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Posted on March 13, 2018 by Chris

As always, the Medieval Academy of America will have a strong presence at the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13).

1) The Friday morning plenary, sponsored by the Academy, will be delivered by Sara Ritchey (Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville), “‘Salvation is Medicine’: The Medieval Production and Gendered Erasures of Therapeutic Knowledge” (Friday, 8:30 AM, Bernhard, East Ballroom). Two related sessions organized by Prof. Ritchey and Prof. Monica Green will take place on Friday at 10 AM (Session 211) and 3:30 PM (Session 326). Both sessions will take place in the Bernhard Brown & Gold Room.

2) On Friday at 10 AM, the Graduate Student Committee is sponsoring a roundtable titled “Meet the Editors: Tips and Techniques on Article Submission for Graduate Students (Session 183, Schneider 1220). The GSC reception will take place on Thursday at 5:30 PM in Fetzer 1035.

3) The Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) is sponsoring two panels this year. The first, “The Twenty-First-Century Medievalist: Digital Methods, Career Diversity, and Beyond,” will take place on Thursday at 1:30 PM (Session 47, Valley III, Eldridge 309). The second, “Teaching a Diverse and Inclusive Middle Ages,” will take place on Saturday at 10 AM (Session 388, Bernhard 208).

4) The annual CARA Luncheon will take place on Friday at noon (Bernhard, President’s Dining Room). If you would like to attend as a representative of your program or institution, please register online. There is no fee to attend, but pre-registration is required. All are welcome!

5) Finally, we invite you to stop by our staffed table in the exhibit hall to introduce yourself, transact any Medieval Academy business you may have, or pick up some chocolate to keep you going during those long afternoon sessions.

See you at the ‘Zoo!

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Conferences – From Iceland to the Americas

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Chris

From Iceland to the Americas, September 24-26, 2018, at the University of Notre Dame

A three-day international conference exploring the impact that brief medieval Norse settlements have had on cultural imagination in and of the Americas – in novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films, and video games. Speakers: Christopher Abram, Adolf Friðriksson, Dustin Geeraert, Simon Halink, Kevin J. Harty, Jón Karl Helgason, Verena Höfig, Seth Lerer, Emily Lethbridge, T. W. Machan, Amy Mulligan, Heather O’Donoghue, Matthew Scribner, Angela Sorby, Bergur Þorgeirsson.

https://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/coe/coe_p1_all.aspx?oc=10&cc=ALLREG#SEPTEMBER2018

For additional information, contact Tim Machan (tmachan@nd.edu)

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Paradigms and Personae in the Medieval World: A Symposium in Honor of Elizabeth A. R. Brown

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Chris

March 16, 2017, 9:30am-6:00pm (Skylight Room)

Peggy Brown’s distinguished scholarly career has been dedicated to combating inherited paradigms (“feudalism”) and pursuing personae (Philippe le Bel). Join us in celebrating her scholarship at a one-day conference on March 16, 2018, at the Graduate Center. Additional information including complete program will be available soon.

Organized by Sara McDougall, Bonnie Wheeler, and Nancy Wu

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Call for Applications – Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Research Fellowship

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Chris

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2018-2019 Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. SIMS oversees an extensive collection of pre-modern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age and publishes the journal Manuscript Studies.

The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the pre-modern manuscript collections held by Penn Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Located in the heart of Penn’s campus near other manuscript-rich research collections (the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Science History Institute, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for research and collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term.

Applications are due May 1, 2018. For more information on eligibility and the application process, go to: https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships-2/.

For more information on SIMS, go to http://schoenberginstitute.org/. For more information on the Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, go to http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/schoenberg. On Penn’s pre-modern manuscript holdings in general, go to: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren.

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Conferences – The Sacral and the Secular: Early Medieval Political Theology

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Chris

The Sacral and the Secular: Early Medieval Political Theology
Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
28 June 2018

The study of early medieval political theology has seen a resurgence in recent years, with scholars overturning the assumptions of previous generations about sacral kingship and turning to new sources such as biblical exegesis. This one-day conference will explore the latest thinking on the subject, with particular attention to the idea of the secular during the early Middle Ages.

Robert Markus influentially argued that the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe witnessed a progressive ‘de-secularization’ but recent work has questioned this analysis. As confidence in the progressive secularization of the contemporary world has faltered in the past generation, now seems an appropriate time to explore how concepts of the secular and de-secularization can shed light on the early Middle Ages.

This conference brings together scholars working on different aspects of early medieval political theology to examine the question of the secular in law, administration, historiography and gender, among other areas. The aim is to stimulate further research and collaboration in a fruitful field of early medieval history.

For more information, including the programme and registration details, visit: https://earlymedievalpoliticaltheology.wordpress.com

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Belle Da Costa Greene Fund

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Chris

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce the establishment of the Belle Da Costa Greene Fund.

Belle Da Costa Greene (1883-1950) was a prominent art historian and the first manuscript librarian of the Pierpont Morgan collection. She was also the first known person of color and second woman to be elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (1939). According to the Morgan Library & Museum website, “Greene was barely twenty when Morgan hired her, yet her intelligence, passion, and self-confidence eclipsed her relative inexperience, [and] she managed to help build one of America’s greatest private libraries.” She was, just as importantly, a black woman who had to pass as white in order to gain entrance and acceptance into the racially fraught professional landscape of early twentieth-century New York. Her legacy highlights the professional difficulties faced by medievalists of color, the personal sacrifices they make in order to belong to the field, and their extraordinary contributions to Medieval Studies.

Once the endowment goal of $45,000 has been reached, the Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to a member of the Medieval Academy of America for research and travel. This is one of several incipient actions designed to make the Medieval Academy of America a more welcoming place for all medievalists.

Click here to donate to the Belle Da Costa Greene Fund.

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Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Chris

UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts

Application Deadline: March 1, 2018

Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts support the use of UCLA Library Special Collections’ extensive holdings in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and printed books. These include the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine and Early Italian Printing Collections; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Bourbon del Monte de San Faustino Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts. The fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who need to utilize these collections for graduate-level or postdoctoral independent research.

Graduate students or scholars holding a PhD who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, or independent

research are invited to apply. Recipients will receive a stipend of $2500/month for fellowships lasting up to three months. Those receiving fellowships will be requested to make a presentation for CMRS or Library Special Collections, and at the end of their stay at UCLA will be asked to write a final report on their research and the materials consulted.

If you are awarded an Ahmanson Research Fellowship, CMRS staff members will assist you with these additional requirements:

Non-UCLA graduate students must apply for a Visiting Graduate Researcher (VGR) appointment and pay the associated fees. Students from other University of California campuses may be able to come to UCLA as Intercampus Exchange Students.
PhD scholars, including those holding faculty positions at other institutions, must be approved for without-salary visiting academic appointments at UCLA.
Non-US citizens must secure the proper visa for travel to the U.S.

Please be aware that the UCLA is unable to provide housing for fellows or visiting scholars. Before applying for the fellowship, we recommend that you consider the cost of living in Los Angeles, California.

This award is for fellowships to be taken between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019.

The application should include:

Cover letter
Curriculum vitae
Outline of research and special collections to be used (two pages maximum)
Dates to be spent in residence
Two letters of recommendation from faculty or other scholars familiar with the research project.
Application materials may be submitted by e-mail (PDF format preferred) to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu, or by mail to:

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Attention: Ahmanson Fellowships
302 Royce Hall
Box 951485
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

Online at http://cmrs.ucla.edu/awards-fellowships/ahmanson

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Call for Papers – Revisiting the Codex Buranus: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Chris

Revisiting the Codex Buranus: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

26–28 July 2018, Universität Brixen

Arguably one of the best known, most studied, yet least understood manuscripts of the Middle Ages, the Codex Buranus (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4660/4660a) sits uncomfortably within the institutionalised context of the modern academy. Of interest to scholars of Latin, French, and German lyric, to historians of music and theatre, to those concerned with processes of cultural transfer and modern reception, the thirteenth-century songbook has found much attention within a range of individual disciplines but has so far failed to generate sustained scholarly exchange across these field — notwithstanding the detailed, comprehensive commentary provided in the editions of Alfons Hilka and Otto Schumann, Bernhard Bischoff, Benedikt Konrad Vollmann, and David A. Traill.

Revisiting the Codex Buranus seeks to bridge the gap between the well-established discourses that surround the Codex Buranus, its songs and plays. An international team of leading scholars will gather at the University of Brixen between 26 and 28 July 2018 in order to engage in dialogue across such disciplinary boundaries, seeking to distil current scholarly opinion on the manuscript and to point out new avenues for further research. Papers will cover the broad range of (song) genres contained in the Codex Buranus, its organising principles and contexts of composition, as well as issues of notation, plurilingualism, contrafacture, and reception.

Thanks to generous funding from the Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften and the Universität Bozen we are able to invite additional contributions on any topic relating to the Codex Buranus and its repertoire. We will be able to provide full funding (travel & accommodation) for up to five doctoral or early career researchers from any discipline. Proposals for 30-minute papers should include an abstract of 300 words and a one-page CV. These materials should be sent to henry.hope@musik.unibe.ch no later than Monday, 5 March, 9am (GMT).

WHO: doctoral and early career researchers from any discipline

WHAT: 30-minute papers relating to the Codex Buranus and its repertoire

MATERIALS: abstract of 300 words; one-page CV

DEADLINE: 5 March 2018, 9am (GMT)

FURTHER INFORMATION: henry.hope@musik.unibe.ch

https://henryhopemusicology.wordpress.com/revisiting-the-codex-buranus/call-for-papers/

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Jobs for Medievalists

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Chris

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Apply now Job no:502991
Area:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Salary (FTE):Academic Level A ($64,533.50 – $87,535.13)
Work type:Full Time – Fixed Term
Location: St Lucia, Brisbane

The School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry

The School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry is a dynamic team with a reputation for innovative approaches to teaching and research excellence. We consider and explore how human beings have ordered and made sense of their world throughout history, from ancient times through to the present, and how this informs our futures. Our disciplinary groupings of Classics and Ancient History, Studies in Religion, Philosophy and History are united by this common intellectual quest, and are mutually reinforced and supported by each discipline’s distinct approaches, perspectives and methodologies.

The role

The primary purpose of the position is to work with and alongside the Head of the School (HoS), to conduct research in the broad area of medieval cultural and social history. The postdoctoral fellow will undertake her/his own research project, as well as make a contribution to teaching in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry.

The person

Applicants should have completed a PhD within the past three years in the area of history, medieval history or medieval studies. They should have demonstrated capacity to conduct research of a high quality in the area of medieval history; excellent academic skills; capacity to write academic publications of a high quality; some undergraduate or postgraduate teaching experience in history; relevant language knowledge including some knowledge of Latin; and ability to work as part of a team.

The University of Queensland values diversity and inclusion.

Applications are particularly encouraged from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For further information please contact our Australian Indigenous Employment Coordinator at: atsi_recruitment@uq.edu.au

Applications are also encouraged from women.

Remuneration

This is a full-time fixed term 3 year appointment at Academic Level A. The remuneration package will be in the range $78,552 – $87,535 p.a., plus employer superannuation contributions of up to 17% (total package will be in the range $91,905 – $102,415 p.a.).

Position Description

502991_NEW_Postdoctoal Research Fellow PD.pdf

Enquiries

To discuss this role please contact Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch at m.cassidywelch@uq.edu.au.

To submit an application for this role, use the Apply button below. All applicants must supply the following documents: Cover letter, Resume and Selection Criteria responses.

For information on completing the application process click here.

Advertised: 16 Feb 2018
Applications close: 02 Apr 2018 (11:55 PM) E. Australia Standard Time

Web: https://hapi.uq.edu.au/profile/359/kriston-rennie