Voici l’annonce d’un colloque international organisé par l’École nationale des chartes (Paris) les 22 et 23 mars prochains
Parcourir le monde : les voyages d’Orient au Moyen Âge et dans la première modernité”
dirigé par M. Abdullah Al-Khateeb, professeur associé à l’université de Djeddah, directeur du Bureau culturel saoudien,
et Mme Dominique de Courcelles, professeur et directeur de recherche au CNRS.
1.-4.XI.2012 : The Thirty-eighth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Brookline [MA], Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology) – Call for papers (until 30.III.2012). – http://www.bsana.net/conference/CFP_2012.pdf?rid=a2422efc-a580-4fff-932a-af58ae1e97e1
I am organizing a graduate student conference on medieval studies to be held at Yale University on March 31st. We are expecting between fifty and seventy attendees, from universities in the Northeast all the way to California and the UK. I write to inquire whether you have any promotional material, advance copies, or review copies of titles relating to medieval studies which you would like to send us to display during our registration and reception.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
On March 31, 2012, a group of Yale graduate students will host the 29th annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference. The interdisciplinary conference, founded in 1983 by the late Prof. Alison Goddard Elliot of Brown University, is hosted on a rotating basis by Yale, the University of Connecticut, and Brown, and it brings together graduate students in Medieval Studies from across the Northeast and, increasingly, from other parts of the country as well. The conference is organized every year by graduate students, and only graduate students may present papers at the conference.
The title of the 2011 conference is “Audience in the Middle Ages.” This very broad heading has elicited abstracts from many of the different disciplines that comprise Medieval Studies: from manuscript studies and palaeography, to liturgical studies, to hagiography, literary studies, and the history of art, as well as more theoretical approaches to ideas of audience in the Middle Ages.
The conference will feature a plenary lecture by Elaine Treharne, Professor of English at Florida State University. Professor Treharne is the author of Living Through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (Oxford, forthcoming), Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 2006) and Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts (Boydell and Brewer, 2010), among many others. We are proud to note that universities in the Northeast (NYU, UConn, Princeton, Villanova) as well as further afield (Birmingham, Cambridge, UC-Berkeley) will be represented.
If you would like to send us materials, please direct them to:
Audience in the Middle Ages
c/o Joseph Stadolnik
Department of English
Yale University
P.O. Box 208302
New Haven, CT 06520-8302
Exposition Miniatures flamandes
BnF, du 6 mars 2012 au 10 juin 2012 François-Mitterrand / Galerie François Ier
Panorama exceptionnel de la miniature flamande, les deux expositions organisées à Paris et à Bruxelles réunissent des collections que l’histoire avait dispersées. Le visiteur est invité à découvrir des manuscrits richement enluminés, de très grand format, fleurons des bibliothèques des princes du XVe siècle.
Les ouvrages exposés proviennent pour la plupart des collections des ducs de Bourgogne ou de leur entourage. L’un d’eux en particulier, Philippe le Bon, qui mit la main sur tous les Pays-Bas méridionaux, fut par ambition politique un mécène actif. Il commanda nombre de manuscrits, confiés aux meilleurs enlumineurs, recrutés dans tous ses territoires. Il fut imité ou encouragé dans sa passion bibliophile par ses courtisans, et Charles le Téméraire suivit son exemple.
Ce mécénat génère des oeuvres littéraires et des traductions nouvelles. Ostentatoires dans leur matérialité même, les ouvrages enluminés recèlent aussi une iconographie inédite et souvent profane, qui offre aux artistes l’occasion d’innover. Certains nous sont connus tels Roger van der Weyden, Simon Marmion ; d’autres restent anonymes, mais témoignent de fortes personnalités artistiques.
Grâce à la richesse des fonds respectifs de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique et de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, des ouvrages différents seront présentés dans les deux capitales. Gageons que les manuscrits ne seront pas seuls à voyager et que leur chassé-croisé inspirera les visiteurs.
Commissariat: Ilona Hans-Collas et Pascal Schandel, chargés de recherche à la BnF
Visites guidées individuelles et groupes
Tarifs, renseignements et réservations obligatoires au 01 53 79 49 49
Accompagnement pédagogique
Exposition virtuelle
http://expositions.bnf.fr/flamands/index.htm
Accessibilité
Trois stations audio-tactiles présentant trois miniatures en direction du public en situation de handicap visuel.
Pour tout renseignement : 01 53 79 37 37 ou accueil.handicap@bnf.fr
Informations pratiques
Quai François-Mauriac
75706 Paris Cedex 13
Téléphone : 33(0)1 53 79 59 59
Métro
Lignes 6 (Quai de la gare), 14 et RER C (Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand)
Bus
Lignes 89, 62, 64, 132 et 325
mardi – samedi de 10h à 19h
dimanche de 13h à 19h
sauf lundi et jours fériés
tarif plein : 7 €
tarif réduit : 5 €
billet couplé 2 expositions : 10 €
billet couplé 1 exposition + 1 exposition découverte : 8,5 €
Réservations FNAC au 0892 684 694 (0,34 € TTC/min) et sur www.fnac.com
Byzantium and Islam
Age of Transition
March 14–July 8, 2012
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Eastern Mediterranean, from Syria across North Africa, comprised the wealthy southern provinces of the Byzantine Empire at the start of the seventh century. By that century’s end, the region was central to the emerging Islamic world. This exhibition will be the first to display the complex character of the region and its exceptional art and culture during the era of transition—from its role as part of the Byzantine state to its evolving position in the developing Islamic world read more
Duration: March 8-16, 2012
Opening: Thursday, March 8, 2-5 pm
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 9:00 – 17:00; Thursday: 9:00 – 20:00; Saturday: 9:00 – 14:00
The Gennadius Library, 61 Souidias Street, Athens
Exhibiting Byzantium was generated by a Whitehead seminar during the winter term through its examination of practice and theory of museums in Greece in the last two centuries. The exhibition takes as its particular focus ways in which Byzantium has been mediated by scholars (very often classicists), collectors and other interested parties, and it tries to reveal through exhibition how those mediations still affect our understanding of this period of Greek (and others’) history. Students in the seminar chose objects from the Gennadius Library, including icons and manuscripts, read more
22.-23.III.2012 : Von Pippin bis Napoleon. Fulda und seine Urkunden. Wissenschaftliche Tagung zum Abschluss des DFG-Projekts ‘Online-Erschließung des Urkundenbestandes der Reichsabtei Fulda (751 – 1837)’ im Hessischen Staatsarchiv Marburg (Fulda, Bibliothek der Theologischen Hochschule). – http://www.historische-kommission-fuer-hessen.de/pdf/Programm_Fulda_Aussen.pdf ; http://www.historische-kommission-fuer-hessen.de/pdf/Programm_Fulda_Innen.pdf
Friday 23 March, 2012, 3-4 pm, Mary Garrison (York) will give the fourth Lieftinck lecture of this academic year: “The Intellectual World of the Leiden Pliny: A Book from York?”. Venue: University Library, Leiden, Grote Vergaderzaal. Her lecture will be accompanied by a display of manuscripts pertaining to the topic. Abstract and poster may be found here:
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/turning-over-a-new-leaf/lieftinck-lectures/march2012.html
For your agendas: an extra (fifth) Lieftinck lecture is planned for 4 May, 2012, 3-4 pm, when Dr. Kathryn Lowe (Glasgow) will speak on “Reading the Unreadable: Lay Literacy and Negotiation of Text in Anglo-Saxon England”. More information is found here:
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/turning-over-a-new-leaf/lieftinck-lectures/lowe.html
2-3. III. 2012. Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts (KU Leuven, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, Brussels)
Registration is now open for the workshop “Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts”, to be held at the KU Leuven and the Royal Flemish Academy in Brussels on 2-3 April 2012. Please see the programme in attachment.
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour l’atelier “Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts” à la KU Leuven et à l’Académie royale flamande de Belgique à Bruxelles les 2 et 3 avril 2012. Programme en pièce jointe.
Registration by email / Inscription par courriel auprès de : tara.andrews@arts.kuleuven.be
London, University of London, Senate House, 15.III.2012 : John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture. – J. O’ Reilly, Inscribed images and inspired scribes. – http://events.sas.ac.uk/support-research/events/view/11395
