The Medieval Academy Blog

The Bonnie Wheeler 2013 Summer Research Fellowship is open to women medievalists below the rank of full professor, and for 2013 offers up to $10,000 in financial support. Candidates from previous years are welcome and encouraged to reapply. In the two years since our foundation, our recipients have been Lorraine Stock (English, U Houston) and Lois Huneycutt (History, U Missouri). Applicants should register at http://bonniewheelerfund.org/ and see the Application Instructions http://bonniewheelerfund.org/content/application-instructions for details.

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, seeks 3,000-word essays discussing ethics in medievalism.  What role do ethics play in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages?   In interpretations of those responses?  How is moral behavior portrayed (or not)?  How is the audience treated?  Who is the audience?  SIM’s audience is wide-ranging, and potential contributors should anticipate that their readers will include not only specialists but also generalists, including non-academics.  Submissions should be sent in English in Word as an e-mail attachment on or before June 1, 2013 to the editor, Karl Fugelso (kfugelso@towson.edu).  For a style sheet, please visit the website http://www.medievalism.net/sim.html.

Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 14.XII.2012 – 15.III.2013 : Les livres de Notre-Dame, XIe-XVIIIe siècles. – http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/colloques/notre-dame-de-paris-1163-2013

Trento, Museo Diocesano Tridentino, 14.XII.2012 – 7.IV.2013 : Un vescovo, il suo tesoro, la sua cattedrale. La committenza artistica di Federico Vanga (1207-1218). – http://www.museodiocesanotridentino.it/mediacenter/FE/articoli/la-committenza-artistica-di-federico-vanga-1207121.html

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCLA on Saturday, 2 February 2013.  This is part of a three-day event which also includes the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Ahmanson Conference, “Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean,” to be held on January 31-February 1.

The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology, Harvard University).

Carol Lansing
Professor of History, UC Santa Barbara
“Captive Women in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages”

Erith Jaffe-Berg
Assistant Professor of Theater, UC Riverside
“Mediterranean Cartographies of Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’ Arte Actresses”

Lucia Carminati
Graduate Student, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
“Egypt 1919: Working-class Cosmopolitanism and Shifting Boundaries of Belonging”

Michael Herzfeld
Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University
“Gender, Geography, and the Imagining of the Mediterranean”

Space is limited, so please register now. Registration opens for UC faculty and graduate students and those at institutions affiliated with the Mediterranean Consortium today. Registration for all others will begin on Dec. 26 (registration requests may be sent in at any time; early applications will be queued in the order they are received).

Travel assistance (max $350) will be provided to attendees coming from outside the LA area. UC graduate students and faculty are guaranteed this support; others can apply, and it will be awarded on the basis of availability.

Registration requests and other inquiries should be directed to Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research.

Attendees are encouraged to register for the Ahmanson Conference. This is done through UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; see http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/calendar_jan13.html#1-30.

The Rare Book School announces its course schedule for 2013, a double-anniversary—30 years in operation and 20 years at the University of Virginia! This year’s schedule includes some major expansions, featuring the addition of several new courses and new host venues, including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. See the full schedule here.

http://www.rarebookschool.org/schedule/

11.-12.XII.2012 : Los archivos diocesanos: nuevos retos ante la era virtual (Madrid, Universidad Autónoma – Archivo Histórico Diocesano). – http://www.uam.es/otros/muemh/downloads/triptico_seminario_archivos_diocesanos2.pdf