It is a pleasure to announce that the Institute of Medieval Studies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona has launched its new web site:
http://centresderecerca.uab.cat/iem/
In addition to offering information on our research and academic activities, the page provides on-line access to the 14 volumes of the Institute’s journal MEDIEVALIA, published so far.
Following the fruitful practice of other COMSt meetings, the third workshop of Team 4 – with the decisive contribution of Team 3 – will be conceived mainly in the form of a round table.
In the first session (coordinated by Team 4) – Electronic catalogues (flat; in a database; on-line; on DVD, etc.): a survey – after a theoretical introduction, the invited speakers, all involved in important electronic cataloguing projects, will be required to report briefly (10-15 min. each) on the state of the art of this topic, presenting examples of various formats of digital catalogues, in order to have a wide idea of their characteristics and “philosophy”. A discussion among all the participants will follow.
The second session (coordinated by Team 4) – Benefits and disadvantages of different “models” of electronic catalogues: printed catalogues transformed into electronic catalogues; printed catalogues transformed into online databases; ad hoc designed electronic catalogues (checklists, analytical catalogues, etc.) – again after a theoretical introduction, will focus on what an electronic catalogue can do that a printed catalogue cannot and vice versa. The discussion will be open to all participants, who will expose their specific experience and their own opinions.
The third session (coordinated by Team 3) – Hypercatalogues and portals – will address the basic ideas of hypercatalogues and portals that render access to distributed manuscript repositories and the like. It will consist of a demonstration of existing hypercatalogues such as Manuscripta Medievalia and a basic outline of the technical background (esp. ontology-based metadata schemes such as MARC or METS) and will end up in a discussion of requirements in the field of Oriental manuscript cataloguing.
Lastly, the fourth and last session (coordinated by Team 3) – the Practical session – will start with an introduction to the TEI’s manuscript description module and to the XML software (about 45 min.). The rest of the time will be spent asking some “volunteers” to encode a catalogue entry or a description of a manuscript practically. This will show clearly the difficulties and the choices that a cataloguer faces when he/she opts for an electronic catalogue.
The meeting is open for everyone to attend.
The workshop venue is
Nordisk Forskningsinstitut
Three travel grants are available for those willing to attend the workshop and unable to carry their expenses. The call is open from 20 March to 10 April 2012.
Romance: Places, Times, Modes
School of English
University College Cork
Cork, 21-22 September 2012
Romance has been one of the most resilient of literary kinds, existing in its own right, moulding itself in other genres, and transforming itself in the long history of its aesthetic and cultural traffic from antiquity to early modern times, and between different cultures. Royal and popular, romance has absorbed, often at once, a plethora of discourses concerned with politics and privacy at crucial moments in European history and in its contacts with the worlds beyond Europe. This conference offers the chance to reassess the nature and importance of romance within the larger frame of cross-cultural, interdiscriplinary, comparative, and theoretical studies. The identification of new romances, the exploration of romance in contact with other genres and modes, and cultures other than English, and the larger reflections romance facilitate in the process of absorption and reconfiguration of places and times in which it is produced—all these are topics of considerable interest and value. At a further lever, such imperatives have much to suggest about the processes by which the romance itself has undergone transformation and has transformed our understanding of its place in literary history across periods and genres, and beyond borders and countries. Contributions to this discussion are invited, covering as wide a range in terms of period, concept and approach as critical imagination can devise, to explore the imaginative suppleness and dynamic of romance across places, times, and modes.
Topics may include but are not limited to
Ethics and politics
Movement in time and space
Travel and geography
Contacts with the East; Islam
Classics
Sources and analogues
Crossovers with other genres
Cross-national / cross-ethnic contacts
Print and manuscript
Theories of romance
Allegory
Religion
Gender and Sexuality
Romance and the arts
Translations and adaptations
A 200-page abstract, including contact information, should be sent to Goran Stanivukovic (G.Stanivukovic@ucc.ie) and Sergi Mainer (S.Mainer@ucc.ie), School of English, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, before 1 June 2012.
(See our calendar for more conferences)
1.V.2012 : “How much did it cost?” : Incunabula and their Price – Incunabula Masterclass by Cristina Dondi (Cambridge University Library) – http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/incblog/.
Axinia Džurova, Rayonnement de Byzance. L’apparition et la diffusion des styles ornementaux dans les manuscrits byzantins
Jeudi, 15 mars 2012, h. 18.00
Strasbourg, Bibliothèque universitaire
Locandina (pdf)
24.-26.III.2012 : Romance in Medieval Britain. 13th biennial conference (Oxford, University of Oxford, St Hugh’s College). – http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/rmb2012/index.html
(See our conference calendar for more conferences)
Mercogliano (Avellino), Biblioteca Statale di Montevergine, 15.III.2012: seminario di studio sulla catalogazione dei manoscritti medioevali datati in Campania (relatore M. Palma). – http://www.montevergine.librari.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/128/archivio-news/114/manoscritti-medioevali-datati-in-campania
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
