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2010
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).
The registration form for our Colloquium in Ljubljana is now
available (http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/ljubljana/ljubForm_en.htm).
(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).
10 September 2010.
"Pontes ad Fontes: Sacred History in the light of Auxiliary
Historical Sciences," an international students’ scientific
conference organized by the Department of Auxiliary Historical
Sciences and Archive Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk
University, will be held in Brno, Czech Republic. The conference
is aimed at students of study programmes of all degrees and other
young scholars, as well as university teachers from all over Europe.
Sources, either of written,
pictorial or material character, are one of the most fundamental
questions of studies of our past. On the basis of these sources,
historians are able to reconstruct the past, describe processes
and events happened in the past, and thus contribute to widening
of awareness of cultural values in our society.
Various sources of religious
origin form a significant part of all extant sources. And thanks
to auxiliary historical sciences, which as a group dispose of
scientific methods, we are able to interpret these sources, extract
information that these sources contain and also assess them as
such. Integration of research in the field of auxiliary historical
sciences and sacred history brings new and enriching knowledge
not only for history itself but also for fields that are only
remotely related as well as for fields seemingly not related at
all (law, economics, theology, history of arts, ethnology, demography).
Research in the field of
sacred history and also in the field of auxiliary historical sciences
is nowadays taking place at all prestigious universities in Europe.
It increasingly attracts interest especially of young specialists
who deal with the topic in their diploma and doctoral thesis.
The international conference Pontes ad fontes will be the first
event of its kind in the Central Europe. We would particularly
like to address not only experts and young scientists from the
Czech Republic but also those from abroad who are concerned with
research in the field of sacred history and auxiliary historical
sciences from the Middle Ages to modern times. During the conference,
they will have the opportunity to present their findings and conclusions
from research works in front of the professional public, share
their experience in the framework of a specified topic, and last
but not least, establish contacts on an international level. The
conference will surely enrich and broaden participants´ and attainders´
outlook in various fields of human knowledge, culture and thinking.
Further information is avail from PontesAdFontes@gmail.com (http://www.phil.muni.cz/wpvh).
16–17 September
2010. The annual Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
conference will be hosted by the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.
This is a broad-ranging medieval conference, which brings together
faculty, graduate students, and others from the full range of
medieval disciplines to share their research and teaching interests
and to interact informally.
Keynote speakers this year
will be John D. Niles, the Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who will be talking about
Beowulf, and Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of Social and Cultural
Analysis and of English at New York University, who will be talking
about approaches to the Middle Ages. There will also be an evening
performance of Beowulf (in modern English) by Chris Vinsonhaler,
a professional story-teller and Ph.D. student at the University
of Iowa, and an exhibition of medieval manuscripts at the UI Main
Library's Special Collections, complemented by presentations on
medieval bookmaking techniques by members of the UI Center for
the Book. For full details about the conference, see the conference
website (http://www.uiowa.edu/~confinst/mam2010/).
Call for papers:
We now encourage all members of the association to propose
papers or panels for the conference to the special e-mail account
at mam2010@uiowa.edu(for further details, see http://www.uiowa.edu/~confinst/mam2010/call-for-papers.html).
If you know of colleagues and graduate students who might like
to attend, please bring the conference to their attention and
encourage them to join the MAM.
16–18 September
2010. "Les
légendes des savants et des philosophes au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance"
a conference to take place at the Centre d'études supérieures
de la Renaissance, 59, rue Néricault-Destouches, BP 11328,
37013 Tours, Cedex 1, France (http//www.cesr.univ-tours.fr; http//umr6576.univ-tours.fr).
17–18 September
2010. "From Iberian Kingdoms to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal,
and the New World, 1250–1700," is an interdisciplinary, international
conference on the history and literature of the Iberian Empires
from the High Middle Ages through the conquest of the New World,
sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, at the
University of Notre Dame, in Notre Dame, Indiana.For details visithttp://iberiaconference.eventbrite.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.
22-23 September 2010.
"Cataloguing
Projects of Oriental Manuscripts: Evolution of Descriptive Criteria,"
the workshop of COMSt Team 4: Oriental Manuscript Cataloguing.
As always, you are most
welcome to attend and to forward this invitation and the registration
form attached to all those who you think may be interested. Please
send the filled registration form directly to Witold Witakowski,
the workshop convenor (Witold.Witakowski@lingfil.uu.se). If you
have any questions you can also address him directly. COMSt covers
participation costs for all Team 4 members, invited speakers and
1-2 selected members of each team (on the approval of Team Leader).
In addition, three travel grants are available again for those
willing to attend but, being outside COMSt and with no public
fund access, unable to fund their travel - the application should
be made online (http://www2.esf.org/asp/form/svgrants/sv_form.asp?id=206;
check also http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/bandi.html ).
23–25 September
2010. The biennial conference of GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios
sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre- 1800), will be hosted
by Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and UMass-Amherst, Massachussets.
Please, see our webpage (http://www.gemela.org) for more information.
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).
24–26 September
2010. Just a reminder that you still have a little less than
one week to send in abstracts and to register for the 2010 Texas
Medieval Association's 20th annual conference. Our plenary addresses
are by Seth Lerer, Laura Weigert, and Bruce Brasington from Friday
evening Sep 24 through early Sunday evening 26th. This year's
theme is "Majesty, Memory, and Mourning in the Middle Ages," but
we still welcome submissions on any aspect of medieval literature,
history, art history, philosophy, and religion. Held September
24th-26th at SMU in Dallas in conjunction with the Dallas Museum
of Art's exhibition of the Mourners from the Dijon tomb of John
the Fearless, this year's conference will feature Texas BBQ, a
Spanish themed-dinner at SMU's Meadows Museum (with a visiting
El Greco show) and of course Texas music, and buses to take us
to a closing despedida on Sunday afternoon at a nearly ranch (swimming,
water-skiing, food, maybe a little riding), with Tex-Mex fiesta,
a museum-quality folk art collection, and some magnificent, prize-winning
horses. Our conference rate for those who sign up at the Doubletree
Hotel has been extended through midnight on August 31st, so act
quickly. This Tuesday we will mount the first draft of the program.
Look especially at the range of "Round-Ups" which you might like
to join by offering brief interventions or simply attending. Come
for the conference, stay for the company!
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).
1–2 October 2010.
The forty-ninth annual meeting of the Midwest Medieval History
Conference will be held on the campus of the Ohio State University
in Columbus, Ohio. Professor John Van Engen will give this year's
keynote. Professor Van Engen is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor
of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he also served
as Director of the Medieval Ins1tute. Over the course of his career,
he has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and a corresponding
member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. His publications
include Rupert of Deutz (1983), Devotio Moderna (1988), Religion
in the History of the Medieval West (2004), and Sisters and Brothers
in Common Life: The Modern Devotion and the World of the Later
Middle Ages (2008). For more info, go to http://mmhc.slu.edu/2010.htm.
1–3 October 2010.
"Dante and the Greeks," a conference organized and
hosted by the Dumbarton Oaks Library and Collection, in collaboration
with the Dante Society of America, at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington,
DC.
This three-day symposium
will include attention to Dante’s views on ancient Greece and
its cultures as well as on medieval Greece and its cultures. Scrutiny
will be given to the presence of ancient Greek poetry and philosophy
(such as Homer, Plato, Aristotle) as well as science (astrology,
cosmography, geography) in Dante’s works. In addition, participants
will explore the Greek characters (drawn indirectly from the ancient
Greek mythographic tradition, Homeric epic, and other such sources)
that populate Dante’s works, as well as others (such as the Cretan
Veglio).
Speakers will consider
the degree to which such influences were filtered to the Italian
poet through Patristic and late-antique texts (by Origen, the
Cappadocians, Dionysius the Areopagite, and others), since Dante
could have been introduced to at least some of the original ancient
literature by way of these intermediaries. The symposium will
also investigate very broadly the medieval assimilation of Greek
thought into Christian culture. This assimilation will include
Byzantine influences on political thought, particularly on the
centrality of the emperor and the empire as ideas and ideals (Justinian
and the juridical and political thought of the Eastern Roman Empire).
This issue relates particularly, but not exclusively, to Dante's
De monarchia.
Beyond a strict concern
with Dante lies the challenge of setting him in a broader context
with regard to the perception and reception of Greek in the thirteenth-century
West. Latin Christians manifested a schizophrenic outlook, instead
of a single Greekness there were several, not all of them even
interconnected. First of all were the pagan Greeks and then the
Byzantine Greeks. Even the Byzantines were far from uniform, since
Westerners responded very differently to the traditions of the
Greek Church fathers and of their own contemporary Greeks. Thus
Greek was not only a past language or culture, but also a present
(and often rival) religious and political entity. To each of these
layers Latins related somewhat differently. Doctrinal, political,
linguistic, cultural, educational matters all played important
roles in shaping attitudes, and in this regard travel and diplomacy
are perhaps as relevant as translations.
Conference website:
http://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/doaks_symposium_dante_2010.html
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).
8–10 October 2010.
The Thirtieth Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium will meet at
Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The John V. Kelleher
Lecture will be “The Barefoot Kings: Literary Models and Reality
in Later Medieval Ireland,” delivered by Dr. M. Katharine Simms
(Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin ) on Thursday,
7 October, at 5 p.m. at the Harvard Faculty Club Library, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Additional information can be
found on our website (http://www.hcc.fas.harvard.edu).
13–15 October 2010.
"Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity,
Judaism and Islam," the 4th International Colloquium Compostela,
will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The 4ICC seeks
to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all
aspects of Pilgrimages and Pilgrims as Peacemakers in Christianity,
Judaism and Islam. Papers on any topic related to this theme are
welcome. In the 2010 Compostellan Holy Year, the 4th International
Colloquium Compostela has as special thematic focus “Pilgrimages
and Pilgrims as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam”.
Pilgrimage is a sacred voyage and appears as a universal phenomenon,
which departs from a common psychology and turns into a symbol
and a ritual and cultural fact that are repeated in all time and
in any place. It’s a global element that proclaims the construction
of an intercultural dialog of identities, base of a peace that
the sacred texts of those three religions proclaim as preceptive.
Call for papers:
What peace
motives prompted pilgrimages? Were the factors that drove peace
pilgrimages the same in those cultures and religions? How do this
kind of peace pilgrimages and their effects resonate through written,
material and visual culture? We welcome papers on all aspects
of peace pilgrims and peace pilgrimages, broadly understood; pacific
routes of peregrination; peace in the pilgrimage ways; constructing
peace from the peregrination; peace and pilgrimage as a means
of cultural, religious and political interaction; spiritual journeys;
sanctuaries of peregrination as spaces of mercy and peace, etc.
We would particularly encourage submissions with cross-cultural
and comparative approaches, and in this context welcome papers
that reach beyond the conventional chronological and geographical
borders of the European pilgrimages.
Those who would like to
present papers are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of their
paper (in English) and a 200-word curriculum vitae to sarmiento@cesga.es
before July 15, 2010. Speakers will be allocated 15 minutes for
their talks (there will not be presented papers of absent speakers).
The selection will be looking for empirical and theoretical contributions
to the scholarly understanding of the interrelationship between
peace, pilgrimages and pilgrims. Authors of papers that have been
accepted will be notified before July 30, 2010.
The conference will begin
in the morning of Wednesday October 13th and it will end in the
afternoon of Friday October 15th. The venue of the 4th International
Colloquium Compostela will be in downtown Santiago de Compostela
(San Roque, 2). Although the organization may provide several
travel grants, participants will be responsible for arranging
their own travel and accommodation. Further details about the
conference will be available in due course in the 4ICC website
(http://iegpspeacemakers). blogspot.com).
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).
14–16 October 2010.
"Quest and Conquest: Spiritual Symbols and Myths in the
Indo-Mediterranean and European Worlds," the University of
British Columbia's 39th Medieval Workshop, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Myths and symbols are at the core of the sacred - a vision of
the world which all cultures share through their diverse languages.
Quest and conquest have been archetypal concepts for all medieval
cultures. Though more often than not quest and conquest have opposed
each other as key factors in the historical self-fashioning of
individuals and communities, they have also merged in that place
of heart which all forms of literary and artistic expression seek
to reveal.
The keynote speaker will
be Michael Barry, of Princeton University, Consultant to the Aga
Khan Trust for Culture on Islamic Art and Museum Issues, on the
subject "Arab Lore of the Conquest of Spain and The Myth
of King Arthur's Round Table." Information is available on
line (http://ubc2010medieval.blogspot.com/).
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.
21–23 October 2010.
"Objects,
Collections and Cultures," the Second Biennieal Symposium
of the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA), in the Freer
and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C. The program features
an opening address by Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler
Galleries; a round-table discussion on the role of objects in
the study of Islamic art and culture; six seminar-style workshops
on works of art in the Freer and Sackler collections; and seven
thematic panels with formal presentations. The symposium is open
to the scholarly community and the general public. The full program
and registration form are now available on the HIAA website (http://www.historiansofislamicart.org/portal/default.asp?cat=sym).
In addition to the renowned
collection of Islamic art on view in the Freer Gallery of Art,
symposium participants will have the opportunity to enjoy two
special exhibitions: "The Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian
Book of Kings" at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and "Colors of
the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats," at The Textile Museum, also in
Washington. The symposium program committee: Massumeh Farhad,
Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries,
and Marianna Shreve Simpson, President-elect, Historians of Islamic
Art Association.
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.
15–27 October 2010.
"Handschriften
und Alte Drucke" 9. Symposium veranstaltet von der AG Handschriften
und Alte Drucke des Deutschen Bibliotheksverbandes e. V. in Zusammenarbeit
mit der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen und dem Verein deutscher
Bibliothekare (VDB). Leitung: Dr. Helmut Rohlfing, Niedersächsische
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Abt. Spezialsammlungen und
Bestandserhaltung, Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen.
Ort: Heinrich-Fabri-Institut
Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum der Eberhard-Karls-Universität
Tübingen Auf dem Rucken 35 89143 Blaubeuren (bei Ulm). Teilnehmerbeitrag:
320 Euro bzw. 300 Euro für Mitglieder des VDB (inkl. Unterkunft
/ Verpflegung (EZ)). Anmeldung: Die schriftliche Anmeldung sollte
bis zum 15.09.2010 per Email an das Sekretariat der UB Tübingen
[sekretariat@ub.uni-tuebingen.de] erfolgen (inkl. der Angabe,
ob VDB-Mitglied). Die Überweisung des Teilnehmerbeitrags muss
bis zum 15.09.2010 auf das Konto 13004 der KSK Tübingen (BLZ 64150020)
mit dem Verwendungszweck "Projekt 01512/Symposium" erfolgt sein.
28–30 October 2010.
"Hagiography and Popular Cultures," cosponsored
by the Hagiographical Society and the Associazione Italiana per
lo Studio della Santità (AISSCA), in Verona, Italy. Recognizing
the controversies regarding the concept of "popular culture",
which, notwithstanding its obvious ambiguities, refers to a historical
reality, the conference proposes to identify and discuss the evidence
offered by hagiographical texts about this particular culture
of the lower classes, in various historical and geographical contexts,
from the first spreading of Christianity up to contemporary times,
including evidence belonging to other religious beliefs that can
be considered similar to saints. Contact: Sherry L. Reames (slreames@wisc.edu).
29 October 2010. "Discipuli
Juncti: Students Connected through the Middle Ages and Renaissance,"
the Third Annual Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, to be held at Arizona State University at the West Campus,
in Phoenix, Arizona.
The New College of Interdisciplinary
Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University and ACMRS (the Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) again invite all
interested undergraduates to propose papers or academic presentations
in other creative media for “Discipuli Juncti: Students Connected
through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” our third annual
undergraduate conference on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. On
Friday, October 29, 2010 the conference will give undergraduates
who are interested in Medieval and/or Renaissance culture another
opportunity to present their research or project to a group of
their peers and others (Spring 2010 graduates are still eligible
to participate).
In advance of the conference,
the student will work with a faculty mentor willing to advise
and assist in developing his or her project for a conference-level
presentation (advanced graduate students are also encouraged to
serve as mentors). Paper proposals for a 15-20 minute presentation
on all topics and in all formats, including visual and aural media
or any creative form of research, are welcome. By vote the three
best papers will be selected to be presented at ACMRS's annual
international conference in February 2011, a practice that has
continued since the inception of the conference. The best conference
papers will be published online on the ACMRS website www.acmrs.org.
The conference keynote speaker will be Rodney M. Thomson, Senior
Research Fellow, School of History and Classics, University of
Tasmania, Australia.
If you are interested
in participating in this conference, please email a 200-word abstract
to Professor Mary Bjork at mary.bjork@asu.edu. Deadline for proposals
is September 17. Applicants will be informed of acceptance by
September 24. Once accepted, the deadline for registration is
September 30. There are no conference registration fees. For more
information, including advice on how to write an abstract, visit
http://acmrs.org/conferences/Undergrad%20Conference/Discipuli_Juncti.html
.
5–7 November 2010.
The 29th Annual International Conference of the Charles Homer
Haskins Society. will be held in Boston, Massachusetts. For details,
see the Society's website (http://hankinsatbostoncollege.blogspot.com/).
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).
12–14 November
2010. "Representations: Image, word and artefact,"
Imbas 2010, an interdisciplinary postgraduate medievalist conference
will be held at National University of Ireland, in Galway.
We would like to invite
all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary
medievalists' conference being held in the Moore Institute at
NUI Galway. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of
their research from all areas of medieval studies including languages,
history, literature, art, archaeology, palaeography and philosophy.
Call for papers:
Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad
suggestion rather than in any way restrictive, and all variations
on this theme will be welcome. A selection of papers will be published
in our peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National
University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference.
This journal will be made available via our website and open-access
journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available
as podcasts.
Abstracts of 250 words
for a twenty-minute paper must be submitted before30 September
2010. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded
to Imbas/Trish Ní Mhaoileoin, Roinn na Gaeilge, Áras na Gaeilge,
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, Éire.
15 November 2010. "Epistolary
Conversations: Opening the Letter of Classical and Late Antiquity,"
a joint symposium organized by the Ancient Cultures Research Centre,
Macquarie University, and the Centre for Early Christian Studies,
Australian Catholic University, to be held at Macquarie University,
Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, building W6A, floor
3 western end.
Letters are among our most
important types of sources for understanding ancient societies,
and one that can seem to offer a rare immediacy, catching individuals
dealing with specific issues of business or friendship in particular
moments of time. Letters offer us access to a level of daily life
and language missing from more forensic literary genres or more
monumental artefacts.
But letters are also amongst
the most heterogenous of ancient sources. The modern printed edition
may inadvertently conceal vast differences in form: texts preserved
as monumental inscriptions on city walls, in multiple medieval
manuscripts, or as unique originals on the workaday materials
of papyri and wood or deluxe ivory – all may be ‘letters.’ The
content of letters is no less Protean: we are used to thinking
of letters in manuscript collections as ‘literary’ and those on
original materials as ‘documentary,’ but papyri originals may
demonstrate the same rhetorical conceits as those in manuscript,
while among the most numerous letters bequeathed by the manuscript
tradition are thousands of governmental memoranda repackaged as
the great Roman imperial law codes.
Letters were ephemera –
but both the careful archiving of original papyri documents and
the gathering of letter-collections consciously overrode that
transience. Letters were cultural markers of classical Greek and
Roman societies – but the vast bulk of extant originals come from
Egypt, carrying forward both Hellenistic and Near Eastern epistolary
traditions. The Augustan age produced the great models that shaped
later epistolary practice, of the aristocratic érudites Cicero,
Pliny, and Horace – as well as St. Paul and others later canonised
in the New Testament – but the largest and most numerous letter-collections
are overwhelmingly those of Late Antiquity, especially the often
data-rich letter-collections of Christian bishops. Letters were
the written products of highly literate societies – but often
depended on a human bearer to deliver an oral message constituting
the essential communiqué. Letters chart for us physical and social
networks throughout ancient societies – but only occasionally
do we have before us two sides of any conversation. Letters could
be intimate and personal – but with personae constructed from
venerable literary topoi.
Please join a symposium
of historians, papyrologists, and linguists for a day of discussing
these and other issues shaping our understanding of the ancient
letter.
Speakers include: Professor
Pauline Allen, Dr Malcolm Choat, Dr Geoffrey Dunn, Dr Trevor Evans,
Assoc. Prof. Andrew Gillett, Dr Stephen Lake, and Dr Bronwen Neil.
There is no charge for attendance, but please RSVP for catering
purposes. Enquiries and RSVP to Andrew Gillett (andrew.gillett@mq.edu.au).
15–17 November
2010. "Richard FitzRalph: His Life, Times and Thought,"
aconference to commemorate the 650th anniversary of his death
(November 16th, 1360), to be held at the National University of
Ireland Maynooth. For further information contact Michael Dunne
(Michael.W.Dunne@nuim.ie).
18–20 November
2010. "Natural, Unnatural, & Supernatural," the 36th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) in Roanoke,
Virginia. This conference will be held at the Hotel Roanoke, located
in the southwest corner of Virginia in the picturesque Shenandoah
Valley. Because this year's conference coincides with the 75th
anniversary of the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, we have selected
"Natural, Unnatural, & Supernatural" as its theme.
Call for papers:
We welcome papers and panels dealing with all aspects
of the Middle Ages, but we particularly encourage those examining
elements of the natural, unnatural, and supernatural in the medieval
world. As it does every year, the SEMA annual conference encourages
submissions from all branches of medieval studies, including but
not limited to history, art, science, philosophy, theology, archaeology,
paleography, language, and literatures.
Proposals for entire sessions
and for interdisciplinary presentations are strongly encouraged,
although individual paper proposals are welcome as well. Offers
to serve as session moderators are also welcome. Papers should
be no more than 20 minutes in length and sessions should consist
of no more than 3 presenters and 1 moderator. If submitting a
full session, please indicate the intended format of the session
(formal papers, roundtable discussion, panel, and so on) and titles
of all individual presentations. All proposals should be approximately
250 words and include all contact information (mailing address
as well as e-mail) of the presenter(s) and/or organizer. Proposals
must include a note regarding A/V equipment needs; e-mail submissions
are much preferred.
Please e-mail proposals
by 1 July (sema2010@scholar.vt.edu). Hard-copy proposals must
be received by 1 July: Prof. Matthew Gabriele, Dept. of Religion
and Culture, Virginia Tech, 342 Lane Hall (0227), Blacksburg,
VA 24061, USA.
Please explore the conference
website (http://www.rc.vt.edu/medieval/sema2010) as well as the
new SEMA website (http://sema.eserver.org).
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).
19–20 November
2010. "Cantus scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song,"
t he Third Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript
Studies in the Digital Age, at the University of Pennsylvania
Library. In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free
Library of Philadelphia and the Department of Music, Penn Libraries
are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg
Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's
symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and early
modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating
to music’s materiality in the late medieval period, especially
as it pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together
scholars and performers who will examine the ways the written
text of music, especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive
as well as prescriptive; the multiple functions of music’s most
important technology – its notation; and finally, the role that
modern digital technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts
today.
The symposium begins Friday
evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia with a lecture and
performance by the award-winning early music duo Asteria. On Saturday
at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will present
papers on various topics relating to the history of music manuscripts
and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable to
discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts
and related documents and the role of the digital humanities in
medieval musicology. Special exhibitions of music manuscripts
will be on view at both institutions.
Participants include: Jane
Alden, Wesleyan University; Julia Craig-McFeeley, Digital Image
Archive of Music Manuscripts; Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania;
Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania; Susan Rankin, University
of Cambridge; Anne Stone, City University of New York; and Emily
Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania
For more information, contact
Lynn Ransom (215-898-7851; lransom@upenn.edu) or visit our website
(http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html).
25–27 November
2010. "Texts Worth Editing," the Seventh Annual
Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS)
will be held in Pisa, Italy. All text editing begins with a choice:
what text to edit. How do we choose the text we edit? Are all
texts worth editing, simply because they are texts? Even once
we have chosen what we are to edit, further choices lie ahead
of us. If a text exists in many versions, and in many documents:
are all versions, and all documents, equally worthy of editing?
If we choose to focus on a particular version, or a particular
document, how do we make this choice, and how do we justify it
to others? Once we have made these decisions: choices of method
will also be affected by perceptions of value. Should we publish
the full text of a particular version or document; or publish
its variants only, in an apparatus? and if we choose to publish
variants only: what are our criteria to determine which variants
are worth publishing?
For more information, visit
the ESTS website (http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2010.html)
or the host's website (http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ests2010).
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.
An interdisciplinary conference
that will explore some of the many ways in which the human-animal
connection and ‘divide’ was imagined, employed, figured and explained
by people in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Special attention
will be given to the multiple constructions and fluid and tense
nature of the boundaries between wild and civilized. We seek proposals
that go beyond animal figuration and instead focus on literal
and metaphorical interactions between humans and other animals.
Papers might consider texts on husbandry, falconry, hunting, companion
animals, warfare, bestiaries, fables, encyclopedias, heraldry,
visual arts, narrative, philosophy, and theology, and analyses
informed by current critical animal theory are especially welcomed.
Plenary speakers: Laurie
Shannon (Northwestern University) and Bruce Holsinger (University
of Virginia)
Plenary panel: Aranye Fradenberg
(UC Santa Barbara), Paula Lee (Arete Initiative, U of Chicago),
Karl Steel (CUNY Brooklyn College), Sarah Stanbury (Holy Cross),
and Julian Yates (U of Delaware)
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 September 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).
10–12 February
2011. "Performance
and Theatricality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," the
17th Annual ACMRS Conference, at Arizona State University, in
Tempe, Arizona.
The conference keynote
speaker will be Pamela Sheingorn. Dr. Sheingorn specializes in
the European Middle Ages, especially in visual, cultural, and
women's history. Her research areas include hagiography, drama,
and visual culture. Her books include: Myth, Montage, and the
Visible in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's
Epistre Othea (2003, co-authored with Marilynn Desmond); Writing
Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy (1999,
co-authored with Kathleen Ashley); The Book of Sainte Foy (1995);
Interpreting Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late Medieval Society
(1990); and The Easter Sepulchre in England (1987). Her current
research projects focus on representations of the late medieval
family, medieval masculinities, a cultural history of Joseph the
Carpenter, and illuminations in medieval drama manuscripts.
Pre-conference Workshop:
Before the conference, ACMRS will host a workshop on manuscript
studies to be led by Timothy Graham, Director of the Institute
for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. The workshop
will be Thursday afternoon, February 10, and participation will
be limited to 25 participants, who will be determined by the order
in which registrations are received. Email acmrs@asu.edu with
“conference workshop” as the subject line to be added to the list.
The cost of the workshop is $25 and is in addition to the regular
conference registration fee.
Call for papers:
ACMRS welcomes papers that explore any topic related to
the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and
especially those that focus on this year’s theme of performance
and theatricality, both in literal and metaphorical manifestations.
Selected papers related to the conference theme will be considered
for publication in the conference volume of the Arizona Studies
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, published by Brepols
Publishers (Belgium).
Deadlines and Fees:
The conference registration fee is $95 ($45 for students
and emeriti/ae faculty) and includes welcoming and farewell receptions,
two days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and keynote
address. Please note that there will be an opening reception Thursday
evening, but there will be no sessions that day.
The deadline for proposals
is 9:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on 17 October 2010. Proposals
must include audio/visual requirements and any other special requests.
Subsequent a/v requests may not be honored without additional
charge. In order to streamline the committee review process, submissions
will only be accepted at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference/
from 1 June through 17 October 2010. Questions? (480-965-9323;
acmrs@asu.edu)
17–19 February
2011. "Union
in Separation—Trading Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean (1200-1700),"
an international conference hosted by the Trading Diasporas research
group at Heidelberg University. The conference focuses on transcultural
diasporic communities in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean
with specific respect to their role in trade between perceived
separate cultural areas.
The term "transculturality"
tends to be used to designate the hybrid character of modern-day
societies and to ultimately argue that separate cultural units
(defined as the sum of elements that characterise the aggregate
identity of a society) do not exist. However, regardless of whether
it is possible to speak of separate 'cultures', the construct
continues to persist in people's mind. These mindsets, their creation
and their impact on societies is what historians are now investigating.
The study of Mediterranean
diasporas lends itself well to this endeavour, as it allows for
an understanding of the construction and deconstruction of cultural
differences as well as the potential integration into a host culture.
In order to best analyse these processes, we suggest exploring
commercial exchange and its legal framework as two interrelated
phenomena.
Medieval Mediterranean
trading diasporas, such as Venetian merchants residing in Mamluk
Alexandria, operated both within and outside of formal legal structures.
However, their status as religious minorities often posed strong
challenges to their business. For instance, far-reaching privileges
granted by the Sultan to Christian merchants coexisted with, and
were frequently challenged by, orthodox Islamic law and/or local
legal practice. Thus, a primary interest of historical transcultural
research is to gather evidence on informal mechanisms that facilitated
trade-given cultural hurdles. This will shed light on the form
and scope of cultural exchange.
The conference will bring
together academics from a wide variety of fields, including medieval
studies, history (including economic, legal, art history), and
cultural studies.
Call for papers: Panels
include: Legal Pluralism and Diasporic Communities in Historical
Perspective (Teresa Sartore); Diasporic Communities in Rhodes
1350-1450 (Teresa Sartore); Diasporic Groups in Mamluk Egypt 1300-1450
(Anna Katharina Angermann); Diasporas and Imperial Rule in the
13th C. Aegean (Stefan Burkhardt); Trade Networks in the Later
Middle Ages (Lars Börner, Franz Julius Morche); Early Modern Italy's
Diasporas (Roberto Zaugg).
Please send an abstract
of no more than 300 words and a short CV to the respective panel
organizer as well as to Teresa Sartore and Georg Christ. Ph.D.
students are encouraged to participate as well. Please do not
hesitate to contact us if you wish to propose an entire panel.
There is a limited availability of travel grants for Ph.D. students.
Deadline: 30 September 2010.
Call for posters: The
poster session is intended to provide a forum for researchers
and Ph.D. students willing to present their work and obtain feedback
from our conference attendees. Areas of interest include the same
as those listed in the call for papers as well as projects in
the wider realm of Transcultural Studies/Transculturality and
Medieval and Early Modern History of the Mediterranean with an
overlap to the conference' themes and applied methodologies. The
posters do not have to present completed research projects only,
but also preliminary results and works in progress. We especially
encourage submissions by Ph.D. students.
Poster proposals should
be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 2 pages. The
first page should contain an abstract describing the research
content of the poster, along with title, authors, institutional
affiliations and contact information. The poster dimensions are
A0. The second page should contain a thumbnail draft of the poster's
contents. Please submit your poster proposal as a PDF e-mail attachment
with the subject line "Union in Separation" to teresa.sartore@uni-heidelberg.de
Authors of accepted poster
proposals will have a chance to present the poster to interested
attendees during two poster sessions on Friday 18 February 2011.
For the best poster a prize will be awarded. There is a limited
availability of travel grants for PhD students, please see the
conference website. Deadline for poster submissions: 30 September
2010.
Contact and further information:
Heidelberg University, Transcultural Studies, Marstallstraße 6,
D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany. (teresa.sartore@uni-heidelberg.de;
angermann@uni-heidelberg.de; stefan.burkhardt@urz.uni-heidelberg.de;
morche@uni-heidelberg.de; roberto.zaugg@unibas.ch; georg.christ@uni-heidelberg.de)
For further details on the conference and travel grant application
procedures, please visit our website
(http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/transculturality/union_in_separation.html).
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).
17–19 March 2011.
"Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images," the
22nd annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature
will be held at the University of Toronto, Canada
The word “iconoclasm” is
weighted with a long history of religious significance, from the
Byzantine war on religious icons of the 8th- and 9th-centuries
and the Protestant reformation in the 16th century, to the Taliban’s
destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan in the 21st century. But
the idea of destroying or defacing images, especially images that
convey aspects of cultural dominance or, conversely, pose a threat
to that dominance, is as often political as religious: think of
the Chinese Cultural Revolution or graffiti moustaches. Political
iconoclasm, unlike religious iconoclasm, does not object to representation
as such but rather to certain images that have been granted the
status of icons. However, any act of desecrating symbols of authority
itself often takes on iconic status: take, for example, photos
of the pulling down of statues from Romania to Iraq.
Iconoclasm need not be
visual and material and can also take abstract and intellectual
forms. Subversive, transgressive, blasphemous writing is also
iconoclastic in inspiration and function. Moreover, the power
associated with images in general and iconic images in particular
has often inspired writers to subdue the power of images or to
wrest it for themselves. The ekphrastic contest between literature,
or verbal representation, and images, or visual representation,
is very often iconoclastic in nature.
Contemporary media culture
floods us with images and alters their impact, creating ever more
sophisticated organized cults around them, such as celebrity,
high art, advertising, the news, etc. Just as the word “icon”
has acquired new meanings, ranging from signs for computer applications
to logos and celebrity, so, too, iconoclasm, the urge to deface,
destroy, or alter images, takes on wholly new meanings.
We wish to examine a wide
range of iconoclastic moments in order to understand the political,
ethical, and aesthetic stakes involved in challenging the signifying
power of the iconic image. Is there a tradition of iconoclasm
or is the modern icon and thus modern iconoclasm something new?
Is iconoclasm even possible, or does it always participate in
the forces of iconicity, creating, in effect, iconoclastic icons?
Subjects that are of interest to us include but are in no way
limited to:
Idol Worship and Biblical
Images
Mythology: Symbols, Images
of Gods, Heroes, etc.
Epic Narratives and the
Performance of Lyric Poetry
Ekphrastic imaginings
Theories of the Imagination
and Images; representations of other worlds
Sight/Insight
Iconography; religious
iconoclasms and iconoclasts
Mystery/Miracle plays
Theoretical Concerns:
Negative Dialectics; the
question of the Negative
The Epistemology of the
Iconic Closet: Queer Icons and the Reinvention of Tradition
Moving through and beyond
Ekphrasis
Benjaminian Auras
Unstaging the World: "poor
theatre"; "theatre of cruelty"; "holy theatre"; postdramatic performance
art; Theatre of the Opressed, etc.
Please submit abstracts
of no more than 250 words by 10 September 2010 (iconoclasm.2011@gmail.com).
Include full name, e-mail, affiliation, status (student, faculty,
independent scholar), a 50-word bio, and AV requirements. Please
check our website for updates (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/complitstudents/complitconference)
23–27 March 2011.
XXXI. Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag (Würzburg, Universität
Würzburg). - Sektion Früh- und hochmittelalterliche Buchmalerei:
Würzburg war seit Gründung des Bistums im 8. Jahrhundert ein wichtiges
Zentrum der Buchmalerei, wie illuminierte Handschriften des 8.
und 9. Jahrhunderts belegen; bekannt sind illuminierte Handschriften
aus Würzburg ebenso aus ottonischer Zeit wie aus dem 13. Jahrhundert.
Der Tagungsort lädt zur Frage ein, welche Bedeutung Kathedrale
und Klöstern bei der Buchproduktion von der ottonischen Zeit bis
ins ausgehende 12. Jahrhundert zukam und welche Anregungen dabei
berücksichtigt wurden. Neben den Problemen von Stil und Ikonographie
rückten in den letzten Jahren in der Forschung zur Buchmalerei
vermehrt auch Fragen zur Funktion des Buchschmucks und zur Organisation
und Arbeitsweise von Ateliers in den Blick. Neue Fallbeispiele
können die vielfach ungeklärten Entstehungsbedingungen von Handschriften
im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter weiter erhellen. Welche Rolle spielen
laikale, nicht bei geistlichen Gemeinschaften angesiedelte Buchmalerateliers
in den Städten? Inwieweit kam es zu Herstellung und Buchschmuck
unter Bedingungen von Arbeitsteiligkeit und Spezialisierung? Welche
Verbindungen - Beziehungen, Abhängigkeiten, Differenzen - gibt
es in dieser Zeit zwischen Buchmalerei und Wandmalerei?. (http://www.kunsthistoriker.org/kunsthistorikertag.html#c1592).
25–27 March 2011.
"Reading the Middle Ages"
a graduate student conference at the University of California,
Berkeley. Keynote address to be given by Professor Rita Copeland
(University of Pennsylvania).
Call for papers: Our knowledge
of late antique and medieval culture derives primarily from the
way in which we read today the manuscripts, images, and artifacts
that were created and read in the past. The various intersecting
and discrete social strata spanning the Middle Ages each practiced
radically different methods of reading, in the broadest possible
sense of the term. From the monasteries where the writings and
stories of the classical period were transmitted and preserved,
to the stained-glass windows greeting worshipers of even the lowest
social classes, each reading practice provides us with invaluable
information about what the people we study may have valued as
well as how they lived and communicated with one another.
This conference will take
up the variety of reading practices at play in the Middle Ages
as the cornerstone to an exploration of medieval culture. However,
proposals are encouraged to push our modern conceptions of reading
into new territory, finding medieval reading practiced in ways
we would not expect, challenging the way in which we read now,
and asking questions of our relationship to medieval texts. Above
all, we invite papers from a wide range of disciplines, especially
ones that do not limit themselves to a treatment of literary or
textual reading, but instead reach beyond the scope of the manuscript
page to archeology and the reading of time through physical remains,
art and the reading of images, et cetera.
Please send 300-word abstracts
for twenty-minute papers to Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley
(graduatemedievalists@gmail.com) by Friday, 12 November 2010.
For more information on the conference and GMB, please visit our
website (http://www.graduatemedievalists.org). Lauren Chiarulli,
R.D. Perry, and Benjamin Saltzman, GMB Co-chairs Conference Organizing
Committee.
7–8 April 2011.
"Chaucer and Celebrity," the Third London Chaucer
Conference will take place in London. Plenary lectures will be
delivered by Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto) and Thomas
Prendergast (College of Wooster). Please email 250-word abstracts
by 1 September 2010 to Isabel Davis (i.davis@bbk.ac.uk).
8–9 April 2011.
"Voice,
Gesture, Memory, and Performance in Medieval Texts, Culture, and
Art," the 38th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, at the
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Call for papers: We
invite 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of
voice, gesture, memory or performance. 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 1 October 2010. 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 1 March 2011. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize
will be awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent
PhD recipient (degree awarded since July 2008). For further information
on the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, see our website (http://www.sewanee.edu/Medieval/main.html).
Please address submissions and inquiries to Dr Susan Ridyard,
Dept of History, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN 37383
(sridyard@sewanee.edu).
13–15 April 2011.
The thirteenth
international seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts,
will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and the Royal Library
at the University of Copenhagen. The practical arrangements are
in the hands of M. J. Driscoll and Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir of the
Arnamagnæan Institute and Ivan Boserup and Marie Vest of the Royal
Library.For further information please visit our website (http://nfi.ku.dk/cc/)
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 will be held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Contact:
Helen Barr (Helen.Barr@ell.ox.ac.uk) and Simon Horobin (Simon.Horobin@magd.ox.ac.uk).
26–27
April 2011. Workshop on the Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne
Gospels to be held on the 26th and 27th of April 2011 at the University
of Westminster, London. The workshop aims to provide a forum for
multidisciplinary discussion on the gloss. You are welcome to
present a paper on topics such as:
1) The relationship between
the Old English gloss and the Latin text
2) The similarities and
differences between the Aldredian gloss and Rushworth 2
3) The linguistic features
of the Old English gloss (spelling/phonology, morphology, morphosyntax
and lexis)
4) The historical, religious,
literary and intellectual context of the gloss
5) The Lindisfarne gloss
in the context of Old English glossography.
Prof. Michelle Brown, Prof.
Jane Roberts and Dr Robert McColl Millar have already confirmed
their participation as key-note speakers.
The deadline for submission
of abstracts is 10 January 2011. Abstracts should be approximately
500 words long and should be submitted to Dr Sara M. Pons-Sanz
(s.ponssanz@westminster.ac.uk). The organisers, Dr Sara M. Pons-Sanz
(U. of Westminster) and Dr Julia Fernández Cuesta (U. de Sevilla),
look forward to meeting you in London next year.
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/).
4-6 July 2011. "Cultures,
Communities and Conflicts in the Medieval Mediterranean,"
the Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval
Mediterranean, will be held at the University of Southampton,
in England. This three-day conference will bring scholars together
to explore the interaction of the various peoples, societies,
faiths and cultures of the medieval Mediterranean, a region which
had been commonly represented as divided by significant religious
and cultural differences. The objective of the conference is to
highlight the extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not
just an area of conflict but also a highly permeable frontier
across which people, goods and ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring
cultures and societies. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers
in the fields of archaeology, art and architecture, ethnography,
history (including the histories of science, medicine and cartography),
languages, literature, music, philosophy and religion. The
keynote speakers: Professor Graham Loud (University of Leeds)
and Dr Anna Contadini (SOAS, London).
We invite proposals for
20-minute papers in the fields of archaeology, art and architecture,
ethnography, history (including the histories of science, medicine
and cartography), languages, literature, music, philosophy and
religion. Submission on the following topics would be particularly
welcome:
* Activities of missionary
orders
* Artistic contacts and
exchanges
* Byzantine and Muslim
navies
* Captives and slaves
* Cargoes, galleys and
warships
* Cartography
* Costume and vestments
* Diplomacy
* Judaism and Jewish Mediterranean
History
* Literary contacts and
exchanges
* Material Culture
* Minority Populations
in the Christian and Islamic Worlds.
* Mirrors for Princes
* Music, sacred and secular
* Port towns/city states
* Relations between Jews,
Christians and Muslims.
* Religious practices:
saints, cults and heretics
* Scientific exchange,
including astronomy, medicine and mathematics
* Seafaring, seamanship
and shipbuilding
* Sufis & Sufi Orders in
North Africa and the Levant
* Sultans, kings and other
rulers
* Trade and Pilgrimage
* Travel writing
* Warfare: mercenaries
and crusaders
Please send any enquiries
and abstracts of papers of 300 words maximum together with a brief
CV to the organisers, Dr Francois Soyer (f.j.soyer@soton.ac.u)
and Rebecca Bridgman (rmb77@cam.ac.uk). We also welcome proposals
for 3-paper sessions. The deadline for the submission of abstracts
is 1 October 2010.
4–8 July 2011.
"Dwarfs or Giants? Appropriation and Creation in the
Middle Ages/Des nains ou des géants? Emprunter, créer au moyen
âge," an international conference organized by the Centre
d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM), in Poitiers.
The conference theme fully
reflects the tradition of interdisciplinary study promoted by
the CESCM in fields as varied as the history of ideas, architectural
forms and techniques, representations, literary or otherwise,
and social practices. The general intention is to analyse the
processes inherent in the formation of medieval civilisation by
assessing the tensions between tradition and innovation, appropriation
and creation. The often-stilted image of the Middle Ages as a
period in which what exists is merely borrowed and reused is susceptible
to re-examination through an analysis of the nature, content,
modalities and aims of such appropriations, thus allowing for
the emergence of more complex phenomena such as recomposition
or innovation fuelled by conscious choice in areas of reference,
allusion and influence. Such developments, whether passive or
deliberate, individual or collective, fleeting or sustainable,
ought to be seen in terms of new points of departure, witnesses
to the vitality of the Middle Ages and its ability to refashion
and nourish a cultural landscape in constant evolution.
The conference will take
place within the framewotk of the Semaines Médiévales which have
been at the heart of the Centre's activities for over fifty years.
The event, bringing together specialists and students from all
over the world, will provide a stimulating setting for conference
papers and round-table discussions in a spirit of free exchange
and debate.
Contact: Stephen Morrison
(stephen.morrison@univ-poitiers.fr).
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: 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. Brief proposals (250 words max.) are invited for
20-minute papers addressing any aspect of Gowerian studies. Email
the submission form below BOTH to the Organizing Committee (jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com)
and to RF Yeager (rfyeager@hotmail.com).
Biographical aspects;
Manuscripts; French works; Latin works; English works; Antiquity
and classics; French influence and contemporary French authors;
Chaucer; Linguistics, literary language and dialects; Influence
in later authors; Influence in Iberian authors; English politics
and usurpation; Iberian (historical) context; Literary theory
and critical approaches; Narratology; Women and gender; Multilingualism;
Cinema and theatre; Animals; London; Aesthetics; Law; Philosophy
and theology; Gower and the Mediterranean; Gower and the Other;
Gower and the material; Participants may also propose thematic
panels, to include papers delivered by 3 or 4 participants. Please
contact R. F. Yeager directly.
Submission deadline: Dec 1st 2010
Confirmation of acceptance: Jan 15th
2011 Registration period: April-June 2011
Contact: R. F. Yeager (rfyeager@hotmail.com)
or Ana Sáez Hidalgo (jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com; http://www.wcu.edu/johngower/index.html).
See the John Gower website for (http://222.johngower.org).
21–23
July 2011. "The Allegory of Guillaume de Digulleville
(Deguileville) in Europe: Circulation, Reception and Influence,"
a conference to be held at the Université de Lausanne, in Switzerland.
The fourteenth-century
allegorical trilogy composed by the Cistercian monk, Guillaume
de Digulleville (or Deguileville) -- the Pèlerinage de la vie
humaine [Pilgrimage of Human Life], Pèlerinage de l’âme [Pilgrimage
of the Soul], and Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist [Pilgrimage of Jesus
Christ] -- travelled widely across the medieval and early modern
world. Digulleville’s trilogy first allegorizes human life as
a pilgrimage, then envisions a journey through the afterlife as
another form of pilgrimage, and finally recasts the narrative
of the Christian gospels as a story of divine pilgrimage on earth.
Addressed to men and women, both rich and poor, Digulleville’s
pilgrimage allegories were recopied and illuminated with remarkable
frequency during the Middle Ages. More than 80 medieval manuscripts
survive today, now held in archives dispersed across the continents
of Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. During Digulleville’s
lifetime, and the turbulent centuries that followed, his visions
inspired French prose and French dramatic adaptations, multiple
translations into English, German, Middle Dutch, and Latin, and
a Castilian translation that may have inspired Christopher Columbus’s
naming of new world islands. Digulleville’s pilgrimage allegories,
and their wider context, are attracting increasing attention in
current scholarship, in the fields of literature, history, art
history, religious studies, linguistics, the history of science,
and historical geography.
We invite proposals for
papers on any aspect of the influence, circulation and reception
of Digulleville’s allegories during the period 1330 to 1700. Papers
might discuss subjects such as one of the many translations of
Digulleville's allegories, an aspect of the trilogy’s manuscript
distribution, the adaptation of the trilogy texts into prose or
printed versions, the trilogy’s influence on the visual arts,
drama and literature of subsequent generations or the trilogy’s
wider impact on the mentalities of the period concerned. Interdisciplinary
approaches are particularly encouraged, as are studies of hitherto
overlooked materials and new contexts for the reception of the
work of Digulleville. Following the conference, the organisers
will solicit essays based on selected conference papers for publication
in a peer-reviewed collected volume. For more information, including
a French call for papers announcement, please see the conference
website (http://www.unil.ch/digulleville) .
Papers may be delivered
in English or French and should be 20–25 minutes in length.
To propose a paper, please submit an abstract of 250–500
words and a brief curriculum vitae with contact information by
1 December 2010. Please send submissions by e-mail with the subject
line "Submission for Digulleville Conference" to the organisers
(marco.nievergelt@unil.ch ; stephanie.kamath@umb.edu). The organisers
also welcome news of relevant recent scholarship to post on the
Digulleville resources page of the conference site.
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 2012. The Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will
be held at Saint Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri.
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).
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