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Call for Papers – ‘Transforming Male Devotional Practices’ from the Medieval to the Early Modern

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Chris

‘Transforming Male Devotional Practices’
from the medieval to the early modern
University of Huddersfield
16^th and 17^th September 2015

This conference is co-hosted with the Universities of Reading and Liverpool Hope. It aims to explore the social, economic and spatial factors underpinning the changing way ordinary men demonstrated their commitment to God and the church(es) in a period of significant turmoil. Papers that address English male devotional experience from historical, literary, gender studies and material culture perspectives are welcomed. Suggested themes include:

Religion and Society: Domestic piety and lay/household Catholicism.
Material Culture and ritual objects.
The economy of piety: indulgences, relics and paying for piety.
Personal and public piety: Continuity and change over the medieval and early modern periods.
Devotional reading, writing and performance.
Geography, place and space in Catholic piety.

Please send proposals to: devotionalpracticeconference@gmail.com by 22^nd June 2015.

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Jobs for Medievalists

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Chris

Digital Projects and Archives Librarian, Middlebury College, Vermont

Located in the scenic Green Mountains of Vermont, Middlebury College is a nationally recognized liberal arts college that offers graduate and specialized programs operating around the world. Middlebury employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation, competitive benefits, and access to top-notch facilities for education, research and recreation.

Middlebury seeks a Digital Projects and Archives Librarian to join its Special Collections & Archives. Reporting to the Director and Curator of Special Collections, the Digital Projects and Archives Librarian contributes to the shaping of digital collections and digital archives at the Middlebury College Library.

The Digital Projects and Archives Librarian plays a key role in sustaining the Middlebury College Library’s existing digital collections, facilitates the creation of new online digital content, and works collaboratively across the College on digital collections and born-digital archives infrastructure. Ideal candidates will have a background in special collections or archival settings, experience building or managing digital library collections, and a steadfast belief in the value of unique primary research materials and archives to undergraduate education. EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability.

The hiring range for this position is $57,851 to $76,670.

To view the full job description and to apply online, please visit: https://middlebury.peopleadmin.com/postings/10754

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The 38th Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Chris

25–30 July 2015
Saturday to Thursday

Expert tuition in small groups for those who need to read medieval and early modern documents for local and national history.

Courses range from introductions to medieval Latin and palaeography to more advanced ones on specialist topics.

Attended by local historians, postgraduate students, and archivists from UK and abroad.

Held in Keele University’s attractive campus in North Staffordshire.

For further information please visit the website:

www.eventsforce.net/lpss2015

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MAA News – Visiting Scholars

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Chris

We invite you to submit information about international scholars who will be visiting your institution during the upcoming academic year.

This information will be posted on our website and will assist colleagues in Medieval Studies programs that do not currently provide visiting positions, offering them the possibility of inviting an international scholar to their campus to deliver a lecture without incurring the expense of an international airfare.

Please click here to access the Visiting Scholar Form.

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MAA News – 2016 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Chris

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The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy will take place in Boston from February 25-27.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2014 or 2015; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration will be given to individuals whose field would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

Location: Boston is home to numerous universities, art museums, and performing arts companies. Hosted by several Boston-area institutions, the meeting will convene at the Hyatt, across the street from the renovated Opera House and in the heart of Boston’s theater district. The final reception will be held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Theme(s): Rather than an overarching theme, the 2016 meeting will provide a variety of thematic connections among sessions. The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative sessions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. To both facilitate and emphasize interdisciplinarity, the Call for Papers is organized in “threads.” Sessions listed under these threads have been proposed to or by the Program Committee but the list provided below is not meant to be exhaustive or exclusive.

Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper in one of the sessions below, a full panel of papers and speakers for a listed session, a full panel of papers and speakers for a session they wish to create, or a single paper not designated for a specific session.

Sessions usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length, although the committee is interested in other formats as well (poster sessions, digital experiences, etc). The Program Committee may choose a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed.

The complete Call for Papers with additional information, submission procedures, selections guidelines, and organizers is available here. The due date for proposals is May 1.

Please contact the Program Committee at MAA2016@TheMedievalAcademy.org with any questions.

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MAA News – Award Announcements

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Chris

The American Council of Learned Societies has just announced its 2015 Fellows, and several members of the Medieval Academy are among them:

Andrew J. Albin (Assistant Professor, English, Fordham University) – Richard Rolle’s Melody of Love: Alliterative Translation and Commentary

Albrecht Diem (Associate Professor, History, Syracuse University) – Norm and Community: Early Medieval Monastic Rules and the Development of Regular Observance

Elina Gertsman (Associate Professor, Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University) – Figuring Absence: Empty Spaces in Late Medieval Art

Thomas F. Madden (Professor, History, Saint Louis University) – The Lion and the Cross: Crusade, Memory, and Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Venice

Tanya Stabler Miller (Associate Professor, History and Political Science, Purdue University, Calumet) – Men, Women, and Religious Education in Medieval France

Several members of the Medieval Academy have recently been awarded grants from The National Endowment for the Humanities:

Jeffrey Hamburger (Project Director, working with William P. Stoneman, Lisa Fagin Davis, Nancy Netzer, and Anne-Marie Eze), Pages from the Past: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston-Area Collections (Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation)

Jenny Adams (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Student Debt and University Life in Medieval Oxford (Summer Stipend)

Jennifer Feltman (independent scholar), Moral Theology and the Cathedral: Sculpted Programs of the Last Judgment in Thirteenth-Century France (Summer Stipend)

Damian Fleming (Purdue University at Fort Wayne), Understanding Hebrew Alphabets in Early Medieval Manuscripts (Summer Stipend)

The National Science Foundation has made a major award to Patrick Geary (Institute for Advanced Study) and Krishna Veeramah (Stony Brook University) to “use advanced ancient DNA analysis to clarify the nature of the medieval ‘barbarian’ societies from which many modern-day Europeans still trace their national identities.”