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York Festival of Ideas Online
Virtual Horizons
2-14 June 2020

The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
11am, Sunday 7 June 2020
Historian Thomas Penn explores how a dynasty that could have been as magnificent as the Tudors destroyed itself in the space of one generation.
http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2020-online/calendar/brothers-york/

Warrior: A life of war in Anglo-Saxon Britain
1pm, Sunday 7 June 2020
Writers Edoardo Albert, and archaeologist Paul Gething, present the incredible story of a nameless Anglo-Saxon warrior whose bones were found at Bamburgh Castle.

http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2020-online/calendar/warrior-life/

The Anglo-Saxon Origins of Whitby Fish and Chips
4pm, Sunday 14 June 2020
Historian, Tom Pickles, reveals a new interpretation of a curious medieval ritual – the Penny Hedge – which take place in Whitby each year.
http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2020-online/calendar/fish-chips/

To view the full Festival programme, please go to http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2020-online/

The Editorial Board of the Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.

The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship, whereas research notes are often smaller in scope, focusing on a specific aspect of new research or presenting a significant finding from technical analysis. The maximum length for articles is 8,000 words (including endnotes) and 10–12 images, and for research notes 4,000 words with 4–6 images.

The process of peer review is double-blind. Manuscripts are reviewed by the Journal Editorial Board, composed of members of the curatorial, conserva­tion, and scientific departments, as well as external scholars.

Articles and Research Notes in theJournal appear both in print and online, and are accessible via MetPublications and the Journal‘s home page on the University of Chicago Press website.

The deadline for submissions for Volume 56 (2021) is September 15, 2020.

Submission guidelines:www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct

Please send materials to:journalsubmissions@metmuseum.org

Inspiration from the Collection: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

View the Journal: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/met

DEADLINE TO REGISTER AS A MENTOR OR MENTEE:
June 8, 2020

*Please note that since IMC Leeds has been cancelled due the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be running the mentorship program digitally. Because of this, anybody can participate, regardless of their Leeds 2020 attendance plans*

The Graduate Student Committee (GSC) of the Medieval Academy of America invites both those who would have attended the 2020 International Medieval Congress, hosted by the University of Leeds (6-9 July 2020), and any other interested medievalists to participate in the GSC Virtual Mentoring Program.

The GSC Mentoring Program facilitates networking between graduate students or early career scholars and established scholars by pairing student and scholar according to discipline.

Mentorship exchanges are intended to help students establish professional contacts with scholars who can offer them career advice. The primary objective of this exchange is that the relationship be active during the conference, although mentors and mentees sometimes decide to continue communication after a conference has ended.

To volunteer as a mentor (faculty, librarians, curators, independent scholars) or to sign up as a mentee, please submit the online form, linked here, by 8 June 2020.

On behalf of the committee, thank you and our best,

Julia King & Lauren Van Nest
2020-2021 Mentoring Program Coordinators

In and Beyond the Digital: Career Pathways for Humanists

A Medieval Academy of America Webinar

Wednesday, May 13, 2020
12-1 PM EDT
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85149755063
This webinar is free and open to the public. It will be recorded and posted.

In this moment of global crisis, medievalists and all those who work in the humanities face a period of increased uncertainty about the environments in which they work and operate. The National Endowment for the Humanities is a federal agency dedicated to supporting humanistic endeavors across the nation. In this talk, Hannah Alpert-Abrams from the Office of Digital Humanities will speak about career pathways for humanists in and beyond the digital, and about the role of the humanities in uncertain times. Dr. Alpert-Abrams’ presentation will be followed by a discussion period, moderated by the MAA’s Digital Humanities and Multimedia Committee. Although members of the MAA’s Graduate Student Association are the primary audience for the presentation, all are welcome. Graduate student supervisors and those working with job-seekers are especially encouraged to join.

For more information, please contact Laura Morreale, Chair, Digital Humanities and Multimedia Committee, at lmorreale3@gmail.com.

Western Michigan University’s Medieval Institute has announced the winners of the Szarmach, Gründler, and La corónica publication prizes: wmich.edu/medievalcongress/prizes.

Mise-En-Page in Medieval Manuscripts

Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM to 2:40 PM (EST)

https://www.memberplanet.com/events/bsa/mise-en-page

Investigating mise-en-page is a key area of manuscript studies. It includes a description
and evaluation of each component of the manuscript’s internal design. Such features
include the pricking and ruling for the writing grid; the arrangement of ‘information
retrieval tools’, like enlarged initials, rubrics, and intertextual space; and, when
contemporary, paratextual features, like running headers and chapter numbers.

What manuscript scholars can learn from mise-en-page can be underestimated,
as we often tend to look principally at script and decoration in and of themselves. The
arrangement of the writing grid, the placement of initials, and the use of particular tools
can indicate place of origin; while certain features, such as running headers, or where
the text is placed relative to the ruled line, can indicate date. Sometimes it is also
possible to ascertain the function of a manuscript from its mise-en-page.

In this webinar, Elaine Treharne, the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of
Humanities at Stanford University, will introduce participants to the basics of manuscript
mise-en-page, discussing manuscripts from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. The
webinar will highlight the core things to look out for, and show how attention to the
tiniest of details can happily complement other palaeographical and codicological skills
in our research.