We would like to extend a second call for papers for the conference,
which will be held here at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,
October 15-17. Our conference theme will be "Knowing and Unknowing,"
and our plenary speakers are Sarah Kay (French, Princeton) and John
Tolan (History, Nantes).
The conference website gives more information about the conference,
including a complete call for papers, and will include registration
information at a later date. Please make all submissions
electronically, on the website. Once you have made your submission,
you should receive a confirmation email.
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/sema2009
A note on accommodations: Because of the current economic crisis, we
are trying our best to make the conference as affordable as possible.
This is one reason to make your hotel reservations early on,
especially if you are interested in staying at the Scarritt Bennett
Center, where the conference itself will be held. Another reason is
that the conference weekend coincides with homecoming weekend at
Vanderbilt: this means that prices at other Nashville hotels will most
likely be inflated, and that rooms will be limited.
(We have put more information on different options for accommodation
on the conference website.)
Please address any questions about the website or about conference
logistics either to me (rachel.e.early@vanderbilt.edu) or to Lynn
Ramey (lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu).
Again, we hope to see you all in October!
Rachel Early
Graduate Student
Vanderbilt University
Department of French and Italian
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute (http://www.bethmardutho.org) published a new issue of its peer-reviewed academic periodical Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (Vol. 12, No. 1). The issue can be found a http://bethmardutho.cua.edu/Hugoye/.
Contents:
Abrohom Nuro (1923-2009).
George Kiraz, Beth Mardutho
Papers
A Guide to Narsai's Homilies
Sebastian P. Brock, Oxford University
Research on the Old Syriac Heritage of the Peshitta Gospels. A Collation of MS Bibl. Nationale syr. 30 (Paris) .
Andreas Juckel, University of Münster
Dendrites and Other Standers in the History of the Exploits of Bishop Paul of Qanetos and Priest John of Edessa.
Kyle Smith, Duke University
Report on the State of Preservation of the Byzantine Mosaics of the Saint Gabriel Monastery of Qartmin, Tur Abdin.
Patrick Blanc, Sébastian Courtois, and Alain Desreumaux
From Damascus to Edessa. Travelogue of a Visit to Syria and Turkey.
Ute Possekel
Publications and Book Reviews
Recent Books on Syriac Topics.
Sebastian P. Brock, Oxford University
Pauline Allen, Majella Franzmann, and Rick Strelan, “I Sowed Fruits into Hearts” (Odes Sol. 17:13): Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke.
Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University
Brian E. Colless, The Wisdom of the Pearlers: An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism .
Robert Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church
Bas ter Haar Romeny, ed. The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy.
Edward G. Mathews, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary
Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma, Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction, and Appropriation.
Joel Walker, University of Washington, Seattle
Publishers interested in advertising in future issues of Hugoye may contact the General Editor at helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com.
About Beth Mardutho and Hugoye
Established in 1992, Beth Mardutho seeks to promote the study and preservation of the Syriac heritage and language, and to facilitate opportunities for people to pursue the study of this ancient legacy globally. Published semiannually since 1988, Hugoye is a peer-reviewed academic journal that is dedicated entirely to the Syriac tradition. [www.bethmardutho.org]
Contents:
Abrohom Nuro (1923-2009).
George Kiraz, Beth Mardutho
Papers
A Guide to Narsai's Homilies
Sebastian P. Brock, Oxford University
Research on the Old Syriac Heritage of the Peshitta Gospels. A Collation of MS Bibl. Nationale syr. 30 (Paris) .
Andreas Juckel, University of Münster
Dendrites and Other Standers in the History of the Exploits of Bishop Paul of Qanetos and Priest John of Edessa.
Kyle Smith, Duke University
Report on the State of Preservation of the Byzantine Mosaics of the Saint Gabriel Monastery of Qartmin, Tur Abdin.
Patrick Blanc, Sébastian Courtois, and Alain Desreumaux
From Damascus to Edessa. Travelogue of a Visit to Syria and Turkey.
Ute Possekel
Publications and Book Reviews
Recent Books on Syriac Topics.
Sebastian P. Brock, Oxford University
Pauline Allen, Majella Franzmann, and Rick Strelan, “I Sowed Fruits into Hearts” (Odes Sol. 17:13): Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke.
Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University
Brian E. Colless, The Wisdom of the Pearlers: An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism .
Robert Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church
Bas ter Haar Romeny, ed. The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy.
Edward G. Mathews, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary
Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma, Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction, and Appropriation.
Joel Walker, University of Washington, Seattle
Publishers interested in advertising in future issues of Hugoye may contact the General Editor at helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com.
About Beth Mardutho and Hugoye
Established in 1992, Beth Mardutho seeks to promote the study and preservation of the Syriac heritage and language, and to facilitate opportunities for people to pursue the study of this ancient legacy globally. Published semiannually since 1988, Hugoye is a peer-reviewed academic journal that is dedicated entirely to the Syriac tradition. [www.bethmardutho.org]
un colloque sur le sang pour début juillet 2009
l'université d'Aix-la-Chapelle organise un colloque sur le sang pour
début juillet 2009 et lance un appel à contributions. On ne donne pas
d'indications sur les langues acceptées; en Allemagne, une communication
en anglais ne devrait pas poser problème, mais il vaut peut-être mieux
se renseigner. La plupart se passera certainement en allemand. Voici en
tout cas le lien:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11091
début juillet 2009 et lance un appel à contributions. On ne donne pas
d'indications sur les langues acceptées; en Allemagne, une communication
en anglais ne devrait pas poser problème, mais il vaut peut-être mieux
se renseigner. La plupart se passera certainement en allemand. Voici en
tout cas le lien:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11091
Eighth European Social Science History Conference
The Eighth European Social Science History Conference will take place on
13-16 April 2010 in Ghent, Belgium. This biennial conference dedicated
to the social and economic history of all periods and places welcomes
offers of papers from ancient and medieval historians.
For further details, see the Call for Papers at
http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/callforpapers2010.php
The deadline is imminent: 1 May 20009.
Offers of papers should be made through the website, and will then be
directed by the organisation to the relevant Network co-ordinators.
13-16 April 2010 in Ghent, Belgium. This biennial conference dedicated
to the social and economic history of all periods and places welcomes
offers of papers from ancient and medieval historians.
For further details, see the Call for Papers at
http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/callforpapers2010.php
The deadline is imminent: 1 May 20009.
Offers of papers should be made through the website, and will then be
directed by the organisation to the relevant Network co-ordinators.
Subject: Online MA in Museum Studies at JHU
Subject: Online MA in Museum Studies at JHU
http://advanced.jhu.edu/academic/museum/index.cfm
Note that they are having an online open house on April 23 from 7-8:30
and all the courses can be done online.
http://advanced.jhu.edu/academic/museum/index.cfm
Note that they are having an online open house on April 23 from 7-8:30
and all the courses can be done online.
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces two events with
Stephen J. Harris
(University of Massachusetts)
Monday April 20
at Rutgers University
6.00 pm Lecture
Murray Hall, Room 302
"Did the Anglo-Saxons Understand Beauty?"
Seamus Heaney obliquely observed of North Germanic poetry its
tendency to "trust the feel of what nubbed treasure/ your hands have
known." With few exceptions, the poetic vocabulary of Old English
shies from explicit abstraction. There is no mention of the True or
the Good, let alone of physical beauty--descriptions of people and
landscapes are exceedingly rare, for example. As a consequence,
post-Enlightenment critics trying to recover an Anglo-Saxon
Weltanschauung are faced with methodological difficulties that become
increasingly pronounced as we come to search for literary reflexes of
identity, ethnicity, gender, and so forth. What form did their
abstract world take? How was it manifested in material form? How did
their poetry relate to ideas of the Beautiful—if it did at all? And
if we are to answer such questions, what would our answers look like?
In this talk, I discuss Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon ideas
of the Beautiful and how one might go about looking for Beauty in Old
English poetry.
***
followed by:
Tuesday April 21
Workshop at Columbia University
First Workshop: "Beautiful Materialities"
Apr 21, 1pm - 2.30 pm 401 Hamilton
Second Workshop: "Community"
April 21, 4.10 pm - 5.30 pm 501 Int'l Affairs building (CIPA)
Please send an email to assc@columbia.edu to register.
Reading materials will be made available in advance to those who
register in advance.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
***
To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
ASSC@columbia.edu
For further updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc
ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York
University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The
Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of
English, University of Rhode Island; The Department of English,
Rutgers University.
announces two events with
Stephen J. Harris
(University of Massachusetts)
Monday April 20
at Rutgers University
6.00 pm Lecture
Murray Hall, Room 302
"Did the Anglo-Saxons Understand Beauty?"
Seamus Heaney obliquely observed of North Germanic poetry its
tendency to "trust the feel of what nubbed treasure/ your hands have
known." With few exceptions, the poetic vocabulary of Old English
shies from explicit abstraction. There is no mention of the True or
the Good, let alone of physical beauty--descriptions of people and
landscapes are exceedingly rare, for example. As a consequence,
post-Enlightenment critics trying to recover an Anglo-Saxon
Weltanschauung are faced with methodological difficulties that become
increasingly pronounced as we come to search for literary reflexes of
identity, ethnicity, gender, and so forth. What form did their
abstract world take? How was it manifested in material form? How did
their poetry relate to ideas of the Beautiful—if it did at all? And
if we are to answer such questions, what would our answers look like?
In this talk, I discuss Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon ideas
of the Beautiful and how one might go about looking for Beauty in Old
English poetry.
***
followed by:
Tuesday April 21
Workshop at Columbia University
First Workshop: "Beautiful Materialities"
Apr 21, 1pm - 2.30 pm 401 Hamilton
Second Workshop: "Community"
April 21, 4.10 pm - 5.30 pm 501 Int'l Affairs building (CIPA)
Please send an email to assc@columbia.edu to register.
Reading materials will be made available in advance to those who
register in advance.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
***
To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
ASSC@columbia.edu
For further updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc
ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York
University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The
Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of
English, University of Rhode Island; The Department of English,
Rutgers University.
The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University is pleased to
announce its sixteenth annual Graduate Conference:
Law and Legal Culture in the Middle Ages
4 April 2009
Scheide-Caldwell House, Princeton University
free and open to the public
9:30-11:00 -- Keynote address
"Rereading the Motel: Law as Literature in Medieval Wales"
Robin Stacey, Professor of History at the University of Washington
11:15-1:00 -- The Reading and Writing of Law
chaired by Michelle Garceau, Department of History
"The Burden of Proof: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal and the Polygraph"
Maria Sequeira Mendes, University of Lisbon
"Wulfstan of York, the Canons of Edgar, and Excerptiones
pseudo-Ecgberhti: Sources and Authorship"
Michael D. Elliot, University of Toronto
"Transmission of Legal Knowledge by 'False Impression': The Practice
of Tadlis in the Transmission of Muslim Hadith"
Amr Osman, Princeton University
2:00-3:15 -- Communities of Law
chaired by Intisar A. Rabb, Department of Near Eastern Studies
"A Kingdom Invented: Royal Power and the Law in Medieval Portugal"
André Vitória, University of Porto
"'A Community of Their Own': Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century
Anglo-Jewish Law and the Continental Tosafist Community"
Ethan Zadoff, CUNY Graduate Center
3:30-4:45 -- Generic Flexibility of Law
chaired by Moulie Vidas, Department of Religion
"Legal Adaptability amidst Legal Continuity: The Peira as Evidence
for the Vitality of Eleventh-Century Byzantine Law"
Zachary Chitwood, Princeton University
"Margery Kempe, Barrister?"
Andrea F. Jones, University of California at Los Angeles
For further information, please contact Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@princeton.edu)
announce its sixteenth annual Graduate Conference:
Law and Legal Culture in the Middle Ages
4 April 2009
Scheide-Caldwell House, Princeton University
free and open to the public
9:30-11:00 -- Keynote address
"Rereading the Motel: Law as Literature in Medieval Wales"
Robin Stacey, Professor of History at the University of Washington
11:15-1:00 -- The Reading and Writing of Law
chaired by Michelle Garceau, Department of History
"The Burden of Proof: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal and the Polygraph"
Maria Sequeira Mendes, University of Lisbon
"Wulfstan of York, the Canons of Edgar, and Excerptiones
pseudo-Ecgberhti: Sources and Authorship"
Michael D. Elliot, University of Toronto
"Transmission of Legal Knowledge by 'False Impression': The Practice
of Tadlis in the Transmission of Muslim Hadith"
Amr Osman, Princeton University
2:00-3:15 -- Communities of Law
chaired by Intisar A. Rabb, Department of Near Eastern Studies
"A Kingdom Invented: Royal Power and the Law in Medieval Portugal"
André Vitória, University of Porto
"'A Community of Their Own': Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century
Anglo-Jewish Law and the Continental Tosafist Community"
Ethan Zadoff, CUNY Graduate Center
3:30-4:45 -- Generic Flexibility of Law
chaired by Moulie Vidas, Department of Religion
"Legal Adaptability amidst Legal Continuity: The Peira as Evidence
for the Vitality of Eleventh-Century Byzantine Law"
Zachary Chitwood, Princeton University
"Margery Kempe, Barrister?"
Andrea F. Jones, University of California at Los Angeles
For further information, please contact Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@princeton.edu)
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