Monthly Archives: August 2013

2013-14 ACLS Fellowship Competitions Now Open

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Chris

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce that the 2013-14 ACLS fellowship competitions are now open. ACLS offers 13 fellowship programs that promote the full spectrum of humanities and humanistic social sciences research and support scholars at … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – Ex Arabico in Latinum: Studies in Mediterranean Translation Movements

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Chris

Ex Arabico in Latinum: Studies in Mediterranean Translation Movements 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2014 Organizer: Anthony Minnema Chair: Thomas Burman Arabic-to-Latin translation movements are underrepresented at conferences of medieval studies since researchers often stride … Continue reading →

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Conferences – The World of Manuscripts

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Chris

The World of Manuscripts is an international conference in celebration of the 350th birthday of the Icelandic manuscript collector Árni Magnússon. The conference will be held in Reykjavík, 10th-13th October 2013. Registration is free and open to all and the … Continue reading →

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Summer Programs – “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval England.”

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Chris

The National Endowment for the Humanities will support a summer institute for university and college faculty and full-time advanced graduate students entitled “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval England.” The five-week program, directed by Professor Irven M. Resnick, will … Continue reading →

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Call For Papers – Resurrections, 21st Int’l Conference of Europeanists

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Chris

In the wake of crisis in Europe, bits and pieces of the past are being resurrected as a means of understanding the present and imagining the future.   Historical figures are re-evaluated and held out as models, once-dismissed ideologies reappear … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – A Casa de Avis: Legacies from Portugal

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Chris

Call for Papers 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI May 8-11, 2014 A Casa de Avis: Legacies from Portugal (session of papers) Portuguese studies are under-represented in the Medieval studies community as a whole. Its literature … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – 17th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Chris

The Seventeenth Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association will be held on May 28-31, 2014, at the University of Málaga, Spain. Proposals are now being solicited for individual paper presentations, panel discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects … Continue reading →

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Call for Contributors: “Mediterranean Voyages”

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Chris

Article proposals are being accepted for “Mediterranean Voyages”, a special issue of Mediterranean Studies, a publication of the Mediterranean Studies Association. The Mediterranean, as Fernand Braudel taught us to see it, is a world in itself, a single great body … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – Medieval Portrayals of Alexander the Great

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Chris

Ever since Alexander the Great built his empire in the 330s BCE, his personality and exploits captured the  interest and imagination of the people of many lands — both lands that he had conquered, in southeastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – New Approaches to Performance Practice: Process, Theory, Technique

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Chris

New Approaches to Performance Practice:  Process, Theory, Technique, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society sponsored session at ICMS, Kalamazoo May 8-11, 2014 Medieval drama scholars are not new to the idea that reconstructive performance experiments yield valuable information about early dramatic … Continue reading →

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