NINES / NEH Summer Institute: Evaluating Digital Scholarship

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Chris

Call for Proposals & Participants

NINES / NEH Summer Institute: Evaluating Digital Scholarship

May 30 – June 3, 2011
University of Virginia
Hosted by NINES (http://nines.org)

How does the profession of literary studies evaluate and grant credit for born-digital scholarship? What are the intellectual stakes of such work, and how might we better understand the changing nature of scholarly inquiry and communication in a digital age? NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic
Scholarship) will be hosting two NEH Summer Institutes (in 2011 and
2012) focused on these issues, gathering together digital practitioners in the field and administrative/institutional leaders to advance the conversation. We aim to address the range of literary fields and periods, with an eye towards producing collaborative working papers that might influence the larger cultures of peer-review and promotion/tenure in the profession.

The 2011 Institute will be focused on five broad categories or aspects of humanities scholarship, with attention to the specifics of literary
studies:

1. conceptualization
2. evidence and discovery
3. remediation
4. interpretation
5. communication

Accordingly, we hope to receive applications from two types of
applicant: first, literary scholars involved with sophisticated digital projects; and second, administrative or institutional leaders engaged with policies related to peer-review and promotion/tenure.
Individuals from this latter group need not have previous experience in evaluating digital scholarship.

The NINES / NEH Institute will begin on the afternoon of Monday, May 30 (Memorial Day) and continue through the evening of June 3, 2011 Participants will reimbursed for their travel expenses and given a $500 stipend to offset housing in Charlottesville.

Applications should consist of a c.v. and a brief narrative (not to exceed 800 words) describing your background/perspective, your reasons for wanting to be part of the Institute, and your thoughts on peer-review and promotion/tenure in reference to the changing nature of scholarship in a digital frame of reference.

Please send applications BY DECEMBER 1, 2010 to institutes@nines.org.
Direct questions to the organizers: Andrew Stauffer (ams4k@virginia.edu), Laura Mandell (laura.mandell@gmail.com), or Susan Schreibman (Susan.Schreibman@gmail.com).

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Nomination of Fellows, 2011

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Chris

1. Nomination of Candidates for Fellow and Corresponding Fellow

Any three members of the Academy may nominate candidates for Fellow or Corresponding Fellow in the 2011 election. All nominations that are prepared correctly will appear on the slate.

A nomination consists of the following:

1) a one-page statement of the candidate’s qualifications;
2) a curriculum vitae and bibliography not longer than four pages; and
3) the “signatures” of three members of the Academy.

Please submit items #1 and #2 in a clear format that can be photocopied for the mailing of election materials to Fellows; a clean copy sent by mail to the Academy office or as an email attachment (sent to egardiner@themedievalacademy.org or rgmusto@themedievalacademy.org) is preferable to a fax, since faxes are often difficult to read and photocopy. Item #3 can be sent in any format, including e-mail messages from the signatories. Nominations must reach the Academy office by 8 November.

Fellows and Corresponding Fellows shall be scholars who have made notable contributions to the advancement of Medieval Studies. Candidates for Fellow must be members of the Academy and residents of North America. Candidates for Corresponding Fellow need not be members, and they must reside outside North America. A list of current Fellows, Corresponding Fellows and Emeriti/ae Fellows is available off the Main Page of the Academy website:

http://www.MedievalAcademy.org

Click on “Fellows,” which is on the menu at the left of the page.

The 2011 election operates under new and revised by-laws and procedures initiated last year. The maximum number of slots available for Fellows is five, for which there must be at least ten nominations. There is no maximum number of slots for Corresponding Fellows. The total number of Fellows cannot exceed 125 and of Corresponding Fellows 75. Currently there are 118 Fellows and 67 Corresponding Fellows. Fellows may move to Emeritus/a status by informing President Joan M. Ferrante. Emeriti/ae Fellows maintain all the rights and privileges of the Fellowship except that they relinquish their vote.

2. CARA Awards

CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching

The CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies recognizes Medieval Academy members who are outstanding teachers who have contributed to the profession by inspiring students at the undergraduate or graduate levels or by creating innovative and influential textbooks or other materials for teaching medieval subjects.

The annual deadline for nominations is 15 November. The nomination should include three copies of the following:

1) A letter of nomination that details at length the nominee’s achievements as a teacher. The letter should also list the names and e-mail addresses or telephone numbers of two individuals who will write letters in support of the nomination.

2) Two supporting letters from individuals who are familiar with the nominee’s teaching and curricular and pedagogical contributions to medieval studies. At least one of these three letters should be from a former or current student of the nominee.

Send nominations to
CARA Teaching Award
The Medieval Academy of America
104 Mount Auburn St., 5th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies

The Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies recognizes Medieval Academy members who have provided leadership in developing, organizing, promoting, and sponsoring medieval studies through the extensive administrative work that is so crucial to the health of medieval studies but that often goes unrecognized by the profession at large.

The annual deadline for nominations is 15 November. The nomination should include three copies of the following:

1) A letter of nomination that details at length the nominee’s achievements in serving medieval studies. The letter should also list the names and e-mail addresses or telephone numbers of two individuals who will write letters in support of the nomination.
2) Two supporting letters from individuals who have first-hand knowledge of the nominee’s contributions to medieval studies.

Send nominations to
Kindrick-CARA Outstanding Service Award
The Medieval Academy of America
104 Mount Auburn St., 5th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

All the best,
Paul E. Szarmach
Executive Director

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Announcement of 2011 Election

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Chris

2011 Election


Election procedure. Information regarding candidates for the 2011 election follows below. Additional candidates may be nominated by petition. All candidates must be members of the Academy. Nominating petitions must be signed by twelve members of the Academy. Nominators should apprise the Medieval Academy office of their plans as soon as possible and follow the procedures specified in the by-laws. The ballot for the 2011 election will be mailed by January 2011. The due date for the receipt of ballots at the Academy’s office is 31 January 2011. This date allows time both for members to mail ballots and for staff to process them before the Academy’s annual meeting, which will be held in Tempe, Arizona, 14 – 16 April 2011.

Candidates in the 2011 election. For President (one-year term): Alice-Mary Talbot. For First Vice-President (one-year term): Maryanne Kowaleski. For Second Vice-President (one-year term): Richard W. Unger. For Councillor (three-year term): Robert Gary Babcock, Susan Boynton, Paul M. Cobb, Florin Curta, Bonnie Effros, Sharon Kinoshita, Cary J. Nederman, and Martha G. Newman. For the Nominating Committee (two-year term): Olivia Remie Constable, Thomas Dale, Sean L. Field, and Alan M. Stahl.

The elected members of the Nominating Committee for the 2011 election are Sharon Farmer, Sabine MacCormack, Richard Rouse, and Paolo Squatriti. The Nominating Committee chooses one candidate for the presidential and vice-presidential offices and two candidates for each vacancy on the council. The candidates for election to the next Nominating Committee were chosen by Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Medieval Academy President, who presents two candidates for each vacancy on the committee. The chair of the Nominating Committee for the 2011 election is Rachel Fulton. The chair, appointed by the President from among former members of the committee, serves a one-year term.

Brief biographies of the candidates follow below. Members should keep this information for easy reference when voting.

Candidates for the 2011 Medieval Academy election:

President

Alice-Mary Talbot, Director Emerita of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks. B.A., Radcliffe Coll.; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia Univ. Interests: Byzantine cultural history, monasticism and hagiography, editing and translation of texts, gender studies. Publications: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991, with A. Kazhdan); Holy Women of Byzantium (1996); Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (2001, with D. Sullivan); The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century (2005).

First Vice-President

Maryanne Kowaleski, Joseph Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of History and Director of Medieval Studies, Fordham Univ. A.B., Univ. of Michigan; M.S.L., Pontifical Inst. of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., Univ. of Toronto. Interests: economic and social history. Publications: Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (1995); The Havener’s Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287 – 1356 (ed., 2001); Medieval Towns: A Reader (ed., 2006); Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England (ed., with P. J. P. Goldberg, 2009).


Second Vice-President

Richard W. Unger, Professor Emeritus of History, Univ. of British Columbia. B.A., Haverford Coll.; A.M., Univ. of Chicago; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale Univ. Interests: environmental history, economic history, history of technology. Publications: Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400 – 1800 (1998); Britain and Poland-Lithuania: Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 (ed., 2008); Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2004); Pictures of Power: Ships on Maps in Renaissance Europe (2010).

Councillors

Robert Gary Babcock, Professor of Classics, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. B.A., Louisiana State Univ.; M.A., Ph.D., Duke Univ. Interests: Latin paleography, medieval Latin, transmission and reception of classical literature. Publications: Reconstructing a Medieval Library: Fragments from Lambach(1993); “A Papyrus Codex of Gregory the Great’s Forty Homilies on the Gospels,” Scriptorium (2000); A Book of Her Own (ed., 2005); “The Engelberg Manuscript of the Waltharius: Joseph von Lassberg, Johann Caspar Orelli and Jacob Grimm,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch (2010).

Susan Boynton, Associate Professor of Historical Musicology, Columbia Univ. B.A., M.A., Yale Univ.; Diplôme d’études médiévales, Louvain-la-Neuve; Ph.D., Brandeis Univ. Interests: liturgy, chant, monasticism, history of education. Publications: “Glosses on the Office Hymns in Eleventh-Century Continental Hymnaries,” The Journal of Medieval Latin (2001); “Orality, Literacy, and the Early Notation of the Office Hymns,” Journal of the American Musicological Society (2003); Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006); “Prayer as Liturgical Performance in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastic Psalters,” Speculum (2007).

Paul M. Cobb, Associate Professor of Islamic History, Univ. of Pennsylvania. B.A., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.A., Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago. Interests: Islam and the West, Crusades, Arabic literature. Publications: Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (ed., 2004); Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades (2005); The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades (trans., 2008); Umayyad Legacies: Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain (ed., 2010).

Florin Curta, Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, Univ. of Florida. B.A., Univ. of Bucharest; M.A., Cornell Univ.; M.A., Ph.D., Western Michigan Univ. Interests: Byzantium, medieval archaeology, Eastern Europe, economic and social history. Publications: Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, ca. 500-1250 (2006); “Some Remarks on Ethnicity in Medieval Archaeology,” Early Medieval Europe (2007); “Medieval Archaeology in South-Eastern Europe,” in Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957 – 2007,ed. Roberta Gilchrist and Andrew Reynolds (2009); “The Archaeology of Service Settlements in Eastern Europe,” Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages: A Cultural History, ed. Piotr Górecki and Nancy van Deusen (2009).

Bonnie Effros, Professor of History and Rothman Chair and Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Univ. of Florida. B.A., Brandeis Univ.; M.A., Ph.D., Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Interests: early medieval history and archaeology, early medieval gender, history of archaeology, early medieval religious practice and spirituality. Publications: Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul (2002); Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World (2002; paperback ed., 2009); Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages (2003); Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914 (forthcoming).


Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley. Interests: medieval French literature, medieval Mediterranean studies, medieval comparative literature. Publications: Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (2006); “What’s Up in French Medieval Studies?” Australian Journal of French Studies (2009); “Medieval Mediterranean Literature,” in PMLA (2009); “Worlding Medieval French Literature,” French Literary History: A Global Approach, ed. Susan Suleiman and Christie McDonald (forthcoming).


Cary J. Nederman, Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M Univ. B.A., Columbia Univ.; M.A., Ph.D., York Univ., Toronto. Interests: intellectual history, history of political thought, history of philosophy. Publications: John of Salisbury (2005); Machiavelli (2009); Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel (2009); Mind Matters: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish (ed. with Nancy van Deusen and E. Ann Matter, 2010).

Martha G. Newman, Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies and Chair, Dept. of Religious Studies, Univ. of Texas, Austin. B.A., Harvard Univ.; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford Univ. Interests: history of Christianity, monasticism, gender studies, cultural history. Publications: The Boundaries of Charity: Cistercian Culture and Ecclesiastical Reform, 1098 – 1180 (1996); “Crucified by the Virtues: Laybrothers and Women in Thirteenth-Century Cistercian Saints’ Lives,” in Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, ed. S. Farmer and C. Pasternack (2003); “Real Men and Imaginary Women: Engelhard of Langheim Considers a Woman in Disguise,” Speculum (2003); “Considerations on Life and Death: Medieval Asceticism and the Dissolution of the Self,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (2009).

Nominating Committee

Olivia Remie Constable, Professor of History and Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Inst., Univ. of Notre Dame. B.A., Yale Univ.; Ph.D., Princeton Univ. Interests: Mediterranean, Spain, Christian-Muslim relations. Publications: Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900 – 1500 (1994); Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (ed., 1997); Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2003); “Chess and Courtly Culture in Medieval Castile: The Libro de Ajedrez of Alfonso X, el Sabio,” Speculum (2007).

Thomas Dale, Chair and Professor of Art History, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. B.A., Univ. of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univ. Interests: medieval Italy, esp. Venice; Romanesque art; cult of the saints. Publications: Relics, Prayer and Politics in Medieval Venetia: Romanesque Painting in the Crypt of Aquileia Cathedral (1997); “The Individual, the Resurrected Body, and Romanesque Portraiture: The Tomb of Rudolf von Schwaben in Merseburg,” Speculum (2002); “The Monstrous,” in A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, ed. Conrad Rudolph (2006); “Cultural Hybridity in Medieval Venice: Re-inventing the East at San Marco after the Fourth Crusade,” in San Marco and the Myths of Venice, ed. Henry Maguire and Robert S. Nelson (2010).

Sean L. Field, Associate Professor of History, Univ. of Vermont. A.B., Univ. of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern Univ. Interests: Capetian France, sanctity, inquisition, women and writing. Publications: The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt: The Life of Isabelle of France and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp (2003); Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (2006); “The Master and Marguerite: Godfrey of Fontaines’s Praise of the Mirror of Simple Souls,” Journal of Medieval History (2009); “Marie of Saint-Pol and Her Books,” The English Historical Review (2010).


Alan M. Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, Firestone Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton Univ. B.A., Univ. of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania. Interests: history, numismatics, archaeology. Publications: The Merovingian Coinage of the Region of Metz (1982); The Documents of Angelo de Cartura and Donato Fontanella: Venetian Notaries in Fourteenth-Century Crete (ed., 2000); Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages (2000); The Book of Michael of Rhodes (ed., with Pamela O. Long and David McGee, 3 vols., 2009).

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CARA Meeting 2010

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Chris

The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame is delighted to host the 2010 Medieval Academy of America CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations) Meeting on Friday, October 1, and Saturday, October 2, 2010.

Register online at: http://cce.nd.edu/attend.shtml

Meeting Location: Center for Continuing Education, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana)

Friday, October 1

Morning Executive Committee meeting

12:00 Lunch, followed by the Business Meeting

Afternoon OPTIONAL excursion to the Studebaker Museum
(http://www.studebakermuseum.org) and the Oliver Mansion (Copsaholm)
at the Center for History (http://www.centerforhistory.org)

The Studebaker Museum features dozens of Studebaker automobiles that were manufactured in South Bend, the company’s headquarters. Copsaholm, the 38-room residence of industrialist J. D. Oliver, built in 1895-96, retains its original furnishings and is situated on 2.5 acres of landscaped gardens.

5:30-7:00 Reception and Dinner
7:00 Concert (at Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center) by Pomerium

Pomerium was founded by Alexander Blachly in New York in 1972 to perform music composed for the famous chapel choirs of the Renaissance. Widely known for its interpretations of Du Fay, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Josquin, Lassus, and Palestrina, the 14-voice a cappella ensemble has performed for numerous international festivals and released recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv Produktion, Dorian, Classic Masters, and Glissando/Pure Classics labels. Web site: http://www.pomerium.com/.

Saturday, October 2

9:00-11:30 Music and the Visual: Teaching and Singing Medieval Music

Panel presentation by Notre Dame faculty:

Alexander Blachly, Professor of Music and Director of Pomerium
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy
Peter Jeffery, Michael P. Grace Chair in Medieval Studies and Professor of Music

12:00-1:30 Lunch
2:00-5:00 Meeting of the Delegates (information exchange)

5:30 Reception and Banquet

Hotel Information:

Rooms are being held at The Morris Inn, on the Notre Dame campus, directly across the street from the conference center, for the nights of September 30, October 1, and October 2. The rates are: single $149.16 and double $171.76 (both include all applicable taxes and hot breakfast). Please contact The Morris Inn (http://morrisinn.nd.edu/) directly at 574-631-2000 and let them know you are with the Medieval Academy of America CARA Meeting.
Registration Fee:

The $80 fee includes all conference materials, refreshments, meals, receptions, and the Pomerium concert. The cost of the optional excursion to the Center for History and Studebaker Museum is $20 and includes transportation and admission fees.
Additional Questions:

Call 574-631-8304 or email rbaranow@nd.edu

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Updated 2011 Call for Papers

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Chris

As you probably know, the fate of the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America for 2011, scheduled to be held in Arizona, was in question because of Arizona’s recently passed immigration law, SB1070, which many across the country found to be morally and legally deeply flawed. On August 3, the Executive Committee of the Academy voted to hold the meeting as planned for reasons that the Committee explained in the statement posted on the Academy’s website. Because of this decision, we are extending the deadline for submissions of papers to October 15. The Executive Committee and the local Program Committee are working to ensure that the program of the meeting reflects and relates to similar issues at stake in Arizona and in medieval society, including such topics as race, ethnicity, immigration, tolerance, treatment of minority groups, protest against governmental policies judged unjust, and standards of judicial and legislative morality. We are particularly interested now in receiving proposals on those topics, although we will still consider proposals on any topic. Please consult the Academy’s website (or visit http://acmrs.org/conferences/MAA_2011/MAAconference.html) for an updated call for papers and instructions on how to submit your proposals. If you have any questions about the 2011 meeting or the call for papers, please contact Audrey Walters at acmrs@asu.edu.

Thank you very much.

The Executive Committee
The 2011 Program Committee

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Statement Regarding the Annual Meeting at Tempe, AZ

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Chris

On behalf of the Council, the Executive Committee wishes to thank the many members of the Academy and the medieval community for their active engagement with the question of holding the Academy’s Annual Meeting next April in Tempe. As you know, the Council asked the Executive Committee to make a final decision concerning this question on 3 August 2010. We are writing to inform you of our decision, and are also posting this message on the Academy’s website.

The results of the advisory poll of the membership held by the Council was divided. The poll was sent to 3881 members, of whom 1025 responded. Of the respondents, 431 voted against holding the meeting in Tempe (42%), 477 (46.5%) voted to hold it as planned, and 110 (10.7%) expressed no opinion. Seven responses [<1%] were invalid. Only 32.7% of the respondents said they were prepared to contribute towards offsetting the cost of canceling the meeting, whereas 65 % declared their unwillingness to do so. Of the 477 voting against canceling, 186 included comments; of the 431 voting to cancel, 111 wrote comments; of the 110 expressing no preference, 18 added a message. In reaching its decision the Executive Committee discussed at great length a wide range of issues, including its fiduciary responsibility for the Academy's endowment, the appropriateness of making collective political statements, the precedents that would be set if the Academy canceled the meeting, the scholarly effects of canceling the annual meeting, the work done by the Arizona programming committee, the difficulty of finding any alternative meeting place, the timing of cancellation, and the possibility of legal challenge to Arizona's legislation (which in fact occurred on 28 July). After weighing all these issues, the Executive Committee has voted to hold the meeting, as planned, in Tempe. The Committee is working with Robert Bjork and the Progam Committee to ensure that the program of the meeting reflects and relates to similar issues at stake in medieval society, including such topics as race, ethnicity, immigration, tolerance, treatment of minority groups, protest against governmental policies judged unjust, and standards of judicial and legislative morality. We are delighted that the Episcopal bishop of Arizona, Kirk Smith, who has been deeply involved in the immigration legislation debate (and whose doctoral dissertation Brian Tierney directed), has agreed to speak to us. Elizabeth A.R. Brown, President Alice-Mary Talbot, First Vice-President Maryanne Kowaleski, Second Vice-President Constance Berman Peggy McCracken Brian Patrick McGuire Danuta Shanzer

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Annual Meeting, Tempe, 2011: Call for Papers Deadline for submission is 31 May 2010

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Chris

The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held jointly with that of MAP (the Medieval Association of the Pacific) at the Chaparral Suites Hotel (http://chaparralsuites2-px.trvlclick.com/) in Scottsdale, Arizona, 14-16 April 2011. It will be hosted by ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Given the Academy’s tradition of suggesting possible areas of investigation, the Committee also offers the following for your consideration:

1. Fiefs, feudal institutions, and property holding
2. Testaments and testamentary acts, lay and clerical
3. Liturgical reform and innovation
4. The crafting and creation of liturgical lives and offices
5. Reliquaries and their fates
6. Color and color theory in art and architecture
7. Translation of scriptural and devotional works: patrons and audiences
8. Universities and their involvement in secular politics
9. Representative assemblies, lay and clerical
10. Periodization and the Middle Ages: beginnings and endings
11. The study of the Middle Ages from the 17th through the 20th century
12. The Medieval Mediterranean
13. Ballads and balladry
14. The Pope and the Church in Literary and Artistic Representations
15. Holy Women: Power and Influence in Medieval Europe
16. Musica as Mediatrix between the Mortal and the Immortal
17. Medical Texts: Authors, Readership, Uses
18. The Professionalization of Medicine in the Medieval Period
19. Chronicles and Chroniclers in Medieval Europe
20. The Exile in Medieval Literature and Art
21. Time, Remembrance, and Its Representations
22. Innovations in Scientific Thought and Inquiry
23. Animals and the Animalistic
24. The Garden, Gardening, and Plants
25. Conduct and Behavior in the Middle Ages: Pro Forma and Explicit Guides

Any member of the Medieval Academy, except those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2009 and 2010, and any member of MAP may submit a proposal. Please do not submit more than one proposal.

Sessions usually consist of three papers of thirty minutes each, and proposals should be geared to this length. The Committee may choose a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed. We shall try to develop sessions that (1) address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists and (2) invite scholars from different disciplines and periods into dialogue with one another. We seek proposals for innovative papers and sessions and hope to see, wherever possible, cross-disciplinary participation in a broad range of topics and of periods.

Selection procedure: Proposals will be evaluated for promise of quality and significance of topic. The Committee will make final decisions by 15 September 2010. Notification of acceptance or regrets will be sent shortly thereafter.

Submissions: Proposals should be submitted online at

http://cf.itergateway.org/medacad/conference/

which will be available from 15 January 2010 to 31 May 2010. Note that your statement of Academy or MAP membership (or statement that your specialty would not normally involve membership in either organization) must be made at the end of your abstract.

If you wish to submit a hard-copy proposal instead, please send two copies to the Committee Chair, Robert E. Bjork, Director, ACMRS, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402. The proposal must consist of two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer’s name, professional status and affiliation, postal address, home and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), e-mail address (if available), and paper title; (2) a second sheet containing the proposer’s name, paper title, 250-word abstract, statement of Academy or MAP membership (or statement that your specialty would not normally involve membership in either organization), and audio-visual equipment needs. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2010, that address should be included. Please DO NOT send proposals to the Academy office.

Session proposals: The Committee will consider proposals for entire sessions. Please consult with the Committee Chair before preparing a proposal. Session proposals require the same information as individual paper proposals; abstracts for the papers in proposed sessions will be evaluated by the Committee.

Audio-visual equipment: Requests for audio-visual equipment must be made with proposals.

Graduate Student Prizes: The Medieval Academy will award up to seven prizes of $300 each to graduate students for papers judged meritorious by the local Committee. To be eligible for an award graduate students must, of course, be members of the Medieval Academy and, once their proposed papers have been accepted for inclusion in the program, must submit complete papers to the Committee by 10 January 2011.

Program Committee: Robert E. Bjork, ACMRS (Chair); William F. Gentrup, ACMRS; Carl Berkhout, English, University of Arizona, UA; Albrecht Classen, German Studies, UA; Roger Dahood, English, UA (MAP representative); Cynthia White, Classics, UA; Alyce Jordan, Art History, Northern Arizona University; Karen Bollermann, English, ASU; Monica Green, History, ASU; Richard Newhauser, English, ASU; Catherine Saucier, Music, ASU; Corine Schleif, Art History, ASU; Juliann Vitullo, Italian, ASU; Rosalynn Voaden, English, ASU; Chauncey Wood, Adjunct Professor, ACMRS.

Local Arrangements Committee: Audrey Walters, ACMRS (Chair); Robert E. Bjork, ACMRS; William F. Gentrup, ACMRS; Emilie Roy, ACMRS.

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Boydell & Brewer Discount For MAA Members

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Chris

Boydell & Brewer is pleased to offer members of the Medieval Academy a 25% discount on books featured in their online newsletter, “The Medieval Herald,” until 31 July 2010 (postage extra). Members may also order titles from their Medieval Library – the pick of their publishing programme in this subject area – at the same discount. To order your books, simply visit the Boydell website at

http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/medieval_herald_newsletter_offer.asp

and follow the links. Subscribing to the online newsletter will also give you access to further offers and exclusive material based on their medieval history and literature publishing programme.

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Call for Applications and Nominations for Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Chris

The Medieval Academy of America will be appointing a new Executive Director to succeed Paul E. Szarmach, who is not seeking reappointment. A search committee to recommend his successor has been named by the Council of the Medieval Academy: Elizabeth A. R. Brown (chair), Richard K. Emmerson, Herbert L. Kessler, Maryanne Kowaleski, Susan J. Noakes, Harvey Sharrer, and Alice-Mary Talbot. The appointment will commence no later than 1 September 2011. Salary will be commensurate with professional achievements and standing; additional compensation includes health and retirement benefits.

The following description of the position has been approved by the Council of the Medieval Academy:
The Executive Director is the chief administrative officer of the Medieval Academy, a nonprofit association formed in 1925 to promote and support research, publication, and teaching in all areas of medieval studies. He or she is appointed by the Academy’s elected Council for a five-year term (with the possibility of renewal for a second term) and reports to the Council and the elected President.
In consultation with the Academy’s officers and committees, the Executive Director provides intellectual, pedagogical, and technological leadership, keeping abreast of current developments in the field of medieval studies and recommending ways in which these can be supported or incorporated in the Academy’s various activities, including Academy publications. Therefore he or she should hold an advanced degree in a discipline related to medieval studies and must have knowledge of technology sufficient to evaluate the continuously changing electronic resources necessary to maintaining the Academy’s position in the field and to implementing appropriate electronic innovations. She or he should have experience managing a budget and staff and working with committees and individual persons on various projects. Fund-raising and grant administration experience is also desirable. Traditionally the Executive Director has also served as Editor of Speculum, the Academy’s journal.
NB. The Academy has been deliberating over the possible separation of the duties of the Editor of Speculum from those of Executive Director. The new Executive Director will be expected to participate in ongoing discussions on the subject.
Responsible for managing the Academy’s annual cycle of programs, the Executive Director supervises an office with a full-time staff, comprising an Associate Director, an Assistant to the Executive Director (who also serves as an office manager), the editor of Medieval Academy News, and an Office Assistant, who is also Webmaster.

The Executive Director’s major responsibilities include:
Leadership
• implementing the organization’s long-range planning
• enhancing and maintaining the Academy’s Web site and electronic presence
• preparing grant applications, working with potential donors, and raising funds for the Academy
• overseeing the evaluation and publication of Medieval Academy Books and Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching and developing electronic publications
Execution
• overseeing all aspects of a membership organization—the annual cycle of programs, elections, meetings of the Council, Finance Committee, and Fellows, etc.
• working with the presidential officers and the Council
• organizing materials for and supervising the election of Academy officers, Councillors, and Fellows
• instructing and assisting all committees; also suggesting possible members for committee appointments made by the Council and the President
• planning the annual meeting, including negotiating with host institutions and hotels, establishing program and local arrangement committees, and overseeing meeting events
• communicating with the Treasurer and members of the Finance Committee, attending meetings, and helping the Finance Committee manage the financial resources of the Academy
• keeping the Academy’s books and preparing the annual budget and materials for the annual audit
• keeping the official records of the governing bodies and reporting to the Council
• serving as liaison with the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) and the Digital Initiatives Advisory Board (DIAB)
• working with the President to represent the Academy at meetings of the American Council of Learned Societies, at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, and other academic and professional groups

Management
• supervising the staff and administration of the Academy office
• hiring and evaluating staff and renting office space
• maintaining the computer network including the Web site and listservs
• overseeing membership services and support and responding to requests and complaints in a timely and helpful manner
• recruiting new members and soliciting payment of dues
• supervising preparation of the online publication of Medieval Academy News and other administrative publications
• overseeing programs for book subventions and prizes, travel grants, research grants, dissertation fellowships and CARA stipends, including publicity, supervision, evaluation, and the appointment of committees

Letters of nomination should be directed to the committee as soon as possible. Applications should include a letter focusing on qualifications and experience, a curriculum vitae, and the names of at least three referees. Nominations and applications should be directed to Elizabeth A. R. Brown and sent by e-mail attachment to smc@medievalacademy.org. The search will continue until the position is filled, but to receive full consideration applications should be submitted no later than 1 July 2010.

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Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy at Yale University

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Chris

REGISTRATION DESK

The registration desk will be located in the foyer of Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High Street) and will be open Thursday 12:00-6:00, Friday 8:00-6:00, and Saturday 8:00-1:00. Those who have registered should pick up their meeting packets at the registration desk. The meeting packets will include a campus map and a program detailing locations of all events.

The desk will also accept new registrations, at the late registration rate. Payment may be made by credit card or by check payable to Yale University.

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