Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
44th Congress CFP
The CFP for Congress 44, 2009 apparently is up.
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html
Cognitive Theory and Medieval Performance
Cognitive Theory and Medieval Performance
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
Many theatre scholars are employing cognitive theory to explore drama and performance. This research has supported long-held claims about theatre, as well as complicated and challenged our assumptions about theatrical events and their cultural work. The large number of recently published essay collections, articles, and special journal issues devoted to this interdisciplinary approach reflects its relevance and significance.
This panel seeks papers that use evidence and theory from cognitive science to analyze medieval drama and performance. Although papers that analyze dramatic texts are welcome, this session specifically invites work that employs cognitive theory to explore aspects of performance events. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
Many theatre scholars are employing cognitive theory to explore drama and performance. This research has supported long-held claims about theatre, as well as complicated and challenged our assumptions about theatrical events and their cultural work. The large number of recently published essay collections, articles, and special journal issues devoted to this interdisciplinary approach reflects its relevance and significance.
This panel seeks papers that use evidence and theory from cognitive science to analyze medieval drama and performance. Although papers that analyze dramatic texts are welcome, this session specifically invites work that employs cognitive theory to explore aspects of performance events. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance
Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
As Chris Brooks suggests, the Renaissance inherited the Middle Ages both as a material presence and as a complex of ideas and feelings—both real and imaginary. This panel seeks papers that examine how Renaissance communities constructed, evaluated, mythologized, or re-imagined the Middle Ages through performance. Although dramatic texts offer us evidence of such cultural work, this panel encourages submissions that identify and analyze "medievalisms" in staging practices, patronage, acting styles, design choices, or other theatrical elements. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society is sponsoring a panel on this topic at the MLA Convention this coming December. Due to the enthusiastic response to that panel's call for papers, the MRDS is sponsoring this second panel on the same theme.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
As Chris Brooks suggests, the Renaissance inherited the Middle Ages both as a material presence and as a complex of ideas and feelings—both real and imaginary. This panel seeks papers that examine how Renaissance communities constructed, evaluated, mythologized, or re-imagined the Middle Ages through performance. Although dramatic texts offer us evidence of such cultural work, this panel encourages submissions that identify and analyze "medievalisms" in staging practices, patronage, acting styles, design choices, or other theatrical elements. The session organizer hopes to include work from a range of medieval periods and geographic regions.
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society is sponsoring a panel on this topic at the MLA Convention this coming December. Due to the enthusiastic response to that panel's call for papers, the MRDS is sponsoring this second panel on the same theme.
Please submit your one-page abstract and participant information form to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2008. The participant cover sheet and general information about the Congress are available at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF
Heroic Age Issue 11
On behalf of the Board and editors of The Heroic Age, I would like
to announce the publication of Issue 11. My special thanks go out
to Linda Malcor, Deanna Forsman, and Bill Schipper and all of our
readers who went beyond the call of duty to finally bring it
together and released to the world. http://www.heroicage.org
There are many things to enjoy in this issue. Board member Linda
Malcor and colleagues have put together an interesting collection
of papers exploring various aspects of Arthur and folklore. In
addition to those four articles, there is a short article on a new
textual find.
Turning to our regular features, we have the usual suspects. Michel
Aaij continues to inform us about medieval studies in Europe in
Continental Business and Dan O’Donnell continues his series of
reflections in Electronic Medievalia. In the Forum, we have several
pieces addressing the State of the Field in Anglo-Saxon Studies.
And we have a new column beginning in this issue. The Babel group
has joined forces with us at The Heroic Age and will be publishing
a column in every issue generally addressing the application of
theoretical approaches to early medieval studies. In this inaugural
column, Daniel Murtaugh weighs in with an article focused on
Beowulf. Further, Aaron Kleist introduces us to the Electronic
Aelfric project. I almost neglected to mention an excerpt from
Martin Foys' recent book, Virtually Anglo-Saxon.
Please take a look at our upcoming Calls for Papers. In addition
to specific, themed sections, The Heroic Age accepts papers on any
aspect of the early Medieval period (300-1100) dealing or touching
on NW Europe (loosely defined) at any time.
http://www.heroicage.org
to announce the publication of Issue 11. My special thanks go out
to Linda Malcor, Deanna Forsman, and Bill Schipper and all of our
readers who went beyond the call of duty to finally bring it
together and released to the world. http://www.heroicage.org
There are many things to enjoy in this issue. Board member Linda
Malcor and colleagues have put together an interesting collection
of papers exploring various aspects of Arthur and folklore. In
addition to those four articles, there is a short article on a new
textual find.
Turning to our regular features, we have the usual suspects. Michel
Aaij continues to inform us about medieval studies in Europe in
Continental Business and Dan O’Donnell continues his series of
reflections in Electronic Medievalia. In the Forum, we have several
pieces addressing the State of the Field in Anglo-Saxon Studies.
And we have a new column beginning in this issue. The Babel group
has joined forces with us at The Heroic Age and will be publishing
a column in every issue generally addressing the application of
theoretical approaches to early medieval studies. In this inaugural
column, Daniel Murtaugh weighs in with an article focused on
Beowulf. Further, Aaron Kleist introduces us to the Electronic
Aelfric project. I almost neglected to mention an excerpt from
Martin Foys' recent book, Virtually Anglo-Saxon.
Please take a look at our upcoming Calls for Papers. In addition
to specific, themed sections, The Heroic Age accepts papers on any
aspect of the early Medieval period (300-1100) dealing or touching
on NW Europe (loosely defined) at any time.
http://www.heroicage.org
Glossing IS a Glorious Thing
Glossing is a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present, and Future of Commentary
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
April 9-10, 2009
Keynote Event
The Future of Commentary, a roundtable discussion with:
David Greetham (CUNY)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford)
Jesús Rodríguez Velasco (Columbia)
Et al.
Sponsored by:
The Graduate Center and the Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY
Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary (http://glossator.org)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Il y a plus affaire à interpreter les interpretations qu'à
interpreter les choses, et plus de livres sur les livres que sur
autre subject: nous ne faisons que nous entregloser. Tout fourmille
de commentaires; d'auteurs, il en est grand cherté—Montaigne
[There is more to-do interpreting interpretations than interpreting
things, more books on books than on any other subject: we do nothing
except gloss each other. Everything swarms with commentaries; of
authors there is a great lack].
Montaigne's critique, which does not exclude his own Essais, is
emblematic of the ambivalent status of commentary in modernity.
Commentary is both an outmoded form of textual production tied to
premodern constructions of authority and an indispensable dimension
of scholarly work. This ambivalence is most conspicuous within the
humanities where the commentary genre, like a popolo minuto of the
academic city-state, holds an explicitly subordinate position beneath
the monograph, the article, and the essay, however much, and maybe
all the more so when, work of these kinds is constituted by
commentarial procedures.
But there are clear signs, both intellectual and technological, of
return to and reinvention of commentary. Several humanistic auctores
of the last century have worked innovatively within the genre: Walter
Benjamin's Arcades Project, Martin Heidegger's lectures on
Hölderlin's "Der Ister," Roland Barthes's S/Z, Jacques Derrida's
Glas, Luce Irigaray's An Ethics of Sexual Difference, J.H. Prynne's
They That Haue Powre to Hurt; A Specimen of a Commentary on
Shake-speares Sonnets, 94, and Giorgio Agamben's The Time that
Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans, et al. In The
Powers of Philology, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has described the material
situation in which commentary may become ascendant: "The vision of
the empty chip constitutes a threat, a veritable horror vacui not
only for the electronic media industry but also, I suppose, for our
intellectual and cultural self-appreciation. It might promote, once
again, a reappreciation of the principle and substance of copia. And
it might bring about a situation in which we will no longer be
embarrassed to admit that filling up margins is what commentaries
mostly do—and what they do best" (53).
This conference proposes a dialogue about the past, present, and
future of commentary, not only as an object of intellectual and
theoretical inquiry, but also with regard to commentary's practical
potentialities, to its place within the evolution and becoming of
academic labor in the lived present. The prospect of a "return" to
commentary, whatever forms it may take, renders conspicuous and
questionable some of the most hallowed and taken-for-granted
assumptions about the nature of scholarly practice, for instance: the
distinction between primary and secondary text; the primacy of noesis
over poesis, or thinking over making; the synthetic, thesis-driven,
and polemical character of understanding; and so forth. Presentations
that engage with such implications are particularly welcome. Please
submit 250-word abstracts by October 1, 2008 to
formicolare@gmail.com. Word attachments preferred.
Organizers: Nicola Masciandaro (nicolam@brooklyn.cuny.edu), Karl
Steel (karltsteel@gmail.com), Ryan Dobran (ryandobran@hotmail.com)
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
April 9-10, 2009
Keynote Event
The Future of Commentary, a roundtable discussion with:
David Greetham (CUNY)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford)
Jesús Rodríguez Velasco (Columbia)
Et al.
Sponsored by:
The Graduate Center and the Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY
Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary (http://glossator.org)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Il y a plus affaire à interpreter les interpretations qu'à
interpreter les choses, et plus de livres sur les livres que sur
autre subject: nous ne faisons que nous entregloser. Tout fourmille
de commentaires; d'auteurs, il en est grand cherté—Montaigne
[There is more to-do interpreting interpretations than interpreting
things, more books on books than on any other subject: we do nothing
except gloss each other. Everything swarms with commentaries; of
authors there is a great lack].
Montaigne's critique, which does not exclude his own Essais, is
emblematic of the ambivalent status of commentary in modernity.
Commentary is both an outmoded form of textual production tied to
premodern constructions of authority and an indispensable dimension
of scholarly work. This ambivalence is most conspicuous within the
humanities where the commentary genre, like a popolo minuto of the
academic city-state, holds an explicitly subordinate position beneath
the monograph, the article, and the essay, however much, and maybe
all the more so when, work of these kinds is constituted by
commentarial procedures.
But there are clear signs, both intellectual and technological, of
return to and reinvention of commentary. Several humanistic auctores
of the last century have worked innovatively within the genre: Walter
Benjamin's Arcades Project, Martin Heidegger's lectures on
Hölderlin's "Der Ister," Roland Barthes's S/Z, Jacques Derrida's
Glas, Luce Irigaray's An Ethics of Sexual Difference, J.H. Prynne's
They That Haue Powre to Hurt; A Specimen of a Commentary on
Shake-speares Sonnets, 94, and Giorgio Agamben's The Time that
Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans, et al. In The
Powers of Philology, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has described the material
situation in which commentary may become ascendant: "The vision of
the empty chip constitutes a threat, a veritable horror vacui not
only for the electronic media industry but also, I suppose, for our
intellectual and cultural self-appreciation. It might promote, once
again, a reappreciation of the principle and substance of copia. And
it might bring about a situation in which we will no longer be
embarrassed to admit that filling up margins is what commentaries
mostly do—and what they do best" (53).
This conference proposes a dialogue about the past, present, and
future of commentary, not only as an object of intellectual and
theoretical inquiry, but also with regard to commentary's practical
potentialities, to its place within the evolution and becoming of
academic labor in the lived present. The prospect of a "return" to
commentary, whatever forms it may take, renders conspicuous and
questionable some of the most hallowed and taken-for-granted
assumptions about the nature of scholarly practice, for instance: the
distinction between primary and secondary text; the primacy of noesis
over poesis, or thinking over making; the synthetic, thesis-driven,
and polemical character of understanding; and so forth. Presentations
that engage with such implications are particularly welcome. Please
submit 250-word abstracts by October 1, 2008 to
formicolare@gmail.com. Word attachments preferred.
Organizers: Nicola Masciandaro (nicolam@brooklyn.cuny.edu), Karl
Steel (karltsteel@gmail.com), Ryan Dobran (ryandobran@hotmail.com)
SACRED SOUNDS: After several decades out of fashion, Gregorian chant is again stirring the spirits of church-goers
Gold Coins Found under Tsar Ivan Shishman's Treasure
FLORENCE TO 'REHABILITATE' DANTE
Medieval boat found on Suffolk coast
Campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry back to Britain
Wonders of the World series: Hagia Sophia
Medieval maltings found at famous brewer
Archaeologists digging in Newbury's Park Way have found a 12th century
well and shards of pottery
Biblical Text-Writing May Have Poisoned Monk
Raiders or Traders?
Boat grave sheds light on Viking beliefs
Gold Coins Found under Tsar Ivan Shishman's Treasure
FLORENCE TO 'REHABILITATE' DANTE
Medieval boat found on Suffolk coast
Campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry back to Britain
Wonders of the World series: Hagia Sophia
Medieval maltings found at famous brewer
Archaeologists digging in Newbury's Park Way have found a 12th century
well and shards of pottery
Biblical Text-Writing May Have Poisoned Monk
Raiders or Traders?
Boat grave sheds light on Viking beliefs
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