On behalf of the Society for Textual Scholarship and SAMLA, I wish to draw your attention again to the following call for papers. Please note that the deadline has been extended to 15 June 2008.

Call for papers

Society for Textual Scholarship affiliated session, SAMLA, Louisville Hyatt Regency, Kentucky; 7-9 November 2008

Interpretation and the scene of editing:

This session welcomes proposals on the scholarly editing of literary texts, broadly conceived. Possible topics include editing as interpretation; textual instability and problems in textual construction; the editing of Selected Works or Collected Works; material textuality; the interpretation and reproduction of bibliographic codes; electronic editing; radiant textuality; the uses of electronic archives. Please send 200-word abstract by 15 June 2008 to Jonathan Allison by email at jalliso@uky.edu or at the Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027.

Nicholas Brooks Festschrift

Please note the publication of this fascinating new book, a festschrift in
honor of Nicholas Brooks, who is a long-standing member of ISAS.

Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham (ed.), "Myth, Rulership, Church and
Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks" (Ashgate, May 2008, ISBN
978-0-7546-5120-8, £55)

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF MEDIEVAL ART in Baltimore, Maryland

Salary: Open
Type: Full Time - Entry Level

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, seeks an energetic and innovative
assistant/associate curator for the department of medieval art, a
collection of more than 1,400 works of sculpture, ivory, metalwork, and
painting from Western Europe and the eastern Mediterranean regions of the
Byzantine Empire. Expertise in Byzantine art is required, since this is
one of the core strengths of the Walters' collection. Secondary
specialization and/or knowledge of post-Byzantine and/or Islamic art
desired. Candidates must be team players and sensitive to diverse
audiences, possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and
value the collection's public role. Responsibilities include research,
interpretation, installation and publication of the collection;
development of exhibition projects; recommendation of
acquisitions/deaccessions and solicitation of gifts; participation in the
museum's education and public programs and in all curatorial-related
activities (loan/acquisitions committee work, exhibition reviews, grant
writing); active contribution to scholarship in field of expertise. Funded
with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this position will
remain an entry to mid-level appointment reporting to the Curator of
Medieval Art. Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits and
research/travel support. Please send letter of interest, resume including
names and contact information of three references and copies of selected
publications to: Ms. Brenda Jackson, Department of Human Resources,
Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD. 21201.
Application deadline date: June 6, 2008. An EOE/A drug and alcohol free
environment.

Requirements: Candidates must have museum experience and a Ph.D. in art
history and/or related field, including a record of research and
publication and exhibition organization. Required Education: Doctorate
NOTES: Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits and
research/travel support.

Apply online at http://museumcareers.aam-us.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=2888582.32

Roundtable: Approaches to Religion and Theatre Pedagogy

The Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) is organizing a roundtable as part of its 2008 pre-conference. The pre-conference is scheduled for Wednesday, July 30 and the morning of Thursday, July 31, and will take place in Denver, Colorado.

We are seeking panelists who can speak about their experiences teaching courses on religion and theatre topics, or about how their work on religious and/or spiritual performance has influenced their pedagogy. Ideally, the panelists will reflect a range of interests and specialties within Theatre and Performance Studies so that a diversity of experiences and approaches are represented. We encourage practitioners, as well as scholars, to participate. We hope that this roundtable will serve as a space for interdisciplinary collaboration and provide an opportunity for productive discussion amongst panelists and attendees.

If you are interested in participating as a formal panelist, please email a brief description of your relevant experiences, along with your name, contact information, and affiliation to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than June 10th. Feel free to email Jill with questions about the roundtable as well.

For more detailed information about the Religion and Theatre pre-conference, please visit: http://www.athe.org/rt/confinfo2008.html

Feminist Approaches to Medieval Art and Visual Culture: Past, Present, Future
We invite submissions for a special issue of the Medieval Feminist
Forum (volume 44 number 2) to address the past, present, and future
of feminist approaches to medieval art and visual culture. Some
contributors may wish to highlight the ways in which feminist
perspectives have enriched the understanding of medieval art or to
identify the contributions that studies of visual materials have made
to feminist work in medieval studies. Others may prefer to identify
dead ends to which feminism has led medieval art history or to
critique ways in which feminist scholarship on medieval visual
culture has been co-opted in a post-feminist age. We also welcome
essays on current research that utilize feminist approaches and
essays that seek to chart a path forward for feminist work on
medieval art. Inquiries from potential contributors may be addressed
to either or both of the co-editors of the issue:

Marian Bleeke, Assistant Professor of Art History
Department of Art, Cleveland State University
m.bleeke@csuohio.edu

Felice Lifshitz, Professor of History
Department of History, Florida International University
lifshitz@fiu.edu

The deadline for completed submissions, which should be sent via
email to Felice Lifshitz, is August 15, 2008. Style guidelines and
other contributor information for MFF are available on the website of
the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
(http://www.minotstateu.edu/mff/contributor.shtml).

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Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: Neglected Contributions of Female Scholars
We invite submissions for a special issue of the Medieval Feminist
Forum (volume 45 number 1) to recover and highlight important
contributions by female scholars to any area of Medieval Studies. We
are particularly interested in original contributions that have been,
for one reason or another, underappreciated, neglected, or even
misattributed to (or falsely claimed by) male authors. It is expected
that the majority or even the totality of the examples will date from
several decades ago or more, but essays on important cases of more
recent vintage are also welcome. Inquiries from potential
contributors (including proposals for articles on other topics) may
be addressed to the editor:

Felice Lifshitz, Professor of History
Florida International University
lifshitz@fiu.edu

The deadline for completed submissions, which should be sent via
email to Felice Lifshitz, is February 15, 2009. Style guidelines and
other contributor information for MFF are available on the website of
the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
(http://www.minotstateu.edu/mff/contributor.shtml).

About Time

nglo-Saxon Futures 2:
About Time

The Second International Workshop of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
and
King's College London

May 23 & 24, 2008

Council Room, Strand
At King's College London

A 2 day international workshop of seminars and roundtables on the
languages of Old English and Anglo-Saxon Studies now: times,
translations, temporalities. For all interested postgraduates and
staff, co-sponsored by King’s College London and the Anglo-Saxon
Studies Colloquium (Columbia University, New York University,
Princeton University and Rutgers University)

For program and registration, please click here, or see attachment:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/english/events/futures.html

For more information, please contact Clare Lees (clare.lees@kcl.ac.uk)

For a map, and directions to campus:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand-det.html


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Conference Program:
Friday May 23 (Council Room, Strand)

2:15-2:45 pm Coffee and Registration

2:45 Welcome (Clare Lees, King’s College London)

3:00-4:30 Current Times
Kathleen Davis (Princeton), ‘Time, Poetry, and the Stillness of Speech’
Patricia Dailey (Columbia), ‘He is ure heafod. and we sind his lima:
How Ælfric Times the Body’
Sharon M. Rowley (Christopher Newport University), ‘Who Read
Æthelbert’s Letter? Translation, Mediation and Authority in the OE
Bede’

4:30-5:00 Tea

5:00 –6:30 Translating Old English Poetry: The Ruin and Durham
Workshop led by Marijane Osborn (UC-Davis).
Discussants: Aaron Hostetter ( Princeton ) and Matt Kohl (NYU).
Respondent: Chris Jones (University of St Andrews)

6:30-7:30 Reception

Saturday May 24 (Council Room, Strand)

10:30-12:00 Queer Futures
Lisa Weston (California State, Fresno), ‘Desire and the Anglo-Saxon
School Girl’
Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois, Edwardsville), `Queer Times, Queer
Bodies, and the Erotics of a Nomadic Anglo-Saxon Studies’
Gillian Overing (Wake Forest), ‘Beowulf on Gender’

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00- 2:30 Disciplines through Time

Hal Momma (NYU) and Josh Davies (King’s College London), ‘Past
Presents: Temporality Collaboration’
Diane Watt (Aberystwyth) and Clare Lees (King’s College London),
‘GenderQueer Collaboration’

2:30-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-4:30 The Old English Life of Mary of Egypt
Roundtable discussion: Brigit McGuire (Columbia), Stacy Klein
(Rutgers), Carrie Ho (Rutgers), Laura S. Bailey (King’s College
London)

5:30-6:30 Reception


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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, Rutgers University.

New Book

Irmeli Valtonen, The North in the Old English Orosius. A Geographical
Narrative in Context. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de
Helsinki LXXIII. Helsinki 2008. xvi + 672 pp., 148 x 210 mm.
ISBN 978-951-9040-29-5. ISSN 0335-0192. €55.