The Society for Late Antiquity (SLA) invites abstracts for a panel on "Animal-Human Interactions in Late Antiquity" to be held at the SCS (Society for Classical Studies) conference in Chicago in January, 2024. Full information at the following URL
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Friday, January 6, 2023
Call for papers
Conference: International Society of Neoplatonic Studies
Panel: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism (284-1453)
Date of Conference: 13-18 June 2023
Venue: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Conference website
Deadline: 16th January 2023
One page abstract to be sent to Sarah Wear (swear@franciscan.edu) and Frederick Lauritzen (frederick.lauritzen@
Papers presented in Athens will be considered for publication in the series Theandrites: Studies in Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism (284-1453) (after peer review)
This panel focuses on the reception of Platonism in the Christian philosophy of the Byzantine era (4th-15th centuries), an era marking the creation of a unique dialogue between Hellenic Platonism and the theology of the Church Fathers and Byzantine Christians. The panel is open to all issues relating to Byzantine Platonism. This includes: Christians in the Greek-speaking East and their relationship to the Latin tradition in the West, as well as the Christian Platonism found in contemporary church fathers, the Greek-speaking Christians in late antique Gaza, Athens, and Alexandria; the philosophical theology of Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus, and John Damascene; the later reception of Platonic theories on the soul, time, and eternity, and metaphysics, as well as ritual among Greek Christians and Hellenes. We welcome papers that trace Platonic ideas, terminology, and methodology as they move throughout the Eastern Roman Empire and the Byzantine Orthodox world.
Panel: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism (284-1453)
Date of Conference: 13-18 June 2023
Venue: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Conference website
Deadline: 16th January 2023
One page abstract to be sent to Sarah Wear (swear@franciscan.edu) and Frederick Lauritzen (frederick.lauritzen@
Papers presented in Athens will be considered for publication in the series Theandrites: Studies in Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism (284-1453) (after peer review)
This panel focuses on the reception of Platonism in the Christian philosophy of the Byzantine era (4th-15th centuries), an era marking the creation of a unique dialogue between Hellenic Platonism and the theology of the Church Fathers and Byzantine Christians. The panel is open to all issues relating to Byzantine Platonism. This includes: Christians in the Greek-speaking East and their relationship to the Latin tradition in the West, as well as the Christian Platonism found in contemporary church fathers, the Greek-speaking Christians in late antique Gaza, Athens, and Alexandria; the philosophical theology of Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus, and John Damascene; the later reception of Platonic theories on the soul, time, and eternity, and metaphysics, as well as ritual among Greek Christians and Hellenes. We welcome papers that trace Platonic ideas, terminology, and methodology as they move throughout the Eastern Roman Empire and the Byzantine Orthodox world.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Just a reminder that next Monday (5 Dec) we'll be hosting our first ever hybrid seminar for ISMR! Our speaker will be Emma Nuding on "St Guthlac of Crowland’s twelfth-century Translatio cum Miraculis and its Pilgrim Audiences"
Cynthia Hahn argues in The Reliquary Effect that reliquaries ‘make the relic’ by labeling, ornamenting and framing their holy contents for pilgrim audiences. This paper takes this insight of Hahn’s and apply it to another medium: to written, pictorial or oral texts employed around the shrine of a saint.
In this talk, Emma Nuding argues that such ‘tomb texts’, in this specific reception context of the saint’s shrine, act as ‘textual reliquaries’, frames which enrich and elaborate on the saint’s remains through descriptive and narrative ornamentation. One such text is St Guthlac of Crowland’s twelfth-century Translatio Cum Miraculis, written to commemorate the saint’s 1136 translation in the Lincolnshire fens. Versions of this Latin text might have been displayed on wooden tabulae around Guthlac’s tomb; regardless, its content likely informed the shrine-side interpretation offered by custodians to visiting pilgrims. Details from the translatio would offer its audiences a partial origin story of the saintly corpus in front of them; details from the miracula would give digressions on which to meditate.
Three aspects of the Translatio Cum Miraculis in particular seem to ‘make’ Guthlac’s relic by speaking to the ‘horizon of expectations’ of twelfth-century pilgrim audiences at Crowland. Firstly in its depiction of a women religious, Gunnhilda, the text seems to speak to mixed-gender audiences who valued women’s leadership roles in saint cults; secondly, in the inclusion of two miracula set in the Humberside area, the text seems to speak to pilgrims from the whole of the Diocese of Lincolnshire, as well as merchants who traveled through the fens en route to the Wash; finally, in a miraculum concerning a manic knight, Rainald, we see that the text is crafted to speak to lay audiences immersed in Romance narratives. In speaking the language of Guthlac’s twelfth-century pilgrims, the Translatio cum Miraculis was well-placed to inform shrineside discourses at Crowland: to not only ‘make’ the relic, but also ‘make’ the pilgrimage.
In this talk, Emma Nuding argues that such ‘tomb texts’, in this specific reception context of the saint’s shrine, act as ‘textual reliquaries’, frames which enrich and elaborate on the saint’s remains through descriptive and narrative ornamentation. One such text is St Guthlac of Crowland’s twelfth-century Translatio Cum Miraculis, written to commemorate the saint’s 1136 translation in the Lincolnshire fens. Versions of this Latin text might have been displayed on wooden tabulae around Guthlac’s tomb; regardless, its content likely informed the shrine-side interpretation offered by custodians to visiting pilgrims. Details from the translatio would offer its audiences a partial origin story of the saintly corpus in front of them; details from the miracula would give digressions on which to meditate.
Three aspects of the Translatio Cum Miraculis in particular seem to ‘make’ Guthlac’s relic by speaking to the ‘horizon of expectations’ of twelfth-century pilgrim audiences at Crowland. Firstly in its depiction of a women religious, Gunnhilda, the text seems to speak to mixed-gender audiences who valued women’s leadership roles in saint cults; secondly, in the inclusion of two miracula set in the Humberside area, the text seems to speak to pilgrims from the whole of the Diocese of Lincolnshire, as well as merchants who traveled through the fens en route to the Wash; finally, in a miraculum concerning a manic knight, Rainald, we see that the text is crafted to speak to lay audiences immersed in Romance narratives. In speaking the language of Guthlac’s twelfth-century pilgrims, the Translatio cum Miraculis was well-placed to inform shrineside discourses at Crowland: to not only ‘make’ the relic, but also ‘make’ the pilgrimage.
This seminar will last approximately 60 minutes including a Q&A, and will begin at 6pm GMT on Monday 5 December 2022. It is a hybrid event, which will be held in the Huntingdon Room in King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York YO1 7EP, and which will also be broadcast live over Zoom. To register for the Zoom link, sign up at eventbrite.
The Zoom link for this session will be emailed to you as part of your confirmation of registration (please check your spam/junk folder for this email if you cannot find it). This seminar is part of the Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion: Impositions and Negotiations series - for more info, see here or email Tim Wingard (tim.wingard@york.ac.uk) or Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (emmie.price-goodfellow@york.
The Zoom link for this session will be emailed to you as part of your confirmation of registration (please check your spam/junk folder for this email if you cannot find it). This seminar is part of the Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion: Impositions and Negotiations series - for more info, see here or email Tim Wingard (tim.wingard@york.ac.uk) or Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (emmie.price-goodfellow@york.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature
The 30th Annual Meeting
of the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature will be
held April
14th & 15th 2023 in
the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex on the beautiful campus
of Bemidji State University, Bemidji MN.
Dr. Richard McCoy,
Distinguished Professor, English and Distinguished Professor, Global Early
Modern Studies, Emeritus, of Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, will
present our keynote address, “Shakespeare’s Boy Heroines.”
The organizers invite faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars to submit a one-page proposal for twenty-minute presentations on all aspects of teaching, interpretation, and research concerning early British literature by 31 March 2023.
Email proposals
to stephen.hamrick@bemidjistate.edu
Information &
Registration can be accessed via npcebl.org
Monday, November 14, 2022
43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:
Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Keene State College
Keene, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 14-15, 2023
Call for Papers and Sessions
We are delighted to announce that the 43rd Medieval and Renaissance Forum will take place in person on Friday, April 14 and Saturday April 15, 2023 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. The theme of this year’s conference, our fifth dedicated to the five senses, is Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, focusing on the sense of touch, the sensory, and affect. As always, we also welcome papers on any and every topic related to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance as well as papers on medievalism.
While we plan to hold the 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum in person with a limited number of virtual presentations, the entire event may have to be moved online should the safety of our participants require it.
We welcome abstracts (one page or less) from faculty, students, and independent scholars. Please include in your proposal: 1. a title for your paper, 2. your status (faculty, graduate, undergraduate, or independent scholar), 3. your affiliation (if relevant), and 4. full contact information, including email address. If you are an undergraduate student we ask that you obtain a faculty member's approval and sponsorship.
Graduate students are eligible for consideration for the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award upon submission of their essays by April 1, 2023. The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will win $100 to be used for registration and/or travel expenses to the 44th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (travel expenses including but not limited to transportation to and from the conference and accommodations while in Keene). The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will be announced at lunch on Friday, April 14, 2023.
Please submit abstracts and full contact information on the google form available at:
https://forms.gle/
This year’s keynote speaker is Lauren Mancia, Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College, who will speak on “(Reach Out and) Touch Medieval Monastic Devotion.”
Dr. Mancia focuses her research on the devotional and material culture of medieval European monasteries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. More recently, Professor Mancia has turned to the field of performance studies both to better understand medieval European monastic devotion and to innovate ways to perform that understanding for contemporary audiences. Professor Mancia’s first book, Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (2019/paper 2021), sheds light on medieval monastic practices of affective piety. Her second book, Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Toward God is forthcoming in Spring 2023 from ARC Humanities/Amsterdam University Press.
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2023
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2023
As always, we look forward to greeting returning and first-time participants to Keene in April!
Thursday, November 3, 2022
International Anchoritic Society Conference Call for Papers July 2023
Conference hosted by Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, July 26-29, 2023. These dates are inclusive of the conference excursion.
Theme: Anchorites and the City (broadly interpreted)
Anchorholds were located at key points in a village or city. Many of them were built contiguous to church walls. Still others were built into city walls, especially by bridges and gates. In this manner, anchorites themselves were often situated at the heart of political, social, and religious networks within their own city and beyond.
Papers could explore networks of prayer, communal interaction, parish responsibilities, archaeological structure of cells, political maneuvering between locations and anchorites, or any other topic that sees anchorites as connected to the local community at hand rather than the larger sphere of the Church or country. In other words, “anchorites and the city” is loosely interpreted, and we encourage you to submit anything for consideration. In fact, we especially encourage papers on post-medieval anchorites.
And, as always, we accept papers on hermits and other reclusive and/or enclosed religious figures in any world religion.
Keynote speakers: Liz Herbert McAvoy and Michelle M. Sauer speaking on “post-medieval anchorites.”
Please send abstracts of 200-250 words to iasconference@gmail.com
Deadline January 1, 2023
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Conference: Multilingual Literary Practices In A Multicultural World, From Archaic Greece To The Byzantine Empire
November 14, 2023 - November 15, 2023BELGIAN ACADEMY IN ROME
https://classics.ufl.edu/
CALL FOR PAPERS
Multilingualism in the ancient world has been of great interest to linguists and literary scholars alike. Linguists investigate borrowings and structural convergences between two or more languages and explore broader sociolinguistic questions such as regional diversification and linguistic ideologies (e.g. Adams et al. 2002; Bentein 2016; Clackson et al. 2020; Hogeterp 2018; Kaimio 1979). Literary scholars look into the socio-cultural context within which literary works were produced and received and the linguistic background that Greek-speaking and writing authors had – including the linguistic norms and standards that they tried to uphold in the Greek language itself – framing it in the broader question of (the struggle for) cultural identity (Adams 2020; Andrade 2013; Bozia 2018; Goldhill 2011, Lee at al. 2014). For both research strands, Archaic Greek dialectal variety and its literary manifestations, as well as multidialectal and multilingual contacts in Classical Greek, have been of interest. Similarly, the Post-classical period (including the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods) has been of particular relevance as a time of particularly intense language contact.
Scholars working in these two research strands tend to focus on different types of sources – literary and non-literary sources such as papyri and inscriptions – and adopt different methodologies, focusing on different types of research questions. The main aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, methodologies, and sources with the objective of developing a more integrated approach toward multilingual practices in various ways:
TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
JAMES CLACKSON, University of Cambridge
MARK JANSE, Ghent University
ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU, University of Reading
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals (500 words max) by December 15th, 2022 to Eleni Bozia (bozia@ufl.edu), Klaas Bentein (Klaas.Bentein@UGent.be), and Chiara Monaco (Chiara.Monaco@UGent.be).
REFERENCES
Adams, J. N., Mark Janse, and Simon Swain. 2002. Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Text. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Adams, Sean. 2020. Greek Genres and Jewish Authors. Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era. Baylor University Press.
Andrade, Nathanael J. 2013. Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World. Greek Culture in the Roman World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bentein, Klaas. 2016. Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be-Constructions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bozia, Eleni. 2018. “Immigration as acculturation: voluntary displacement in the Roman Empire.” In D. Arroyo (ed.) Displacement in language, Literature and Culture – 2016 CMLL Symposium, Selected Proceedings. Benalmádena, Málaga, Spain. 49-82.
Clackson, J., Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapetra, and Nicholas Zair. (eds.) 2020. Migration, Mobility, and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press.
Fournet, Jean-Luc. 2013. “Culture Grecque et Document Dans l’Égypte de l’Antiquité Tardive.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 43: 135–62.
Goldhill, Simon. 2011. Being Greek under Rome. Cambridge, GBR: Cambridge University Press.
Hogeterp, Albert L. A. 2018. Semitisms in Luke’s Greek: A Descriptive Analysis of Lexical and Syntactical Domains of Semitic Language Influence in Luke’s Gospel. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 401. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Kaimio, Jorma. 1979. “The Romans and the Greek Language.” Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 64: 1–379.
Lee, B.T., Ellen Finkelpearl, and Luca Graverini (eds.) 2014. Apuleius and Africa. Routledge.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
ELENI BOZIA, University of Florida
KLAAS BENTEIN, Ghent University
CHIARA MONACO, Ghent University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Multilingualism in the ancient world has been of great interest to linguists and literary scholars alike. Linguists investigate borrowings and structural convergences between two or more languages and explore broader sociolinguistic questions such as regional diversification and linguistic ideologies (e.g. Adams et al. 2002; Bentein 2016; Clackson et al. 2020; Hogeterp 2018; Kaimio 1979). Literary scholars look into the socio-cultural context within which literary works were produced and received and the linguistic background that Greek-speaking and writing authors had – including the linguistic norms and standards that they tried to uphold in the Greek language itself – framing it in the broader question of (the struggle for) cultural identity (Adams 2020; Andrade 2013; Bozia 2018; Goldhill 2011, Lee at al. 2014). For both research strands, Archaic Greek dialectal variety and its literary manifestations, as well as multidialectal and multilingual contacts in Classical Greek, have been of interest. Similarly, the Post-classical period (including the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods) has been of particular relevance as a time of particularly intense language contact.
Scholars working in these two research strands tend to focus on different types of sources – literary and non-literary sources such as papyri and inscriptions – and adopt different methodologies, focusing on different types of research questions. The main aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, methodologies, and sources with the objective of developing a more integrated approach toward multilingual practices in various ways:
- by developing a diachronic approach to the study of Greek and its contact languages, from the Archaic to the Byzantine period,
- by including types of sources traditionally neglected, such as translations and bilingual metalinguistic sources like grammars & dictionaries,
- by situating multilingual literature in its socio-cultural context, looking at people with multilingual competencies, the intellectual communities in which they operated, and the factors driving particular linguistic and literary choices,
- by integrating new theoretical approaches, such as cognitive and socio-pragmatic ones, to create a framework for the study of multilingualism in the ancient Greek world.
- The general goal of the conference is to understand better what the linguistic repertoire of multilingual speakers and writers looked like, how and why writers brought together features (ranging from specific linguistic patterns to larger and more abstract cultural forms such as genres) from different cultural traditions, and what the intended effect was, or, vice versa, why they consciously resisted them. Importantly, under ‘multilingual competencies,’ we also understand the existence of different linguistic registers and dialects inside a single language. Finally, the conference focuses on literary sources, but it is also interested in overlaps with genres that have traditionally been defined as ‘non-literary,’ a distinction that recent research has problematized (e.g., Fournet 2013).
TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
- Systematic studies of multilingualism in the ancient Greek and Byzantine worlds:
- Cognitive and socio-pragmatic approaches to ancient Greek, its evolution, and contact languages
- (Re)-definitions and applications of concepts of linguistics and sociolinguistics on Greek linguistic competencies
- Consideration of different forms of multilingualism (translations, “errors” in translations, lexica, etc.)
- Studies of linguistic varieties in different literary genres (such as dialectal varieties) as forms of multilingualism
- Analysis of multilingual lexica/grammars
- Studies of private writings and others meant for public consumption to determine levels of multilingualism
- Considerations of multilingualism in literature in conjunction with multiculturalism (lexical and social variations, multilingual literary practices alongside multicultural ones)
- Insights into the reception of ancient texts through translations.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
JAMES CLACKSON, University of Cambridge
MARK JANSE, Ghent University
ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU, University of Reading
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals (500 words max) by December 15th, 2022 to Eleni Bozia (bozia@ufl.edu), Klaas Bentein (Klaas.Bentein@UGent.be), and Chiara Monaco (Chiara.Monaco@UGent.be).
REFERENCES
Adams, J. N., Mark Janse, and Simon Swain. 2002. Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Text. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Adams, Sean. 2020. Greek Genres and Jewish Authors. Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era. Baylor University Press.
Andrade, Nathanael J. 2013. Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World. Greek Culture in the Roman World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bentein, Klaas. 2016. Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be-Constructions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bozia, Eleni. 2018. “Immigration as acculturation: voluntary displacement in the Roman Empire.” In D. Arroyo (ed.) Displacement in language, Literature and Culture – 2016 CMLL Symposium, Selected Proceedings. Benalmádena, Málaga, Spain. 49-82.
Clackson, J., Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapetra, and Nicholas Zair. (eds.) 2020. Migration, Mobility, and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press.
Fournet, Jean-Luc. 2013. “Culture Grecque et Document Dans l’Égypte de l’Antiquité Tardive.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 43: 135–62.
Goldhill, Simon. 2011. Being Greek under Rome. Cambridge, GBR: Cambridge University Press.
Hogeterp, Albert L. A. 2018. Semitisms in Luke’s Greek: A Descriptive Analysis of Lexical and Syntactical Domains of Semitic Language Influence in Luke’s Gospel. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 401. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Kaimio, Jorma. 1979. “The Romans and the Greek Language.” Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 64: 1–379.
Lee, B.T., Ellen Finkelpearl, and Luca Graverini (eds.) 2014. Apuleius and Africa. Routledge.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
ELENI BOZIA, University of Florida
KLAAS BENTEIN, Ghent University
CHIARA MONACO, Ghent University
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