SUMMER SCHOOL
SCHOOL OF CELTIC STUDIES,
DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
18-29 JULY 2011
Details of the Summer School are now available on our website
(http://www.celt.dias.ie).
The final date for registration is 31 January 2011.
SCOIL SHAMHRAIDH
SCOIL AN LÉINN CHEILTIGH
INSTITIÚID ARD-LÉINN BHAILE ÁTHA CLIATH:
18-29 IÚIL 2011.
Tá eolas faoin Scoil Shamhraidh anois ar fáil ar ár suíomh idirlín
(http://www.celt.dias.ie).
Is é an dáta deireanach le clárú a dhéanamh an 31 Eanáir 2011.
Iarrtar orthu siúd a gheobhaidh an fógra seo é a chóipeáil agus a
scaipeadh ar dhaoine eile a mbeadh spéis acu ina bhfuil ann.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Comitatus
COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. Submissions should be in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
8-WEEK INTENSIVE GREEK AND LATIN SUMMER SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND
June 27th – August 18th 2011
Director of the Summer School: Dr Konstantin Doulamis
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/summerschool/
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277, email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html
June 27th – August 18th 2011
Director of the Summer School: Dr Konstantin Doulamis
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/summerschool/
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277, email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html
Within the conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies Neoplatonism in the East - ex oriente lux, to be held in Haifa, 22-24 March 2011, we invite abstract submissions for the panel session Platonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages :
The relationship between Platonism and Christianity, and philosophy and theology, in late antique and medieval thinkers has been a subject of a wide range of studies in modern scholarship. However, the positions on this issue are not as uniform as one might think. While one party argues that what happened was just a conventional use of Platonic features by Christian thinkers, the others seem to embrace a true interaction between Christian theology and platonic philosophy.
What did actually happen – was the Platonic element just a mere convenience as to the language and philosophical tools, or was there a genuine unification between Platonism and Christianity? Was the “collaboration” between the two limited to simple borrowings of linguistic and logical tools, or can there be traced an essential influence of one on another? These are the questions on which the papers included in this panel should try to elaborate.
Papers should be concentrated on, but not limited to, some of the following themes: relationship between philosophy and theology; specific authors (such as Augustine, Dionysius Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, etc.) and their use of (neo)platonic doctrines; the use of the same language by Platonists and Christians – similarities and differences; new shapes and meanings of Platonic doctrines in the Christian context…
Abstracts of no more than a single page should be sent to:
Filip Ivanovic
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim
The relationship between Platonism and Christianity, and philosophy and theology, in late antique and medieval thinkers has been a subject of a wide range of studies in modern scholarship. However, the positions on this issue are not as uniform as one might think. While one party argues that what happened was just a conventional use of Platonic features by Christian thinkers, the others seem to embrace a true interaction between Christian theology and platonic philosophy.
What did actually happen – was the Platonic element just a mere convenience as to the language and philosophical tools, or was there a genuine unification between Platonism and Christianity? Was the “collaboration” between the two limited to simple borrowings of linguistic and logical tools, or can there be traced an essential influence of one on another? These are the questions on which the papers included in this panel should try to elaborate.
Papers should be concentrated on, but not limited to, some of the following themes: relationship between philosophy and theology; specific authors (such as Augustine, Dionysius Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, etc.) and their use of (neo)platonic doctrines; the use of the same language by Platonists and Christians – similarities and differences; new shapes and meanings of Platonic doctrines in the Christian context…
Abstracts of no more than a single page should be sent to:
Filip Ivanovic
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim
Comitatus
COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. Submissions should be in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
Call for Papers
Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year’s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.
Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
genealogies
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
gender roles
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
arranged marriages
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
sibling rivalry
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
language families
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
relationships
incest
polygamy
childbearing and childrearing
dynasties
Please send 300-word abstracts to pennmedieval@gmail.com by January 15, 2011
Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year’s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.
Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
genealogies
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
gender roles
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
arranged marriages
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
sibling rivalry
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
language families
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
relationships
incest
polygamy
childbearing and childrearing
dynasties
Please send 300-word abstracts to pennmedieval@gmail.com by January 15, 2011
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney (12-14 August 2011) Information & CFP
Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney (12-14 August 2011) Information & CFP
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA) 12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia
CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both fields.
For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/
email: antiqua2011@gmail.com
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA) 12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia
CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both fields.
For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/
email: antiqua2011@gmail.com
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