Sunday, February 28, 2010

Hortulus

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies Special Call For
Papers for 2009 Issue on Monsters and Monstrosities in the Middle Ages

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed
journal devoted to the literature and cultures of the medieval world.
Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a forum in
which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. For
further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations
of monsters and monstrosities in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and
music from the Middle Ages. We are also interested in book reviews on
foundational works that would be helpful for graduate students exploring
medieval monsters and monstrosities for the first time, such as Asa Sim
Mittman, Maps And Monsters In Medieval England, (2008) and Karin E. Olsen,
L. A. J. R. Houwen, eds., Monsters and the monstrous in medieval northwest
Europe (2001). Article submissions may address but are not limited to:

--Bestiaries and manuscript illuminations of monstrosities
--Classical and Eastern transmissions and receptions of monsters
--Desires and sins of the flesh that degrade humans into monstrosities in
allegories, commentaries, exempla, hagiography, miracle collections, and
sermons
--The Green Man, the Owl Man, the Wild Man and the Wild Woman
--Medical accounts of monstrous births and the 'monstrous' female,
intersexed, or male body
--Monsters and monstrosities in epics, exempla, fables, lais, and romances
--Monsters and monstrosities in chronicles and travel literature
--Purgatorial and demonic monsters and monstrosities in Visionary literature
--The racial 'other' as a monstrosity
--Saints as and/or versus monsters and monstrosities in vitae and legends
--Transformations of humans into animals and vice versa

The 2009 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval
Studies will be published in May of 2010. All graduate students are
welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries
via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1 2010.

MLA call for papers: Old English Language and Literature

MLA call for papers: Old English Language and Literature

Anglo-Saxon Pedagogies. Anglo-Saxon pedagogical theories or practices. How
did Anglo-Saxons teach, and how did they theorize teaching? How do we
teach Anglo-Saxon literature today? Abstracts for 5-10-min. papers by 2
March 2010; Shari L. Horner (slhorn@ship.edu).

Editing from Medieval Manuscripts: Current Challenges and Debates.
Theories and practices of preparing editions of medieval texts; the impact
of electronic media and meeting diverse user needs. 1-paragraph proposals
for roundtable by 15 March 2010; Shari L. Horner (slhorn@ship.edu) and
John Niles (jdniles@wisc.edu).

Open Session of the Division of Old English Language and Literature. Any
aspect of Anglo-Saxon language, literature, or culture. Abstracts for
15-min. papers by 2 March 2010; Shari L. Horner (slhorn@ship.edu).
Seeing, Feeling, Knowing: Perception in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Examining
representations of cognition, emotion, or perception--intellectual or
sensory--in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. Abstracts for 15-min.
papers by 2 March 2010; Shari L. Horner (slhorn@ship.edu).

Damascus Summer Course on Christian and Islamic Art: Second Year

Damascus Summer Course on Christian and Islamic Art: Second Year



The Summer Course “Christian and Islamic Art and Architecture – A Heritage of Religious Interaction” was a great success last year, and will therefore be repeated. The 2010 course will be given from 20 June – 11 July 2010 at the Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies in Damascus (NIASD), Syria. This course, open to BA and MA students with a relevant background (e.g. art history, archaeology, history, theology, Islamic studies, Arabic studies, etc.), offers in-depth classes and excursions focusing on Christian and Islamic art and architecture, with specific attention to the cultural interaction existing between these groups.

For more information on 2010 course contents, admission procedures, etc., see:
http://www.niasd.org/nl/Cristian%20Islamic%20Art.php



Please note that we are already close to the maximum number of participants: there are just two places left for international students and two for students from Syria itself.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish Mysticism Around the Time of Chrétien de Troyes

Symposium Call for Papers: http://www.eaglehill.us/publicity_flyers/Chretien_symposium.pdf

Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish Mysticism Around the Time of Chrétien de Troyes

Eagle Hill Foundation, Steuben, Maine, USA

Friday, October 15th, through Sunday, October 17th, 2010

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 confluence 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.

Please see the above hotlink for further details, including the Call for Abstracts, the published proceedings, and the new scholarly journal, Arcanum.

We welcome your interest in the symposium! Inquiries are welcome!

Contact person
Dr. Ingrid E. Lotze
office@eaglehill.us; 207-546-2821
Eagle Hill Foundation, PO Box 9, Steuben, Maine, USA
www.eaglehill.us
Please consider discretely forwarding this anouncement.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Of Interest

Dictionary of Old English gets a bit of coverage. Pass it along to all and sundry:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2010-01/OldEnglish.html

Monday, February 22, 2010

The Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East

The Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East

This publication represents the latest scholarly research in the field of the Old Testament's use as Scripture in Eastern Christianity. Its twelve articles focus on the use of the Old Testament in the earliest Christian communities in the East. The book explores the authoritative role of the Old Testament and its impact on the church's doctrine, liturgy, canon law, and spirituality in these churches.

The book is published by Peter Lang Inc., as a volume in the series "Bible in the Christian Orthodox Traditions" and is available through the publisher:
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=310735&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1
or online academic booksellers (amazon.com, bn.com and others).

Contents: Nicolae Roddy: Introduction - J. Edward Walters: Son of Man, Son of God: Aphrahat's Biblical Christology - Merja Merras: Ephraem the Syrian and the Authority of the Old Testament Writings - Bryan A. Stewart: Levitical Paradigms for Christian Bishops: The Old Testament Influence on Origen of Alexandria - Mark W. Elliott: Leviticus between Fifth-Century Jerusalem and Ninth-Century Merv - David Kneip: The Holy Spirit in Cyril of Alexandria's Commentary on Isaiah - Robert A. Kitchen: Winking at Jonah Narsai's Interpretation of Jonah for the Church of the East - Jonathan Loopstra: A Syriac Tract for the «Explanation» of Hebrew and Foreign Words - Nicolae Roddy: Does the Orthodox Lectionary Subvert the Gospel? The Pericope of the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen (Matt 21:36-46) - Timothy Scott Clark: A Question for the Audience: The Prokeimenon and Poetics in Eastern Liturgy - Edith M. Humphrey: Grand Entrance: Entrance into Worship as Rhetorical Invitation and Liturgical Precedent in the Older Testament - Rajkumar Boaz Johnson: The Use of the Old Testament in the Syrian Christian Traditions of India.
GAHOM,
Group of Historical Anthropolgy of Western Europe, Paris

The GAHOM has been created by Jacques Le Goff 30 years ago. The team dedicated to the studies of Exempla has elaborated 4 databases :

- BIBLIEX (BIBLIography about EXempla) is an international bibliography about medieval Exempla with about 3000 references, 2 updates each year. We are pleased to receive new references and even off prints.

- ThEMA (Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi) is an index of around 8000 exempla, from 46 collections of exempla mainly in Latin, but also in old French, Middle English, Toscan, Spanish and Catalan. People all around the world can index at the same time for ThEMA as it is a collaborative database. For each exemplum, you can find a memento about the collection and its author, a summary, keywords, sources, bibliography, translations, references in repertories, such as Index Exemplorum by F. C. Tubach. The keywords are in French, English, Deutch, Spanish and Italian and the queries can be adressed in these languages, but the summaries of exempla are mainly in french.

- ReLEX (Ressources on Line about EXempla) : is a kind of portal to indicate tools of research, databases and collections of exempla (old editions and manuscripts), available on the Web, some have been digitized by the team.

- CEL (Caire de Heisterbach on Line) : is a digitized edition of Caire of Heisterbachs Dialogus miraculorum, J. Strange, 2 vol., 1851. Queries in full text are available.

If you have any question or information, please, contact us : pcollomb@yahoo.fr
polo@ehess.fr

Posted by: Polo de Beaulieu (polo@ehess.fr).

Hortulus

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies Special Call For Papers for 2009 Issue on Monsters and Monstrosities in the Middle Ages

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature and cultures of the medieval world. Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net.

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of monsters and monstrosities in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. We are also interested in book reviews on foundational works that would be helpful for graduate students exploring medieval monsters and monstrosities for the first time, such as Asa Sim Mittman, Maps And Monsters In Medieval England, (2008) and Karin E. Olsen, L. A. J. R. Houwen, eds., Monsters and the monstrous in medieval northwest Europe (2001). Article submissions may address but are not limited to:

* Bestiaries and manuscript illuminations of monstrosities
* Classical and Eastern transmissions and receptions of monsters
Desires and sins of the flesh that degrade humans into monstrosities in allegories, commentaries, exempla, hagiography, miracle collections, and sermons
* The Green Man, the Owl Man, the Wild Man and the Wild Woman
* Medical accounts of monstrous births and the monstrous female, intersexed, or male body
* Monsters and monstrosities in epics, exempla, fables, lais, and romances
* Monsters and monstrosities in chronicles and travel literature
* Purgatorial and demonic monsters and monstrosities in Visionary literature The racial other as a monstrosity
* Saints as and/or versus monsters and monstrosities in vitae and legends Transformations of humans into animals and vice versa

The 2009 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2010. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1 2010.

Posted by: Grace Windsor (gwindsor@eircom.net).

URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/hortulus-the-online-graduate-journal-of-medieval-studies-cfp/

International Center of Medieval Art Grants

The International Center of Medieval Art in collaboration with the
Samuel H. Kress Foundation is pleased to invite applications for its
Research Grants for the year 2009-2010. The ICMA has seven awards to
make to its members, each of which is valued at $3,000. These awards
will support travel or publication costs (photographs, image
permissions, copyediting, etc.) leading to publication.


Applications are invited from assistant or associate level professors
as well as independent scholars and full details are available on the
ICMA website see http://www.medievalart.org/htm/membership.html
Colum Hourihane,

le programme d’un colloque organisé à Cluny du 13 au 15 mai 2010

Bonjour à tous,



Vous trouverez ci-joint le programme d’un colloque organisé à Cluny du 13 au 15 mai 2010 dans le cadre des célébrations du 11e centenaire de la fondation de l’abbaye de Cluny. Ce colloque s’intitule « Constructions, reconstructions et commémorations clunisiennes, 1790-2010 ». Il rassemble plusieurs membres de l’IMS.



Vous trouverez dans le programme et sur le site Calenda le détail du programme et tous les renseignements pour l’inscription : http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle15680.html





Bien cordialement.



Didier Méhu

Département d’Histoire

Université Laval

Pavillon Charles-De Koninck

1030, av. des Sciences-Humaines

Québec (Qc) G1V 0A6

Canada

Didier.mehu@hst.ulaval.ca

Tel : 1 – 418 656 21 31, poste 7839

Fax (secrétariat) : 1 – 418 656 36 03

AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: COURAGE AND COWARDICE

AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: COURAGE AND
COWARDICE

http://www.aema.net.au

Call for Papers

AEMA's seventh annual conference will be held from 18-19 November 2010 at
the Old Senate Room, Irwin St building, The University of Western Australia.
This symposium will explore the subject of courage and cowardice in the
early medieval world, c.300-1100, across a range of disciplines.

Paper proposals from any relevant areas of study are welcome. Possible
approaches and themes may include: representations in literature, culture
and the arts; intellectual and religious understandings; social attitudes;
gender implications; anthropological approaches; archaeologies of courage
and cowardice. Papers on all subjects of the early medieval world will be
considered, but those adhering to the theme will be given priority if a
large number of abstracts are received.

Abstracts of c. 300 words for a 20-minute paper are now being called for
from interested participants. Submissions of 3 x 20 minute paper panel
proposals are also welcome. Please supply abstracts, names of contributors
and contact details.

Email submissions to Shane McLeod at conference@aema.net.au by 30 June 2010.

postmedieval: Congratulations Eileen, Myra, et al!

the inaugural double-issue of "postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural
studies" will be forthcoming in April 2010 [topic: "When Did We Become
Post/human?" co-edited by Eileen Joy and Craig Dionne], at which point half of
the issue's contents will be available free online, but we also have available
now 4 *preview* essays from the inaugural issue [by Jeffrey Cohen, Karmen
Mackendrick, Scott Maisano, and Julie Singer], and you can view
and/or download
those here:

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/vaop/ncurrent/index.html

The times are dire, indeed, for asking our university libraries to
purchase new
journal subscriptions, but are you willing to risk terminal institutional
unhipness by not having "postmedieval" on your campus? The least we can all do
is beg and cajole a little. More detailed information here:

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/subscribe.html

We have also now lined up our featured speakers for BABEL's conference at the
University of Texas at Austin next November [4-6 Nov. 2010], "After the End:
Medieval Studies, the Humanities, and the Post-Catastrophe," and you can see
more information about that here:

http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABEL_Biennial_Meeting_AustinTX.htm

Cheers [and more soon], Eileen

--
Eileen A. Joy, Assoc. Professor
Dept. of English Language and Literature
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Peck Hall, Room 3206
Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431
(618) 650-3971
http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy

Lead Ingenitor, The BABEL Working Group
http://www.babelworkinggroup.org/

Editor, "postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies"
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/index.html

INSULAR AND ANGLO-SAXON, ART AND THOUGHT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIODINSULAR AND ANGLO-SAXON, ART AND THOUGHT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

The Index of Christian Art is pleased to announce a forthcoming
conference


INSULAR AND ANGLO-SAXON,
ART AND THOUGHT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 16th and 17th 2010, Room 101, McCormick
Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Speakers include:

Herbert Broderick, Lehman College, CUNY
Michelle P. Brown, University of London
Carol Farr, Independent Scholar
Peter Harbison, Royal Irish Academy
Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Nancy Netzer, Boston College
Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Ohio Wesleyan University
Eamonn O Carragain, Emeritus, University College Cork
Jennifer O Reilly, Emerita, University College Cork
Heather Pulliam, Edinburgh University
Neil O Donoghue, Redemptoris Mater Seminary
Michael Ryan, Chester Beatty/Discovery Programme.
Ben C. Tilghmann, Walters Art Museum
Martin Werner, /Emeritus/, Temple University
Benjamin Withers, University of Kentucky**

Full program is available on the Index website (http://ica.Princeton.edu).

Spaces are limited and registration is required. There is no charge
for the conference.
To register please contact Robin Dunham (rdunham@princeton.edu
) before March 8^th 2010.

This conference was generously supported by The Edward T. Cone '39
*42 Fund for the Humanities, Princeton University

Sunday, February 14, 2010

WESTERN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY > CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2010 CONFERENCE

WESTERN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
> CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2010 CONFERENCE
>
>
> The Thirty-Eighth Annual WSFH conference will be held at the Hilton
> Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana, October 21-23, 2010, and will be
> hosted by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The chair! of
the< br>local arrangements committee is Jordan Kellman
(kellman@louisiana. edu).
> Lafayette is in the heart of Acadiana, the oldest and last active native
> francophone community in the United States. A reception will be held on
> Friday, October 22 on the Campus of the University of Louisiana at
> Lafayette, and optional outings to the Atchafalaya Basin cypress swamp
> and local venues with Cajun cuisine and music will be organized.
>
> The program committee will make every effort to combine single papers
> into coherent panels, but we encourage individuals to organize complete
> panels composed of two or (preferably) three papers, with a chair and
> commentator. We can assist panel organizers to identify chairs and
> commentators.
>
> Panels may address any topic of interest to our scholarly community,
> but the program committee especially encourages panels that address
> issues and topics of signific ance to French history across a wide
> chronological span, from medieval to contemporary periods. We would
> also welcome panels that treat topics related to France and the
> Americas, in honor of the rich cultural heritage and history of the
> conference*s setting, and in the wake of the recent tragedy in Haiti.
>
> The WSFH encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and the participation
> of advanced graduate students by awarding prizes for outstanding papers
> presented at the conference in the following areas:
>
> * the best interdisciplinary paper;
> * the best paper presented by a graduate student on French history
> after 1800;
> * the best paper presented by a graduate student on the history of
> France and / or connections between France and the wider world before
> 1800.
>
> Please do not send proposals f! or paper s that have already been
> presented or that are scheduled for presentation at other conferences,
> or that have already been published. All conference participants must
> be WSFH members in good standing at the time of the conference.
>
> Please send proposals for panels or individual papers as MS-Word
> attachments to Diane Margolf, WSFH President and chair of the program
> committee (Diane.Margolf@ colostate. edu). Proposals should include the
> following items, integrated into one file: an abstract (no more than 1
> page) for each paper; a CV (no more than 1 page) for each presenter,
> including contact information; and the proposed chair*s and
> commentator* s name, affiliation, and email address.
>
> DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 15 APRIL 2010
>
> For more information about the WSFH*s conferences, awards, and
> membership, please visit the WSFH web site at http://www.wsfh. org.
>

summer workshop in cappadocia

Please find below the announcement and registration form for a
two-week summer workshop in Cappadocia, open to graduate students in
Byzantine Studies and related fields. Please disseminate this as
widely as possible to potentially interested individuals,
organizations, and listservs:

http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/23321136/476036474/name/Cappadocia%20summer%20school%20flyer%2Epdf

Conf.: L’acte d’échange, du VIIIe au XIIe siècle - Tauschgeschäft und Tauschurkunde vom 8. bis zum 12. Jh. (Limoges, 11-13 mars 2010)

L’acte d’échange, du VIIIe au XIIe siècle / - Tauschgeschäft und
Tauschurkunde vom 8. bis zum 12. Jh. (Limoges, 11-13 mars 2010)

Programme / Program

Jeudi / Donnerstag 11. 03. 2010

Matin / Vormittag

09.00-09.45
Accueil / Begrüßung
Philippe Depreux (Limoges / IUF) & Irmgard Fees (München) : Présentation
de la thématique du colloque / Einführung in die Thematik des Kongresses

Président de séance : Hans-Werner Goetz (Hamburg)

09.45-10.30
Stefan Esders (Berlin) : Die normativen Quellen

10.30-10.45 : Pause

10.45-12.15
Philippe Depreux (Limoges / IUF) : Le souverain, maître de l’échange ?

Italie / Italien
Prof. Dr. Francois Bougard (Paris Ouest – Nanterre-La Défense) :
Commutatio, cambium, viganeum, vicariatio : l’échange foncier dans
l’Italie des VIIIe-XIe siècles

12.15-14.00 : Déjeuner / Mittagessen (Restaurant universitaire)

Après-midi / Nachmittag

Présidente de séance : Régine Le Jan (Paris I)

14.00-15.30
Irmgard Fees (München) : Venedig und das Veneto
Laurent Feller (Paris I) : Les actes d'échange dans la documentation
monastique de l'Italie centrale aux IXe-XIIe siècles

15.30-15.45 : Pause

15.45-17.15
Marco Stofella (Verona) : Gli scambi di beni nella Toscana occidentale
tra VIII e XI secolo. Lucca e Pisa : due esempi a confronto
Emanuel Huertas (Versailles – Saint-Quentin) : Due cartule commutationis
ad unum tenorem. La double expédition des actes d’échange en Italie
(Xe-XIIe s.) : une technique notariale instable ?

17.15-17.30 : Pause

17.30-19.00
Les région à l’Est du Rhin / Die Regionen östlich des Rheins
Hans-Werner Goetz (Hamburg) : Die St. Galler Tauschurkunden

20.15 : Dîner / Abendessen (en ville)


Vendredi / Freitag 12. 03. 2010

Matin / Vormittag

Présidente de séance : Brigitte Kasten (Saarbrücken)

8.45-10.15
Thomas Kohl (Tübingen) : Pro ambarum utilitate. Tauschgeschäfte und
Tauschstrategien in Bayern vom 8.-11. Jahrhundert
Geneviève Bührer-Thierry (Paris Est – Marne-la-Vallée) : De la traditio
à la commutatio : sens et pratiques de l'échange à Freising du VIIIe au
XIe siècle

10.15-10.30 : Pause

10.30-12.00
Mark Mersiowsky (Innsbruck) : Tauschurkunden und Tauschgeschäfte in
Westfalen bis zur Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts
Stefan Tebruck (Gießen) : Beobachtungen zum Besitztausch thüringischer
Klöster im 12. Jahrhundert

12.00-14.00 : Déjeuner / Mittagessen (Restaurant universitaire)

Après-midi / Nachmittag

Président de séance : Laurent Morelle (EPHE, Paris)

14.00-15.30
France du Sud et péninsule ibérique / Südfrankreich und die Iberische
Halbinsel
Eliana Magnani (CNRS, Dijon) : L'échange dans la documentation
diplomatique bourguignonne : autour d'un champ sémantique
Géraldine Damon (Dieppe / Poitiers) : Pro ambarum parcium utilitatibus :
l'acte d'échange dans le Poitou et l'Anjou (VIIIe -XIe s.)

15.30-15.45 : Pause

15.45-17.15
Ursula Vones-Liebenstein (Frankfurt) : Qui utiliter commutat, nullatenus
alienat. Vom Tausch über die Schenkung zur Restitution: Kirchengut im
Languedoc
Ludwig Vones (Köln) : Zwischen Tausch und Teilung: Betrachtungen zu
Besitz- und Herrschaftsstrukturen in Katalonien vom 9.-11. Jahrhundert

17.15-17.30 : Pause

17.30-18.15
Wendy Davies (London) : Commutare and concambiare in charters of the
kingdom of Asturias-León, 9th – 11th centuries

19.30 : Dîner / Abendessen (en ville)

Samedi / Samstag 13. 03. 2010

Matin / Vormittag

Présidente de séance : Wendy Davies (London)

8.45-10.15
Entre Seine et Rhin / Zwischen Seine und Rhein
Benoît-Michel Tock (Strasbourg) : Les échanges de biens dans les actes
du Nord de la France (Xe-XIIe s.)
Georges Declercq (Bruxelles) : L’échange en Flandre (VIIIe-XIIe s.)

10.15-10.30 : Pause

10.30-12.00
Brigitte Kasten / Katharina Groß (Saarbrücken) : Tausch- und
Prekarieurkunden im nördlichen Lotharingien bis 1100
Michel Margue (Luxembourg) : De l’acte d’échange au mythe : l’acte
d’échange de 963/987 entre l’abbaye Saint-Maximin de Trèves et le comte
Sigefroid dans son contexte diplomatique et paléographique régional
12.00-12.15 : Pause
12.15-12.45 : Discussion finale / Schlußdiskussion

Location / Tagungsort:
amphitéâtre Pieere Pouthier
Faculté des Lettres et des Science humaines
39e rue Camille Guérin
F - 87036 Limoges Cedex

http://www.flsh.unilim.fr/recherche/spip.php?rubrique60&article=547

-------------------------------------------

Contact/Kontakt:

Daniele Bierne

Organisateurs / Organisation:

Philippe Depreux
Professeur d'Histoire médiévale
Membre de l'Institut universitaire de France
Université de Limoges
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines
39E Rue Camille Guérin
F - 87036 LIMOGES CEDEX
Tel. 05 55 43 55 63 (Bureau SHS 211)
Mail: philippe.depreux@unilim.fr

Prof. Dr. Irmgard Fees
Historisches Seminar der LMU München
Abt. Historische Grundwissenschaften und Historische Medienkunde
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
D-80539 München
Tel.: 089-2180-5688
Fax: 089-2180-2084
Mail: irmgard.fees@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

postmedieval: Congratulations Eileen, Myra, et al!

Announcing content for postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies

postmedieval has published four short essays from the first issue,
due to publish in April 2010. These articles are available free
online:



· Stories of stone, by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

· Shakespearean primatology: A diptych, by Scott Maisano

· The multipliable body, by Karmen MacKendrick

· Toward a transhuman model of medieval disability, by Julie Singer



Please visit:

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/vaop/ncurrent/index.html for
full details.

www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/

Digital Humanities Workshops: Metadata, Markup and Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation

Digital Humanities Workshops: Metadata, Markup and Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation

The DHO in conjunction with the University of Ulster is proud to present two one-day digital humanities workshop events: Seeing Data Differently and A Date With Data. Lead by Digital Humanities Specialists Shawn Day and Dr K Faith Lawrence these workshops will take place 17th and 18th February at the Magee Campus, University of Ulster.

The first workshop, ‘Seeing Data Differently: Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation’, will combine a project clinic with hands-on demonstrations of web tools which can be used for managing, communicating and presenting data within and between digital humanities projects.

The second, ‘A Date With Data: What is this Markup Stuff Anyway?’, will provide beginners an introduction to metadata, markup and document encoding.

For more information and instructions on how to register for Seeing Data Differently and A Date With Data, please follow the links below to their respective event pages. Places are free but numbers are limited so early registration is recommended. Registration is done of a first come, first serve basis.

Seeing Data Differently: http://dho.ie/node/660
A Date With Data: http://dho.ie/node/674

Survey Request: Digital Resources

Survey Request: Digital Resources

Dear Colleague,

Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections, and electronic literature.

With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers.

The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm . Your identity will be kept confidential. All documents and participants will be identified only by code number. Digital data records will be kept on password-protected hard drives and on disks stored in locked filing cabinets. Only the principal investigator and the co-investigators will have access to the data. If you have any concerns about your treatment or rights as a research participant, you may contact the Research Subject Information Line in the UBC Office of Research Services at 604-822-8598. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the study at any time. Your completion and submission of the survey will indicate your consent to participate.

In consideration of your time, you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire.

We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or .

Best regards,

Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team
Associate Professor
Director, Digital Literacy Centre
University of British Columbia
c/o Department of Language & Literacy
2125 Main Mall,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

URL: http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/survey-request-digital-resources/
Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Number 1 for 2010 has been published at http://sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com/

Contents:

Conference Announcement: SASMARS 2010

Calls for Papers

Journals

Books

Scholarly Associations

Personalia

News Snippets

On the Lighter Side

I welcome your feedback and contributions of relevant news items.

Leonie Viljoen

Research Fellow

Department of English Studies

University of South Africa

E-mail: viljol@telkomsa.net

Searchers recover 200 artefacts from St Mel's Cathedral after fire

From the EMF list forwarding a newspaper report on a previously reported news item:

Searchers recover 200 artefacts from St Mel's Cathedral after fire

RONAN McGREEVY

MORE THAN 200 objects have been recovered from the ruins of St Mel’s Cathedral in Longford which was almost entirely destroyed in a fire on Christmas morning.

The two finest examples of stained glass windows by Harry Clark Studios can be repaired and the windows in the cathedral can be copied, the bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Dr Colm O’Reilly told a meeting at the weekend of the Longford Association in London.

Among the artefacts that were feared lost in the fire but are recoverable include the Shrine of St Caillinn of Fenagh, a 16th century ornamental book, and part of the 9th century crozier of St Mel’s, the most valuable relic which had been housed in the diocesan museum at the back of the cathedral.

The objects that have been recovered have been sent for restoration to the National Museum.

In a speech to mark St Mel’s Day, which is February 7th, Dr O’Reilly said he was pleased to be able to say that many artefacts had been saved from the fire.

Among the other objects which have been recovered are an early iron hand-bell from Wheery, Co Offaly, and a 13th-century crozier made at Limoges in France.

The bishop thanked the director of the National Museum, Dr Pat Wallace, for his support in helping to recover the artefacts from the fire. The National Museum is developing a conservation strategy for the objects recovered.

“All have suffered fire damage and it is not yet clear how they will appear after conservation,” he said.

However, the diocesan museum’s collection of vestments, penal crosses, altar vessels of pewter and silver and paper works were all lost in the fire.

He told members of the Longford Association that the distinctive portico and campanile of the Cathedral were still extant and the mains walls remain sound. A temporary roof will be constructed to save the building from further rain damage.

Dr O’Reilly said the diocese had not undertaken a fundraising campaign because it hoped to be able to make an insurance claim, but all voluntary donations were being put in a reserve fund which will be used for the enhancement work in the cathedral.

No final estimate for the damage has been completed, but the bishop admitted that an initial estimate of €2 million was a “gross underestimation”.

MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES

MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES
This year's Toller Lecture will be held on Monday 1 March 2010 at 5.00
p.m. in the Samuel Alexander Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, The
University of Manchester, UK. The speaker will be Professor Rolf Bremmer
of the University of Leiden. His subject is: 'Looking Back in Anger: Wrath
in Anglo-Saxon England'. The lecture will be followed by a free wine
reception. Audience are invited to dine with the speaker after the
reception; for dinner cost and details contact Professor Gale Owen-Crocker
at groc@manchester.ac.uk by 20 Feb 2010.

The Margaret Wade Labarge Prize

The Margaret Wade Labarge Prize

Eligibility
Any book in the field of medieval studies (including
monographs,editions, translations, nd other categories as determined
by the Prize Committee), authored or co-authored,
translated or co-translated, edited or co-edited, etc. (the test
being at least 50% participation) by a Canadian or someone resident
in Canada.

Three copies of the nominated work must be sent by March 12 for
consideration in the competition.

Professor Bill Schipper
Department of English Language and Literature
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
Canada A1C 5S7
CANADA
email: schipper@mun.ca


Le Prix Labarge

Conditions
Tout livre dans le domaine des études du moyen âge (ycompris
monographes, éditions, traductions, et autres catégories selon la
décision des juges), est éligible, à condition
qu’au moins la moitié des auteurs, rédacteurs, ou traducteurs soient
canadiens ou résidents permanents.

Trois exemplaires de l'oeuvre en question doivent parvenir avant le
12 mars, date limite pour la compétition de ce printemps.

Professor Bill Schipper
Department of English Language and Literature
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
Canada A1C 5S7
CANADA
courriel: schipper@mun.ca

Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions

Garm Lu publishes a diverse collection of academic and artistic material
pertaining to all aspects of the Celtic world on a semi-annual basis. The
journal is published by the University of Toronto Celtic Society, an
undergraduate student organisation affiliated with the Celtic Studies program
at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Garm Lu also receives
support from the Canadian Celtic Arts Association. The journal has been
publishing for over twenty-five years and in the past has carried original
material by such notables as Sorley MacLean, Seamus Heaney and Ann Dooley.

The editors welcome previously unpublished material in English or any Celtic
language pertaining to the Celtic speaking peoples, their descendants or any
aspect of the Celtic world. Academic essays, interviews, poetry, short
stories, reminiscences, photography and artwork are all welcome. Please send
your submissions as email attachments to the Managing Editors at
garmlu.uoft@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 26th, 2010
for the Spring 2010 issue.

The journal circulates widely among the University of Toronto academic
community as well as to a large number of subscribers through the Canadian
Celtic Arts Association. Please send any inquiries to garmlu.uoft@gmail.com.

Beir Bua agus Beannacht,
Garm Lu Editorial Board

P.S. Those receiving this call for submissions are encouraged to copy,
circulate and make it known to all who may be interested.

MLA 2011 CFP

Less than a year from now the MLA will meet in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly thirty years, and our 126th annual convention will be the first to begin after New Year's Day. The 2011 convention will also debut new meeting formats and allow attendees more free time in the evenings. One way to experience the new convention is by responding to the calls for papers, now live on the MLA Web site with a search function. Before responding to a call, you should familiarize yourself with the guidelines for the MLA convention.

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces


The Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England

Harvard University
Friday, February 19, 2010


***To register please email harvardanglosaxon@gmail.com***
and indicate whether you will attend lunch and dinner.

***

Program:

10:30-12:00: Session I (Thompson Room, Barker Center): Encountering the Other: Psychoanalytic Readings

Audrey Walton (Columbia University), “‘Ungelic is Us’: Separation Anxiety and the Search Hypothesis in the Old English Elegies”
David Lennington (Princeton University), “The Dream of the Rood and the Cross as Fetish”

Natasha Sumner (Harvard University), “Efnisien ‘Othered’: A Case Study of a Medieval Psychopath-Trickster”
Respondents: Mary Kate Hurley (Columbia University) and Brandon Hawk (University of Connecticut)

12:00-1:30: Lunch (Thompson Room, Barker Center, open to all registrants)


1:30-3:00: Session II (Thompson Room, Barker Center): Place and Geography

Matthieu Boyd (Harvard University), “‘Paganism, woman, and the ocean, these three desires and these three great fears of man,’

in Latin and Old English Lives of Machutus (St. Malo)”

Tomás O’Sullivan (Saint Louis University), “Early Insular Eschatology: The Apocalyptic and Eschatological Texts in Vat. Pal. lat. 220”

Kevin Caliendo (Loyola University Chicago), “Land Grants in Old English Poetry: Beating the Boundaries of Hell in Christ and Satan”
Respondents: Katherine McCullough (New York University), Andrew Grubb (University of Connecticut) and Eric Weskott (Yale University)

3:00-3.30: Coffee Break

3.30-5.00: Session III (Thompson Room, Barker Center): Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Non-Christian

Benjamin Saltzman (University of California, Berkeley), “Suspicion, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutics of Elene”

Eunice Eun (Brown University), “Fear of the ‘Femme Fatale’: The Feminine Threat in a Masculine Society”

Len Neidorf (New York University), “Hæþene æt hilde: Rethinking Heathenism at Maldon”
Respondents: Brigit McGuire (Columbia University); Mo Pareles (New York University)


6:00: Conference Dinner at the home of Professor Joseph Harris (361 Harvard Street, Unit 1 and 2, Cambridge, MA 02138).

Conference Location:

All sessions will be held in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center (12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138). The Barker Center is just across from Harvard Yard on the corner of Harvard and Quincy Streets. Enter through the gate from Quincy Street. The Thompson Room is located on the first floor. For a campus map and directions to the Barker Center, see: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/Maps%20and%20Directions.htm.


Sponsored by: The Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies and the ASSC

Organized by: Alexis Becker, Sara Gorman, John Radway, Laura Wang and Kasi Conley

Conference is free and open to the public. Please register in advance.

NATIO SCOTICA* *The Thirteenth International Conference on * *Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature*

CALL FOR PAPERS*

Paper proposals are invited for

*NATIO SCOTICA*

*The Thirteenth International Conference on *

*Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature*

*/ /*

To be hosted by the Università degli Studi di Padova

Italy

22-26 July 2011

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.

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:

* *

*Alessandra Petrina*

Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche e Slave

Via Beato Pellegrino, 26

35100 Padova - Italy

Or as an email attachment to alessandra.petrina@unipd.it


Further information about the conference will be available in Spring 2010.

Historical Thesaurus Scholarships

Historical Thesaurus Scholarships


To celebrate publication of the Historical Thesaurus of the OED
(Oxford University Press 2009), the Department of English Language at
the University of Glasgow has set up a scholarship fund to help
students in their first year of research. Scholarships will consist
of a waiver of the first year’s fees, and are open to exceptional
students from any university intending to pursue research in a
subject area, either historical or modern, covered by the Department.
Scholarships for 2010-11 will be awarded to students accepted by the
Faculty of Arts who are not major scholarship holders.


The scholarships will be named in honour of the four editors of
HTOED: Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené
Wotherspoon. Further information about the department is available at:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/englishlanguage/

Professor Christian Janet Kay
Department of English Language
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
UK

Posted by
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Dr C P Biggam, FSA
Dept of English Language
University of Glasgow

Syriac Literature and Interpretations of Sacred Texts

Dear Colleagues,



Kindly allow me to bring to your attention the “call for papers” for the meetings of the program unit in Syriac studies at the November 20-23, 2010, meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, Georgia. We had a very successful inaugural meeting in November in New Orleans. Now we invite you again very warmly to propose a paper and/or plan on coming to the sessions that are being organized within that program unit for November of this year. The members of the steering committee join me in expressing our hope that this still new program unit in Syriac studies will offer not only the opportunity for a lively exchange of ideas and new insights among those who are already working in the field of Syriac studies but that it will also aid in attracting new voices and integrating the contributions of Syriac studies into a broader segment of the academy.





SBL 2010 Annual Meeting



Atlanta, Georgia


Meeting Begins: 11/20/2010
Meeting Ends: 11/23/2010

Call For Papers Opens: 12/15/2009
Call For Papers Closes: 3/1/2010

Program Unit:
Syriac Literature and Interpretations of Sacred Texts

Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: This unit offers a forum for studying the Syriac interpretation of Biblical and extra-biblical literatures and the connections between Syriac biblical interpretation and historiography, hagiography, and para-scriptural traditions in Oriental Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. We invite submissions in all areas of research in the Syriac Bible, its versions, transmissions, exegesis, and relevance for understanding religion and its history in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. For 2010 we invite papers on the works of significant ancient Syriac authors (e.g., Jacob of Serugh); women and Syriac literature; the representation of apostolic and missionary figures in Syriac literature (e.g., Paul, Peter, Thomas); Biblical interpretation in the Syriac realm; and Syriac apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. We are again interested in papers on intersections between Syriac and early Islamic literature (Quran and commentary literature). We also welcome papers on Syriac literature and its role in the development of late antique religion and history. For a joint session ("Syriac Reception of Biblical Poetry") with the Biblical Hebrew Poetry section we invite papers on aspects of Biblical Hebrew poetic texts in the Syriac Bible and literature. The goal is to provide insights into Biblical Hebrew poetry and its reception history in the Syriac realm in a collaborative atmosphere of reciprocal benefit for the fields of Syriac studies and poetry in the Hebrew Bible. Papers may deal, e.g., with the Syriac versions, comparison of Syriac and Biblical accents and chanting of the text as they relate to interpreting its meaning, interpretations, commentaries, theological use of poetic passages, and comparative poetics between Biblical Hebrew, Syriac and/or early piyyutim. (Presenters submit their papers by September 2, 2010, so that organized responses can be prepared.) Together with the Christian Apocrypha unit we are planning a joint session on Christian apocrypha in Syriac and invite papers for that. We plan to publish suitable papers following peer review.



For further information and to submit a paper proposal (deadline March 1, 2010), please go to



http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPapers.aspx?MeetingId=17





I will be very happy to address questions you may have.



Respectfully submitted,

Cornelia Horn

(horncb@slu.edu)

Program Unit Chair



Members of Steering Committee (in alphabetical order)

Joseph Amar

Sidney H. Griffith

Robert R. Phenix Jr.

Ute Possekel





PS: As you see fit, please share this announcement with other colleagues who might be interested in participating in this unit. Thank you!

CALL FOR PAPERS: STUDIA CELTICA FENNICA VII (2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS: STUDIA CELTICA FENNICA VII (2010)

Papers are invited for the forthcoming theme issue of Studia Celtica
Fennica, the peer-reviewed annual publication of the Finnish Society
for Celtic Studies SFKS ry. The theme of volume VII (2010) will be
“Irish Texts and Their Transmission”.

We welcome submissions of articles and book reviews written in all
major European languages and Celtic languages as well as Finnish and
Swedish. The deadline for articles is 31st May 2010.

For further information and submission guidelines please go
tohttp://www.sfks.org/SCFstylesheet_en.php or contact the editors

Katja Ritari & Alexandra Bergholm
Department of World Cultures / Study of Religions
P.O.Box 59
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
e-mail: katja.ritari(at)helsinki.fi, alexandra.bergholm(at)helsinki.fi


Those receiving this call for papers are encouraged to copy it,
circulate it, and generally make its contents known to anyone else
that might be interested.

Oi

I missed doing much of any updating last week. So I'll be posting about two weeks worth of accumulated announcements. My apologies for the delay and hopefully it didn't cause any problems for folks.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Formulas in Medieval Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS

Formulas in Medieval Culture
Location: Nancy (France)
Date: November 5-6, 2010
Languages: English and French
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2010

The GRENDEL, the medieval section of the IDEA research group (Nancy
University),
invites proposals for an international and interdisciplinary
conference devoted
to the study of formulas in Medieval Culture, to take place on November 5-6,
2010. The conference is a follow-up to the successful 2008 Conference on
Formulas in Medieval England.
Medieval modes of thinking and representation rely heavily on
formulas, that is
to say on the expected return of recognizable devices. The omnipresence of
formulas in all aspects of medieval culture generates productive tensions
between individual expression and collective norms, change and continuity,
innovations and rituals.
The aim of the conference is to systematically explore these tensions through
presentations devoted to various areas of the Medieval World and of Medieval
Thought.

Papers are welcome on, but not limited to:
- Religious and political rituals
- Oral-formulaic theory
- Legal formulas
- Topoi and generic conventions
- Politeness and ritualized interaction
- Conventional motifs in visual arts

Papers may be given in English or French and should be 20 minutes
long. Selected
papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference.
Please email a brief CV and an abstract of no more than 400 words to Colette
Stévanovitch (colette.stevanovitch@univ-nancy2.fr) by February 28,
2010. Please
include the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email address.

Inquiries are welcome.

Contact:
Colette Stévanovitch (colette.stevanovitch@univ-nancy2.fr) & Elise Louviot
(elise.louviot@univ-nancy2.fr)
IDEA (Interdisciplinarity in Anglophone Studies)
23, bd Albert 1er
BP 3397
54015 Nancy Cedex
FRANCE

Three Jobs at KCL: NOTE THE IRONY

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London is
looking for three highly motivated and technically sophisticated
individuals to work on its text-based research projects. The
positions will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate
digital scholarship.

CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic
programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application
of computing in humanities research. Its research projects cover a
wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies,
history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a
number of more general information management projects in both
humanities and the social sciences.

The successful candidates will possess strong analytical and problem
solving skills: they will be required to identify and engage with the
core scholarly questions in a highly collaborative research context;
to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them
using XML-related technologies; to design and develop systems for
editing and delivering text-based scholarly materials and to
collaborate in the design of integrated HTML-based publication.
Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of
XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is highly
desirable, in particular textual materials encoded according to the
Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines.

All successful candidates will need to have a good understanding of
how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and
will be expected to make a strong contribution to the departmental
research profile. They will need to be able to work effectively as
part of a team, as well as independently. They must have good
communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear
written English.

One position is for one year on Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover)
- within the Grade 5 scale, currently £28,074 to £32,176, inclusive
of London Allowance.

Two positions are for one year on Fixed Term Contract - within the
Grade 6 scale, currently £30,070 to £39,038 per annum, inclusive of
London Allowance.

Closing date: 12th February 2010

Please view and apply for positions at the following URLs:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=8594
and
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=8595

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces its Spring 2010 Schedule:


The Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference:
"Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England"

Friday, February 19th
Harvard University

*****

Daniel Donoghue
(Harvard University)


"Reading Poems with Anglo-Saxon Eyes"

Wednesday, February 24th
5.30 pm

at Columbia University
523 Butler library
Reception to follow.
Co-Sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscript Library

*****

Seeta Chaganti
(UC Davis)

Monday, March 29th
6 pm

at Rutgers University

*****

Eileen Joy
(Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

Thursday April 8
6.30 pm

at New York University
Details TBA

*****

Martin Foys
(Drew University)

Media Theory, Media History, and Old English Poetry
Lecture and Workshop

Monday April 12 and Tuesday April 13

at Rutgers University on April 12 (lecture) 6 pm
at Columbia University on April 13 (workshop) 4:10-6 pm
Details TBA


*****
To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
ASSC@columbia.edu

For updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc

CFP: DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies: “Medievalizing Britain” (2/8/10; 4/2/10)

CFP: DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Studies: “Medievalizing Britain” (2/8/10; 4/2/10)

THE TWENTY-FIRST DEBARTOLO CONFERENCE
~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~ MEDIEVALIZING BRITAIN
April 2, 2010 Tampa, Florida Back by popular demand, the DeBartolo
Conference will return in 2010 as a one-day Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference on Medievalizing Britain. Our
event will feature a keynote lecture by Professor Antony Harrison,
Distinguished Professor of English and Department Head at North
Carolina State University. Dr. Harrison is a leading scholar on
Christina Rossetti and the author of five books and numerous
articles, editions, and reviews on Victorian poetry, culture, and
medievalism. In addition, the day’s activities will include
single-session panels, a roundtable discussion, a catered lunch, and
an evening wine and cheese reception. This event is free to
participants, guests, and the public at large.

British culture in the four nations (England, Scotland, Wales,
Ireland) was transformed during the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, as medieval themes and archaic features emerged in poetry,
novels, ballad-collecting, non-fiction prose, painting, and
photography. Works such as Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient
English Poetry, Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Alfred Tennyson’s poems, John
Ruskin’s criticism, the Pre-Raphaelites’ paintings, and Roger
Fenton’s photographic images signal a preoccupation with the medieval
past that spans two centuries. This conference looks beyond
traditional periodizations and disciplinary divisions in order to
trace broader patterns and forge new connections on the topic of
medievalizing Britain.

Papers may engage any aspect of the medieval in eighteenth- or
nineteenth-century culture, and may address but are not limited to
the following questions:

• How was the rise of medievalism able to supplant earlier British
identifications with the classical world?
• Why does photography, a new technology, turn to medieval themes?
• Is the medieval modern?
• What role did the turn toward the bardic and the medieval play in
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland in opposition to English domination? In
what ways, politically, aesthetically, or otherwise, did the medieval
turn in English romanticism differ from similar moves in the rest of
the United Kingdom?
• What was the relationship between medievalism and Enlightenment?
Between medievalism and industrialization?
• Why was the historical novel in Britain medieval rather than classical?
• How can we account for the rise of Arthuriana?
• How did new ideas about Britons’ origins as rugged Saxons, Goths,
and Celts affect the conduct of British colonialism abroad?
• How did Pre-Raphaelite painting reimagine femininity and
masculinity in an era of rapid social change?

We invite single presentation abstracts or complete panels with
individual abstracts for each paper. Abstracts should be
approximately 500 words in length; in addition to the abstract, we
ask that individuals include the following: an e-mail address, any
audio-visual needs (including special software needs), and academic
affiliation (if applicable).

Due date for submissions: February 8, 2010

Images at Work: Image and Efficacy from Antiquity to the Rise of Modernity.

Images at Work: Image and Efficacy from Antiquity to the Rise of Modernity.

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut

30 September – 2 October 2010

According to legend, Virgil made a fly out of bronze and placed it above the gates of Naples. The sole purpose of the bronze fly was to prevent other flies from entering the city. The conference Images at Work will set out to explore the intention, function, and reception of images like Virgil’s fly: images made to influence the natural world. We seek to examine the theories behind the construction of these operative images, to interrogate how the production of apotropaic images related to the production of Art, and to question how the manufacture of such working images interacted with the production of other types of mechanical apparatus.

In contrast to religious miracle-working images that perform multiple miracles of varying types, and which, crucially, are usually perceived as operating in the world only subsequent to their creation, the images with which this conference seeks to engage had, in most cases, very specific, predetermined functions. The objective of Images at Work is thus to focus on the scientific and magical spheres of image production; it will consider these adjunctive images as both objects in space and actors in ritual. The goal of the conference at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz will be to map the central issues regarding images that function in the natural world. We aim to discuss the phenomena ascribed to this category of images historically, culturally, and geographically, employing a broad array of theoretical and disciplinary approaches. The conference will address the manufacture of images that work, their function in real as well as in imaginary realms, and their reception on both functional and aesthetic levels.

Paper topics could include discussions of apotropaic imagery, as well as a wide variety of automata, from mechanical armed guards to timepieces and astronomical clocks. The interaction between the function of religious “miracle working images” and scientific developments in image making, as well as the place of magic in the making of images that work are welcome subjects. Theories of the making of images that work, as well as discussions of workshop methods that address the interaction between images that work and the creation of typical images (i.e., Art), are also possible topics.

Scholars interested in participating in the conference are invited to send a 250 word proposal, a CV and a list of publications to the following address by 19 April 2010:jones@khi.fi.it

Conference organized by Ittai Weinryb, Ashley Jones, Hannah Baader and Gerhard Wolf

Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims & Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean

Cultural Hybridities:

Christians, Muslims & Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean

NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors

July 4-July 31, 2010 . Barcelona (Spain)

Applications are now being taken for the 2010 Mediterranean Studies NEH
Summer Institute, to be held in Barcelona, Spain. This is the second
four-week Summer Institute for University and College Professors organized
by The Mediterranean Seminar.

Faculty will include Judith Cohen (York University), Steven Epstein
(University of Kansas), Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University), Peregrine
Horden (Royal Holloway), Cynthia Robinson (Cornell), and Daniel Selden (UC
Santa Cruz), as well as co-Directors, Brian A. Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita,
and selected Spanish scholars.

Our twenty-four participants will be university and college faculty who
teach American post-secondary students. Applicants of all ranks and all
levels of institution are welcome, from all relevant Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences disciplines. Two places are reserved for qualified graduate
students (ABD/ final stages of writing strongly preferred).

Please review the information and the application instructions on the
Institute website, www.mediterraneanseminar.org. The application deadline is
March 2, 2010.

Word & Image: Theory in the 21st Century

Call for Papers

International Conference
Word & Image: Theory in the 21st Century
24-26 June 2010

An international Word & Image conference will be held at the Université
de Bourgogne (Dijon, France) on 24-26 June 2010 in association with the
College of the Holy Cross (Massachusetts) , the Université
Paris-Diderot, the bilingual journal Interfaces, the Musée des
Beaux-Arts and the Musée Magnin in Dijon. We are delighted to announce
that John Dixon Hunt, Liliane Louvel and Peter Wagner will give plenary
conference addresses. The conference will focus on the current state of
the art in Word & Image theory, and it will also be an opportunity to
commemorate the recent passing of Michel Baridon - one of the founding
members of the journal in 1991.

The papers selected by the scientific committee will be published in
Interfaces, as a sequel to the 1994 issue of the review (Interfaces 5,
"La théorisation de la relation image/texte/ langage") .

This interdisciplinary event welcomes contributions from any relevant
field of research across the humanities and sciences. Papers are
invited to focus on any aspect of the relationship between word and
image during any period, but should in each case provide a clear
theoretical perspective reflecting recent research and publications in
their field.

PhD students are also invited to submit abstracts for a special
doctoriale session. It will be the opportunity for them to make a brief
presentation of their current research (10 to 15 minutes). The
abstracts and the papers can be submitted either in French or in
English. The presentations should not be longer than 30 minutes.

Deadline: please send abstracts of about 300 words (along with a short
bibliography and a short biography) to the organizing committee before
10th February 2010.
Confirmation: early March 2010

Université de Bourgogne Research Centre: Texte, Image, Langage - Équipe
d'accueil EA 4182
UFR Langues et Communication
Department of English
2, boulevard Gabriel
21000 Dijon
Organizing committee: word-image@u- bourgogne. fr
Sophie Aymes, Marie-Odile Bernez, Christelle Serée-Chaussinand

Sophie Aymes, Marie-Odile Bernez, Christelle Serée-Chaussinand
Université de Bourgogne
UFR Langues et Communication
Department of English
2, boulevard Gabriel
21000 Dijon

Email: word-image@u- bourgogne. fr

Visit the website at:
http://www2. u-bourgogne.fr/ index/front_ office/index_ co.php?site_
id=107&bg=1&
rid=635

Registration for Writing England 2010

Registration for Writing England 2010, University of Leicester
28th-30th April 2010, is now open. The conference draws on different
approaches and perspectives, aiming to investigate the writers,
compilers, manufacture and reception of books in England between c.
1000 and 1400. 'Writing England' will contribute to an
interdisciplinary study of book cultures in the Middle Ages, and
allow for cross-fertilization of ideas and research interests across
the period. Speakers include colleagues working in Historical and
Literary subject across Europe. The conference is generously
sponsored by AMARC and the School of English.

Plenary speakers are: Elaine Treharne (Florida State University);
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University of York); Tony Edwards (De Montfort
University, Leicester)

We have a bright new web site which contains information on
registration (closing 31 March 2010), accommodation and travel
information. We offer discounted rates to AMARC members and PhD
students. The conference is residential with single day options if
required, and will take place at the Beaumont Hall at the heart of
Leicester botanical gardens.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/writing-england

Please circulate as widely as possible.

On behalf of the organising committee, I look forward to welcoming
you in Leicester.

Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature session, MLA 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature session, MLA 2011 (for a
group of sessions in line with the MLA conference theme, "Writing
Lives")



Lives on the Move: Medieval Seascapes and

Cultural Hybridities

Cultural Hybridities:

Christians, Muslims & Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean

NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors

July 4-July 31, 2010 . Barcelona (Spain)

Applications are now being taken for the 2010 Mediterranean Studies NEH
Summer Institute, to be held in Barcelona, Spain. This is the second
four-week Summer Institute for University and College Professors organized
by The Mediterranean Seminar.

Faculty will include Judith Cohen (York University), Steven Epstein
(University of Kansas), Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University), Peregrine
Horden (Royal Holloway), Cynthia Robinson (Cornell), and Daniel Selden (UC
Santa Cruz), as well as co-Directors, Brian A. Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita,
and selected Spanish scholars.

Our twenty-four participants will be university and college faculty who
teach American post-secondary students. Applicants of all ranks and all
levels of institution are welcome, from all relevant Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences disciplines. Two places are reserved for qualified graduate
students (ABD/ final stages of writing strongly preferred).

Please review the information and the application instructions on the
Institute website, www.mediterraneanseminar.org. The application deadline is
March 2, 2010.

Patronage and the Sacred Book in the Medieval Mediterranean

Patronage and the Sacred Book in the Medieval Mediterranean
Organized by Esperanza Alfonso (CSIC) and Jonathan Decter (Brandeis
University)
Brandeis University, October 18-19, 2010


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. 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 February 15, 2010.

Perceptions of Place: English place-name study and regional variety

Perceptions of Place:
English place-name study and regional variety

An international conference to be held in association with the
English Place-Name Society at the
Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham

Wednesday 23 ¬¬– Sunday 27 June 2010

Speakers include:

• Professor Thomas Clancy (Glasgow) on English place-names in the Scottish
border region
• Professor Richard Coates (UWE) on place-names and linguistics
• Professor Klaus Dietz (Freie Universität Berlin) on place-names and
English historical dialectology
• Professor Gillian Fellows-Jensen (Copenhagen) on the Scandinavian
background to English place-names
• Professor Carole Hough (Glasgow) on women in English place-names
• Professor John Insley (Heidelberg) on personal names in place-names • Dr
Kay Muir (Northern Ireland Place-Name Project) on English place-names in
Ireland
• Dr Oliver Padel (EPNS president) on the Celtic element in English
place-names
• Dr Matthew Townend (York) on the Scandinavian element in English
place-names

There is time available for further twenty-minute papers on such topics as:

• differences in naming practices in different regions of England
• place-names and dialectal variation
• reassessments of varying methodological and disciplinary approaches
(linguistic, historical, topographical, archaeological) to place-name
study

If you would like to contribute please send a title, together with an
abstract of no more than 250 words, by 28th February 2010 to: Perceptions
of Place, Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, University of
Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD

or: rebecca.peck@nottingham.ac.uk

We will let you know in March if your paper has been accepted. As time is
limited it is, unfortunately, unlikely that we will be able to accept all
submissions. Further details on arrangements and costs will be available
at that stage and at www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/

Rethinking and recontextualizing glosses:

Rethinking and recontextualizing glosses:
new perspectives in the study
of late Anglo-Saxon glossography

(PRIN 2007 PALERMO, Roma LUMSA, UDINE)

International Conference
February 11th-13th 2010
Rome, LUMSA

Thursday February 11

9.00 Opening addresses

9.30 Antonette de Paolo Healey (University of Toronto)
Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography: The Lexicographic View

10.05 Mariken Teeuwen (C. Huygens Instit., Koninklijke Bibl., Den Haag,
Utrecht)
Glossed Manuscripts from the Early Middle Ages: Some Observations on their
Function and Context

10.30 Rebecca Rushforth
Annotated Psalters and Manuscript Evidence for Study of the Psalms in Late
Anglo-Saxon England

Discussion

Break

11.20 Malcolm Godden (University of Oxford)
Glosses to the Consolation of Philosophy in Late Anglo-Saxon England:
their Origins and their uses.

11.55 Rohini Jayatilaka (University of Oxford)
Geographical Glosses on Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy

12.20 Concetta Giliberto (Università di Palermo)
Precious Stones’ Names in the Anglo-Saxon Glossary Tradition

Discussion

Afternoon

14.30 David Porter (University of Batoun-Rouge)
Ælfric’s Glossary and the Winchester Curriculum.

15.05 Loredana Lazzari (Università di Roma, LUMSA)
Learning Tools and Learned Lexicographers: the Antwerp-London and the
Junius 71 Latin-Old English Glossaries

15.30 Paolo Vaciago (Università di Roma III)
Updating the Lemma: The Case of the St. Gallen Biblical Glossaries

Discussion

Break

16.00 Maria Amalia D’Aronco (Università di Udine)
Anglo-Saxon Medical and Botanical Glossaries after the Norman Conquest:
Continuations and Beginnings

16.25 Carmela Rizzo (Università di Palermo)
Macer Floridus’ De viribus herbarum and the Old English Glosses in ms.
Cotton Vitellius C.iii, f. 10v

Friday 12 February

9.00 Joyce Hill (University of Leeds)
The Regularis Concordia Glossed and Translated

9.35 Maria Caterina De Bonis (Università di Potenza)
The Interlinear Glosses to the Regula Sancti Benedicti in ms. London,
British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii: A Specimen of a Forthcoming
Edition.

10.00 Claudia Di Sciacca (Università di Udine)
Glossing in Late Anglo-Saxon England: A Sample Study of the Latin Glosses
in mss. Harley 110 and CCCC 448

Discussion

Break

11.00 Fabrizio D. Raschellà (Università di Siena-Arezzo)
The Latin-Icelandic Glossary in AM 249 l fol and its Counterpart in GKS
1812 4to

11.25 Alessandro Zironi (Università di Bologna)
Marginal Alphabets in the Carolingian Age: Philological and Codicological
Considerations

11.50 Maria Rita Digilio (Università di Siena)
The Fortune of Old English Glosses in Early Medieval Germany

Discussion

Afternoon

15.00 Philip Rusche (University of Nevada)
The Durham Plant Name Glossary and the Old English Herbarium

15.35 Loredana Teresi (Università di Palermo)
The Name of the Winds in Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries

16.00 Giuseppe Donato De Bonis (Università di Cosenza)
Glossing the Adjectives in the Interlinear Gloss to the Regularis
Concordia in ms London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii

Discussion

Break

17.00 Patrizia Lendinara (Università di Palermo)
Glossing Abbo in Latin and in the Vernacular

Conclusions


Glossing was a scribal practice in use since antiquity, but it was in the
Middle Ages that it acquired a wider meaning and a different role,
becoming one of the most widespread forms of literacy in the Germanic
West, including the British Isles.
This project focuses on a well-identified time-span, i.e. the late
Anglo-Saxon period, and on glossarial material which can be traced back to
leading cultural centres such as Abingdon, Canterbury, Glastonbury, and
Winchester.
The research programme, funded by the Ministry of University and the three
universities of Palermo, Rome LUMSA, and Udine, and directed by Patrizia
Lendinara, aims to recontextualize glosses in order to ascertain the
different steps of the interpretation process from which the glossators’
work stemmed.
Glosses and glossaries will thus be studied from a much wider point of
view, addressing the issue of why a text was glossed at a given? time and
in a given scriptorium. The relationship between the glosses and the Latin
text they accompany (as well as that between lemma and interpretamentum
within a glossary) will be analysed with the intent of tracing the glosses
back to their original context, moving from the data offered by the late
Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman manuscripts.

7th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris (IMS)

TRANSLATIO



7th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris (IMS),

In collaboration with the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de
Paris (LAMOP)



24-26 June 201o

Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne



Keynote speakers:

Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania

Serge Lusignan, Université de Montréal & LAMOP



CALL FOR PAPERS



Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2010



The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions
for its 2010 Symposium, which will explore the practice and function
of translatio in medieval France.

The medieval term translatio brings into contact linguistic,
material, and cultural fields. It was attached to a group of related
concepts: the physical displacement of objects, the rewriting of a
text in a new language, or the transfer of meaning proper to
metaphor. Eventually, writers of the Latin West began to employ the
concepts of translatio studii et imperii in an attempt to define
their conflicted relationship with the authority and learning of
Classical, Muslim, and Byzantine cultures; the term thus expressed
their understanding of cultural contact and exchange. Recent work
has shown how these various iterations of translatio can indicate
complex acts of cultural negotiation or appropriation, which
repositioneded the opposing forces of old and new, the other and the
self.

The present symposium will bring together scholars from diverse
disciplines, in order to study the various modes and meanings of
translatio. Papers might address such topics as: the adaptation of
texts from one language into another in literary or musical sources;
the transfer of themes from one medium to another (among, for
example, texts, music, painting, sculpture, or textiles); the use of
spolia in building or orfèvrerie; the translation of relics; the
exploitation of Classical themes or narratives by medieval political
figures or historiographers; the controversies over Biblical
translation; the function of translatio as metaphor in religious or
secular writing; the appropriation of words from one language into
another.

Papers should address France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul in some
way, but they need not be exclusively limited to this geographic area.

We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including but
not limited to: Anthropology * Archaeology * Art History * Classical
Studies * Comparative Literature * Gender Studies * History * History
of Medicine * History of Science * Linguistics * Literary Studies *
Musicology * Philosophy * Religious Studies * Theology * Urban Studies

Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper should be
e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 1 February 2010.

In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information,
a CV, and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment
required for your presentation.

The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2010. The IMS will
review submissions and respond via e-mail by 15 February 2010. Titles
of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web- site.
Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel
costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for
students). The registration fee will be waived for IMS members.

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English)
organization founded to serve as a center for medievalists who
research, work, study, or travel to France.

For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s
Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org.

Medieval Events Around Boston

Monday, February 1: Sara Lipton. "Isaac and Antichrist in the
Archives: The Origins and Poetics of the Anti-Jewish Caricature,"
Thompson room, Barker Center, 4:15 p.m., reception to follow

Please note change of date: Monday, February 22: Nicholas
Wey-Gomez. "Antithetical Tropics: Paradise, Hell, and Imperial
Geopolitics in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Summary of the Natural
History of the Indies (1526)." Barker Center 133, 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, March 4: Professor Finbarr Barry Flood, "All That
Glitters: Image and Ornament in Early Islam," William B. Kenan
Professor of the Humanities Institute of Fine Arts & Department of
Art History, New York University 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Room 318 of the
Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Wednesday, March 31: Tom Glick, "The Transmission of Arabic Science
in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval Spain," Barker 133, 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, April 1: Amity Law, "Cultural Modeling and Identity in the
Western Mediterranean," Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program
for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Room
318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Monday, April 12: DO-MSC exchange. Barker 133, 4:15 p.m.

Monday, April 26: Pernille Hermann. Barker 133, 4:15 p.m.

CFP – Session on Sacred Spaces for AHA 2011

CFP – Session on Sacred Spaces for AHA 2011



We are organizing a session on “Constructing Sacred Spaces in
Pre-Modern Europe” for the American Historical Association meeting in
Boston, January 6-9, 2011 and invite abstracts for inclusion on the
panel. Topics can include, but are not limited to:



- contested saint’s cults and rites

- once-popular pilgrimage sites

- “decommissioned” churches, cemeteries, and holy places

- Sacred spaces used for non-pious rituals and activities

- Secular places used for sacred rites



If interested in participating, please submit an abstract and basic
contact information by February 6, 2010 to Janine Peterson at
Janine.Peterson@marist.edu or to Holly Grieco at hgrieco@siena.edu.

ROSETTA ISSUE 8 Call for Papers: Extended

ROSETTA ISSUE 8 Call for Papers: Extended

CFP: SCMLA Conference October 28-30, 2010

CFP: SCMLA Conference October 28-30, 2010, Fort Worth, TX.  Deadline
for Submissions is March 26, 2010

The SCMLA Old and Middle English Session welcomes submissions on any
topic related to Old or Middle English studies including gender,
environment, ethnicity/national identity, history, culture, and (of
course) literature. The general conference theme is "New Frontiers,"
but the session is topic is open. Please send papers or 500 word
abstracts to rebeccad@dbu.edu on or before the March 26 deadline.
E-mailed submissions are preferred, but regular mail submissions will
be accepted. Submissions made by regular mail must be postmarked by
the deadline.

Rebecca Dark
English Department Coordinator
Dallas Baptist University
214-333-6951


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