The Canadian Society of Medievalists Conferences and CFPs

Call for Papers: Rites of Passage for Medieval Vowed Religious

Emma Gabe — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:22:21 GMT

Creating New Identities: Rites of Passage for Medieval Vowed Religious

CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2027 MAA Annual Meeting

Toronto, 15–17 April 2027

Consecration, benediction, profession, installation, burial: Such rites of passage punctuated the lives of vowed religious. They marked moments of profound change, as a novice became a fully professed religious, a nun became an abbess, a monk an abbot. These rites are thus also sites of intense formation, as both individual and collective identities are shaped through the liturgical performance of the rituals. What role do geography, age, and religious order play in constructing religious identity? How do monastic burial rituals bookend the life of a vowed religious? What kinds of manuscripts and other liturgical objects are used to enact these rites? Do rites of passage function differently for male and female religious? How do space and place affect their liturgical performance?

Submission information and important dates

This panel invites twenty-minute papers on religious rites of passage in medieval Europe, and will be submitted to the 2027 MAA Annual Meeting. Please submit a title and an abstract of 250 words, along with your name, affiliation, and contact information, to Olivia Caroline Geraci (ogeraci@nd.edu) and Emma Gabe (emma.gabe@utoronto.ca) by April 15, 2026.

Maple Malory II - 6-8 August 2026

Kathy Cawsey — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:16:54 GMT

CALL FOR PAPERS
Maple Malory II Conference
6-8 August 2026
University of King’s College
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Following on the success of the “Malory at 550 Conference” of 2019, we are hosting another Malory conference in scenic Nova Scotia. We are pleased to invite proposals on any aspect of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. Topics might include, but are not limited to, textual analysis, critical approaches old and new, Fifteenth-century culture and English politics, source studies in English and French, the manuscript and early print context of the work, and historical and contemporary reception of the Morte. The conference is in-person only: we do not have the resources for virtual or hybrid options.
Please send proposals of 250 words, together with contact details, to Kathy Cawsey (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) and Elizabeth Edwards (eedward2@dal.ca) by January 31, 2026.
This conference is sponsored by Arthurian Literature, and by the Early Modern Studies Program and Foundation Year Programs of the University of King’s College. Details on accommodation and events to follow.

Deadline extended! CSM EDID Sessions on Disability, Queer World-Making and Medieval Studies on Turtle Island

Siobhain Calkin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:48:55 GMT

The EDID Committee has extended the submission deadline for the following sessions until January 15, 2026:

Le comité EDID a prolongé la date limite de soumission pour les sessions suivantes jusqu'au 15 janvier, 2026:

1) You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island / Vous Êtes Sur Une Terre Indigène: Comprendre les études médiévales sur l’île de la Tortue

Poster: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/YouAreOnNativeLandCFP.png

https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/YouAreOnNativeLand%20CFP%20French[1].png

2) Queer World-Making / Création d'un monde LGBQT+

Poster: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/QueerCFP.png

https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/Queer%20CFP%20French.png

3) Medieval Engagements with Disability / Engagements médiévaux vis-à-vis du handicap

Poster: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/Disability%20CFP.png

https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/Disability%20CFP%20French.png

All Calls for Papers can be found here: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Papers-EDID-2026/

Les appels aux contributions sont disponibles ici: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160

Canadian Society of Patristic Studies Student Essay Prize, deadline Jan 31 2026

Siobhain Calkin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:45:41 GMT

For more information, see: https://cspsacep.ca/students-etudiantes/

Colloque étudiant de la SEMQ: Disputatio McGillensis date limite: le 2 janvier

Siobhain Calkin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:38:29 GMT

DISPUTATIO MCGILLENSIS

SAMEDI,21FÉVRIER2026

UNIVERSITÉMCGILL

La 24 édition du colloque étudiant Disputatio se déroulera à l’Université McGill, le samedi 21 février 2026. Le colloque annuel de la Société des études médiévales du Québec (SÉMQ) vise à mettre en valeur les travaux de cycles supérieurs en études médiévales, tous domaines confondus (littérature, histoire, histoire de l’art, philosophie, linguistique, musicologie, étudesreligieuses, etc.).

Cette année, la SÉMQ aura la chance d'accueillir comme conférencière d’honneur Madame Antje Chan, professeure au Département d’anglais de l’Université McGill. Sa conférence aura pour titre « Les laïcs et la messe: aux origines anglo-normandes detraités liturgiquesmoyen-anglais au XVesiècle».

Les propositions de communication, d'environ 250 mots, doivent être accompagnées d’un CV sommaire (institution d’attache, programme d'étude, état d'avancement des recherches et nom du directeur ou de la directrice) et elles doivent être envoyées à Isabelle Arseneau (isabelle.arseneau@mcgill.ca) avant le 2 janvier 2026. Les communications, d’une durée maximale de 20 minutes, pourront être présentées en français ou en anglais.

DATE LIMITE: 2JANVIER2026

isabelle.arseneau@mcgill.ca

Pour devenir membre : www.semq.uqam.ca

À cette occasion, la SÉMQ décerne un prix de 100 $ pour la meilleure

communication étudiante et invite le lauréat ou la lauréate à soumettre

son texte au comité de rédaction de la revue Memini. Travaux et

documents.

Une aide financière dédiée au déplacement pourra être

octroyée aux étudiant.e.s qui ne résident pas dans la région

montréalaise. L’aide financière doit être sollicitée avant le

1er février 2026 auprès de la trésorerie

(semq.tresorier@gmail.com). Veuillez noter que pour être

éligibles au prix Disputatio et à l’aide financière, les

candidat.e.s doivent être membres en règle de la SÉMQ

Submit your 2025 book or your 2025 PhD thesis for the Labarge and Boyle prizes! // Soumettez votre livre ou votre thèse de doctorat de 2025 pour les prix Labarge et Boyle !

Shannon McSheffrey — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:12:30 GMT

Click here for the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for best book // Cliquez ici pour le prix Margaret Wade Labarge décerné au meilleur livre

Click here for the Leonard E. Boyle Prize for best dissertation // Cliquez ici pour le prix Leonard E. Boyle décerné à la meilleur thèse

CFP for the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, October 24-25, 2025

Andrew Klein — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:56:37 GMT

CFP for the annual meeting of the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern
Group (AMEMG), October 24-25, 2025
Please join us in Moncton (NB) for this year’s conference, co-hosted by the Université de Moncton and Crandall University.

A reception and keynote lecture will be held on the evening of October 24 at the Université de Moncton, followed by a day of papers on October 25, at Crandall University (10 minutes away by car).

We are eager to receive proposals in English or French for papers (15-20 minutes), panels (3-4 papers on a specific topic), or posters from scholars at any career stage (including graduate students and undergraduates working on honours projects). As a broad and inter-disciplinary group, the AMEMG welcomes work on any subject of interest to scholars in the fields of medieval or early modern studies, broadly conceived.

• If you are interested in giving a paper (15-20 minutes), please send an abstract (300 words) and a 1-page CV.
• If you are interested in organizing a panel (3-4 papers on a specific topic), please send a title and brief description (150 words) along with abstracts (300 words) and a 1-page CV for the individual presenters.
• If you are interested in participating in a poster session, send a brief description of what you would present (150 words) and a 1-page CV. Submissions in this category are welcome from all participants, but especially honours undergraduate and graduate students.
• We also welcome proposals for 10-minute introductions to attendees’ research backgrounds and areas of interest. This will give new attendees, as well those embarking on new or different lines of research, the chance to introduce themselves. It will also give the whole group an opportunity to
learn about the exciting work being done in Premodern Studies in Atlantic Canada. Proposals for 10-minute intros should be around 150 words.
• Please email proposals for any of the above to abram.steen@crandallu.ca by August 25, 2025.
• Panel: Call for proposals: Creative ideas for teaching the Early Modern
Seeking participants for a panel discussion on teaching the Early Modern creatively. Share your ideas and examples of making this period engaging and accessible for students. The scale could be at the level of innovative course design down to the level of individual primary source assignments or anything in between. Participants will have 10 minutes each to profile their pedagogical example, leaving plenty of time for conversation between panelists and with the audience. Slides or other materials are welcome. Up to 5 participants will be chosen from proposals.

Proposals and questions can be sent to panel organizer, Keith Grant at keith.grant@crandallu.ca. [The conference organizers would be open to a proposal for a similar panel on teaching the Medieval.]

We are also happy to announce that the keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Tom Peace, Associate Professor of History and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College (London, ON). Dr. Peace is an award-winning scholar of colonialism in early Canada and his talk is entitled “What is a Treaty? Building a Treaty Culture in North America, 1678-1790.”

Watch your email for additional details on registration and accommodations, and feel free to direct any questions to abram.steen@crandallu.ca.

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Appel à Communications pour la réunion annuelle de l’Atlantic Medieval
and Early Modern Group (AMEMG), 24-25 octobre 2025.
Nous vous invitons à assister à ce colloque dans la ville de Moncton. Une réception et conférence
d’ouverture se dérouleront en soirée le 24 octobre à l’Université de Moncton, suivi d’une journée de communications le lendemain, 25 octobre, à la Crandall University, à 10 minutes de route en voiture.

Nous invitons les chercheuses et chercheurs à soumettre des propositions, en anglais ou en français, pour des communications individuelles, pour des séances complètes (3-4 communications sur un même thème), ou pour une affiche. L’AMEMG adhère à une conception large des champs des études médiévales et modernes, des points de vue chronologique et disciplinaire.
• Pour les propositions de communications individuelles (15-20 minutes), veuillez soumettre un résumé d’environ 300 mots et un CV d’une page.
• Pour les propositions de séances complètes, veuillez soumettre une brève description (150 mots) du thème général, ainsi que des résumés (300 mots) et des CV d’une page pour chacune des communications.
• Pour les propositions d’affiche, veuillez soumettre un résumé (150 mots) et un CV d’une page. Nous souhaitons particulièrement recevoir des propositions d’étudiantes et étudiants (aux cycles supérieurs ou en dernière année du baccalauréat).
• Nous souhaitons également recevoir des propositions pour des brèves présentations (10 minutes) des intérêts de recherche des participantes et participants. Cela permettra aux nouveaux membres, ainsi qu’à celles ou veux qui embarquent dans un nouveau projet, la possibilité de se présenter, et au groupe de mieux connaitre la diversité et l’ampleur des travaux de recherche qui se fait dans les études médiévales et modernes dans les provinces de l’Atlantique. Veuillez soumettre un résumé d’environ 150 mots.
• Toutes les propositions devraient être envoyées à abram.steen@crandallu.ca avant le 25 août 2025.
• Appel à communications pour former une séance : Approches innovantes dans l’enseignement de l’époque moderne. Je souhaite organiser une séance sur les approches inventives dans l’enseignement de l’histoire, de la littérature, de la pensée (etc) de l’époque moderne. Partagez vos idées et vos expériences. Les présentations pourraient couvrir, par exemple, la conception d’un cours, la nature d’une évaluation ou présenter une approche à l’analyse d’une source. Prévoyez une dizaine de minutes pour présenter votre expérience d’enseignement. Je prévois qu’il pourra y avoir jusqu’à cinq courtes présentations dans la séance, ce qui laissera du temps pour discuter entre panélistes et avec le public. Vous pouvez envoyer une proposition, et vos questions si vous souhaitez avoir plus d’informations, à l’organisateur de la séance, Keith Grant (keith.grant@crandallu.ca).

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que la conférence d’ouverture sera donné par le professeur Tom Peace, Associate Professeur d’histoire et co-directeur du Community History Centre au Huron University College (London, ON). Le professeur Peace est spécialiste de l’histoire du colonialisme canadien, notamment dans les provinces maritimes, et sa conférence s’intitule « What is a Treaty? Building a Treaty Culture in North America, 1678-1790.”

CFP - ICMS ‘Indigenous turn’ Sessions on the ‘Glo(cal) Middle Ages’ and ‘Settler Medievalism’

Brenna Duperron — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:58:31 GMT

Brenna Duperron and Sarah LaVoy-Brunette are continuing to build the 'Indigenous turn' with some exciting panels for the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14-16, 2026), which include:

“The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel);
and “Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel).

Abstract submissions due September 15, 2025 to the ICMS Confex site:

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi

Send any questions to myself (brenna.duperron@unbc.ca) or Sarah (sfl39@cornell.edu).

“The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel)

The Global Middle Ages tends to re-emphasize the ‘Old World’ myths by expanding the focus out of Europe into Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This panel considers how our localities (e.g., Indigenous North America) should be centered in this conversation. Given that ICMS takes place at Western Michigan University on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Bodewadmi Nations, what role should the Land play in how we teach the Middle Ages on these Lands? Within this turn outward to the globalized Middle Ages, how do we return to the local? How does our geographic positioning impact our understanding of the Middle Ages and medievalism? What role does Indigenous North America have in our understanding of the Middle Ages or the impacts of medievalism?

“Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel)

The (re)imagining of the medieval has a long-standing political impulse across both White nationalism and settler-colonial ideology–often facilitating an overlap of these value systems. Helen Young and Stephanie Downes note that politics embedded in popular medievalism radicalizes audiences who “would not engage in political manifestos” (2). However, this settler medievalism appears across political manifestos and popular medievalism: Thomas Jefferson famously evoked the early Middle Ages to justify a homogenous White America. Both George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler cosplayed as a medieval knight or crusader in propaganda images. This panel considers the overlap between settler (and/or White nationalist) ideology and medievalism. How has medievalism been evoked? How has it been twisted into a political tool?

Toronto Old English Colloquium 2025

Fabienne Michelet — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:42:20 GMT

Speaker

Janet Ericksen (University of Minnesota Morris)

When and Where

Thursday April 17, 2025, 2:30pm to 4:30pm

Centre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7

And virtually via Zoom

Description

The Toronto Old English Colloquium welcomes Janet Ericksen, Chancellor and Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris for a lecture entitled Reading the Gaps in MS Junius 11.

RSVP required

1 pm Lunch (Great Hall)

2:30-4:30 pm Lecture: Janet Ericksen, Reading the Gaps in MS Junius 11 (Great Hall)
Abstract: The pages of the book now catalogued as Oxford, Bodleian Library manuscript Junius 11 present multiple formats to readers, including completed illustrations integrated with text in the Genesis section, abundant unfinished spaces in its middle portions, and predominantly text-only pages in Christ and Satan. The completed illustrations create a complex interweaving of visual and textual narratives that asks for careful navigation, while the unfinished spaces, rather than representing mere deficits, may have enhanced meditative reading of the sort encouraged by monastic training. The manuscript’s combination of illustration, blank space, and text distinguishes it from other surviving Old English manuscripts, and the varying page layouts would have facilitated different types of reading engagement. The gaps—the unillustrated, unwritten spaces—reveal more than they leave out.

Reception to follow

Contact Information

Renée Trilling (renee.trilling@utoronto.ca)

Fabienne Michelet (fabienne.michelet@utoronto.ca)

Centre for Medieval Studies (medieval.communications@utoronto.ca)

New Chaucer Society 2026 Panel: Understanding the Coloniser/Re-Imagining the Medieval

Brenna Duperron — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:30:28 GMT

THREAD: Ubiquitous Medieval

SESSION TITLE: Understanding the Coloniser/Re-Imagining the Medieval

FORMAT: Short Paper

Settler-Colonial ideology is heavily infused with medievalism. Recent scholarship has critically interrogated this intersection in Medieval Studies and its conventions (e.g., Tarren Andrews, Sierra Lomuto, and Eduardo Ramos). The medieval world symbolizes two extremes: it stands for both the ‘epitome’ of society and its most ‘backwards’ state, as seen in the political designation of the Anglo-Saxon in white supremacist discourse versus how global Indigenous populations are labelled as ‘medieval.’ This panel is interested in how this paradox has been explored artistically. Papers should probe works that use medievalism critically to re-write, re-imagine, and reevaluate the past, considering for example, Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales, Waubgeshig Rice’s (Anishinaabe) “Heartbeat,” Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Gerald Vizenor’s (Minnesota Chippewa) “Monte Cassino Curiosa: Heart Dancers at the Headwaters,” Moniquill Blackgoose’s (Seaconck Wampanoag) To Shape a Dragon’s Breath among others. Questions to consider include: how have Indigenous/colonized populations appropriated the ‘medieval’ iconography, stories, or ideology? What alternate futures are suggested or imagined? How has this appropriation shed light on the settler-colonial ideology that permeates medievalism?

To Submit a Proposal

Fill out the online NCS 2026 proposal submission form:

https://forms.gle/nBQtN4GJGphu3MhY7

This form ensures that the Program Committee can keep track of all submissions. We can only guarantee that your proposal will be considered if you fill out the form. In addition to your 200-word abstract and title, you will be asked to select the best session for your proposal and to describe your academic position (e.g. graduate student, early career, permanent or temporary, independent). This information will help us to find the best sessions for proposals and to support the Society’s principle of inclusivity for session rosters. The information submitted on this form is only accessible to the Program Committee.

2. Email your proposal to your chosen session’s organizer(s). CONTACT: Brenna.duperron@dal.ca

Proposals should be titled and no longer than 200 words. Please include your name, affiliation, and your email address along with your abstract.

Submissions are not complete until both steps have been followed. Submissions (both the online form and the email to organizers) are due by 27 April 2025.

4 Apr 2025: Mediaeval Symposium: Cities of Women in the Middle Ages, St Michael's College, U of T

Shannon McSheffrey — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:30:00 GMT

Mediaeval symposium: Cities of women in the Middle Ages

Explore the Life and Times of Mediaeval City Women

Saturday, April 5, 2025, Registration: 8:30 am Symposium: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, Alumni Hall Room 400, $150 (Includes lunch & coffee/tea)

Cities of Women Symposium PDF Poster.pdf

CFP: Understanding Medieval Race-Making

Brenna Duperron — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:46:53 GMT

The EDID Committee are currently putting together a roundtable on ‘Understanding Medieval Race-Making’ for the June 9-11 conference in Waterloo.

Until recently, texts written prior to the 16^th century were often considered “before race.” It was popularly understood that the concept of ‘race’ began with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the discovery of the “New World” and the scientific Enlightenment’s interest in categorization. Scholars such as Stuart Hall, Matthew Vernon, Cord Whitaker, Geraldine Heng, and Dorothy Kim, among others, have worked to disrupt this misconception, expanding our understanding of race not only temporally and geographically, but to reconsider how it extends past skin colour to encompass a variety of social, physical, and cultural categories that human society has linked to race and race-making. Paradoxically, the idea that ‘race’ is a modern construction, however, reinforces the myths of the medieval period itself as an insular space without global or trans-national reach. These continued myths have spurred current white supremacist usage of the medieval in their justification and execution of violence (such as the attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand and Charlottesville, the Sons of Odin group, or the January Insurrection Attempt int the US).

This panel asks the following questions:

· What does race-making look like in the premodern?

· How did we understand the idea of race before modern discourses on imperialism and colonialism?

· How do modern discourse on imperialism, colonialism, and race help us understand medieval race?

· Alternatively, how do modern discourses on race shape how race-making or race is engaged with in medievalism?

· How did the premodern imagine alterity? How did they define themselves?

· How did the premodern understand the Indigenous vs the colonizer?

· We are open to any question that considers how race and race-making work in the Middle Ages and/or medievalism.

Roundtable presentations may be in either English or French and should be 6-8 minutes in length to allow ample time for discussion. It is a quick turnaround, so please let us know if you would be interested ASAP (February 15th if possible). We’d also be thrilled if you could forward any recommendations our way.

For Inquiries or Proposal Submissions, please contact Brenna Duperron at Brenna.duperron@dal.ca and include a title and brief (100 word) abstract of the proposed presentation (which does not identify the author) as well as a separate one-page curriculum vitae which includes the presentation’s title at the top.

**Scholars need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists to submit proposals but, by the time of the conference, must be members in good standing and are expected to pay their 2024-25 annual membership fees to CSM / SCM by March 15, 2025 if they are not already members. For more information on our Society, visit https://canadianmedievalists.org/ and for more information on the Annual Conference and the general CFP, please visit: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual**

Fifteenth Century Conference - Durham, UK, 4-6 Sept. 2025

Shannon McSheffrey — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:22:13 GMT

CFP: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY CONFERENCE: Durham University, Thursday 4 – Saturday 6 September 2025

Proposals are now invited for The Fifteenth Century Conference 2025. This annual meeting, last held at Durham in 1993, brings together established scholars and new researchers working on the history of the long fifteenth century in the British Isles, Ireland, or in the French territories of the English monarchy. We invite proposals for research papers on any subject relating to this field, and proposals on all kinds of history are welcome.

Papers should be 35 minutes in length. They should be based on original research and be suitable for working up for submission to The Fifteenth Century (The Fifteenth Century - Boydell and Brewer), an edited series closely associated with the Conference. Please note, however, that there is no obligation to publish and submissions to this series undergo a separate peer-review process.

Proposals from postgraduates at the later stages of doctoral work and from early-career researchers are particularly encouraged. All speakers will be expected to deliver their papers in person and to pay the standard registration and other fees. This cost-sharing helps to make the conference as affordable as possible for everyone. The Richard III Society is kindly offering two £275 bursaries for postgraduate speakers at the conference (15th Century Conference bursaries).

Please send proposals for papers to Christian Liddy (c.d.liddy@durham.ac.uk) by 31 January 2025. Proposals should include a title and an abstract of the paper totalling no more than 300 words. Along with the abstract, please also provide a short biography (max. of 250 words), which should include any institutional affiliations and, in the case of postgraduate students, the name of your PhD supervisor.

All proposals will be reviewed by The Fifteenth Century Conference advisory board and decisions communicated in March 2025.

https://c15thconference.com/

CSM Online Research Forum 2025 -- SCM Forum de recherche en ligne 2025

Shannon McSheffrey — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:13:50 GMT

Détails ici / here!

CFP: Queer Pasts/ Queer Futurities Special Session at Annual Conference 2025

Siobhain Calkin — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:35:46 GMT

La version française suit

Call for Papers/Session(s) at the

2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists

June 9-11, 2025

at St Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo,

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Queer Pasts/Queer Futurities

The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session, or sessions, that will consider queerness in both the medieval past and its future(s). This panel seeks to disrupt the myth that queerness must be defended— that its place in the medieval past and in medievalism must be “proven.” We will consider where queerness has been overwritten or forgotten in medieval scholarship, where it has been written into medievalism, and/or where it has valuably shaped scholarly conversations.

Papers might consider:
Queer methodologies for analyzing medieval histories, arts, and/or literatures
Pedagogical approaches to and/or engagements with queerness
How we can locate and study queerness in the medieval past
The silencing, erasing, and/or Othering of queer voices/figures
How queer temporalities might disrupt linear/normative historical narratives
Queerness in medievalism (considering the representation of queerness in fantasy, science fiction, gaming, etc.)
How queer identities have and/or continue to intersect with other axes of identity (considering race, disability, class, etc.)

Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15- 20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 10, 2025.

For Inquiries or Proposal Submissions, please contact Gavin Foster at gavin.foster@dal.ca.

Proposal Submission Details:

Paper proposals must include a document giving the title plus a one-page abstract (without identifying the author). A separate document should consist of a one-page curriculum vitae which includes the paper’s title at the top.

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Appel à communications (presentations individuelles ou séances complètes)

Réunion annuelle de la Société canadienne des médiévistes
le 9-11 juin 2025
L’université St Jerome dans l’Université de Waterloo

Waterloo, ON

Passé / Futur LGBTQ+

Le comité EDID (Equité, diversité, inclusivité et décolonisation) de la CSM/SCM lance un appel à communications pour une ou plusieurs sessions qui examineront la «queerness» à la fois dans le passé médiéval et dans le(s) futur(s) de la médiévistique et du médiévalisme. Cette session cherche à briser le mythe selon lequel la “queerness” doit être défendue - que sa place dans le Moyen Âge et dans le médiévalisme doit être «prouvée». Nous examinerons les domaines dans lesquels la «queerness» a été ignorée ou oubliée dans la recherche médiévale, mais aussi les domaines dans lesquels la «queerness» a été rendue visible, a été exprimée, et a utilement façonné les discussions académiques.

Présentations pourraient considérer:

Méthodologies “queer” pour l'analyse de l'histoire, des arts et/ou des littératures médiévales
Approches pédagogiques de «queerness» et/ou engagement dans ce domaine
Comment localiser et étudier la “queerness” dans le passé medieval
L’effacement et/ou l'altérisation des voix et/ou des figures “queer”
Comment les temporalités “queer” peuvent perturber les récits historiques linéaires et/ou normatifs
“Queerness” dans le médiévalisme (e.g. la représentation de la “queerness” dans la fiction fantastique médiévale, la science-fiction, les jeux, etc.)
Questions de marginalisation intersectionnelle (en tenant compte de la race, du handicap, de la classe, etc.)

Les présentations peuvent être faites en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 10 janvier 2025.

Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Gavin Foster à l'adresse suivante : gavin.foster@dal.ca.

Soumission de Proposition:

Les propositions de communication doivent inclure le titre et un résumé d'une page (sans identifier l'auteur). Un document séparé doit présenter un curriculum vitae d'une page qui inclut le titre de la communication proposée en haut de la page.

**Les chercheurs.euses ne doivent pas nécessairement être membres de la SCM/CSM pour soumettre des propositions, mais doivent être membres en règle pour participer à la réunion annuelle et doivent payer leur cotisation annuelle 2024-25 à la SCM / CSM avant le 15 mars 2025 s'ils/elles ne sont pas déjà membres. Pour plus d'informations sur notre Société, visitez le site https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/accueil/~fr . Pour plus d'informations sur notre réunion annuelle et sur l'appel à communications général, veuillez consulter le site: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual**

CSM / SCM Annual Conference / Réunion Annuelle June 9-11 juin 2025

Siobhain Calkin — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:50:33 GMT

Our annual conference runs June 9-11, 2025 at St Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo. You will find the CFP here: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual Please submit proposals by January 15, 2025!

Notre réunion annuelle se passera le 9-11 juin, 2025 à l'Université St Jerome's à l'Université de Waterloo. Vous trouverez l'appel à communications ici: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual Veuillez soumettre vos propositions avant le 15 janvier, 2025!

Call for Book Chapters

Brandon Alakas — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:30:26 GMT

Sparks: Political, Intellectual, and Religious Utopia in the Premodern World

We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume on utopian history. Over the past half- century or so, scholarship about utopia has been predominantly led by the disciplines of literature and political science. With the exception of a few modernists who study socialist accomplishments and progressive thought, professional historians rarely engage in utopian discourse at large or treat utopia as a serious historical subject. Similarly, modern utopia acquired multiple meanings in both fictional and real worlds, but that of earlier centuries is still considered an equivalent to a narrow canon of literary texts, which scholars repeatedly recount and cannot elude. However, we believe that literary utopia, whether Morean or not, was only the tip of the iceberg. Implicit utopian manifestations were ubiquitous throughout the premodern world, appearing in forms such as mental images, theological treatises, legal texts, political agendas, ethical writings, polemical pamphlets, and lived communities. We declare that premodern utopia, rather than a genre, should encompass a much broader scope and become a necessary category of historical understanding. It symbolizes a sincere belief in the possible existence of a better society, shining in the great minds of political reformers, moral philosophers, religious leaders, and sometimes, lay commoners in the deep past. In this spirit, we welcome political, intellectual, and religious historians to unearth hidden utopian visions, or sparks of ideal society thought, in premodern times (pre-1750), worldwide, and to participate in building this new and exciting field of utopian history.

In specific, each chapter will discuss a single utopian case (a figure, a community, or an event, non-literary, and could be non-textual). The author should also comment on the broader period/nation/movement (e.g. Is the Italian Renaissance an epoch of utopiacraft?) and offer some theoretical or methodological grappling with the notion of utopia in the premodern context (how it is connected to and differed from a related term, such as hope, desire, progress, idealism/realism, optimism/pessimism, future/past, imagination, perfection, seclusion, illusion, improvement, political ideal, fantasy, rationality, radicality, etc.). Emerging scholars are encouraged; non-Anglo-American examples are strongly preferred.

Prospective contributors should submit their title and abstract (300-500 words) along with a short bio to co-editors Geoffrey Dipple (University of Alberta) and Václav Zheng (Johns Hopkins University) at utopiansparks@hotmail.com by Jan 12, 2025.

We will notify applicants about our decisions in February, and the full manuscript (7000~8000 words) is due on Nov 12, 2025. We expect the publication of the volume in early 2027.

DISPUTATIO UQACENSIS, 15 mars 2025 à Chicoutimi, Appel à communication:

Shannon McSheffrey — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:19:23 GMT

La 23e édition du colloque annuel Disputatio de la Société des études médiévales du Québec (SÉMQ) se déroulera pour la toute première fois à l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, le samedi 15 mars 2025. Les organisateurs invitent dès maintenant les étudiant.e.s de maîtrise et de doctorat à soumettre leur proposition de communication. Dans le cadre de cette édition qui marque le quarantième anniversaire de notre société, nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir comme conférencier d’honneur Monsieur Joseph Morsel, professeur émérite d’histoire du Moyen Âge à Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur les problèmes sociohistoriques de la domination sociale, de la culture médiévale de l’écrit et du rapport épistémologique entre l’historien et le Moyen Âge. Les propositions de communication, d'environ 250 mots, doivent être accompagnées d'un curriculum vitæ sommaire (institution d’attache, programme d'étude, état d'avancement des recherches et nom du directeur ou de la directrice) et elles doivent être envoyées à Arnaud Montreuil (arnaudmontreuil@uqac.ca) avant le 1er janvier 2025.

Transfuges culturels au Moyen Âge

Donna Trembinski — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:11:19 GMT

Le Centre d'études médiévales de l'Université de Montréal présente un cycle de conférences. Les conférences se tiennent à 16 heures au Carrefour des arts et des sciences, dans la salle C-2059.Gratuites et ouvertes à toutes et à tous, elles sont accessibles à distance, par l'entremise de la plateforme Zoom.

Pour les dates, voir le document ci-dessous..

CFP Edited collection on Magic, Identity and the Global Middle Ages (abstracts due Sept. 20)

Siobhain Calkin — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:11:25 GMT

Call For Contributions:

Conjuring Identity: Rethinking Magic in the Global Middle Ages

Volume Editors: Dr. Kersti Francis (Boston University), Dr. Misho Ishikawa (New York University), and Dr. Anne Le (University of Notre Dame)

ACMRS Press, the publications division of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, expresses strong interest in this proposed volume.

Editors’ Introduction and Abstract: Taking a broad approach to “magic,” the proposed volume explores premodern identity formation through narratives that test the very boundaries of the real. The collection intervenes in the burgeoning fields of medieval magic, identity studies, and the global Middle Ages by examining magic as a transcultural literary aesthetic closely linked to identity production. Magic, widely conceived, also offers scholars and students of the Middle Ages a methodology for reading against the Eurocentrism that has thus far dominated the discussion of medieval magic. While the collection resists the adoption of an abstracted, universal understanding of “magic,” the essays, when read together, assert a common structure to the use of magic in premodern texts: magic signals an aesthetic terrain that allows writers (and readers) to question not only nature and the natural world, but the normative modes of being that have been interpolated as natural.

We are strongly committed to the global scope of this project, and we especially seek case studies originating outside of Europe and the Mediterranean roughly between 500 CE to 1600 CE (e.g. Mesoamerican magical materiality, pre-colonial Ghanaian witchcraft, māyā within and beyond the Vedas). While this period generally corresponds to “the European Middle Ages,” this volume seeks to expand the geographies considered medieval through carefully-contextualized global examples. This comparative mode allows us in turn to question the very meaning of the “Middle Ages” itself.

Deadline:

Abstracts no longer than 300 words are due by September 20, 2024.

We welcome contributions from early career scholars and advanced graduate students.

Please send submissions to Dr. Francis (kerstif@bu.edu),

CCing Dr. Le (ale4@nd.edu) and Dr. Ishikawa (mi2501@nyu.edu)

CFP: Indigenous-Medieval Studies Panel for ICMS 2025

Brenna Duperron — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:40:20 GMT

We welcome submissions for work that intersects Indigenous Studies and Medieval Studies for three panels at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, Michigan ‧ May 9-10, 2025

“Red Reading the Premodern” (hybrid panel)

This panel takes up Cherokee scholar Scott Andrews’ 2018 challenge to interpret (non-Indigenous) literature from Indigenous perspectives, an approach that he labels a 'Red Reading,’ and extends it to premodern texts. Red Reading allows us to reconsider premodern texts, divorcing them from engrained approaches towards a plurality of perspectives. Our session takes a global approach to Indigeneity, and we welcome approaches and methods that extend from Indigenous communities within and beyond Turtle Island (examples of the latter includes Sami, Asante, Okinawan, or Zapotec to name but a few). The threads of Red Reading are many, and we welcome papers that consider (but are not limited to) the following areas of interrogation:

Reading premodern texts through Indigenous literary approaches and methods
The representation of Indigenous peoples in premodern texts
The early threads of settler-colonial ideologies
Indigenous adaptations/retellings of medieval texts
Indigenous translations of medieval stories/texts

Organized by Brenna Duperron & Sarah LaVoy-Brunette

Contact: Brenna.Duperron@dal.ca

“Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn” (in-person panel)

In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews coined the term “Indigenous turn” when describing the recent medievalist engagement with Indigenous studies. Recent scholarship (e.g., Akbari 2023; Price 2024) demonstrates the potential for an Indigenous turn that is relational when combined with other critical approaches such as trans theory, gender and sexuality studies, premodern critical race studies, the Global Middle Ages, and others. This panel asks for critical contributions that take up relational approaches to the Indigenous turn that ultimately challenge and depart from white, heteronormative subjectivities by accounting for complexity, nuance, liminality, and/or queerness in their analyses.

Organized by Sarah LaVoy-Brunette & Jordan Chauncy

Contact: sfl39@cornell.edu

“Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn” (in-person roundtable)

In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews, in discussing the recent Indigenous turn in medieval studies, asks medievalists to “slow down” their engagement with Indigenous studies, “to be more deliberate, to be thoughtful, and to consider first the ethics of kinship and reciprocity that we owe Indigenous peoples, places, and communities who have labored to craft Indigenous studies as an academic field” (2). This roundtable asks medievalists to discuss their own internal work and process of slowing down–the self-reflection, self-examination, reassessment, and reorientation needed to ethically and critically engage with Indigenous studies.

Organized by Sarah LaVoy-Brunette & Tarren Andrews

Contact: sfl39@cornell.edu

Abstract submissions due September 15th, 2024 to the ICMS Confex site: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgi

CFP: Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group 2024; proposals due Aug 1st

Andrew Klein — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:15:15 GMT

We welcome submissions for the annual conference of the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, which will be held at Mount Saint Vincent University on October 4th and 5th , 2024.

There will be a reception and keynote on the evening of October 4th , followed by a full day of panels on October 5th .

Proposals are invited from scholars at all career stages and from all disciplines, including graduate students, early career researchers, precariously employed individuals, and those not in traditional academic employment.

To propose a 20-minute paper on any subject, please submit abstracts of around 300 words.

To propose a panel, roundtable, or workshop, please submit abstracts of around 500 words.

This year, we also welcome proposals for 10-minute introductions to attendees’ research backgrounds and areas of interest. This will give new members, as well those embarking on new and different lines of research, the chance to introduce themselves. It will also give the whole group an opportunity to learn about the exciting work being done in Premodern Studies in Atlantic Canada. Proposals for 10-minute introductions should be around 150 words.

All abstracts should include your name(s) and brief bio(s) and should be sent to Adriana Benzaquén (adriana.benzaquen@msvu.ca) and Matthew Roby (matthew.roby@msvu.ca) by August 1st , 2024.

https://amemg.digitalearlymodern.com/

CFP: The Medieval Academy at 100 (March 2025; proposals due June 3, 2024)

Siobhain Calkin — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:16:07 GMT

The Medieval Academy at 100

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

Harvard University, Cambridge MA

20-22 March 2025

Call for Papers available at: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2025AnnualMeeting

Proposals due by June 3, 2024

NB: Some travel subventions available for scholars without research support!

Toronto Old English Colloquium, 19 April 2024

Renée Trilling — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:38:17 GMT

The Toronto Old English Colloquium presents Professor Tarren Andrews (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University) on "Legacies of Surveillance: Data, the Domesday Book, and the Dawes Act.”

When and Where

Friday, April 19, 2024, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm EDT

In person: 3rd Floor Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park, Toronto

Via Zoom: register to receive a link

Professor Andrews will also offer a seminar for graduate students from 11 am to 1 pm. Participants are also invited to attend a catered lunch (1 pm) and a closing reception (following the lecture).

All are welcome. For more information, contact Fabienne Michelet or Renée Trilling.

Click here to register.

Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians // Colloque Canadien des historiens de l'art médiéval, à Concordia, 15-16 mars

Shannon McSheffrey — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:40:48 GMT

The 43^rd annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be held at Concordia University in Montreal on March 15-16, 2024. It is organized by Cecily Hilsdale (McGill University), Steven Stowell (Concordia University), and Kristine Tanton (Université de Montréal) with support from the Global Pasts research group at McGill’s Lin Center. For further information, feel free to contact the organizing committee at ccmah2024@gmail.com.

Final program // Programme final

Le ^43e Colloque canadien des historiens de l'art médiéval se tiendra à l'Université Concordia à Montréal les 15 et 16 mars 2024. Il est organisé par Cecily Hilsdale (Université McGill), Steven Stowell (Université Concordia), et Kristine Tanton (Université de Montréal) avec le soutien du groupe de recherche Global Pasts du Lin Center de McGill. Pour plus d'informations, n'hésitez pas à contacter le comité organisateur à l'adresse ccmah2024@gmail.com.

CSM-SCM Online Research Forum 2024 // Forum de recherche en ligne 2024

Shannon McSheffrey — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 21:51:52 GMT

Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes
On-line Research Forum 2024 / Forum de recherche en ligne 2024
Call for Papers / Appel à communications

La Société canadienne des médiévistes invite des soumissions de travaux en cours pour son Forum de recherche en ligne 2024, qui se tiendra le samedi 3 février 2024 de 13h à 16h (EST) sur Zoom. // The Canadian Society of Medievalists invites submissions of works in progress for its 2024 On-line Research Forum to be held on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 1-4pm (EST) on Zoom.

[le français suit]

The focus on research in progress is intended to provide a forum in which scholars can engage with the community through early-stage, emerging, or ongoing research. This will be a great opportunity for students and early stage scholars to receive feedback on their ideas. Each talk will be no more than seven minutes and will include no more than three Powerpoint slides in order to leave plenty of time for discussion.

Please sign up through this Google Form (https://forms.gle/HZYSMWL8qYtfJtAx7) by Friday January 12^th, 2024.

Slides must be submitted by January 27^th in order to be assembled into a streamlined slideshow for efficiency and to preserve time for discussion.

The Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes is a scholarly and professional association dedicated to promoting Medieval Studies at Canadian colleges and universities and to improving knowledge of the Middle Ages among the Canadian general public. It welcomes presentations in either French or English that concern any topic within Medieval Studies broadly defined.

Questions about the on-line research forum can be directed to Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson at amreinha@ualberta.ca, Co-organizer and Member of the CSM Advisory Board.

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Ce forum fournit un espace de discussion pour présenter une recherche en cours, qu’elle soit à un stade embryonnaire, émergent ou en voie d’achèvement. C’est une excellente occasion pour les étudiant.e.s et les chercheurs.euses en début de carrière de recevoir des commentaires sur leurs travaux. Chaque présentation est limitée à sept minutes et ne doit pas comprendre plus de trois diapositives Powerpoint afin de laisser suffisamment de temps à la discussion.

Veuillez vous inscrire via ce formulaire Google (https://forms.gle/HZYSMWL8qYtfJtAx7) avant le vendredi 12 janvier 2024.

Les diapositives doivent être soumises avant le 27 janvier afin d'être assemblées dans un diaporama unifié pour assurer l'efficacité et pour préserver le temps de discussion.

La Société canadienne des médiévistes / Canadian Society of Medievalists est une association scientifique et professionnelle dédiée à la promotion des études médiévales dans les universités et collèges canadiens et à l'amélioration de la connaissance du Moyen Âge dans le grand public canadien. Elle accepte les présentations en français ou en anglais qui concernent n'importe quel sujet des études médiévales au sens large.

Toute question peut être adressée à Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson à amreinha@ualberta.ca, co-organisatrice et membre du conseil consultatif du CSM.

Appel: Disputatio uqamensis: Médiévalités sans frontières, 17 fév 2024, UQAM

Shannon McSheffrey — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:36:22 GMT

"Disputatio uqamensis: Médiévalités sans frontières : l'Europe et le monde avant 1500"

La Société des études médiévales du Québec (SÉMQ) a le plaisir d'annoncer son appel à communications pour son colloque annuel, adressé avant tout, mais pas seulement, aux étudiant.e.s des cycles supérieurs qui aura lieu à l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), le 17 fév. 2024. Notre thème, « Médiévalités sans frontières : l'Europe et le monde avant 1500 », invite à l'exploration des études médiévales dans toute leur diversité.

L’adhésion à ce thème n'est pas une condition de sélection : toutes les propositions traitant les périodes, régions, ou sujets médiévaux, européens ou non, seront prises en considération. Nous sollicitons toutefois avec un intérêt particulier des propositions de communication qui embrassent les perspectives globales et transnationales sur le monde avant l'an 1500. Cela pourrait signifier, par exemple, l'étude des interactions et les relations entre l'Europe et les régions extra-européennes, ou bien les études portant sur les diverses parties du monde en elles-mêmes durant cette époque.

Nous avons le privilège de vous informer que la professeure Carol Symes (Université d'Illinois), fondatrice et rédactrice en chef de la revue de renommée The Medieval Globe, ainsi qu'historienne du théâtre et la culture publique au Moyen Âge, sera la conférencière invitée à notre colloque.

Les propositions de communication doivent inclure un résumé de 250 mots ainsi qu'une courte biographie académique (institution d’attache, programme d'étude, état d'avancement des recherches et nom de la directrice/-teur). Bien que le colloque se déroule pour la plupart en français, les communications en anglais sont bienvenues aussi. Veuillez envoyer vos propositions à semq.secretaire@gmail.com pour le 6 décembre 2023.

À cette occasion, la SÉMQ décerne un prix de 100 $ pour la meilleure communication étudiante et invite le lauréat ou la lauréate à soumettre son texte au comité de rédaction de la revue Memini. Travaux et documents. De plus, une aide financière dédiée au déplacement pourra être octroyée aux étudiant.e.s qui ne résident pas dans la région et qui souhaitent venir assister au colloque. L’aide financière doit être sollicitée avant le 10 janvier 2024 auprès de Raphaëlle Décloitre (semq.tresorier@gmail.com). Veuillez noter que pour être éligibles au prix Disputatio et à l’aide financière, les candidat.e.s doivent être membres en règle de la SÉMQ (https://www.semq.uqam.ca/abonnement/).

Dates importantes :

Date limite de soumission des propositions : 7 décembre 2023
Notification d'acceptation : 21 décembre 2023
Date limite pour solliciter l'aide financière : 10 janvier 2024
Programme provisoire disponible : 22 janvier 2024
Conférence : 17 février 2024

Nous vous invitons à venir partager vos recherches et à enrichir le débat lors de cet événement significatif qui se tiendra à l'UQAM!

AàC / CFP Colloque canadien des historiens de l'art médiéval / Cdn Conference of Medieval Art Historians, 15-16 mar. 2024, U. Concordia, Montréal

Shannon McSheffrey — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:31:28 GMT

[English follows]

Le 43e colloque canadien des historiens de l’art médiéval sera accueilli par le Département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université Concordia les 15 et 16 mars 2024. Des communications en anglais ou en français sont souhaitées sur tout sujet relatif à l’art, l’architecture et la culture visuelle/matérielle du Moyen Âge ou de ses renouvellements post-médiévaux.
Veuillez soumettre un court résumé (250 mots) et un CV d’une page à ccmah2024@gmail.com avant le 12 janvier 2024. Les chercheurs à tous les niveaux de leur carrière sont encouragés à soumettre des propositions.

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The 43rd Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be hosted by Concordia University’s Department of Art History on March 15-16, 2024. Papers in English or French are invited on any topic relating to the art, architecture, and visual/material culture of the Middle Ages or its post-medieval revivals.

Please submit a short abstract (250 words) and one-page c.v. to ccmah2024@gmail.com by January 12, 2024. Scholars at every stage of their careers are encouraged to submit proposals.

CFP / Appel a communications CSM / SCM Annual Conference / Conférence annuelle June 12-14 / le 12-14 juin 2024

Siobhain Calkin — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:55:15 GMT

Canadian Society of Medievalists /

Société canadienne des médiévistes

2024 Annual Conference / Réunion annuelle

June 12-14 / le 12-14 juin 2023

McGill University / Université McGill,

Montréal, Québec, Canada

(La version française suit.)

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The Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes is a scholarly and professional association dedicated to promoting Medieval Studies at Canadian colleges and universities and to improving knowledge of the Middle Ages among the Canadian general public.

The CSM / SCM Annual Conference will be held as part of the 2024 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, a larger gathering of Canadian learned societies at McGill University in Montreal. Participants in the CSM/SCM’s annual meeting must register through the Congress website: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/about-congress.

The CSM / SCM Annual Conference will take place in-person in 2024. The Annual General meeting, however, will be presented in a hybrid format to allow Zoom participation by members unable to attend the in-person conference.

A. General Call for Presentations 2024:

The CSM / SCM welcomes presentations that concern any topic within Medieval Studies broadly defined.

B. Special Theme for Congress 2024: Sustaining Shared Futures

The CSM/SCM also welcomes presentations and sessions that apply the Congress theme, Sustaining Shared Futures, to Medieval Studies. Congress describes this theme thus: “While alarming images of a warming planet infuse the concept with a critical sense of urgency, ‘sustainability’ transcends even the immense challenges posed by climate change, urging recognition of the interconnectedness of human existence and global action on the overlapping social, economic, environmental, and technological issues that threaten our future.” (Read the full description of the theme here: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2024 ).

C. Formats for Presentations:

Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Sessions consist of three 20-minute papers and up to 30 minutes for questions (that is, 90 minutes in total). Round-tables, workshops, or sessions in an alternative format should be no more than 90 minutes in length, including a question period.

Proposals for individual papers, panels, or alternative format sessions are all welcome.

D. Proposals:

Paper proposals must include a document giving the title plus a one-page abstract (without identifying the author), and indicate if the proposal is for the general call or the special theme. A separate document should consist of a one-page curriculum vitae which includes the paper’s title at the top.

Proposals for complete sessions, workshops, or roundtables should include the above information and also indicate: the session’s chair, the session’s title, and a brief explanation of the session and its format.

Presentations may be in either English or French. Bilingual sessions are particularly welcome.

If there may any doubt as to the proposal’s relevance to Medieval Studies, please include an explanation in the abstract.

SUBMISSION: Please submit proposals by email by January 15, 2024 to President Siobhain Bly Calkin (siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca ) for review by the Conference Planning Committee.

**Scholars need not be members to submit proposals, but must be members in good standing to participate in the Annual Meeting and are expected to pay their 2023-24 annual membership fees to CSM / SCM by March 15, 2024 if they are not already members. For more information on our Society, visit https://canadianmedievalists.org/. **

Please note: We will be implementing our new EDID Conference Travel Grant at Congress 2024. Instructions about how to apply will be sent to all accepted participants in early February.

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La Société canadienne des médiévistes / Canadian Society of Medievalists (SCM / CSM) est une association académique qui se consacre à la promotion des études médiévales dans les collèges et universités du Canada et à l'amélioration de la connaissance du Moyen Âge au sein du grand public canadien.

La réunion annuelle de la SCM/CSM fait partie du Congrès des sciences humaines 2024, le plus grand rassemblement de sociétés savantes canadiennes, qui se tiendra cette année à l'Université McGill à Montréal. Les participant.e.s à cette réunion annuelle doivent s'inscrire sur le site Web du Congrès : https://www.federationhss.ca/fr/congres/propos-du-congres

La conférence annuelle de la SCM/CSM aura lieu en personne en 2024. L'assemblée générale annuelle, cependant, sera présentée dans un format hybride pour permettre la participation par Zoom des membres qui ne peuvent pas assister à la conférence en personne.

A. Appel général à communications 2024: Les propositions de communication peuvent porter sur n'importe quel sujet d’études médiévales.

B. Thème spécial du Congrès 2024: Assurer nos avenirs communs

Le CSM/SCM encourage aussi les communications et les sessions qui abordent le thème du Congrès aux études médiévales. Le thème spécial du Congrès 2024 est Assurer nos avenirs communs: « Alors que les images alarmantes du réchauffement planétaire imprègnent le concept de durabilité d’un sentiment d’urgence, celui-ci transcende les immenses défis posés par les changements climatiques en nous incitant à reconnaître l’interdépendance de la vie humaine et des mesures globales prises afin de résoudre les enjeux technologiques, environnementaux, économiques et sociaux qui menacent notre avenir.» Lire le thème complet ici : https://www.federationhss.ca/fr/congres2024

C. Formats pour les présentations :

Les communications individuelles ne doivent pas durer plus de 20 minutes. Les sessions consisteront en trois communications de 20 minutes et jusqu'à 30 minutes pour les questions (soit 90 minutes au total). Les tables rondes, ateliers ou sessions dans un format alternatif ne doivent pas durer plus de 90 minutes, y compris une période de questions.

Toutes les propositions de communications individuelles, de sessions complètes ou de sessions en format alternatif sont bienvenues.

D. Propositions :

Les propositions de communication doivent inclure un document donnant le titre et un résumé d'une page (sans identifier l'auteur), et doivent indiquer si la proposition répond à l'appel général (A, ci-dessus) ou au thème spécial (B, ci-dessus). Un document séparé doit présenter un curriculum vitae d'une page qui inclut le titre de la communication proposée en haut de la page.

Les propositions de sessions complètes, d'ateliers ou de tables rondes doivent inclure les informations ci-dessus, en plus d'identifier le/la président.e de la session, le titre de la session et une brève explication de la session et de son format.

Les présentations peuvent être faites en anglais ou en français. Les sessions bilingues sont particulièrement bienvenues.

S'il y a un doute quant à la pertinence de la proposition pour les études médiévales, veuillez inclure une explication dans le résumé de la communication proposée.

SOUMISSION : Veuillez soumettre vos propositions par courriel avant le 15 janvier 2024 à la présidente Siobhain Bly Calkin (siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca) pour évaluation par le comité de planification de la conférence annuelle.

**Les chercheurs.euses ne doivent pas nécessairement être membres pour soumettre des propositions, mais doivent être membres en règle pour participer à la réunion annuelle et doivent payer leurs cotisations annuelles 2023-24 à la SCM / CSM avant le 15 mars 2024 s'ils/elles ne sont pas déjà membres. Pour plus d'informations sur notre Société, visitez le site https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/accueil/~fr . **

Veuillez noter que nous mettrons en œuvre notre nouvelle bourse de voyage pour la conférence EDID lors du Congrès 2024. Les instructions concernant les modalités de candidature seront envoyées à tous les participant.e.s accepté.e.s au début du mois de février 2024.

CFP/Appel: SEMQ Feb 17 fev 2024

Siobhain Calkin — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:00:39 GMT

[English follows]

"Disputatio uqamensis: Médiévalités sans frontières : l'Europe et le monde avant 1500"

Nous sommes privilégiés de vous informer que la professeure Carol Symes (Université d'Illinois), fondatrice et rédactrice en chef de la revue de renommée The Medieval Globe, ainsi qu'historienne du théâtre et la culture publique au Moyen Âge, sera la conférencière invitée à notre colloque.

Dates importantes :

Date limite de soumission des propositions : 7 décembre 2023
Notification d'acceptation : 21 décembre 2023
Date limite pour solliciter l'aide financière : 10 janvier 2024
Programme provisoire disponible : 22 janvier 2024
Conférence : 17 février 2024

Nous vous invitons à venir partager vos recherches et à enrichir le débat lors de cet événement significatif qui se tiendra à l'UQAM!

Cordialement,

Richard Matthew Pollard

Dép. d'Histoire, UQAM

Président de la SEMQ (2023/24)

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"Disputatio uqamensis: Médiévalités sans frontières : l'Europe et le monde avant 1500"

The Société des études médiévales du Québec is pleased to announce its call for papers for its annual colloquium, aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at graduate students, which will take place at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) on February 17, 2024. Our theme, "Médiévalités sans frontières : l'Europe et le monde avant 1500," invites the exploration of medieval studies in all their diversity.

Adherence to this theme is not a selection criterion: all proposals dealing with periods, regions, or medieval subjects, whether European or not, will be considered. However, we are particularly interested in proposals that embrace global and transnational perspectives on the world before the year 1500. This could mean, for example, studying interactions and relationships between Europe and extra-European regions, or studies focusing on various parts of the world during that era.

We are privileged to inform you that Professor Carol Symes (University of Illinois), founder and editor-in-chief of the renowned journal The Medieval Globe, as well as historian of theater and public culture in the Middle Ages, will be the keynote speaker at our colloquium.

Proposal submissions must include a 250-word abstract and a short academic biography (affiliated institution, program of study, research progress, and name of the advisor). Although the symposium will be conducted mostly in French, presentations in English are also welcome. Please send your proposals to semq.secretaire@gmail.com by December 7^th, 2023.

On this occasion, the SÉMQ will award a prize of $100 for the best student presentation and invite the winner to submit their text to the editorial committee of the journal Memini. Travaux et documents. In addition, financial assistance for travel may be granted to students who do not reside in the region and wish to attend the symposium. Financial assistance must be requested before January 10, 2024, from Raphaëlle Décloitre (semq.tresorier@gmail.com). Please note that to be eligible for the Disputatio prize and financial assistance, candidates must be members in good standing of the SÉMQ (https://www.semq.uqam.ca/abonnement/).

Important dates:

Submission deadline: December 7, 2023
Acceptance notification: December 21, 2023
Deadline to request financial aid: January 10, 2024
Provisional program available: January 22, 2024
Conference: February 17, 2024

We invite you to come and share your research and enrich the debate at this significant event to be held at UQAM!

Sincerely,

Richard Matthew Pollard

Dép. d'Histoire, UQAM

President of the SÉMQ (2023/24)

Call For Papers: Atlantic Medieval Association, November 10 & 11 2023, University of King’s College, Halifax

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:16:03 GMT

Call For Papers

ATLANTIC MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION

November 10 & 11 2023

The Atlantic Medieval Association will resurrect its in-person meetings in November 2023 at the University of King’s College in Halifax. The AMA is a small, congenial society that accepts papers on any aspect of medieval studies. Papers will be of 20 minutes duration, presented in panels, followed by a question period. Proposals consisting of an abstract (maximum one page) should be submitted to Elizabeth Edwards by October 15 by electronic submission to:

eedward2@dal.ca

The conference will begin Friday November 10 with a plenary session, followed by a reception. Papers will be presented on Saturday.

Inquiries can be directed to Elizabeth Edwards at email above or at 902-423-1943.

CFP - Special Issue on Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages

Kathy Cawsey — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:55:03 GMT

Medieval Studies, after centuries of apologetics, dismissals, and thinly-veiled misogyny, is finally openly exploring issues of rape, rape culture, gendered trauma, misogyny, homophobia, and other sexualized and gendered violence in both the Middle Ages and in medievalism. Several recent studies have explored the complexities of medieval gendered violence, acknowledging the diversities of medieval experiences and the nuances of medieval responses. Such studies have major resonance and significance for our cultures today, as we struggle with many of the same issues.

The journal Florilegium will be releasing a special issue on these topics. Potential articles could include

· medieval court cases and trials for rape, abduction, etc.
· medieval laws about sexualized violence and rape
· issues of consent in history or literature
· depictions of sexualized violence in medieval literature
· misogyny, sexualized stereotypes, and patterns of gendered violence in medievalism and ‘medievalish’ texts
· connections to modern incel culture, stalking, rape, consent, etc.

Manuscripts, written in English or French, should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents to the online peer review system. Articles should normally not exceed 8,000–9,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography, and should be formatted according to Chicago 17 style. The journal also welcomes short articles on topics of interest to the members (e.g., notes on resources, review essays, and editions of primary sources). Papers may be written in either English or French. A brief abstract (one or two sentences) should be included with the submission.

Deadline: October 15, 2023

Contact Kathy Cawsey (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) for more information.

CFP - IMC Leeds 2024

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:23:17 GMT

IMC Leeds - July 1-4, 2024

Panel

Representing Medieval Pasts: Publication, Pedagogy, and Other Paths Forward

This panel will present in concrete, replicable terms the emergent forms and methods participants have used to study, teach, and represent the medieval past, as a first step towards developing conceptual and institutional frameworks that might promote and authorize medieval studies research in the future.

Over the last decades digital media has transformed what published research looks like, as academic forms like podcasts, blogs, and digital tools have become well-established among researchers and wider publics. At the same time, developments in education research have challenged inherited notions about the efficacy of some pedagogical methods in both the short and long term. Finally, in the last year, it has become clear that AI technologies like ChatGPT have made the traditional essay virtually unworkable as a means of student assessment, especially when issues of accessibility are taken into account.

These circumstances leave us with urgent questions: what are the alternative media that we should train our students to use as undergraduates, which will then prepare them for the media of research dissemination and pedagogy in the future? What lessons have our experiments offered, and what will we try next?

Papers/presentations may focus on:

New/alternative pedagogical strategies / methodologies / student assessments and evaluations
Innovative ways of expressing learning / research
Public outreach / wider readership / accessibility

Please send paper/presentation proposals (250 words max) along with a short personal biography that includes your name, pronouns, area of study, institutional affiliation (if any), and contact information to Ghislaine Comeau (ghislaine.comeau@concordia.ca) and Stephen Yeager (stephen.yeager@concordia.ca) by Monday, August 28th, 2023.

Alternative methods and forms of presentation are encouraged. This panel will be in person.

CFP: Studies in Medievalism (vol. 33) En(gender)ing Medievalism (June 1 2023 deadline)

Siobhain Calkin — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:50:36 GMT

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXIII:

EN(GENDER)ING MEDIEVALISM

From Sir Walter Scott's chivalrous knights and damsels in distress, through George R. R. Martin's bestial lords and serpentine queens, medievalism is often quite sexist. Sometimes these biases are defended as originating in the Middle Ages themselves, or at least being true to what is known about them. But do these prejudices actually represent medieval practices and/or perceptions? To what degree is that knowable and does it matter? What about inevitable (albeit perhaps small) differences in those approaches, in their application, and among the contexts in which they are deployed? How, if at all, might medievalism have initiated or at least shaped broader perceptions of gender? How have perceptions about gender shaped medievalism? What role, if any, has been played by ambiguities in the definitions of gender and of medievalism, particularly as the latter relates to the Middle Ages? Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2023, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. (Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

Marguerite Porete en discussion: Appel à communication, 2023

Shannon McSheffrey — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:18:19 GMT

Congrès de la Société de philosophie du Québec 2023

Appel à communication

Marguerite Porete, déclarée relapse, fut brûlée vive à Paris, le 1er juin 1310. Son livre, le Miroir des âmes simples et anéanties, avait été jugé hérétique et brûlé publiquement quelques années auparavant par l’évêque de Cambrai.

Marguerite Porete dépeint, dans son ouvrage, le cheminement de l’âme jusqu’à l’anéantissement, c’est-à-dire jusqu’à l’atteinte de l’état mystique. Plusieurs tensions sont inhérentes au Miroir, notamment que l’âme anéantie est des plus vertueuses tout en n’étant plus soumise à la pratique des vertus ou encore que l’âme n’est véritablement libre que lorsqu’elle abandonne son agentivité à Dieu. Des études récentes tendent par ailleurs à montrer que le propos de Marguerite s’inscrit dans l'esprit des discussions universitaires ayant cours au XIIIe siècle sur les vertus et la béatitude (notamment Dubois 2017, King 2018, Cross 2019 et King à paraître).

La présente table ronde est une occasion d’approfondir la pensée porétienne et d’examiner la communauté doctrinale entre Marguerite et ses contemporains.

Le projet de cette table ronde sera soumis à l’appel du Congrès annuel de la Société de philosophie du Québec qui a pour thème « Décloisonner la philosophie! ». Cet événement aura lieu du 5 au 8 juin 2023, dans la ville de Québec, Canada (https://laspq.org/actualite/congres-annuel/congres-de-la-spq-2023-appel-a- communication-jusquau-15-janvier-2023).

La durée prévue pour chaque communication est de 30 minutes, suivi d’une période de questions de 15 minutes.

Les communications en présence sont encouragées, mais les communications en visioconférence sont acceptées.

Les communications doivent être prononcées en français.

Les propositions de communication doivent présenter les éléments suivants :

Participant·e

Nom et prénom :

Affiliation institutionnelle :

Statut (professeur·e/chercheur·e/étudiant·e) :

Adresse courriel :

Présentation

Titre :

Résumé (150 mots, maximum) :

Mode de participation (en présence/visioconférence) :

Contrainte horaire, s’il y a lieu :

Les propositions doivent être soumises à Geneviève Barrette (genevieve.barrette@collegeahuntsic.qc.ca) d’ici le jeudi 12 janvier 2023.

Appel à communications / CFP: U de Montréal colloque annuel: VÉRITÉ ET MENSONGE Croyances - Construits - Récits

Shannon McSheffrey — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:10:43 GMT

L’AÉDDHUM vous convie à son XXXe colloque annuel :

VÉRITÉ ET MENSONGE

Croyances - Construits - Récits

Les dernières années nous ont amené leur lot d’enjeux et de questionnements entourant les notions de post-vérité et de désinformation, autant dans les médias que dans le monde académique. L’actualité a forcé les chercheurs et chercheuses au Québec et dans le reste du monde à reconsidérer les façons par lesquelles la connaissance était produite et diffusée.

Ce genre de considérations sur la nature de la vérité s’appliquent aussi à la pratique historienne. Le métier apprend à demeurer prudent et critique de ce qui est affirmé danscertaines sources, mais aussi à dépasser la simple interrogation sur la véracité d’un propos. Qu’il s’agisse d’une hagiographie médiévale ou d’une affiche de propagande de guerre, le faux est tout autant révélateur que le vrai pour qui sait poser les bonnes questions.

La question de la vérité a été un moteur pour la recherche, mais aussi pour la réflexion historiographique lorsque les historien.nes se sont penché.es sur leur propre discipline. Bien des débats ont eu lieu par le passé au sujet de ce que constitue la vérité en recherche. Dans quelle mesure nos travaux ont-ils la science infuse? Comment véritablement se remettre en question?

Somme toute, le comité attend des propositions pour des communications de 15 à 20 minutes s’inscrivant, mais ne se limitant pas, aux thèmes suivants :

- Croyances : les individus et les groupes développent des systèmes de croyances pour faire sens du monde et déterminer la marche à suivre de la société. En quoi une idéologie se distingue-t-elle de la réalité objective? Quelles sont les fonctions et les fonctionnements psychologiques et sociaux des croyances? Comment un contexte historique peut-il influencer les idées, et vice-versa?

- Construits : une perception donnée du réel repose sur des représentations et sur un enseignement pour se justifier et se perpétuer. Quels sont les mécanismes intellectuels par lesquels les vérités comme les mensonges se construisent? Comment naissent les mythes? Comment et pourquoi l’information peut-elle être contrôlée, censurée, instrumentalisée à travers l’histoire? Quelle place la falsification prend-elle dans l’étude de vos sources?

- Récits : l’Histoire avec un grand H, la science, la religion, la tradition orale… Vraie ou fausse, la connaissance est organisée et structurée dans un récit pour être cohérente, pour être comprise, pour être transmise. Comment chaque époque racontait-elle sa propre histoire? Que font les acteurs et actrices historiques pour organiser et véhiculer leurs discours, vrais comme faux?

C’est pour réfléchir à ces questions, qui concernent tous les domaines de la recherche, que l’AÉDDHUM (l’Association des Étudiants et Étudiantes Diplômé.es du Département d’Histoire de l’Université de Montréal) vous convie à son 30e colloque annuel, intitulé VÉRITÉ ET MENSONGE : croyances, construits, récits. Ce sera aussi l’occasion pour le département d’histoire de l’UdeM de célébrer le 75e anniversaire de sa fondation.

Chercheur.ses et étudiant.es de tous les domaines, soyez les bienvenu.es ! L’événement se tiendra du 14 au 16 mars 2023. La date limite de dépôt des candidatures pour participer au colloque est le 22 décembre 2022. L’événement se tiendra en présentiel, avec possibilité de présenter à distance.

Merci d’envoyer vos propositions de communication en français ou en anglais (maximum 350 mots) ainsi qu’une courte biographie (maximum 50 mots) avant le 22 décembre (GMT-5), à l’adresse aeddhum.colloque@gmail.com, ainsi qu’une copie à l’adresse elisabeth.lafortune-cook@umontreal.ca. Prière d’indiquer votre nom, prénom et affiliation institutionnelle ainsi qu’une demande de subvention avec le coût estimé du voyage, si nécessaire.

CFP Scoticonference 2023

Siobhain Calkin — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:42:46 GMT

Click here for the full Call for Papers and information on The International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Languages, Literature and Culture, to be held July 18-23 2023 at the University of St Andrews.

CFP: L'Italie du long Quattrocento -- Naples, 23-24 octobre 2023

Shannon McSheffrey — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:08:46 GMT

CFP: L’Italie du long Quattrocento: Influences, interactions, transformations

Deuxième rencontre : cultures et représentations

Naples, 23-24 octobre 2023

L’Italie du long Quattrocento (de 1400 environ au sac de Rome, en 1527) fut un extraordinaire laboratoire de cultures politiques, littéraires et artistiques. Ce deuxième colloque, qui fait suite à un premier colloque de novembre 2021 consacré au politique (formes du pouvoir, guerre, diplomatie, pensée politique), entend s’intéresser aux cultures et aux formes et techniques de la représentation dans les arts et la littérature. La rencontre sera divisée en quatre sessions de nature interdisciplinaire :

- Modèles

- Langages

- Techniques

- Espaces.

Les sessions peuvent comprendre des exposés sur la littérature, la langue, la musique, le théâtre, l’historiographie, les arts figuratifs, l’architecture, la philologie et l’histoire des livres manuscrits et imprimés. Nous espérons que les communications dans ces différents domaines mettront en évidence la manière dont les hommes et les femmes, les textes, les oeuvres d’art, les objets et les innovations techniques provenant de régions autres que l’Italie ont influencé dans une certaine mesure la production culturelle. Comme lors de la première rencontre, les influences ne doivent pas être comprises de manière mécanique, car elles s’inscrivent dans des processus complexes d’échanges, d’interactions et de transformations. Les modèles, les langages et les techniques peuvent être étudiés en référence à un seul phénomène (un genre littéraire, l’art de la typographie, par exemple), à une seule personnalité (un architecte, un poète, un musicien, un client) ou à un seul environnement culturel (un groupe social, un tribunal, une aire linguistique). La session « Espaces » est consacrée aux espaces ouverts et fermés de représentation et de communication (par exemple, les représentations musicales et théâtrales, les cérémonies ou les prédications, les places, salles et palais comme moyens pous manifester les rôles de pouvoir).

Les propositions, d’un maximum de 2000 caractères, espaces compris, doivent être envoyées avant le 20 octobre 2022 à lvissiere@gmail.com et francesco.senatore@unina.it. Les communications et les interventions peuvent être faites en italien, français, anglais, espagnol et catalan.

https://calenda.org/1015269

Arthurian Literature Session at Kzoo

K. Whetter — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:26:05 GMT

Session Title: ‘Labor and Workers in or around the Arthurian Tradition’

Sponsored by Arthurian Literature

Submit Proposal through Kzoo’s website: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call#sponsored

Rationale and Brief:

Part of the importance of mediaeval Arthurian literature is that it provides a window onto mediaeval life, and the popularity of modern Arthurian adaptations indicates that Arthuriana still reflects human interests and needs. At the same time, one must be aware of the dangers of hegemonic universalization. ‘Labour and Workers in or around the Arthurian Tradition’ takes a timeless subject but examines it for evidence of classes and interests other than those of the nobility. This session questions several critical axioms about Arthurian literature. Texts and critics often emphasize the knight in mediaeval Arthurian literature; other scholars emphasize the importance of women to the tradition, Arthurian art can be found in religious settings, and manuscript evidence indicates chivalric and mercantile readers. Within the texts, the more famous knights and gentry ladies often rely on the unsung assistance of hermits, messengers, healers, and others to complete their quests. Yet Arthurian literature is generally associated with the chivalric class. This session invites papers from any methodology that explore non-armigerous characters in, or audiences around, Arthurian literature.

Delivery Mode:

Traditional in-person

Call for Papers: Historical & Theological - Wednesday, September 28th, 2022

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:13:35 GMT

https://scottroyle86.wixsite.com/titc2022/historical-and-theological

In light of the recent pandemic, this conference intends to focus on the great pandemics and upheavals of the past and their impact on the societies of their time – pandemics, plagues, famines, from the time of Late Antiquity, to the Middle Ages, to Modernity. We are, therefore, especially interested in submissions from graduate students, lecturers, and professors of history and theology on this topic of pandemic and upheaval though any historical theological topic is applicable and we encourage anyone in this field to submit a proposal.

Please send proposal submissions to either Lucian Turcescu, lucian.turcescu@concordia.ca, Richard Bernier, richard.bernier@concordia.ca, or Jean-Michel Roessli, jean-michel.roessli@concordia.ca.

Call for Papers for a forthcoming edited collection, Pandemic Reflections: Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up with COVID

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:10:19 GMT

To be published with Ethics International Press (https://ethicspress.com/).

The collection will focus on Saint Francis, his life with lepers, and the COVID pandemic. The collection is meant to explore what it means to think about Francis in light of the pandemic and what to think of the pandemic in light of Francis, specifically his embrace of and subsequent life with lepers.

Given the profundity of Francis’ relationship with lepers, his enduring status and influence, and the complexities associated with the COVID pandemic, the volume calls for an array of scholarly and disciplinary reflections. The collection is significant because it will fill a lacuna in Catholic-Franciscan scholarship. The collection will constitute the first book length treatment focusing specifically on the application of Francis’ life with lepers to how individuals and communities ought to live.

The call for papers can be accessed with the following link: https://ethicspress.com/pages/pandemic-reflections-saint-francis-and-the-lepers The call provides further details regarding the project and potential themes for development. Abstracts for the project are due by July 31st. Completed essays are due by January 15th 2023. The collection is aiming for pieces roughly 3,000 to 6,000 words in length. However, this is more of a guideline than a hard and fast limit.

To discuss or submit a Chapter for consideration in Pandemic Reflections: Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up with COVID Collection, please contact the Editor, Geoffrey Karabin – karabing@neumann.edu or Ethics International Press - admin@ethicspress.com.

CFP: Communautés de pratiques et d'expériences au premier Moyen Âge

Siobhain Calkin — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:16:07 GMT

Communautés de pratiques et d’expériences au premier Moyen Âge: Études de cas et réflexions méthodologiques- Journée d’études

Le 30 septembre 2022, UQAM, Montréal

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
Les communautés médiévales – citadines ou rurales, politiques ou religieuses – sont depuis longtemps au coeur de l’intérêt historien. Dans les sociétés prémodernes, les communautés locales étaient à la base de toute expérience de la société : le singulier ne pouvait se penser qu’à partir du collectif; l’individu, à partir de la communauté et jamais sans. Si les pratiques des communautés supposent la coopération des membres d’un groupe en vue de la réalisation d’un objectif commun, et reposent à la fois sur une culture partagée et sur l’interaction et l’échange régulier d’informations, amenant à la prise de conscience d’une spécificité et d’une identité distincte, de nombreuses occasions de la vie en société rassemblent des foules et créent des collectivités éphémères, qui peuvent avoir une durée de vie variable. L’on peut penser à celle des foules accompagnant les translations de reliques ou des processions, à des événements liturgiques ; à celle des membres de différentes assemblées (plaid, assemblée générale, concile); aux armées en campagne, ou encore à de foules en colère, qu’il s’agisse des différents épisodes « patarins » en Italie ou des foules mettant à sac le Harzbourg d’Henri IV en 1074. Qu’est-ce qui caractérise l’expérience collective – et l’expérience personnelle d’un événement collectif ? Quelles sont les expériences et les descriptions de la foule éphémère ou du rassemblement collectif qui servent parfois à actualiser une communauté durable ? Comment l’une et l’autre sont décrites, évaluées, et comment les comprendre aujourd’hui ?

Afin de s’intéresser aux différences entre expériences collectives éphémères et les autres, le présent appel cherche à explorer, lors d’une journée d’études qui se tiendra à Montréal le 30 septembre 2022, les manières d’expérimenter – ou de mettre en oeuvre – le collectif entre le VIe et le XIe siècle, pendant des moments ou événements, spontanés ou rituels, bien circonscrits. Nous viserons à cerner les modalités des expériences de communautés ou collectivités lors de rassemblements temporaires, momentanés ou éphémères, vécus et décrits par les participants d’un événement, qu’il soit (par exemple) rituel ou spontané, répété ou contingent. Il s’agira de s’interroger à la fois sur le vécu personnel du collectif ; sur le regard porté sur l’expérience collective par la personne qui le relate à distance ; enfin sur la manière dont la dimension collective construit l’expérience et l’efficacité social d’un événement. Il s’agit alors de s’interroger également sur la construction de la mémoire, concernant le collectif.

Dans l’historiographie des vingt dernières années, ces questions ont été habituellement posées sur les derniers siècles du Moyen Âge (XIIIe-XVe s., éventuellement en incluant le XIIe siècle, par exemple dans le monde des communes italiennes); le projet de recherches COREM axé sur les émotions et expériences collectives, s’intéresse avant tout aux XI-XIIIe siècles. Le programme de recherches « À la recherche des communautés du haut Moyen Âge » a consacré une partie de ses travaux à l’action collective comme élément de construction d’une communauté, mais sans mettre l’accent sur l’expérience vécue. Rares sont en fait les travaux qui se soient intéressés à la manière de penser, pratiquer et expérimenter le commun, le collectif, et aux lignes de forces de ces expériences, dans la période précédant tant la révolution documentaire que la récupération du legs du droit romain et de l’aristotélisme.

En choisissant le terme ‘expérience’, nous nous intéressons ici au spectre complet du vécu humain, tel que transmis par les sources, qui embrasse à la fois l’expérience corporelle et sensorielle, affective et cognitive (ce qui inclut l’imagination et le rêve tout autant que la conceptualisation d’une réflexion). Cette expérience n’est alors en aucun cas pré-discursive,
au contraire les discours (oraux, écrits, visuels et corporels) la constituent à double titre : à la fois comme ce qui modèle, à son origine, l’expérience et ce qui met en forme la transmission d’une expérience vécue. Les pratiques sociales – impliquant une forme régulière, socialement ou culturellement normée d’actions (pratiques politiques, pratiques liturgiques ou religieuses,
etc.) – dans lesquelles toute expérience s’ancre doivent être explorées afin de mieux comprendre comment les expériences les incarnent, les transforment ou les contournent autour d’un moment ou événement singulier.

Cette journée d’études s’organisera de la manière suivante: les intervenant.e.s, accepté.e.s doivent proposer un dossier documentaire à lire et une version brève (1 à 2 pages) de leur communication ou du moins des problèmes discutés par écrit, un mois avant la tenue de la
rencontre. Le moment de la journée d’études permettra d’entendre une communication de 15 minutes, suivi de 30 minutes de discussion sur les documents et la problématique. Pour proposer des interventions, nous demandons de mettre l’accent sur la rencontre entre
documents et concepts.

Les propositions sont à envoyer, avant le 20 juin 2022, à
Geneviève BÜHRER-THIERRY genevieve.thierry@univ-paris1.fr
Piroska NAGY npmediumaevum@gmail.com

CFP: Disney and the Middle Ages Edited Volume

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:30:00 GMT

Call for Papers

Edited Volume on Disney and the Middle Ages

We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on medievalism in Disney media for Brepols’ new series Reinterpreting the Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo. The Walt Disney Company's films, theme parks, and merchandise are full of people, places, and things coded as “medieval,” and because Disney's medievalism is often coded as white and Christian, it is especially relevant to medieval studies' ongoing struggle with white supremacy within and outside the field.

We encourage authors to consider the role of the Walt Disney Company in shaping popular perceptions of the Middle Ages, as well as the function of medievalism in Disney’s ideological projects. How does Disney’s medievalist media represent gender, race, religion, disability, and other features of medieval life? What do those representations reveal about modern life as seen and shaped by Disney?

We welcome submissions from a wide variety of disciplines including literary studies, history, religious studies, gender studies, musicology, art history, and film studies. Critical perspectives such as ecocriticism, animal studies, queer theory, critical race studies, disability studies, material culture, and postcolonial theory are also encouraged. In addition, we welcome submissions from non-medievalist scholars with expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century media and culture.

Proposals of 300 to 500 words should be submitted by email to disneymedievalvolume@gmail.com by Friday July 15, 2022. We aim to notify authors about accepted submissions by September 1, 2022. We have been invited to submit this collection for publication in Brepols’ new series Reinterpreting the Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo.

Please write to the above email address with any questions, or contact Christina M. Carlson (cmcarlson@iona.edu), Mariah Cooper (mlcooper@mun.ca), and/or Joshua Parks (joshua.t.parks@gmail.com).

We look forward to hearing from you.

International Medieval Sermon Studies Hybrid Symposium 15-19 July 2022

Marc Cels — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:23:07 GMT

Preaching and Gender: 15–19 July 2022

23rd Symposium of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota, USA and via Zoom

We have a wonderful Symposium coming up in July! I'm very excited about our program, "Preaching and Gender" including keynote presentations by Bernard McGinn and Carolyn Muessig (University of Calgary). We have a very interesting lineup of papers planned, as well as a workshop on the implications of contemporary gender theory for our work, a trip to the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, and a dinner cruise on lovely Lake Minnetonka. You'll find the draft program on the website: http://imsss.net/

Registration is open! Just click here.

(Register using a computer rather than a smartphone.)

Do you have a project underway that you'd like to discuss with colleagues? Present a poster! This option to be on the program is still open. Please send your abstract to Steven McMichael (sjmcmichael@stthomas.edu).

We are very grateful to our sponsors for their financial support: IMSSS, University of St. Thomas, University of Antwerp, University of Freiburg.

I hope to see many of you in St. Paul,

Anne

Anne T. Thayer

President, International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

CFP for the SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE D’ONOMASTIQUE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF NAMES

Meredith Bacola — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:05:21 GMT

Call for Papers:

Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN)

56th Annual Meeting, held virtually in conjunction with the

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada

https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2022

May 14th and 15th, 2022

The theme of the 2022 Congress is: “Transitions,” but papers on any onomastic topic are welcome.

Presentations are allotted 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

Please submit an abstract of 150-250 words, including the title of your paper and indicate whether you would like your paper to be considered for this year’s special panel.

Along with your abstract, please provide the full name and affiliation of each author, along with a current email address for each.

You need not be a current member of the society to submit an abstract, but at the time of acceptance of your paper, you must become a member in order to be included in the programme. In addition, all presenters are required to pay registration dues for Congress and for CSSN. Further details will be provided when you are notified of acceptance of your paper.

Please email your abstract to: jonathan.lofft@mail.utoronto.ca ; all abstracts should arrive by February 1st, 2022.

Jonathan S. Lofft, ThD

Faculty of Divinity

Trinity College

University of Toronto

Larkin Academic Building 324

6 Hoskin Ave.,

Toronto, ON

M5S 1H8

Appel à communications:

Société canadienne d'onomastique (SCO)

56e Réunion annuelle virtuellement conjointement avec le

Congrès des sciences humaines du Canada

https://www.federationhss.ca/fr/congres/congres-2022

14 et 15 mai 2022

Le thème retenu en 2022 est : « Transitions », toutefois, les communications sur tout autre sujet portant sur l’onomastique sont les bienvenues.

Les communications sont d’une durée de 20 minutes et sont suivies d’une période de 10 accordées aux questions et à la discussion.

Veuillez soumettre un résumé ne dépassant pas 200 mots, titre inclus.

Indiquez les noms et affiliations des auteurs de la communication sans omettre d’inclure l’adresse courriel de chacun.

Bien qu’il ne soit pas indispensable d’être membre de la Société pour soumettre une communication, il est toutefois indispensable d’en devenir membre pour être inscrit au programme. Tous les participants sont tenus de débourser les coûts de leur inscription au Congrès, ainsi qu’à la SCO. Des informations additionnelles vous seront acheminées lors de l’envoi des avis d’acceptation ou de refus de communications.

Veuillez faire parvenir votre résumé par courriel à : jonathan.lofft@mail.utoronto.ca. Tous les résumés devront être soumis au plus tard le 1er février 2022.

Jonathan S. Lofft, ThD

Faculty of Divinity

Trinity College

University of Toronto

Larkin Academic Building 324

6 Hoskin Ave.,

Toronto, ON

M5S 1H8

Seminar The ‘Public’ in the Middle Ages/ La «chose publique » au Moyen Âge

Marc Cels — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:35:36 GMT

On behalf of Lidia Zanetti Domingues:

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to share with you the programme of the bilingual (English & French) seminar The 'Public' in the Middle Ages: In Search of Experiences/ La "chose publique " au Moyen Âge: à la recherche d'expériences, co-organised by myself and Professor Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal). You are most welcome to circulate the programme among your networks.The seminar will be held on Zoom, bi-monthly, on Fridays from 3pm to 5pm (UK time), starting on 17 December.

The seminar will be held online on Fridays at 4-6pm (GMT +1)/ 10am-12pm (ET/GMT-4), with possible exceptions. (including double sessions, of 3 hours).

PROGRAMME:

17/12 Piroska Nagy, Lidia Zanetti Domingues: Introduction. Thinking the medieval public sphere in 2021

14/01 Piroska Nagy, Lidia Zanetti Domingues: Archaeology of the medieval vocabulary of publicity

4/02 Alain Rauwel, Univ. de Bourgogne: L'Église comme espace public

18/02 (double session: 9h30-12h30/15h30-18h30)

Aglae Pizzone, Univ. of Southern Denmark: An Economy of Fear: Public Opinion in the Studite Environment During the Iconoclastic Era

Warren Pezé, Univ. Paris-Est-Créteil: L'économie des noms propres en contexte polémique (dénonciation, antonomase, anonymat) et "l'espace public" carolingien

25/03 (double session: 9h30-12h30/15h30-18h30)

Fabrice Mouthon, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc: La place du village, espace de discussion politique à la fin du Moyen Âge

Michele Lodone, Univ. Ca'Foscari/Chicago: Prophecy and the Public Sphere in Late Medieval Florence

8/04 Michel Hébert, UQAM: Les villes et le prince en Provence à la fin du Moyen Âge. Espace public, contrat politique ou servitude volontaire ?

22/04 Andrea Gamberini, Univ. Milan: title TBC

13/05 Julien Théry, Univ. Lyon: "La voix et commune renommée" comme institution de la publicité médiévale (XIIe-XVe s.)

To join our sessions, please use this Zoom link:

https://uqam.zoom.us/j/84144967802?pwd=MUdHYStpTkRObzlJOTlSNXY2QlBFUT09

Meeting ID : 841 4496 7802
Secret code : 074603

CSM / SCM Annual Meeting / Rencontre annuelle: Mardis Médiévaux 2022

Siobhain Calkin — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 20:25:07 GMT

Click here for the CFP in English! Proposals due January 15, 2022

Cliquez ici pour l'appel à comunications en français! Les propositions de communication doivent être reçues le 15 janvier, 2022.

CFP Univ de Montréal: Le Moyen Age en récits / Narrated Middle Ages

Siobhain Calkin — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:31:18 GMT

Call For Papers / Appel à communications ici (English / français)

Proposals / Propositions: Nov. 15 / le 15 novembre

Conference / Évènement: March 11 and 12 2022 / le 11 et 12 mars 2022

Florilegium -- Special issue devoted to Food

David Watt — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:29:16 GMT

Florilegium is currently seeking proposals for a special issue devoted to Food to be guest edited by Allison Fizzard. Proposals (c. 250 words) and enquiries regarding this issue should be sent to Allison.Fizzard@uregina.ca by 31 October 2021. For accepted proposals, full essays will be expected by 30 May 2022.

Scholarship from all related disciplines and conceptual/theoretical frameworks is welcome; interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. The journal is particularly interested in research that addresses non-western traditions and perspectives, as well as work that focuses on marginalized communities and/or issues.

Submissions are refereed double-blind by international and Canadian specialists. Manuscripts submitted for consideration must not contain any indication of authorship. Contributors need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes.

Manuscripts, written in English or French, should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents to the journal management system: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/flor.

Florilegium’s website at the University of Toronto Press can be found at http://www.utpjournals.press/loi/flor

Florilegium’s Open Access website (for vols. 1-29) can be found here: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor

General enquiries about the journal are always welcome: those interested should contact David Watt directly at florilegium@utpress.utoronto.ca.

Florilegium recherche actuellement les soumissions pour un volume spécial consacré à la nourriture qui sera édité par Allison Fizzard. Les propositions (environs 250 mots) et les demandes de renseignements concernant ce volume doivent être envoyées à Allison.Fizzard@uregina.ca avant le 31 octobre 2021. Pour les propositions acceptées, les essais complets sont attendus d’ici le 30 mai 2022.

Les travaux de toutes les disciplines et cadres conceptuels ou théoriques appropriés sont bienvenus et les approches interdisciplinaires sont encouragées. La revue est particulièrement intéressée à promouvoir la recherche concernant les traditions et les perspectives non occidentales de même que les travaux dédiés à des communautés ou des questions marginalisées.

Les soumissions sont évaluées par des pairs, à double insu, par des spécialistes canadiens ou de l’étranger. Les manuscrits d’articles soumis pour considération ne doivent comprendre aucune indication pouvant permettre d’identifier l’auteur. Les auteurs n’ont pas à être membres de la Société.

Les manuscrits d’articles, en français ou en anglais, seront soumis, sous format Microsoft Word, de manière électronique par le biais du système d’administration de la revue : https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/flor.

Le site web de Florilegium à l'University of Toronto Press se trouve à l'adresse suivante : http://www.utpjournals.press/loi/flor

Le site web en libre accès de Florilegium (pour les volumes 1-29) se trouve ici : https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor

Les demandes de renseignements d’ordre général sur la revue sont toujours bienvenues : les personnes intéressées doivent contacter David Watt directement à florilegium@utpress.utoronto.ca.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society on Arthurian Medievalism

Siobhain Calkin — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:10:30 GMT

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society on Arthurian Medievalism

The Journal of the International Arthurian Society (JIAS) welcomes submissions for a special issue (2022, volume 10) on Arthurian medievalism, or post-medieval adaptations, re- imaginings and recreations of medieval Arthurian texts, artefacts and spaces (real or imagined). The guest editors seek especially interdisciplinary and co-disciplinary explorations of how Arthurian myth makes meaning in a range of media, including (but not limited to) literary texts, television, film, games, visual arts, architecture, commodity culture, experiential medievalism, the heritage sector, and geographical spaces.

Submissions from all categories of scholars, including postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent scholars are welcome, as are submissions from non-members of the Society.

Submissions must be between 7,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes) and must follow the guidelines for submission for JIAS, which follow the MHRA style guide. Submissions (essay, short bio and abstract) should be sent electronically to the guest editors of the special issue, Dr Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk) and Dr Andrew Elliott (aelliott@lincoln.ac.uk), no later than 30 November 2021.

Florilegium -- Special issue devoted to Music

David Watt — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:00:20 GMT

Florilegium is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the study of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500) broadly defined from a geographic and cultural perspective. The journal is currently seeking proposals for a special issue devoted to music to be guest edited by James V. Maiello. Proposals (c. 250 words) and enquiries regarding this issue should be sent to james.maiello@umanitoba.ca by 15 January 2022. For accepted proposals, full essays will be expected by 30 September 2022.

Manuscripts, written in English or French, should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents to the journal management system. Articles should normally not exceed 8,000-9,000 words, including footnotes, and should be formatted according to Chicago style. The journal also welcomes short articles on topics of interest to the members (e.g., medieval resources, methods, etc.) Papers may be written in either English or French. A brief abstract (one or two sentences) should be included with the submission.

Florilegium’s website at the University of Toronto Press can be found at http://www.utpjournals.press/loi/flor

Florilegium’s Open Access website (for vols. 1-29) can be found here: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor

General enquiries about the journal are always welcome: those interested should contact David Watt directly at florilegium@utpress.utoronto.ca.

Call for Papers: The Green Knight (2021): Key Critical Perspectives (A Roundtable)

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:51:18 GMT

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Knight (2021): Key Critical Perspectives (A Roundtable)

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism (ISSM) invites submissions for a sponsored roundtable on David Lowery’s film The Green Knight (2021) for the 57^thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies, which will take place online from Monday 9 May to Saturday 14 May 2022.

This roundtable seeks participants to identify and discuss an element of Lowery’s long-anticipated film, staring Dev Patel. In short presentations (10 minutes), panelists are invited to consider an element of the film in light of a focal keyword inspired by Medievalism: Key Critical Terms (2014), including: archive, authenticity, authority, Christianity, co-disciplinarity, continuity, feast, gender, genealogy, gesture, gothic, heresy, humor, lingua, love, memory, middle, modernity, monument, myth, play, power, presentism, primitive, purity, race, reenactment, resonance, simulacrum, spectacle, transfer, trauma, and troubadour.

Submissions of 250-300 WORDS should be made via the Confex Online Systemno later than Wednesday 15 September 2021.This session is listed under “Session Selection: Roundtables.”

Queries about the session can be sent to Valerie Johnson (vjohnso6@montevallo.edu) and/or Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk).

CFP: Convergences Graduate Conference 2021

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:15:21 GMT

Convergences 2021 is the inaugural Graduate History Conference co-hosted by the graduate history associations at York University and the University of Toronto.

Please find attached our call for papers and please share it widely. We are looking for relevant submissions from all levels of graduate students and academics. Interdisciplinary scholarship is encouraged.

We are accepting both individual submissions as well as those from completed panels.

Our conference will run from 28-30 April 2021, it will be held entirely online and the theme is Confronting Crisis: Writing History in Uncertain Times.

Our kindest regards and happy new year,

The Convergences 2021 Team
Website: cyuthistory.wordpress.com

Call for Papers
Confronting Crisis: Writing History in Uncertain Times

History is punctuated by periods of crisis that change the fundamental structures of a society. Moments of historical change have wide-reaching consequences that can be anticipated or may be only visible in hindsight. Crises, too, can range from a single event to multi-year, multi-level phenomena. In an age where we are confronting our own multiple crises, it is more important than ever to consider how we as historians deal with crises.

This conference explores the concept of crisis in history and in historical practice. How do historians write history during moments of turmoil and upheaval? What is the aftermath of crises? How can crises be properly represented in history?

This three-day symposium is the inaugural Convergences: York-University of Toronto Graduate History Conference. Held from 28-30 April 2021, this conference will be virtual due to COVID-19. Sessions will be distributed over three days to accommodate speaker schedules, time zones, and mitigate Zoom fatigue.

We welcome submissions that address the concept of crisis, both as a methodology for writing history and in historical context. Possible subjects can include, but are not limited to:

Confronting crises of race, religion, and otherness
Anti-Black racism as a social crisis
Genocide and population collapse
Natural disasters and their aftermath
The politics of resource access in crises
Disease and disease management in history
Manufactured Crisis (economic, technological, political)
War and its effects in society
Crises in social structures (race, gender, sexuality)
Protesting, police, and the carceral system
Critiques of the use of crisis in periodization
Writing history in the time of COVID and BLM

We invite graduate students (MA and PhD) in history and related disciplines to submit proposals that address the issue of crisis, broadly construed, in history. Presentations should be 20 minutes in length, and will be followed by a Q&A period. For individual papers or completed panels, please complete the Google Form (https://forms.gle/6J8UxLciUxKEWwBw6) with your title, abstract (250 words), and brief bio by 1 February 2021. Completed panels will also be accepted. Please indicate in the Google form if you are submitting as part of a completed panel.

Accepted submissions will be notified by email by 15 March 2021.

If you have any questions, please direct emails to Angela Zhang at CYUThistory@gmail.com. For more information, visit us at cyuthistory.wordpress.com and @CYUT21 on Twitter.

Appel à contributions
Confrontant les crises : L’écriture de’histoire pendant des temps d’incertitudes

L’histoire est marquée par des périodes de crise qui changent les structures fondamentales de la société. Les moments phares de l’histoire ont des conséquences qui peuvent être anticipées ou leurs effets ne sont pas toujours évidents qu’en rétrospective. Les crises peuvent aussi varier d’un seul événement à celles qui croisent des années et qui agissent comme des phénomènes de la multiplicité. Pendant ce temps, où nous confrontons nos propres crises, il est plus important que jamais à considérer comment les historiens gèrent des crises.

Ce colloque examine le concept de crise dans l’histoire et les pratiques historiques. Comment est-ce que les historiens écrivent pendant des moments de douleur et de bouleversement ? Quel est le contrecoup des crises ? Est-il possible de vraiment représenter les crises dans l’histoire ?

Ce symposium est l’inaugurale Convergences : York-University of Toronto Graduate History Conference. Étant donné la situation présente du COVID-19, le colloque virtuel aura lieu du 28 au 30 avril 2021. Les séances seraient distribuées sur trois jours afin d’accueillir l’horaire des
conférencières, de multiples fuseaux horaires et pour éviter la fatigue de Zoom.

Nous accueillons ouvertement des propositions qui s’adressent le concept de crise soit comme une méthodologie de l’écriture de l’histoire ou comme contexte historique. Les sujets possibles incluent, mais ne sont pas limités, à :

Confronter des crises de race, de religion et d’altérité
Le racisme Anti-Black comme crise sociale
Le génocide et l’effondrement de la population
Les catastrophes naturelles et leurs conséquences
Les politiques de l’accès aux ressources pendant les crises
Les maladies et leur gestion historique
Les crises manufacturées (économique, technologique et politique)
La guerre et ces effets sur la société
Les crises sociales de race, de genre ou du sexe
Les manifestations, la police, et le système carcéral
Critiques de l’utilisation du concept de la crise dans la périodisation
L’écriture de l’histoire pendant la période de COVID et BLM

Nous invitons tous les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs en histoire, ou associés à la discipline, à soumettre des propositions portant sur le thème de crise, qui est interprété d’une manière large en histoire. Les présentations devraient être 20 minutes et seront suivies par une période de questions. Les propositions individuelles doivent être soumises par le biais du Google Form
(https://forms.gle/6J8UxLciUxKEWwBw6), indiquant votre titre, un résumé de 250 mots et une courte biographie, au plus tard du 1 février 2021. Notre comité accepte aussi des propositions pour des panels complètes. S’il vous plaît, indiquez si vous êtes membre d’un panel complet lorsque vous remplissez le formulaire.

Nous communiquerons nos décisions, par courriel, le 15 mars 2021.

Si vous avez des questions, contactez Angela Zhang à CYUThistory@gmail.com. Pour en savoir plus, vous pouvez nous trouver sur le site cyuthistory.wordpress.com et sur Twitter @CYUT21.

Revised CFP Congress 2021

Siobhain Calkin — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:39:47 GMT

Check out the revised CFP for the CSM annual conference in 2021 / Voyez le nouvel Appel à contributions pour notre rencontre annuelle 2021 ici / here!

CFP - RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Kathy Cawsey — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:20:20 GMT

CALL FOR PAPERS

RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES
46th Annual New England Medieval Conference, Virtual Meeting

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Keynote Speaker:

Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin

“The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages”

With the world-wide resurgence of anti-racist activism following the killing of George Floyd, we as medievalists feel compelled to reexamine notions of race in the pre-modern period. Can speaking of “race” in the Middle Ages help us today? How was race conceived in the Middle Ages? Did race already dictate the lives of men and women in medieval Europe? To what extent did race and religion overlap in the Middle Ages? We invite medievalists of all disciplines and specializations to explore these and other questions relating to the topic of race. We welcome papers that deal with the origins and development of race from a variety of different perspectives. We are likewise very interested in essays focusing on the treatment of race without medieval Western Europe.

Please send an abstract of 250 words and a recent CV to Meriem Pagès (mpages@keene.edu). Please make sure to provide your name and full professional affiliation (institution and level of study) in your proposal. Abstracts are due October 15, 2020.

Masculinities in the Premodern World: Continuities, Change, and Contradictions

Marc Cels — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:36:51 GMT

Registration is now open!

Masculinities in the Premodern World: Continuities, Change, and Contradictions
12-14 November 2020

The past twenty-five years have witnessed a bourgeoning of studies on sexuality and gender in the pre-modern world. In particular, men and masculinities have received considerable attention. Building on the theoretical perspectives provided by feminism, Foucault, and cultural studies, the study of men and masculinities is increasingly theoretically inflected and sophisticated. Studies have encompassed questions pertaining to men of various social statuses, secular and ecclesiastical, as portrayed in historical, literary, philosophical, theological, and art historical sources among others.

The conference, sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), seeks to locate the study of premodern men and masculinities in its current richness and complexity.

Papers will be presented by over 70 scholars from 6 countries.

Because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, the conference will take place virtually via Zoom.

The conference will open on the evening of Thursday, 12 November, with a plenary address by Professor Patricia Simons (U of Michigan) on “Marked Differences: The Beard in Renaissance Europe”. We are pleased to say that this opening address is co-sponsored with the Royal Ontario Museum and is part of their 2020-21 "ROM Speaks" series.

The conference will continue on Zoom, all day Friday and Saturday, 13-14 November.

To register for the conference, or to consult the conference program and read the abstracts for all the papers to be presented, please visit the conference web page at:

https://trrc.itergateway.org/2020_conference

Attendance is limited. Please register soon to avoid disappointment. Registration will close on 30 October or earlier if the attendance limit is reached before then.

CFP: International symposium: "Migrations of Lyric Poetry: 1300, 1800"

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:11:26 GMT

An international symposium in the field of literary studies will take place under the auspices of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Villa Vigoni from September 27 to October 2, 2021. In the planned symposium, lyrical migrational processes situated in the periods around 1300, around 1800 or spanning both periods will be elaborated upon. Inner-lyrical migrations (between different genres of lyric poetry, languages, cultures) will be considered alongside processes of exchange and migration with other literary genres and non-literary discursive formations. The symposium is structured by the following four sections, which examine in greater detail (1) semantic transformations, (2) epistemic migrational processes in the context of lyric poetry’s claims of value, (3) the question of the universality or historicity of lyrical forms and (4) the materiality and mediality of lyrical migrations.

Especially younger scholars (however generally not doctoral candidates) are requested to communicate their interest in participating and a proposed topic (max. 1 page) to the organizers of the symposium by September 1, 2020.

The specific requirements can be found here.

CBC seeking interviews about past calamities

Marc Cels — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:21:15 GMT

We are a unit within CBC Radio that chases and produces interviews for our many radio programs across the country (mainly morning and afternoon shows). So guests on any particular topic speak with a series of stations over a "window" of time (for example, 6-9am or 2:30-6:30 pm Eastern Time), same topic, different hosts asking versions of the same questions.

We are pondering a short series detailing disasters and calamities of the past, what happened, what was learned from them (if anything!), and how history can inform our present.

Immediately to mind, of course, are events like the Black Death. But history is full of incidents that are not necessarily plagues and disease driven ... but had a significant effect on the world, or North America, or Canada.

I kinda hear this as a "Let me tell you a story about what happened way back in ...." I know that's a very simplified version of what you folks study and write about ... but we have to program our content for a very wide and diverse listenership.

Right now, we would not be able to offer compensation. But the scope of CBC radio is vast, with many of our programs across Canada being overwhelmingly #1 in terms of listenership.

So if you have a pitch to make ... please send your idea to me: nathan.swinn@cbc.ca.

Thank you,

Nathan Swinn Senior Producer CBC Radio Syndication
nathan.swinn@cbc.ca
@NSwinn

Du manuscrit à l'incunable. Initiation au texte médiéval et renaissant (23-28 août 2020)

Marc Cels — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:52:28 GMT

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

Nous donnerons à l'UQAM cette année la deuxième édition du stage intensif : Du manuscrit à l'incunable. Initiation au texte médiéval et renaissant, sous forme d’une école d'été d'une semaine, en collaboration avec l'IRHT dont plusieurs membres viennent comme formateurs, la dernière semaine du mois d'août (23-28 août) 2020.

Cette école d'été est destinée avant tout aux étudiant-e-s qui voudraient se destiner à une maîtrise ou doctorat, ou qui viennent de le commencer, en études médiévales ou sur la première modernité. Toutefois nous avons accepté par le passé des professeurs, enseignants, bibliothécaires, etc., qui désiraient améliorer leur appréciation et connaissance des manuscrits et livres rares.

Vous trouverez ici l'affiche contenant toutes les informations sur l'inscription et le programme.

Les étudiant-e-s non francophones, dès lors qu'elles ou ils se débrouillent en français, sont les bienvenu-e-s!

Informations essentielles

La date limite pour les demandes d'inscription, accompagnée d'une lettre de motivation, est le 30 avril (inscriptionmss@gmail.com).

Le prix d'inscription au stage sera modique, environ 150$ selon le nombre d'inscrits.

Notez bien que les participant-e-s venu-e-s d'ailleurs devront prendre en charge leur séjour à Montréal.

En vous priant de relayer l'information à ceux et celles qui seraient intéressé-e-s.

Cordialement,

Les médiévistes de l'UQAM

inscriptionmss@gmail.com

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Dear colleagues,

This year, the Université du Québec à Montréal will be holding the second iteration of a manuscript (and early print) summer school in the last week of August (23-28): Du manuscrit à l'incunable. Initiation au texte médiéval et renaissant. This course will be given in cooperation with the French IRHT, which will also be providing several of our instructors.

This summer school is intended first of all for graduate students (whether beginning or advanced) in any area of medieval studies, or early modern studies. However, in the past we have offered places to professors, teachers, librarians, etc., who are interested in developing their appreciation for medieval manuscripts and particularly their knowledge thereof.

Summary details on the content and the application procedure can be found on the official announcement sheet, here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxw4ouqqa6cjjy6/Invitation%20Stage%20Ms%201page_V01%202020.pdf.

Non-francophone participants are welcome, so long as they can understand spoken French without too much difficulty.

Key details

The due date for applications is the 30^th of April (inscriptionmss@gmail.com).

The fees for the course will be quite reasonable, about $150, depending on the number of applicants. However, all those enrolled will have to find their own accommodation in Montreal.

Those wishing to enroll will be asked to provide a brief application letter (1-2 pages) explaining how the course might benefit them.

We would appreciate if you could circulate this information to those who might be interested.

Best wishes,

The UQAM medievalists

inscriptionmss@gmail.com

Medieval Studies Essay Competition for Grad Students and Early Career Researchers

Marc Cels — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:41:34 GMT

St. Andrew's Institute of Medieval Studies (UK) invites entries for its annual Medieval Studies Essay Competition for graduate students and early career researchers. The prize is £500, with a proxime prize of £100. The winning entry will also be considered for publication in The Mediaeval Journal.

Full terms and conditions can be found here The template cover page can be found here. The deadline for entries this year is 19 March 2020.

CFP for CSM Session - Knowledge Mobilization? Medieval Studies Research and Outreach

Brandon Alakas — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 20:58:41 GMT

Canadian Society of Medievalists (CSM) Annual Meeting
Congress 2020, University of Western Ontario, June1-3, 2020

Knowledge Mobilization? Medieval Studies Research and Outreach

Both SSHRC* requirements and increasingly problematic uses of the medieval in the world outside the academy demand that medievalists find new ways to communicate their knowledge of the period’s complexities and entanglements to the broader public. Some of this we do in our classrooms and some of this we do in various forms of public outreach. This session seeks to compare notes on how medievalists work to communicate and connect their research and knowledge to the wider world. What forms of outreach might we practise both inside and outside the university classroom? What has worked well for you, or where would you like to start with such outreach? How do you reach out to the broader public of a multicultural, diverse country like Canada? What have been successful or failed attempts to do this in your geographical area? This session seeks proposals for short presentations (5-7 minutes) in which speakers will outline tools, strategies, experiences, and/or resources for communicating and connecting their research and knowledge of the medieval period’s complexities to multicultural Canada. Presentations may include but are not limited to: descriptions of outreach educational activities inside and outside the university, descriptions of projects (such as online teaching tools either for university or for K-12 teachers or for learning in retirement), discussions of effective lesson plans or public lecture topics, and/or the proposal of new methodologies or pedagogies. By keeping presentations to 5-7 minutes, this session hopes to hear from a wide range of medievalists in Canada and to allow time for a lively discussion with the audience.

We are seeking paper proposals from individuals in order to propose our session to the CSM conference organizers by their deadline of January 15, 2020. To that end, please send individual proposals (a one-page abstract and a one-page cv) to Siobhain Bly Calkin (Siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca) by January 10, 2020. Presenters must be members of the CSM by the time of the Congress.

*Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

CFP - Toronto Old English Colloquium (March 27th, 2020)

Fabienne Michelet — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 15:30:13 GMT

We are pleased to announce the 2020 Toronto Old English Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Each year, the colloquium brings together graduate students and seasoned scholars for a day dedicated to Old English scholarship. We invite proposals from graduate students for papers on any area of interest related to Old English, and are seeking a broad range of topics including - but not limited to - literature, law, history, art history, medicine, science, lexicography, palaeography, and any other relevant areas. The length of a paper presentation should be 20 minutes. We may be able to provide some funding to support accommodation and/or student travel.

Deadline: January 6th, 2020

Proposals should include a 300-word abstract, a one-page CV, and full contact information. Please submit queries or proposals for papers to Professor Fabienne Michelet (fabienne.michelet@utoronto.ca) and Shirley Kinney (shirley.kinney@mail.utoronto.ca).

Commemorating Thomas Becket: call for CSM session papers

Marc Cels — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:16:33 GMT

Paul Brown aptly described Thomas Becket as a tripartite figure: historical, legendary, and literary. 2020 marks the triple jubilee of Thomas Becket: 900-year anniversary of his birth, 850-years since his murder, and 800-years since his translation. We invite proposals for papers on all things Becket related for the panel “Commemorating Thomas Becket.” I will be submitting a proposal for a session at the beginning of January for the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists conference held at the 2020 Congress in London, Ontario, at the University of Western Ontario, June 3-5. Proposals which address the political, religious, literary, or cultural aspects of his life, death, or legacy are invited for submission. Participants may be from any field or subfield of Medieval or Renaissance studies. Interdisciplinary papers or
collaborative papers are encouraged and welcome. An abstract of 200-300 words with a title and contact information, along with a one-page C.V., should be sent to Tristan B. Taylor, Department of English, University of Saskatchewan, via email at tristan.taylor@usask.ca by January 10th,
2020.

Investigating Art/Architecture: Medieval/Medievalism

Brandon Alakas — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:56:01 GMT

THE CCMAH / CCHAM
CALL FOR PAPER / APPEL À COMMUNICATION

"Investigating Art/Architecture: Medieval/Medievalism"

The 41st Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be hosted by the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph, ON, on March 13-14, 2020. Papers are invited on any topic relating to the art, architecture and visual/material culture of the Middle Ages or its post-medieval revivals. Papers may be in English or French. Please submit a short abstract (250 words) and brief (one-page) C.V. by 15 December 2019 to Dominic Marner (dmarner@uoguelph.ca). Scholars at every stage of their careers are encouraged to submit proposals.

Le 41e colloque canadien des historiens de l’art medieval est qui se tiendra à l’Université du Guelph, ON les 13 et 14 mars 2020. Les communications portant sur tout sujet relatif à l’art, à l’architecture et à la culture visuelle/matérielle du Moyen Âge ou à ses renaissances postmédiévales seront bienvenues. Les interventions peuvent être faites soit en anglais ou en français. Veuillez soumettre un court résumé de votre communication (250 mots) ainsi qu’un bref C.V. (une page) d’ici le 15 décembre 2019 à Dominic Marner (dmarner@uoguelph.ca). Les chercheurs/chercheures qui sont à différentes étapes de leur carrière académique sont encouragé(e)s à participer.

Guelph, ON March/Mars 13-14, 2020

CSM Annual Meeting/ SCM Rencontre annuelle: London, ON

Marc Cels — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 23:55:30 GMT

Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Meeting

Congress 2020

Rencontre annuelle de la Société canadienne des médiévistes

Congrès 2020

June 1 to 3, 2020 / 1er au 3 juin 2020

University of Western Ontario, London, ON

Papers for the CSM Annual Meeting can address any topic on medieval studies. Proposals for sessions of three papers are also invited. Presentations may be in either English or French. Bilingual sessions are particularly welcome.

Proposals should include a one-page abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes' reading time. Proposals for complete sessions should include this information in addition to a title and a brief explanation of the session and its format. Please indicate if the proposed session would be suitable as a joint session with another learned society. The theme for this year's Congress is "Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism." See https://www.congress2020.ca/.

Please submit proposals for individual papers by December 15, 2019 and proposals for sessions by January 15, 2020 by email to Kathy Cawsey, either by regular email (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) or via our website’s email system (www.canadianmedievalists.org). You must be a member of the CSM by the time of your presentation.

Les communications à ce congrès annuel de la SCM peuvent traiter de tout sujet relatif aux études médiévales. L'invitation est également lancée pour des propositions de sessions comprenant trois communications. Les communications peuvent être données en français ou en anglais. Les sessions bilingues sont particulièrement bienvenues.

Les propositions de communications devront inclure un résumé et un curriculum vitae d'une page chacun. La durée de lecture maximale des communications devra être de 20 minutes. Les propositions de sessions devront inclure, outre les informations ci-dessus, un titre et une courte explication du contenu de la session et de son format. Veuillez indiquer si la session proposée pourrait être organisée conjointement avec une autre société savante. Congrès 2020 a retenu le thème « Bâtir des passerelles : combattre le colonialisme et le racisme anti-Noirs ». (https://www.congress2020.ca/).

Veuillez soumettre vos propositions au plus tard le 15 décembre 2019 pour des communications individuelles et le 15 janvier 2020 pour des sessions, par courriel à Kathy Cawsey (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) ou par le formulaire de contact de notre site, www.canadianmedievalists.org. Vous devrez être un membre en règle de la SCM au moment de votre communication.

Masculinities in the Premodern World: Continuities, Change, and Contradictions

Marc Cels — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:17:11 GMT

“Masculinities in the Premodern World:
Continuities, Change, and Contradictions”
13-15 November 2020 University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
The past twenty-five years have witnessed a bourgeoning of studies on sexuality and gender in the pre-modern world. In particular, men and masculinities have received considerable attention. Building on the theoretical perspectives provided by feminism, Foucault, and cultural studies, the study of men and masculinities is increasingly theoretically inflected and sophisticated. Studies have encompassed questions pertaining to men of various social statuses, secular and ecclesiastical, as portrayed in historical, literary, philosophical, theological, and art historical sources among others.
This conference aims to locate the study of premodern men and masculinities in its current richness and complexity. Our plenary speakers will be two of the most important scholars in the area of medieval/early modern masculinities: Patricia Simons (University of Michigan) and Patricia Cullum (University of Huddersfield, UK).
Papers are invited on all areas of study across the premodern world (500 to 1650 CE), crossing Europe’s religious and linguistic diversity, and encompassing its geographical breadth and beyond. Topics might include:
concepts of virility,
patriarchy, marriage, fatherhood and procreative masculinities,
social and political perspectives,
medical and biological perceptions,
celibacy, chastity, continence,
monastic and clerical masculinity,
sexual function and dysfunction,
queer and non-binary masculinities,
typologies of premodern men,
masculinity and physical prowess; sports and athletics
depictions of masculinity in literature and the arts,
etc.
Proposals are invited for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and alternatives to traditional academic presentation models.
To submit a proposal, please include: speaker’s name and academic affiliation (or “independent scholar” as applicable); the title of the presentation; a 150-word abstract; full contact information (mailing address, telephone, email); and a one-page CV. In the case of proposals for complete sessions, this information must be provided for each presenter and the chair (if proposed).
Proposals should be emailed in Word format to both conference organizers: Prof. Jacqueline Murray at jacqueline.murray@uoguelph.ca Prof. Konrad Eisenbichler at konrad.eisenbichler@utoronto.ca
Deadline for submission: 15 November 2019

CFP - Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group ICMS 2020

Brandon Alakas — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:50:12 GMT

Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group

ICMS 2020

Session #1: The Fruits of the Orchard

Session #2: Anchoritic Ideals in Vernacular Devotional Texts (Co-Sponsored with the International Anchoritic Society)

Session #3: Vernacular Exchanges

The Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group is organizing three special sessions at the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 2020. The VDCG sponsors sessions on medieval mystics and mysticism and showcases recent scholarship on vernacular spiritual traditions in medieval Western Europe.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a completed Participant Information Form to the session organizers listed below for each session. The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2019. Electronic submissions are preferred.

Session #1: The Fruits of the Orchard

Session Organizer: Barbara Zimbalist

This roundtable brings together respondents to Jennifer Brown’s important new work, Fruit of the Orchard: Reading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (University of Toronto Press, 2018). As a study focused on the translation, transmission, and reading cultures inspired by one of the most important holy women of medieval Italy in late medieval and early modern England, Brown’s exciting study invites consideration of how vernacular devotion travels, grows, shifts, changes, and circulates across language, time, and distance.

This panel invites responses to Brown’s project and to her theoretical and methodological models more broadly. What new directions are currently emerging from new work on Catherine, and other holy women whose texts circulated as vernacular devotion? What other figures and texts traveled in similar ways, and toward what devotional ends? And perhaps most broadly, but most suggestively: how does the study of vernacular devotional cultures invite reflection on our own critical habits, methods, and commitments—and the types of work they enable, engender, or even prohibit or discourage?

Contact Information:

Dr Barbara Zimbalist
Department of English
The University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79968
bezimbalist@utep.edu

Session #2: Anchoritic Ideals in Vernacular Devotional Texts

Session Organizers: C. Annette Grisé and Stephanie Amsel

Co-sponsored with the International Anchoritic Society, we emphasize crossing boundaries of class, language, and genre. This session explores the ways religious texts adapt and borrow from each other by focussing on anchoritic literature (in both Latin and the vernacular) and lay vernacular devotional traditions. By considering both elite religious and popular lay cultures, it highlights the intersections between these groups rather than maintaining rigid class and genre hierarchies. We are interested in examining how and why anchorites, anchoresses, their ideas, and their spaces are translated into lay contexts, that is, for readers who are adapting anchoritic concepts to their secular context. What happens when elite religious culture becomes popularized?

This session values diversity in thinking and discourse, bringing a variety of texts and forms into the discussion. We will not seek to predetermine methodological perspectives (apart from expecting strong contextual frameworks and a focus on primary sources as well as relevant critical approaches) but we encourage new and innovative points of view on the topics.

Contact Information:

Dr. Catherine Annette Grisé
Associate Professor
Dept. of English and Cultural Studies
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9
grisec@mcmaster.ca

Dr. Stephanie Amsel
Department of English
Southern Methodist University
Clements Hall, G02AB
samsel@smu.edu

Session #3: Vernacular Exchanges

Organizer: Brandon Alakas

The transmission and circulation of religious writing is never neutral. The production and circulation of vernacular theology in particular calls attention, as Barbara Newman has noted, to just who could read theology and, of course, who could write theology. Was the mere love of God sufficient or was Latin literacy and clerical ordination prerequisite? Over the last two decades scholars have explored the ways in which the writing of female visionaries such as Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, and Birgitta of Sweden have created space for women to explore new theological possibilities and renegotiate the gendering of power within theological discourse. This panel on vernacular exchange considers the topic of transmission broadly to include the circulation of works across linguistic and national boundaries, and aims to explore the circulation of manuscript and printed text as indices both for particular tastes and for needs of individual readers and collective reading communities. In taking this broad approach, this session also intends to further discussion of specific issues and networks of readers that facilitated the movement of texts among diverse communities.

Contact Information:

Dr Brandon Alakas
Department of Fine Arts and Humanities
University of Alberta, Augustana
4901 - 46 Avenue
Camrose, AB T4V 2R3
Canada
alakas@ualberta.ca

CFP: The 2020 New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:54:18 GMT

CSM/SCM Congress 2019 Programme

Sat, 04 May 2019 02:35:16 GMT

2019 Programme PDF

Canadian Society of Medievalists

La Société Canadienne des Médiévistes

Congress/Congrès 2019

Nous remercions les Musqueam de nous accueillir sur leur territoire. Nous travaillerons avec diligence pour assumer notre responsabilité collective d’honorer et de respecter leurs protocoles et leur patrie.

We recognise that the land on which we gather is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam People, and we strive to live up to the responsibility of care for the land and people that this acknowledgment bestows upon us.

June 3 Juin
8:30-10:00	Session/Séance 1: The Arras Witch Project: New Insights, New Queries - BUCH B213 Chair/Président: Andrew Gow Jessica Roussanov, “Vauderie d’Arras: Financing a Crusade for Statehood” François Pageau, “From Hussites to Waldensians: A prosopographical study of a group of demonologists” Robert B. Desjardins, “A Twist on the Swerve? Epicurean Ideas in Two Demonological Treatises”
	Session/Séance 2: Conversations over time: Politics and the prosecution of crime and disorder in England, 1200-1700 – BUCH A103 Chair/Président: Simon Devereaux Kenneth Duggan, “Community and Crime in Thirteenth-Century England” Shannon McSheffrey, “The Politics of Prosecution: Handling the Evil May Day Rioters in 1517” Andrea McKenzie, ““Fire and Fake News: Arson Prosecutions and Oppositional Politics during the Popish Plot, 1678-81”
10:00-10:30	Break/Pause
10:30-12:00	Plenary/Plénière 1 - BUCH A103 Welcome: Kathy Cawsey Chair/Président: Jacqueline Murray Paul Dutton, “Rectangles of Conversation: The Bayeux Tapestry.”
12:00-1:30	Break/Pause
1:30-3:00	Session/Séance 3: Circling in on Medieval Romances - BUCH B213 Chair/Président: Christa Canitz Richard Firth Green, “How ‘Courtly’ are the Poems of MS Cotton Nero A.x?” Geoff Rector, “The Reader as Lover: Enclosure, Identity, and Community in the Sociocultural Dynamics of Romance Reading (1150-1300)” Robert Rouse, “From Shields to Sheeldes: Changing Views of Romance Geography.”
	Session/Séance 4: Masculinities and Manuscripts - BUCH A103 Chair/Président: TBA Jacqueline Murray, “Monks and Men: Masculinity and Religion in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries” Alison More, ““Masculinity and Corporeality the Vitae of Thirteenth-Century Conversi” Dominic Marner, “Touching the Word of God in the Floreffe Bible (BL Add MS 17738)”
3:00-3:30	Break/Pause
3:30-5:00	Roundtable/Discussion: Racism and Diversity in Medieval Studies - BUCH A103 Chair/Président: Donna Trembinski Andrew Gow, “Beyond Pogroms and Persecution: Nationalist Historiographies and the Elision of Jewish and other Minority Realities in Representations of the Middle Ages” Michael Kent, “Opening those other medieval books: Reflections of a Judaica Librarian towards inclusive research” Dana Wessell-Lightfoot, “Intersectionality in the Classroom: Teaching Medieval Spain” Kathy Cawsey, “Discovering a White Supremacist in my class” Douglas Hayes, “Teaching the Middle Ages: Racism and Resistance” Amy Kaufman, “Alternative Narratives”
June 4 Juin
8:30-10:00	Session/Séance 5: Gender and Agency in Medieval Europe - BUCH B213 Chair/Président: Meredith Bacola Joanne Findon, “Female Desire and Agency in Táin Bó Froích and Aislinge Óenguso” David Hay, “Finding the Female Combatant in Late Medieval Military Literature” Donna Trembinski, “Francis’ Disappearing Infirmities: Disability and the Expectations of Masculine Sanctity in the Thirteenth Century”
	Session/Séance 6: Medical Texts in Conversation - BUCH A201 Chair/Président: Erik Kwakkel Nora Thorburn, “Pro myrrae troclidite: The influence of materia medica substitution lists” Jacob Goldowitz, ““Medical Innovation in Early Medieval Europe: Dynamidia Texts in Conversation” Vajra Regan, “The Poet, the Philosopher, and the Physician”
10:00-10:30	Break/Pause
10:30-12:00	Plenary/Plénière 2 - BUCH A201 Chair/Président: Dominic Marner Marcus Milwright, “Architecture, Ornament and the early Qur’an Fragments from the Great Mosque of San‘a’ in Yemen”
12:00-12:15	Break/Pause
12:15-2:00	AGM/AGA (Lunch provided) - BUCH B213
2:00-2:15	Break/Pause
2:15-3:45	Session/Séance 7: Constructing Medieval Worlds: Building Sustainable Medieval Studies via Immersive Environmental Spaces - BUCH B213 Chair/Président: TBA Colin Gibbings, “Wrætlic is þes Performance Work: Differing Interpretations in Performance of 'The Ruin'” Michael Lazar, “Materiality and Spatiality in the Saga of Erik the Red: a methodology for historical literary engagement” Kenna Olsen and Elias Fahssi, “ Means and Methods: Ecologies of Sustainability for Medieval Texts”
	Session/Séance 8: Afterlives of Medieval Texts - BUCH A201 Chair/Président: TBA Tristan Major, “Richard Retchford, a Forgotten Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Saxonist” Jes Battis, “The Medievalist Marketplace: Convention Culture and Young Adult Fantasy” David Watt, “George R. R. Martin’s 15^th century allusions”
3:45-4:00	Break/Pause
4:00-5:30	Session/Séance 9: Medieval Books and Documents in UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections - BUCH B213 Chair/Président: Stephen Partridge Siân Echard, "Good Luck and Good Design: Building a Medieval Teaching Collection.” Erik Kwakkel, “UBC’s “1460” Catholicon fragment: watermark and type arrangement” Noelle Phillips, ““Discovering the Bulwer Family’s Fourteenth-century Charters in British Columbia”
	Séance/Session 10: Cercles de Conversations en France - BUCH A201 Président/Chair: TBA Éduardo Fabbro, “The Aftermath of Fontenoy (841): Divine agency, violence, and the response to traumatic events in Carolingian Europe.” Stephanie Plante, “Une sociabilité littéraire. Le réseau manuscrit du compte de Flandre Gui de Dampierre” Christine McWebb, “Christine de Pizan ‘in Conversation’ with Dante Alighieri”
7:00	Banquet/Banquette: Nuba - 3116 W Broadway, Kitsilano

June 5 Juin
8:30-10:00	Session/Séance 11: Holes and Wholes, Pieces and Seams: Physical and Political Connections and Ruptures - BUCH B213 Chair/Président: TBA Sarah-Nelle Jackson, “Sovereignty on the Rocks: Eorthe, Land, and Resistance in the Peterborough Chronicle” Kari North, “Rebellious Vassal Rulers: Commonalties Across the Mediterranean” Stephanie Lahey, “Patchwork Physic: British Library Sloane MS 783B”
10:00-10:30	Break/Pause
10:30-12:00	Session/Séance 12: Topical Texts and their Afterlives in the Later Middle Ages - BUCH B213 Chair/Président: TBA Robert Shaw, “Church Reform, monastic reform and the legacy of Pierre Pocquet” Brandon Alakas, “Syon's fruytful orcherd: Textual Consumption and Spiritual Identity in Birgittine Devotional Literature” Geoffrey Dipple, “The Curious Afterlife of a Radical Text” Kristin Bourassa, “The Manuscript Afterlives of Political Texts: Jacques d’Armagnac and the Songe du viel pelerin” (co-author Justin Sturgeon)
12:00-1:30	Break/Pause
1:30-4:00	UBC Rare Books Workshop Leaders: Siân Echard and Erik Kwakkel Photo: Don Erhardt A hands-on session with medieval manuscripts and documents and early printed books from UBC's Rare Books and special Collections. https://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/ REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Email kathy.cawsey @ dal.ca to sign up
5:00-7:00	President’s Reception/Réception du Président

Digital Humanities Summer Institute offerings at Congress 2019

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:59:24 GMT

DHSI@Congress

Are you looking to learn some new DH skills? Would you be glad to refresh some old ones? If you are attending the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Vancouver, join us for Digital Humanities Summer Institute @ Congress. We invite Congress attendees to register for any and all workshops that engage their interest. At $25 each, the workshops are modular and no previous Digital Humanities experience is required. Participants must be registered with a association or society that is meeting at Congress.

Schedule
9:00-10:15 Opening plenary: Decolonial DH?: Maker Ethics Across Indigenous Studies and the Digital Humanities (David Gaertner)

10:30-1:00 Session 1
- CWRCshop (Susan Brown)
- DH Pedagogy (Laura Estill and Diane Jakacki)

1:00-2:30 Lunch
- Special Graduate Student lunch event for registered students
"What I Wish I Knew as a Grad Student/New Scholar in the Digital Humanities" (Kim Martin and Chelsea Miya)

2:30-5:00 Session 2
- Introduction to the Command Line (Megan Meredith-Lobay)
- Best Practices for Data Visualization (Alison Hedley)

Registration details and workshop descriptions are up at http://bit.ly/DHSICongress (click “read more")

Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians/ Colloque Canadien des historiens d'art medieval 22-23 March/Mars 2019

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:59:06 GMT

The University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg invite you to the 40th edition of the Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians /Colloque canadien des historiens d’art medieval.

"From Medieval to Medievalism: Medieval Art and Architecture and its Modern Canadian Transformations" Friday, 22 March University of Manitoba, Artlab Building, Room 368 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, 23 March University of Winnipeg, Duckworth Centre, Room 3D01 8:45 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Conference programme and poster:

http://umanitoba.ca/schools/art/media/CCMAH_2019_Poster__programme.pdf

https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/art-history/docs/cmh-2019-programme-final-b25.pdf

No conference fee; all are welcome

For more information, contact c.labrecque@uwinnipeg.ca or james.bugslag@umanitoba.ca

Atlantic Mediaeval Association, Conference / Colloque, Memorial University

Sébastien Rossignol — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:04:42 GMT

The annual conference of the Atlantic Mediaeval Association will take place on 18-19 October 2019 at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The deadline for submitting paper proposals (in English or French) is 31 March.

Le colloque annuel de la Atlantic Mediaeval Association aura lieu les 18 et 19 octobre 2019 sur le campus de Memorial University à St-Jean, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. La date de tombée pour la soumission de propositions de communications (en français ou en anglais) est le 31 mars.

More information here / de plus amples informations ici: https://www.atlanticmedievalists.net/callForPapers.php.

CFP - New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:48:05 GMT

Call for Papers: New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages

due 15 February 2019

The School of Art History, SAIMS and Special Collections Division at the University of St Andrews are pleased to announce an upcoming two-day conference on the archive in medieval art and thought.

The word archive suggests the acts of taxonomy and conservation, but also interpretation and regulation. Its etymology traces back to the Greek arkheion, thus highlighting the political nature of the physical archive and the act of archiving itself. The medieval world maintained this sense of privileged access. Isidore of Seville connected the Latin word archivium with arca, strongbox, and arcanum, mystery. But the term was malleable, referring to collections of various goods and treasures, not just of parchment records and registers. And yet, Michael Clanchy has argued that the medieval mind did not always distinguish between the library and the archive, as we do today.

The organisers therefore invite proposals on the theme of the expanded medieval archive, as it relates to art and material culture. What can medieval collections, compilations, and assemblages of material things tell us about the accumulation of knowledge and the preservation of memory? How is the archive manipulated to fit political or social agendas, and by whom? What are the limits of the medieval archive? Paper topics and themes may include, though are not limited to:

Records or inventories of collections, secular, civic, and ecclesiastical;
The archive as a physical object or visual record, including books and manuscripts, buildings, reliquaries, etc.;
The accretive nature of written testimony in the form of: chronicles, herbals, visitations, necrologies, inscriptions and tituli;
Time, writing history through the material, and collapsing temporalities;
The creation and perpetuation of memory, identity, and authority;
The accumulation and transmission of cultural or familial knowledge via material culture;
The politics of preservation, documentation, and display in the medieval world, and of the medieval in the modern world.

Collecting, Curating, Assembling: New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages will take place 13–14 September 2019 in St Andrews, Scotland. Professor Erik Inglis (Oberlin College) will deliver the keynote. The organisers intend to publish the conference proceedings as an edited volume.

All papers must be no more than 30 minutes maxmimum. Please submit a 250 word abstract and title by 15 February 2019. Prof Julian Luxford, Prof Kathryn Rudy, and Dr Emily Savage, along with Senior Archivist Rachel Hart, warmly welcome all submissions and queries at medievalarchive@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Annual Conference - Medieval Students Undergraduate Society at the University of Toronto

Brandon Alakas — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:08:01 GMT

The Medieval Students Undergraduate Society at the University of Toronto is hosting its annual conference this weekend.

Hosted by the University of Toronto’s Medieval Studies Undergraduate Society, the 3rd Annual Medieval Studies Undergraduate Conference will take place at St. Michael’s on the weekend of January 26 and 27. USMC President David Sylvester will deliver the keynote address in Charbonnel Lounge at 6 p.m. to open the conference on Saturday, Jan. 26, and a reception will follow in the Shook Common Room. The conference will then continue on Sunday, Jan. 27 in the Shook Common Room, beginning with a light breakfast at 9 a.m. U of T students and recent grads will present papers until the conclusion of the conference around 3 p.m. More information about the conference can be found on the MSUS - Medieval Studies Undergraduate Society Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/SMC.MSUS/)

CFP - Myth and Dream / The Dreaming of Myth University of Bologna, 23-24 May 2019

Brandon Alakas — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:04:44 GMT

Myth and Dream / The Dreaming of Myth

A two-day conference (23 and 24 May 2019) in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, at the University of Bologna

Immemorially, myths and dreams have been closely associated as wellsprings for fantasy and the imagination. The pairing of myth and dream reaches far back into antiquity, to the story of Gilgamesh in the Middle East, to the epics of Homer and Virgil in Europe, and to the Dream Time of Australian aborigines. In the modern era, psychoanalytic theories have drawn freely upon mythic accounts and archetypal images in interpreting dreams and plumbing the depths of the unconscious mind, while artists of the surreal and symbolist painters have revelled in the transformations and displacements that recourse to the world of myth and dream affords. Jane Harrison encapsulated the association between the two when at the beginning of the twentieth century she wrote that ‘myth is the dream-thinking of a people, just as the dream is the myth of the individual’.

The conference invites proposals addressing diverse approaches to the combination of myth and dream – literary, artistic, scientific or theological – that enjoy attention in the contemporary world.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Animals
Archetypes
Biblical accounts
Celestial realms
Children
Death
Divine phenomena
Dreamer as hero(ine)
Dreams of other worlds
Eros
Folktales
Gates of ivory and horn
Gods of dreaming
Illustrations
Immortality
Initiation
Interpretations
Invisibility
Labyrinths
Legends
Mandalas
Monads and dyads
Monsters
Mythical realism
Nightmares
Oneiromancy
Portals
Prophecy
Sagas
Shamanic possession
Soul sleep
Succubus and incubus
Surrealism
Time and timelessness
Underworlds
Visitations
Voids
Wishes and desires
Yin and yang

The languages of the conference will be Italian and English.

Papers should be 20 minutes long. Please send proposals of 250 words (in Italian or English) to lilec.mythdream@unibo.it by 1 February 2019.

CFP: Medieval Devotional Texts: Technologies Old and New

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:19:43 GMT

Medieval Devotional Texts: Technologies Old and New

https://medievaldevotionaltexts.wordpress.com/

Devotional texts, texts that are intended to encourage prayer, spiritual reflection or contemplation, dwell at the intersections between the literary, the historical and the theological. As one example, a prayer can be a lyric, an essential component of liturgy, or a personal text expressing the reader’s specific hopes and fears. It can stand alone or form part of competing networks of intertextuality, accommodating a wide range of different readings and significant contexts. While devotional texts may appear formulaic in that they are often characterised by formal qualities and constrained by the expectations of genre, the distinctive features of these texts also allow them to remain recognisable even as they are adapted to the demands of new reading communities and new media.

We welcome papers addressing early and late medieval devotional genres or texts alongside the technologies employed in their creation, transmission and use. Correspondingly, we are also interested in papers discussing digital approaches to studying the production and reception of these texts.

Abstracts are invited from researchers working in literary and related fields addressing any of the following topics:

manuscript studies

textual transmission

devotional texts and material culture

the place of devotional texts in miscellanies

confessional practice

prayer collections and compilations

digital approaches to devotional texts in medieval literature

Please send a 300-word abstract for a 25-minute paper to Sheri Smith at smiths@uni-duesseldorf.de by 1st February 2019. We will be confirming participation by February 7th. We particularly welcome papers from graduate students and early career scholars and will cover the cost of one night of accommodation at our conference venue Schloss Mickeln for all speakers.

Call for papers, Topical Texts and their Afterlives in the Late Middle Ages (CSM 2019, Vancouver)

Kristin Bourassa — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:08:25 GMT

Topical Texts and their Afterlives in the Late Middle Ages

This session (Canadian Society of Medievalists, Congress 2019, June 3-5, Vancouver) examines the ‘afterlives’ – that is, the later reception – of late medieval written works addressing topical matters. The explosion of manuscript production and copying in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries not only encouraged the literate to use written communication to spread their thoughts on current affairs, it also promoted the continued reception of the resultant texts in a wider variety of contexts and over longer periods. However popular or niche at the time of writing, such topical texts could more readily find new audiences and new meanings in the late medieval environment. The creative editing, extraction, and compiling of texts helped in the process of shifting and even transforming meaning across different places and times, rendering texts that were once topical more universal, or indeed pointedly relevant to later affairs and concerns. Seen from another aspect such processes also expanded the afterlives of issues that had been long been set aside, with answers to new problems being shaped by those derived in very different contexts.

Kristin Bourassa and Justin Sturgeon will explore the fifteenth-century manuscript afterlife of Philippe de Mézières’ Songe du viel pelerin, a political allegory completed in 1389 for King Charles VI of France and offering topical advice on contemporary political concerns such as the king’s recent coming of age and declaration of personal rule, the Great Western Schism, and the late fourteenth-century crusading movement. The Songe was later copied for members of the secular and religious elite, in manuscripts adapted both textually and visually for their owners and for their new historical context. Eight of the nine surviving manuscripts date to the mid- to late-fifteenth century, demonstrating revived interest in a book whose understandings of authority, power, and counsel were deeply embedded in the historical context of its original production. This interdisciplinary paper (drawing on the perspectives of art history, history and literature) explores how political texts were adapted for later audiences through a case study of the manuscript owned by Louis de Crussol, a royal counsellor active during the reigns of Charles VII and Louis XI.

Robert Shaw will explore the afterlife of the Orationarium in vita Christi et de suffragiis sanctorum, a work written in the 1380s by Pierre Pocquet, a French Celestine monk and strident activist for Observant reform. An unedited text that is little know by modern readers, this expansive vita Christi was written not only against the background of the author’s efforts to enhance French Celestine observance, but also in the midst of the Great Western Schism, a matter which thoroughly exercised the author and greatly shaped his reflections on morality and reform. While it reached some very influential readers in Pocquet’s own lifetime, including among the laity, it arguably found its peak of popularity among monastic reformers of other orders in the mid to late fifteenth century, with audiences in monasteries as far away as Italy and Bohemia. Through a close reading of the manuscript evidence, this paper will explore how later reformers received reflections that were steeped in the context of the late fourteenth century, and through this, how the atmosphere of the Schism, so critical to the formation of Observant energies, could continue to influence ideas regarding monastic life a century after the fact.

To complete this session, we seek one further paper addressing similar themes. We are open to papers looking at the ongoing reception of topical texts written at any time in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and in any part of Europe. Please contact Kristin Bourassa at kristin@sdu.dk by January 14, 2019.

CFP : The Diversity of Service in Premodern Europe International Conference 20-22 Sept 2019

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:40:46 GMT

Call for papers

“We are all servants” -- The Diversity of Service in Premodern Europe
International Conference, 20-22 September 2019

to be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto, downtown campus
Organized by Elisheva Baumgarten and Isabelle Cochelin
with Lochin Brouillard and Emma Gabe

Scientific Advisory Board:
Elisheva Carlebach, Konrad Eisenbichler,
Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux and Diane Wolfthal

If you would like to participate, please send the following information
to Servants2019@gmail.com before January 3rd, 2019:
your name, university, title of paper, 150 word abstract,
contact info (address, email and telephone), one page CV,
and finally a short biographical blurb (the latter for the session chairs).

Service in premodern Europe was a ubiquitous phenomenon in daily life but also constituted a key concept for defining relationships between individuals. Servants were men or women, high or low on the social scale, poor or wealthy, children or elderly, of different faiths (Christian, Jewish or Muslim), and with few or great expectations for their future. For some, service was a lifetime occupation but for many a finite period in their life cycle. Even kings considered themselves to be servants in relation to God. In contrast with the diversity and pervasiveness of service in the past, few today would consider themselves the servant of another.
The project for this conference is therefore timely and innovative on many fronts. Our approach seeks to conceive the history of service in the longue durée, starting around 1000, when primary sources become more abundant (thanks to the increasing reliance on written texts) and ending before the turning point of the late seventeenth century, when the conception of service changed significantly. Our research will thus cover the medieval period for which no overall study on service exists so far. We will use an interdisciplinary methodology and bring together scholars from different fields (History, Literature and Art History, but also Religious Studies, Anthropology, and History of Architecture) and with complementary areas of geographical and chronological focus. In addition, we will take into account religion, which has been very little considered so far in the studies concerning service, even though any discourse on service in these centuries was steeped in religious imagery. For this reason, we will consider the Christian, Jewish and (when and where relevant also) Muslim communities of medieval and early modern Europe side by side. Finally, our approach will be both empirical and theoretical: we intend to examine service as a socio-historical reality and as a concept to define human relationships and work relations, a joint approach which has never been adopted in previous scholarship.
Main themes:
- Domestic servants in distinct surroundings (urban context, rural context, and within castles)
- Service in different religious groups (Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, etc.), including service when the servant is of a different religious faith than the masters
- Service in various religious sources and servants working for religious individuals or communities (theology and canon law; exempla literature in Latin and Hebrew; servants of secular clergy and in monasteries)
- Servants in art
- Service in literary sources
- Service as a model for human relationships, including service as work, or rather work conceived as service
- Service and issues of gender, sexualities, and kinship
- Service, race and migration
- Spatial distribution of servants within the households
- Service as opposed to slavery
Main disciplines: Social History, Religious History, Art History, History of Law, Theology, Literature, Economic History, History of Architecture, and Anthropology

CFP/Appel: Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société canadienne des médiévistes

Marc Cels — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:01:01 GMT

Call for Papers: Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Meeting: Congress 2019

Appel à communications: Rencontre annuelle de la Société canadienne des médiévistes: Congrès 2019

June 3-5 / 3-5 juin 2019

Vancouver, British Columbia / Colombie-Britannique

The special theme for this year’s Congress is “Circles of Conversation,” but papers for the CSM Annual Meeting can address any topic on medieval studies. Proposals for sessions of three papers are also invited. Presentations may be in either English or French. Bilingual sessions are particularly welcome.

Please submit proposals for individual papers by December 15, 2018 and proposals for sessions by January 15, 2019 by email to Kathy Cawsey, either by regular email (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) or via our website’s email system (www.canadianmedievalists.org). You must be a member of the CSM by the time of your presentation.

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Le thème du Congrès de cette année est « Cercles de conversation ». Les communications à ce congrès annuel de la SCM peuvent toutefois traiter de tout sujet relatif aux études médiévales. L'invitation est également lancée pour des propositions de sessions entières. Les communications peuvent être données en français ou en anglais. Les sessions bilingues sont particulièrement bienvenues.

Les propositions de communications devront inclure un résumé et un curriculum vitae d'une page chacun. La durée de lecture maximale des communications devra être de 20 minutes. Les propositions de sessions entières devront inclure, outre les informations régulières, un titre et une courte explication du contenu de la session et de son format. Veuillez indiquer si la session proposée serait convenable pour une session commune avec une autre association savante. Prière de soumettre vos propositions au plus tard le 15 décembre 2018 pour des communications individuelles et le 15 janvier 2019 pour des sessions entières, par courriel à Kathy Cawsey (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) ou par le courriel de notre site, www.canadianmedievalists.org. Vous devrez être un membre en règle de la SCM au moment de votre communication.

CFP - Inaugural Residential Research Library Conference Libraries, Learning and Religious Identities: Britain, Ireland and the European Context, c.1100-c.1900

Brandon Alakas — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:24:38 GMT

Inaugural Residential Research Library Conference

Libraries, Learning and Religious Identities:

Britain, Ireland and the European Context, c.1100-c.1900

Hosted by Durham University and Ushaw

Organised by Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 September 2019

Call for Papers

Deadline for submissions: Sunday 6 January 2019

Proposals for papers and panels should be submitted to admin.imems@durham.ac.uk

Durham University, in collaboration with Ushaw and Durham Cathedral Library, is in the process of establishing a Residential Research Library, which will provide opportunities for visiting scholars to come to Durham to work on the rich collections of these three institutions. The formal launch of the RRL will take place in the autumn of 2019 and to celebrate the event Durham University and Ushaw are hosting a conference on the theme of Libraries, Learning and Religious Identities.

The library collections at Durham are rich and diverse. At the heart of them, however, are a remarkable group of libraries created by, and attached to, religious institutions. Part of the original endowment of the University was the library created by Bishop John Cosin and bequeathed to his successors as an endowed public library for local clergy and people of scholarly interests. Still housed in the building designed by Cosin to house it, the library celebrates the 350th anniversary of its opening in 2019. Among the collections of Durham Cathedral Library is the most complete surviving English monastic library. For the last few years the Cathedral and the University have been collaborating on a project to produce high quality digital images of all the surviving volumes belonging to the Priory Library in order to make this resource as widely available as possible. Ushaw College houses not only a nineteenth- and twentieth-century seminary library, but also copies of many of the books that would have belonged to Douai College, as well as the library of the English College at Lisbon.

It is appropriate, therefore, that the theme of the Inaugural Residential Research Library Conference, 'Libraries, Learning and Religious Identities: Britain, Ireland and the European Context, c.1100-c.1900.' The conference aims to take a broad and inclusive approach to its theme, exploring not only libraries as institutions, but also their social, intellectual and cultural contexts. Geographically, the conference aims to include Britain and Ireland, including the experiences of natives of the British Isles on the continent and institutions, such as the English Catholic colleges, established by exiles. Papers which illuminate the British and Irish context through the discussion of Europe are also welcome.

Some of the questions which we expect to be discussed during the conference are listed below, but this list is intended to be neither prescriptive nor exhaustive, and we would welcome proposals that adopt new perspectives on libraries, learning and religious cultures.

What were the purposes of libraries? How did they change through the period?
How were libraries constructed?
How were libraries used?
How important were libraries to the construction of religious knowledge?
What role did libraries and their holdings play at key moments of religious change, such as the Reformation?
How did libraries and their contents contribute to the construction of religious identities?
How important were libraries and learning in sustaining the religious culture of minority groups?
In what ways did libraries and their holdings acquire symbolic, cultural significance relative to religious identity?
How can the skills, knowledge and methodologies of academics and specialist library staff be brought together to create and pursue new areas of knowledge?

PROPOSAL CRITERIA/FURTHER INFORMATION

Proposals (no more than 200 words) for papers of 20 minutes in length should be submitted to [e-mail address] by 15 December 2018. They should be accompanied by a short CV (one page), which includes contact details.

Proposals for a panel of three 20-minute papers are also welcome. Panel proposals should comprise:

A cover sheet, detailing the title of the panel, a short summary of its scope (no more than 200 words), the names of the participants, and the name and e-mail address of the organiser (who will be the contact with the conference committee)
A 200 word synopsis for each of the papers
Short CVs (one page) of the presenters, the panel chair and the commentator (the chair and the commentator may be the same.

Proposals from postgraduate students are welcome.

Deadlines

Proposals for papers and panels should be submitted by 6 January 2019 to admin.imems@durham.ac.uk.

Replies to all submissions will be sent no later than the end of February 2019

Academic enquiries should be sent to admin.imems@durham.ac.uk

CFP: Medicine, Myth and Magic at McGill University

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:30:33 GMT

Call for papers

Medicine, Myth and Magic

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Saturday, January 5th, 2019

Conference Topic: Crossroads of Medicine and Religion
Dates: April 12-14, 2019
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Submission Deadline: Saturday, January 5th, 2019.
Contact: gradconference.relgstud@mail.mcgill.ca

Description of the conference:
The McGill Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR) graduate student annual conference invites graduate students and emerging scholars to participate in a special edition conference rethinking the relationship between medicine and religion. We invite critical reflections on the complexities and diversity that arises at the crossroads of medicine and religion. We know that since Antiquity medical traditions in Greece, Babylon, Egypt, China and India were intrinsically intertwined with its religious practices. The observation and study of anatomical and mental ailments was not necessarily a distinct science, the lines between medicine, religion, and “magic” remained⎯at times⎯blurry. Myth and ritual were also used to connect the body to sacred spaces. Early modern, and especially post-Enlightenment, thinking sought to bring a clearer divide between medicine and religion. As science and technology progressed it provided the field of medicine with a diagnostic and prognosis system which was purely “rational” and devoid of spiritual beliefs. But the acceptance of this proposition has not been unanimous. Despite the extraordinary advances of post-Enlightenment medicine, both Western and Eastern, does the quest for scientific knowledge leave any room for religious beliefs, traditions and ethics to influence medical practice?

Some questions the conference wishes to consider are: Do Western, Eastern and Indigenous traditions and religions have something to offer in understanding afflictions of the mind and body? Can religious beliefs and scientific methods used by modern medicine ever be reconciled? How has a given tradition’s view of the relationship between medicine and religion evolved over time? What role and influence have religious views had in the history of medical thought? What are the theological and philosophical aspects of the study of the body? How has the relationship between medicine and religion been portrayed in historical, literary, and philosophical writings?

We invite proposals from all areas of study, including history, philosophy, art history, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, bioethics, and law.

Encouraged topics and themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

History of medicine and religion
Theological and philosophical aspects of the medical sciences
Theology and philosophy of medicine
Sociology of medical knowledge
Anthropology of medicine
Medicine and religion in literature
Medicine and “fringe” religious traditions (e.g. Hermetic, heretical, “occult”…)
Iconography: Representations of the healer-prophet or healer-saint in art
Debates on body and soul informed by medical and theological knowledge
Spiritualization of physical illness
Indigenous practices and medicine
Spiritual and magical healing (e.g. shamanic, taslismanic, etc.)
Ethics of healing
Religious ethics and medical practices
Scriptural Interpretations

This year’s CREOR graduate student conference will be held in collaboration with McGill’s History conference “Angelical Conjunctions: Crossroads of Medicine and Religion, 1200-1800” and running concurrently with the 2019 Eastern International Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion conference on “Religion, Harm and Healing”.

The “Angelical Conjunctions” conference will be accompanied by an exhibition of rare books that are relevant to the theme of the conference in McGill University’s Osler Library of Medicine.

Guidelines for proposals:

Please submit a 250 word abstract explaining the topic and main arguments of the paper. All disciplines and fields welcome. Papers must engage in and contribute to the scholarly discourse; works of advocacy or mere summary will not be considered. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals should include all contact information including institutional affiliation and any technical request such as audio-visual equipment. These proposals as well as any questions or requests for further information should be sent to the following address: gradconference.relgstud@mail.mcgill.ca

Publishing Possibility: Following the conference, a select number of high quality papers will be considered for publication in a special volume.

Emotions in Conflict: The Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Emotions (SHE), University of Ottawa

Kristin Bourassa — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:26:49 GMT

Dates: 2‒4 October 2019

Venue: University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Committee: David Dean, Kathryn Prince, Piroska Nagy

Call for Papers Deadline: 1 December 2018

Enquiries/Submission of Proposals: conflict@vectorsofemotion.com

Conflict (whether interpersonal, intercultural, interspecies or individual) can lead to devastating consequences, but it is also an important catalyst for creativity and an indicator of social change. The emotions associated with conflict can be as pleasurable as the relish of dramatic tension or as devastating as a complete physical and mental collapse of the self.

We invite participants to consider the emotions associated with conflict, to examine how various cultures have understood the nexus of emotions and conflict, and to explore conflicting emotions in any context. Approaches from all disciplines broadly related to the History of Emotions are welcome. Given uOttawa's bilingual mission, participation in French is welcome and encouraged. A version of the call for papers is also circulating en français. The deadline is 1 December 2018 to submit proposals (in English or French) for individual papers, panels, and creative presentations (200–300 words with a short biographical statement) to the conference organisers David Dean, Kathryn Prince and Piroska Nagy at the conference address: conflict@vectorsofemotion.com

The conference will take place at uOttawa, located downtown near Ottawa's many galleries and museums, the Rideau Canal, and other attractions, including a shuttle to see the autumn colours in Gatineau Park.

Key Dates

1 December 2018: Deadline for proposals
15 January 2019: Decisions announced about proposals, along with information about hotel options and registration.

Conference Committee

David Dean, Director, Centre for Public History, Carleton University, Ottawa
Kathryn Prince, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa
Piroska Nagy, Professor of Medieval History, Université du Québec à Montréal

For more information, see the CFP at the Society for the History of Emotions website.

CFP, Magic, Religion, and Science in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance

Kristin Bourassa — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:23:42 GMT

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) and Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP) Joint Conference: Magic, Religion, and Science in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance (2019)

The ACMRS and MAP Joint Conference: Magic, Religion, and Science in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance (2019) is an annual gathering of scholars, students, retirees and members of the general public interested in medieval and Renaissance studies. ACMRS is proud to announce that its 2019 conference will be held jointly with the Medieval Association of the Pacific. We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and especially those that focus on the general theme of “Magic, Religion, and Science in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance.” The conference lasts four days, from Wednesday, February 6, with sessions beginning at 1 p.m., until Saturday, February 9 at 9 p.m.

For more information.

CFP, Theologies of the Political: From Augustine to Agamben, and Beyond. UBC Medieval Workshop, 20-30 March 2019

Kristin Bourassa — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:51:16 GMT

In 1922 Carl Schmitt published his essay “Politische Theologie,” arguing that all concepts of modern political thought are secularized theological concepts. In 1934, the same year that Schmitt released a revised edition of his essay, Henri-Xavier Arquillière published a short study entitled L’Augustinisme politique, arguing that all concepts of early medieval political thought are sacralized temporal concepts.

In recent years many scholars of modern and early modern history, political theory, and law have returned to these entanglements of sacrality and secularity posited by Schmitt and Arquillière, and have sought to identify and trace their influence upon the development of Western sovereignty, governmentality, and politics as such. Notably, the contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben has developed his prominent theorizations of the “state of exception” and “homo sacer” through a close engagement with Schmitt’s provocative ideas.

Scholars of late antique and early medieval history and theology have also recently concentrated on the entanglements of sacrality and secularity, but have largely done so by following the lead of Robert Markus, Peter Brown, and their interlocutors in their exploration of the ideas and influence of men such as Augustine and Gregory the Great.

While the focus of one group has been on the processes and effects of secularization at work from the late Middle Ages to the present, the focus of the other has been on the “de-secularization” of the world from late antiquity into the early Middle Ages. While the former attempts to understand what remains of the medieval sacral sphere within secular modernity, the latter seeks to identify what was lost from the late Roman “secular” civic sphere upon the institutionalization and development of Christianity.

In this year’s Medieval Workshop, we seek to bring these two scholarly traditions on the historical relationship of the sacral and the secular into conversation. At what point did temporal political concepts become merged with Christian theology? Was there something particular to the Christian cosmology that accommodated this fateful merging, or was it only a consequence of certain political exigencies following the Roman Empire’s adoption of Christianity? What concepts distinctive to Christian theology remain within the political, legal, and cultural structures of the “post-Christian” West? More generally, has a faltering confidence in the progressive secularization of the contemporary world led to the renewal of interest not only in the processes of early medieval sacralization, but also in the pre-Christian “sacral” views and practices that were adapted, eliminated, or cast into oblivion thereby? What are the stakes in opening ourselves to the implications of a pre-Christian order of “sacrality?” What part have differing understandings of time itself played in these processes? In short, what has Augustine to do with Giorgio Agamben? Pseudo-Dionysius with Erik Peterson? Thomas Aquinas with Arquillière? These are just a few possible questions we hope to explore in an effort to initiate dialogue and exchange among the disciplines regarding theologies of the political.

Keynote speaker – Conrad Leyser (University of Oxford)

Papers should not exceed 20 minutes. Send an abstract (max. 500 words) and short bio by e-mail to Courtney Booker (History) <cbooker@mail.ubc.ca>, to arrive by November 1, 2018.

Conference website

CFP, Vagantes Conferences on Medieval Studies, 20-23 March 2019, University of Toronto

Kristin Bourassa — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:12:31 GMT

The 18th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, which will take place at the University of Toronto from March 20th-23rd, 2019, is seeking paper abstracts on any topic related to the Middle Ages.

Vagantes is North America’s largest graduate-student conference for medieval studies. Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across all disciplines. The 18th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies in Toronto will feature thirty graduate-student papers and two keynote speakers. On March 20th, we will also offer an intensive manuscript workshop that will use the collections of the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies Library and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. There will be a separate registration process for the workshop that will be circulated at a later time.

Graduate students in all disciplines are invited to submit a paper title, an abstract of 300 words on any medieval topic, and a 1-2 page CV to Lane Springer at lane.springer@mail.utoronto.ca Your abstract will be blind-reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel of graduate students, and it should provide a clear summary of your proposed paper with language that is accessible to non-specialists. Since Vagantes is an interdisciplinary conference, your audience might not know the history of the Carolingian Empire, the corpus of Geoffrey Chaucer, or the theology of Peter Comestor. Please make your abstract is concise and accessible. Both your abstract and CV should be submitted in a Word document.

Out of consideration for graduate students’ budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee. The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 9th, 2018. Some travel bursaries will be available for presenters. In your submission, please indicate if you would be interested in applying for one.

For more information: vagantesconference.org

CFP: CCMAH/CCHAM " From Medieval to Medievalism: Medieval Art and Architecture and its Modern Canadian Transformations"

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:25:09 GMT

THE CCMAH / CCHAM

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À COMMUNICATION

"From Medieval to Medievalism: Medieval Art and Architecture and its Modern Canadian Transformations"

The 40th Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be co-hosted by the History Department of the University of Winnipeg and the School of Art at the University of Manitoba, on March 22-23, 2019. Papers are invited on any topic relating to the art, architecture and visual/material culture of the Middle Ages or its post-medieval revivals. Papers may be in English or French. Please submit a short abstract (250 words) and brief (one-page) C.V. by 3 December 2018 to Jim Bugslag (James.Bugslag@umanitoba.ca). Scholars at every stage of their careers are encouraged to submit proposals.

Le département d’Histoire de l’Université de Winnipeg et l’École d’Art de l’Université du Manitoba accueilleront conjointement le 40e colloque canadien des historiens de l’art médiéval qui se tiendra à Winnipeg les 22 et 23 mars 2019. Les communications portant sur tout sujet relatif à l’art, à l’architecture et à la culture visuelle/matérielle du Moyen Âge ou à ses renaissances postmédiévales seront bienvenues. Les interventions peuvent être faites soit en anglais ou en français. Veuillez soumettre un court résumé de votre communication (250 mots) ainsi qu’un bref C.V. (une page) d’ici le 3 décembre 2018 à Jim Bugslag (James.Bugslag@umanitoba.ca). Les chercheurs/chercheures qui sont à différentes étapes de leur carrière académique sont encouragé(e)s à participer.

Winnipeg, March/Mars 22-23, 2019

CFP - Medievalism in Popular Culture Area - 2019 National Conference April 17th – 20th, 2019 – Washington, D.C.

Brandon Alakas — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 21:59:19 GMT

CFP: Medievalism in Popular Culture: PCA/ACA 2019 National Conference

April 17th – 20th, 2019 – Washington, D.C.

The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Anglo-Saxon, Robin Hood, Arthurian, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:

• The Arthurian World
• Medievalism and Superheroes
• “Medieval” as a social and political signifier
• Medievalism in Game of Thrones
• Representations of medieval/Renaissance nobility and royalty in television (Reign, The White Princess, Wolf Hall, etc.)
• Robin Hood
• Medievalism and Teaching
• Medievalism in Various Forms of Gaming
• Anglo-Saxon or Viking Representations
• Medievalism in Novels/Short Stories/Poems

If your topic idea does not fit into any of these categories, please feel free to submit your proposal as well. I would like to encourage as much participation as possible, and depending on submissions, I may rearrange the topic groupings.

All papers will be included in sessions with four presenters each, so plan to present on your topic for no more than 15 minutes, inclusive of any audio or visual materials.

Panel submissions are also welcome on any topic of medievalism. If you would like to propose a panel, please submit your complete panel to me directly at cfrancis@bloomu.edu. Individual papers will then have to be submitted to the PCA online system (see below).

Submission requirements:

Please submit a title and a 250 word abstract to http://conference.pcaaca.org. All submissions must be directed to the online database. Be sure to indicate whatever audio/visual needs you may have. Traditionally, all rooms at the PCA/ACA conference provide a projection screen with sound capability. Presenters are required to bring their own laptops and any special connectors.
Deadline for submission: October 1st, 2018
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Christina Francis, Associate Professor of English, Bloomsburg University, at cfrancis@bloomu.edu.

CFP - 'Malory at 550: Old and New' Acadia University Wolfville, NS, Canada 8-10 August 2019

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:41:46 GMT

Depending on precisely when in that infamous ninth year of Edward’s reign Sir Thomas Malory completed his work, 2019 marks perhaps the 550^th anniversary of Le Morte Darthur. Accordingly, we mark the occasion with a special conference, and are pleased to invite proposals on any aspect of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur: text(s), contexts, old or new critical approaches.

Send proposals of 250 words, along with contact details, to Cory and Kevin:
crushton@stfx.ca and kevin.whetter@acadiau.ca

**Proposals are due no later than 3 January 2019**

For details, see https://english.acadiau.ca/get-involved/maple-malory.html

CFP: The Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group is organizing the following three special sessions at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 2019

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:40:09 GMT

Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group

ICMS 2019

The Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group is organizing the following three special sessions at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 2019. The VDCG sponsors sessions on medieval mystics and mysticism and showcases recent scholarship on vernacular spiritual traditions in medieval Western Europe.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a completed Participant Information Form to Dr Catherine Annette Grisé (grisec@mcmaster.ca) by 15 September 2018. Electronic submissions are preferred.

Contact Information:

Dr. Catherine Annette Grisé
Associate Professor
Dept. of English and Cultural Studies
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9
grisec@mcmaster.ca

1) Marguerite Porete and her Contemporaries (Session of Papers)

This session will on the French Beguines, with particular focus on Marguerite Porete, who began her spiritual authority as a Beguine, but was burned for heresy in 1310. We wish to explore how Marguerite's female vernacular theology and Beguine mysticism provided both a space for female mystical discourse and, in turn, a challenge to established medieval patriarchal theologians.

2) Early Print Culture and The Many Faces of Reform (Session of Papers)

This session draws on member interest in pre-Reformation print culture and provides more context for the wide appeal of devotional texts in early print. While the printing presses were an influential forum for major reformers, they were also used as a tool by Catholics who advocated for adaptations of conservative practices and for the promotion of current lay trends. Furthermore, Humanist agendas brought a number of recovered religious texts and new ideas into print that changed the devotional landscape. We welcome papers that explore the way in which vernacular devotional literature intersects with any one of these issues.

3) Vernacular Spiritual Writings: Adaptations and Contexts (Session of Papers)

This session will focus on manuscript contexts for devotional writings in the vernacular. Many treatises are excerpted, adapted, and anthologized to suit new circumstances. The adaptors/ translators change texts for the situations of their new audiences—in some cases, dramatic changes are made, in others small adaptations occur. In this panel, we invite papers that trace such changes to help us better understand the evolving devotional landscape and the roles that audiences and other contextual factors played in the ways that source materials were used.

CFP: Monsters and Materialities

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:24:14 GMT

Monsters and Materialities

Proposed session for the 2019 IMC (Leeds),1-4 July, Leeds, UK

Organizers: Asa Simon Mittman and Renée Ward

We seek papers to compose a session on the subject of “Monsters and Materialities” for the 2019 International Medieval Congress at Leeds. The Congress theme is “Materialities.”

Monsters abound in medieval culture, from giants to serpentine women and dog-headed saints. Often, monsters threaten communities through evocative ways; the most terrifying or even edifying monsters are those whose physical form is a mystery. Grendel terrorizes Heorot, but exact details of his physical appearance are unclear despite gestures towards his size, ferocity, and monstrosity. Yet monsters also frequently leave traces that suggest the magnitude of their physical presence. Early archaeological sites such as Maen Ceti (the 14 ft rock Arthur purportedly pulled from his shoe and threw away) speak to the gigantism often associated with Arthur’s figure, while the footprint embedded on the window sill and the trembling of the tower upon which Melusine perches emphasize the sheer weight of her winged and tailed body. In other cases, they leave behind more direct relics, such as the “griffon’s claw” associated with St. Cuthbert, or the many “unicorn horns” owned by European royalty as talismans against poison. Monstrous bodies were thought to exist in time and space; their presence is felt in real and palpable ways. No matter their size, these monsters leave their physical imprint upon the material structures of the world around them. However fantastic, however elusive, monsters exist in material and tangible ways—woven into tapestries, painted into frescoes, and melded into glass.

This panel seeks to examine the material aspect of monstrous beings in medieval culture, to uncover the impact of their presence in the world that imagines them in various forms. We invite papers from all disciplines and national traditions that examine every aspect and avenue this connection evokes. Topics may include: literary representations that emphasize the material nature of monsters; material depictions of monsters in other media such as sculpture, architecture, tapestry, glassworks, frescoes, and paintings; and physical remains or archaeological artefacts associated with monstrous beings and myths and legends.

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words together with a brief bio to session organizers Asa Mittman (asmittman@csuchico.edu) or Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk) by the 31 August 2018. Please include your name, title, and affiliation on the abstract itself. All abstracts will be vetted by the MEARCSTAPA board and the full session will be submitted to the Congress mid-September 2018. Additionally, MEARCSTAPA will provide an award of $500 to the best graduate student/independent/unwaged submission to this or any of its sessions to help offset the costs of travel and lodging for the IMC.

Diversity Statement

As an organization dedicated to the study of marginalized communities and entities in the Middle Ages and beyond, MEARCSTAPA affirms its position on diversity, inclusion, and inquiry within all academic discourses. We support and embrace those who have been marginalized, excluded, and othered in medieval studies. We disavow hatred and intolerance. We walk the borders, but do not police them; we welcome your company.

CFP: Animals and Materiality in the Arthurian Tradition

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:21:12 GMT

Animals and Materiality in the Arthurian Tradition

Proposed session for the 2019 IMC (Leeds)

Organizers: Melissa Ridley Elmes and Renée Ward

We seek papers to compose a session of 3 or 4 papers on the subject of “Animals and Materiality in the Arthurian Tradition” for the 2019 International Medieval Congress at Leeds. The Congress theme is “Materialities.”

While the subject of animals in medieval literature is enjoying substantial scholarly focus, especially considerations of animals in medieval French and English encyclopediae, bestiaries, and romances, relatively little critical work exists dealing specifically with animals in the Arthurian legend, particularly so when we look beyond the mythical White Hart, the Questing Beast, and the dragons. Yet, animals real and imagined abound throughout the pages of Arthurian narratives, appear in related artefacts (art, architecture, stained glass, paintings, and tapestries, for example), and are present in the very production of the manuscripts that preserve the legend. Moreover, recent trends in critical animal studies demand that we expand our understandings of such animal appearances to consider them for their animality—for the qualities that make them beings unto themselves rather than as analogies and metaphors for humans and their environs.

This proposed session seeks to explore animals and materiality within Arthurian traditions, to serve as the beginning of a continued scholarly discussion of the place of animals within the Arthurian realm, especially of their animality or materiality. We are particularly interested in the ways in which animals and their bodies figure as objects of veneration and/or consumption within the legend, or how, as objects themselves, they contribute to the legend’s production, preservation and perpetuation into post-medieval periods. Do animals within Arthuriana have agency beyond their symbolic functions? How might animals be considered a part of the material landscape of the legend both within and outside of the textual narratives? How, where, when, and to what purpose or function are animals found in material Arthurian spaces such as 2- and 3-d artworks, stage, television, and/or film? In what ways have animals carried the Arthurian legend across space and time from the medieval period to the present?

We invite papers from all disciplines and national traditions, and interdisciplinary projects are especially welcome. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words together with a brief bio to session organizers Melissa Ridley Elmes (MElmes@lindenwood.edu) and Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk) by 31 August 2018. Please include your name, title, and affiliation/status on the abstract. Abstracts will be selected, and then a full session proposal will be submitted to the Congress in mid-September 2018.

CSM/SCM Annual General Meeting / Réunion Annuelle University of Regina, 28-30 May 2018 / Université de Regina, 28-30 Mai, 2018

Tue, 15 May 2018 20:26:31 GMT

Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Meeting Rencontre annuelle de la Société Canadienne des Médiévistes

Congrès 2018 Congress

28-30 May/Mai 2018
Regina, Saskatchewan

Gathering diversities/Diversités convergentes

Monday, May 28 / lundi, le 28 Mai

900-1200 Session 1. Athol Murray College of Notre Dame (Wilcox, SK)

We will arrange a carpool to Athol Murray College for those wishing to visit its collections. Cars will depart from Regina at 8:15 a.m. Please contact David Watt (david.watt@umanitoba.ca) by noon on Sunday, May 27 if you plan to attend and indicate whether you need a ride to Wilcox or can provide a ride to others (please get in touch sooner if you can).

The manuscript holdings (a 13th-century Venetian deed) and early printed books at the Archer Library, University of Regina, are available at request.

1200-1330 Lunch/Dîner

1330-1500 Session 2. Language Institute 216 Rotunda Authorship and Authority in Medieval England
Chair/Président: Dominic Marner, University of Guelph

Perceforest as Mirror: Catching the Imagination of Edward III Melissa Furrow, Dalhousie University

The Pearl-Poet, the Gawain-Poet, and the substantival adjective Richard Firth Green, The Ohio State University

Reading Mary: John Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady and Henry Chichele’s Reform of the English Church
Brandon Alakas, University of Alberta

1500-1530 Break/Pause

1530-1700   Session 3. Language Institute 216 Rotunda Food: Feasting and Fasting in the Middle Ages
Chair/Présidente: Christa Canitz, University of New Brunswick

Butter, oil, eggs, and meat: Requests for Dispensations from Fasting and Abstinence Requirements in Britain, 1248-1503
Allison Fizzard, University of Regina

The Chester Noah's Flood: Animals and Dietary Regulations Ernst Gerhardt, Laurentian University

The Bakers’ Play of the Last Supper in York: Christ’s Body as Holy Bread, Christ’s Body as Eucharistic Wafer
Leanne Groeneveld, University of Regina

1930   All participants are invited to join an informal social gathering at The Bushwacker Brewpub (2206 Dewdney Avenue)
CSM Executive Meeting

Tuesday, May 29 / mardi, le 29 mai 845-1015   Session 4. Language Institute 216 Rotunda
Medieval Texts, Modern Lenses
Chair/Président: Marc Cels, Athabasca University

Teaching Old English Through Translations: The Triangulation Method Michael Kightley, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Medieval Mansplaining: The Disruption of Female Knowledge Dissemination Brenna Duperron, Dalhousie University

Professional Pages, Done Dirt Cheap: On the Genre of English Offcut Manuscripts Stephanie Lahey, University of Victoria

1015-1030   Break / Pause

1030-1200   Session 5. Language Institute 216 Rotunda Plenary with Scandinavian Society
Chair/Présidente: Natalie Van Deusen, University of Manitoba

Sacrality and the Landscape in the Nordic Middle Ages Thomas Dubois, University of Wisconsin at Madison

1200-1215   Break/Pause

1215-1345   Lunch/Dîner (AGM)

1345-1400   Break/Pause

1400-1530   Session 6a. College West 115

Landscape and Gender in Medieval Scandinavia
Chair/Président: David Watt, University of Manitoba

Landscape, Language, Maternal Space, and Child Exposure in Jómsvíkinga Robin Waugh, Wilfred Laurier University

“‘There are Few Things More Powerful than Destiny.’ Gender, Power and Foresight in The Sagas of the Icelanders"
Amy M. Poole, University of Guelph

Gender, Crime and Space in Medieval Scandinavian Law Christine Ekholst, Uppsala University

Session 6b. Language Institute 216 Rotunda

Ecclesiastical Questions
Chair/Présidente: Meredith Bacola, University of Manitoba

Sanctuary and Abjuration in Thirteenth-Century England Kenneth F. Duggan, Huron University College

Why Should a Blockhead Have One in Ten? Thinking About Tithes at the End of the Middle Ages
Derek Neal, Nipissing University

1530-1600   Break/Pause

1600-1715 Session 7. Language Institute 216 Rotunda Icelandic Romance
Chair/Président: Christopher Crocker, University of Winnipeg

Romance Elements in Icelandic Virgin Martyr Legends Natalie van Deusen, University of Alberta

Diverse Gatherings: Imagining the New North Sea Empire in Old Icelandic Romance Andrew Klein, Wabash College

1900 Banquet/Banquette

All are welcome (and encouraged) to attend Crave Kitchen + Wine Bar (1925 Victoria Ave). Please speak to Meredith Bacola (Meredith.Bacola@umanitoba.ca). The cost will be $39 plus tax, gratuity & your own beverages.

Wednesday, May 30 / mercredi, le 30 mai 900-1015

Session 8. Language Institute 216 Rotunda
Chair/Président: Dominic Marner, University of Guelph

CSM Plenary (Past President)
What Do We Study When We Study Manuscripts in Canada?
David Watt, University of Manitoba

1015-1030 Break/Pause

1030-1200 Session 9. Language Institute 216 Rotunda Medieval Film and The Modern Classroom
Chair/Présidente: Melissa Furrow, Dalhousie University

The Real Middle Ages vs The Reel Middle Ages Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph

Sanctity on Screen: Performativity, Sanctity, and the Medieval Imaginary Alison More, University of Toronto

Hits and Flops: The Pedagogical Value of Medievalist Historical Films across Disciplines and Borders
Felice Lifshitz, University of Alberta

1200-1330 Lunch/Dîner

1330-1500 Session 10. Language Institute 216 Rotunda Medieval Hagiography
Chair/Président: Brandon Alakas, University of Alberta

Reading Sanctity in the Epigraphic Poetry of Damasus
Zach Yuzwa, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan

Establishing a Sacral landscape in Felix’s Life of St Guthlac Meredith Bacola, University of Manitoba

Measuring Time and Topography in the Cult of Cuthbert at Durham Dominic Marner, University of Guelph

1500-1530 Break/Pause

1530-1700 Session 11. Language Institute 216 Rotunda The Material Medieval Memory Project
Chair/Président: Michael Kightley, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Deforestation, Energy Penury, and the Old English Poems of the Exeter Book Murray McGillivray, University of Calgary

Memorializing Matter: Early Medieval Scandinavian Identities and their Material Memories
Jaclyn Carter, University of Calgary

Building matters: a case study in partnerships for environmental sustainability Kenna L. Olsen, Mount Royal University

1700 President’s Reception/Réception du Président

30th International SELIM Conference CFP: Deadline 30 Apr 2018

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:58:00 GMT

The Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature and the local organising committee invite members of the Society and all other scholars interested in the field to participate in the 30th International SELIM Conference (https://selim30oviedo.wordpress.com), which will be hosted by the Department of English, French and German of the University of Oviedo from September 27th to 29th 2018.

The organisers welcome papers dealing with any aspect of mediaeval English language and literature and particularly encourage the submission of papers that offer new readings or perspectives on mediaeval English texts, as well as new approaches and analytical techniques.

Scholars interested in offering 20-minute papers (followed by a 10-minute discussion) should submit their abstracts in electronic format via e-mail to congresoselim@uniovi.es by April 30th 2018. Abstracts should include name(s), institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as e-mail address and the technical support required for the presentation. They should preferably be submitted in Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, or PDF format, and should not exceed 400 words (including references). Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed as soon as the proposals have been peer-reviewed.

Greetings
________________________________
Sociedad Española de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval
Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature
http://selim.uniovi.es

SEMAINES D’ÉTUDES MÉDIÉVALES 2018

Kristin Bourassa — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:03:31 GMT

Le CESCM organise depuis 1954 une session annuelle internationale francophone de formation, qui regroupe une cinquantaine d’étudiants, doctorants et jeunes chercheurs, français et étrangers. Les conférences, les séances de travail autour des ressources documentaires, les excursions et visites au programme des stagiaires sont proposées par des spécialistes du Moyen Âge venus du monde entier.

XVIth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society / XVIe Congrès de la Société Internationale de Littérature Courtoise

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:14:26 GMT

XVIth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society

XVIe Congrès de la Société Internationale de Littérature Courtoise

22-27 July/juillet 2019, University of Exeter/Université d’Exeter, UK

Courtly Communities/Communautés courtoises

The network as a subject of study has blossomed in Medieval Studies in recent years. The notion of ‘textual community’ coined by Brian Stock has focused critical scrutiny on the ways in which literature calls communities into being. Renewed attention has been paid to the links between different authors and texts, but also to the social dimension of reception – who owned and read literary texts, what motivated owners and audiences’ interest in them, and how literature contributed to binding different communities together. Meanwhile, conceptual tools such as Bruno Latour’s actor-network model are proving to offer productive and increasingly popular ways of thinking about the connectedness of medieval texts, their creators, and audiences.

The International Courtly Literature Society proposes to recognise the vibrancy and timeliness of this topic by making it the central theme for its next International Triennial Congress, which will be held at the University of Exeter (UK) from 22-27th July 2019. We invite proposals of up to 200 words for 20-minute papers in English or French, to be submitted by 15th June 2018. We are also interested to welcome full panel proposals of up to 4 papers.

Potential paper/panel topics include (but are not limited to):

-          Courts as communities
-          Textual communities
-          Literary and artistic collaboration
-          The network as a concept
-          Linguistic communities
-          Material communities at court

Alongside the main business of scholarly exchange and debate, the conference will include visits to local medieval landmarks and other places of interest. All these activities will take place in a spirit of collaboration, community, and friendship, which will allow participants to build and renew their own professional and personal networks.

Please send your proposals (in English or French) for papers or full panels to the following address, by 15th June 2018: [e.j.cayley@exeter.ac.uk]

Le réseau est devenu un sujet de prédilection pour les médiévistes au cours des dernières années. La notion de ‘communauté textuelle’ définie par Brian Stock a eu l’effet de focaliser l’attention des chercheurs sur les divers moyens à travers lesquels la littérature donne naissance aux communautés. La critique s’est évertuée à relever les rapports entre différents auteurs ou textes, mais aussi à détailler la dimension sociale de la transmission : la nature de l’intérêt porté aux textes littéraires par leurs publics, l’identité et les motivations de ceux qui commanditaient ou collectionnaient ces textes, et la capacité de la littérature à créer et à nourrir les communautés. En même temps, divers modèles conceptuels tel que la théorie acteur-réseau développée par Bruno Latour se sont révélés utiles pour analyser les liens entres les textes médiévaux, leurs créateurs, et leurs publics.

La Société internationale de littérature courtoise se propose de reconnaître l’importance et l’actualité de ce sujet en l’inscrivant comme thème principal de son prochain Congrès international, du 22 au 27 juillet 2019 à l’université d’Exeter (Royaume-Uni). Nous vous invitons à nous faire part de vos propositions en envoyant un résumé de 200 mots maximum (en anglais ou en français) pour des communications de 20 minutes, avant le 15 juin 2018. Nous lirons aussi avec intérêt les propositions d’ateliers complets (maximum 4 intervenants).

Les communications peuvent porter sur les thèmes suivants (entre autres) :

-          Communautés de/à la cour
-          La communauté textuelle
-          Collaboration littéraire et artistique
-          Le réseau comme concept
-          Communautés linguistiques
-          Communautés matérielles

Les échanges intellectuels qui constitueront le fond même de la conférence seront agrémentés de plusieurs visites organisées, comprenant d’importants sites médiévaux de la région. Toutes ces activités se dérouleront dans un esprit de collaboration, de communauté, et de convivialité, qui permettra aux conférenciers de développer et de nourrir leurs propres réseaux personnels et professionnels.

Les résumés de 200 mots maximum (en anglais ou en français) pour des communications de 20 minutes devront être envoyés, avant le 15 juin 2018, à l’adresse suivante: [e.j.cayley@exeter.ac.uk]

Oxford University Summer School for Adults

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:10:14 GMT

The Oxford University Summer School for Adults is a stimulating, accredited programme that has existed for over a hundred years. The summer school brings together a cosmopolitan range of like-minded students for a self-contained week of specialised study overseen by some of the finest tutors in the country.

Some of our members might be interested in the following course:

The Lives and Afterlives of Illuminated Manuscripts
This course takes as its starting point the manuscript as artefact existing of and beyond its time. We consider the production of manuscripts to meet an emerging literate class in the 14th and 15th centuries. As part of this exploration we’ll consider a number of specific examples taken from devotional books and secular literary material such as romance. The course will move forward to consider the afterlife of manuscripts in the hands of 19th and 20th century collectors: what motivates a bibliophile to collect centuries-old material and what relevance do collections of manuscripts in public institutions have for us today?

The course will be taught by Dr Victoria Condie, who has taught courses in medieval and Old English literature for OUDCE and currently teaches medieval language and literature at the University of Cambridge.

Full information regarding the course can be found at: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-lives-and-afterlives-of-medieval-manuscripts?code=O17I307CAR<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-lives-and-afterlives-of-medieval-manuscripts?code=O17I307CAR>

CFP, Florilegium journal

Kristin Bourassa — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:35:05 GMT

Florilegium invites papers on any aspect of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (including the post-medieval representation of the medieval period). Submissions taking an interdisciplinary approach are especially welcome. Papers may be written in either English or French. Florilegium publishes only previously unpublished material. Manuscripts submitted for consideration must not be published or submitted elsewhere.

Submissions are refereed double-blind by international and Canadian specialists. Manuscripts submitted for consideration must therefore not contain any indication of authorship. Authors should provide their electronic and postal addresses in a cover note. A brief abstract (one or two sentences) should be included with the submission.

Manuscripts should normally not exceed 8,000-9,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography, and should be formatted according to Chicago style. Footnotes should be kept as spare as possible.

Manuscripts (in Microsoft Word) should be sent to the Editor, Dr. A. E. Christa Canitz, at Florilegium@unb.ca. All submissions will be acknowledged. Enquiries are welcome.

Florilegium est à la recherche d’articles de toutes disciplines, rédigés en français ou en anglais, portant sur le Moyen Âge et l’Antiquité tardive, y compris la représentation post-médiévale de l’époque médiévale. La revue est particulièrement intéressée aux contributions adoptant une approche interdisciplinaire. Florilegium ne publie que des travaux originaux et aucun article soumis à la revue ne devra être publié ou soumis ailleurs.

Les articles soumis au processus d’évaluation sont évalués anonymement par des spécialistes externes, internationaux et canadiens ; de ce fait, le texte de l’article ne doit pas comprendre le nom de l’auteur(e) ou toute information permettant de l’identifier. Les auteurs sont priés de communiquer leur adresse de courriel et adresse postale séparément. Les articles seront accompagnés d’un court résumé d’une ou deux phrases.

Les manuscrits ne doivent pas normalement dépasser 8 000-9 000 mots, notes et bibliographie comprises, et ils doivent être conformes au code typographique du Chicago Manual of Style. Les notes en bas de page devront s’en tenir aux références les plus essentielles.

Pour la soumission des articles (en format MS Word) et toute autre correspondance relative à la revue, s’adresser à Mme A. E. Christa Canitz, rédactrice, à Florilegium@unb.ca. La revue accuse réception de tout article reçu. La rédaction est toujours heureuse de répondre à toute question ou demande d’information.

http://www.utpjournals.press/journals/flor/journal/authors/submission

Congress 2018 Call for Papers / Congrès 2018, Appel à communications

Kristin Bourassa — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:31:01 GMT

Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Meeting, Congress 2018 – Call for Papers

Rencontre annuelle de la Société Canadienne des Médiévistes, Congrès 2018 – Appel à communications

28-30 May/Mai 2018

Regina, Saskatchewan

The special theme for this year’s Congress is “Gathering diversities/Diversités convergentes,” but papers for the CSM Annual Meeting can address any topic on medieval studies. Proposals for complete sessions are also invited. Presentations may be made in either English or French. Bilingual sessions are particularly welcome.

Proposals should include a one-page abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes' reading time. Proposals for complete sessions should include this information in addition to a title and a brief explanation of the session and its format.

Keynote speakers this year include Thomas Dubois (in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada), who will speak on “Sacrality and the Landscape in the Nordic Middle Ages” and David Watt (past president of the CSM), who will ask “What do we study when we study medieval manuscripts in Canada?"

Le thème du Congrès de cette année est: “Gathering diversities/Diversités convergentes.” Les communications à ce congrès annuel de la SCM peuvent toutefois traiter de tout sujet relatif aux études médiévales. L'invitation est également lancée pour des propositions de sessions entières. Les communications peuvent être données en anglais ou en français. Les sessions bilingues sont particulièrement bienvenues. Les propositions devraient inclure un résumé et un curriculum vitae d'une page chacun. La durée de lecture maximale des communications devrait être de 20 minutes.

Les orateurs pléniers sont Thomas Dubois, de l’Association pour l’avancement des études scandinaves au Canada, “Sacrality and the Landscape in the Nordic Middle Ages,” et David Watt (Président sortant du SCM), “What do we study when we study medieval manuscripts in Canada?"

Please submit proposals by January 31, 2018 by email to David Watt, either by regular email (David.Watt@umanitoba.ca) or via our website’s email system (www.canadianmedievalists.org). You must be a member of the CSM to give a paper.

Prière de soumettre de soumettre vos propositions au plus tard le 31 janvier 2018 par courriel à David.Watt@umanitoba.ca ou par le courriel de notre site, www.canadianmedievalists.org.

CFP AMA/AMEMG Joint Meeting, October 2018, Mount Allison University

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:24:22 GMT

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting a paper to the joint conference of the Atlantic Medieval Association and the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, which will be held on the 12-13 October 2018 at Mount Allison University. See the poster below.

The theme is Translatio: Knowledge Migrations of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, and we welcome papers from all fields: please see the attached poster and CFP. Please note also that the CFP includes call for contributors to a special panel on Responses from the Fields of Medieval and Early Modern Studies to the TRC’s Calls for Action.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Samuel Gessner from the University of Lisbon. He will present a talk on the international migrations of astrolabe knowledge (texts and instruments) and his presentation will include a “hands-on” segment where audience members will get an introduction to using an astrolabe.

The deadline for 300 word proposals for 15-20 minute papers is 1 February 2018: please send the proposals by email to Janine Rogers and Lauren Beck: jrogers@mta.ca; lbeck@mta.ca.

Please circulate this call for proposals to interested colleagues: we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,
Janine Rogers
Head, Department of English Literatures
Purvis Chair of English Literature
Mount Allison University
Sackville, NB

jrogers@mta.ca

CFP, Theorizing Medieval European Literatures c. 500-1500

Kristin Bourassa — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:54:32 GMT

Deadline 1 September 2018

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures

Interfaces 7 will address a key, but often simply assumed, aspect of our shared field: what do we mean by Europe when we speak of medieval literature? Most models of medieval literature remain nationally or linguistically based, with modern nations and linguistic experience being projected onto the Middle Ages. In trying to develop European models of medieval literature, it is not enough to stitch together national narratives to create European stories. While fundamental theoretical groundwork has begun, more is required to think in European ways about the literary cultures of the Middle Ages.

Issue No. 7 of Interfaces will take a capacious approach to Europe, identifying it in general geographic terms as Northwest Eurasia. This conceptual geography allows for an integrated study of literary traditions in, for examples, Al-Andalus, Bohemia, Iceland, France, Georgia, the Holy Land, Italy, Kievan Rus, and Mount Athos, without claiming that certain literatures are or are not European. Such a starting point, for example, proposes medieval Europe as a place where Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, and Jewish religious worldviews met and acknowledges the connection of Europe to other cultural networks in Asia and North Africa.

Interfaces challenges conventional approaches to literary culture which bind it within specific and narrowly defined linguistic, political, geographical, religious, or temporal conceptions of Europe. Examples of cultural phenomena that do not lend themselves to this traditional approach include: the shared Greco-Roman heritage of the Latin West, Byzantium, and Islam; the role of Arabic and Hebrew in the linguistic makeup of Europe; and the shared Byzantine heritage of the Orthodox churches in eastern and southern Europe and the linguistic affinities that connected the Slavs across East-West Christian divide. Likewise, conventional geo-political approaches do not adequately describe Christian textual culture in North Africa and Manichaean networks across Eurasia, and the role of the Silk Route in the exchange of stories and learning in the continuous Afro-Eurasian space.

A sustained interest in Europe, especially one so capaciously defined, is at odds with medieval worldviews and experiences: although the idea of Europe was available in this period, it was rarely highly productive before the fifteenth century and, when used, was often normative or excluding. Concern for Europe is a post-medieval phenomenon, with very particular and swiftly changing contours in the present day. Despite its anachronism, looking at European frameworks for medieval literature brings a number of dividends, not least when drawing large-scale comparisons of European literature with Asian parallels, such as Indian or Chinese. Talking of medieval European literature offers alternatives to nationalizing literary history and enables participation of medieval literary scholars in European studies. Importantly, the study of medieval literature contributes valuable material to wider political and cultural discussions about Europe’s past before the rise of nationalism, and its place in the world.

Modern politics do inform the accounts we give of the Middle Ages and their literary and linguistic heritage. The meeting of modern intellectual and political frameworks and medieval texts needs to be scrutinized in order for such intersections to be constructive for literary study. Such scrutiny recognizes that no definition or description of Europe, whether in the present or the past, is neutral. A capacious Europe can be viewed as hegemonic (that is claiming for Europe what is shared with or borrowed from others) while a narrow Europe can be viewed as exclusive: these pressure points are politically urgent and sensitive, particularly in the context of the legacy of colonialism, the expansion of the EU, migration, Brexit, racist appropriation of the Middle Ages, the rise of neo-nationalism, questions about a Europe of multiple confessions, and globalization. Thus this issue of Interfaceswill take a broad view of European literary cultures and their wider regional and global connections in the Middle Ages as its object of study, without taking Europe as a self-evident frame of reference.The aim will be to explore the literary cultures of medieval Europe and their place in a wider world, while also interrogating the nature and value of Europe as a framework for the study of medieval literature.

Theoretical questions which contributors are invited to consider in Interfaces 7 include:

What does literary study let us see about medieval Europe that is distinctive from other disciplines and objects of study?

What are the methodologies for the study of medieval European literatures (comparative, entangled, regional, postcolonial, race studies)?

What models are available for the study of medieval European literature? (e.g. cultural, confessional, linguistic, geographical, imperial, focusing on dynasties, networks, itineraries, mobilities, waterways). What’s at stake in different models of Europe? Can other non-nationalizing frames enrich Europe as a working concept? How do ideas of Europe intersect with experiences of gender and sexuality?

What can European perspectives enable us to see about medieval literature (interconnections, the place of smaller literatures, etc.)? What can European perspectives obscure or occlude (emergent national sentiment, debt to areas beyond Europe)?

How does medieval European literature relate to national and global literary history?

How is medieval European literary history told outside of Europe – in the Americas and Asia, for example?

What do different national and regional (Byzantine, Central European, Western European, Eastern European, Iberian, Mediterranean, etc.) traditions of studying medieval literature have to teach each other? Can nationalizing and non-nationalizing approaches ignore the unifying nature of Europe as a common literary stage?

Is the concept of Europe being used in literary histories in two different ways – one from the inside and one from half-way outside? From many regions of literary study, "Europe" is seen as the, partly, other from which impulses come (e.g. Iberia, Iceland, England, Bohemia, Byzantium); are there also core regions of Europe which don’t other Europe, and consequently don’t thematize it either?

What commonalities and paradigms in the wide range of medieval literary traditions and encounters that existed on the European continent create the perception of a shared literary history?

How do modern politics shape narratives of medieval literature, and how do these reflect different understanding of what “Europe” is across western, central, and eastern Europe and outside of European continent?

How do ideas of Europe inform and challenge our teaching strategies, translation projects, collaborations, writing of literary history, public engagement, and interaction with modern literature and with other disciplines?

Interfaces is a fully open access, peer reviewed, online journal, published by the University of Milanis association with the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of York.

Interfaces is indexed by DOAJ - The Directory of Open Access Journals and ERIH PLUS - The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences. It is registered for regular aggregation and indexing in OpenAIRE.

Interfaces invites papers in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

Any enquiries can be directed to the editors at: interfaces@unimi.it.

Paolo Borsa, Christian Høgel, Lars Boje Mortensen and Elizabeth Tyler (editors)

CFP, Biblical Creatures The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in Pre-Modern Abrahamic Hermeneutic Traditions

Kristin Bourassa — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:52:26 GMT

Deadline 1 February 2018

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures

In recent years, the growing field of ‘Human-Animal Studies’ has done much to bring animals into the focus of a variety of academic disciplines. Pre-modern texts offer many possibilities for interdisciplinary research on the subject. In the Middle Ages, for example, Jewish as well as Christian and Muslim authors often use discourses on the allegorical meanings of animals in order to express their attitudes towards God and the world, normative religious and social orders, or interdependencies between nature and culture. In many instances, they deal with animals as carriers of meaning which are of interest to members of different religious communities because they appear in a common authoritative reference text, i.e. the Hebrew Bible / the Old Testament. The pre-modern authors’ respective hermeneutic approaches show how they develop different religious, social, political, philosophical, and scientific ideas and how they distance themselves from the other religions’ hermeneutic traditions but also exchange elements and integrate them into their own discourses.

To name but one example: What do Medieval and Early Modern Jewish, Christian and even Muslim authors make of the dove or turtle-dove which is mentioned as a potential sacrificial offering in the Bible but also appears as a messenger announcing the end of the Deluge and as a symbol denoting the beloved woman in the Song of Songs? How do Jewish scholars handle the fact that the dove is often associated with Christianity’s Holy Spirit? What becomes of the rabbinic idea that the dove symbolizes the congregation of Israel needing to take flight from danger? What stance do Jewish and Christian authors take up regarding the assumption that doves are especially loyal and faithful, and what consequences do they infer from this assumption? How does the way a dove looks figure in their interpretations? What happens with theological ascriptions when they find their way into secular texts? In what ways do new theoretical approaches to animals bring new fresh insights into biblical literature?

These and similar questions can be asked concerning many biblical animals. Jewish and Christian discussions on the symbolic meanings of these animals are especially suitable for comparative studies because both religions refer to the same religious core text which is subject to ever new exegeses and commentaries. The comparison could also include Muslim and Manichaean engagement with Biblical creatures. Medieval and Early Modern authors deal with the allegorical meanings of biblical creatures in commentaries on the Bible and in literary re-workings of the Bible, in homilies, in mystical and in scientific texts, in secular narrative literature, and in secular pragmatic texts.

Interfaces invites contributions investigating how Jewish and Christian, Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern scholars developed different perspectives on the animal as a carrier of religious and secular meaning. Authors will be free to address any European literature, language, genre, or text, or to work across these categories, provided they give a strong theoretical framing to their argument. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and diachronic studies will be welcome, as well as more specific analyses of single texts or small groups of texts. Contributions on the differences and interdependencies between Latin and Hebrew texts are welcome as well as studies on vernacular texts (i.e. German, Yiddish, French, English, Italian, etc.). Moreover, Interfaces would also like to encourage contributions on animal discourses in Islam and Manichaeism that draw on biblical traditions.

Interfaces invites papers in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

CFP, Boundaries of the Body Politic

Kristin Bourassa — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 10:18:36 GMT

CFP for a panel at the International Society of Intellectual History Conference, June 2018, University of St Andrews The body politic and its boundaries in late medieval and early modern political literature The metaphor of the “body politic” is probably one of the most common and widespread metaphors in political literature (Struve 1978; Briguglia 2006; Archambault 1967). It allowed political theorists to strike the imagination of their contemporaries with the most vivid of images: that of the human body as an exemplary model of proportion and harmony (Nederman 2000, 2005; Le Goff 1989; Shogimen 2007, 2008; Rigby 2013). The body supposedly displays the right configuration of disparate components and organs, exhibits the necessary hierarchy between its parts, as well as opens the possibility of a regulated collaboration and solidarity between the plurality of its members within the unity of the body. When the human body is posited as God's creation, it makes it an even more authoritative paradigm of the just regime. The vast array of pathologies and diseases is a platform for an exciting interchange between political ideas and medical views. Diseases are always a powerful means to decry a lack of order and reflect upon corruption. The literature on the broken or monstrous body, the illness of society or various healing devices and practices are therefore illustrative of the fruitfulness of the metaphor of the body politic and its ability to think about a just society in terms of health and illness (Harris 1998). But the political body is also a great imaginary device to think about boundaries, liminality and passage with the exterior world as well as within itself. The crucial value for the medieval and the early modern polity is unity – there was no bigger threat to a state than external threat and internal dissension, which in both cases sowed the seeds for decay and destruction (Blumenfeld-Kosinski 1999). Each society defines itself through the inclusion of its members, that is the exclusion of all undesirables immediately turned into social and political outcasts. Concord and dissent are therefore great producers of boundaries. The polluted “other” has to be cast out of the “body politic”; the member contaminated had to be removed or treated. In the metaphor of the body politic, both the external boundaries as well as the internal ones are at stake. The external or internal boundaries, such as the skin itself, are more porous than it seems, and occasionally, they are often crossed, transgressed or “liquefied” (Hochner 2012). The proposed panel intends to address the place and significance of boundaries of the “body politic” in late medieval and early modern political literature. By examining a series of case studies, we hope to scrutinize issues of inclusion and exclusion, harmony and chaos, order and fluidity, closure and passage and how the prevalent metaphor of the body politic facilitated a set of certain values, solidarity, loyalty, social justice, purity or charity while making others either odd or impossible. Please contact Nicole Hochner at nicole.hochner@mail.huji.ac.il

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MEST Symposium 2018 CFP: Force, Resistance, and Mercy: Medieval Violence and Nonviolence

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 03:22:00 GMT

MEST Symposium 2018 CFP- EXTENDED DEADLINE, Nov 24, 2017
Title: Force, Resistance, and Mercy: Medieval Violence and Nonviolence

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The Medieval Studies Institute of Indiana University invites proposals for its 30th Annual Medieval Studies Symposium, April 6-7, 2018, in Bloomington, Indiana

Iron maidens, the Inquisition, the Crusades, witch burnings: these images of violence, both fact and fiction, are profoundly connected to the Middle Ages. Yet if in many popular conceptions, the medieval world is associated with brutality and suffering, the period also offers unique formulations of mercy, compassion, and the power of resistance. In exploring both medieval violence or nonviolence, this symposium seeks to examine specific structures of power and brutality but also to complicate the narrative of the violent Middle Ages.

We invite papers on any medieval discipline or region that engage issues of medieval violence and nonviolence: What functions did violence serve in the Middle Ages? How might acts of physical and rhetorical violence against othered groups (gendered, religious, cultural, racial, nonhuman) reflect larger concerns or anxieties within medieval culture? Is there a medieval aesthetic of violence? How does medieval music, art, theology, and literature glorify or critique brutality and/or suffering? How do medieval texts understand the uses and effects of verbal violence? How might medieval violence operate in a metaphorical sense, as violence done to texts or to the material past? What does nonviolence look like in the Middle Ages? Given the functions and pervasiveness of violence, what are some ways in which it is resisted and negotiated? What alternatives do medieval people or institutions offer to violence? How might medieval understandings of mercy or love act as a counter to violence? We also encourage papers on modern representations of the Middle Ages that consider to what extent and to what ends these medievalisms employ violence and nonviolence.

Please submit 200 word abstracts or complete sessions proposals to IUMestSymposium@gmail.com by November 24th, 2017.

CFP, Fear and Loathing in the Earthly City – Negative Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern Period c. 1100-1700

Kristin Bourassa — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:23:10 GMT

Call for Papers

Fear and Loathing in the Earthly City –

Negative Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern Period c. 1100-1700

1-2 November 2018, University of Southern Denmark

Keynote speakers
Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia and Craig Taylor, University of York

The exploration, control and canalization of negative emotions played a crucial role in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The fundamental negative emotions were conceptually expressed in the Seven Deadly Sins and mirrored in The Seven Virtues. While the virtues were what humans should strive for in order to be good Christians, it was often their negative counterparts that appear most poignantly in the sources (written, pictorial or musical), because they were firmly embedded into the terrestrial life as ubiquitous obstacles to be overcome or coped with in order to gain salvation. This preoccupation with negative emotions and the sinfulness of man was strong in the Middle Ages and continued unabated during the reformations of the sixteenth century and beyond. Nevertheless, the perception of negative emotions was highly depended on the affective context, and they might not be perceived as unequivocally bad and negative. Anti-social emotions of fear, hatred, and envy which on the outset would be perceived of as negative, could depending on the exigencies of the situation be construed of as constructive and indeed even beneficial to man, society and ultimately God. The interpretation of emotions and their categorization as positive or negative was thus flexible in accordance with the demands of context and situation.

With this conference we seek to investigate cultures of negative emotions from an interdisciplinary angle and in all walks of life be they religious, rural, civic, aristocratic etc. We thus invite papers that explore the role of emotions expressing negativity such as fear, envy, hatred, but also melancholy and sadness in culture, society and the conception of the individual in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, c.1100 to 1700.

Please send an abstract (200 words) of your proposed paper and a short biography before 1 April 2018 to Louise Nyholm Kallestrup LNK@sdu.dk

Possible topics may include:

When is the seemingly anti-social, negative and/or bad emotions and potentially and sometimes even immediately understood as necessary and beneficial? How can we study that paradox?
Continuity and change: How and why did perceptions of negative emotions change?
What was the relationship between negative emotions and institutions of power (e.g. state, church etc.)?
What are negative emotions in a historical perspective? When, where and why are negative emotions considered appropriate?
How are negative emotions gendered?
How and when are negative emotion embodied?
How are negative emotions inherited in space and place?

The conference is organized by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SDU, and the National Museum of Denmark.

Conference venue: University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230-Odense M

Conference conveners: Thomas Heebøll-Holm, SDU thee@sdu.dk

Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen, National Museum of Denmark

Martin.W.Jurgensen@natmus.dk

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, SDU

LNK@sdu.dk

CFP: 6th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies at SLU

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:16:22 GMT

CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
June 18-20, 2018
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

The Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 18-20, 2018) is a convenient summer venue for scholars from around the world to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.

The plenary speakers for this year will be Geoffrey Parker of The Ohio State University, and Carole Hillenbrand of the University of St Andrews.

The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On-campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned apartments as well as a luxurious boutique hotel. Inexpensive meal plans are available, and there is also a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance of campus.

While attending the Symposium participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library.

The Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.

The deadline for all submissions is December 31. Decisions will be made in January and the final program will be published in February.

For more information or to submit your proposal online go to: http://smrs.slu.edu

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Écrire, disent-ils: Pratiques d'écriture et jeux de lettres au Moyen Âge

Sat, 16 Sep 2017 15:26:20 GMT

Extended Deadline! Monstrous Medievalism: Toxic Appropriations of the Middle Ages in Modern Culture and Thought at Leeds IMC

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:48:37 GMT

Call for Papers - Leeds International Medieval Congress 2018
2-5 July, Leeds, UK
Sponsor: MEARCSTAPA
Monstrous Medievalism: Toxic Appropriations of the Middle Ages in Modern Popular Culture and Thought
MEARCSTAPA seeks papers to compose a session of 3 or 4 papers to the 2018 International Medieval Congress at Leeds. The Congress theme is “Memory.” Our hope is that this session will run as a twin-session to our proposed panel for Kalamazoo 2018 on Monstrous Medievalisms.
The medieval period continues to be misidentified both as a primitive and savage ‘dark ages’ and as an idealized utopian golden age of racial and religious homogeny. In both cases, aspects of medieval culture—stories, motifs, and themes—are appropriated and reimagined (that is, remembered and reconstructed) in ways that celebrate and promote the othering of certain racial and ethnic groups or cultures. Medievalists should be made uncomfortable by the realization that we share some interests with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other groups dedicated to the oppression, segregation, and even elimination of racial and ethnic groups or cultures. Medievalists should feel even more uncomfortable when this othering—intentional or otherwise—becomes common in the presentation of the Middle Ages in various popular cultural media.
These medievalisms use the Middle Ages—our Middle Ages—to advance their racist agendas, which have frequently resulted in malicious acts against individuals and groups. In short, the Middle Ages are often put to monstrous work in modern popular thought and culture, frequently used by one community to attack another. The Middle Ages thus become othered and estranged from the scholars who study and teach from positions of acceptance and inclusion. These monstrous medievalisms use the period to foster some of the most pernicious ideologies of the present day and distort our understanding of the past. We ask, whose Middle Ages are they? And in so doing, we seek to confront these monstrous medievalisms, to unravel and make sense of them in order to dismantle the negative work they do.
Papers for this panel might address topics such as:
Appropriations of the medieval image and narrative in Nazi propaganda
Contemporary White Pride/White Nationalist appropriations of the medieval symbols and signs (tattoos, banners, album covers, banners)
Racist responses to inclusion in “Medieval” film
The medieval fantasies of white identity in the Anglo-Saxon enthusiasm of the founding fathers
Racialized Monsters in the contemporary medieval fantasy
Race War as trope in Ancient and Medieval period films, video games, and/or books
"Unintentional" rehearsals of racist ideologies in popular media
We invite papers from all disciplines and national traditions. Additionally, MEARCSTAPA will provide an award of $500 to the best graduate student submission to this or any of its sessions to help offset the costs of travel and lodging for the IMC.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words together with a brief bio to session organizer Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk) by 9 September 2017. Please include your name, title, and affiliation on the abstract itself. All abstracts will be vetted by the MEARCSTAPA board and the full session will be submitted to the Congress mid-September 2017.

Canadian Society of Medievalists

The New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Andrew Klein — Fri, 26 May 2017 05:07:07 GMT

The twenty-first biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 8–10 March 2018 in Sarasota, Florida.

The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are also welcome.

The deadline for all abstracts is 15 September 2017; for submission guidelines or to submit an abstract, please go to http://www.newcollegeconference.org/cfp.