– a one-page CV detailing your studies thus far,

– a letter of reference from a faculty member familiar with your work

*Application Deadline: October 15, 2020**

** *We expect to notify all applicants by November 2, 2020.

 For all inquires about the course or the requirements, please write
to  *ebourbou@princeton.edu
<ebourbou@princeton.edu>*