Category: calls for papers

DEADLINE: 1 MAY 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2014 or 2015; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration will be given to individuals whose field would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

Location:
Boston is home to numerous universities, art museums, and performing arts companies. Hosted by several Boston-area institutions, the meeting will convene at the Hyatt, across the street from the renovated Opera House and in the heart of Boston’s theater district. The final reception will be held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Theme(s):
Rather than an overarching theme, the 2016 meeting will provide a variety of thematic connections among sessions. The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative sessions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. To both facilitate and emphasize interdisciplinarity, the Call for Papers is organized in “threads.” Sessions listed under these threads have been proposed to or by the Program Committee but the list provided below is not meant to be exhaustive or exclusive.

Proposals:
Individuals may propose to offer a paper in one of the sessions below, a full panel of papers and speakers for a listed session, a full panel of papers and speakers for a session they wish to create, or a single paper not designated for a specific session. Sessions usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length, although the committee is interested in other formats as well (poster sessions, digital experiences, etc). The Program Committee may choose a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed.

Deadline:
1 May 2015

The complete Call for Papers with additional information, submission procedures, selections guidelines, and organizers is available here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/medievalacademy.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/pdfs/MAA2016CFP.pdf

Please contact the Program Committee at
MAA2016@TheMedievalAcademy.org
with any questions.

THREADS:

CAROLINGIAN WORLDS

• “Contacts with Islam”
• “Frontiers”
• “Transformations, 877-987”

THE ELEVENTH CENTURY

• “The 1000th Anniversary of Cnut the Great (1016/2016)”
• “Art and Architecture in the Eleventh Century: An Age of Experiments”
• “Creative Liturgies in the Eleventh Century”

MONASTICISMS

• “Monastic Visual Cultures”
• “Monastic Identities”
• “Ascetic Bodies in the Late Middle Ages”

LYRIC TRANSFORMATIONS

• “The ‘Lyric’ Dante”
• “Poetic Form”
• “Petrarch between the Vernacular and Latin”

GREEN WORLDS/MEDIEVAL ECOLOGIES

• “Garden, Park, Wasteland”
• “Material Ecologies”
• “Medieval Anthropocenes”
• “Water Worlds and Seascapes”
• “Mediterranean Landscapes”

WORKS: UNFINISHED, TRANSFORMED OR IN RUINS

• “Unfinished Books, Incomplete Texts”
• “Medieval Art and Architecture as Work(s) in Progress”
• “Ruins”

MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Papers are invited for a thread devoted to the exciting new ways in which medieval studies and digital humanities intersect. Topics might include (but are not limited to)

• issues of visualization and the re-presentation of
  medieval spaces,
• soundscapes,
• the implications of digital archives for the
  editing of medieval texts,
• the digital (re)construction of medieval collections and libraries,
• GIS and mapping projects,
• social network  analysis,
• text encoding,
• and computational approaches to texts and scribal
  behaviors.

SESSIONS:

• “800th Anniversary of the Dominican Order”
• “800th Anniversary of Pope Innocent III’s Death”
• “Mortality / Facing Death”
• “Margins of War”
• “Images of Coercion and Dissent”
• “Dangerous, Deviant, and Disobedient Women in the Middle Ages”
• “Vernacular Exegesis”
• “Drama/Performance”
• “Literature of Pastoral Care”
• “Boston Area Medieval Manuscripts”

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Here is the second call for papers for the October 2015 UBC Medieval
Workshop, held jointly with the Gregorian Institute of Canada.

Theme:
Liturgical and Secular Drama in Medieval Europe: Text, Music, Image (ca.
1000-1500).

NEW DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2015

Please note the new conference dates and extended deadline for submissions.

Second call for papers

*Please note new dates and extended submission deadline.

The Gregorian Institute of Canada and The University of British Columbia’s Medieval Studies Committee

invite paper and session proposals for

THE 43rd UBC MEDIEVAL WORKSHOP / THE 10th GIC COLLOQUIUM, a joint interdisciplinary research conference:

Liturgical and Secular Drama in Medieval Europe: Text, Music, Image (c. 1000-1500)

Taking place at Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, on OCTOBER 9-10, 2015.

This conference will focus on the Medieval segment of the long history of European theatre. One objective will be to analyze aspects of the great repertoire of liturgical drama, from its supposed modest beginnings in the Gregorian liturgy of Easter, through its various developments in Latin and the vernaculars, into liturgical, semi-liturgical and secular plays. Just as importantly we recognize the fact that European drama did not begin in the Medieval church. When one considers the secular themes appearing in semi-religious plays then in comic genres of the late Middle Ages, such as the farce, it often becomes necessary to study the direct or indirect influence of secular sources such as Latin comedies, Medieval French fabliaux, or the troubadours’ satirical dialogues. Beyond this intertextuality, combined in many cases with musical exchanges, Medieval drama gradually acquired visual components including manuscript illuminations, props, theatrical machines, sets, and different approaches to spatial organization in relation to the audience. The transformations in drama over the period 1000-1500 are connected to evolving attitudes toward music in the church, music in theatre, spoken vs. sung plays, the place of the actor in society, religious and secular themes, interactions with other genres, and the manuscript tradition (notations, text transmission, stage directions and commentaries).

Given the diverse aspects of this conference theme, we hope to receive paper and session proposals in: historical musicology, theatre studies, history, performance studies, philosophy, religious studies, translation studies, art history, palaeography and edition. We particularly invite contributions involving two or more of these disciplines.

Proposals for 20-minute papers or 3-paper sessions, in English or in French, should be submitted by FEBRUARY 15, 2015, addressed to

James Blasina and Chantal Phan

2015 GIC/UBCMW

and sent by email to:

jblasina-at-fas-dot-harvard-dot-edu and chantal-dot-phan-at-ubc-dot-ca

or by mail or fax to:

Prof. Chantal Phan (Medieval Studies), FHIS, 797-1873 East Mall, VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z1, CANADA. Fax: (1)-604-822-6675

Main deadline: 15 March 2013
See also: Some calls for papers: deadlines in January-April 2013
Some panel organizers are looking for papers to complete their panels: deadlines may be earlier … Continue reading Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (Puerto Rico, October 2013)

Appearing here below arranged by date of deadline: in chronological progression, and in the order in which information has been received. All have some pertinence to “Early Romance Studies.” New versions of this post will appear over the course of the present term: at the end of January (for CFPs with dealines in February onwards), the end of February (March onwards), and so on. Information is gleaned from O’Brien’s emails and listserve feeds and may well therefore reflect her own interests; most are in North America, and many are graduate student conferences (to encourage The Next Generation, on whom the survival of our field—nay, verily, our whole Early Romance world—depends). Please email O’Brien any calls for papers you would like to see posted here, and she will duly and dutifully consider your proposition.

RAPID VERSION:

• 21 January 2013: Canadian Society of Medievalists (CFHSS, Victoria): “@the edge”
• 31 January 2013: 14th Triennial International Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Lisbon): “Courtly Parodies”
• 31 January 2013: 20th Annual Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies, Princeton University: “War, Peace, and Religion in the Middle Ages”
• 1 February 2013: 30th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference (University of Connecticut): “Collaborations”
• 15 February 2013: Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies: “Wounds, Torture, and the Grotesque”
• 15 February 2013: Annual Princeton Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference: “Renaissance Orientations: East and West, North and South”
• 15 February 2013: University of California, Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference: “Says who? Contested Spaces, Voices, and Texts”
• 22 February 2013: Cambridge French Postgraduate Conference: “Matters of Time”
• 1 March 2013: First International Conference of The Nordic Branch of the International Arthurian Society (Oslo): ”Arthur of the North”
• 1 March 2013: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
• 3 March 2013: The Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference (London): “Intercultural Encounters”
• 15 March 2013: MLA, Provençal Language and Literature Discussion Group (Chicago): “Translating the Troubadours”
• 15 March 2013: UCLA MEMSA Graduate Student Conference: “Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studies”
• 15 March 2013: Scientific colloquium (Pre- and Postdocs) accompanying the 625th anniversary conference of the University of Cologne: “Universitas scholarium. The social and cultural history of the European student from the Middle Ages to the Present”
• 15 March 2013: Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
• 31 March 2013: Colloque international du CUER MA/CIELAM (Aix-en-Provence): ““Le discours collectif dans la littérature et les arts du Moyen Âge : Parler d’une seule voix”
• 30 April 2013: Medieval Philology Today International Conference (Urbino): “Medieval Philology Today” (first of two conferences, on the Germanic languages; the second, planned for 2015, will be on other European languages)

FULL VERSION: Continue reading Some calls for papers: deadlines in January – April 2013

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures

Call for Submissions, 2014 and 2015 Open Issues

Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries and periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical results. The Johns Hopkins University Press publishes two issues of Digital Philology per year. One is open to all submissions, while the other one is guest-edited, and revolves around a thematic axis.

Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation.

Digital Philology is welcoming submissions for its 2014 and 2015 open issues. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to dph@jhu.edu, addressed to the Managing Editor (Albert Lloret). Digital Philology also publishes manuscript studies and reviews of books and digital projects. Correspondence regarding manuscript studies may be addressed to Jeanette Patterson at jlp4@princeton.edu. Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson@gmail.com.

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html

Editors and Editorial Board

Albert Lloret, Managing Editor
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jeanette Patterson, Manuscript Studies Editor
Princeton University

Timothy Stinson, Review Editor
North Carolina State University

Nadia R. Altschul, Executive Editor
Johns Hopkins University

Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, Founding Editors
Johns Hopkins University

Editorial Board

Tracy Adams, University of Auckland
Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
Nadia R. Altschul, Johns Hopkins University
R. Howard Bloch, Yale University
Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto
Lucie Dole≤alová, Charles Univerzita Karlova v Prague
Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University
Jennifer Kingsley, Johns Hopkins University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joachim Küpper, Freie Universität Berlin
Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia
Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo
Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University
Johan Oosterman, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University
Lori Walters, Florida State University