Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
27th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological
Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.
March 26-27, 2010
Human interaction with the surrounding world is mediated through our
senses. Yet archaeological interpretation has traditionally been
dominated by visual descriptions, thus effectively marginalizing the
senses of smell, taste, hearing, and touch as unmeasurable ways of
engaging with the world. This has led to a silent, odorless,
disembodied, and sense-less past. Recent work, however, has explored
alternative ways to make sense of past societies, investigating
soundscapes, olfactory and haptic analyses, and somatic memory, as
well as other less tangible visual qualities such as shimmer and
color.
This conference will bring together researchers who share an interest
in such sensory modes of approaching the past, and it will cross
boundaries between chronological periods, geographical regions, and
material specializations.
Potential themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
* the presentation of new results of sensory archaeological projects
* * multisensory and synesthetic aspects of the production and
consumption of material culture * * the recognition of sensory
hierarchies in past societies * * embodied practices, including
memory * * the dissemination of sensuous pasts in the present *
Submissions
Please submit a 300 word abstract plus title to Dr. Jo Day (contact
details below). PDF files are preferred. Presentations will be
limited to 25-30 minutes. Deadline for submission: 1st December 2009.
The CAI selection committee will review the abstracts, and authors
will be notified of the decision in mid-December. Papers are eligible
for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume published in the Occasional
Papers series of the Center for Archaeological Investigations.
Conference attendance is open to all. For registration details and
other information see:
www.cai.siuc.edu/vspages/day/vsconf.html
For further information, or with any queries, contact:
Dr. Jo Day, the 2010 CAI Visiting Scholar, at joday@siu.edu (618)
453-5032
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
*4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
*CALL FOR PAPERS
*
*4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 18 & 19, 2010
University of South Florida Libraries
Tampa, Florida
**The DEADLINE for submission has been EXTENDED to December 11, 2009
Presenters will be notified by December 18, 2009
*
/Encountering the "Other" in the Medieval World: Textual Examinations
of Resistance and Reconciliation Across the Traditions, 500-1500 /
Papers are welcome on, but not limited to, Judaism, Christianity or
Islam in Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages (500-1500):
· Views of difference, diversity and pluralism
· Expressions of shared identities and common values
· Texts of threat, terror and violence
· Traditions affirming connection, inclusivity and reconciliation
· Patterns of religious, political and cultural imperialism
· Forms of cross-cultural exchange and dialogue
· Delineations of ethnic and vernacular boundaries
Exempla may be drawn from manuscripts and illuminations, critical
editions, and portrayals in art and architecture.
Please email an abstract of no more than 500 words to Elizabeth
Tucker, Symposium Coordinator, at _etucker@lib.usf.edu _by December
11, 2009. Notification of acceptances will be emailed by December
18, 2009. Please include the title of your paper, name, affiliation
and email address. Each paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes
for presentation. Presenters will be asked to submit their complete
paper by February 1, 2010.
This year's keynote speaker and senior scholar is Dr. David
Nirenberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor - John U.
Nef Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, and in the
College - The University of Chicago.
*
*Submit papers via email to the attention of:
Elizabeth Tucker, Assistant to the Director* - *Special & Digital
Collections // Coordinator - Sacred Leaves Symposium
University of South Florida Libraries
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa FL 33620-5400
etucker@lib.usf.edu
813.974.1198 FAX: 813.396.9006
For more information about the symposium, and to download a PDF of
the Call for Papers, please visit: http://MedievalStudies.lib.usf.edu
*
*4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 18 & 19, 2010
University of South Florida Libraries
Tampa, Florida
**The DEADLINE for submission has been EXTENDED to December 11, 2009
Presenters will be notified by December 18, 2009
*
/Encountering the "Other" in the Medieval World: Textual Examinations
of Resistance and Reconciliation Across the Traditions, 500-1500 /
Papers are welcome on, but not limited to, Judaism, Christianity or
Islam in Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages (500-1500):
· Views of difference, diversity and pluralism
· Expressions of shared identities and common values
· Texts of threat, terror and violence
· Traditions affirming connection, inclusivity and reconciliation
· Patterns of religious, political and cultural imperialism
· Forms of cross-cultural exchange and dialogue
· Delineations of ethnic and vernacular boundaries
Exempla may be drawn from manuscripts and illuminations, critical
editions, and portrayals in art and architecture.
Please email an abstract of no more than 500 words to Elizabeth
Tucker, Symposium Coordinator, at _etucker@lib.usf.edu _by December
11, 2009. Notification of acceptances will be emailed by December
18, 2009. Please include the title of your paper, name, affiliation
and email address. Each paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes
for presentation. Presenters will be asked to submit their complete
paper by February 1, 2010.
This year's keynote speaker and senior scholar is Dr. David
Nirenberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor - John U.
Nef Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, and in the
College - The University of Chicago.
*
*Submit papers via email to the attention of:
Elizabeth Tucker, Assistant to the Director* - *Special & Digital
Collections // Coordinator - Sacred Leaves Symposium
University of South Florida Libraries
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa FL 33620-5400
etucker@lib.usf.edu
813.974.1198 FAX: 813.396.9006
For more information about the symposium, and to download a PDF of
the Call for Papers, please visit: http://MedievalStudies.lib.usf.edu
Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics (Note Date Confusion)
CALL FOR PAPERS
LautSchriftSprache
Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics
Zweite internationale Tagung zur vergleichenden historischen Graphematik
The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme
Das Graphem zwischen Eindeutigkeit und Doppeldeutigkeit
Munich University (LMU)
9 – 11 September 2010
Organizers: Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger
While the first conference in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to
the wide field of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme
including both positional and free allographs and their relationships
regarding phonemes and allophones.
We therefore welcome contributions relating to the historical stages of the
European languages and writing systems, with regard to the following
questions:
1. Depiction of sounds by characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one
grapheme = one phoneme)?
2. Ways of reflecting language change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction
or extension of the characters in the system.
3. New characters - obsolete characters: Necessity of creating new
characters for the system or reactivating old ones?
Please send your abstract by 15 December October 2009 to:
Gaby Waxenberger
Munich University (LMU)
Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Schellingstr. 3/RG
80799 Munich, Germany
Or by email to: soundandscript@googlemail.com
untitled-[2] [~9K]
Dear Stacy,
I hope you are fine and everything is going well. I was just wondering if you sent out our Call for Papers. Attached please find the thing again.
Hans and myself would be very grateful to you if you could send it around.
Many thanks in advance
Cheers,
Gaby
CALL FOR PAPERS
LautSchriftSprache
Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics
Zweite internationale Tagung zur vergleichenden historischen Graphematik
The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme
Das Graphem zwischen Eindeutigkeit und Doppeldeutigkeit
Munich University (LMU)
9 – 11 September 2010
Organizers: Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger
While the first conference in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to the wide field of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme including both positional and free allographs and their relationships regarding phonemes and allophones.
We therefore welcome contributions relating to the historical stages of the European languages and writing systems, with regard to the following questions:
1. Depiction of sounds by characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one grapheme = one phoneme)?
2. Ways of reflecting language change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction or extension of the characters in the system.
3. New characters - obsolete characters: Necessity of creating new characters for the system or reactivating old ones?
Please send your abstract by15 December October 2009to:
Gaby Waxenberger
Munich University (LMU)
Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Schellingstr. 3/RG
80799 Munich, Germany
Or by email to: soundandscript@googlemail.com
LautSchriftSprache
Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics
Zweite internationale Tagung zur vergleichenden historischen Graphematik
The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme
Das Graphem zwischen Eindeutigkeit und Doppeldeutigkeit
Munich University (LMU)
9 – 11 September 2010
Organizers: Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger
While the first conference in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to
the wide field of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme
including both positional and free allographs and their relationships
regarding phonemes and allophones.
We therefore welcome contributions relating to the historical stages of the
European languages and writing systems, with regard to the following
questions:
1. Depiction of sounds by characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one
grapheme = one phoneme)?
2. Ways of reflecting language change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction
or extension of the characters in the system.
3. New characters - obsolete characters: Necessity of creating new
characters for the system or reactivating old ones?
Please send your abstract by 15 December October 2009 to:
Gaby Waxenberger
Munich University (LMU)
Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Schellingstr. 3/RG
80799 Munich, Germany
Or by email to: soundandscript@googlemail.com
untitled-[2] [~9K]
Dear Stacy,
I hope you are fine and everything is going well. I was just wondering if you sent out our Call for Papers. Attached please find the thing again.
Hans and myself would be very grateful to you if you could send it around.
Many thanks in advance
Cheers,
Gaby
CALL FOR PAPERS
LautSchriftSprache
Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics
Zweite internationale Tagung zur vergleichenden historischen Graphematik
The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme
Das Graphem zwischen Eindeutigkeit und Doppeldeutigkeit
Munich University (LMU)
9 – 11 September 2010
Organizers: Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger
While the first conference in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to the wide field of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme including both positional and free allographs and their relationships regarding phonemes and allophones.
We therefore welcome contributions relating to the historical stages of the European languages and writing systems, with regard to the following questions:
1. Depiction of sounds by characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one grapheme = one phoneme)?
2. Ways of reflecting language change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction or extension of the characters in the system.
3. New characters - obsolete characters: Necessity of creating new characters for the system or reactivating old ones?
Please send your abstract by15 December October 2009to:
Gaby Waxenberger
Munich University (LMU)
Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Schellingstr. 3/RG
80799 Munich, Germany
Or by email to: soundandscript@googlemail.com
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Call for Papers Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II -
Call for Papers
Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II -
It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly
Editing (IDE) undertook an initiative entitled "Codicology and
Palaeography in the Digital Age". Yet its first results have already
been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology
"Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" was launched at an
international symposium in Munich. Here, experts from all over the
world met as a community to share their knowledge, interests and
concerns regarding digital issues in the various fields of manuscript
research.
The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been
remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted
with digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed,
cutting-edge research in the field of computer-aided codicology and
palaeography can be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon.
Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into
theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not
been covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second
volume of "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age". The
following questions in particular should now be addressed:
* To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of
codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of
digital manuscript facsimiles?
* How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or
in musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology?
* How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to
the analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)?
* How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries
be brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid
research environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive
semantic studies?
* How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription
be promoted and improved? How can the range of applications be
expanded? How can philological analysis and further use in literary
studies be enhanced?
* How can questions about the history of script be addressed by
digital methods?
* How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in
the context of restoration and preservation? How can archives,
libraries and museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public
benefit?
* To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological
and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable?
Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous
CfP) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German
or Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an
international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should
be sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii@ide.de or any of the editors
listed below.
Organisation:
* Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer@ria.ie
* Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities), fritze@bbaw.de
* Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich),
g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
* Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for
eHumanities), sahle@uni-koeln.de
* Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan@hab.de
* Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg),
malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
* Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as@ba.tuxomania.net
Dates:
30. November 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline
30. April 2010: Paper Submission Deadline
Kind regards,
Christiane
-- Christiane Fritze
The German Text Archive
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jaegerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin
phone: +49 (0)30 20370 523
email: fritze (at) bbaw (dot) de
http://www.deutsches-textarchiv.de
IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de
Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II -
It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly
Editing (IDE) undertook an initiative entitled "Codicology and
Palaeography in the Digital Age". Yet its first results have already
been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology
"Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" was launched at an
international symposium in Munich. Here, experts from all over the
world met as a community to share their knowledge, interests and
concerns regarding digital issues in the various fields of manuscript
research.
The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been
remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted
with digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed,
cutting-edge research in the field of computer-aided codicology and
palaeography can be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon.
Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into
theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not
been covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second
volume of "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age". The
following questions in particular should now be addressed:
* To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of
codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of
digital manuscript facsimiles?
* How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or
in musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology?
* How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to
the analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)?
* How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries
be brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid
research environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive
semantic studies?
* How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription
be promoted and improved? How can the range of applications be
expanded? How can philological analysis and further use in literary
studies be enhanced?
* How can questions about the history of script be addressed by
digital methods?
* How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in
the context of restoration and preservation? How can archives,
libraries and museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public
benefit?
* To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological
and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable?
Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous
CfP) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German
or Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an
international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should
be sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii@ide.de or any of the editors
listed below.
Organisation:
* Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer@ria.ie
* Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities), fritze@bbaw.de
* Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich),
g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
* Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for
eHumanities), sahle@uni-koeln.de
* Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan@hab.de
* Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg),
malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
* Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as@ba.tuxomania.net
Dates:
30. November 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline
30. April 2010: Paper Submission Deadline
Kind regards,
Christiane
-- Christiane Fritze
The German Text Archive
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jaegerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin
phone: +49 (0)30 20370 523
email: fritze (at) bbaw (dot) de
http://www.deutsches-textarchiv.de
IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors
Cultural Hybridities:
Christians, Muslims & Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors
July 4-July 31, 2010 . Barcelona (Spain)
Applications are now being taken for the 2010 Mediterranean Studies NEH
Summer Institute, to be held in Barcelona, Spain. This is the second
four-week Summer Institute for University and College Professors organized
by The Mediterranean Seminar.
Faculty will include Judith Cohen (York University), Steven Epstein
(University of Kansas), Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University), Peregrine
Horden (Royal Holloway), Cynthia Robinson (Cornell), and Daniel Selden (UC
Santa Cruz), as well as co-Directors, Brian A. Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita,
and selected Spanish scholars.
Our twenty-four participants will be university and college faculty who
teach American post-secondary students. Applicants of all ranks and all
levels of institution are welcome, from all relevant Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences disciplines. Two places are reserved for qualified graduate
students (ABD/ final stages of writing strongly preferred).
Please review the information and the application instructions on the
Institute website, www.mediterraneanseminar.org. The application deadline is
March 2, 2010.
Christians, Muslims & Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors
July 4-July 31, 2010 . Barcelona (Spain)
Applications are now being taken for the 2010 Mediterranean Studies NEH
Summer Institute, to be held in Barcelona, Spain. This is the second
four-week Summer Institute for University and College Professors organized
by The Mediterranean Seminar.
Faculty will include Judith Cohen (York University), Steven Epstein
(University of Kansas), Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University), Peregrine
Horden (Royal Holloway), Cynthia Robinson (Cornell), and Daniel Selden (UC
Santa Cruz), as well as co-Directors, Brian A. Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita,
and selected Spanish scholars.
Our twenty-four participants will be university and college faculty who
teach American post-secondary students. Applicants of all ranks and all
levels of institution are welcome, from all relevant Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences disciplines. Two places are reserved for qualified graduate
students (ABD/ final stages of writing strongly preferred).
Please review the information and the application instructions on the
Institute website, www.mediterraneanseminar.org. The application deadline is
March 2, 2010.
"Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England"
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces the CFP for
The Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England"
Harvard University
Friday, February 19, 2010
Deadline for CFP: Monday, December 1, 2009.
Harvard University, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon Studies
Colloquium invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Graduate Student
Conference of the ASSC.
The theme of this year's conference will explore various instances of
fear and loathing in the literatures and cultures of early medieval
Northern Europe (Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Scandinavian). This could
include fears and anxieties produced by encounters with cultural
outsiders as well as internal conflicts within a single society or
individual.
Possible topics include:
--Passions and emotions in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Monsters, Demons and Satan
--Queernesses in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Colonial Others
--Cultural encounters in Northern Europe
--Apocalyptic literature
--Nightmares and dream-visions
--Heretics and sinners
--Shame, disgust and abjection
--Exile
--Maps and concepts of space
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute
papers by December 1, 2009. Please include your email address, street
address, phone number and audio-visual requirements. You may submit
abstracts via email to HarvardAngloSaxon@gmail.com
Best wishes,
Alexis Becker, Laura Wang, Kasi Conley, John Radway and Sara Gorman
(conference organizers)
Sponsored by: The Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies and the ASSC
****
For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.
announces the CFP for
The Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England"
Harvard University
Friday, February 19, 2010
Deadline for CFP: Monday, December 1, 2009.
Harvard University, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon Studies
Colloquium invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Graduate Student
Conference of the ASSC.
The theme of this year's conference will explore various instances of
fear and loathing in the literatures and cultures of early medieval
Northern Europe (Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Scandinavian). This could
include fears and anxieties produced by encounters with cultural
outsiders as well as internal conflicts within a single society or
individual.
Possible topics include:
--Passions and emotions in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Monsters, Demons and Satan
--Queernesses in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
--Colonial Others
--Cultural encounters in Northern Europe
--Apocalyptic literature
--Nightmares and dream-visions
--Heretics and sinners
--Shame, disgust and abjection
--Exile
--Maps and concepts of space
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute
papers by December 1, 2009. Please include your email address, street
address, phone number and audio-visual requirements. You may submit
abstracts via email to HarvardAngloSaxon@gmail.com
Best wishes,
Alexis Becker, Laura Wang, Kasi Conley, John Radway and Sara Gorman
(conference organizers)
Sponsored by: The Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies and the ASSC
****
For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.
Hugoye CFP
Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, available electronically and in-print, is seeking submissions for the 2011 issues. Please send papers to George Kiraz at gkiraz@gorgiaspress.com. Please put in the subject line "Hugoye Journal Submission".
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