Call for Papers

The Mid-America Medieval Association’s 41^st annual meeting

Saturday, September 16, 2017

at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Conference Theme: Networks

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Cynthia J. Brown, Distinguished Professor of French, University of California-Santa Barbara

Plenary title: “Paratextual Cues in Late Medieval Books: Detecting Family Female Networks”

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers on the conference theme or on any medieval topic.  Panels of 3-4 papers are also welcome. The conference theme of “Networks” might include topics such as: family networks; monastic and other religious networks; intellectual, artistic, professional, or political networks; networks of texts, of manuscripts, of artworks, etc.

Dr. Brown’s most recent monograph, The Queen's Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) examines book production for late medieval elite women in France, including Anne of Britanny’s contemporaries (including Louise de Savoy and Margaret of Austria) and successors, most notably her daughter Claude.  As a recent review puts it, Dr. Brown mobilizes “a truly interdisciplinary range of critical tools to analyse these books’ texts and paratexts, she makes a rigorous and deeply contextualized case for the complex negotiations and political stakes at play in the verbal and visual representation of such women.”  Dr. Brown’s plenary talk is drawn from her newest project which extends her examination of networks of female book owners beyond French borders to the city states of Italy.

Abstracts or panel proposals (with abstracts) to Dr. Kathy M. Krause (krausek@umkc.edu) by Saturday, May 20, 2017.

Graduate students are invited to submit their paper for the Jim Falls Paper Prize.  Full conference papers should be sent tomama@umkc.edu by September 1, 2017.  More information will be available shortly on the MAMA website: http://info.umkc.edu/mama/

Call for papers

Historiografías, revista de historia y teoría is an on-line biannual 
publication in three languages devoted to historiographical studies and 
theory of history. With the backing of worldwide specialists and 
professors from various universities, Historiografias was created in 
2010 as the brainchild of the research group assembled by Professor 
Gonzalo Pasamar at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), where its server 
is located: http://www.unizar.es/historiografias.

           As indicated in its Editorial Manifesto (see 
http://www.unizar.es/historiografias), Historiografías regards the study 
of historical writings as a field without boundaries, ranging across 
such disparate viewpoints as cultural and intellectual history, 
political history and biography, as well as epistemology and social 
theory, anthropology, sociology and history of science. Hence, the 
objective of the journal is twofold: 1) to examine all the forms the 
writing of history has adopted, without any geographical, chronological 
or cultural restrictions, from historiography in Antiquity to forms 
memories have adopted in other civilizations, including medieval and 
Renaissance writers, and modern ways of writing history all over the 
world, as well as current trends; 2) to give importance to historical 
epistemology and theory in general.

Historiografías calls for original papers to be included under its three 
headings: 1) “Historia y teoría”; 2) “Varia historiográfica”; and 3) 
“Crítica”. The content of these sections is as follows: “Historia y 
teoría” includes essays on historiography and theory and, where 
appropriate, may also cover single subjects. “Varia historiográfica” 
contains analyses of institutions, projects, debates, interviews, and 
scientific events relating to theory and historiographic reflection, in 
addition to a range of other articles (when the History and Theory 
section is devoted to a single issue). “Crítica” contains reviews of 
books and journals devoted to a single topic.

The journal accepts manuscripts in Spanish, English and French, with 
documents being formatted in Word. Works must be original, that is, not 
previously published, nor should they be committed for publication 
elsewhere. Authors must indicate at the beginning of the text the 
institution they work for, along with their professional address and 
email. Some key-words (no more than six) should be included below, in 
Spanish and English, along with an abstract in Spanish and English (no 
more than 100 words), and a profile (no more than eighty words) in 
Spanish and English.

The length of contributions is as follows: “Historia y teoría” and 
“Varia historiográfica”: 10,000 words maximum. This includes footnotes, 
bibliographic references and appendices. Graphical documents (pictures, 
tables, photos, texts, charts, etc.) may also be appended, but only if 
they are of good standard. In this case, their source should be 
indicated and, where appropriate, permission to publish may also be 
required. “Crítica”: 3,000 words, including footnotes and bibliographic 
references.
For further information, see “Instructions for Manuscripts Submission”, 
in http://www.unizar.es/historiografias

Original papers should be sent by email to this address: 
historiografias@unizar.es

Manuscripts will be submitted for external assessment by at least two 
accepted experts on the subject.

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The Call for Papers for Mythcon 48 is now available to download from the main page of the website. Please share widely! Text also below:

ALL THAT IS GOLD

The Mythopoeic Society is launching into a series of 50th anniversaries—of the founding of the Society in 2017, of the conception and launch of our scholarly journal Mythlore in 2018, and of our first society conference in 2019. For the fiftieth anniversary of our Society, we would like to see papers and panels relating to gold, and to celebrate the work of our Guests of Honor, to the gold that can be found through library and archival research. As always, papers on any topic relating to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic fantasy in general, not just our theme, are welcome as well.

GOLD IN FANTASY:

Greed for gold: Tolkien's dwarves and gold lust, economic systems in fantasy and fantasy gaming

Gold as a color: color symbolism in fantasy and heraldry

Gold as an element, and other fantastic elements and materials like mithril, octarine, meteorite metal, unobtanium, or the list of semi-precious gems in Tolkien's “Errantry”

The Golden Age—in fantasy and myth, of fantasy as a genre

DIGGING FOR GOLD IN THE ARCHIVES:

Primary and secondary materials about the Inklings and other fantasy authors in the archives at Marquette University, the Wade Center, Oxford University, and other locations

Fan material and society archives

Materials in collections at the University of Illinois, especially the Center for Children’s Books

Archives, libraries, writing, and research IN fantasy

July 28-31, 2017, in Champaign, Illinois

http://www.mythcon.org

GUESTS OF HONOR:

 William Fliss, Archivist at the Marquette University Special Collections and Archives

 Laura Schmidt, Archivist at the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College

Send abstracts of 200-500 words to:

Janet Brennan Croft, janet.b.croft@rutgers.edu

By April 30, 2017

See http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm for details on our student paper award!

Janet Brennan Croft
Head of Access and Delivery ServicesRutgers University Libraries
Alexander Library 109
169 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
janet.b.croft@rutgers.edu
848-932-6077
https://rci-rutgers.academia.edu/JanetCroft
Editor of Mythlore, A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literaturehttp://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore.htm

Reminder: Call for Papers

The AG Spätantike und Frühmittelalter (working group "Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages")
is hosting a session on
"Über alle Kanäle: Aspekte von Kommunikation in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter"

(Aspects of Communication in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages)

at the German Archaeological Congress in Mainz/Germany,
July 6-7, 2017.
To read the full CfP:
https://www.academia.edu/31326070/CfP_%C3%9Cber_alle_Kan%C3%A4le._Aspekte_von_Kommunikation_in_Sp%C3%A4tantike_und_Fr%C3%BChmittelalter_._AG_SFM_MAINZ_6.-7_Juli_2017

Contributions from various disciplines are welcome. Please submit your abstract to Roland Prien, roland.prien@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de, until March 20^th, 2017.More information on the AG SFM: http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/AG_Spaetantike_Fruehmittelalter/index.html Reminder: Call for Papers

The AG Spätantike und Frühmittelalter (working group "Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages")
is hosting a session on
"Über alle Kanäle: Aspekte von Kommunikation in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter"

(Aspects of Communication in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages)

at the German Archaeological Congress in Mainz/Germany,
July 6-7, 2017.
To read the full CfP:
https://www.academia.edu/31326070/CfP_%C3%9Cber_alle_Kan%C3%A4le._Aspekte_von_Kommunikation_in_Sp%C3%A4tantike_und_Fr%C3%BChmittelalter_._AG_SFM_MAINZ_6.-7_Juli_2017

Contributions from various disciplines are welcome. Please submit your abstract to Roland Prien, roland.prien@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de, until March 20^th, 2017.More information on the AG SFM: http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/AG_Spaetantike_Fruehmittelalter/index.html 

The Roman Society Research Center of Ghent University ( http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/  ) is proud to announce the following workshop:

Warfare and Food-Supply in the Late Roman Empire 

Ghent, 21 April 2017

Location: KANTL, Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letterkunde

Organised by Jeroen Wijnendaele (jeroen.wijnendaele@ugent.be)  and Wouter Vanacker  (wouter.vanacker@ugent.be)

In 1998, Paul Erdkamp published his pioneering study Hunger and the Sword on the significance of logistics, landscapes and the feeding of the Roman Republic's armies during wartime. The same period also  saw a surge in renewed interest on the Late Roman army, including such studies as Hugh Elton's Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425 and Martijn Nicassie's Twilight of Empire. While studies on various aspects pertaining to the Roman army in both era's have been prolific over the past two decades, there  is still a noticeable lacuna. In Framing the Early Middle Ages, Chris Wickham already remarked that "surprisingly, not much work has been done on the  supply aspect of the Late Roman military logistics." 

The empire-wide organization of the annona militaris was arguably the single most important economic activity affecting the Mediterranean world and its European hinterlands. Successful supply to the army could make the difference in its performance during war in all its guises, from raids, to sieges and pitched battles. Yet these very same logistics  also formed a double-edged sword that could be turned against the Empire in times of adversity. Local communities, urban governments and civilian elites could be equally affected by these ramifications.

This workshop will bring together an international team of scholars focusing on both the general concept of the Late Roman military food-supply and other crucially related issues to help advance our knowledge on this long-neglected theme. 
 
9-9:30: Welcome and Coffee  9:30-10:30. Paul Erdkamp (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): War, Food Supply, and the Economic Decline of the Roman West
10:30-11:30. Philip Rance (Freie Universität Berlin): The Farmer and the Soldier should be Friends – Justinian’s Legislation on the Provisioning of Soldiers in transit
11:30-12:30. Alexander Sarantis (Aberystwyth University): The quaestura exercitus and 'centralised' military provisioning in the Balkans: an archaeological and socio-economic perspective

12:30-13:30 Lunch  13:30-14:30. Jeroen Wijnendaele (Ghent University): Food as a Weapon? The African Grain-supply during Late Roman Civil War  
14:30-15:30. Mark Humphries (Swansea University): Valentinian, Vandals, and Victuals: responses to crisis in the mid-fifth century west

15:30-16:00 Coffee  16:00-17:00. Doug Lee (University of Nottingham): Food Supply and Military Mutiny in Late Antiquity

  Those who are interested in attended are kindly advised to contact the organizers

Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and the vernacular languages. The conference solicits papers particularly in the general discipline of manuscript studies, including palaeography, codicology, reception and text history. In addition to the general papers (of roughly 20 minutes), the conference also hosts the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, established in memory of the late Virginia Brown, who taught paleography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for some 40 years. We also welcome proposals for sessions of two to three papers which might treat a more focused topic. Please send abstracts to epig@osu.edu.  Deadline for abstracts: August 1, 2017.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Charlemagne’s Ghost: Legacies, Leftovers, and Legends of the Carolingian Empire

44th Annual New England Medieval Conference

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, MA

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Keynote: Simon MacLean (University of St. Andrews), “What Was Post-Carolingian about Post-Carolingian Europe?”

Scholars have long recognized that the Frankish emperor Charlemagne (768-814) and his dynasty – the Carolingians – played an important role in the formation of medieval Europe. Yet they still debate the long-term consequences of the collapse of the Carolingian empire in 888 and the diverse ways in which Charlemagne’s family shaped subsequent medieval civilization. This conference invites medievalists of all disciplines and specializations to investigate the legacies, leftovers, and legends of the Carolingian empire in the central and later Middle Ages. We welcome papers that consider a wide array of Carolingian legacies in the realms of kingship and political culture, literature and poetry, art and architecture, manuscripts and material artifacts, the Church and monasticism, as well as Europe’s relations with its neighbors and the wider Byzantine and Muslim worlds. We urge participants to reflect on the ways in which later medieval rulers, writers, artists, and communities both remembered and forgot Charlemagne, the Carolingians, and the Frankish empire. In short, this conference will explore the ways in which Charlemagne’s ghost haunted the medieval world.

Please send an abstract of 250 words and a CV to Eric Goldberg (egoldber@mit.edu) via email attachment. On your abstract provide your name, institution, the title of your proposal, and email address. Abstracts are due July 1, 2017.

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