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Newberry Library Winter/Spring 2008 Programs
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Below please find a list of programs for the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Winter/Spring Season. For more information, see our web pages: www.newberry.org/renaissance/renaissancehome.html.
NOTE: All events related to the Newberry's Cartography Programs can be found at the bottom of the list.
Consortium Seminar: "Introduction to the Troubadours"
Consortium Seminar: "Beowulf" Consortium Seminar: "Codicology and Latin Paleography" "Mapping the Premodern"- The Annual Graduate Student Conference History of the Book Seminar Medieval Intellectual History Colloquium Lecture in Early Modern History
Newberry Consort Programs Symposium on Globalization Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History
The Romance and Epic Seminar Newberry Consort Programs Cervantes Symposium Newberry Consort Programs The Newberry Library Milton Seminar 2008 Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography ************** Cartography Exhibition: "Ptolemy's Geography and Renaissance Mapmakers"
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The First Printed Library Catalogue?
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The First Printed Library Catalogue? A German Doctor's Library of the Sixteenth Century and its Place in the History of the Distribution of Books by Catalogue
Giles Mandelbrote, The British Library The History of the Book Seminar series is sponsored by DePaul University, Illinois State University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Registration: While there is no fee to attend the History of the Book Seminar, participants should register in advance. To register, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or at renaissance@newberry.org. Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the History of the Book Seminar. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies. |
| Conference Title |
History of the Book Seminar
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| Conference Org'n |
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
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| Conference Dates |
January 31, 2008
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The Newberry Library
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Medieval Poverty
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The focus of the conference is poverty in the medieval West, and we expect
to make a real impact on this omnipresentthough often ignoredfeature of
medieval life and culture. To this end, the topics examined at the
conference will include rural and urban poverty, ideology, serfdom,
charity, monasticism, law, and literature, with an introduction on the
Late Antique legacy of thought on poverty and a side look at Jewish
thought on poverty, the one alternative approach to poverty available in
medieval Europe. We shall also have the input of one or more experts in
development economics with the hope of updating the thinking of medieval
historians with the best recent scholarship from the development
community.
Those committed to deliver papers so far include Brian Tierney (Cornell), Miri Rubin (Cambridge), Henry Mayr-Harting (Oxford), Sharon Farmer (University of California, Santa Barbara), Philipp Schofield (University of Wales), Andrew Galloway (Cornell), Paul Hyams (Cornell) and Oren Falk (Cornell). If you have any questions, please contact Dianne Ferriss (df14@cornell.edu), Tom McSweeney (tjm37@cornell.edu), or Ada-Maria Kuskowski (ak393@cornell.edu). |
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Cornell
initiative on Poverty, Inequality, and Development
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| Conference Dates |
March 28-30, 2008
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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Call for contributors: Edited volume on "Religion and Society in Medieval India (1200-1800)"
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We are now working on an edited volume on "Religion and Society in Medieval India (1200-1800)", which is intended to look into the different strands of ideologies that appeared in Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Sikhism in India during the period between 1200 and 1800 AD and their impact on the society, economy and polity both at the regional and larger levels. We would like to invite contributions from scholars who can participate in this book project and write on any of these belief systems, highlighting both orthodox and heterodox strands within them.
This volume is meant to serve the purpose of a text-book for the post-graduate and research students of various universities of India, besides being a guide for the inquisitive minds. It proposes to draw on such different perspectives asking how the Indian society was made to evolve differently thanks to the multiple types of responses given to the plurality of versions for the religious ideologies or how much regional variations were there for the belief systems from outside upon their entry in India and how far the resourcefulness/dearth of resources of the areas where the belief systems got shaped or introduced, influenced their dogmas, moral and social teachings and also how far the moral and spiritual power connected with the religious institutions was appropriated by the political rulers for augmenting their power domains. The issue areas are centered also around the nature and type of entrepreneurial motivation that the different religious ideologies used to bestow upon individuals and the nature of the religious life and practices in different eco-zones, in the core areas of political/religious life and in places distanced away from it. This work is intended to be a comprehensive volume consisting of five research articles each under each of the belief systems mentioned above. We would be extremely pleased to hear from scholars who would like to contribute. For more information, kindly contact: Dr.Pius Malekandathil |
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The Secular Realm in the Age of Faith
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This year's theme relates to the private and public spheres of life in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe where the profane, the quotidian, romantic, and religious intersect. Papers need not be confined to the theme, but may cover many aspects of Medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, history, and music.
Keynote Speaker: Deadlines: Click here to e-mail Dr. Naomi Kline, Director |
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Plymouth State University: 29th Annual Medieval & Renaissance Forum
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| Conference Org'n |
Plymouth State University
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| Conference Dates |
April 25-26, 2008
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| Location |
Plymouth State University
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Blood in Medieval France
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Keynote speaker: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)
The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2008 Symposium organized around the theme of "Blood in medieval France." Blood had profound but multivalent significance in medieval culture. As recent work has shown, it could variously serve as a sign of life, or of death; a marker or status, or of shame; and a signifier of holiness, or of culpability. This symposium will offer a multi-disciplinary venue in which to consider the diversity of blood's meanings and function in France and as it relates to the broader European context from c. 500 to c. 1500. Papers might address such topics as: the iconography of blood; blood libel and European Jewry; lineage and genealogy; violence, including warfare and the Crusades; the blood of Christ, which might encompass such issues as the Eucharist, the wounds of Christ, and even the Grail; blood relics and the stigmata; blood in the history of medicine, including humoral theory, blood-letting, and menstruation; as well as narratives, hagiographies and musical, artistic or architectural productions related to blood. Critical and historiographic papers treating scholarship on the subject of blood will also be welcome. Papers should address France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul in some way, but they need not be exclusively limited to this geographic area. We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to: Anthropology * Archeology * Art History * Classical Studies * Comparative Literature * Gender Studies * History * History of Medicine * History of Science * Language Studies * Literary Studies * Musicology * Philosophy * Religious Studies * Theology * Urban Studies * Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 15 January 2008. In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information, a CV, and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required for your presentation. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2008. The IMS will review submissions and respond via e-mail by 1 February 2008. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS website. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students). The registration fee will be waived for IMS members. The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English) organization founded to serve as a center for medievalists who research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year's Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org. |
| Conference Title |
5th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris
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| Conference Org'n |
The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris)
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| Conference Dates |
24-26 June 2008
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| Location |
Paris, France
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The Culture of Correction: Humanism and the Practices of Publication in Renaissance Rome
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Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
February 7, 2008 ~ 5:30 p.m. Professor Grafton's talk will focus on printers' correctors in the fifteenth century, and will offer some unusual illustrations as evidence for examining the evolution of correctors' practices during the transition from manuscript to print publication. The Lecture in Early Modern History is organized by the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies, in conjunction with Northwestern University. Registration While there is no fee to attend the Lecture in Early Modern History, participants should register in advance. To register, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or at renaissance@newberry.org. Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Lecture in Early Modern Studies. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies. |
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Lecture in Early Modern History
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| Conference Org'n |
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
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| Location |
The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
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George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies
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We are pleased to announce an international and interdisciplinary conference on George Herbert's worldwide print and cultural legaices. The conference will meet October 10-11, 2008 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The conference features plenary addresses by distinguished American and British scholars Richard Strier of the University of Chicago, Elizabeth Clarke of the University of Warwick, and Judith Maltby of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
UNC Greensboro's George Herbert archive in the Walter Clinton Jackson Library comprises a wealth of rare items, from first editions of The Temple and The Country Parson through a dozen seventeenth-century printings of his poetry and prose to original American, Victorian, and modern editions. As home to these rare volumes, to the papers of Herbert's biographer Amy M. Charles, and to one of the oldest and most prestigious MFA Poetry and Fiction programs in the United States, UNCG provides a unique setting in which to consider the travels and transformations of Herbert's words. Our conference will survey the publishing history and the international reception and influence of Herbert's work, particularly the poetry of The Temple, but also his pioneering pastoral manual The Country Parson, and his quirky collection of surprisingly familiar "outlandish proverbs." In addition to our distinguished keynote speakers, this gathering will feature numerous paper sessions addressing Herbert's print afterlife as an honorary Puritan, Methodist, Anglo-Catholic, and skeptic; his place in Reformation politics, and in the history of pastoral theology and political moderation; and his varied cultural cameo appearances: in poetry from Vaughan to Blake and Dickinson to Bishop; in music and film; and even as a namesake to presidents and eminent Victorians. More specifically, we particularly welcome paper and panel proposals on Herbert's relations to the many poets who have claimed or may show his influence: Donne, Crashaw, Herrick, Bradstreet, Harvey, Vaughan, Taylor, the Wesleys, Wheatley, Blake, Coleridge, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Hopkins, Cullen, Eliot, Weil, Bishop, Auden, Larkin, Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, Brooks, Heaney, and Glück, to name many but not all. We especially encourage papers and panels discussing fresh approaches to the teaching of Herbert and others in the contemporary classroom. Additional conference activities will include readings by contemporary poets in the Herbert tradition, renderings of Herbert in music and the visual arts, reflections on the work and legacy of Amy M. Charles, and an exhibit of the books and papers in the Herbert archive. We invite e-mail submissions. For 15-20-minute papers, send a 250-word titled abstract; for a complete 3-paper panel, send an overall title and individual 250-word titled abstracts for each paper. Please indicate UNCG 2008 and include a 1-page CV giving an e-mail and a regular e-mail address at which you can be reached during the spring and summer of 2008; and indicate any expected audio-visual needs (ncluding special software needs). Send submissions for UNCG 2008 to Helen Wilcox (helen.wilcox@bangor.ac.uk) and Christopher Hodgkins and Robert Calhoon (herbconf@uncg.edu). Due date for submissions: February 22, 2008 |
| Conference Dates |
October 10-11, 2008
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Criminal Justice in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1850
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Friday, February 29, 2008 ~ 9 am- 5 pm
The Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History is sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and organized by Bruce Smith. The Symposium gathers yearly under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies in order to explore a particular topic in the comparative legal history of the Atlantic world in the period c.1492-1815. For a tentative list of speakers and more information on the symposium, please visit http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/seminars/legal08.html. Registration While there is no fee to attend the Newberry Library's Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, participants should register in advance. To register, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or at renaissance@newberry.org. Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies. |
| Conference Title |
Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History
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| Conference Org'n |
The Newberry Library
Center for Renaissance Studies
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| Location |
The Newbery Library, Chicago, IL
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Global Encounters: Legacies of Exchange and Conflict (1000-1700)
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The new Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, seeks papers from scholars in a wide variety of
disciplines. Papers dealing with topics of cultural mediation,
interchange, and conflict are especially welcome. Possible areas of
geographical concentration include Europe, the Atlantic world, the
Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Key-note addresses will be offered by Professor Karen Ordahl Kupperman
(Silver Professor of History at New York University), and by Professor
Alfred J. Andrea (Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vermont).
The deadline for paper proposals is 1 April 2008. Proposals should include a title, a 250 word abstract, a brief (two-page maximum) C.V., and full contact information. Proposals should be submitted to the MEMS Organizing Committee, c/o Professor Brett Whalen, chair (bwhalen@email.unc.edu). This Conference is supported by: the College of Arts and Sciences, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MEMS, the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program at UNC. |
| Conference Title |
Conference of Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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| Conference Org'n |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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| Conference Dates |
November 14-15, 2008
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| Location |
UNC Chapel Hill
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After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England
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An international conference organised by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, in association with the Bodleian Library, marking the 600th anniversary of the publication of Arundel's Constitutions.
* Mapping Chronologies Plenary speakers to include: Jeremy Catto, Anne Hudson, David Lawton, Miri Rubin and Sarah Beckwith. Please send 500 word abstract by 1st April 2008 to vincent.gillespie@ell.ox.ac.uk. Conference Committee: Vincent Gillespie, Helen Barr, Mishtooni Bose, Kantik Ghosh, Annie Sutherland, John Watts |
| Conference Dates |
April 16-18, 2009
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University of Oxford
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Translating the Middle Ages
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We invite submissions for papers on the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages, including textual and visual translation. Who translates what, how and why, and to what effect? Papers may address, for example, genre and translation (poetic translations, romance, hagiography, chronicle, scientific, or biblical texts-what gets translated), the cultural context of translation (patronage, circulation, gender, canon formation-who translates for whom), or the practice of translation in the Middle Ages (dictionaries, the transition from manuscript to print, the voice of the translator-how is translation performed in the Middle Ages). The scope is interpreted broadly to include Europe, Iceland, Byzantium and the Islamic Mediterranean. Featured speakers include Christopher Kleinhenz, Brian Merrilees, Rita Copeland, Jeanette Beer, Lars Boje Mortensen, Catherine Batt, and Aden Kumler.
An evening event will focus on translations of medieval texts and culture by two renowned contemporary authors who will read from and discuss their work: W. S. Merwin, poet and translator of Dante's Purgatorio and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante's Inferno. Participants will submit completed papers by October 1 to be circulated to the other members of their panel. Selected papers will be published in a volume. Deadline for receipt of abstracts (300 words): April 15. Notification of acceptance by May 15. Send abstracts and inquiries to: MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies sponsored jointly by the Society for Medieval Feminist Studies (SMFS) and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). Visit SMFS at http://www.minotstateu.edu/mff/index.shtml. Visit ACMRS at www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/ Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681 |
| Conference Org'n |
The Program in Medieval Studies and Center for Translation Studies
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| Conference Dates |
October 28-29, 2008
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Notre Dame Medieval Institute Summer Scholarships
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The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to offer two (2) summer scholarships for the study of medieval Latin or paleography through the generosity of the Medieval Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA).
Two graduate or undergraduate students taking either Notre Dame's "Medieval Latin" or "Paleography" course for credit will be awarded full tuition scholarships. Scholarship applicants must be student members of the Medieval Academy. Applicants should send a letter of intent, two letters of recommendation, and a transcript to the address below. The deadline for Summer 2008 is May 1, 2008. Details about the scholarship appear on our web site at: http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/programs/summer.html. Information about summer session enrollment at Notre Dame is available at: http://www.nd.edu/~sumsess/. For information on joining the Medieval Academy, consult its website at http://www.medievalacademy.org/gradstudents/gradstudent_cara_scholarship.htm. Questions may be addressed to me at: rbaranow@nd.edu. |
| Conference Org'n |
Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame
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| Location |
University of Notre Dame
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Early Modern Criminalities and Sites of Injustice
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This session approaches the visual culture of early modern criminality
through the framework of injustice, whether imaged, constructed or
performed. We encourage papers examining a range of visual material,
from architectural sites, decorative programs and locations of crime, to
representations of criminals and unjust, ineffectual or otherwise failed
rule. Papers might examine ambiguous or invented spaces of criminal
acts; the representation of evaded punishment and unfulfilled justice;
unjust actions of the powerful or parodies of justice; or the mapping of
injustice through pictorial representation. Who constituted the audience
for these kinds of images and spaces, and how did they function to
overturn or underscore injustice? For example, depictions of criminal
acts and criminal bodies might serve as reminders of the necessity for
justice in a given government or, conversely, point to its failings.
Shaming 'portraits' like pitture infamanti may be understood to make the
absent present so as to bring justice to an otherwise absent criminal,
or they may rather reinforce absence and hopes for presence. In
questioning the sites and representations of injustice in the early
modern period, we seek to investigate a "visual culture of criminality"
in Europe and explore its multiple functions.
Please email proposals to both Timothy McCall (timothy.mccall@villanova.edu) and Allie Terry (alterry@bgsu.edu) by Monday, May 12. Please include a 150 word abstract, paper title, and a CV. |
| Conference Title |
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference
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| Conference Dates |
March 19-21, 2009
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| Location |
Los Angeles, CA
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