Call for Papers: PhD Candidates and Early-Career Researchers

Securing Power in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire

Online Workshop, University of Cambridge, 7 December 2021

Imperial power in the sixth-century Roman empire could be fragile. ‘Every emperor had to perform a delicate balancing act to remain in power’ by responding to and accommodating the shifting demands of public opinion and various interest groups: senators, bureaucrats, bishops, soldiers and generals, urban factions, and more (Greatrex 2020; Meier 2016; Kaldellis 2015; Bell 2013; Pfeilschifter 2013). Each of these groups have individually assumed increasingly important roles in political narratives of the period, but comparatively little attention has been paid to how those in power – emperors, patriarchs, governors, magistrates, and others – were subjected to pressures and attempted to build power bases across these interest groups.

In particular, modern scholarship has established a boundary between “secular” and “ecclesiastical” politics which sixth-century century political actors neither experienced nor refrained from crossing as they tried to secure or challenge power. The purpose of this workshop is to close these artificial divides and to explore how power was contested and secured “without limits”, in order to take better account of the interconnectedness of the sixth-century world, the flexible array of political pressures to which those in power were subjected, and the sometimes unexpected consequences of responding to these pressures. The goal of this approach is to produce a more holistic, comprehensive understanding of sixth-century power struggles.

We invite PhD candidates and early career researchers to read the full call for papers and a list of suggested topics at the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I0WgdIvwhyMezCo2RRHaGyeXVxIgds70/view?usp=sharing

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 31 August 2021 and the workshop will take place online on 7 December 2021. We envisage the publication of a volume based on the papers delivered at the conference, dependent upon a peer-review process.

Please send questions and abstracts to the organisers: Matt Hassall (mh787@cam.ac.uk) and Silvio Roggo (sbr30@cam.ac.uk).

 We are thrilled to publish the program of "Disciplining Emotions: Texts and Images in Medieval and Early Modern Times."

The two-day international conference will be held online, May 31 - June 1, 2021.

To attend, please fill out the online registration form:

 

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FE4jYYdbZ0usGY_qqLqPEsPucLuPylNMh0oGcl_BtnpUQTg5S0RGTTBZNVMwNE80MFlONkJTM0xIRi4u

Best wishes,

Dr. Dafna Nissim (on behalf of the organizing committee)

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Dr. Dafna Nissim

Department of the Arts

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

https://bgu.academia.edu/DafnaNissim

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 Call for Papers - SUMAC 2021

The 3rd workshop on Structuring and Understanding of Multimedia heritAge Contents

In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2021, 20 - 24 October 2020, Chengdu, China

Workshop: https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2021/
Conference: https://2021.acmmm.org

Aims and scope

The digitization of large quantities of analogue data and the massive production of born-digital
documents for many years now provide us with large volumes of varied multimedia data
(images, maps, text, video, multi-sensor data, etc.), an important feature of which is that they
are cross-domain. "Cross-domain" reflects the fact that these data may have been acquired
in very different conditions: different acquisition systems, times and points of view. These
data represent an extremely rich heritage that can be exploited in a wide variety of fields, from
Social Sciences and Humanities to land use and territorial policies, including smart city, urban
planning, smart tourism and culture, creative media and entertainment. In terms of research
in computer science, they address challenging problems related to the diversity and volume
of the media across time, the variety of content descriptors (potentially including the time
dimension), the veracity of the data, and the different user needs with respect to engaging with
this rich material and the extraction of value out of the data. These challenges are reflected
in various research topics such as multimodal and mixed media search, automatic content
analysis, multimedia linking and recommendation, and big data analysis and visualization,
where scientific bottlenecks may be exacerbated by the time dimension, which also provides
topics of interest such as multimodal time series analysis.

The objective of the third edition of this workshop is to present and discuss the latest and
most significant trends in the analysis, structuring and understanding of multimedia contents
dedicated to the valorization of heritage, with the emphasis on enabling access to the big
data of the past. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics:

• Multimedia and cross-domain data interlinking and recommendation
• Dating and spatialization of historical data
• Mixed media data access and indexing
• Deep learning in adverse conditions (transfer learning, learning with side information,etc.)
• Multi-modal time series analysis, evolution modeling
• Multi-modal & multi-temporal data rendering
• Heritage - Building Information Modeling, Art
• HCI / Interfaces for large-scale datasets
• Smart digitization of massive quantities of data
• Bench-marking, Open Data Movement
• Generative modeling of cultural heritage
  

Important dates

• Paper submission: 30 July 2021 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
• Author acceptance notification: 26 August 2021
• Camera-Ready: 2 September 2021
• Workshop date: 20 or 24 October 2021 (TBA)

Submission guidelines

Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other
workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work
as well as work in progress. One submission format is accepted: full paper, which must follow
the formatting guidelines of the main conference ACM MM 2021. Full papers should be from 6 to
8 pages (plus 2 additional pages for the references), encoded as PDF and using the ACM Article
Template. For paper guidelines, please visit: https://2021.acmmm.org/regular-papers .

Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform
with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field,
they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop,
scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the
accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. The workshop
papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Organizers

Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN - Gustave Eiffel University, France)
Margarita Khokhlova (Fujitsu France)
Ronak Kosti (Pattern Recognition Lab / DHSS, FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany)
Li Weng (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)

Looking forward to seeing you in Chengdu (virtually or not)!
The workshop organizers

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Regards, 
Ronak Kosti, PhD
Post Doc Researcher 
Pattern Recognition Lab,
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg
Email: ronak.kosti@fau.de
Web: https://lme.tf.fau.de/person/kosti
Twitter: @r_rkosti

 9th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN BYZANTINE AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES “DAYS OF JUSTINIAN I", Skopje, 12-14 November, 2021

Special Thematic Strand for 2021: Ideology

Keynote speaker: Professor JOHN HALDON


Organized by the Institute of National History, Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje and University of Bologna, in partnership with Faculty of Theology "St. Clement of Ohrid", Skopje and AHRM, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

The International symposium in Byzantine and Medieval Studies "Days of Justinian I" is an annual interdisciplinary scholarly forum aimed at the presentation of the latest research followed by discussions on various aspects of Byzantine and Medieval Studies before 1500; this includes the treatment and interpretation of cultural, historical and spiritual heritage in contemporary modern Europe. The Symposium is dedicated to Emperor Justinian I with the aim to bring together scholars from around the world to address a broad range of issues related to Byzantium and the European Middle Ages, comprising the exploration of the cultural and historical legacy as an integrative component of the diversities and commonalities of Europe and wider.

This year the special thematic strand Ideology will instigate scholarly debate about the different aspects of ideology in Byzantium and in Medieval Western Europe. Ranging from the general belief of the people about their world, to the particular sets of ideas and notions, the ideology operated at different levels in the Middle Ages, articulating the power and impacting the societies. Various questions will be raised in exploring the ideology as a function of propaganda that legitimized a political order and justified influence. This will encompass an ideological framework of imperial action, competition over status and identity, rival ideological claims to the Roman Empire, relationship with nationalism.

The Symposium will embrace broader geographical areas and chronological scope, addressing wide range of conceptual issues in examining the ways of which ideology functioned in different political, social, economic, cultural, religious conditions in the Eastern Roman Empire and in Medieval Western Europe, generating specific sets of ideas, values and beliefs that changed with time.

Please note that the Organizing Committee will be closely following the Covid-19 situation and will organize blended sessions with physical presence and online presentations for remote participation for those participants who will be prevented from traveling to Skopje due to the pandemic.

Papers are welcomed on various topics that may include, but are not limited to the following areas of discussion:

⊕ Ideology and Identity

⊕ Imperial ideology and political thought

⊕ Ideology and social practices

⊕ Religion and Ideology

⊕ Ideology and the political order

⊕ Ideology and rhetoric

⊕ Ideology and propaganda

⊕ War Ideology

⊕ Iconography and Ideology

⊕ Ideology and the Romanness

⊕ Ideological claims to the Roman Empire

⊕ Ideology and ethnicity

⊕ Ideology and assimilation

⊕ Historiography and Ideology

⊕ Ideology and diplomacy

⊕ Ideology and education

⊕ Ideological content of law

⊕ Ideology and literary practice

⊕ Art and architecture as an expression of ideology

⊕ Ideology and gender

⊕ Ideology and music

⊕ Ideology, customs and traditions

⊕ Ideology, Heresy and violence

⊕ Ideology and Cultural heritage: Interpretation, restoration, protection

⊕ Ideological claims and nationalism



First Deadline for submitting the abstract of the papers: 15 August, 2021

Second Deadline for submitting the abstract of the papers: 15 October, 2021

Notification of acceptance for early applicants: 20 August, 2021

Notification of acceptance for other applicants: 20 October, 2021

Deadline for submitting the full papers for publication: 1 March, 2022.

Please send the application form to the following address: days.justinian@gmail.com

Presentation of the papers will be limited to 10 minutes.

Working languages: Macedonian and English.

No participation fee is required.

Travel and accommodation expenses are covered by the participants themselves.

The full papers will be peer-reviewed.

Papers delivered at the Symposium will be published in the Proceedings of the Symposium.

For further inquiries you can contact the Secretary of the Symposium, Prof. Dragan Gjalevski: days.justinian@gmail.com



You can download the Call for papers at:

https://bit.ly/3uEume0



Application form at:

https://bit.ly/3dbBXLu



Please check the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/days.justinian and website www.ini.ukim.mk for news on the Symposium, the agenda, special events and the online application form.



Symposiarch: Professor Mitko B. Panov

 The Centre for Advanced Studies “Migration and Mobility in Late 

Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” at the University of Tübingen, 
Germany, headed by Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold and Sebastian 
Schmidt-Hofner, invites applications for resident fellowships starting 
in 2021 and 2022. The fellowships are available for a duration between 
one and twelve months.

The Centre for Advanced Studies, funded by the German Research 
Foundation (DFG), brings together scholars from a wide range of 
disciplines working on migration and mobility in Europe and the 
Mediterranean between 250 and 900 CE. The overall aim of the Centre is 
to explore new approaches to migration and mobility in this period and 
to set the scholarly debate in the field on a new footing. For more 
details on the program, see https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/de/93696__;!!DZ3fjg!sOGP1L4jlrqcibPwYTvfXCIWNw2o3xnMKRPEkPX4hAC1kAavjq7v1tWdCriNuYw$

Fellowships are available for scholars at all stages of their academic 
career who have completed their doctoral degree and established an 
independent research profile. Applicants should be engaged in a 
research project in any relevant discipline that is related to the 
Centre’s interests in migration and mobility in the period and area in 
question. The Centre also welcomes applications from scholars working 
on migration and mobility in the contemporary world whose research has 
a strong focus on theoretical and methodological issues.

Fellows are required to reside in Tübingen, where they pursue their 
own research project while also participating in the colloquia held at 
the Centre. For the duration of their stay fellows receive a 
remuneration covering accommodation, travel, and/or living expenses in 
accordance with their needs and the pertinent regulations of Tübingen 
University and the DFG.

Applications should include a CV, a research proposal for the project 
pursued at Tübingen (2000 words), and an indication of the months the 
applicant wants to spend at the Centre and the kind of financial 
support they require. All materials should be sent in a single pdf 
document to luisa.luiz@uni-tuebingen.de by May 31, 2021.

Should you have any questions pertaining to the details of the 
fellowship program or the application, please contact our coordinator 
Thomas Kohl: thomas.kohl@uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kohl
DFG-Kollegforschergruppe "Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und 
Frühmittelalter"
Keplerstraße 2, 72074 Tübingen

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 Applications are open for the online summer university school at the Central European University: 

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/political-theology-2021

Dates: 19 July - 26 July 2021

Inquiries to: andra.juganaru@gmail.com or gerebygy@ceu.edu

György Geréby 

associate professor

director SLTG
Mediaeval Studies Department
Central European University PU

Quellenstrasse 51-55
1100 Wien

Austria

Landline (home): + 36.1.3412634
Mobile: +36.30.9969874
Skype: gyorgy.gereby

 We would like to kindly invite you to the International Conference City, Citizen & Citizenship. New Perspectives on the Middle Ages, AD 400-1600, which will be held on a digital platform on 16-18 June, 2021.  The conference is organised by the NWO-VICI research project Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, 400-1100, in close cooperation with the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies. A short abstract with more detailed information can be found below.

For more information, including a full programme, please visit the Citizenship Discourses project website:

You can register for any or all of the days by sending an email with your name and affiliation (if applicable) to citizenshipdiscourses@uu.nl .

We hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Merel de Bruin – van de Beek and Robert Flierman

City, Citizen & Citizenship:

This international conference explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, bringing together contributions on the early, high and later Middle Ages, covering both the medieval East and West, and representing a wide variety of disciplinary angles and sources. From scriptural cities in illuminated manuscripts to treatises on urban hygiene and civic government, the conference aims to understand how, why and in what contexts medieval individuals and communities reached for the concept of the city and the citizen.