2010

22–25 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).

26–27 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).

26–27 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).

26–27 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 Ages—absence 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).

26–27 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 vision—a 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 9–10 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.

27–28 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).

30–31.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).

9–10 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.

9–11 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).

16–17 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 20–30 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.

19–21 April 2010. The 32nd annual conference of the Middle East Libraries Committee

22–24 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/).

23–24 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).

28–30 April 2010. "Writing England: Books 1000–1400," 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 April–2 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/).

13–16 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/).

19–20 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).

20–22 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).

21–24 May 2010. "Chester 2010: Drama and Religion 1555–1575," 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).

26–28 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

27–29 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 May–1 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 (28–30 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.

4–5 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)

4–6 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.

10–12 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).

10–13 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).

16–17 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).

18–19 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.

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, 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).

23–27 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/).

24–26 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.

28–30 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).

8–10 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 manuscripts—particularly codicology—and 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).

12–14 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.1230–c.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, 16–18 July.

12–15 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).

15–19 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 present—graduate 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).

17–19 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 scribes—authority 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).

19–23 July 2010. "1212–1214: 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/

19–24 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).

21–24 August 2010. "Music for the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries (1050–1550)," 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.

23–27 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 origin–thus 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).

25–30 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).

17–19 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.

21–24 August 2010. "Music for the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries (1050–1550)," 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).

1–3 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).

1–4 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/).

7–10 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)

9–11 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).

18–20 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.

23–27 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).

24–25 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).

1–2 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).

7–10 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).

15–17 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).

17–22 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) 1155–1170: "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).

18–19 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.

21–24 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.

9–13 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).

18–20 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

2–5 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).

15–16 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).

14–16 April 2011. The 86th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held at Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona.

14–17 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 200–250-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 April–1 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 history—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, 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.

12–15 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/).

11–14 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).

18–21 July 2011. "John Gower in Iberia: 1411–2011, 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 languages—first 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).

22–26 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.

25–30 July 2011. The 23rd Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society, in Bristol, England (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/medievalcentre/arthur/english/index_html).

14–17 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).

28–30 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.

2012

12–14 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 200–250 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.

9–12 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).