Septuaginta Summer School 2011

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Chris

From June 27 to July 1, 2011, the 2nd International Septuaginta | summer school will be held in Göttingen, one of Europe’s nicest university towns located in the heart of Germany.

The summer school is organised by the Septuaginta-Unternehmen of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Göttingen, which represents more than a century of critical study of the Septuagint. Cooperation partner is the Faculty of Theology of the Georg August-Universität Göttingen.

Students from European and other universities who are interested in the development and history of biblical texts will be given the opportunity to study selected passages of the David and Batseba narratives (2 Sam 11-12) and to form themselves a detailed and nuanced impression of this book’s text history, which is as complex as it is fascinating.

The cultural programme will offer the participants an exclusive insight into the university town of Göttingen by following the trail of great scholars who built the rich tradition of the city and its university and shaped the reputed biblical research projects of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

The Septuaginta | summer school will take place at the Faculty of Theology of the Georg August-Universität Göttingen:
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2
D-37073 Göttingen
Room E 19

The participation fee for the Septuaginta | summer school is 350,- Euro. This fee covers:
*5 nights (Sunday, June 26—Friday, July 1, 2011) in a single room (breakfast incl.) in a 3*-hotel
*an attractive cultural programme
*14 seminar sessions à 90 minutes
*course materials

Travelling costs, lunch and dinner will not be
covered.

All seminar sessions during the Septuaginta | summer school will be given both in English and in German.

The number of participants of the Septuaginta | summer school is limited to 20.

Applications should be made before March 15, 2011 to the Septuaginta-Unternehmen, attn. of Mr. Schäfer (Christian.Schaefer@mail.uni-goettingen.de). They have to contain a statement of the personal motivation for participating in the summer school as well as a curriculum vitae and previous student record.

Succesful applicants will receive the binding authorisation to participate as well as detailed course information by post between March 20—25, 2011.

Contact
Christian Schäfer
0049 (0) 551 50 42 96 9 6
Christian.Schaefer@mail.uni-goettingen.de

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SCRIPTO IV und Scripto Seminare

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Chris

Das SCRIPTO-Programm (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Palaeographical Tools) an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg strebt eine systematische forschungsorientierte Einführung in das Wesen des mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Büchererbes an und bereitet auf dessen wissenschaftliche Erschließung vor. Es verbindet Forschung und Lehre im Rahmen eines innovativen und europa-, ja weltweit einzigartigen Lehrganges, der mit einem Diplom der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg abgeschlossen wird.

SCRIPTO Sitzungen finden in Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek), München (Bayrische Staatsbibliothek), Nürnberg (Stadtbibliothek) und Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) statt. Die Gebühr beträgt 1080 € pro Teilnehmer und beinhaltet Reisekosten und Unterkunft für Seminare außerhalb Erlangens (München; 4 Tage in Prag; Wolfenbüttel).

Zugelassen werden Teilnehmer, die über einen akademischen Grad ab dem Bachelor (B.A.) verfügen. Kurssprache ist deutsch. Ausländische Teilnehmer erhalten die Möglichkeit, an den Sprachkursen der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen teilzunehmen, um ihre Deutschkenntnisse zu verbessern.

Bewerber für SCRIPTO IV sollen einen vollständigen Lebenslauf an folgende Adresse schicken:

Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Mittellatein und Neulatein, Kochstr. 4/3, 91054 Erlangen

Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 4. April 2011

Wie immer werden im Rahmen von SCRIPTO Seminare angeboten, die allen Interessenten nach Anmeldung offen stehen. Für SCRIPTO IV das wären:

Rudolf Gamper (Vadiana St. Gallen)

Schriftlichkeit im Spätmittelalter. Handschriften und ihre Erschliessung an Beispielen aus dem süddeutsch-schweizerischen Raum

Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, 10. Mai 2011

Nicole Bériou (IRHT Paris)

Der Prediger und seine Handschriften

Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen, 9. Juni 2011

Katrin Wenig (Würzburg)

Heilsbronner Predigten: Soccus und seine Sermones

Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen, 21. Juni 2011

SCRIPTO im Net: http://www.mittellatein.phil.uni-erlangen.de/scripto/scripto.html

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Summer School in Medieval Codicology and Palaeography -Budapest,

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Chris

18-23.VII.2011 : Summer School in Medieval Codicology and Palaeography (Budapest, Central European University). – Deadline for applications : 15.II.2011 – http://www.summer.ceu.hu/codicology

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Erster Alfried Krupp-Sommerkurs für mittelalterliche Handschriftenkultur an der UB Leipzig

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Chris

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

vom 25. September bis 2. Oktober 2011 wird an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig der erste Alfried Krupp-Sommerkurs für Handschriftenkultur stattfinden, der sich an fortgeschrittene Studierende und Graduierte richtet und als Einführung in die mittelalterliche Handschriftenkunde konzipiert ist. Er wird in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Mediävistenverband durchgeführt und von der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-

Stiftung großzügig gefördert. Sie finden die Ausschreibung unter:

http://www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/bin/allgemein/ausschreibung_hsskurs_2011.pdf .

Es wäre sehr freundlich, wenn Sie den Hinweis auf die Ausschreibung innerhalb Ihrer Institution oder Fachdisziplin weiterverbreiten und an interessierte Personen weiterleiten könnten.

Mit Dank und freundlichen Grüßen

Ursula Kundert
Nachwuchsbeauftragte des Mediävistenverbands

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2012 Summer Latin Program and Latin Assessment

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Chris

In 2012, the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto will offer the following courses in Medieval Latin:

Beginning Latin (8 hours of instruction weekly, 22 May to 13 July 2012, with an optional three-week reading course thereafter).  Textbook: Moreland and Fleischer, Latin: an Intensive Course.

Level One Medieval Latin (7.5 hours weekly, 28 May to 6 July 2012, with an optional two-week grammar review before the course).

Level Two Medieval Latin (7.5 hours weekly, 9 July to 17 August 2012).

Enrolment in the Level One and Level Two courses will be restricted and will depend on performance in the April Level One Latin examination.  Information on the examinations and the summer program is available on line (medieval.utoronto.ca).

The fee for each course is $1,000 (Can) for Canadian residents, or its equivalent in US dollars for non-Canadian residents.  The deadline to apply for all courses is 1 May 2012.  Enrollment in each course is limited.
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Jobs for Medievalists

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Chris

Position available at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

For more information go to the ASCSA website: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/position

ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR
PRINCETON, NJ

Job Description: The Administrative Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) is responsible for the professional administration of a distinguished overseas, non-profit, educational institution in its U.S. office in Princeton, N.J. Duties include, but are not limited to, a broad range of institutional development activities, including events in the U.S., implementation of a $50 million Capital Campaign, and annual fundraising of more than $3 million for operations; public relations and communications in print and online through the School’s website; financial and budgetary matters; personnel issues; insurance and other operational functions; implementation of the admissions and fellowships process; coordination of meetings and governance activities of the Managing Committee and their representatives from more than 180 North American colleges and universities; stewardship of two Boards (ASCSA Board of Trustees and Gennadius Library Board of Overseers).

Oversees a staff of 8 full-time and part-time, in addition to outside contractors. Reports to the Board of Trustees and works in close collaboration with the Chair of the Managing Committee and the Director of the School in Athens. Full-time, 12-month position with salary commensurate with experience; excellent benefits’ package.

Position available after January 1, 2012.
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Call for Papers: The Future Perfect of the Book

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Chris

The Future Perfect of the Book – A Call for Papers

Book History Research Network: a one-day colloquium

Institute of English Studies (University of London), 25 November 2011

At a moment when the rise of e-Readers foretells the end of the printed book, the founder of the Internet Archive Brewster Kahle launches an initiative for the preservation of the book.  He is creating a storehouse for physical books in specially-adapted containers on the West Coast of the United States in order to preserve them as “backup copies” for posterity.  His idea came about as a reaction against the notion that books can be put beyond use (or thrown away) as soon as they are digitized.

While the future of the book is certainly an important topic for consideration, an initiative such as Kahle’s also begs the question how did past the past envision the future of the book – or of the predominant medium of the time.  Victor Hugo’s phrase, ‘ceci tuera cela’, spelt a new paradigm of mistrust when the printed book suddenly disrupted the foundation of manuscript culture and the transmission of the written. Although the digital revolution is possibly the most radical change in the history of writing, one can wonder how other similar transitions fared: from the scroll to the codex, from manuscript to printed book, from printing on the handpress to machine and offset printing, from writing by hand to writing on the typewriter and the wordprocessor?  More fundamentally, do the concerns of fifteenth-century critics of print like those of Abbot Johannes Trithemius of Sponheim have anything in common with twenty-first-century anxieties about the triumph of digital technology? Is access to knowledge and preservation, which champions of the digital revolution invoke, really a new concern? How much of the (old) culture of the book is retained in the new digital media?

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Call for Papers: Sixth International Conference of Iconographic Studies

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Chris

Center for Iconographic Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka

Department of Art History, Iconology Research Group

 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

 Institute of English Studies, SAS, University of London

 are pleased to announce the call for the

Sixth International Conference of Iconographic Studies

 Visions

Rijeka,  30 May – 1 June, 2012

This conference seeks to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue as well as to continue the cycle of sessions for scholarly discourse on significant subjects in iconographic studies. The conference presentations will deal with different subjects concerning “visions” with an emphasis upon the relation between mysticism and art in the European Middle Ages (other periods in Art history are included as well).

The themes and subjects for discussion are as follows:

–  concepts of visions
–  semantics of vision
–  visions in the Old Testament
–  visions in the Book of Revelation
–  visions of the medieval mystics
–  Christian mysticism between theory and practice
–  visions and political theory
–  visions and eternity
–  visions and the visual arts
–  visions “materialized” in different media

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Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age Vol. 2 Now Online

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Chris

Dear colleagues and friends,

Volume 2 of Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age is now freely available online. For downloads of the full volume and each article see below or the IDE website:
http://www.i-d-e.de

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Jobs for Medievalists

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Chris

Positions available at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

For more information go to the ASCSA website: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/position

ELIZABETH A. WHITEHEAD VISITING PROFESSORS
Two Positions
Term: Early September 2012 to June 1, 2013.

Compensation:  Stipend of $35,000, plus round-trip coach airfare to Athens, board at Loring Hall for the Whitehead Professor (one-half senior rate for spouse, and one-half student rate for dependents) and School housing.  Hotel and transportation on all fall trips and transportation on all winter Attica excursions. Residence permit and limited amount of office supplies.

Qualifications: A senior scholar with a significant record of publication and teaching in a North American institution; Managing Committee Member or faculty/staff from a Cooperating Institution. Preference will be given to those who have not received recent support from the School. Candidates who have held the Whitehead Professorship may apply if the previous term was at least five years prior.

Mission:  Advancing research on a project, which utilizes the facilities of the School and enriches the academic program of the School. Whitehead Professors are encouraged to present a seminar during the winter term on the subject of their expertise and to contribute to the academic program in other significant ways, such as mentoring or advising students at the School.

DIRECTORS OF THE 2013 ASCSA SUMMER SESSIONS (GERTRUDE SMITH PROFESSORS)
Two Positions
Term: Summer 2013.
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