The Abbey Library of Saint Gall and the Chair for Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg organize their first Summer SchoolMedieval Writing Culture (V to XV century), which will be hold from 4 till 9 July 2016.This SCRIPTO Summer School Saint Gall (SSSS) offers an introduction in history, models and cultural impact of western script. Sessions will take place in Saint Gall.The number of participants is limited to 10.The application deadline is 1 March 2016. Those applicants accepted to the course will be charged 475€/500CHF.Further information (including the application form) may be obtained online:
Monday, October 19, 2015
he Abbey Library of Saint Gall and the Chair for Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at Friedrich-Alexander-University
Call for Papers - The Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference: Sufism and Islamic Manuscript Culture
Call for Papers - The Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference: Sufism and Islamic Manuscript Culture
13-15 September 2016, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Dear Colleagues,
The Islamic Manuscript Association—in cooperation with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge—invites the submission of abstracts for the Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference, to be held from 13 to 15 September 2016 at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The theme of the conference is Sufism and Islamic manuscript culture. Sufis have written litanies, panegyrics, didactic works in verse and prose, hagiographies, discourses, exegetical works, and metaphysical treatises made into manuscripts both humble and lavish. Sufi lodges have housed libraries and manuscript ateliers, and Sufi networks have disseminated manuscripts across the Muslim World. This conference seeks to present current international research trends on the relationship between Sufism and Islamic manuscript culture and generate discussion and study in this field. Possible topics for papers include but are not limited to:
•Apotropaic uses of Sufi and non-Sufi manuscripts by Sufis
•The arts of the book and Sufi artists and patrons
•Bibliophilia and bibliophobia in Sufism
•Cataloguing manuscripts on Sufism
•Collection care programmes for collections of Sufi manuscripts
•Conservation treatments on Sufi manuscripts
•Diagrams and illustrations in manuscripts on Sufism
•Digital humanities and the study of manuscripts on Sufism
•The effects of recent conflicts in the Muslim World on collections of Sufi manuscripts
•The history of Sufi libraries
•Paratexts in manuscripts on Sufism
•Preparing printed and digital editions of manuscripts on Sufism
•The production of manuscripts by Sufi lodge ateliers
•Publication programmes or series of editions or facsimiles of manuscripts on Sufism
•Dissemination of texts and manuscripts through Sufi networks
•The use of manuscripts in Sufi rituals
This invitation is open to members and non-members of the Association. The languages of the Conference will be Arabic and English, and submissions will be accepted in both languages. The duration of each conference paper will be 20 minutes followed by ten minutes of questions and answers. The Association will pay for round-trip economy-class travel to Cambridge, accommodation in Magdalene College, and College-based meals for authors whose papers are accepted.
Papers should not have been presented or published previously. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Association’s peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, and speakers are expected to give the Journal the right of first refusal.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10.00 GMT on Monday, 23 November 2015. Please submit the cover sheet (downloadable here), an abstract of no more than 250 words, and a biographical statement (a personal statement of no more than 200 words detailing your current work, education, research interests, and previous publications or research projects in third-person prose form), to the email, fax, or postal address below. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies
Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies
February 18-20, 2016 at Rice University
Vagantes, North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies, is seeking submissions for its 15th annual meeting at Rice University, February 18-20.
Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across the disciplines. Every conference features thirty papers on any aspect of medieval studies, allowing for exciting interdisciplinary conversation and the creation of new professional relationships between future colleagues. Vagantes travels to a new university every year, highlighting the unique resources of the host institution through keynote lectures, exhibitions, and special events. Out of consideration for graduate students’ limited budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee.
New this year is the availability of travel honoraria for conference speakers thanks to generous funding support from Rice University!
Graduate students are invited to submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words on any medieval topic along with a 1-2 page C.V. to organizers@
For more information, please see the attached poster and visit: www.vagantesconference.
TheEarlyModernColloquium at the University of Michigan
TheEarlyModernColloquium at the University of Michigan
invites abstracts for papers for their interdisciplinary graduate student conference
Performance and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 11-12th, 2016
with conference keynotes by
Professor Jill Stevenson (Department of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College)
and
Professor Andrew Sofer (Department of English, Boston College)
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the agency of nonhuman objects. Practitioners of “New Materialism” such as Bill Brown, Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Bruno Latour have provided scholars with tools for investigating the relationships between things both material and immaterial. The questions posed by these figures have challenged preconceptions about subject/object distinctions in disciplines including Archeology, History, Musicology, Literature, Philosophy, Science Studies, and many more. Likewise, in the field of medieval and early modern performance studies, scholars such as Seeta Chaganti and Claire Sponsler have interrogated the generic boundaries of dramatic texts, and embraced a wider field of texts and traditions, while scholars such as Jonathan Gil-Harris and Andrew Sofer have used the concept of “stage property” to explore the semiotics and ritual actions of drama.
This conference will dialogue between performance studies and material culture, two fields that have proven especially fruitful for early modern and medieval scholars in the past years, and we are looking for papers that engage either or both of these fields. Some questions this conference hopes to pose include: how is medieval and early modern performance shaped by material conditions? How are props and other performing objects contributing to theories of materiality? What role do nonhuman objects such as props, costumes, devotional objects, art, and architecture play in premodern performance? How can we best understand the agency of nonhuman objects in these environments? What do recent theories like Object-Oriented-Ontology or Extended Cognition have to offer thinking about past performances?
Please submit 250-300 word abstracts for 15-20 minute papers to Sheila Coursey (scoursey@umich.edu) or Tony Gillum (gillanth@umich.edu) with the subject heading “EMC Conference” by January 10th, 2016. The Early Modern Colloquium is an interdisciplinary graduate student group at the University of Michigan and will give priority to abstracts submitted by graduate students.
Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England
Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England
Within the growing field of Anglo-Saxon hagiographical studies, much academic emphasis has been placed on peculiarly English saints such as Oswald, Swithun, Cuthbert and Guthlac.While the study of these more localized cults has produced both productive and enlightening discourse, it has so far eclipsed research into Anglo-Saxon participation in the cults of saints more widely revered throughout Christendom, both in Western and Eastern hagiographical traditions.These “universal cults,” of course, constitute some of the most celebrated and theologically important saints to have been venerated in Anglo-Saxon England, including but not limited to the Virgin Mary, the Twelve Apostles, St. Paul, St. Mark and St. Luke.In recent years, this apparent desideratum in the field has already begun to be addressed by several established and up-and-coming scholars, though much work remains to be done.This panel proposes to offer a forum for scholars to share their work on “universal cults” as celebrated in Anglo-Saxon England.In particular, we are looking for papers that focus on the literary reception, pastoral usage and unique contribution to hagiographical traditions about “universal saints” during the Anglo-Saxon period.
CFP for Kalamazoo 2016: The Early Irish Saints, their Lives, and their Monasteries
CFP for Kalamazoo 2016: The Early Irish Saints, their Lives, and their Monasteries
Because of a late withdrawal, we have ONE space left in this session.
If you’re interested, please contact me IMMEDIATELY at obroinb@wpunj.edu
Brian Ó Broin, Ph.D.
Dept. of English, William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
President of ASIMS 2015-2017 www.asims.org
Linguistics - Medieval Studies - Irish Studies
President of ASIMS 2015-2017 www.asims.org
Linguistics - Medieval Studies - Irish Studies
Teangeolaíocht-Léann na Meánaoise-Léann na hÉireann
Níos Mó / More Information: http://sites.google.com/site/
Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
June 20-22, 2016
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri
The Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 20-22, 2016) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.
The plenary speakers for this year will be Barbara Newman, of Northwestern University, and Teofilo Ruiz, of the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned rooms as well as a luxurious boutique hotel. The campus is surrounded by a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance.
While attending the Symposium, participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library.
The Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each, and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.
The deadline for all submissions is December 31. Decisions will be made in January, and the final program will be published in February.
For more information or to submit your proposal online, go to: http://smrs.slu.edu
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The John Doran Prize - $500
Dr. John Doran (1966-2012) was senior lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Chester, UK, and an expert in the history of the papacy and the city of Rome. In honor of his commitment to scholarly excellence, the annual John Doran Prize recognizes outstanding work by a graduate student each year. The author of the winning paper will receive $500 and the option to have their paper published in the journal Allegorica. The prize is endowed by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. Submissions are due by April 31, and the winner will be announced at the Symposium. More info at http://smrs.slu.edu/johndoran
Dr. John Doran (1966-2012) was senior lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Chester, UK, and an expert in the history of the papacy and the city of Rome. In honor of his commitment to scholarly excellence, the annual John Doran Prize recognizes outstanding work by a graduate student each year. The author of the winning paper will receive $500 and the option to have their paper published in the journal Allegorica. The prize is endowed by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. Submissions are due by April 31, and the winner will be announced at the Symposium. More info at http://smrs.slu.edu/johndoran
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Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
June 20-22, 2016
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