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Special Call For Papers for 2010 Issue on Exile in the Middle Ages

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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).

eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) Website Launched

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Robust open-source application makes managing access to digital content simple

The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library (CDL) announces the launch of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) website (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), supporting a robust open-source application for providing access to digital content.  Developed and maintained by the CDL, XTF functions as the primary access technology for the CDL’s digital collections and similar projects worldwide.

XTF excels in supporting rapid, customized application development and deployment. Its high degree of extensibility and performance (even for large documents and large collections) frees implementers to focus on building sophisticated presentations for their digital object collections.

“It’s all about balancing flexibility and ease of use: putting infinite customization ability in the hands of curators and scholars with a driving need to provide deep access to their special collections,” says XTF lead developer Martin Haye.

XTF-based applications range from primary source image collections to publishing platforms and archival finding aid repositories at the University of California and many other institutions, including Northwestern University, the University of Sydney (Australia), Indiana University, Visual Arkiv (Sweden), Morehouse College, Durham University (UK), and the University of Virginia.

Highly customized implementations include:

  • CDL’s eScholarship (http://www.escholarship.org/ ), UC’s open access scholarly publishing platform, which publishes recent research from across the 10 campuses as well as nearly 40 UC-based scholarly journals. XTF customizations include a streamlined facet-selection interface, dynamic PDF snippets called “KWIC Pics,” PDF document previews in the browser, and support for a deep hierarchy of contributing academic units.
  • CDL’s Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/), a collection of more than 20,000 archival finding aids and 200,000 digital primary sources (images and texts) from more than 150 archives, libraries, and other institutions in the state of California. XTF implementation features full-text search and display, detailed descriptive metadata, and a robust finding aid interface.
  • Indiana University’s The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/), a digital repository of transcriptions of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts. Site features a seamless blend of various web tools, including XTF as the search technology.
  • The Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/), a collaboration between the Chicago  Historical Society, Northwestern University, and the Newberry Library. Site integrates XTF with an image zoomer to display a large collection of historic photographs and maps, as well as using XTF for search and display of descriptive metadata.

Lightly customized implementations include:

  • OhioLink Finding Aids Repository (http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/), this consortium of archives, libraries, and other institutions in the state of Ohio uses the default XTF implementation with dedicated branding and other slight modifications.
  • University of Buffalo Finding Aids (http://libweb1.lib.buffalo.edu:8080/findingaids/search) uses a basic XTF application to enable browse and search of collection guides from the university’s archival and manuscript collections.

The new site serves as an expanded resource for programmers, librarians, and the general public to explore and implement the Java and XSLT 2.0-based framework.  Features include:

For a full list of XTF’s features and benefits, as well as a technical overview, please visit http://xtf.cdlib.org/about or address queries to Martin Haye at Martin.Haye@ucop.edu.

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Lisa Schiff, Ph.D.
Technical Lead
Publishing Group

California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.org/
University of California
Office of the President
415 20th Street, 4th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612-2901

510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f)

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

CFP: Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

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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

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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).

PhD scholarship on ‘Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480-1530’ at Bangor University

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Bangor University: College of Arts, Education and Humanities Fully-funded three-year PhD studentship
The Production and Reading of Polyphonic Music Sources, 1480-1530 (PRoMS)

Applications are invited for a fully-funded research studentship (fees and stipend at AHRC level, currently at GBP 13,590), as part of this major research project funded by the AHRC. The studentship will begin on 1 December 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. The topic of the PhD will be, broadly conceived, ‘Music, Words and Image in Printed Sources of Polyphony, 1500-1530’. The student will work as part of an interdisciplinary research team, led by Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste. The research project is based in Bangor but involves a partnership with the Warburg Institute (University of London), the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM), and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College, London).

We are looking for a musicologist, but one with interdisciplinary interests in art history, codicology, and the history of the book. Candidates should have completed appropriate research training or have equivalent research experience.

For more information on the studentship and the project, see http://www.bangor.ac.uk/scholarships/proms.php.en

The studentship is open to UK and EU applicants. For the latter, the full stipend is only payable if the appropriate residency requirements are fulfilled – see the AHRC’s Guide to Student Eligibility Version 1.1, Dec 2009, available on the AHRC website.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to the project director, Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste (mus205@bangor.ac.uk).

The closing date for applications is

Friday 24 September

Interviews will be held in Bangor on Friday 8 October 2010.

Posted by: Thomas Schmidt-Beste (mus205@bangor.ac.uk).