Call for Papers – Canada Chaucer Seminar

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Chris

The fifth annual Canada Chaucer Seminar will be held at the University of Toronto on Saturday, April 27th, 2013. The aim of the seminar is to provide a one-day forum that will bring together scholars, from Canada and elsewhere, working on Chaucer and on late medieval literature and culture.

The 2013 gathering will include plenary papers by Ardis Butterfield (Yale) and James Weldon (Wilfrid Laurier), several sessions of conference papers, and a concluding roundtable.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute conference papers on any aspect late medieval English literary culture.  Submit one-page abstracts by 15 January 2013 to:

william.robins@utoronto.ca

and

gisellegos@fas.harvard.edu

William Robins
Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies University of
Toronto
416-585-4432
william.robins@utoronto.ca

Dr. Giselle Gos
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of English
Harvard University
gisellegos@fas.harvard.edu

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Medievalia 15 (2012) is On-Line Now

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Chris

The publication  Medievalia 15 (2012),  is on-line now:

http://revistes.uab.cat/medievalia/issue/current

Medievalia is the journal published by the Institute of Medieval Studies(IEM)  of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Founded in 1980, its main purpose is to become a means of spreading research and ground-breaking ideas about the Middle Ages, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It also publishes the proceedings of symposia and round tables yearly organized by the IEM, a wide range of critical reviews of the most recent bibliography, as well as the studies and seminars by the research groups linked to the IEM.

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MAA Executive Committee Decisions 11/17/2012

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Chris

1. The Executive Committee strongly endorses the CARA proposal to combine their annual meeting with the MAA Annual Meeting.

2. The Executive Committee instructs Committee on Professional Development to reevaluate the summer scholarship program based on information that would be gathered by the Executive Director on the number of CARA Summer Programs.

3. The Executive Committee accepted the general principle of a confidentiality policy — pending revision of the document presented and additions required according to appropriate laws — for final wording to be approved at the January meeting.

4. The Executive Committee agreed to publish its resolutions on the blog and under the governance tab on the MAA website in a timely manner.

5. The Executive Committee approved the proposed 2013 budget.

6. The Executive Committee agreed to incorporate the Graduate Student Handbook into the Administrative Handbook.

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Applications are now being accepted for Columbia’s new MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Chris

The MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides the opportunity to undertake graduate level work in any relevant field of interest. The program is appropriate for students who will go on to apply to PhD programs as well as for those who wish to complete a terminal MA. Students choose from a wide range of courses, develop their skills in relevant languages, and are introduced to the study of manuscripts and early printed books. The MA culminates in a final thesis in which students develop an original research project.

For more information, visit: medren.columbia.edu  or contact: medren@columbia.edu

Description of Program

The curriculum requires coursework totaling 30 points (credits), including an MA thesis. Students generally take four courses each semester, one of which is a language course. In the second semester, one of the three non-language courses will involve preparation of the MA thesis (G6999), which will likely be completed over the summer. The program requires one elective course focusing on the study of manuscripts, documents, or early printed books (a list of approved courses will be provided at the beginning of each term). The program’s flexible structure enables students (in consultation with their academic advisors) to design a course of study that meets their goals.

Although most MA students attend full-time, they may also obtain the MA through part-time study during the academic year; they can also enroll during the summer. But it is a requirement of the program that part-time students complete the degree in no more than 4 years, and that they be continuously registered.

Requirements

  1. Language study. Two semesters of a language relevant to the study of the medieval and/or Renaissance period at the 4000 level or higher, appropriate for the student’s particular needs and interests; one semester of the course must be taken in the fall and one in the spring. Medieval and Renaissance Philology (G6020) counts toward this requirement.
  2. Manuscript/Print Culture. One one-semester course involving the study of original manuscripts, documents, or early printed books (selected from a list established each year by the Director of the MA program).
  3. Four semesters of elective courses at the 4000 level or higher, selected from a list established each year by the Director of the MA program, and approved by the student’s appointed advisor.
  4. Two semesters of registration in MA Thesis (G6999).
  5. Courses may be taken for R-credit or Pass/Fail, but these courses do not count toward the degree.
  6. No advanced standing or transfer credit is granted for courses taken outside of Columbia University.

Note: All courses will be at the 4000 level and above. The MA thesis course (G6999) is pursued as an independent study with an advisor or advisors.

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Call For Papers – Corpus: the Body in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Chris

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce its Third Annual Undergraduate Conference entitled “Corpus: the Body in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.”  The conference will take place on April 19, 2013 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  They are currently calling for abstracts from interested undergraduates.

Medieval and Renaissance views of the body have come to us from a rich trove of sources, from poetic portrayals in texts to mappae mundi to figures sculpted from stone.   This conference seeks to address the numerous and changing depictions of bodies during the early periods from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.   Some potential topics include holy and unholy bodies, the body as metaphor, theatrical portrayals of bodies, the body in music, medieval medicine and the advent of anatomy, the body in pain and at play, superstitions and the gendered body, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish perspectives on bodies, depictions of bodies in art and print, bodies bound by canon and secular law, and monstrous races.

All submitters should send an abstract of no more than 250 words, including their name and college affiliation (if applicable), to mylitalo@utk.edu by no later than February 4, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 19.   Additionally, the Marco Institute plans to award seven $100 travel grants to non-UT students on a competitive basis.   A $250 prize funded by Keith Taylor will be awarded to the best paper presentation. A $15 registration fee will be collected on the day of the conference.

The plenary speaker is Elina Gertsman, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University.  She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010) and the editor of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (2010), Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History (2011) and Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces (2012).

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Lire le ‘Roman de la Rose’ aujourd’hui

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Chris

Lire le Roman de la Rose aujourd’hui. Journée d’étude (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterand). – http://www.bnf.fr/documents/cp_roman_rose_aujourd_hui.pdf

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Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies – Call for Applications

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Chris

Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies –
Call for Applications

All Nominations due February 4, 2013

The Council for European Studies (CES) invites eligible graduate students to apply for the 2013 Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies.  Each fellowship includes a $25,000 stipend, paid in six (6) bi-monthly installments over the course of the fellowship year, as well as assistance in securing reimbursements or waivers in eligible health insurance and candidacy fees.

Winners of the Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships will also be expected to participate in a number of professional development activities organized by the Council for European Studies for the benefit of its fellows and designed to support early career development.  These activities include: publishing in Perspectives on Europe, a semi-annual journal of the Council for European studies; presenting at the International Conference of Europeanists, hosted by the Council for European Studies; and participating in several digital and in-person career development seminars and/or workshops.

The Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Eligibility:
Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships are intended to facilitate the timely completion of the doctoral degree by late-stage graduate students focusing on topics in European Studies.  To be eligible an applicant must be ABD, must be enrolled at a higher education institution in the U.S., and can have no more than one full year of dissertation work remaining at the start of the fellowship year as certified by his or her dissertation advisor.  The applicant must also have exhausted the dissertation completion funding normally provided by his or her academic department or university, and he or she must be working on a topic within or substantially overlapping European Studies.

To be eligible to receive the fellowship, applicants must also be enrolled in an institution that is a member of the CES Academic Consortium.  However, students whose universities are not currently members of the CES consortium may apply, but they are encouraged to apply early in the application season so that every effort may be made to enroll the institution in the CES member consortium and, thus, establish the student’s eligibility by the application deadline.

Deadlines:
Applications are due (along with all supporting materials) on or before February 4, 2013.

For more information, visit: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/grants-and-awards/dissertation-completion.

If you have any questions about this prize or the Council, please contact ces@columbia.edu.

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Yale Mellon Grant

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Chris

Yale awarded $650,000 Mellon Foundation grant to apply new digital tools to medieval manuscript research.

http://news.yale.edu/2012/12/10/mellon-grant-yale-helps-scholars-create-new-digital-tools-study-medieval-manuscripts#.UMZgArtuzGg.email.

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27th International Congress of Papyrology

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Chris

27th International Congress of Papyrology (Warsaw, University of Warsaw). – Call for papers (until 28.II.2013). –
http://papyrocongress2013.wpia.uw.edu.pl/index.htm

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Conferences: The French of Outremer: Communities, Communications, Confabulations

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Chris

Announcing:
34th Annual Conference
Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
The French of Outremer: Communities, Communications, Confabulations

Saturday March 28, 2014
with related activities Sunday, March 29, 2014
Lincoln Center Campus, New York City

The 34th annual conference of Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies is an extension of its French of Outremer Project (www.fordham.edu/frenchofoutremer). This project aims to expand awareness of the French-language writings produced in Outremer (the settlements established in the lands of the near East after the First Crusade until the sixteenth century) and the communities in which these texts were produced. To date, these texts and communities have principally received scholarly attention from art historians, scholars of language and literature, and historians.  Given the wide variety of works belonging to the French-language corpus of Outremer, the conference will offer a platform for work across disciplines to view these texts in a new light, as products of an environment in which the French language was a viable and often desirable linguistic option.

We encourage work on a wide range of topics related to the French of Outremer, including:

–          Differences between the real and the imagined Outremer;
–          The cultural identities of communities in the Latin East and the mechanisms that perpetuated or contravened these identities;
–          Ties developed with the West through crusading, pilgrimage, and merchant activities and their contributions to the “French” quality of these communities;
–          Single texts or textual traditions that originated or were preserved in Outremer;
–          French-language translations in the Latin East;
–          The role of Outremer in the diversification of French-language genres or French-inspired cultural products (art, architecture, legal and intellectual concepts, sacred or urban spaces);
–          The place of Outremer within a Francophone medieval world.

One of the conference aims is stimulate further contributions to the website in the form of overview essays, descriptions of relevant archival material, annotations of primary and secondary sources in print, or digital tools that take advantage of new humanities software platforms.  Because the French of Outremer Project began as a digital initiative, this conference provides an excellent opportunity to foster a dialogue about how innovative digital tools promote and help develop a new and highly interdisciplinary field within Medieval Studies.

For inquiries about the conference or the French of Outremer project, contact Laura Morreale at medievals@fordham.edu, or visit our site, www.fordham.edu/mvst.

(See our calendar for more conferences)

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