Women Medievalists on Medieval Women: A “State-of-the-Field” Symposium and Reception

Women Medievalists on Medieval Women: A “State-of-the-Field” Symposium and Reception
March 20, 2024
5:30 PM ET
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th St, NYC

Join The American Trust for the British Library (ATBL) and scholars of medieval studies for a “state-of-the-field” symposium at the Grolier Club to discuss current scholarship by female-identifying medievalists on subjects related to the lives, patronage, and creative practice of medieval women.

This symposium celebrates the British Library’s longstanding support for scholarship on women’s experiences during the early modern period, notably and upcoming Library exhibition on medieval women, and the Library’s Joanna and Graham Barker-funded Medieval and Renaissance women digitization project (which successfully concluded in 2023 with the digitization of 93 volumes, 219 charters, and 25 rolls connected to the lives of European women between the years 1100 and 1600 C.E.).

The symposium will be moderated by Martha Driver.

Speakers include:
Cynthia Hahn
Marlene Hennessy
Kristen Herdman
Katherine Hindley
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen
Kavita Mudan Finn
Nicole Rice
Kathryn Smith

Meet our Speakers and Learn More!

This in-person event is free and open to the public. However, please note that, due to space constraints, registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. We hope to livestream this program, and will update interested participants as we get closer to the date.

Register Here

Jointly sponsored with the Early Book Society and with gratitude to the Grolier Club.

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Call for Papers – The Fifth Quadrennial Symposium on Crusade Studies

The Fifth Quadrennial Symposium on Crusade Studies, October 3 – 5, 2024, Madrid, Spain
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus.
Call for Papers:

The Symposium on Crusade Studies a quadrennial conference sponsored by the Crusade Studies Forum of Saint Louis University. The Symposium invites proposals for scholarly papers, complete sessions, and roundtables on all topics related to the crusading movement. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are schedule for ninety minutes.

Abstracts of 250 words and session proposals should be submitted online at http://www.crusadestudies.org/symposium-on-crusade-studies.html The deadline for submission is March 31, 2024. Late submissions will be considered if space is available. Decisions will be made by the end of April and the program will be published in June.

Plenary Speakers:
Thomas Asbridge, Queen Mary University of London
Helen Nicholson, Cardiff Univeristy

For more information, or to submit your proposal, go to
http://www.crusadestudies.org/symposium-on-crusade-studies.html

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GSC Workshop: “Organize Your Research: A Workshop on Tools and Methods”

Organize Your Research: A Workshop on Tools and Methods: In this virtual workshop the GSC invites you to delve into the details of research in Medieval Studies. By combining an introduction to Zotero – a software for managing bibliographical data – with input from three recent authors on their working processes, we hope to equip the participants with practical tools and inspiration for research. If you are going back and forth with structuring your dissertation; feel overwhelmed by your research materials; and are happy to learn from the personal experience of experts in our field – this is the workshop for you! Featuring Gregory Bryda, Akash Kumar, Adrien Palladino, and Caro Bratnober.

Please join us online at 10AM (EST), January 9th. To register, click here. For more information please visit the GSC facebook page.

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Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2024

As a collaborative effort between the University of Notre Dame, Digital Medievalist, and the Medieval Academy of America, a one-day, pre-conference workshop in digital scholarly methods will be held before the annual MAA meeting in March 2024. The event is tailored especially to medievalists, their sources, and their scholarly concerns and will feature established approaches in digital medieval studies.

There are two ways to participate in DMSI 2024.

First, five separate day-long workshops will be offered accompanied by two sessions of lightning talks, followed by a social hour.

These will include:

• Accessible Geospatial Tools for Mapping and Sharing Medieval Information (Matthew Sisk)
• Transcribing and Marking-up Medieval Texts (Dan Johnson)
• Working with Medieval Manuscripts or Art Historical Images using IIIF (Caterina Agostini)
• Forensic and Digital Approaches to Fragmentology (David Gura, Scott Gwara)
• Introducing Medieval Liturgy: Tutorials for Students and Teachers (Cara Aspesi, Katie Bugyis, Margot Fassler, Kristina Kummerer Nicoll)

Second, participants can give a short presentation about any project in digital medieval studies they have been involved in; the topic of a short presentation does not have to be the same as the workshop in which the participant enrolls. Participants will be able to present a lightning talk only if they are accepted to attend the full-day workshop. Click on this website for more information and to apply.

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Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World: A Summer Digital Humanities Institute in Vercelli, Italy 

The Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society at Elon University
The Center for Research Frontiers in the Digital Humanities at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
The Museo del Tesoro di Duomo in Vercelli

SAVE THE DATE
Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World: A Summer Digital Humanities Institute in Vercelli, Italy
June 16th through June 22nd, 2024

Click here for schedule, pricing, and more information

(https://videntesmsi.com/medieval-manuscripts-in-a-modern-world/)

The Videntes Imaging Collective is delighted to announce its 2024 Summer Digital Humanities Institute held in Vercelli, Italy: Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World. Participants will engage in five days of workshops, lectures, and labs designed around materials held by the Capitular Archives of Vercelli. In collaboration with the Museo del Tesoro di Vercelli and the Capitular Archives this institute will engage the use of traditional approaches to medieval texts such as codicology and paleography alongside innovative technologies such as multispectral imaging and photogrammetry, all with an eye towards using digital tools for knowledge-sharing, such as VisColl and Digital Mappa. Participants will learn about the DH project life cycle, meet like-minded international scholars, and experience a truly collaborative DH team at work.

If you are a librarian, early career scholar, graduate student, conservator, archivist, Digital Humanities enthusiast, click on the link above to ensure you will be notified when registration opens.

The DH Institute will be led by:

  • Helen Davies (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) Digital Humanities, Multispectral Imaging, Medieval Literature, Manuscript Studies
  • Evan Gatti, (Elon University) Art History, Museum Studies and Public History
  • Heather Wacha (University of Wisconsin) Medieval History, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Digital Humanities
  • Katie Albers-Morris (University of Rochester) Medieval Literature, Digital Humanities, 3D Modeling, Manuscript Studies
  • Sivlia Faccin, (Museo del Tesoro di Vercelli) Chief Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Educational Services
  • Sara Minelli (Museo del Tesoro di Vercelli) Chief Museum Curator, Documentation Services, Public Relations
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Oxford Summer School in Greek Palaeography

The ninth Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will be held on 29 July – 3 August 2024. The school offers a five-day introduction to the study of Greek manuscripts through ten reading classes, three library visits and four thematic lectures. The school is intended for students of Classics, Patristics, Theology, Biblical or Byzantine Studies. Potential applicants are advised that it only offers introductory-level instruction in Greek palaeography and codicology. Applications and references must be received not later than 31 January 2024.

For more information please visit https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/events/lincoln-college-summer-school-in-greek-palaeography-2

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Call for Papers – “What Lies Beneath” — The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS) Conference 2024

“What Lies Beneath” — The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS) Conference 2024

We are pleased to announce that the 26th Biennial SASMARS Conference will be held from  1 to 4 August 2024 at the Mont Fleur Conference Venue in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Papers may cover any time period within the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and deal with any area of interest or discipline that could be relevant to the topic “What Lies Beneath”.

Ideas to consider could include, but need not be limited to:

  • Beneath the heavens
  • Beneath the earth
  • Beneath the waves
  • Beneath the skin
  • Beneath the belt
  • Beneath the story
  • Beneath the language
  • Beneath perceptions and emotions
  • Underworlds and Otherworlds
  • Invisible worlds

We are delighted to have as plenary speaker Prof. Andrew Breeze of the University of Navarra, Spain.

Proposals:
Proposals should consist of a title and abstract of up to 250 words, as well as the author’s name, affiliation, contact details, and a biography of no more than 100 words. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes when read and will be followed by Q and A.

Deadline:
Please submit proposals to Carin Marais (marais.carin@gmail.com) by 31 January 2024. Any enquiries can be sent to the same email address.

Please note that the conference will be held in person and that conference fees include accommodation at Mont Fleur for three nights, all main meals and mid-morning and mid-afternoon tea and snacks. A shuttle service will be available for transport between Cape Town International Airport and Mont Fleur at a small fee.

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Call for Papers – Comitatus

Comitatus
Vol. 55 (2024)
University of California, Los Angeles
CMRS Center for Early Global Studies

The graduate student journal for the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is accepting submissions for Vol. 55 (2024) of the Comitatus graduate student journal. 

We invite the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of late antique, medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies. We particularly welcome articles that integrate or synthesize disciplines.

The deadline for submissions is March 4, 2024. The editorial board will make its decisions by May 2024. 

Please send submissions as email attachments to Dr. Allison McCann, Managing Editor, Comitatus (allisonmccann@humnet.ucla.edu). Submission guidelines can be found here

UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
302 Royce Hall, Box 951485
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

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Call for Papers – “Is that a Word or Not? The Odd Words found in Beowulf ” Roundtable

Is that a Word or Not? The Odd Words found in Beowulf.
A Re-Examination of the Old English Dictionary,
Using Spaces and Letter Runes,
Reflects the Before and After of Epiphany.

When: June 10-12, 2024 (Monday-Wednesday)
What: The 49th Annual St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (In-Person Only)
Where: St. Louis University at St. Louis, Missouri

Conference Website: https://www.smrs-slu.org/

Up for a challenge? An Open Call to all Old English Scholars—

Join us in June at “The Odd Words in Beowulf” Roundtable in St. Louis at the “Symposium on Medieval Studies.” The ivory halls will heat up with a groundbreaking discussion that fundamentally will change our current understanding of Beowulf.

Why are there so many odd words in Beowulf? Those one-time example words, found nowhere else in the Old English corpus. Each roundtable will examine five example words found in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/books/asd/index-introduction) that give just one citation line for each word.

Those first five words are: lārena (269), unhār (357), werhðo (589), mān-fordǣdlan (563) and icge (1107) or another one-time word of your choosing from Beowulf. No duplications, so first-come, first-served.

Re-examine your word choice(s) in context.

Are the spaces in the right places? The Beowulf manuscript is infamous for inconsistent or missing spaces.

Are there words inside of a word?

Are there letter rune(s) inside the word?

[Letter runes are the letter(s) for the phonetic beginning letter of the runic word from the Elder Futhark and/or the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc alphabets, e.g.: i is for īs/ice, etc.]

Is there a scribal error and/or a variant?

In 250-words, break down your odd word into its actual words. Provide a bilingual translation of that line along with the lines before and after. At the Roundtable, explain your methods and your epiphany in 10-minutes. [Letter Rune Charts provided to all Presenters.]

For questions or guidance, contact Jim Buckingham at wibuck50@gmail.com

Send your 250-word abstract and a 50-word bio to Jim Buckingham at wibuck50@gmail.com

Before the Deadline: December 31, 2023

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“Shifting Paradigms: Women, Rhetoric, and Power” 22-23 February 2024 (London, UK)

SHIFTING PARADIGMS: WOMEN, RHETORIC, AND POWER, C.700–C.1300 CE

LONDON GLOBAL GATEWAY, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME IN ENGLAND (1-4 SUFFOLK STREET, SW1Y 4HG, LONDON, UK)

22–23 FEBRUARY 2024

This conference aims to recalibrate how we study women in western Europe, the Islamic worlds, and Byzantium across the Middle Ages, revealing the manifold ways women shaped and were shaped by overlapping discourses of power. The intention is to contest and challenge singular perspectives on power as the ability to enact change, while also reassessing present concentration on gendered analysis as the primary way of understanding women’s actions in the past. For the conference, we invite papers that broadly explore the question ‘What was power for medieval women?’ through the lens of exemplarity and exempla, that is the framing of individuals in the past as models for the behaviour of men and women in the present. Proposals from postgraduate students and early career scholars will be prioritised.

We are especially eager to receive proposals from those working on Byzantium, the Islamic worlds, or Jewish women, as well as papers that look across geographical, chronological, or disciplinary boundaries. This will be an exploratory conference, so work-in-progress papers are very much encouraged!

Confirmed speakers include: Dr Christina Laffin (University of British Colombia, Canada), Prof Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Prof Nadia El Cheikh (American University of Beirut), Dr Charles Insley (University of Manchester), and Dr Anna Kelley (University of St Andrews).

Please submit a title, abstract of c. 250 words, and short biography (including indication of career stage) to shifting.paradigms.conf@gmail.com by 8 January 2023.

Ideally, speakers will be able to attend the conference in-person, although we will consider online papers. Please indicate your preference in your email. There will be bursaries available for postgraduate speakers to contribute towards accommodation and travel.”

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