"The After Constantine Journal has published its 4th Call for Papers. Candidates are invited to submit their papers by September 20, 2023, to afterconstantine@mail.com".

The link is here: https://www.afterconstantine.com/post/call-for-papers-after-constantine-issue-4-2024

 Priests and their Manuscripts in the Holy Land and Sinai

 

Conference at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Institute for Medieval Research, Department of Byzantine Research

8–10 November 2023

 

Call for Papers

 

Where did priests learn to read and write? What did they copy and where? How did their libraries look? What did they do with their books? Little is known about these topics, and a general overview is missing, especially if we focus on clerics active in the Holy Land and Sinai. By addressing these and related topics, this conference will aim at gaining a better understanding about the social and cultural role of priests latu sensu (preferably priests and priestmonks, but also monks, nuns, lectors, deacons, bishops) in the Holy Land and Sinai.

We invite the submission of abstracts (300 words max.) for 20-minute papers dealing with manuscripts copied, owned, and used by priests in Sinai and Palestine during the Byzantine and immediate post-Byzantine period in the languages of the Christian Orient. Contributions by historians, archaeologists, art historians, epigraphers, liturgiologists, which aim at shedding light on the social and cultural role of priests in this region and historical period are welcome as well.

Topics that that may be addressed include the following, but participants are encouraged to develop their own questions and approaches within the parameters of the conference theme:
Social context: Which sources offer information about the social role and cultural life of priests in the Holy Land and Sinai? What can we learn from them?
Priests as copyists of manuscripts: Where and how did priests learn how to read and write? What was their level of literacy? Which script styles did they use? Which techniques of book-making did they employ? How many languages did they know and write?
Priests as owners of manuscripts: Which manuscripts did priests own? What do we know about their private ‘libraries’?
Priests and their use of manuscripts: Which signs of use (including annotations, colophons, etc.) did priests leave on the manuscripts they used? Where were manuscripts used and how?

Organizer: Dr. Giulia Rossetto (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

 

Please send the title of your paper and an abstract (max. 300 words) to Giulia Rossetto (giulia.rossetto@oeaw.ac.at) no later than March 15, 2023. The speakers will be notified by April 15.

If selected, we can offer you reimbursement for your travel expenses (second-class) as well as pre-paid accommodation for two nights in Vienna. 

This conference is organized within the framework of the project “Priests, Books and the Library at Saint Catherine’s (Sinai)” (T1192 – G25) funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

 Deadline Extended: Feb 7th 

 

Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts: A Work-in-Progress Workshop 

 

MAY 29, 2023 ~ TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

 

The Early Irish Hands project is inviting applications for the first of three Work-in-Progress Workshops. This first workshop will address the theme of materiality.

Participants are invited to present ongoing research on the intersection of materiality and regionality, dating, palaeography, scribal cultures, or transmission. Comparative and transnational approaches are especially encouraged.

Proposals (250w) for 20min presentations, along with a short bio, may be sent to Dr Nicole Volmering at volmern@tcd.ie. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Feb 17th. 

 

CfP EAA 2023 Belfast, #361: Weaving Big Data for the Digital Middle Ages

by Maria Vargha

Apologies for cross-posting!

Dear colleagues,

We welcome submissions to our session, #361: ‘Weaving Big Data for the Digital Middle Ages’ at the next meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Belfast (20th August – 2nd September 2023), organised by Stefan Eichert (Natural History Museum, Vienna), Petar Parvanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia), Nina Richards (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) and Mária Vargha (Charles University, Prague). Our session is a follow-up to a very successful meeting last year, aiming to bring together archaeologists and medievalists showcasing diverse digital approaches to the research of the Medieval era.

The session is interested in case studies enhancing the narrative value of the traditional foundation of our discipline like artifacts, ecofacts, and built features. The digital tools allow fascinating and thought-provoking reconstruction of their original context and the often-invisible networks connecting disparate source types. Further, the digital approach intertwines with multiple themes highlighted on this year’s event through its sustainability, accessibility, and expanding relevance in the contemporary world.

The session welcomes papers focusing on the Middle Ages, within the following topics:

-Digital collection of archaeological sites

-Digital collection and analysis with burial archaeology

-Digital analysis of large-scale archaeological data

-Digital analysis of Medieval processes by archaeological data

-Digital collections and analysis of Medieval material culture

Abstracts can be submitted via https://eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2023/ until the 9th of February. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the session. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

On behalf of the organisers,

Mária Vargha

 CFP of a session, “The Materiality of Lived Religion on the Atlantic Edge,” at Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 2023 in Belfast.

 

Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are welcome to apply. The deadline to apply is February 9.

 

For further information about the event, visit https://eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2023/

 

 Dear colleagues,

 

Thanks to the generous support of Wallace Johnson and the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, I am delighted to announce the Call for Proposals for the fourth year of the Wallace Johnson First Book Mentoring Program. The program provides support and mentorship to early career scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early Middle Ages. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters, and they will meet with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers.

The program has been developed specifically to aid pre-tenure and untenured scholars, as well as those in non-tenurable positions (including adjuncts and full-time term faculty) and is not limited to a specific discipline, region field, or methodology. For the purposes of this program, "law" is broadly defined and need not be limited to legislation, legal documentation, or specific forms of legal process. Although applicants’ research must concern law, they need not self-identify as legal scholars. Applications are due by Saturday, April 15th, 2023.

 

The program includes:

• a series of online workshops on the writing and publication process during which participants meet with

senior scholars and have the opportunity to discuss their projects with commissioning editors

• pairing with a senior scholar as a mentor who, over the course of a year, will help the participant pursue book

contracts and shape their projects for publication

• periodic web "meet ups," both one-on-one with mentors and as a group, that will enable participants to

workshop chapters and proposals

• A small stipend to support research-related expenses

 

As the Johnson Program is intended to cast a wide net, please do forward this announcement to other ListServs, post it on social media, and pass it along to anyone who might be interested. More information, especially concerning application procedures and the 2020 selection committee, can be found at https://wmich.edu/medieval/research/johnson-program. If you have any questions, please do feel free to contact me (andrew.rabin@louisville.edu) or Robert Berkhofer (robert.berkhofer@wmich.edu).

 

At a time when the field of medieval studies is seeking new ways to support younger scholars, this program offers a wonderful opportunity to aid those at the beginning of their careers, advance research on early medieval law and legal culture, and to develop connections across disciplines. I’m very excited by the Johnson Program’s accomplishments so far and I look forward to seeing what it will look like as we move into our fourth year.

 

All best regards,

Andrew

 

 

 

Andrew Rabin

Professor and Vice Chair

Department of English

University of Louisville 

 43^rd 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 43^rd 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 43^rd 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 44^th 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/SBLxvi9nVXzc2tt66 

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!