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UPDATE: Our keynote/plenary speaker for the Colloquium will be Professor Bruce
Holsinger (University of Virginia, Departments of English and Music).
Dissent and Dissonance
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Duke University
Friday-Saturday, February 16-17, 2007
CALL OR PAPERS for an International Symposium on History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Arizona, May 3-6, 2007 (literature, art history, history, sociology, etc.)
Organized by Dr. Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor.
Selected papers will be published by de Gruyter (Berlin and New York).
Submit an abstract, or for further information, please send an abstract by Jan. 31, 2007 to:
"Dissent and Dissonance"
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Duke University
Friday-Saturday, February 16-17, 2007
Call for papers:
Judgment and Apocalypse: Aspects and Approaches
The third annual Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference will be held at =20
Lincoln College Oxford on April 13th =96 14th 2007 on the theme of =20
Judgement and Apocalypse in the middle ages and Early Modern period. =20=
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields of research such as =20
history of art and architecture, history, theology, philosophy, =20
anthropology, literature and history of ideas.
Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send a 250 word abstract in the body of your email (no =20
attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by 1 February 2007
Suggested topics:
CALL FOR PAPERS: fragment, cultural histories and vocabularies of the
fragment in text and image, c. 1300-2000.
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Poliakoff
Plenary Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher Interested: Manchester University Press
Deadline for Abstracts: 16th December 2006
Dissent and Dissonance
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Duke University
Friday-Saturday, February 16-17, 2007
Echoing Anglo-Saxon England: Continuities, Encounters, Influence
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference
Saturday February 17, 2007
Apologies for cross-posting . . .
This message is an updated CFP for the Fifth Fifteenth-Century =20
Conference (sponsored by the Richard III Society and the Program in =20
Medieval Studies and the English Department of the University of =20
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
This triennial conference will be held from 5/6/07-5/9/07, the days =20
leading up to the Forty-Second International Medieval Congress at =20
Western Michigan University (5/10/07-5/13/07).
Medieval Popular Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Medieval Popular Culture area
of the Popular Culture Association invites
abstracts for the next annual meeting:
APRIL 4 - 7, 2007
BOSTON, MA
Boston Marriott Copley Place
UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 3 November 2006
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of popular culture
in the Middle Ages, as well as on medieval themes, motifs,
and medievalism in modern popular culture.
We are also soliciting submissions for the following panels:
TEACHING ROUNDTABLE: How to use popular culture
to teach the Middle Ages, including films, comics, novels,
London in Text and History, 1400-1700
13-15 September 2007 at Jesus College, Oxford
Organisers: Ian Archer (Oxford), Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan
History, London), Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), Paulina Kewes
(Oxford)
Plenary speakers include: Paul Griffiths, Rob Hulme, Mark Jenner, Mark
Knights and Peter Stallybrass
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference will focus on the variety of metropolitan identities, and
how these were constructed, represented, and contested by contemporaries
through a variety of media, including text (broadly
defined), visual culture, maps, architecture and performance.
ARTHURIAN LEGENDS
Popular Culture Association
Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting
April 4-7, 2007
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts
UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 3, 2006
Papers and panel proposals on all popular treatments
of Arthurian Legend from any period and in any medium--
print, visual, musical, commercial, electronic--are welcome.
Abstracts should be 250 words max. Panel proposals must
include abstracts from all session participants. E-mail
submissions are acceptable. Please submit abstracts and
proposals in duplicate.
Electronic submissions to:
(UPDATE: Changed panel sponsors/subjects and cfp date)
Because the UPenn list was down for a short while, we will be accepting paper submissions for an additional week. Please note that the new due date for abstracts is October 15, 2006.
24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference
"The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual"
Saturday, February 24, 2007
University of Connecticut
Plenary Speaker: James Simpson, Harvard University Professor of English and American Literature and Language; Life Fellow, Girton College Cambridge; Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
The Seventh Annual Conference on Teaching Medieval Literature: Teaching
the Quest
March 2-3, 2007
Georgia Perimeter College--Lawrenceville Campus
(Located in Lawrenceville, GA, in Northeast Metro Atlanta)
Deadline for Submission: December 15, 2006
Keynote Lecture by Edward Donald Kennedy, Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Professor Kennedy will be speaking on the Grail Quest motif in
Medieval and 19th and 20th Century literature. The seventh annual
conference on Teaching Medieval Literature is designed for both
medievalists and non-specialists who teach medieval literature to
College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007, New Orleans
CEA invites papers on Medieval British Literature for its 38th annual
meeting in New Orleans. The conference theme this year is "Empathy and
Ethics." Proposals addressing this theme are especially encouraged, but
any topic addressing Medieval British literature will be considered.
Call for Papers: THE MEDIEVAL CITY
24th Annual Conference of the
ILLINOIS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
23-24 February 2007
Eastern Illinois University
Keynote Speaker: C. David Benson, University of Connecticut
The Faculties of the Humanities of the University of Geneva and of the
University of Lausanne are pleased to invite you to the XIIth International
Convention of the International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS) to be held
29 July to 4 August 2007
in the two Lemanic cities (Lausanne 29.07-31.07, Geneva 01.08-04.08)
Contesting Transoceanic Natural Histories
Seminar Organizers: Adam Miyashiro and Oscar Fernandez
Affiliations: The Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University
The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Meeting 2007: Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006
Description: This interdisciplinary panel seeks to address
critical issues in the theory and practice of “natural history,†a formal
mode of encyclopedic writing that described everything perceived as
“natural†from the perspective of their writers.
Call for Papers: Vagantes Graduate Medieval Conference
Loyola University Chicago, March 1-4, 2007
Vagantes is an annual, traveling conference for graduate students studying
any aspect of the Middle Ages. The conference was conceived with several
goals in mind, including the fostering of a sense of community among
graduate medievalists, providing exposure to an interdisciplinary forum, and
showcasing the resources of the host institution - all within a student
budget.
The New England Saga Society (NESS) has extended its due date for the following two panels at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Kalamazoo, MI from May 10th through May 13th, 2007. The new submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2006.
CALL FOR PAPERS
42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI USA
May 10-13, 2007
Special session: "Reading the Breast: Medieval Writers and Artists."
This session focuses on secular materials, since so much work has already
been done with the breast in religious writing and art. Papers dealing
with one or more texts, visual or written as well as non-fictional secular
records, are welcome.
Presentations examining Medieval women "reading women's breast(s)" are
particularly sought; however, the session also open to papers focused on
secular texts with male or anonymous attribution.
Medieval Association of the Pacific - Call for Papers
The Medieval Association of the Pacific is now accepting proposals
for the 41st annual MAP Conference to be held 2-3 March 2007 at the
University of California, Los Angeles, under the auspices of the UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. We welcome proposals for
individual 20-minute papers in any area of medieval studies, as well
as organized sessions of three 20-minute papers. In the latter
category, we strongly encourage the submission of interdisciplinary
proposals with presenters from more than one institution.
14th International Medieval Congress, Leeds (9-12 July 2007)
Special sessions sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of
Wales, Bangor
Session titles: 'Popular romance: Cities and Merchants' and 'Arthurian cities'
Paper proposals on all aspects, literary, historical, cultural are welcome for
the above sessions. It is envisaged that 'Arthurian cities' might become a Round
Table and thus would accommodate shorter presentations on suitable topics.
Abstracts should be 250 words max. E-mail submissions are acceptable.
Electronic
submissions to: r.radulescu_at_bangor.ac.uk
Deadline: 15 September 2006.
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Update: The deadline for submissions to "Revenge in Late Medieval England" has been extended to September 15.
"Revenge in Late Medieval England"
DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15th
TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) is accepting
submissions for the
following five sessions dealing with issues of pedagogy for Kalamazoo 2007:
I. Teaching TEAMS Texts
II. Apocryphal Apocalypses: Fifteenth-Century ³Chaucerian² Endings in the
Classroom
III. Visiting the Middle Ages: Teaching on Site
IV. Acting Up in the Classroom: Teaching Medieval Drama
V. Teaching Middle English Texts: Translation or Original Language? A
Roundtable Discussion
Please send 200-300 word abstracts by September 15th to:
(Revised deadline: 15 September)
Sponsored Sessions (2) of the 42nd International Congress on Medieval
Studies
10-13 May 2007
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Early Middle English Society I: Women and Devotion
Coordinator: Dorothy Kim (dorothyk_at_humnet.ucla.edu)
UPDATE: Geography and the Book of Nature: The Natural World in =
Transition, 1300-1600
Conference website: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/book_of_nature_2007/
Sebastian Sobecki
Geography and the Book of Nature Congress
Department of English
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Phone: +49 234 32 28 518
book-of-nature-2007_at_rub.de
The fifth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student conference
sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies group, will be held at
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana on February 23-24, 2007. The theme
for this year's conference is "On the Edge: Representations of Liminality in
Medieval Europe."
Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University, Bloomington, will be the plenary
speaker for this year's conference.
UPDATE: Geography and the Book of Nature: The Natural World in
Transition, 1300-1600
Date correction: the conference will take place on 14-15 July 2007.
Sebastian Sobecki
Geography and the Book of Nature Congress
Department of English
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Phone: +49 234 32 28 518
book-of-nature-2007_at_rub.de
CFP: Video Games, Other Electronic Media and Neomedievalism at Kalamazoo
(Deadline 9/15/06)
Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)