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2010
2225 March 2010.
"Old St Peter's Rome," a conference at the British School at Rome,
Italy. The basilica that was built by Constantine at the Vatican
in the early fourth century to mark the burial place of the Apostle
Peter became the central place for Christian worship in the West
for more than a millennium until its protracted demolition over
the course of the sixteenth century. The essential chronology of
the construction of Old St Peter's, and the major modifications
made to its fabric over subsequent centuries, are well established.
But a great many questions remain to be answered about details of
the building and its monuments, and on the ways in which the basilica
and its environs functioned as a 'theatre' of worship, burial and
power throughout the middle ages from the fourth to sixteenth centuries.
Confirmed contributors include:
Prof. Dr. Lex Bosman and Prof. Dr. Bram Kempers (Univ. of Amsterdam)
; Prof. Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins Univ.) ; Prof. Paolo Liverani
(Università degli studi di Firenze) ; Prof. Rosamond McKitterick
(Univ. of Cambridge) ; Dr. Richard Gem (UK) ; Dr. Pietro Zander
(Reverenda Fabbrica di San Pietro).
Contact: John Osborne, Carleton
Univ., Canada (john_osborne@carleton.ca); Carol Richardson, Open
Univ., UK (c.m.richardson@open.ac.uk); or Joanna Story, Univ. of
Leicester, UK (js73@le.ac.uk).
2627 March 2010.
"Voix de femmes médiévales
/ Medieval Women's Voices," colloque du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales
Anglaises (CEMA) à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4). Contact:
Gloria Cigman (gloria.cigman@orange.fr; http://www.cema.paris4.fr).
2627 March 2010.
The Mid-Atlantic Renaissance-Reformation Seminar (MARRS), at
Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia. The plenary
address by Melissa Meriam Bullard will be on “The Secrets of a Renaissance
Merchant in His Studiolo.”
Call for papers:
submit a proposal for a twenty-minute paper by 19 December to David
S. Peterson, History Dept., Washington and Lee Univ., Lexington,
VA 24450 (540-458-8094; fax: 540-458-8498; petersond@wlu.edu; http://mrst.wlu.edu).
2627 March 2010.
"Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East
of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural
Transformations," an international workshop organized by the Department
of History of York University and the Graduate School "Human Development
in Landscapes," at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, to be held
on the Keele Campus of York University, Toronto, Canada. This is
the Fourth International Workshop of the Interdisciplinary Association
"Gentes trans Albiam - Europe East of the Elbe in the Middle Ages."
Landscapes can be defined,
in the words of Denis E. Cosgrove, as "visibly distinct regions."
Landscapes can be understood as the natural environments in which
a society is embedded, or as the set of representations with which
members of a society observe and describe a region and give it significance.
The idea of landscape is dependant on the one hand on the material
reality of a given region, on the other hand on the sense attached
to it by human beings beholding it. Medieval Europe east of the
Elbe presents an interesting field for the investigation of landscape
transformations. The area is characterized by many features that
clearly distinguishes it from the Mediterranean regions throughout
the Middle Agesabsence of Roman traditions, late appearance
of Latin culture, colonization movement, chartered towns. There
were generally independent developments concerning society, economy,
and religion which led to the creation of a distinct cultural area.
All of this makes this part of the European continent attractive
for a consideration of large-scale and longue durée interactions
between landscapes and societies. The workshop will bring together
a small group of young scholars (16 papers) from North America and
Europe working in the fields of archaeology, history, palaeobotany
and palaeozoology.
Call for papers: Papers
in the fields of history, archaeology and related disciplines are
invited. The papers should present a link with parts of Europe outside
the borders of the Roman Empire as well as with environmental and/or
social history. The main focus will be on the medieval period but
papers dealing with Antiquity are invited, too. Doctoral students
and young scholars will be particularly considered.
Please send a short abstract
(less than one page) and a CV by e-mail to one of the organizers
by 20 October 2009. Deadline for abstracts: 20 October 2009.
Invitations will depend upon available funding. A publication
following the workshop is considered. Contact: Sunhild Kleingärtner
(skleingaertner@ufg.uni-kiel.de), Sébastien Rossignol (rossigno@yorku.ca),
or Donat Wehner (donatwehner@gshdl.uni-kiel.de).
2627 March 2010.
"Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega: A Graduate Symposium on the
Poet's Universe," is sponsored by the Department of Italian Language
and Literature, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Dante's
Divine Comedy is a totalizing visiona work emanating
from and culminating in the poet's glimpse of a universe "bound
with love in a single volume." In the twenty-first century,
the goals of universal digitization and constant accessibility that
mark our information age might seem far removed from Dante's vatic
rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models of thought
might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic
impulse that stretches back to, and extends well beyond, the fourteenth
century. "Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega" will explore
how the encyclopedism of today can enrich, inform, or obscure our
understanding of Dante's universe and its poetic representation.
The keynote speaker will
be Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University).
Call for papers: in
the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may include,
but are not limited to the following:
Receptions of Dante: commentary,
exegesis, and philology
Representations of Dante:
the visual, acoustic, and cinematic arts
Dante and the place of language
Dante and the sciences
Poetry as knowledge and self-knowledge
In the shadow of the Comedy:
the 'minor' works
Nature, necessity, and freedom
in the Comedy
The world outside the secretissima
camera: social/institutional history in Dante's time
Justice earthly and divine
Dante and the lyric tradition
Theology, history, and the
politics of exile
Classical and medieval theories
of love
Ethics and psychology
Style and rhetoric
Theological and philosophical
debates in the thirteenth century.
Presentations should not
exceed 20 minutes (approximately 910 pages of double-spaced
text) and may be in Italian or in English. Please submit an anonymous
abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a separate page, a cover
sheet with the title of your paper, your name, affiliation, and
contact information (including telephone and e-mail address). Kindly
send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to yaledantesymposium@gmail.com
by 15 November 2009. Further information will be available on the
events webpage of the Yale Italian Department http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html
as the symposium draws nearer.
2728 March 2010.
"New Directions in Medieval Scandinavian Studies,"
the 30th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, will
be held at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, in New York
City.
This international conference
seeks to explore the ways in which traditional interpretations of
medieval Scandinavian culture, literature, history, and religion
are being challenged or advanced by new methodologies and new questions.
Plenary speakers will be Vésteinn Olason, recently Director
of the Arni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavík; Matthew
Driscoll, Director of the Arnamagnaean Institute in Copenhagen;
and a Norwegian scholar now residing in the U.S., Kirsten Seaver.
Call for papers: we
welcome papers in all disciplines, including art and architecture,
archaeology and landscape, folklore, history, law, linguistics and
philology, literature, and religion, but we are particularly interested
in papers that can speak to larger issues in Scandinavian studies.
These include, but are not limited to how to resolve disputes about
dating the earliest vernacular texts; orality and literacy; methods
of editing vernacular texts and translations; the mechanics and
meaning of Christianization; the relationship between sanctity and
politics, particularly in terms of saintly rulers; the extent and
impact of the Scandinavian diaspora; the periodization and pace
of state formation; settlement patterns and social stratification
in town and country; and the influence of nationalism and romanticism
on interpretative frameworks.
Send an abstract and a cover
letter with contact information (incl. e-mail address) to Conference
Committee, Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405, Fordham University,
Bronx, NY 10458, USA (fax: 718-817-3987; medievals@fordham.edu).
3031.March 2010.
"Utrumque ius? The Education of a Lawyer,"
a colloquium to be held at Robinson College, Cambridge. Utrumque
ius will focus on the "technical" issues of the discipline:
the genres and formats of medieval legal collections; people and
books; education "centres"; and the ways lawyers were
trained and became professionals. It will also address navigating
the books and related literature, as well as the benefits and difficulties
of using legal texts as historical sources. The colloquium is aimed
chiefly at postgraduate students and early career medievalists.
There are a limited number of places and CLASMA (Church, Law and
Society in the Middle Ages Research Network) would like to invite
applications for grants covering the colloquium, accommodation in
Cambridge for the nights of 29-30 March, meals including a reception
and colloquium dinner on 30 March. The deadline for applications
is Wednesday, 24 February 2010. Completed forms and any queries
should be addressed to Danica Summerlin, CLASMA Administrative Assistant
(clasma.colloquia@googlemail.com).
910 April 2010.
"Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages," the 37th Sewanee Medieval
Colloquium, at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.
The plenary speakers will be David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson, University
of Rhode Island, and Antonio Momplet Míguez, Universidad Complutense,
Madrid.
Call for papers: We
invite 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of medieval
pilgrimage. We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions on particular
topics related the theme. Please submit an abstract (approx. 250
words) and brief c.v., electronically if possible, no later than
23 October 2009. If you wish to propose a session, please submit
abstracts and vitae for all participants in the session. Commentary
is traditionally provided for each paper presented; completed papers,
including notes, will be due no later than 10 March 2010.
The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
Prize will be awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or
recent PhD recipient (degree awarded since July 2007). Contact:
Stephen B. Raulston, University of the South, 735 University Ave.,
Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 (931-598-1526; sraulsto@sewanee.edu; http://www.sewanee.edu/Medieval/main.html.
911 April 2010.
"Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe,"
a meeting of the British Archaeological Association, in London.
The British Archaeological Association is organising the first what
we hope will become a bienniel series of conferences around Europe
concerned with the art and architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries.
The conference aims to examine how and why a concern for the past
manifested itself in the art and architecture of the Latin Church
during the Romanesque period. This took many forms, from the casual,
even careless, reuse of Antique material, to a specific desire to
re-present or emulate earlier objects or buildings. The papers at
the conference are therefore concerned with the revival of classical
or earlier medieval forms, spolia, selective quotation, archaism,
and the construction of histories. For certain institutions the
past was the future in more than a theological or universal sense
- it was a concern for immediate and local reasons. On a more mundane
level Roman and early medieval forms, particularly ornamental and
geometric forms, were used in new combinations in the 11th and 12th
centuries. The manner and reasons whereby particular forms are selected
can throw light on how a local sense of Romanitas intersects with
a sense of Romanitas elsewhere. Is what passes for the past in Romanesque
Ireland or Hungary very different from the past as viewed from southern
Italy?
Speakers include: Elizabeth
Valdez del Alamo, Stephan Albrechts, Claude Andrault-Schmitt, Laurence
Cabrero-Ravel, Mañuel Castiñeiras, Quitterie Cazes, Lucy Donkin,
Peter Fergusson, Eric Fernie, Deborah Kahn, Kai Kappel, John McNeill,
David Park, Daniel Prigent, Conrad Rudolph, Barrie Singleton, Roger
Stalley, Neil Stratford and Bela Szakacs.
A second conference is to
be held in Spring, 2012 in Palermo, concerned with Romanesque and
the Eastern Mediterranean.
Scholarships: A limited number
of scholarships for students are available to cover the cost of
the conference. Please apply by 31 October 2009, attaching a short
CV along with the name and contact details of one referee. Applications
should be sent to either of the conference convenors (jsmcneill@btinternet.com
or rplant62@hotmail.com). The deadline for booking is 31 October
2009.
10 April 2010. "Medieval
Perspectives: From the Mundane to the Miraculous," the 27th Annual
New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference,
to be held at the University of Connecticut.
Call for papers: Abstracts
from graduate students are now being accepted on all topics concerning
late antiquity through the late Middle Ages. We strongly encourage
papers from a variety of disciplines, including: Anthropology –
Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies – Comparative Literature
– Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History – History of
Science – Language Studies – Literary Studies – Manuscript Studies
– Musicology – Philosophy – Paleography – Religious Studies – Urban
Studies – Women’s and Gender Studies.
Papers are to be no more
than 20 minutes long and read in English. Please send proposals
of no more than 200 words, with affiliation and contact details,
by 15 January 2010. Contact: Pamela Longo orJeanette Zissell Univ.
of Connecticut Dept. of English, U-Box 4025, 215 Glenbrook Rd.,
Storrs, CT 06269, USA (or send to uconn.nemsc@gmail.com as a Word
attachment; http://medievalstudies.uconn.edu/NEConsortium.htm).
1617 April 2010.
"Time, Temporality, History," the 31st Annual Medieval and Renaissance
Forum, at Plymouth State University, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of
English/Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
Call for papers: we
invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider
questions of periodization, historicity, and temporality. Papers
may consider
o how people conceived of,
constructed, interacted with, measured, or produced "time" in medieval
and Early Modern cultures
o how we currently construct
or deconstruct history
o how studying temporality
illuminates other subjects.
Papers need not be confined
to the theme, but may cover many aspects of medieval and Renaissance
life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history
and music. Student sessions welcome.
Abstract deadline: 15 January
2009
Presenters and early registration:
15 March 2009
Please submit abstracts and
full contact information (e-mail and postal addresses) to Karolyn
Kinane Dir., Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Dept. of English MSC
40, 17 High St., Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH 03264 (PSUForum@gmail.com;
http://www.plymouth.edu/medieval).
10 April 2010. "Ghosts:
Ethereal and Material," a Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies
at Princeton University. The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton
University invites submissions for its seventeenth annual graduate
conference. We are pleased
to announce this year's keynote speaker, Nancy Caciola, Associate
Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
This conference invites participants
to consider the idea of ghosts in its broadest sense. We encourage
papers not only on ghosts as 'ethereal' beings, but also submissions
that play with the metaphor of ghosts as it relates to things like
memory and the material remains of the medieval past. Thus, one
successful proposal might deal with ghosts as they appear in monastic
literature, while others might make the "ghost" of the Middle Ages
in contemporary film or the 'ghostly' ruins of Cistercian monasteries
in France their subjects of inquiry.
In keeping with the Program's
aim to promote interdisciplinary exchange among medievalists, we
encourage proposals from a variety of chronologies, geographies,
and disciplines. Topics might include but are not limited to:
- The Liturgy of the Dead
- Spirit possessions and
exorcisms
- Medieval near death experiences
and otherworldly journeys
- Ghosts in monastic literature
and exempla
- Ghosts in vernacular literature
(epic, romance, sagas, etc.)
- Saints' lives and hagiography
- Medieval modes of remembrance
- Ruins in Medieval Europe
-The "ghost" of the Middle
Ages today
In order to support participation
of speakers from outside the northeastern United States, we are
offering a limited number of modest subsidies to help offset the
cost of travel to Princeton. Financial assistance may not be available
for every participant; funding priority goes to those who have the
furthest to travel. Every speaker will have the option of staying
with a resident graduate student as an alternative to paying for
a hotel room. Papers should take no more than twenty minutes to
deliver. Please submit a 250-word abstract of your project by 15
February 2010 to Troy Tice (ttice@princeton.edu) or Andrew Lemons
(alemons@princeton.edu).
16-17 April 2010. "Border
Families and their Books in Northern England and in Scotland, c.
1480-c. 1620," a symposium on family books and borders in Scotland
and Northern England, at Merton College, Oxford.
Plenary Speakers: Sally Mapstone
(University of Oxford) and Priscilla Bawcutt (University of Liverpool).
Closing remarks: Roger Mason (University of St Andrews) .
Symposium Focus An exploration
of the literary activities, tastes, and book collections of family
groups based in or connected to the border regions of Northern England
and Scotland from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century.
Border regions are taken to include borders or boundaries (physical
or imagined) between Lowland and Highland Scotland, as well as Scotland
and England.
Topics may include, but are
not limited to
* Prints and manuscripts
(especially anthologies or miscellanies associated with kin groups)
* Related subjects such as
literary interchange between border families, or the way in which
crossing borders shaped a family's literary pursuits and interests
* Bodies of writing by members
of the same family group, or family book collections
The organisers welcome proposals
for 2030 minute papers on these, and related, topics. They
would be particularly interested in paper proposals on the Percy,
Neville, and Howard families, and on the Maitlands, Cockburns, Douglases,
and Campbells of Glenorchy.
Submission details Please
send expressions of interest/200-word abstract, along with your
name and affiliation to either of the organisers by 1 October 2010.
Further information can be obtained by contacting the organisers,
or on the conference website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/conference/doku.php?id=borderfamilie
s:home
Organisers Dr Joanna Martin,
University of Nottingham (joanna.martin@nottingham.ac.uk) and Dr
Kate McClune (katherine.mcclune@merton.ox.ac.uk), Merton College,
Oxford.
1921 April 2010.
The 32nd annual conference of the Middle East Libraries Committee
2224 April 2010.
"Region, State, Nation, Community: New Research in Scandinavian
and Baltic Studies," the 100th Conference of the Society for the
Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) and the 22nd Conference
of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS),
will meet in Seattle, Washington.
AABS welcomes papers, panels,
and roundtable presentations for the first joint conference of Scandinavian
and Baltic Studies in the United States. The conference aims to
highlight and foster academic inquiry that draws comparisons between
Scandinavia (Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland) and
the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Papers that
examine stateless peoples and those left outside of the Scandinavian/Baltic
approach, but sharing the same geographic space, are equally welcome.
Papers and panels devoted to individual states are also welcome.
Contributions are encouraged from disciplines including (but not
limited to): anthropology, architecture, communication, cultural
studies, demography, economics, education, environment, ethnic relations,
film studies, fine arts, gender studies, geography, history, international
relations, law, linguistics, literature, memory, political science,
psychology, public health, religion, sociology, tourism, and advancing
Baltic and Scandinavian studies. Presentations are not to exceed
20 minutes in length.
Call for papers: Paper and
panel proposals must include an abstract (no more than 250 words)
and a one to two-page curriculum vitae. All presenters must be SASS
or AABS members in good standing. If you are in need of assistance
in finding potential co-panelists from either Scandinavian studies
or Baltic Studies, please contact the conference organizer (listed
above) to help with such networking by 1 November 2009. Proposals
from Ph.D. students will be considered for a Presidents' Panel on
Scandinavian and Baltic Studies that recognizes the most accomplished
and innovative work of new scholars.
Send this material embedded
in the body of an e-mail (no attachments) to Aldis Purs (aldisp@u.washington.edu)
by 11 December 2009; paper submissions can be mailed to 22nd AABS
Conference Chair, University of Washington, Box 353420, Seattle,
WA 98195-3420 (http://depts.washington.edu/aabs/).
2324 April 2010.
"Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages," a two-day
interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the St Andrews
Institute of Mediaeval Studies, at St. Andrews, Scotland. Now in
its third year, the conference aims to create a lively and welcoming
forum for postgraduate students and academic staff to build contacts,
present research and participate in creative discussion on the topics
of gender and transgression in the Middle Ages. We are especially
keen to explore the ways in which these topics, frequently studied
in reference to points of rupture or breakdown, may also be discussed
in their relation to growth and change in the past.
Call for papers: We
invite speakers working in the areas of History, Language, Literature,
Art History, Theology, Philosophy, and any other relevant discipline
to submit proposals for papers of approximately 20 minutes in length
which engage with the themes of gender and/or transgression in the
mediaeval period. This year's keynote speaker will be Emeritus Professor
R I Moore (School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle),
author of The Birth of Popular Heresy (1975), The Formation
of a Persecuting Society (1987), and The First European Revolution
(2000).
Possible topics for papers
might include, but are by no means limited to:
- How may the terms "gender"
and/or "transgression" have been significant in mediaeval contexts?
- In what ways do these categories
of analysis affect our study of religious (both ortho- and heterodox),
social, economic or political history?
- Can transgression be seen
as a constructive force in the Middle Ages?
- To what extent can the
analytical categories of gender and transgression be usefully combined?
- Against what did mediaeval
people transgress? (a point raised at the 2009 conference by keynote
speaker Professor John Arnold)
Please send abstracts for
papers of approximately 300 words by 14 February 2010 (genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk).
24 April 2010. "Commerce,
Combat, and Colonisation: Pushing the Boundaries of Medieval Northern
Europe," a postgraduate symposium organized by the Institute
for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, in Leeds, England.
Call for papers: From
Normans and Vikings to the Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Knights,
medieval Northern Europe provides numerous examples of peoples,
kingdoms, trade organizations, and religious orders interacting
by means of exchange, invasion, and settlement to lay the foundations
of modern Europe. The IMS postgraduate symposium seeks to be a forum
for the discussion of groups such as those mentioned above and others
that had an impact on the boundaries, culture, trade, and ideologies
of Northern Europe, and is particularly interested in papers on
such topics as:
- Encounters between cultures
-Trade and trading settlements
-Piracy and conquests
- Numismatics
- The spread of religious
orders
- Literature in colonized
lands
-The development of architecture
-Advancements in maritime
technology
- The Baltic Crusades
We accept proposals from
postgraduates at all stages of their research. The deadline is 31
January 2010 (imssymp@leeds.ac.uk).
2830 April 2010.
"Writing England: Books 10001400," a conference
at the University of Leicester, in Leicester, England. The production
and use of books in Medieval England reveal much about the complex
matrix of competing and collaborating religious and intellectual
movements, linguistic encounters, and literary and cultural developments.
After the success of the Writing England Conference in 2007, we
have expanded the temporal remit of the conference to exchange ideas
about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts
and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes at the heart
of the medieval period. Drawing upon different approaches and perspectives,
this conference aims to investigate the writers, compilers, manufacture
and reception of books in England between c. 1000 and 1400. ‘Writing
England’ will open up the debate for an interdisciplinary study
of book cultures in the Middle Ages, and allow for cross-fertilization
of ideas and research interests across the period.
Confirmed speakers: Elaine
Treharne (Florida State University), Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University
of York) and Tony Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester). Contact:
Orietta Da Rold (odr1@leicester.ac.uk) or Takako Kato (tk97@leicester.ac.uk).
29 April2 May 2010.
The 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the
History of Medicine, to be held in Rochester, Minnesota. Call
for papers: the Association welcomes submissions on the history
of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and
institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health.
Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome.
In addition to single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts
abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops.
Please alert the Program
Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual
papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to
present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent
original work not already published or in press. Because the Bulletin
of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM,
the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available
for consideration by the Bulletin.
The AAHM uses an online abstract
submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient
software. A link for submissions will be posted to the website at
http://histmed.org. If you are unable to submit proposals online,
send eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to
the Program Committee Chair, Keith Wailoo, Institute for Health,
Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University, 30
College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 (732-932-8419; kwailoo@rci.rutgers.edu).
When proposing a historical argument, state the major claim, summarize
the evidence supporting the claim, and state the major conclusion(s).
When proposing a narrative,
summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the
conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet
as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home
telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation,
and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September
2009. E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted.
7 May 2010. "Glossaires
et lexiques médiévaux inédits : bilan et perspectives," colloque
annuel de la FIDEM. Les actes d’un Congrès organisé par la FIDEM
en 1994 ont été publiés sous le titre « Les manuscrits des lexiques
et glossaires de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin du moyen âge ». Louvain-la-Neuve,
1996 (Textes et études du moyen âge, 4). Ce volume a permis de donner
une impulsion nouvelle aux études consacrées à ces recueils inédits.
Une documentation très intéressante y a été rassemblée, qui a déjà
donné lieu à des éditions critiques de textes encore inédits. Mais
tous les secteurs n’avaient pu être abordés pendant ces journées,
étant donné l’ampleur du sujet. A la demande plusieurs chercheurs,
il a donc semblé intéressant de faire le point quinze ans après
pour évaluer les progrès accomplis, mais aussi pour couvrir des
secteurs qui n’avaient pu être envisagés dans ce premier volume.
Beaucoup de progrès ont été faits depuis, surtout dans le domaine
des lexiques bilingues et trilingues ainsi que pour certains recueils
systématiques consacrés à diverses branches du savoir, comme la
médecine, les sciences, la grammaire ou la philosophie, par exemple.
Diverses équipes travaillent d’ailleurs désormais dans ces secteurs.
Conférences plénières
Par Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE, Paris) et Enrique Montero Cartelle
(Valladolid).
Call for papers Priorité
sera donnée dans les exposés aux instruments de travail bilingues
ou plurilingues ainsi qu’aux lexiques et glossaires systématiques,
prenant en compte des domaines de connaissance spécifiques. Ceux
qui souhaitent présenter une communication (20 minutes de parole)
sont priés d’envoyer un résumé (d’une page /2.500 caractères) avant
le 15 décembre 2009 par courriel à l’adresse suivante : jacquelinehamesse@yahoo.fr
ou par poste au Prof. Jacqueline Hamesse, Institut Supérieur de
Philosophie, Place du Cardinal Mercier, 14, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
(Belgium).
Bourses Des bourses
seront attribuées par la FIDEM à de jeunes chercheurs membres individuels
de la FIDEM ou d’une institution membre, ayant moins de 35 ans,
afin de faciliter leur participation à la rencontre. Leurs demandes
(accompagnées d’un CV et d’une lettre de recommandation d’un professeur)
peuvent être adressées au Secrétaire de la FIDEM par E-mail : fidem@letras.up.pt,
ou par courrier au Prof. José Meirinhos, Faculdade de Letras do
Porto, Via Panorâmica s/n, P-4150-564 PORTO, Portugal (http://web3.letras.up.pt/fidem/).
1316 May 2010. The
forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies will take
place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Contact: International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan
University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432 (269-387-8745;
fax: 269-387-8750; mdvl_congres@wmich.edu; http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/).
1920 May 2010.
"Chaucer at Galway," a multi-disciplinary conference on
Geoffrey Chaucer, to be held in the National University of Ireland,
at Galway. Key-note papers will be given by Alastair Minnis (Yale
University), Helen Phillips (Cardiff University), and John Thompson
(Queen's University, Belfast).
Call for papers: Proposals
for papers on any aspect of Chaucer's work, life, milieu, influence,
etc. are welcome. Individual sessions will be framed around the
themes that emerge from the call for papers. Please send a 200-word
proposal by 31 March 2010 to Clíodhna Carney (cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie).
Contacts: Clíodhna Carney (cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie),.Catherine
LaFarge (catherine.lafarge@nuigalway.ie), Frances McCormack (frances.mccormack@nuigalway.ie),
or Marina Ansaldo (marina_ansaldo@yahoo.it).
2022 May 2010. "Editing
Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century," a
conference organized by the Early English Text Society, at St Anne's
College, Oxford. Panels will address such topics as Brut
Chronicles; From Script
to Print to HTML: Electronic Editions; Palaeography,
Dialectology, and the Editorial Process; Editing
British Texts in Latin, Anglo-Norman, Celtic, and Scots; In
Praise of the Variant: Why Edit Critically?; Desiderata:
What still needs doing?
Plenary speakers will include
H. Leith Spencer, "The History of EETS and the History of Editing";
Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe, "Editing Old English Texts";
and Thorlac Turville-Petre "Electronic Editing."
Contact for information:
Vincent Gillespie (vincent.gillespie@ell.ox.ac.uk; http://www.eeets.org.uk).
2124 May 2010.
"Chester 2010: Drama and Religion 15551575," a symposium
about the Chester Cycle in Context, at the University of Toronto.
Chester 2010 will stage a Catholic version of the complete Chester
Cycle of 23 processional pageant-wagon plays from the city of Chester,
England over three days on the campus of the University of Toronto.
Tis version of the Chester Cycle enacts the Christian Story from
Creation to Judgment, as we believe it was either witnessed or read
in 1572 by Christopher Goodman, a protestant divine who objected
to its catholic content.
The symposium will take place
around three afternoon performances.Contact: David Klausner (David.Klausner@utoronto.ca);
Helen Ostovich (ostovich@mcmaster.ca); or Jennifer Roberts-Smith
(j33rober@uwaterloo.ca).
2628 May 2010. "Meeting
with Manuscripts, Today and Tomorrow," the 4th Conference of
LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group. The purpose of LIBER Manuscript
Librarians Group (http://liber-manuscripts.kb.nl/), established
in Stockholm in 2000, is to give European manuscripts curators a
space where to exchange knowledge and experiences and to promote
mutual understanding and cooperation. The Group “recognises the
unique significance of manuscript and archive collections, not only
for the world of research and learning, but also for a wider audience
of people interested in history and cultural heritage.”
The dissemination of digital
technologies is strongly affecting manuscript culture, as well as
any other field of information and knowledge. The 4^th Conference
of the Group will focus on the evolution we are facing and on how
we expect the world of manuscripts – the nature of the manuscripts
themselves, their public, their curators - will be like in a short
time. Starting with information and news from twelve European libraries
about their collections and activities, the Conference will include
sessions on born-digital materials, networks of digitized manuscripts,
old and new readers and users, and training of curators, trying
to highlight the best ways to preserve born-digital literary and
historical documents for future generations and to profit from the
technological sceneries to enhance and expand the access to and
the knowledge of the manuscript sources.
The programme of the Conference
is available on the website of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
di Roma (http://www.bncrm.librari.beniculturali.it/), where you
can find the registration form, and on the website of LIBER Manuscript
Librarians Group (http://liber-manuscripts.kb.nl/).
The deadline for registration
is 1 March 2010 Registration fees: 80 € Maximum number of participants:
100
2729 May 2010.
A conference on codicology and history of the manuscript in Arabic
script, organized by CSIC, Madrid, and EPHE, Paris.
In the course of the centuries,
the Islamic world has witnessed an intense activity of composition
of texts, which was in its turn going hand in hand with an equally
intense activity of transcription of those texts. Researches and
publications on the codicology of the manuscripts in Arabic script
have been growing over the last quarter of a century, thus allowing
us to know better their composition and peculiarities. Much still
remains to be done, but the amount of codicological data now available
enables us to get a broader view of this field of research and to
start taking into consideration the history of the book in the Islamic
world. On this last issue, although the question of the total number
of Arabic manuscripts still remains unanswered, a quantitative approach
seems under the present circumstances better qualified to lead on
to significant results.
The goal of the present conference,
which is a sequel of those which were held in Istanbul (1986), Paris
(1994) and Bologna (2000), is to open new perspectives of research
and to bring fresh contributions to the history of the manuscript
in Arabic script, a still underdeveloped field of investigation
which will contribute significantly to the history of the book in
general. The need to address these various new questions does not
mean that we consider that any effort at exploring the technical
aspects should be discontinued. The section dedicated to codicology
in the programme of the conference is as important as ever. Similarly,
papers devoted to the use of books in Islamic societies or to the
culture of the book would find their place within the frame of this
conference. Due to the close relationship between the manuscript
and the lithographed book from a technical point of view, contributions
about the latter could also take place within the programme of the
conference and help starting a discussion on the continuities between
these two kinds of books as well as on the changes introduced by
lithography.
This international conference
is intended for the specialists of codicology, history of the book
and of reading; it may also interest those who are using Arabic
manuscripts in their researches –historians, editors of texts, for
instance-, restorers or historians of the book at large.
Organizing committee: François
Déroche (EPHE), Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz (CSIC), and François
Richard (BULAC).
(cchla2010@gmail.com; http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/madridcall.pdf)
31 May1 June 2010.
"Marguerite Porete, 1310-2010: International Perspectives,"
a conference to be held in Paris. To
mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Marguerite Porete, an
interdisciplinary group of scholars from across Europe and North
America will gather to consider her life and legacy. Sessions on
Monday 31 May will be held in the Grande Salle of Reid Hall (Columbia
University), 4 rue de Chevreuse, and on Tuesday 1 June at the École
des hautes études en sciences sociales, 105 Bd. Raspail, Amphithéâtre
François Furet. The conference is funded by the CNRS, the Institut
universitaire de France, and the Centre de recherches historiques
(CNRS-EHESS). The organizers are Sylvain Piron, Robert E. Lerner,
Sean Field, and Elsa Marmursztejn.
Scheduled speakers include:
Nicole Bériou (Lyon 2 - EPHE),
"Introduction"
John Van Engen (University
of Notre Dame), "Marguerite of Hainaut and the Medieval Low
Countries"
Lydia Wegener (Thomas-Institut
der Universität zu Köln), "The Supposed Interrelations Between
Marguerite Porete, the 'Mirror of Simple Souls,' and Meister Eckhart:
Some Remarks about the Limits of a Historiographical Concept "
Andrea Robiglio (Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen), "La 'quaestio de nobilitate' dans le Mirouer"
Jean-René Valette (Université
Bordeaux 3), "La 'courtoisie' dans le Mirouer"
Camille de Villeneuve (Paris,
EPHE), "Au-delà de la dette: la construction d'une réciprocité
amoureuse dans le Mirouer"
Julien Théry (Université
Montpellier 3 - CNRS), "Philippe le Bel, la papauté et la répression
des hérésies"
Sean Field (University of
Vermont), "William of Paris's Prosecution of Marguerite Porete"
Robert E. Lerner (Northwestern
University), "Return to Philadelphia: A Reconsideration of
Guiard of Cressonessart"
Marleen Cré (Vrije Universiteit
Brussel), "The Mirror of Simple Souls in Middle English Revisited:
M.N., Walter Hilton and Julian of Norwich"
David Falvay (ELTE, Budapest),
"The Two Italian Versions of the Miroir and its Hungarian Connections"
IN ADDITION, ON SUNDAY 30
MAY a plenary session will be held in conjunction with the annual
conference of the Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft, "Rencontre à Paris,
1310" ("Treffpunkt Paris, 1310: Marguerite Porete, Dante, Lullus,
Eckhart"), at the Maison Heinrich Heine, Cité universitaire internationale,
27C Bd Jourdan, Paris. Speakers in this session will include: William
Courtenay (University of Wisconsin), "The University of Paris
in 1310" and Olivier Boulnois (Paris, EPHE): "Qu'est-ce
que la liberté de l'esprit? Autour de Marguerite Porète et de quelques
passages de Maître Eckhart"
A full conference program
will be available soon at http://gas.ehess.fr. The program of the
Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft conference (2830 May) can be
found at http://www.meister-eckhart-gesellschaft.de/tagungen.htm#2010.2
A reading of extracts from
Marguerite Porete and Meister Eckhart will also be held at the Musée
de Cluny, 6 Place Paul Painlevé, Friday 28 May, at 12:30 PM.
45 June 2010. "Litterature
et folklore dans le recit medieval," an international colloquium
to be held in Budapest, Hungary. Le Centre Interuniversitaire d'Études
Françaises et le Département d'Études Françaises de l'Université
ELTE, avec le concours de l'Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle,
se proposent d'organiser un colloque international de Littérature
française du Moyen Age, dont le thème sera la reprise et l'adaptation
de motifs folkloriques dans le récit médiéval.
La littérature de l'Europe
médiévale, savante ou moins savante, religieuse ou laïque, "vaine
et plaisante" ou édifiante, entretient des rapports étroits avec
le folklore, dont on pourrait dire qu'il l'irrigue profondément.
Des personnages surnaturels, fées, géants, monstres divers, mais
encore des scénarios d'origine folklorique sont entrés de plein
droit ou subrepticement dans le récit littéraire médiéval.
Ce colloque s'intéresse non
à élucider les sources folkloriques de tel ou tel texte mais à retracer
le cheminement complexe des motifs. Il s'agira d'examiner comment
un motif folklorique est repris et adapté dans des contextes littéraires
variés. On pourra suivre par exemple le transfert et l'évolution
d'un motif d'une culture ou d'une langue à une autre; ou à l'intérieur
de la même aire linguistique, l'adaptation d'un même motif folklorique
en vers et en prose, d'un siècle à un autre (début du moyen âge/
fin du moyen âge), d'un genre à l'autre (roman/ hagiographie/ épopée...).
UNIVERSITÉ EÖTVÖS LORÁND,
CENTRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE D'ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES, DÉPARTEMENT D'ÉTUDES
FRANÇAISES, H-1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/f., Hungary (+36-1-485-52-74;
fax: +36-1-485-52-75; cief@ludens.elte.hu)
46 June 2010.
"Displaying Word and Image," the International Association
of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI) Focus Conference, at the
University of Ulster, School of Art and Design, Belfast, U.K. This
conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary
scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice,
museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship
between word & image and display.
Relevant questions will be,
e.g., how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature?
Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum
practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or
imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing
in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual
identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary
field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial
practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired,
and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field?
We seek with this conference
to (in)form a network that will investigate literary art exhibitions
and work on relevant outputs. A publication on the conference theme
is being planned.
Contact: Dr Christa-Maria
Lerm Hayes (m.lermhayes@ulster.ac.uk) or Dr Karen Brown (karen.brown@ucd.ie).
5 June 2010. "Imagining
Inquisition in Medieval England" to be held at Queen Mary College,
London. Inquisitio (‘inquiry’, ‘investigation’) in the later medieval
period was one means of investigating crime in general and heresy
in particular. Scholarship on medieval inquisition, ranging from
Edward Peters’s, Inquisition (1989), to John Arnold’s Inquisition
and Power (2001) and Christine Caldwell Ames’s Righteous Persecution
(2009), has done much to illuminate its role in continental Europe,
not only in combating heresy but also in shaping individuals and
communities. However, the place of inquisition in England has not
been so clearly established. As has often been noted by historians
of the Middle Ages, England occupied a unique position in relation
to ecclesiastical developments in medieval Europe, being somewhat
outside the immediate influence of Rome and the continent. Our aim
is to investigate the role of inquisitio in medieval England and
the medieval English imagination, not only by exploring inquisition’s
specific legal and pastoral applications, but by examining its more
general role as a dialogic mode of inquiry and means of discerning
truth. This workshop, which is part of a research project on inquisition
and confession in medieval England, is an opportunity to reconsider
the standard history and role of inquisitio in medieval England
and to explore it not merely as part of a developing ‘Inquisition’
but as part of a broader development in the medieval English consciousness.
Call for papers: We
particularly welcome interdisciplinary proposals that address the
following questions:
• How do both the historical
practice and the constructed idea of inquisition in England differ
from those in continental Europe during this period?
• Where are inquisitional
discourses located? What are the sources for inquisitional discourse
outside of the context of heresy, and in fictional contexts in particular?
• How is inquisition imagined?
Can we make claims (as we have for confession) for the role of inquisition
in a) creating a sense of self, and b) for generating poetry in
later medieval England? What impact do legal and pastoral developments
have on fictional inquisition and on literary activity?
• How is the relationship
between inquisition and truth imagined in medieval English literature,
law, and pastoralia?
• What is the extent of the
role of inquisition in legal and pastoral contexts in medieval England?
What are its goals? How do they differ from and/or collapse into
those of confession?
• Are there medieval roots
to the post-medieval concept of "The Inquisition"? To
what extent does this concept differ (if at all) from medieval discourses
and ideas concerning inquisition?
Proposals for papers should
be sent to Mary Flannery (m.flannery@qmul.ac.uk) or Katie Walter
(katie.walter@rub.de) by 15 January 2010.
1012 June 2010.
"Studium Conference: Sacred Space, Sacred Memory: Bishop-Saints
and their Cities," an international conference to be held in
Tours, France. The keynote speaker will be Maureen Miller (Univ.
of California Berkeley).
The history of many European
cities was shaped by one or more saintly figures whose ties to the
city—real or imagined—had both spiritual and tangible consequences.
The topography of the city, its economy, its institutions, its liturgy,
its reputation, and even its inhabitants’ sense of civic pride,
could all be shaped by and were dependent upon an idiosyncratic
understanding of the saint’s association with the city. The figure
of the bishop-saint, moreover, bestowed with extraordinary spiritual
and temporal prerogatives, represents a distinctive type which this
conference seeks to address. What was his impact on religious, political,
and cultural practices and institutions in a given city? What are
some of the privileges associated with promoting his cult? In what
ways do local claims on the bishop-saint evince tensions on a regional/national
level or between elites and the masses? Possible perspectives on
these and other related issues may include, but are not restricted
to, liturgy, music, hagiography, art history, theology, history,
and paleography.
Call for papers: The
conference organizers are soliciting abstracts for individual papers
and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Conference, and
are inviting scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to offer
their perspectives on issues coinciding with the Conference’s theme.
Ideally, papers will deal with different parts of Europe and address
periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. Abstracts in
French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute paper should
be e-mailed no later than 30 January, 2010. Authors of accepted
papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference
registration fee (reduced for students and post-docs). Contact:
Christine Bousquet (Christine.bousquet@univ-tours.fr) or Yossi Maurey
(ymaurey@mscc.huji.ac.il).
1013 June 2010.
"Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ," the culmination of the
AHRC-funded "Geographies of Orthodoxy" project, at Queen's University,
in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Call for papers: the conference
invites papers on any aspect of late medieval Christological piety,
with a particular emphasis on the cultural manifestations of the
pseudo-Bonaventuran tradition, in all European contexts.
Topics might include:
The production and reception
of late medieval lives of Christ
Lives of Christ in visual
and material culture
Political and theological
controversies
Lives of Christ, Latin and
vernacular
Lives of Christ across the
Reformations
Lives of Christ and histories
of the book
Lay access and pastoral care
Proposals for 20-minute papers
should be sent by 30 September 2009 to Ryan Perry (r.perry@qub.ac.uk;
http://www.qub.ac.uk/geographies-of-orthodoxy).
1617 June 2010.
"The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching And Research," the Third International
MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches
- Ordinateurs et Textes), will be held at Barnard College, Columbia
University New York. This conference is co-sponsored by the University
of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The language of the conference will
be English. During this two day conference, we will explore the
use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle
Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of
the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and
on recent new and expected future developments in the ?eld. Topics
may include but are not limited to:
- digital paleography
- translation and dictionary
projects
- digital projects in the
visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation
tools, paratextual information, etc.)
- text corpora (creation
of a corpus, search systems, etc.)
- encoding of medieval
manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and exten- sions
of these protocols)
- management and preservation
of digital resources
- information design and
modeling
- the cultural impact of
the new media - software studies
- the role of digital humanities
in academic curricula
- funding and sustainability
of long-term projects.
Call for papers: proposals
for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently
being accepted. We welcome three types of submissions:
1. Demonstrations/showcasing
of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation
and implementation for research and/or teaching
2. Abstracts for regular
paper presentations
3. Proposals for entire
sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/
four presenters)
Regular papers will last
for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes
of discussion. We ask that participants use the conference website
to submit proposals. The deadline for submitting your proposal is
Friday, 2 October, 2009. Contact: Laurie Postlewate (lpostlew@barnard.edu;
http://www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010).
Conference Committee: Christine
McWebb (University of Waterloo), Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College,
Columbia University), Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo),
Helen Swift (St. Hilda's College, Oxford University).
18–19 June 2010.
"Rethinking Medieval Liturgy:
New Approaches across Disciplines," in London. The workshop will
take place in London at the Lock-keepers Cottage, Queen Mary, University
of London, E1 4NS.
The study of medieval liturgy
has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. As the
lines between various kinds of cultural studies have become increasingly
blurred, musicologists, art historians, literary scholars, and historians
have realised its centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental
insights into the experience of worship and devotion in the middle
ages, as the medium through which religious ideas were transmitted.
There is now a need, we believe, to find coherent expression and
a voice for the emerging generation of students of the liturgy,
by breaking institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing
so-called para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and
sermons, as well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical
contexts.
To this purpose, we are holding
a two-day international workshop for post-graduate students from
a variety of disciplines on the subject of medieval liturgy. It
will include a training session in recent developments of liturgical
studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan Boynton of the Department
of Music at Columbia University.
Call for papers:
Proposals are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have
recently finished their post-graduate studies. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theories of ritual and
their application to medieval liturgy
- Musicology and music history
- Art and architecture as
related to liturgy
- Worship and devotion as
cultural phenomena
- Liturgy in the history
of religious institutions
- Christianization and reform
- Liturgy and material culture
- The social role of liturgy
- Hagiography, sermons and
drama in their liturgical contexts
- Manuscripts and the representation
of liturgical texts
Papers will be 20 min. in
length. Individual paper proposals (papers and proposals should
be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should be sent by 1 March
2010 to: Kati Ihnat, Queen Mary, University of London (kati_ihnat@yahoo.ca)
or Erik Niblaeus, Kings College London (erik.niblaeus@kcl.ac.uk).
1819 June 2010.
"Studies in
Cotton Nero A X (the Gawain-Manuscript)," the 10th Annual Summer
Conference organized by LOMERS (London Old and Middle English Research
Seminar).
Speakers will include Alcuin
Blamires, Helen Cooper, Tony Davenport, Rosalind Field, Susanna
Fein, Julian Harrison, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter
Call for papers: Proposals
are invited for 20 minute papers on relevant topics such as: Workshop,
Palaeography; Codicology; Patronage; Reception; History and Context;
Texts; Illustrations; Authorship(s); Literary Contexts; Textual
Editing . . . Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words by
the end of February to Ruth Kennedy (r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk).
Proceedings will be edited
by Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones. For previous proceedings
see: http://us.macmillan.com/author/ruthkennedy.
1819 June 2010.
"Rethinking Medieval Liturgy: New Approaches across Disciplines,"
in London. The workshop will take place in London at the Lock-keepers
Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, from Friday June
18 (10am) to Saturday June 19 (5pm) 2010. Application for AHRC funding
pending.
The study of medieval liturgy
has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. As the
lines between various kinds of cultural studies have become increasingly
blurred, musicologists, art historians, literary scholars, and historians
have realised its centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental
insights into the experience of worship and devotion in the middle
ages, as the medium through which religious ideas were transmitted.
There is now a need, we believe, to find coherent expression and
a voice for the emerging generation of students of the liturgy,
by breaking institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing
so-called para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and
sermons, as well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical
contexts.
To this purpose, we are holding
a two-day international workshop for post-graduate students from
a variety of disciplines on the subject of medieval liturgy. It
will include a training session in recent developments of liturgical
studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan Boynton of the Department
of Music at Columbia University. Call for papers: Proposals
are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have recently
finished their post-graduate studies.
Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to, the following:
- Theories of ritual and
their application to medieval liturgy
- Musicology and music history
- Art and architecture as related to liturgy
- Worship and devotion as
cultural phenomena
- Liturgy in the history
of religious institutions
- Christianization and reform
- Liturgy and material culture
- The social role of liturgy
- Hagiography, sermons and
drama in their liturgical contexts
- Manuscripts and the representation
of liturgical texts
Papers will be 20 min. in
length. Individual paper proposals (papers and proposals should
be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should be sent by 1 March,
2010 to: Kati Ihnat, Queen Mary, University of London (kati_ihnat@yahoo.ca)
or Erik Niblaeus, Kings College London (erik.niblaeus@kcl.ac.uk).
2327 June 2010.
"Perceptions of Place: English place-name study and regional
variety," an international conference to be held in association
with the English Place-Name Society at the Institute for Name-Studies,
University of Nottingham, in England.
Speakers include:
• Professor Thomas Clancy
(Glasgow) on English place-names in the Scottish border region
• Professor Richard Coates
(UWE) on place-names and linguistics
• Professor Klaus Dietz (Freie
Universität Berlin) on place-names and English historical dialectology
• Professor Gillian Fellows-Jensen
(Copenhagen) on the Scandinavian background to English place-names
• Professor Carole Hough
(Glasgow) on women in English place-names
• Professor John Insley (Heidelberg)
on personal names in place-names
• Dr Kay Muir (Northern Ireland
Place-Name Project) on English place-names in Ireland
• Dr Oliver Padel (EPNS president)
on the Celtic element in English place-names
• Dr Matthew Townend (York)
on the Scandinavian element in English place-names
Contact: Perceptions of Place,
Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham NG7 2RD (rebecca.peck@nottingham.ac.uk). Further details
on arrangements and costs will be available on the conference website
(http://ww.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/).
2426 June 2010.
"Translatio,"
the 7th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society,
Paris (IMS), in collaboration with the Laboratoire de médiévistique
occidentale de Paris (LAMOP).
Keynote speakers: Rita Copeland,
University of Pennsylvania, and Serge Lusignan, Université de Montréal
& LAMOP.
The medieval term translatio
brings into contact linguistic, material, and cultural fields. It
was attached to a group of related concepts: the physical displacement
of objects, the rewriting of a text in a new language, or the transfer
of meaning proper to metaphor. Eventually, writers of the Latin
West began to employ the concepts of translatio studii et imperii
in an attempt to define their conflicted relationship with the authority
and learning of Classical, Muslim, and Byzantine cultures; the term
thus expressed their understanding of cultural contact and exchange.
Recent work has shown how these various iterations of translatio
can indicate complex acts of cultural negotiation or appropriation,
which repositioneded the opposing forces of old and new, the other
and the self.
The present symposium will
bring together scholars from diverse disciplines, in order to study
the various modes and meanings of translatio. Papers might address
such topics as: the adaptation of texts from one language into another
in literary or musical sources; the transfer of themes from one
medium to another (among, for example, texts, music, painting, sculpture,
or textiles); the use of spolia in building or orfèvrerie; the translation
of relics; the exploitation of Classical themes or narratives by
medieval political figures or historiographers; the controversies
over Biblical translation; the function of translatio as metaphor
in religious or secular writing; the appropriation of words from
one language into another.
Call for papers: The
International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions
for its 2010 Symposium, which will explore the practice and function
of translatio in medieval France. The International Medieval Society
of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers
and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Symposium, which
will explore the practice and function of translatio in medieval
France. Papers should address France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul
in some way, but they need not be exclusively limited to this geographic
area.
We encourage submissions
from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to: Anthropology
* Archaeology * Art History * Classical Studies * Comparative Literature
* Gender Studies * History * History of Medicine * History of Science
* Linguistics * Literary Studies * Musicology * Philosophy * Religious
Studies * Theology * Urban Studies. Abstracts of no more than 300
words for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org
no later than 1 February 2010. In addition to the abstract, please
submit full contact information, a CV, and a tentative assessment
of any audiovisual equipment required for your presentation.
The IMS will review submissions
and respond via e-mail by 15 February 2010. Titles of accepted papers
will be made available on the IMS website. Authors of accepted papers
will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration
fee (35 euros, reduced for students). The registration fee will
be waived for IMS members. The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary
and bilingual (French/English) organization founded to serve as
a center for medievalists who research, work, study, or travel to
France. For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last
year’s Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org.
2830 June 2010.
"Orthodox
Constructions of the West," a conference hosted by the Christian
Orthodox Studies program at Fordham University, and co-sponsored
by the Center for Medieval Studies, at the Rose Hill campus. Contact
George Demacopoulos (demacopoulos@fordham.edu) or Aristotle Papanilolaou
(papanilolaou@fordham.edu).
810 July 2010, "Central
Asian Islamic Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections," the
Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference, organized by the Islamic Manuscript
Association, will be held at Queens' College, University of Cambridge,
England. The Conference will be hosted by the Thesaurus Islamicus
Foundation, the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, and the Prince Alwaleed
Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge.
Call for papers: The
Association invites the submission of abstracts on topics related
to the study of Islamic manuscriptsparticularly codicologyand
the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections. Preference
will be shown to submissions pertaining to the Conference's theme.
The Conference will be organised around the Association's four key
working areas: cataloguing, conservation, digitisation, and research
and publishing; and papers falling into these broad categories will
be included in the relevant panel. The Association will also consider
submissions on topics that do not fall directly under the purviews
of the working groups but are yet concerned with scholarship on
Islamic manuscripts or the care and management of Islamic manuscript
collections. Please note that the total number of papers accepted
will not exceed 25 and that preference will be given to speakers
who have not presented papers at the Association's previous conferences.
The 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 deadline for submissions is 31 January 2010.
Late submissions will not be considered. The duration of each conference
paper is 30 minutes inclusive of 10 minutes of questions and answers.
Please send an abstract of
500 words, a resume, and the cover sheet (available at http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2010conference/CallForPapers.html)
to the Association's Executive Committee: The Islamic Manuscript
Association Ltd, c/o 33 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QY, United
Kingdom (fax: +44 (0)1223 302 218; ima@islamicmanuscript.org; http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2010conference/SixthIslamicManuscriptConference.htm).
1214 July, 2010.
"Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible," a
conference hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book, at
the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At the beginning of the
thirteenth century a new type of Bible emerged from Paris and southern
England and spread rapidly throughout Western Europe. Innovations
in script and parchment enabled the creation of single-volume Bibles,
some of which could easily fit a modern pocket; other features,
such as the modern chapter division, introduced unprecedented ease
of usage. These Bibles became the template for Gutenberg's celebrated
42-line version and have had an influence on printed Bibles ever
since. Today, hundreds of these manuscripts survive, bearing witness
to one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. The ubiquity
of these Bibles has only recently been met by scholarly interest,
and questions remain regarding their evolution as well as their
place within the medieval university, pulpit and priory.
The conference will bring
together experts in medieval liturgy and sermons, art, religion
and manuscripts, to examine the material culture of the Late Medieval
Bible and its setting. Presentations, discussions and two workshops
would draw on the wealth of manuscripts in the University Library
and the NLS in analysing variants of text and layout, imagery and
addenda. Speakers will include: • Nicole Bériou (Université Lumière
Lyon 2) • Laura Light (Independent Scholar, Boston) • John Lowden
(Courtauld Institute of Art, London) • Eyal Poleg (CHB, University
of Edinburgh) • Diane J. Reilly (Indiana University, Bloomington)
• Paul Saenger (The Newberry Library, Chicago) • Paul Antonio (Calligrapher,
London).
Call for papers: Papers
are invited on any aspect of the late medieval Bible (c.1230c.1450)
and its place within medieval religion, culture and society; sessions
will address the evolution of the late medieval Bible, its layout,
addenda and art, as well as its connection to exegesis, preaching
and liturgy. Proposals (up to 300 words) should be e-mailed to L.M.B@ed.ac.uk
or sent to the Centre for the History of the Book, 22a Buccleuch
Place, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LN, Scotland,
by December 20.
A small number of postgraduate
bursaries will be made available towards defraying costs of travel
and registration. The date of the conference is planned to enable
attendees to take part in the CHB's Material Cultures 2010 conference,
1618 July.
1215 July 2010.
The 17th International Medieval Congress (IMC) will be held
at Leeds, England. Contact: International Medieval Congress Administration,
Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Bldg. 1.03, Univ. of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (+44-113-343-3614; fax: +44-113-343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk;
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc).
1519 July 2010.
The Seventeenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society
will take place in Siena, Italy, in 2010. In keeping with the suggestions
made at the 2003 Glasgow Congress, there is no single theme for
the Congress. The overall structure reflects areas of inquiry that
emerged from members' initial proposals for sessions. Sessions will
consequently follow several threads: Chaucerian Temporalities; Medievalisms;
Found in Translation: Italy and England in the Age of Chaucer; Transnationalism;
Insular Multilingualisms; Political Languages; Visual Cultures;
Religious Practice, Institutions, and Theology: Chaucerian Contexts;
Bodies; Animal Discourses; Philosophy and Science; and Manuscripts
and Printed Books. In addition, there will be a number of non-aligned
panels and sessions, and several plenary sessions.
Call for papers: paper
sessions will comprise three or four fifteen-minute papers. At least
one paper will be given by a graduate student or research student.
Panel sessions will comprise seven or eight five-minute presentations.
For both paper and panel sessions, organizers will enforce time
limits to allow for discussion.
The NCS Constitution requires
that Congress participants (except for invited speakers from other
fields) be members with their dues paid. We encourage you to share
information about the Congress with other interested people who
may not be NCS members at presentgraduate students, new colleagues,
and others working outside the field who may find sessions related
to their specialisms. (Graduate students and research students may
join NCS at a reduced membership rate.) Finally, a tight limit has
been set on prior invitations to participate in any session. The
overwhelming majority of participants in the Congress will be those
who respond to this call.
NCS members who wish to give
papers or participate in panels at the Congress should send a one-paragraph
abstract to the organizer(s), to arrive before 15 July 2009, preferably
at the e-mail addresses given below in the session description.
Please indicate any specific audio-visual needs. Session organizers
will select papers and panels soon afterwards, in consultation with
the Program Chairs. The Program Committee will form additional sessions
as interests arise. Names of Congress participants will be announced
in an upcoming Chaucer Newsletter. Members may apply to participate
in more than one session, but they may finally take part in only
one.
The program committee is
composed of Thomas Hahn (Chair), Marion Turner, David Wallace, Jessica
Brantley, Orietta Da Rold, and Stefania D'Agata D'Ottavi (Chair
of the Local Arrangements Committee) with Richard Firth Green (NCS
President) and David Lawton (NCS Executive Director) ex officio.
For more information, visit the NCS website (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/congress/congress2010call.php).
1719 July 2010.
"Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles,"
the second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium
(CICS) will be held at the University of Cambridge. The new symposium
will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions, a tour of Cambridge
College Libraries, formal conference dinner, publications fair and
wine reception. Refreshments and lunches are provided for conference
guests and college accommodation is available. As on the previous
occasion, a limited number of small bursaries will be awarded.
Call for papers: the
organizers are accepting proposals from scholars in the disciplines
including but not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy,
and Religious Studies. Topics for discussion could include:
-Kingship and queenship,
earls and ealdormen;
-Abbots and abbesses, monks
and nuns;
- Ecclesiastical and secular
authorities;
- Institutional authority;
- National authority and
identity;
- Masculine, feminine, and
neuter: linguistic authority;
- Auctors and Auctoritas;
- Textual authority, witnesses,
and scribal traditions;
- Kinglists and genealogies;
- Nuns in the scriptorium;
- Female voices, male scribesauthority
and authorship;
-Gender and legal practices;
- Moral authority;
- Ritual and authority;
Establishment of authority:
feuds, force, and warfare;
- The construction of gender
in chronicles.
Abstract (of approximately
250 words) are due no later than 15 December 2009. In special cases,
papers will be commissioned for publication without presentation
at the conference (contact the organisers for more information).
Please check the website for regular updates (CambridgeICS@gmail.com;
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html).
1923 July 2010.
"12121214: El trienio que hizo a Europa." XXXVII
Semana de Estudios Medievales de Estella, at the Palacio de los
Reyes de Navarra, in Estella, Spain.
Speakers will be
* Prof. Dr. D. William Chester Jordan University of Princeton
* Prof. Dr. D. Jacques Verger Université de Paris-Sorbonne
* Prof. Dra. Dña. Maria Ginatempo Università degli Studi di Siena
* Prof. Dr. D. Laurent Macé Université de Toulouse
* Prof. Dr. D. José Manuel Nieto Soria Universidad Complutense
de Madrid
* Prof. Dr. D. Francisco García Fitz Universidad de Extremadura
* Prof. Dra. Dña. María Joao Branco Universidade Aberta de Lisboa
* Prof. Dr. D. Martín Alvira Cabrer Universidad Complutense de
Madrid
* Prof. Dr. D. Pascual Martínez Sopena Universidad de Valladolid
* Prof. Dr. D. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani Università della Svizzera
italiana. Lugano
* Prof. Dr. D. Nicholas Vincent University of East Anglia
* Prof. Dra. Dña. Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero Universidad Pública de
Navarra
* Prof. Dra. Dña. Monique Bourin Université de Nantes
* Prof. Dr. D. Luigi Provero Università di Torino
Contact: +848-424-681/86; athrebas@cfnavarra.es;
mperezom@navarra.es; http://www.cfnavarra.es/medieval/
1924 July 2010.
The 13th Colloquium of SITM (Société internationale
pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval)
will meet in Giessen, Germany. Papers will be in English, French,
or German. Contact: Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl, Justus-Liebig-Universität
Gießen, Institut für Germanistik, Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B, 35394
Gießen, Germany (http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g91159/sitm.htm).
2124 August 2010.
"Music for the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries
(10501550)," an international conference in Antwerp,
Belgium. The conference, supported by the International Musicological
Society Study Group "Cantus Planus", will take place during the
yearly festival Laus Polyphoniae (Flanders Festival Antwerp), and
in close collaboration with the festival program.
The office is the most substantial
portion of the liturgy: in all types of communities and services,
whether of monastic, cathedral, or courtly signature, it formed
a crucial part of their musical culture. Because the Low Countries
knew an unprecedented variety of communities and institutions, the
contexts in which the office was celebrated in the region were equally
varied. Indeed, the wealth of sources for the office from the Low
Countries has led many scholars to study selected aspects of the
celebration of the office in the region, such as prose or versified
historiae, tropes and prosulas, motets composed for Vespers and
Salve services, and 'paraliturgical' pieces. The conference sets
out to explore the variety of the extant repertory and its sources,
by bringing together new research into the music for the office
in, or related to, the Low Countries (understood to include Northern
France and the Meuse-Rhineland), and studying plainchant as well
as polyphony and their interrelations.
Call for papers:
Scholars and performers studying chant and/or polyphony from analytical,
historical, liturgical, or interdisciplinary perspectives are invited
to send proposals of no longer than 350 words to Pieter Mannaerts
(pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be) before 15 February 2010. Notification
of acceptance will be given by 15 March 2010. The final conference
program will be published around 1 April 2010, on the website of
the Alamire Foundation (http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire). A
selection of conference papers will be published in the internationally
peer-reviewed Journal of the Alamire Foundation in 2012.
2327 July 2010.
"In Principio Fuit Interpres," the international Cardiff Conference
on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, at
the Università degli Studi di Padova, in Padua, Italy.
Linguistic and literary traditions
include translation in their myth of originthus the linguistic
and scholar Gianfranco Folena proposed to substitute the motto In
principio fuit poëta with the humbler In principio fuit interpres.
Following his suggestion, we welcome papers addressing translation
in the Middle Ages, marking the relationship between classical,
Middle Eastern, and vernacular languages, and studying translation
as the representation of ideas and texts in different media.
Plenary speakers: Roger Ellis,
Domenico Pezzini, David Wallace.
Contact: Alessandra Petrina
and Monica Santini, Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche
e Slave, Via Beato Pellegrino, 26, 35100 Padua, Italy (or to both:
alessandra.petrina@unipd.it and monica.santini@unipd.it).
2530 July 2010.
The Thirteenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly
Literature Society (ICLS) will take place in Montreal, Canada. The
Congress's overarching theme is "Courtly Cultures on the Move,"
and speakers are especially invited to consider the theme in relation
to three areas:
transmission and reception
of courtliness;
books and courtly culture;
and
languages of courtliness.
The organizers also welcome
proposals for thematic sessions organized by individuals or groups.
Call for papers: Please
submit a title and a 250-word abstract by 15 December 2009 to the
program committee (icls2010@listes.umontreal.ca). Papers may be
given in any of the official languages of the ICLS: French, English,
or German. All speakers must be members of the ICLS and should indicate
their branch affiliation in their abstract. Anyone not yet a member
should contact the secretary of the appropriate national branch
to join. For more information, see the conference website (http://www.icls2010.ca/en/home.html).
1719 August 2010.
"New techniques for old documents: Scientific examination methods
in the service of preservation and book history." The IFLA
Preservation and Conservation Section and The Rare Books and Manuscripts
section invite speakers to present papers for a satellite meeting
in conjunction to the IFLA World Library and Information Conference
2010. The satellite conference takes place at Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden.
Within this theme we welcome
papers on scientific techniques such as DNA, infrared spectroscopy,
imaging techniques and micro x-ray fluorescence. All these techniques
may be used in conservation treatments and material bibliographic
issues such as the determination of animals for leathers, provenance
through DNA-analysis, measuring paper strength, examination of pigments
and inks for palimpsests and other documents, and ICR - (Intelligent
Character recognition) for the recognition of hand-written text.
We would like to encourage a multi-disciplinary meeting and therefore,
relevant papers from both scientists, conservators, book-historians
and others who may add interesting and new knowledge within the
overall topic, are welcome to submit abstracts for a paper.
The conference will be a
two-day meeting, including social events. Visits are planned for
August 19. Please note that speakers will have to cover their own
expenses for travel and accommodation. However, IFLA satellite conferences
normally attract a worldwide audience with many opportunities for
discussions and interesting meetings.
Call for papers: Please
send an abstract of no more than 350 words by e-mail only, to Per
Culhed (Per.Cullhed@ub.uu.se) and Raphaele Mouren (Raphaele.Mouren@enssib.fr)
before 1 March 2010. The submissions will be examined during March
and prospective speakers will be notified on 6 April. The abstract
should include the following: name of the speaker, institutional
affiliation and address, title of the paper, and short biography.
2124 August 2010.
"Music for
the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries (10501550),"
At the Conference Center Elzenveld, Antwerp, Belgium.
The office is the most substantial
portion of the liturgy, and has incited medieval and Renaissance
composers to contribute to its musical splendour for at least half
a millennium. In all types of communities and services, whether
of monastic, cathedral, or courtly signature, the office formed
a crucial part of their musical culture. Because the Low Countries
knew an unprecedented variety of communities and institutions, the
contexts in which the office was celebrated in the region were equally
varied. Indeed, the wealth of sources for the office from the Low
Countries has led many scholars to study selected aspects of the
celebration of the office in the region, such as prose or versified
historiae, tropes and prosulas, motets composed for Vespers and
Salve services, and 'paraliturgical' pieces.
This conference sets out
to explore the variety of the extant repertory and its sources,
by bringing together new research into the music for the office
in, or related to, the Low Countries (understood to include Northern
France and the Meuse-Rhineland), and studying plainchant as well
as polyphony and their interrelations.
Scholars and performers studying
chant and/or polyphony from analytical, historical, liturgical,
or interdisciplinary perspectives are invited to send proposals
of no longer than 350 words to
before 15 February 2010. Notification of acceptance will be given
by 15 March 2010. The final conference program will be published
around 1 April 2010, on the website of the Alamire Foundation (www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire).
The program committee is currently being composed, and will be announced
within the coming weeks.
All International Musicological
Society languages may be used (English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish); the principal conference language will be English.
The conference, supported
by the International Musicological Society Study Group "Cantus Planus,"
will take place during the yearly festival Laus Polyphoniae (Flanders
Festival Antwerp), and in close collaboration with the festival
program. Participants will have a unique opportunity of hearing
concerts related to the conference theme, which will thus include
both chant and polyphony from Low Countries sources. A selection
of conference papers will be published in the internationally peer-reviewed
Journal of the Alamire Foundation in 2012 (www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire).
13 September 2010.
"Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy
and Environment," the Annual International Conference of the
Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers
(RGS-IBG), at the Royal Geographical Society (Lowther Lodge) in
London. Chair: Neil Wrigley, University of Southampton.
Call for papers: Deadline
for submission of sessions complete with papers and abstracts: 22
February 2010. Deadline for submission of individual papers to open
sessions: 29 March 2010 (http://www.rgs.org/AC2010).
14 September 2010.
"City and Society in European History," the 10th International
Conference on Urban History, organized by the European Association
for Urban Hisotry, will meet in Ghent, Belgium (http://www.eauh2010.UGent.be/).
710 September 2010.
"Les autographes du Moyen Âge - Medieval Autograph Manuscripts,"
is the theme of the Seventeenth Colloquium of the Comité
International de Paléographie Latine (CIPL), at the National
Gallery, Ljubjana. The Bureau of CIPL has decided to organize a
poster session to which young researchers (up to 35 years) are invited
to contribute posters related to their investigations in Latin palaeography,
codicology and other areas connected to the "archaeology of the
medieval book".
Posters will be displayed in the new
hall of the National Gallery where several social events are to
take place, so that all who attend the Colloquium will have an opportunity
to see them.
Posters should address a range of
themes related to Latin palaeography, codicology and other fields
of research of mediaeval manuscripts, describing topics, problems
and methods. The poster-session is an opportunity for presenting
late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, new speculative
or innovative works in progress or descriptions of recently completed
work. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with
an opportunity to connect with each other and to engage in discussions
about their work.
Submissions should be:
* Brief and clearly organized,
containing no more than 1,000 signs with spaces
* Simple, with one obvious
theme
* Written in one of CIPL's
official languages (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish)
Submissions should contain:
* Title of the poster
* Author's name and affiliation
* Name of Professor / Mentor
(unless the author is not an independent scholar)
* Textual presentation
Technical guidelines will
be forwarded to the authors of the accepted poster submissions.
Important Dates:
* Deadline for submissions:
15th March 2010
* Notification of acceptance:
15th May 2010
* Deadline for providing
final posters (in pdf. format): 15th July 2010
Submissions will be evaluated
for acceptability by the reviewers. The selection will be based
on relevance a) to the Latin palaeography, codicology and related
medieval manuscript studies, b) to the originality, potential significance,
topicality and clarity.
Poster submissions should
be addressed to Dr Pamela Robinson, Secretary-General of CIPL (pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk).
Authors of accepted posters will be asked to send the proposed works
by 15th July 2010 in pdf. format on the tempate, accesible in a
due time on the web-page of CIPL.
The texts of all accepted
posters will be published in an accompanying booklet of the XVIIth
Colloquium. Authors are responsible for acquiring the copyright
of images for presentation and publication. Well-designed posters
should tell the story by themselves, but authors of posters are
expected to be available to describe and discuss their work during
the time scheduled by the programme. For further information regarding
posters, please contact Dr Nataša Golob (natasa.golob@ff.uni-lj.si).
(http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/ljubljana/ljubPosters.htm)
911 September 2010.
"The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme," the Second International
Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics, to be held at Munich
University, in Munich, Germany.
While the first conference
in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to the wide field
of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme including
both positional and free allographs and their relationships regarding
phonemes and allophones. We therefore welcome contributions relating
to the historical stages of the European languages and writing systems,
with regard to the following questions:
1. Depiction of sounds by
characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one grapheme = one phoneme)?
2. Ways of reflecting language
change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction or extension of the
characters in the system.
3. New characters - obsolete
characters: Necessity of creating new characters for the system
or reactivating old ones?
Please send your abstract
by 15 December 2009 to: Gaby Waxenberger, Munich University (LMU),
Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Schellingstr. 3/RG,
80799 Munich, Germany (soundandscript@googlemail.com).
1820 September 2010.
The next meeting of the Cooperative for the Advancement of Research
through a Medieval European Network (CARMEN) will be held at Krems,
outside Vienna.
2327 September 2010.
Le 30e Congrès
de l'Association Internationale des Historiens du Papier (IPH) se
tiendra à Angoulême, sous l'égide de l'Association Française d'Histoire
du Papier et des Papeteries (AFHEPP).
Les principaux thèmes abordés,
inspirés par l'histoire locale de la production papetière en Angoumois,
seront les suivants :
Fabrication du papier : artisanats
et industries connexes;
Économie et commerce du papier
: interactions nationales et internationales;
Usages du papier : gestes,
discours, expertises.
Contact: Denis Peaucelle,
Musée du Papier, IPH Congress, 134 rue de Bordeaux, 16000 Angoulême,
France (denis.peaucelle@afhepp.org).
2425 September 2010.
"Negotiating Trade: Commercial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Exchange
in the Medieval and Early Modern World," an interdisciplinary conference
presented by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at
Binghamton University, in Binghamton, New York.
With the ongoing development
of trans-regional commerce, trade in the medieval and early modern
periods required an increasing number of institutions (social, economic,
legal, and administrative) to mediate between local and foreign
merchants, and among merchants, state officials, creditors, money
exchangers, and brokers. Such institutions protected those who traveled
long distances and assisted them in unfamiliar systems of exchange
even as they permitted local polities to control and profit from
the activities of this growing merchant class. Alongside these institutions
may be counted the increasingly international systems of credit
and banking, which operated above or beyond the sphere of states
issuing currencies, and a growing class of agents who served "on
the ground," as it were, translating local languages and practices
for traveling merchants.
The Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University invites papers
for a conference to be held on the Binghamton University campus
to explore the institutions that facilitated and accommodated long-distance
trade and the globalizing of capital in the medieval and early modern
world. The conference organizers conceive "institutions" as a broad
category that includes formal, informal, permanent and temporary
organizations, associations, conventions, and practices. The scope
of the conference is global; papers may concentrate on particular
localities or regions, or they may present cross-regional comparisons
and convergences. We encourage submissions from a broad range of
disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives.
Possible topics include,
but are not limited to,
-Permanent sites of trade,
such as harbors, marketplaces, customs houses, banks, and exchanges
-Hostels, warehouses, and
other spaces used by merchants for temporary residence and storage
-The development of regional
markets (urban and rural) and international fairs
-Permanent and ephemeral
architecture associated with trade
-Social and economic conventions
that governed commercial transactions
-State administrative policies
relating to trade and commercial travel
-Supra-state networks of
trade (social, cultural, geo-political and economic implications)
-Cross-cultural systems of
banking and credit
-Translation across linguistic
and cultural boundaries -Modes of determining creditworthiness across
regional boundaries
-The practices of brokers
and creditors
-Methods of accounting and
documenting transactions
-Strategies (individual and
corporate) for adapting to foreign systems of trade
-Modifications in commercial
institutions with the expansion of early modern trade networks
-The politics of merchant
tribute
-The relationship of merchants,
companies, banks, and brokers to states minting currency
-The emergence and operations
of legal institutions adjudicating disputes concerning trade
-Religious stances towards
cross-cultural commercial endeavors
-The representation of commercial
institutions in art and literature
Proposals for individual
papers (20 minutes maximum) should be no more than 500 words in
length and may be sent by e-mail, with a current CV, to cemers@binghamton.edu
(Re: 2010 Conference). Those wishing to submit hard copies of the
proposal and CV should forward them to: CEMERS [ATTN.: 2010 Conference],
Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000.
We also welcome proposals for integrated panels. Panel organizers
should describe the theme of the panel and send abstracts with names
and affiliations of all participants along with current CVs. A panel
should consist of no more than three papers, each twenty minutes
in length. Selected papers may be published in Mediaevalia, a
journal of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Submission
Deadline: Please submit abstracts by 30 October 2009. Please send
all inquiries to cemers@binghamton.edu. For information about CEMERS,
please visit our website (http://cemers.binghamton.edu).
12 October 2010.
The annuual meeting of the Medieval Academy's Committee on Centers
and Regional Associations (CARA) will be held at the University
of Notre Dame, in Notre Dame, Indiana. Contact: Sheryl Mullane-Corvi,
Medieval Academy, 104 Mt. Auburn St., 5th Fl., Cambridge, MA 02138-5019
(617-491-1622; fax: 617-492-3303; SMC@MedievalAcademy.org; http://cmrs.osu.edu/cara/default.cfm;
http://www.MedievalAcademy.org/cara/cara.htm).
710 October 2010.
The 30th IPH Congress of International Paper Historians will take
place in Angoulême, France, hosted by the Association Française
d’Histoire du Papier et des Papeteries (AFHEPP). The themes of the
congress will cover three main aspects inspired by the local history
of papermaking in the Angoumois:
Session 1: Side-industries
and crafts connected to Papermaking
Our attention will be focused on various activities such as the
making of moulds, wheels, felts, machines, metal-woven carpets,
dandy-rolls, chemical and colouring agents, etc. Relying on public
or private archives or collections of objects, the presentations
may deal, for instance, with regional specialization, technological
innovations, history of firms and professional profiles, with a
special interest in the interdependence of these side-activities.
Session 2: Paper Economy
and Trade: national and international Interactions
Over the course of the centuries,
the papermaking activity in Angoumois has brought about various
technical or commercial interactions, locally with the French south-west
region, nationally with Paris and Bordeaux, and internationally
with the Low-Countries, the United Kingdom and the Iberian Peninsula,
as well as overseas – as shown for instance by the history of local
watermarks– which still remain to be studied. Case studies of the
diversified networks developed by important papermaking centres
will also be considered in this section.
Session 3: The Uses of
Paper: Gestures, Words, Expertise
Through the various areas
of the application of paper (art, writing, printing, wrapping, industrial
applications, preservation and conservation), we shall consider
the many ways to use this medium: choice, shaping, transformation,
as well as description or evaluation, the development of knowledge
about it, improvement observation procedures, collection techniques
and even calls for its extinction. In this session, our main focus
will be specific gestures, discourses or expertise protocols.
Call for papers: The
abstract must include:
- Name, e-mail and/or postal
address, professional title of the author(s)
- Title of the presentation
- Summary of content
The length of the presentations
at the Congress will be 20 minutes. The congress languages are English
and French, as well as German: please note that no translation will
be provided, except for the written translation of abstracts. Presenters
will be notified by 31 March 2010 if their proposals have been accepted
and publication guidelines will be provided. The full text of the
presentation as well as a CD version, if available are due on 30
September 2010.
Those wishing to present
a paper are invited to submit a 300-word abstract (1,500 characters)
in English, (Word or .rtf format) as well as either a French or
German version, no later than 31 December 2009, to the program committee:
Denis Peaucelle, Musée du Papier, IPH Congress, 134 rue de Bordeaux,
F 16000 Angoulême, France (denis.peaucelle@afhepp.org; http://afhepp.org).
15–16 October 2010.
The Thirty-Seventh Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies,
in Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. Inquiries: Vatican
Film Library, Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis University,
3650 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63108-3302 (314- 977-3090;
vfl@slu.edu; http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl).
1517 October 2010.
"Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish Mysticism Around
the Time of Chrétien de Troyes," a conference organized by
the Eagle Hill Foundation, at Steuben, Maine (USA).
This symposium will have a dual thematic
focus on (1) major esoteric and mystical movements of the fascinatingly
rich intellectual and religious cultures of the twelfth and early
thirteenth centuries, namely, alchemy, hermeticism, and Islamic
and Jewish mysticism; and (2) the works of Chrétien de Troyes, whose
Arthurian romances seem to suggest an awareness of some aspects
of these movements. Recent scholarship has suggested that there
was not only a higher degree of intercultural and interreligious
permeability during this time period—especially between Spain and
France—than previously suspected, but that important channels of
transmission of ideas, treatises, and texts have been overlooked.
The symposium is intended to foster an exchange of ideas among participants,
whose areas of expertise are generally considered to be distinct
from one another. This confl uence of otherwise diverse academic
perspectives will provide a comparative framework to explore the
broad range of cultural resources accessible to writers and intellectual
communities during the time of Chrétien de Troyes.
Experts in 1) medieval alchemy, hermeticism,
Islamic and Jewish Mysticism, 2) the interpretation of the romances
of Chrétien de Troyes, and 3) the translation or modes of transmission
of treatises and texts around the time of Chrétien de Troyes are
invited to give presentations providing insights into their own
research and ideas, or to provide a broad overview of some aspect
of their respective fi elds. Summaries of past and current research
are important, since these will provide the broad context for discussions
among participants with regard to the more enigmatic aspects of
Chrétien’s romances, and possibly also the works of other contemporary
writers, such as Wolfram von Eschenbach. Although a familiarity
with the romances of Chrétien de Troyes is not essential, this would
be helpful, since the motif of “the quest” is a recurrent theme,
both in the narrative strategies of Chrétien, and in the esoteric
and mystical movements of his time. It is thus hoped that a consideration
of the romances of Chrétien will lead to a better understanding
of how the medieval esoteric and mystical movements can be studied
from the standpoint of their contribution to the popular milieu,
and how this may have inspired literary geniuses like Chrétien.
The symposium will provide ample informal
opportunities for group discussions, since accommodations and meals
are available within easy walking distance of the lecture hall and
rooms where the symposium will be held. Participants are welcome
to extend their discussions late into the night by the fi replaces
in the main symposium building. An announcement, with a list of
presentations, will be sent out on 31 May 2010. The symposium is
open to all who share an interest in scholarship about the twelfth
and early thirteenth centuries.
The Symposium will be held at the
facilities of the Eagle Hill Foundation and Humboldt Institute,
situated on the summit of Eagle Hill on the coast of eastern Maine.
Acadia National Park and the Canadian border are both within a scenic
one-hour drive. Mid-October falls in the midst of Maine’s spectacular
autumn foliage season.
Call for papers: Scholars interested
in giving a presentation are invited to submit an abstract, no longer
than 2,500 characters or 500 words in length, to office@eaglehill.us
by April 30, 2010. Inquiries about possible presentations are welcome.
The suggested deadline for the submission of manuscripts for the
proceedings is November 15, 2010. The journal Arcanum follows an
article-by-article online publishing model. Articles which have
met with the approval of the peer-review and editing process are
formally published/uploaded on the journal’s website as soon as
the galley proofs are reviewed and accepted by their respective
authors and guest editors. The Table of Contents is updated as each
article is published. Once the volume of proceedings is complete,
a print version will be issued.
Published proceedings. Presenters
are invited to submit a manuscript for inclusion in the symposium
proceedings, which will be published in Arcanum, a new scholarly
online and print journal, presently in the early planning stages
(ISSN 2152-6621). This peer-reviewed journal will be dedicated to
research on the confl uence of ideas which gave rise to the many
fascinating intellectual accomplishments of the twelfth and thirteenth
Centuries. Inquiries regarding the journal are welcome. The journal
will be published by the Eagle Hill Foundation, which already publishes
the Journal of the North Atlantic, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal
whose core focus is on Viking age archaeology and the environmental
history of the greater North Atlantic.
Contact person. Dr. Ingrid E. Lotze,
Eagle Hill Foundation, PO Box 9, Steuben, Maine, USA (207-546-2821;
office@eaglehill.us; http://www.eaglehill.us).
1722 October 2010.
"St. Thomas Becket and the Vernacular Medieval Literature,"
an international medieval conference to be held at Centro Stefano
Franscini, Monte Verità, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland. The Conference
will be divided into two themes (consisting of several sub-divided
sessions):
For Medievalists the Becket-Henry
affair presents an ideal case study: the career of Thomas Becket,
culminating in his murder (1170) is undoubtedly the best documented
event in the twelfth century. The dramatic martyrdom of the Archbishop
of Canterbury generated an unusual number of biographies, letters,
histories. New avenues of research are now opening up for Philologists,
since recent studies have begun to show that Becket's eruditi wrote
not only in Latin, but also in vernacular (i. e. Anglo-Norman and
French). The language of government and diplomacy was Latin, but
for Becket's circle, literature was too important to be excluded
from the remoralization of the Plantagenet's life. Lay and clerical
domains of worship were certainly distinct, but they were not neatly
divided, either liturgically or physically. Nothing supports the
polarity between a "lay piety" of "private" and "devotional" literature
and a clerical art that was "public," "regulatory," and "liturgical."
A) 11551170: "Warriors
of God and Culture. Thomas Becket and his eruditi"
B) After 1170. "Perpetuating
Myth"
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS:
15 August 2010
The stimulating and unique
ambiance of Monte Verità has been chosen to give the conference
a familiar and scientifically inspiring tone. The Centro Stefano
Franscini (CSF) in Ascona (on the fascinating hill called Monte
Verità) is the international conference centre of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), located in the south of Switzerland
(Canton Ticino). Contact: Abstracts, conference announcements or
enquires should be directed to congress@becketproject.ch (http://www.becketproject.ch).
1819 October 2010.
"Patronage
and the Sacred Book in the Medieval Mediterranean," a conference
organized by Esperanza Alfonso (CSIC) and Jonathan Decter (Brandeis
University), at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Sacred books (including Jewish
Bibles, Christian Bibles, Qur´ans, prayer books,psalters, haggadot,
translations of and commentaries on Scripture, etc.) were at the
center of book production for Jews, Christians and Muslims throughout
the Middle Ages. This conference will investigate issues in the
patronage, production, circulation and consumption of sacred books
in the Western Mediterranean during the High and Late Middle Ages
(roughly 10th-15th Century). In what ways did the demands of patronage
nurture, determine, or constrain areas of intellectual and artistic
engagement? How did patronage in the royal court differ from patronage
in other contexts (the Church, religious orders, the madrasa, the
university, the circles of learned elites, non-institutional settings)?
What role did women play in the patronage, production or circulation
of books? The interest of this conference is twofold: the patronage
of sacred texts in comparative contexts and the role of inter-religious
elements in the production of sacred texts.
Call for papers: Topics
for papers might include the adoption of book-making techniques
across religious boundaries, Jewish/Christian/Muslim collaborative
translations or art/text productions, interest in reading, producing,
or interpreting the sacred texts of other religious traditions,
or other related questions. Please send an abstract to Jonathan
Decter (decter@brandeis.edu) and Esperanza Alfonso (esperanza.alfonso@cchs.csic.es)
by 15 February 2010.
2124 October 2010.
" Byzantine and Ottoman Civilizations in World History,” a
symposium sponsored by Istanbul Sehir University and the World History
Association, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbul Sehir University
and the World History Association proudly announce a symposium focusing
on the world-historical significance of Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations,
330-1922. The symposium will consist of approximately 50 papers
by Turkish and international participants, plus several plenary
sessions. The official languages of the symposium are English and
Turkish.
Persons not presenting a
paper may also register for the conference, attend at no fee, and
will be eligible for discounted lodging at 4- and 5-star conference
hotels in the Old City. On-line registration and hotel information
will be found at this web site soon after 15 January 2010. In order
to participate in any capacity, persons must register on-line no
later than 15 September 2010. All
registrants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation
expenses and schedules.
Questions and inquiries should
be directed to A. J. Andrea (aandrea@uvm.edu), Hayrettin Yucesoy
(yucesoyh@slu.edu), or Nurullah Ardiç (nurullahardic@sehir.edu.tr).
Periodic informational updates will appear at http://www.thewha.org
beginning September 2009.
913 November 2010.
"Auctor et
auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi litteris," the VI Convegno
dell’Internationales Mittellateiner Komitee, in Naples and Benevento.
The first plenary session will be in Napoli on 9th November, in
the afternoon. Presenters will later be taken to Benevento, where
half-board accommodation will be provided.
For more information or clarification
on scholarly aspects or logistics, do not hesitate to e-mail prof.
Edoardo D’Angelo and Dott.ssa Grazia Sirignano (medialatinitas2010@gmail.com;
http://www.unisob.na.it/ateneo/d001.htm?vr=1).
1820 November 2010.
"The Circulation of Science and Technology," the 4th
International Conference of the European Society for the History
of Science, in Barcelona, Spain.
Historiography has recently
acknowledged that circulation of ideas and techniques plays a central
role in the understanding of their evolution. Given that science
and technology are international achievements, their dissemination
could be the most distinctive element in their construction. Circulation
is not a simple change of geographical place; it carries with it
epistemological and philosophical changes as a result of the crossing
of cultural and political boundaries. Networks cover a wide range
of local settings, actors, institutions and interests, both in the
production of new science and technology, and in the reception and
appropriation of known science and technology.
The conference should stimulate
studies and debates about the dissemination of science and technology:
first, the circulation of ideas, theories, methods and practices;
second, of objects, instruments, machines, artefacts, seeds, plants,
minerals, drawings, illustrations, inscriptions, paintings…; third,
of texts: manuscripts, printed books, textbooks, journals, letters,
book notes; fourth, of scientists and technicians around the world
in “grand tours”, trips for leisure, lecturing, business and industrial
espionage; and fifth, of information about institutional organization,
transmission of knowledge and the influence of local contexts, among
others.
Contact: Institut d'Estudis
Catalans, Carrer del Carme 47, 08001 Barcelona, Spain (+34 932 701
620; fax +34 932 701 180).
4 December 2010. "Animals
and Humans in the Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance,"
the Twenty-Second Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference at
Barnard College, in New York City.
This one-day interdisciplinary
conference will explore some of the many ways in which relations
between humans and animals, as well as their divide, was imagined,
employed, figured, and explained by people in the Middle Ages and
Renaisssance.
Call for papers: Papers
might consider texts on husbandry, falconry, hunting, companion
animals, warfare, bestiaries, fables, encyclopedias, heraldry, visual
arts, narrative, philosophy, theology. Please submit one-page abstracts
and c.v. to Laurie Postlewate (lpostlew@barnard.edu) by 1 June 2010.
2011
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February 2011. The Eighth
Biernnial International Conference of the Australian and New Zealand
Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies will meet at the
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. ANZAMEMS exists to promote
medieval and early modern studies in Australia and New Zealand.
It was formed in 1996 by the merger of ANZAMRS (Australian and New
Zealand Association of Medieval and Renaissance Studies) and AHMEME
(Australian Historians of Medieval and Early Modern Europe).
Keynote speakers will be:
Alastair Minnis (Yale University)
Michael Hunter (Birkbeck
College)
Frances E. Dolan (University
of California at Davis)
Dauvit Broun (Glasgow University)
Call for papers: We
wish to invite proposals for papers and panels for ANZAMEMS 2011.
We would like to encourage papers and panels in the broadly-defined
academic disciplines of medieval and early modern studies, including
but not limited to history, literary studies, music, art history,
theology and religious studies, cultural studies, philosophy, science,
medicine, maritime studies, performance studies, gender studies.
We particularly welcome and encourage papers from graduate students
and early career researchers (anzamems2011@otago.ac.nz; http://www.otago.ac.nz/mems/anzamems)..
Proposals for full panels
are very welcome. These should include three proposed speakers,
and, if possible, a chair and/or a respondent. Individual papers
will be grouped with two others. Parallel sessions will last an
hour and a half, which means that papers should be no longer than
20 minutes each to leave sufficient time for discussion. The final
deadline for proposals is 3 September 2010, but early submissions
are encouraged. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract of
your paper (200 words), and your name, contact details, and institutional
affiliation. Participants who need to make travel arrangements are
welcome to submit their proposals early and the convenors will assess
their abstracts promptly. Contact: Dr Simone Celine Marshall (simoneceline.marshall@otago.ac.nz)
Dr Judith Collard (judith.collard@otago.ac.nz), or Prof. Peter Anstey
(peter.anstey@otago.ac.nz).
1516 March 2011.
"Quand l'image relit le texte," a coloquium organized
in collaboration between Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle (CEMA
- EA 173) and Université Paris 4 Sorbonne (Sens, texte et histoire
- EA 4089), in Paris.
Ce colloque a pour vocation
d'approfondir, en s'appuyant sur des exemples précis et argumentés,
l'étude des liens qui peuvent se tisser entre le texte et son iconographie
dans les manuscrits médiévaux. Les conférenciers sont invités à
montrer comment ils ont été amenés, à partir de l'illustration,
à s'interroger sur la compréhension d'un texte ou même à la remettre
en question, quel que soit le genre auquel ce texte appartient (romanesque,
lyrique, dramatique, historique, scientifique, etc.).
Call for papers: Plusieurs
axes peuvent être envisagés, entre autres :
- analyser le rôle que les
images sont susceptibles de jouer dans la constitution de manuscrits
cycliques en créant des jeux d'échos visuels chargés de souligner
la continuité entre des oeuvres à l'origine indépendantes, comme
c'est le cas, par exemple, dans le manuscrit de la BnF, fr. 60,
où sont regroupés Thèbes, Troie et Enéas.
- étudier un corpus d'images
marginales, afin de caractériser les rapports que ce type particulier
d'iconographie entretient avec le texte.
- dans le cas précis des
écrits historiques, et l'on songe par exemple à l'illustration des
Chroniques de Froissart, interroger l'image quand elle se met au
service de la propagande.
- questionner aussi, de façon
plus théorique, la nature du lien entre le texte et l'image, qui
peut se penser en termes de traduction, de contraction, de développement,
de transposition ou même de contradiction.
- penser la spécificité de
la rhétorique visuelle de l'image médiévale et de sa mise en page.
A partir des cas individuels,
on essaiera de dégager des perspectives propres à enrichir les études
théoriques et de proposer de nouveaux outils d'analyse. Quelle que
soit l'approche privilégiée, les perspectives textuelle et iconographique
seront suivies conjointement : les études iconographiques seront
nourries d'un travail précis sur la tradition textuelle et sur la
matérialité des manuscrits.
Les communications devront
durer 20 à 25 minutes. Les propositions (1000 à 2000 signes), accompagnées
de vos coordonnées académiques, sont attendues pour le 15 janvier
2010 par voie de courriel à la double adresse (s.heriche_pradeau@aliceadsl.fr
& msimon@univ-paris3.fr).
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April 2011. The
86th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held at Arizona
State University, in Tempe, Arizona.
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April 2011. The Fifth International Piers Plowman Society Conference,
at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Call
for papers: The
Programme Committee invites proposals for papers on any topic concerned
with Piers Plowman and related poetry and prose in the traditions
of didactic and allegorical alliterative writing, or with the historical,
religious, intellectual, colicological, and critical contexts of
these works. Send 200250-word abstracts, indicating any audio-visual
needs, to both conference organisers: Helen Barr (Helen.Barr@ell.ox.ac.uk)
and Simon Horobin (Simon.Horobin@magd.ox.ac.uk) by 31 March 2010.
28 April1 May 2011. The 84th Annual Meeting of the
American Association for the History of Medicine, to be held in
Philadelphia.
Call for papers: The
Association invites submissions in any area of medical historythe
history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices,
and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public
health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome.
In addition to single-paper
proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions
and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair
if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these
submissions will be judged on their own merits. Presentations are
limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must
attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not
already published or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History
of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association
encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration
by the Bulletin.
The AAHM uses an online abstract
submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient
software. A link for submissions will be posted to the website at
http://histmed.org. If you are
unable to submit proposals online, send eight copies of a one-page
abstract (350 words maximum) to the Program Committee Chair, Susan
E. Lederer, Dept of Medical History and Bioethics, University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 1300 University
Ave. Madison, WI 53706 (608-262-4195; selederer@wisc.edu).
When proposing a historical
argument, state the major claim, summarize the evidence supporting
the claim, and state the major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative,
summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the
conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet
as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home
telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation,
and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September
2010. E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted.
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May 2011. The 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies
will take place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Contact:
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute,
Western Micigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI
49008-5432 (269-387-8745; fax: 269-387-8750; mdvl_congres@wmich.edu;
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/).
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July 2011. The
18th International Medieval Congress (IMC) will be held at the University
of Leeds, in Leeds, England. Contact: International Medieval Congress
Administration, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Bldg.
1.03, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (+44-113-343-3614; fax:
+44-113-343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc).
1821
July 2011. "John Gower in Iberia: 14112011, Six Hundred
Years," the Second International Congress of the John Gower
Society, in Valladolid, Spain. Spain has been chosen as a site for
Congress II in recognition of Gower's unique transnational presence.
The Confessio Amantis was the first English work Ever translated
into Continental languagesfirst Portuguese, and then Castilian,
both in the fifteenth century.
Call for
papers: Scholars
pursuing research in medieval studies, focusing on literary, philological,
historical and/or cultural topics, and those with a special interest
in the field of Anglo-Spanish relations or translation are encouraged
to participate. Contact: Ana Sáez Hidalgo (jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com;
http://www.wcu.edu/johngower/index.html).
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July 2011. "Natio Scotica," The Thirteenth International
Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature,
to be hosted by the Università degli Studi di Padova, in Padua,
Italy. The definition of a literary canon in medieval and early
modern Scotland is closely connected with the definition of the
Scottish nation. Attempting an assessment of medieval and early
modern Scottish literature means above all dealing with a definition
of this literature within a strongly defined national context: literature
and nation grow together, and each contributes to the other's definition.
Call for papers: Following
these suggestions, we welcome papers addressing (but not necessarily
restricted to) the following topics:
- Redefining the canonical in early
Scottish literature
- One nation, many languages: issues
of language and time range
- New canons of neo-Latin and Gaelic
poetry
- Defining Older Scots
- The ongoing circulation and adaptation
of Older Scots literature
- A tale of two nations: Scotland
and England
- Scottish-Italian relations
- Local cultural centres: the influence
of religious, educational, and legal institutions
- The invention of literary tradition
in seventeenth-century Scotland
- Literary and linguistic theories
and practices in seventeenth-century Scotland
- Building a national epic
- Poetry deriving from strands of
Protestantism
- Personal and political satire
- The poetry of quietism
- Medieval universities and the progress
of learning
Papers should be twenty minutes long.
Please send a 500-word abstract and brief curriculum vitae by 31
August 2010 to Dr Alessandra Petrina, Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett.,
Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Via Beato Pellegrino, 26 35100 Padova,
Italy.
2530 July 2011.
The 23rd Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society,
in Bristol, England (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/medievalcentre/arthur/english/index_html).
1417 September 2011.
"Pharmacy
and Books," the 40th International Congress for the History
of Pharmacy, in Berlin, Germany.
The German Society for the
History of Pharmacy (DGGP) cordially invites you to the 40th International
Congress for the History of Pharmacy in Berlin. Berlin, a city that
developed from the towns Cölln (mentioned from 1237 on) and Berlin
(firstly mentioned in 1244) became a European metropolis within
the ruling time of the Prussian King Friedrich II. (1740–1786).
The city had been destroyed in most parts of the city during World
War II. After rebuilding, Berlin has been separated into four sectors.
With the founding of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949,
the Soviet sector became the capital city of Berlin as well as of
this separate, Eastern part of Germany. When the wall was built
in 1961, the city has been parted completely. On November 9, 1989,
the two halves of Germany as well as of Berlin have been reunited
and since then experienced a considerable boom.
With the topic »Pharmacy
and Book«, the 40th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy
has chosen a central theme, showing that books are one of the most
important sources of the historiography of pharmacy. The focus of
the lectures to be held can be on books which have a special significance
in pharmacy such as pharmacopoeia, medication lists, taxes, books
on receipes, education, herbs and flora as well as handbooks and
dictionaries. Books on pharmaceutical history will be looked on
especially. A special emphasis on books about the history of the
pharmaceutical industry respectively of works published by pharmaceutical
producers and wholesalers. Last, but not least, apothecaries as
authors of technical literature as well as other literary works
shall be introduced in lectures, as well as the role of pharmacies
and apothecaries in poetry and fiction. Within the lectures, the
genesis of these books will be discussed, an analysis of the contents
will be given along with the comparison of different works as well
as decoration and configuration, illustration and didactic aspects.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Christoph
Friedrich, Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie, Philipps-Universität
Marburg, Roter Graben 10, D-35032 Marburg, Germany (+0049–(0)-6421-282-2829;
fax. +0049–(0)-6421-282-2878; ch.friedrich@staff.uni-marburg.de).
2830 October 2011.
"Music in the Carolingian World: Witnesses to a Metadiscipline,
a Conference in Honor of Charles M. Atkinson," a conference
to be held at Thompson Library, Ohio State University, in Columbus,
Ohio. Contact: Graeme M. Boone, Dept. of Music, Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH 43210.
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April. The Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held
at Saint Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri.
14-17 April 2011. The
Fifth International Piers Plowman Society Conference will
be held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The Programme Committee invites
proposals for papers on any topic concerned with Piers Plowman
and related poetry and prose in the traditions of didactic and allegorical
alliterative writing, or with the historical, religious, intellectual,
codicological, and critical contexts of these works.
Please send 200250
word abstracts, indicating any audio-visual needs, to BOTH conference
organisers: Helen Barr (Helen.Barr@ell.ox.ac.uk ) and Simon Horobin
(Simon.Horobin@magd.ox.ac.uk) by 31 March 2010.
The IPPS Graduate Paper
Prize: IPPS announces that for the first time, a graduate student
paper prize will be awarded for the best graduate student paper
presented at the conference. This competition is sponsored by the
Society and by Brepols, and will be judged by a committee drawn
from the Executive Board and the conference organizing committee.
The winning paper will be noted in the program; in addition the
winner will receive a certificate and citation presented during
an award ceremony at the conference, and an electronic subscription
(providing full online access) to a range of Brepols journals in
our field. All graduate students who wish to have their papers considered
must submit a polished draft one month before the conference. Please
send drafts electronically to Helen.Barr@ell.ox.ac.uk.
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July 2012. The
19th International Medieval Congress (IMC) will be held at the University
of Leeds, in Leeds, England. Contact: International Medieval Congress
Administration, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Bldg.
1.03, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (+44-113-343-3614; fax:
+44-113-343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc).
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