Speculum Online

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Chris

As we reported in the December 2012 and January 2013 MAA News, MAA members now receive online access to Speculum as a new benefit of membership. The first 25 book reviews from Speculum volume 88.1 (January 2013) are now available online. The second group of reviews will be released soon, and finally the complete January issue will available online in advance of the print version. 

With the new digital edition any member can now access Speculum Online at no additional charge. Members also have access to the full extent of the Speculum archive digitized to date. This digital archive currently includes all issues back to 1955, and it will soon include the complete run of all issues going back to volume 1.1 (January 1926).

As an MAA member, you can now go to the MAA website and log in (enter your username and password). Then you can navigate under the Speculum column to the tab, “Speculum Online.” You will find on that page a brief guide and a hyperlink to the Cambridge University Press page for Speculum, and you will be able to start browsing, searching, and reading the full text of Speculum Online. No further passwords, hyperlinks, or any other access is required.

All members will continue to receive the complete print version of Speculum as it is published.

Best regards,

Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto
Executive Director and Editor of Speculum

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Conferences – Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Chris

Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond
An interdisciplinary conference in medieval studies
28 February & 1 March 2013
Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 200

This 2-day international conference brings together scholars in literature, theology, law, art history, history, and musicology, to examine the practices and values attached to the human voice in medieval cultures. The topic of voice and voicelessness engages with issues of law and representation; theology and embodiment; historicist models of subjectivity; the poetics and esthetics of marginality; and the linguistic dynamics of intercultural encounter.  The conference seeks a common ground for interdisciplinary dialogue by examining how distinct areas of scholarly endeavor approach a problem of universal resonance but elusive definition.  To support the project’s commitment to fostering dialogue, paper abstracts and selected passages from works to be discussed will be available online shortly in advance of the conference event.

For the complete program, see www.bu.edu/medieval/voice.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact kleiman@bu.edu

(See our calendar for more conferences)

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Rare Book School Courses for Medievalists

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Chris

The Rare Book School provides five-day, intensive courses for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of manuscript, printed, and born-digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the field.

The 2013 online application is now available at the Rare Book School website, http://www.rarebookschool.org/.

This year, they are presenting more than thirty courses on the history of books and printing, many of which focus on medieval manuscripts, book history, and culture. The following four courses will be of particular interest to Medievalists:

M-10 Introduction to Paleography, taking place July 22–26 in Charlottesville, VA. Taught by Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University). This course provides an introduction to the book-based scripts and the text typologies of the western European Middle Ages and the Renaissance from 800 to 1500, from Caroline minuscule through early print. The goal is to learn to read the texts (mainly in Latin). Students will learn the basic tools for working with medieval codices and begin to assess areas that can provide information on localizing and dating the manuscripts.

For more information:

http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m10/

M-20 Introduction to Western Codicology, taking place June 17–21 in Charlottesville, VA. Taught by Albert Derolez (Free Universities of Brussels).

Learn the principles of analyzing and describing Western medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The course will deal with manuscript materials, structure, layout, script and decoration, showing how to investigate and describe these features. This is a course for non-specialists, but applicants must have considerable background in the historical humanities and at least an introductory knowledge of Latin. For more information:

http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m20/

B-40 Medieval & Early Renaissance Bookbinding Structures, taking place June 17–21 in New Haven, CT. Taught by Christopher Clarkson (independent conservator). Learn about European bookbinding structures, including the identification of the main types of binding structures, their dating and provenance, and the recognition and recording of materials and techniques. The course is aimed at librarians, archivists, and art historians specializing in early books and manuscripts, and others who handle such material. The course will emphasize studies of the physical book and binding craft techniques of the period. For more information: http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/binding/b40/

M-90 Advanced Seminar: Medieval Manuscript Studies taking place June 17–21 in New Haven, CT. Taught by Barbara A. Shailor (Yale University).

This advanced course in medieval manuscript studies builds upon the skills acquired in introductory classes in paleography, codicology, and the history of the hand-produced book to deepen understanding of the varied approaches to medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. In addition to practical sessions of transcribing difficult scripts from the later Middle Ages (ca. 1200–1500), there will be workshops by Yale conservators on inks and pigments, parchment, and paper, including watermark identification. For more information:

http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m90/

For a full course schedule, additional course descriptions, and an online course application, be sure to visit the RBS website at http://rarebookschool.org/.

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Call for Presenters: Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP Spring Workshop UC Santa Cruz, May 4, 2013

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Chris

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Spring 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCSC on Saturday, May 4, 2013.  This is part of a three-day event which also includes a 2-day symposium “The Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives” to be held 2–3 May (details below).

The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, William Granara (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University). The Mediterranean Studies MRP invites proposals for workshop papers (articles or chapters in-progress) on the topic “Mediterranean Perspectives,” which may include works on Mediterranean methodologies or perspectives, or studies strongly informed by such. We seek papers in any relevant discipline, especially comparative or interdisciplinary work that uses the Mediterranean as a frame of analysis. Priority is given to faculty and graduate students from the UC system and collaborating institutions, but any North American-based scholars working on relevant material are encouraged to apply. (Scholars from further abroad are welcome to apply, but we cannot guarantee full travel support.) The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP will cover travel and lodging expenses for presenters.

The deadline for workshop proposals is March 1, 2013. Please submit an abstract (250-500 words) and two-page CV by this date to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org (subject line: Winter 2013 Abstract). Successful applicants are expected to submit a 35-page (maximum) double-spaced paper-in-progress for pre-circulation by April 14.

A separate call for workshop and symposium registration will be sent out on March 7. Workshop presenters and attendees are encouraged to attend both events.

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The program for the symposium will be announced shortly; presently confirmed speakers include:

Fred Astren, San Francisco State
Pamela Ballinger, U of Michigan
Eric Calderwood, U of Michigan
Brian Catlos, University of Colorado at Boulder/ UC Santa Cruz
Chris Chism, UCLA
Julia Clancy-Smith, Arizona State University
Chris Connery, UC Santa Cruz
Tom Dandalet, UC Berkeley
Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder
Laurent Feller, Université de Paris I
Carla Freccero, UC Santa Cruz
Susan Gillman, UC Santa Cruz
William Granara, Harvard
Michelle Hamilton, Minnesota
Michèle Hannoosh, U of Michigan
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts
Anthony Kaldellis, Ohio State
Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz
Elizabeth Lambourn, University of Leicester/Stanford
Michael Lower, Minnesota
Karla Mallette, U of Michigan
Christophe Picard, Université de Paris
G. S. Sahota, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Selden, UC Santa Cruz
Dominique Valérian, Université de Paris I
Rob Wilson, UC Santa Cruz
Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside
Nina Zhiri, UC San Diego

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Hellenic Studies Library Research Fellowship Program Announcement

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Chris

Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
Library Research Fellowship Program, 2013-2014

Thanks to generous funding from the Elios Society, the University Library at California State University, Sacramento is pleased to announce the second of a three-year Library Research Fellowship Program to support the use of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection by fellows for scholarly research in Hellenic studies while in residence in Sacramento. The Program provides a limited number of fellowships ranging from $500 to $4,000 to help offset transportation and living expenses incurred during the tenure of the awards and is open to external researchers anywhere in the world at the doctoral through senior scholar levels (including independent scholars) working in fields encompassed by the Collection’s strengths who reside outside a 150 mile radius of Sacramento. The term of fellowships can vary between one week and three months, depending on the nature of the research, and for the second year will be tenable from July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014. The fellowship application deadline is March 4, 2013. No late applications will be considered.

Comprising the holdings of the former Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, currently numbering some 75,000 volumes, was donated to Sacramento State in December 2002 and named in honor of its benefactor and alumnus Angelo Tsakopoulos. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the Collection contains early through contemporary materials across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries and the surrounding region, with particular strengths in post-Classical Hellenism. There is a broad representation of languages in the Collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials. Since 2009 the Collection has experienced dramatic growth with the gift acquisition of the libraries of the late Pyrrhus J. Ruches and the late Dr. Steve A. Demakopoulos, which together are adding over 5,000 volumes to our holdings in the areas of Greek language, folklore, history, literature, music, and anthropology. For further information about the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, visithttp://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos.

For the full Library Research Fellowship Program description and application instructions, see: http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos/lrfp.asp. Questions about the Program can be directed to George I. Paganelis, Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection (paganelis@csus.edu).

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The SCRIPTO Programme

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Chris

The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Paleographical Tools) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely innovative course of European, not to say world-wide, interest, at the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich-Alexander University.

SCRIPTO V will run from April 22nd 2013 until June 29th 2013. The application deadline is 1. March 2013.

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ACLS Public Fellows Program

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Chris

Expanding the Reach of Doctoral Education in the Humanities

The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for the third competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 20 recent humanities Ph.D.s in two- year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector.
This career-launching initiative aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the
advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the
academy.

In 2013, Public Fellows have the opportunity to join one of the following organizations:
• American Antiquarian Society – Digital Humanities Curator
• Amnesty International – Policy Analyst
• BronxWorks – Program Analyst
• CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) – Policy Advisor
• Center for Investigative Reporting – Media Impact Analyst
• Center for Jewish History – Senior Manager for Academic and Public Programs
• Chicago Humanities Festival – Program Manager
• City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs – Arts Manager
• Digital Public Library of America – Project Manager
• Feminist Press – Development Associate
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Office of Global Education – Program Officer
• Internews – Development Officer
• International Student Exchange Programs – Associate Director for Special Projects
• JSTOR – Content Development Analyst
• The Nature Conservancy – Senior Coordinator, New Science Audiences
• North Carolina General Assembly – Program Evaluator
• Rockefeller Archive Center – Program Officer
• U.S. Agency for International Development – Various Positions
• U.S. Department of State – Various Positions
• Vera Institute of Justice – Planning Associate

Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system by March 27, 2013. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for complete position descriptions and application information.

Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences, and will aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applicants must possess U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status and have a Ph.D. in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between January 2010 and the application deadline.

This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows

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Call for Applications, PhD Fellowships, Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Chris

Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom.

An integrated training network in research and diffusion for comparative history.
For further information, see http://www.pimic-itn.eu/

NB: call opens 4 February, closes 24 March.

10 PhD Fellowships (each worth approx. 50,000 Euros per annum for three years). The ideal candidate will have recently completed a Master’s degree. Further specifications at www.pimic-itn.eu.

“Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom” is a research project which will develop from 2013 to 2016. It has been funded as a “Marie Curie Initial Training Network” with a grant of 3.3 million euros. The project combines academic research on medieval power and institutions with training in the wider dissemination of research-based knowledge, based on a formal network established between universities and private sector companies and funded by the European Union. It provides funding for 10 PhDs at universities in Spain, Britain, Italy, France, and Israel, and two postdoctoral positions, one based at a Dutch publisher (Brill), one at a Spanish TV/film company (Lopez-Li). During their studies, the PhD students will all have secondments to the publisher and the film company, the post?docs will come to the Universities to run sessions on print and media diffusion of research. Further training workshops are provided, on academic and other skills, as well as a larger-scale “Media School for Historians”. The project concludes with a conference on “Consequences in the Contemporary World”.

PIMIC Academic Partners
CCHS-CSIC (Coordinator): Dr. Ana Rodríguez University of St. Andrews:
Dr. John Hudson Universitá Roma Tre: Dr. Emanuele Conte Birkbeck
College London: Dr. Caroline Humfress Universitá Roma Tor Vergata: Dr.
Sandro Carocci University of Tel Aviv: Dr. Gadi Algazi Université
Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne: Dr. Michel Kaplan School of Oriental and
African Studies: Dr. Hugh Kennedy

PIMIC Private Sector Partners
Lopez-Li Films (Spain)
Brill Publishers (Netherlands)

Contact: pimic@cchs.csic.es

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Call For Papers – Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Chris

UCLA MEMSA Graduate Student Conference:
Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studies

The last two decades have seen radical revisions to curricula at universities and colleges around the world.  But have curricular changes been accompanied by pedagogical developments? When it comes to teaching, graduate students often learn by doing. By virtue of their experiments and their proximity to the undergraduate curriculum, they are among the most innovative educators on their campuses. The Medieval and Early Modern Students Association at UCLA invites graduate students to share their experience at a conference on June 7 that deals with teaching Medieval and Early Modern material in the undergraduate classroom. Papers may address, but are not limited to, the following topics and lines of inquiry:

  • Methodological approaches that lend themselves to Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • Classroom conditions (ideological, practical, technological, social/cultural, financial, theoretical) that shape approaches and assumptions in literary study
  • Accessibility of older material to today’s undergraduates
  • Student-directed learning and the canon
  • The learning goals of an historical curriculum
  • Presentism and productive anachronism
  • Reception history and the critical heritage
  • Challenges and opportunities of teaching older material
  • Textual criticism and the literary archive
  • Digital approaches and 21st-century technology in the Medieval and Early Modern classroom
  • Surveying the survey course
  • Transformative pedagogy and Medieval and Early Modern studies
  • Creating dialogues across the curriculum
  • Performance studies
  • Synthesizing research and reading with other undergraduate disciplines
  • Seminar learning vs/and lecture learning
  • Teaching writing in the Medieval and Early Modern studies
  • Translation and multilingualism (teaching in translations vs. original languages)
  • New Historicism and student learning
  • Politics and pedagogy (teaching race, gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern studies)
  • Theory in Medieval and Early Modern studies

We welcome abstracts from a variety of fields within or adjacent to Medieval and Early Modern studies. While specific teaching techniques are encouraged, we’d like papers that include a broader theoretical and pedagogical scope. Abstracts of less than 500 words for 20-minute papers should be emailed to memsa.ucla@gmail.com by March 15 with the subject line CONFERENCE ABSTRACT. Papers should be timed to less than 20 minutes.

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Call For Papers – 6th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Chris

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing the 6th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 26-29 March 2013, Athens, Greece. The conference website is: www.atiner.gr/mediterranean.htm.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology, philosophy, culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, business, sports, environment and ecology, etc.
The registration fee is €300 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, the official dinner of the conference (Greek Night), coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of social events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner (the official dinner of the conference), an archaeological tour (urban walk) of Athens, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands, and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available at http://www.atiner.gr/2013/SOC-MDT.htm
Please submit an abstract (email only) to: atiner@atiner.gr, using the abstract submission form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2013/FORM-MDT.doc by the 18 February 2013 to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Academic Member of ATINER and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece. Abstracts should include the following: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address, and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. organize a panel (session, mini conference), chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER (gtp@atiner.gr).

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers – from all over the world – could meet in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 200 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER’s objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member, please download the form (membership form). For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.

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