Assistant Professor position in Digital Humanities is now open at Ryerson University. See http://www.ryerson.ca/english/employment/Ryerson%20English%20jobs.pdf.
Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).
Author: digitalmedievalistnews
Call for papers: Securing the Past, Rescuing the Present
*From: *John Gouws > *Date: *15 September 2010 12:27:57 BST
*Subject: **Call for papers: please circulate*
First Call for Papers
Securing the Past, Rescuing the Present:
a workshop and symposium on cross-disciplinary theory and practice.
North-West University, Potchefstroom
24-26 February 2011
Following the publication of Paul Eggerts Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), the symposium is intended to further the interdisciplinary conversation concerning the fabric, texts, scores and performances of representational and plastic art, buildings, sites, literature and music. The initial workshop will be designed to open up the conversation for those working within a single discipline and for younger scholars unaware of the possibilities of the field. Participants will include Paul Eggert (Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales at ADFA), Dyfri Williams (Research Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, The British Museum), and Dirk van Hulle (University of Antwerp). Participation and submission of proposals from scholars working in any related fields, especially music, will be welcomed. Proposals for papers of forty or fifty minutes, with twenty/ten min
utes of discussion time, should be sent to John Gouws (john.gouws@gmail.com ) by 31 October. Parallel sessions are not envisaged.
Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).
Special Call For Papers for 2010 Issue on Exile in the Middle Ages
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies Special Call For Papers for 2010 Issue on Exile in the Middle Ages
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture 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. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any discipline and period of medieval studies. We are also interested in book reviews on recent works that reflect on some aspect of our theme: an abbreviated list of possible review titles appears on our website. Given the wide scope of the theme, we invite additional proposals for reviews. For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net
Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of exile political, spiritual, or intellectual – in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. Expulsion, banishment, or prolonged separation from ones homeland was experienced by many in the medieval world; it is likewise one of the earliest topics in literature. From the Biblical depiction of Adam and Eve, to the Life of St. Brendan, Grettirs Saga, and the works of Dante, the pain and difficulty inherent in the experience of exile lent itself to metaphoric exploitation. Exile appears, too, in various religious traditions as a symbol of separation, alienation, and the need for redemption. Hence, an expanded definition of exile might encompass any forced displacement, be it political, social, cultural, or spiritual. Though loss is inherent in the experience of exile, it may also represent an opportunity for change and growth. Self-imposed exile could be a form of prot est against, or a search for something in opposition to, known experience.
Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:
-Literary and artistic depictions of exile
-Kings, conflicts, and legal exile
-Cultural aspects of separation: ethnicity, religion, gender -Christian exile in the Celtic tradition
-The depiction of Classical exile in medieval literature
-Exile in the Jewish imagination
-Exile in hagiography
-Religious exiles: interdict, excommunication, anathema, the expulsion of heretics -Treatments of the Garden of Eden; the concepts of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
-Self-imposed exile: quest and transformation; exile as a form of political protest, as pilgrimage, in anchoritic monasticism -Diseases, such as plague and leprosy, and exclusion
-Women as migrants and exiles
The 2010 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2011. 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, 2011.
Posted by: Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies (submit@hortulus.net).
CFP: Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce:
Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010
Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html
We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.
We hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.
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Faculty and graduate students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Contact your school’s faculty representative for details: http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html. The Center’s main web page is: http://www.newberry.org/renaissance.
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Karen Christianson, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
phone: 312-255-3539
fax: 312-255-3502
christiansonk@newberry.org
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance
Posted by: Karen Christianson (christiansonk@newberry.org).
Imbas 2010
We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas 2010, an interdisciplinary postgraduate medievalists’ conference, to be held on 12th – 14th November 2010 in NUI Galway, Ireland. 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.
The theme for 2010 is Representations: Image, Word, Artefact, and we are delighted to announce that Professor Michelle P. Brown of the University of London will be our keynote speaker.
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 Imbas Journal. 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 before September 30, 2010. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded to Imbas/Trish NMhaoileoin, c/o Roinn na Gaeilge, as na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na hreann, Gaillimh, re.
Further information can be found at our website http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/63 and on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=324841995338&ref=ts .
Posted by: Imbas Committee (imbasnuig@gmail.com).
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