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Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage
Call for Submissions: Art & Architecture
Available entries and more information.
The editorial staff for the single-volume Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Brill, forthcoming, 2009) continues to seek contributors to write signed articles on all topics related to pilgrimage between the Late Antique and the Reformation. Articles range from 150 to 2000 words in length. Compensation (for longer contributions only) will be in the form of discounts on Brill volumes. Below please find the lemmata list for the portions of the work handled by Rita Tekippe (rtekippe@westga.edu), the subject editor for Art & Architecture of Pilgrimage. The volume will also cover economic, social and ritual aspects, canon law, geography, theology, literature. Timeframe: 300-1500.
If you are interested in writing but do not see topics of interest to you on this portion of the lemmata list, please contact either Dr. Tekippe or our executive editor, Dr. Larissa Taylor (ljtaylor@colby.edu), and we can cheerfully and speedily put you in contact with the appropriate subject editor.
Book Project on Travel and Travel Writing in the Middle Ages
Call for chapter submissions for a book project exploring various dimensions of travel and travel writing in the Middle Ages. For the purposes of this project, the dating may span between the 7th and late 15th centuries, and include worlds and cultures east, west, north and south. Abstracts of between 250-500 words and a recent cv should be sent via email by March 31, 2009 to June-Ann Greeley at greeleyj@sacredheart.edu
A range of topic and themes wil be considered, but some areas of specific interest include: Gender and travel in the Middle Ages, Social class and travel in the Middle Ages, Travel and tourism in the Middle Ages, Travel and pilgrimage: distinctions and significations, Monastic hospitality and medieval travel, Travel writing in the Middle Ages: worlds unknown, creatures met, Religious travelers: strangers in strange lands,
travel writing/ travelers' writings impact on medieval art, literature, theology, Medieval travel and geographic consciousness, and many other possible themes! Please submit your proposal to June-Ann Greeley, Associate Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies,
Sacred Heart University, Adm 209, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield, CT 06825 greleyj@sacredheart.edu
September 30- October 2, 2009. “Gathering the Threads: Weaving the Early Medieval World,” Australian Early Medieval Association Sixth Annual Conference at the Caulfield Campus of Monash University, Victoria. From the Middle East to the North Atlantic, cultural differences were woven into the new social fabric of the early medieval world. Peoples, languages, religions, traditions and technologies were the threads woven into the period's complex tapestry. Papers on any other aspect of early medieval research or scholarship will also be accepted. A title and a 250 word abstract for papers of twenty minutes in length should be submitted to the conference convener by June 30 2009. Please include affiliation and contact details with your abstract. Presenters will be invited to publish their papers in the refereed Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association. Please send paper proposals to: Natasha Amendola, School of Historical Studies, Building 11, Clayton Campus, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
Email: natasha.amendola@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit the website at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/conference2009/
November 5-6, 2009. “An animal among men: the dog. From domestication to anthropomorphism” Third International meetings Of Animals and Men, an international, interdisciplinary conference will be held in Valenciennes, France. Canis familiaris is the animal species par excellence linked to man: no other animal has been subjected to so many various uses; no other animal has been imposed so many important morphologic transformations (from mastiff to bichon frise) by men, in order to adapt it to the required duties, far from the cat, this independent opportunist, or the horse, kept out of the house, in spite of all the passions it can arouse. Periods of studies: the Middle Ages and the Modern Period till the middle of the 19th century. Participants: historians, art historians, archaeozoologists, anthropologists, literary academics. Languages: French and English. Please send us a summary (200 words) of your paper with your name and address. Deadline: May 31, 2009. Accommodation and meals will be provided for, not travel expenses. Location: Université de Valenciennes, Le Mont Houy 59313 cedex. Amphi 150 Bât. Matisse, France. Please send paper proposals to Dr. Fabrice Guizard-Duchamp, Université de Valenciennes, Bât. Matisse, 59313 Le Mont Houy cedex 9
Email: fabrice.guizard-duchamp@orange.fr
Visit the website at http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/~/uvhc/agenda_novembre2009.html
December 17-19, 2009. “Noli me tangere in Interdisciplinary Perspective,” an International Conference, at K.U.Leuven, Belgium. The conference aims at an international conference of researchers on one specific biblical verse, namely John 20:17: "Jesus said to her, 'Do not touch me (or: do not touch me, Greek: mê mou haptou), because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God'," the verse that some have labeled the most difficult verse of the fourth gospel. The disciplines of exegesis, literature study, philosophy, art history and practical theology will collaborate in this conference to investigate its meaning, reception history and present-day relevance. Call for papers: scholars, including junior scholars are encouraged to submit paper proposals that address the main theme of the conference. Papers can focus on the meaning, the relevance and/or the reception of the noli me tangere motif. Proposals to study this theme from an exegetical, reception-historical, literary, philosophical, art historical or pastoral theological perspective are welcome. Paper proposals should be accompanied by an abstract of 200-250 words in English. Paper presentations should be delivered in English and should be approximately 20 minutes in length. Please send paper proposals with the abstract as an attachment to the Noli me tangere Research Project, (nolimetangere@theo.kuleuven.be). The proposal submission deadline is April 1, 2009. We are planning to publish the papers of the conference with an international publisher based on a peer review process.
March 18-21, 2010. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held on Yale University Campus, New Haven, CT. The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, except that those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2008 and 2009 are not eligible to speak in 2010. Please do not submit more than one proposal. Sessions usually consist of three thirty-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. A different format for some sessions may be chosen by the Program Committee after the proposals have been reviewed. Session organizers may wish to propose different formats for their sessions, subject to Program Committee approval. We are seeking innovative proposals for papers and sessions and hope to see cross-disciplinary participation wherever possible. For both the commissioned and the open sessions, we are looking for the broadest possible range of proposals of topics and of time periods, within and across all the disciplines. Proposals should be submitted to Anders Winroth, preferably by e-mail (anders.winroth@yale.edu) or on paper in two copies, to Anders Winroth, Dept. of History, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven CT 06520-8324. The deadline is May 15, 2009. The proposal must have two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer's name, statement of Academy membership (or statement that the individual's specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy), professional status, 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, session for which the paper should be considered, paper title, 250-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September, that address should be included.
For updated news of the conference, please go to the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33799240816
April 13-16, 2010. “Commerce and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Times”
a European Social Science History Conference in Ghent, Belgium. We seek papers that focus on specific instances of inter-faith commerce from around the world in the period from 1000 to 1800. Papers from a variety of perspectives (e.g. economic history, legal history, cultural history) are welcome. They should be based on original research.
We are particularly eager to receive contributions that approach two inter-related themes:
a) the emergence of institutions, technologies, and forms of social organization that may have reduced the uncertainty of commercial exchanges, which was particularly acute in the absence of family and religious ties. b) the tension between economic pragmatism, legal prescriptions, and religious prejudice. We are eager to link the mechanics of commercial exchange to their broader cultural implications in a wide variety of contexts and historical moments. In particular, we want to understand how and whether the quest for profit either encouraged more tolerant attitudes or merely enabled different groups to coexist in the context of religious biases and patterns of segregation. Please send a paper title and an abstract of no more than 800 words via email to both session organizers no later than April 1, 2009. Proposals should be written in English. We are especially keen to review papers that combine empirical research and theoretical reflections.
Francesca Trivellato, Professor of History, Yale University
francesca.trivellato@yale.edu; Cátia Antunes, Assistant Professor of History,
Leiden University c.a.p.antunes@let.leidenuniv.nl
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