MAA News – 2018 Dissertation Grants

The nine endowed and named Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants support advanced graduate students in medieval studies.

Nicole Genevieve Corrigan (Emory University), “Inventing the Virgen del Sagrario: Castilian Images of the Virgin and Visual Strategies of Devotion” (Hope Emily Allen Dissertation Grant)

Dominique DeLuca (Case Western Reserve University), “Shadows in Fifteenth-Century Secular Manuscripts” (Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant)

Jacob Westbrook Doss (University of Texas at Austin), “Making Monastic Men: Reforming the Novitiate in the Long Twelfth Century” (John Boswell Dissertation Grant)

Shannon Emily Gilmore (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Miracles at the Margins: The Popular Piety of Miraculous Images in Quattrocento Tuscany” (Grace Frank Dissertation Grant)

Rachel McNellis (Case Western Reserve University), “Imitating Christ in Late-Medieval Picture Music: Notated Scores as Visual Images and Transformative Spaces” (E. K. Rand Dissertation Grant)

Adam C. Matthews (Columbia University), “Law, Liturgy, and Space in Medieval Catalonia, 850-1100” (Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant)

Leah Pope Parker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Body Eschatology: Disability, Death, and the Afterlife in Early Medieval England” (Robert and Janet Lumiansky Dissertation Grant)

Jake Purcell (Columbia University), “Parsing Truth in Merovingian Gaul: Evidence and the Early Medieval Critic” (Charles Tuttle Wood Dissertation Grant)

Kalina Yamboliev (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Narratives of Belonging: Hagiography and Community Identity in Southern Italy and Sicily, c. 950-1150” (Frederic C. Lane Dissertation Grant)

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MAA News – Call for Subvention Applications

Medieval Academy Publication Subventions:
Applications Due May 1

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides grants of up to $2,500 to university or other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members. The deadline for proposals is 1 May 2018.

Click here for more information

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MAA News – Travel Grants: Upcoming Deadline

The Medieval Academy provides a limited number of travel grants to help Academy members who hold doctorates but are not in full-time faculty positions, or are contingent faculty without access to institutional funding, attend conferences to present their work. Deadline: 1 May for meetings to be held between 1 September 2018 and 15 February 2019. Click here for more information and to apply.

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Lecture: Place History and Architectural Origin Stories in Early Byzantium, April 12, 2018

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2017–2018 lecture series:

Thursday, April 12, 2017, 6:15–7:45 pm

Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Place History and Architectural Origin Stories in Early Byzantium: Vestiges and Sense Memory

Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California

Ann Marie Yasin discusses architectural restoration in the early Byzantine world as a tool for accessing contemporary understandings of the past.

Details at https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/place-history-and-architectural-origin-stories.

Mary Jaharis Center lectures are co-sponsored by Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

For questions, contact Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture (mjcbac@hchc.edu).

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Call for Papers – Interstellar Skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature Through the Ages

Interstellar skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature through the Ages
Hven, Sweden (connections via Copenhagen), 4th–6th August 2018

Keynotes
Lisa R. Messeri (Yale), anthropologist of science and technology
Matthew Francis (Aberystwyth), British poet and author

Journeys to the moon, visions of the Earth in space, and manned voyages among the stars may epitomise the technological achievement of the Apollo Era, but they have been sources of inspiration to thinkers, poets, and artists since antiquity.

This interdisciplinary symposium, hosted by the Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense and York), seeks to bring together specialists in literary studies, the natural sciences, and the anthropology of space exploration to think about the lunar passage in literature, and the kinds of cultural commentary it has enabled. We will ask how literatures – from Cicero’s Dream of Scipio to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince – conceptualized the Earth’s planetary condition, and theorized human futures in space. We will also examine the ways in which the European Middle Ages is invoked in discourses about space exploration today: from the Ulysses and Viking space probes, to ongoing discourses about space ‘colonisation’. We invite papers from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives on any topic related to the historical perception of space. We are particularly interested in perspectives that traverse periodisations and historical moments. Topics may include:

Perceptions of space in premodern literature

Lunar travel narratives
Premodern ‘science fictions’
The anthropology of space exploration
Views of the Earth from space
Literature and technology
Classicisms and medievalisms in space exploration

The symposium will commemorate the half-centenary of Earthrise (1968), one of the earliest – and most famous – images of the Earth from the moon’s surface, at the place where the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe had his observatory.

Please send abstracts (c. 300 words) and a short biography to Dale Kedwards (kedwards@sdu.dk) at the Centre for Medieval Literature no later than 14th May 2018.

http://cml.sdu.dk/event/interstellar-skies-the-lunar-passage-in-literature-through-the-ages

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Inaugural CARMEN Prizewinners Announced

CARMEN is very pleased to announce the winners of the first annual CARMEN Prize: Overall winner James Smith and team for their project on manuscripts in conflict zones; special commendations to Elizabeth L’Estrange on ‘Redefining Women and the Book’, and Paul Sturtevant for a medieval podcast idea. For more, see http://www.carmen-medieval.net/project-prize/

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Historical Notation Bootcamp, Aug. 6-10, 2018

Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University) and Andrew Hicks (Cornell University) and are delighted to announce that the third annual Historical Notation Bootcamp (https://blogs.cornell.edu/hnb/) will be held August 6–10, 2018 at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, with the generous support of Yale University and Cornell University. This four-and-a-half-day seminar offers a primer in the theoretical grounding and practical know-how of medieval musical notations, from neumes to early print sources. Get the basic skills you need to work with musical sources, make sense of source-based analyses, and sing from original notation.

The event is open to graduate students in all fields of study, as well as undergraduates headed into graduate studies. No previous knowledge of historical notation will be assumed, but experience with modern music notation is assumed. The seminar is free of charge (including materials). Financial assistance to partially defray the costs of lodging and/or travel may be available for those students who do not have institutional support. We are now accepting online applications at

https://form.jotform.us/notation_bootcamp/application

Please note that the application requires a statement of intent (max. 500 words) and a current CV. We will accept applications through May 1 and will get back to applicants shortly thereafter.

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The Bogliasco Foundation Announces New Art History Fellowship

The Bogliasco Foundation is pleased to announce a new residential Fellowship for an American scholar in European art history. The five-week Fellowship, which will take place at the Foundation’s Study Center near Genoa during the Spring 2019 semester, includes full room and board and a travel stipend of $1000. The Fellowship is open to American art historians of all ages who are working on pre-modern projects (antiquity to early 19th century), and who are not currently in a degree-granting program. For complete instructions and eligibility details, kindly consult the Foundation’s online application site at http://www.bfny.org/en/apply The deadline to apply is April 15th, 2018.

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The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites submissions for the 9th Annual Postgraduate Workshop

The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites submissions for the 9th Annual Postgraduate Workshop

This year’s topic: “Experience and Experiment:
Materiality of (al)chemical texts and objects”

Hosted by: The Royal Institution, London, UK

To be held on: June 29th, 2018

SHAC’s annual series of workshops fosters interdisciplinary exchange among graduate students and early career scholars from any field whose work engages with the history of alchemy and chemistry.

We welcome abstracts that deal with this year’s topic within any historical period and geographical region. Projects pertaining to the material aspects of alchemical and chemical books, instruments, manuscripts, structures, substances, and other creative interpretations of this year’s theme are encouraged. Please be prepared to give a short presentation of your work and provide feedback for other’s pre-circulated papers.

There will be a keynote presentation from Professor Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University) as well as a guided tour of the chemical texts and objects housed at the Royal Institution led by Head of Collections, Professor Frank James.

Please send a 350 word abstract and CV by 31 March, 2018 to SHAC Student Representative, Megan Piorko, at studentrep@ambix.org. If applicable, indicate your interest in a competitive travel stipend.

Sponsored by the Royal Institution and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry.

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Call for Papers – Monsters and Medievalism

Monsters and Medievalism

Sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture for the Medieval & Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association

29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association

Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland

8-10 November 2018

Proposals due by 30 June 2018

Monsters remain fascinating subjects, and intense discussion in recent years has focused on their representation in medieval texts, including stories as well as the art of the period. However, scholars have largely neglected the post-medieval afterlife of these horrors in later works. Monstrous entities manufactured to exist within re-creations of the Middle Ages in contemporary media share a similar fate in the academy. In short, medievalists appear to like monsters, but they do not always seem willing to explore their depictions in modern texts. Despite this neglect, the monsters found in medievalisms have merit in our classrooms and research, and we need to promote their exploits as well as those of the creatures existing within medieval artifacts.

In furtherance of the goals of The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, we seek in this panel to unite Medieval Studies, Medievalism Studies, Monster Studies, and Popular Culture Studies to highlight connections between medieval monstrosities and their post-medieval incarnations and successors. We hope to explore both continuity and change in addressing how terrors rooted in the medieval have been portrayed and how their inheritors have been developed.

Possible topics might include:

Demons

Dracula

Dragons

Elves/Fairies/Tuatha Dé Danann

Fomorians

Gargoyles

Giants

Golems

The Green Knight

The Grendelkin

Incubi/Sucubi

Loathly Ladies

Melusine

Merlin

Revenants

Shrek

Werewolves

Wild Men / Wild Women

Witches

Presentations will be limited to 10-15 minutes depending on final panel size.

Interested individuals should, no later than 30 June 2018, notify the organizers of their topic via email directed to MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com using “Monsters and Medievalism” as their subject heading. They will also need create an account with the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association at https://mapaca.net/conference AND submit into the system both an abstract of no more than 300 words and an academic biographical narrative of no more than 75 words.

Again, please send inquiries and copies of your submissions to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com using “Monsters and Medievalism” as the subject heading.

In planning your proposal, please be aware of the policies of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (available at https://mapaca.net/help/conference/submitting-abstracts-conference).

Further details on The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture can be found at its website: https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.

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