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E-journals

2007-06-23T13:32:00.000Z

QUERY FROM Anna Korczakowska, who studies French Medieval Literature in France. She would like to know what people think about e-journals - "I'm especially curious of whether these journals are peer reviewed or not, what is their credibility, how publishing in such journals is seen in the academic community comparing to regular printed journals."

So, if anyone has thoughts, opinions or experience of e-journals, please leave a comment or email me and I'll post it for you.

Cheers!

CFP: Language Attitudes

2006-06-24T02:09:00.000Z

ANGUAGE Attitudes

I am looking for papers for a possible publication of collected essays on language attitudes, both historical and contemporary. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

-- historical studies of language and language attitudes, historical incidents and their outcomes/descendents
-- media obsessions with language
-- professional, corporate, or other industry-related language attitudes
-- attitudes towards dialect, code-switching
-- language attitudes and education, including pedagogical approaches
-- attitudes in gendered communication or other sociolinguistic topics
-- attitudes about second language acquisition
-- language attitudes mirrored or explored in literature, pop culture, television, etc
-- attitudes about the effect of technology on language
-- AND? Tell me about your own passion with regard to language attitudes!

Final essays should be between 6500 and 8000 words, including citations.

Please send proposals or completed papers accompanied by abstracts via email attachment (MSWord or RTF) by July 1, 2006. Please include a short curriculum vitae and your contact information.

For more information, feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Patricia Donaher, Ph.D.
Area Chair, PCA Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Assistant Professor of English Dept of English Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive
St. Joseph, MO 64507
816-271-5964
donaher@missouriwestern.edu

CFP: Postgraduate English

2006-06-24T02:08:00.000Z

OSTGRADUATE English: The University of Durham’s Online Journal
A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English in the UK and Europe

Invites postgraduates studying in the UK and Europe to submit papers of not more than 7000 words on a topic of YOUR CHOICE in the broad range of English Studies for issue 14 (September 2006) of our refereed online journal. Papers must conform to the MLA guidelines for presentation and be received no later than

DEADLINE: JULY 14, 2006.

This journal publishes papers from PhD or any other research students ONLY. Please, when submitting your work, include the following information in the email: name of University, full title of program, title of essay.

IN ADDITION we invite you to send us 1000 word papers on the topic of ‘Research Methods.’ You may wish to describe and discuss different ways of effectively researching an area on the internet and how to browse, locate, and access relevant material and bibliographical information. You may also wish to provide tips on how to organize and group information and select the most scholarly and authoritative material. Papers on all topics surrounding this issue are welcome.

We can also advertise postgraduate conferences in the UK and Europe if requested.

Check out our Journal’s ARTICLES to view previous papers, and take part in our FORUM, which deals with many of the issues facing postgraduates such as jobs, research, conferences, publishing and teaching tutorials, all on our website
at:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/journal1.htm

Papers should be sent to:
pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk.

All papers will be refereed and chosen by members of our editorial board.

CFP: Texts and Contexts

2006-06-24T02:07:00.000Z

EXTS and Contexts

A conference sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, at Ohio State University 29–30 September 2006.

The conference seeks to investigate the textual traditions of various texts and genres, including texts in classical Latin, mediaeval Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and the vernaculars.

Call for papers: preference will be given to those abstracts which deal with newly discovered texts and their manuscript settings, or which present new perspectives on established textual traditions. Graduate students and newly established scholars are encouraged to submit their work. Deadline for submission is 15 July 2006.

Contact: Frank Coulson, 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH 43210 (coulson.1@osu.edu).

CFP: Teaching Medieval Women

2006-06-24T02:05:00.000Z

EACHING Medieval Women

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

Papers should address any aspect of teaching medieval women, including teaching the texts and subjects associated with women (female authors, protagonists, subjects, and audiences) in medieval literature, as well as the act of teaching medieval women themselves (issues of literacy and the education of women). Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes in length.
Deadline: September 15, 2006
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements (if any)

Contact:
Susannah Chewning
Department of English
Union County College
1033 Springfield Avenue
Cranford, NJ 07016
chewning@ucc.edu

CFP: Secular to Spiritual

2006-06-24T02:04:00.000Z

ROM THE Secular to the Spiritual
Saturday, February 24, 2007
24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, University of Connecticut

Plenary Speaker: James Simpson, Harvard University Professor of English and American Literature and Language; Life Fellow, Girton College Cambridge; Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities

Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle Ages. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines, including:

Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies – Comparative Literature – Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History – History of Science – Language Studies – Literary Studies – Musicology – Philosophy – Paleography – Religious Studies – Urban Studies – Women’s and Gender Studies

Sponsored sessions will include:
Brown University – TBD
Mystics Quarterly – Medieval Mysticism
New England Saga Society – Norse and Germanic Sagas University of Connecticut Dodd Center – Art History Yale University Medieval Studies Program – Translation as Conversation

We encourage submissions appropriate for these sponsored sessions. If you would like to be considered for one of them, please make a note on your abstract.

Papers are to be no more than 20 minutes long and read in English. Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with affiliation and contact details, via email (as Word attachment) to Kisha Tracy and Britt Rothauser (uconnnemsc@yahoo.com) by October 1, 2006, or by post to:

Britt Rothauser
University of Connecticut
Department of English, U-Box 4025
215 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT 06269, USA

CFP: The Heroic Age

2006-06-24T02:02:00.000Z

AGHDAD, Byzantium, Aachen, and Winchester: Early Medieval Reforms and Reformers
The Heroic Age Issue 11

The late eighth and ninth centuries saw cultural and intellectual revivals and renaissances that seemed to have proceeded from East to West. All are related in some way to each other, but they are seldom examined in the same context. Harun al-Rachid, Charlemagne, and Alfred all sponsored reforms in their respective socieities, were in contact in some way with one another (or in Alfred's case, with Charlemagne's grandson), and may have influenced one another. In Byzantium c. 800 a renaissance was also occurring during the iconoclast controversies under Empress Irene. The Empress was able to maintain contacts with al-Rachid and Charlemagne.

The Heroic Age invites submissions exploring these rulers, the cultural revivals that occurred under their reigns, the factors leading to those revivals, the long term results, and any possible interplay or influence among them.

This issue will be The Heroic Age's eleventh issue and is planned for March 2007. Submissions will be received at any time, but no later than Nov. 1, 2006. For submission guidelines see http://www.blogger.com/www.heroicage.org. Submissions should be sent to Larry Swain, haediting@yahoo.com

Papers addressing ANY issue or topic of interest within the purview of the journal are encouraged and welcomed at any time; there is no need to adhere to the proposed topic.

CFP: Food

2006-06-24T02:00:00.000Z

OOD: Representation, Ideology and Politics

Three-Day International Conference, Department of English, Jadavpur University Kolkata, India, 16, 17 and 18 November, 2006.
Food is a central part of our lives. However, in all cultures food has always represented more than just a means of survival. Sharing food, eating salt, breaking bread, raising a toast, picnics in the wild, formal dinners, all have certain ideological, political and social significances. Some foods are taboo, designated filthy or circumscribed. Some foods are endowed with holiness or endow the eater with purity.
Foods have also triggered colonial expansionism. The Spice Route was one of the earliest trade networks.
Revolts and revolutions have been sparked by the absence of food. Marie Antoinette’s famous comment advising the peasants to eat cake began a new era in world history, while wars have been lost because of hungry soldiers.
Globalisation and consumer cultures have added new dimensions to the act of eating in restaurants and the kinds of cuisine available in various parts of the world, while brands like Kentucky Fried Chicken, Coca Cola or Pepsi have often been the targets of anti-imperialist protests in India and elsewhere.
The representation of food, eating practices, last suppers, and other aspects of food culture has also been central to many texts.
Abstracts are invited for this seminar. They should not be longer that 500 words and may be sent by electronic mail to the addresses given below or to

Food: Representation, Ideology And Politics,
CAS Coordinator,
Department of English,
Jadavpur University,
Kolkata 700 032,
India

Themes may include, but are not necessarily limited
to:

# Representations of Food and Eating Practices in Literature # Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Area of Food # Food as a Marker in Defining Identity # Representation of Political or Social Movements Related to Food # Food in Popular Culture # The Gendering of Food-Related Practices

Nilanjana Gupta nilaguptaju@yahoo.com
Amlan Dasgupta amlan04@gmail.com
Rimi B. Chatterjee rimibchatterjee@yahoo.co.in

CFP: Suffering, Sacred and the Sublime

2006-06-24T01:58:00.000Z

HROUGH a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime
Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia May 10-12, 2007

Keynote Speakers: David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University; Maxine Hancock,
Regent College

Papers are invited on any aspects of the topics of suffering, the sacred, and the sublime in literature from a Christian perspective.
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches to these topics are encouraged.

Topics may include:

* The sacred spaces of suffering
* Mystical (un)knowing
* The literature of mourning
* Survivor testimonies
* Trauma and the sublime
* The feminine/masculine sublime
* The evolution of the sublime in literature
* Genre and the shape of suffering
* The unrepresentable voice of the victim
* The postmodern sublime

Inquiries are welcomed at any time. Proposals or abstracts should be sent by Dec. 15, 2006 to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson (Holly.Nelson@twu.ca).

Contact the conference chairs at:

Trinity Western University
English Department
7600 Glover Road
Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1
CANADA

CFP: Empires

2006-06-24T01:57:00.000Z

MPIRES and their contested pasts

28th Irish Conference of Historians
at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
18–20 May 2007

We invite proposals for papers exploring aspects of the general theme of empires and their contested pasts. There is no restriction on chronology, location, or type of empire. Comparative studies and papers examining historiographical debates and/or contestations of race, religion, gender, class, and culture will be welcomed. We particularly invite proposals from postgraduate students.

The conference is preceded by the 2007 Wiles Lectures on 15–18 May, when Professor Christopher Bayly will speak on ‘Empire and liberalism: India and beyond’. Our aim is to build upon the Wiles themes and to explore the complexities, controversies, and contradictions of empires and history more broadly.

Confirmed participants include Christopher Bayly, Richard Drayton, Bill Nasson, Nicholas Canny, Jane Ohlmeyer, and Simon Potter.

300-word proposals should be sent to Dr Robert Blyth (r.blyth@qub.ac.uk), before 31 December 2006. The conference programme will be drawn up by the end of January 2007. General enquiries about the conference can be directed to Robert Blyth, Keith Jeffery (k.jeffery@qub.ac.uk) or Elaine Doyle (edoyle07@qub.ac.uk).

School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN

CFP: Limits of History

2006-06-24T01:55:00.000Z

IMITS OF HISTORY

Essays are invited for a collection entitled The Limits of History, to be co-edited by Allen Dunn and Thomas Haddox. This volume is guided by the assumption that the current dominance of historicist approaches to literary study has often distorted the discipline, that historical methodology as it has been applied in contemporary literary scholarship is often heedless of its own methodological inconsistency, blind to its dependence on other disciplines, and incapable of clearly articulating many of its own most deeply held values. The essays in this volume will address the flaws of literary historicism as it is currently practiced and suggest more productive roles for historical scholarship with the ultimate purpose of clarifying the goals and values of literary study. We welcome contributions that will draw on a variety of fields, including aesthetics, ethics, theology, the sciences, and history, especially new and alternative visions of historical research. We are looking for essays that engage rather than ignore the challenge presented by contemporary historicism and that offer theoretically supported alternatives to what has become the new disciplinary orthodoxy.

Completed essays (5,000-8,000 words) are due by March 1, 2007. Please send essays to Thomas Haddox, Department of English, 301 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996.
Address inquiries to Allen Dunn (ardunn@utk.edu) or Thomas Haddox (thaddox@utk.edu).

Allen Dunn
Thomas Haddox

Thomas F. Haddox
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Tennessee
301 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996

(865) 974-6802
thaddox@utk.edu

E-journals

2006-06-01T11:36:00.000Z

TOEBI conference awards

2006-05-25T10:16:00.000Z

OEBI CONFERENCE AWARDS

TOEBI has set aside funding to help postgraduate students to attend conferences. We anticipate giving three bursaries of up to £200, but, depending upon the number and nature of applications, we may give a larger number of smaller awards. Bursaries will be paid on submission of receipts for the amounts claimed.

Please note the following restrictions:
The award is open only to postgraduate students.
Only costs related to attending conferences are eligible for support.
To be eligible for an award, it is necessary to be a member of TOEBI (it is permissable to join at the time of application: go to http://www.toebi.org.uk/).
The closing date for applications is 30 June 2006. Applications will be assessed by TOEBI's executive committee. Notification of awards will be made by 7 July 2006.

TOEBI's executive committee will make awards according to the following criteria:
Priority will be given to applicants attending conferences in this academic year (i.e. 2005-6).
Although past award-winners are eligible to apply, priority may be given to applicants who have not previously received an award from TOEBI.
Although presenting a paper is not a requirement for an award, preference may be given to those presenting papers.
Awards are normally given only for attendance at conferences concerned with Old English or which contribute to Old English studies.
To apply for a TOEBI Conference Award, please fill in the form.

Successful award winners will be asked to report back on the experience gained from the award. These reports (of approximately 300 words) will be included in the TOEBI newsletter. They should be submitted to Dr Margaret Connolly at mc29@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31 March 2007.

CFP: Humor in Middle English

2006-05-25T10:14:00.000Z

UMOR IN MIDDLE ENGLISH

Essay Collection - Deadline for Papers: 1st October 2006
Edited by Michael W. George

I am seeking essays on any aspect of humor in Middle English texts. Essays on humor theory and humor in individual texts/writers are welcome.
Publication of the volume should occur approximately one year from deadline. Complete manuscripts and queries should be sent to the email address below.

Guidelines:
Length: 5000 words
Style: Chicago, 15th ed.
Submission: MS Word or RTF (rich text) document emailed to mgeorge@millikin.edu

Dr. Michael W. George
Assistant Professor of English
Millikin University
mgeorge@mail.millikin.edu

CFP: Mind and Body

2006-05-25T10:11:00.000Z

IND AND BODY

The University of Reading School of English and American Literature will be holding a one-day conference on the Whiteknights Campus, Reading University, July 12, 2007.

Plenary speaker: George Rousseau, Professor in the Modern History Research Unit, Oxford University, Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood.

The conference will explore ideas about the mind’s influence on the body. We are hoping for papers in a wide range of disciplines, reflecting the interests of the MA courses based in the School: Children’s Literature, Texts in History 1500-1700, The Body & Representation, Victorian Literature and Culture, and our proposed MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Possible topics include:

Reproduction: genetics; pre-natal diagnosis and intervention; marked foetuses and the parental imagination; birthing rituals and strange births.
The Child’s Body: diet; obesity; gender development; clothing.
Sexuality and Gender: hermaphroditic and other versatile bodies; the gendered consequences of mind/body interaction.
Modern and Contemporary Bodies: the diasporic body, the racialised body, the modified body.
History of Science: Mesmerism, phrenology, the mystery of Mind/Body interactions in the animal spirits.
The Disordered Body: psychosomatic illness, eating disorders, hysteria.
Resisting Bodies: martyred bodies, tortured bodies.
Creative Bodies: performance and other aesthetic experiences.

Papers are to be 20 minutes long and read in English. Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with affiliation and contact details, via email (as Word attachment) to Carolyn Williams (c.d.lyle@reading.ac.uk) by August 1, 2006, or by post to:

Carolyn Williams, School of English and American Literature,
University of Reading, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Whiteknights, Reading,
PO Box 218, RG6 6AA, UK

CFP: Women and Creativity

2006-05-02T23:43:00.000Z

OMEN AND CREATIVITY X

22-24 March 2007; Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 30 November 2006

THE MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM announces its thirteenth annual conference will be held March 22-24, 2007. The theme for the conference will be "WOMEN and CREATIVITY." Suitable topics for twenty-minute presentations that could involve a multitude of disciplinary perspectives (e.g. historical, literary, artistic, visual, performance, etc.) including, but not necessarily limited to, the following: women as literary, visual, or performance artists; the portrayal of women in literature; women as subjects in visual arts; the stories women tell; ways in which women's art does or does not reflect reality; glimpses of differing reality as illustrated through art; the interaction of women artists; the varying perceptions of women as artists; varying perceptions of women as subjects; women's access to outlets for the various art forms; critical consideration of women artists; etc.
One-page (no more than 250 words) summary of paper should be submitted by November 30, 2006.

Diane Long Hoeveler, Women's Studies Coordinator Department of English, Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Phone: (414) 288-3466 - E-mail: diane.hoeveler@marquette.edu - Fax: (414) 288-5433

Thoughts about the Sacred Heart

2006-04-29T17:21:00.000Z

QUESTION that's just come up in our reliquary cross discussion is that of the iconography of the Sacred Heart, where Jesus' heart is visible in his chest when his robes are drawn aside. Anyone have any interesting medieval examples of this to share?

CFP: Medievalism Transformed

2006-04-26T23:18:00.000Z

XTENDED DEADLINE

Medievalism Transformed now has an extended CFP deadline of May 8th.

CFP: Technoculture

2006-04-23T19:47:00.000Z

F INTEREST, perhaps, to anyone looking at early technologies of MS/book production etc.

A Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities:
Technoculture
Guest Editors:
Dr. Keith Dorwick, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Kevin Moberly, North Carolina Wesleyan College
For a special issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities (IH), guest editors Keith Dorwick and Kevin Moberly seek papers from a broad a range of academic disciplines that focus on issues that could be briefly summed as "technology and society," or, perhaps, "technologies and societies."
IH is published by the National Association for Humanities Education and is a refereed scholarly journal, published twice a year. Potential authors should note that this issue has been accepted for publication already; we will not need to find a publisher.
Successful papers for this special issue should focus on the ways humanists read technology in a range of historical periods and of academic and artistic disciplines as the subject of their work or as a special case of cultural studies.
Topics for this special issue could include depictions of technologies that treat a wide range of subjects related to the humanities. These subjects might
include:

•literature, film, theater, and television as technologies; •the cultural impact of technology on particular cultures or subcultures; •technology and its affect on the production of contemporary/historical artistic works and/or the work of artists; •technology as the dream (or nightmare) that drives novelists, poets, artists, playwrights and essayists to their notebooks, brushes, canvasses, stages and screens; •the economics of technology in the humanities; •computer/video gaming; •hypertext (especially hypertext and the arts or literature); •the dissemination of the arts via technology to broad or to specialized audiences; •the death of the book; •the myth of the "death of the book"; •the disappearance of a given technology or technologies and what that disappearance/disappearances means/mean for the archival issues that surround the humanities.

In particular, the special editors are interested in a conception of "technology" and the "humanist impulse" that pushes beyond contemporary American culture and its fascination with computers; we seek papers that deal with any technology or technologies in any number of historical periods from any relevant theoretical perspective. We are not interested in "how to"
pedagogical papers that deal with the use of technology in the classroom.
We hope to publish mainly scholarly/critical papers in citation styles relevant to the home discipline of their authors, but creative works including poetry and creative non-fiction are also of interest to us. We also publish art work and are seeking original art (grayscale or line drawings and full color art for the front and back cover) that explores the role of technology in our lives.
Inquiries are welcome, though, again, only full manuscripts will be considered for possible inclusion in this special issue.
Please submit article proposals/abstracts by May 15, 2006. The editors will then request full length drafts from those abstracts still under consideration.
Length: 20-25 double-spaced manuscript pages and creative works in any genre to BOTH kdorwick_at_louisiana.edu and kmoberly_at_ncwc.edu in Word or RTF format for consideration by 05/15/06; requests to review relevant books on this topic may be sent to both addresses as well.
Calendar:
Article Proposals/Abstracts Due: May 15, 2006.
Requests for Full Length Drafts from Editors to
Authors: June 1, 2006
Full Drafts to Editors for Comment: Sept 15, 2006.
Final drafts due to the guest editors: Dec 15, 2006.
Final proofed text delivered to the journal editor with front and back (color) illustrations, Jan 15, 2007.
Publication April or May 2007.

Dr. Keith Dorwick
Assistant Professor of English and Rhetoric Department of English The University of Louisiana at Lafayette P.O. Box 44691 Lafayette, LA 70504-4691
(337) 482-6915

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CFP: Sub/Versions: Cultural Status, Genre & Critique

2006-04-23T19:35:00.000Z

HE FOURTH Annual Department of English Postgraduate Conference will be held this year at the University of Dundee on Friday June 30th. This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference invites proposals for papers under the heading 'Sub/Versions: Cultural Status, Genre and Critique', and will explore texts that exist in various forms, and in different media, and the changes that are made between versions, and how some of those changes might subvert the original. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): subversion, translation, surrealism, parody and satire, the "re-imagined" text, disguise, the carnivalesque, performance, gender, escapism, narration, modes of perception and reception. A range of texts and media may be considered, from literature, to artwork, films, animation, and comics. We would also like to encourage papers that focus on certain genres, including fantasy, horror, science-fiction, romance, and children's literature.

The Plenary speaker will be Roger Sabin (Central St Martin's College of Art and Design).
Proposals for papers (250-300 words) of twenty minutes in length should be sent to:
Pauline McPherson
Postgraduate Representative
Dept. of English
University of Dundee
Perth Road
Dundee
DD1 4HN
or E-mail: p.macpherson@dundee.ac.uk
Deadline for proposals: 1st May 2006
Confirmation of Acceptance by: 8th May 2006

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CFP: Court Space/Common Space

2006-04-23T19:22:00.000Z

ROPOSED SESSION(s) for the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Miami, March 22-24, 2007

Court Space / Common Space

In 1974, French cultural historian, Henri Lefebvre, published his Production de l’espace, in which he called for investigations into the "cultural construction of space" through everyday social, political, and economic life. Cultural and political historians have recently begun to do this in a number of specific contexts, including investigations of royal palaces and courts, and of urban spaces and rituals. But not enough work has been done on how the construction of space by court elites relates to the spatial dimensions of popular and public life.

This session or sessions, co-sponsored by the Court Society of North America and the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, solicits abstracts for 20 minute papers in history, literature, art and architectural history; papers should address comparative issues of "court space" and "common space" in mutual interrelation, and perhaps deconstruct the separation of "high" and "low culture" relating to the city, countryside, and realm.
The RSA website states a chronology of ca.1350-1650, with global implications.
Send abstracts by e-mail to Malcolm Smuts (Malcolm.Smuts@umb.edu), History, University of Massachusetts, Boston; George Gorse (ggorse@pomona.edu), Art History, Pomona College; and Lloyd Kermode (lkermode@csulb.edu), English, California State University, Long Beach by May 19, 2006
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Medieval cross - opinions sought

2006-04-23T18:55:00.000Z

HAVE JUST acquired this reliquary cross (pictured below - click on it for a larger image), and would love to hear any opinions or ideas you may have about it. I'm told it's 11th or 12th century and would have been sold to pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. What do you think of the decoration? One figure is clearly Christ, and the other allegedly Mary. Is it the Holy Spirit above Christ's head? What is in "Mary's" hands? Any comments gratefully received...

Beth

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CFP: Medievalism Transformed (deadline TODAY!)

2006-04-21T18:55:00.000Z

EDIEVALISM Transformed:
Imagining the Medieval World
An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference,3 June 2006.

Submissions due 21 April, 2006.

Inviting abstracts for the second annual Medieval Studies conference, a one-day interdisciplinary event, at the University of Wales, Bangor. We will be convening to explore the medieval world and its sustained impact on subsequent culture and thought.
This year's theme is Imagining the Medieval World. All topics within the general scope of the conference will be considered, including:

- Mapping the Medieval: Buildings, Boundaries, and Peripheries
- Structured Worlds: Guilds, Religious Orders, Orders of Knighthood
- Imaginary Worlds: Utopias, Fairylands, Forests of Romance
- The Past Perfect: The Construction of the Past in the Medieval World
- The Past Present: The (Re)Construction of the Medieval World in Subsequent Ages
- Journeys: Pilgrimages, Crusades, Explorations
- Providence: Apocalypse, Prophecy, Reason, Faith
- Creative Enterprise: Language, Music, Performance

Your proposal for a 20-minute paper should be no longer than 300 words. Please make submissions electronically to medievalismtransformed@bangor.ac.uk by 21 April 2006. Proposals should be accompanied by your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and contact information.

Medievalism Transformed
Department of English
Department of History and Welsh History
University of Wales, Bangor
College Road, Bangor
Gwynedd, LL57 2DG
United Kingdom
medievalismtransformed@bangor.ac.uk
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/conferences/medievalism%20transformed/medievalism2006/index.htm

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CCASNaC Conference: May 6th 2006

2006-04-21T09:55:00.000Z

AMBRIDGE Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2006:
Dialogue and Exchange

May 6th, 2006 – Faculty of English, Cambridge

9.30 – 10.00 Registration and coffee

10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Paper (Chair: Ben Snook)

‘Alcuin in Dialogue with Vergil’
(Professor Michael Lapidge)

11.00 – 11.30 Tea and coffee

11.30 – 13.00 Session I (Chair: Erik Niblaeus)
***‘Sculpture and Identity in Viking Age Norfolk: the St. Vedast Cross’
(Mike Reed, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York)
***‘An Eighth-Century Royal Conversation: Cathal mac Finguine and Áed Allan at Tír dá Glás, 737 AD’
(Denis Casey, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge)
***‘Chanting the Roman Office in Early Anglo-Saxon England’
(Jesse Billett, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch at the Anchor

14.30 – 16.00 Session II (Chair: Helen Forbes)
***‘A Punctuation Dilemma: Assessing the Problems of Punctuation in Christ II’
(Abdullah Alger, School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures, University of Manchester)
***‘Dialogue, Exchange and the Representation of the Past in Nornagests þáttr’
(Helen Imhoff, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge)
***‘Asking for Intercession: Requests for Prayer in Æthelstan’s Laws and Charters’
(Levi Roach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge)

16.00 – 16.30 Tea and coffee

16.30 – 18.00 Session III (Chair: Rosa Maria Fera)
***‘Royal Titulature in Eighth-Century Mercia on Coins and in Charters; or, An Offa You Can’t Refuse’
(Rory Naismith, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge)
***‘Gregory the Great’s Dialogues and the Narration of Dreams in Medieval Icelandic Literature’
(Jonjo Roberts, School of English, University of Leeds)
***‘The Figure of Arthur in “Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn” and “Gereint uab Erbin”’
(Fiona Salisbury, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge)

18.00 Wine reception in ASNaC common room

Confused?

2006-04-20T15:22:00.000Z

OW THINGS work: part i.

Insulani is currently split up into this blog-forum and the mailing list. The mailing list can only be accessed by subscribed members in Ireland and the UK, whereas this forum is open to all, regardless of geographical location.

So, here's a brief introduction to the forum.

1. Commenting: at the end of each post on the blog, you will see the word "Comments" with a number from zero upwards beside it. The number refers to how many comments have been posted so far. To read the comments, or to add your own, just click on "Comments". A new window will pop up, with all previous comments and space to add your own. If you have a blogger account, you can identify yourself on your comment by using it. If not, choose "Other" to log in with just your name (you can also add your website address if you have one). You may choose to log in as "anonymous", but since this forum is meant to be an open one for discussion and exchanging ideas, I would much rather that you gave your name.

The comments pages are where most of the discussion on Insulani will take place - use them to start dialogues with fellow-users. Moderation will be kept to a minimum - only spam and obscene or irrelevant comments will be removed.

2. Posting: currently, only the administrator can post to the blog. If you want to start a new discussion, put a question or request to the community, or make an announcement, please email your post to me and I will place it on the forum ASAP.

3. Content: whereas the mailing list will deal primarily with announcements and calls for papers, this forum is open to any kind of content as long as it has some relevance to the medieval period.

Although this forum is aimed primarily at those studying in the UK and Ireland, there is no geographical constraint on the topics that can be discussed. Insulani aims to be truly interdisciplinary, and welcomes comments and posts that deal with any and all approaches to medieval studies, be they archaeological, literary, linguistic, geographical, musical, philosophical... You name it, we're interested in it!

Announcements for conferences outside the UK and Ireland may be posted here, provided that they are open to participants from those countries.

Mailing List

2006-04-20T14:58:00.000Z

HE INSULANI mailing list is now up and running, I'm pleased to announce.

The purpose of the mailing list is to allow members to post news and announcements about events, conferences and other items of interest to the Insulani community. Members must be postgraduates with academic interests in the medieval period, who are affiliated to an institution in either Ireland or the UK. To join, please email me to let me know who you are and I will add you as soon as possible.

Insulani - an introduction

2006-04-20T00:54:00.000Z

ELCOME to Insulani, a new online academic medieval forum.

Insulani is open to anyone undertaking postgraduate study in the medieval period, whatever their faculty or specialisation. It aims to provide a place for postgrads to discuss ideas, promote events, and find answers to questions. Although primarily aimed at students in the UK and Ireland, this blog is open to anyone who wishes to contribute.

In the near future, Insulani will expand to include a mailing list and a website, which will include member profiles listing research interests and contact details.

Right now, your input is absolutely crucial; any comments and suggestions about what you would like to see here and on the website will be gratefully received. And, of course, please let your colleagues and faculties know about Insulani...

If you have anything you'd like to post to the blog, such as conference announcements, CFPs, and so on, please email me.