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Teaching Umberto Eco's _The Name of the Rose_
Special Session
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI
4-7 May 2006
Submissions are invited for a session on "Anglo-Saxon Space: Spiritual,
Material, Textual" at the 41st International Congress on Medieval
Studies, 4-7 May 2006, in Kalamazoo.
Humor in Middle English, Excluding Chaucer
Special Session
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI
4-7 May 2006
I invite abstracts on all aspects of humor in Middle English texts,
excluding Chaucer, for a special session on the topic at the 41st
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Papers have a strict
presentation limit of 20 minutes, and The Congress considers submission
of an abstract and Abstract Cover Sheet to be an agreement by the author
to attend the Congress and to deliver the paper in person if it is
accepted. I will forward all abstracts/cover sheets not selected for
this session to the general committee for consideration in other
sessions.
CFP: LAW AND LEGAL CULTURE IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, a
sponsored session at the 41st Annual International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI
Sponsored by the University of Chicago Medieval Workshop
CFP for a collection on:
MEDIEVALISM AND THE POST/COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE:
HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS TO GLOBAL POLITICS
Eds. Nadia Altschul and Kathleen Davis
The Mirror Crack'd: medieval fantasy in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the
Rings and its
Sources: Call for Papers for Session at Leeds International Medieval
Congress 2006, sponsored by The Tolkien Society
Aspects of the fantastic dominate the works of Tolkien, but they also
form important and
memorable episodes in the medieval works known to have influenced his
creativity. In addition, medieval fantasies characterise the works of
writers from Spenser to Bram Stoker, and beyond.
Topics for papers might include:
• The Lord of the Rings and Medieval Romances
• Monsters and their meaning in The Lord of the Rings
• Beneficial fantasy in The Lord of the Rings
Call for Participants
Medieval Academy Graduate Student Committee Sponsored Session
Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
30 March - 1 April, 2006
Boston, Massachusetts
"Reflections on the first year on the job; or, what I wish I had known
while still in school"
CALL FOR PAPERS: "Aristotelian Encounters"
Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, The Netherlands
January 2007
Call for Papers: Vagantes Graduate Medieval Conference
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VAGANTES is an annual, travelling 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
institutions -- all kept within a student budget.
The 5th conference will be hosted by the Graduate Medievalists at UC
BERKELEY from March 2-5, 2006.
The Comics Get Medieval 2006
Call for Papers
The fifteenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place March 9-11 2006 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference's broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome.
Call for Contributors: Facts on File Companion to Pre-1600 British
Poetry
Edited by Michelle M. Sauer
Looking for qualified individuals to write short entries on various
topics related to poetry, poets, and specific poems of the medieval and
Tudor eras. This includes Irish, Scottish, and Welsh verse as well.
Contributors will receive full credit for their work.
If you are interested, please send an inquiry to:
<pre1600poetry_at_yahoo.com>. Your e-mail should contain a brief overview
of your qualifications and interests. Graduate students welcome to
inquire. There are a series of rolling deadlines.
"Staging Pain: Violence and Trauma in British Theatre, 1500-1800," ed.
Mathew R. Martin and James Robert Allard
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MARGINALIA
A new, interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages
'MARGINS'
The theme of the first issue of *Marginalia* is 'margins'. We welcome
innovative and original interpretations and responses to this theme -- from
all areas of medieval studies -- by graduate students. Articles might
address the following themes:
- marginal annotation or illustration of manuscripts
- marginal social groups or marginalized themes and persons in literary
sources
- little-known, under-studied or under-utilized texts, art-historical
sources etc.
Call for Submissions
The editorship of "Mystics Quarterly," a peer-reviewed journal, will soon
be changing hands, and the new editors are very eager to receive
submissions on forms of mystical and visionary experience, especially
though not exclusively of the Western Middle Ages.
Subject CFP: Medieval Electronic Media Organization
CALL FOR PAPERS – KALAMAZOO 2005 (and edited
collection)
We are still looking for participants for the Medieval
Congress at Kalamazoo in 2005. Selected papers in the
two sessions are expected to be published in books
forthcoming by editing members of MEMO (MEDIEVAL
ELECTRONIC MEDIA ORGANIAZATION).
The Rountable Discussion is open to others who are
publishing on this very exciting topic.
I. The Medieval in Motion: Negotiating
Definitions of "Neomedievalism"
II. Video Game Pedagogy: Theory and Cases
III. Book Publishing in a Neomedieval Universe: A
Roundtable Discussion
The New Contemplative Review, a journal formed to promote scholarship on the interface between culture and spirituality, seeks articles for its second issue, on Catholicism, due to appear in January 2005. It is hoped that this issue will explore themes relating to the histories, spiritualities, ideologies and material constructions of Catholicism in both past and contemporary cultures: subjectivity and meaning, as well as ideology, faith and questioning, bodies and the Church, medieval and medievalist accounts of Catholicism: issues of power and relationship between Catholics and non-Catholics: the Catholic Church in fiction and life-writing: the public presence of the Church in past and present.
CFP: Moral Chaucer? Ethical Theory and the Premodern Text (9/15/04;
collection)
A forthcoming collection of essays seeks to (re)engage the question of
"moral Chaucer."
Chaucer's immediate successors credited him with "pleasance" coupled
with "sentence," and some compared him with the great moral
philosophers Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca. For later generations
Chaucer would come to be distinguished for his geniality and ironic
detachment in sharp contrast to the dogmatism and dullness of so many
contemporary moralists. Only recently (notwithstanding the exegetical
criticism of the mid-twentieth-century) have critics begun to
re-examine and describe Chaucer's "ethics."
OLD ENGLISH CHARMS
CALL FOR PAPERS (NEW DEADLINE)
The editors are seeking articles for a proposed collection
on Old English Charms. We welcome submissions that explore
the form, reception, rhetoric, literary style, medical
context, or other aspects of charms in Old English documents.
Submissions are welcome from scholars working in all
disciplines. Interdisciplinary treatments are especially
encouraged. All authors should write in such a way that
their work is accessible to academics working in other
disciplines.
OLD ENGLISH CHARMS
CALL FOR PAPERS
The editors are seeking articles for a proposed collection
on Old English Charms. We welcome submissions that explore
the form, reception, rhetoric, literary style, medical
context, or other aspects of charms in Old English documents.
Submissions are welcome from scholars working in all
disciplines. Interdisciplinary treatments are especially
encouraged. All authors should write in such a way that
their work is accessible to academics working in other
disciplines.
Call for Essays: Victorian Medievalism (6/1/04; collection)
Essays with a focus on Swinburne or Browning or religion are solicited for a
Victorian medievalism collection under contract with Palgrave. Essays
should be appropriate for interdisciplinary undergraduate courses dealing
with Victorian medievalism and should not concern Arthurian or gothic
material. Please send questions and essays to lhollow_at_frc.mass.edu and
jpalmgren_at_saintpauls.edu. Completed essays (4000-5000 words) in Chicago
style should be received by June 1.
Jennifer Palmgren
Asst. Prof. of English
Saint Paul's College
115 College Dr.
Lawrenceville, VA 23868
Call for Papers
Matheliende: The Online Journal of Medieval Studies at the
University of Georgia
Deadline: May 3, 2004
We are pleased to announce Volume 3 of Medieval Forum. As in past
volumes, the authors present a wide range of interests, from medieval
romance to Icelandic saga. We hope that you will find the articles
informative and enjoyable. You are invited to give your comments to
the authors and/or editors.
Two 5,000-word articles are needed for *Menstruation: History and
Culture from Antiquity to Modernity*, (Palgrave, UK) one on each of the
following topics:
1. Menstruation at any point in occidental medical thought before the
year 1000 CE
2. Menstruation in the medical evolutions of the Seventeenth Century
Please send 200-word abstract or inquiries to the editor, Andrew Shail,
at a.e.shail_at_ex.ac.uk or the address below. Provisional deadline for
submission of first draft of articles is 1 June 2004.
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Andrew Shail
School of English
Queens Building
The Queen's Drive
University of Exeter
EX4 4QH
UK
Call for Papers: The Emotional Household in Europe, 1400-1800
As part of an on-going Australian Research Council grant (2003-2007)
in History at The University of Western Australia, which explores
'Fragmented Families and Household Dynamics in Europe, 1400-1800',
the project team, Philippa Maddern, Pamela Sharpe, Susan Broomhall
and Stephanie Tarbin, is inviting papers to form part of an edited
collection of essays specifically examining affective relationships
within the household environment in Continental Europe from 1400 to
1800.
A volume is being put together that will examine the relationship between
classical and biblical ideas in Great Britain and Western Europe in the early
modern period (c1536-1702). We expect to have ten essays, each of between five
thousand and six thousand words. Submissions are welcome from scholars working
in all disciplines.
Interdisciplinary treatments are especially encouraged. All authors should
write in such a way that their work is accessible to academics working in other
disciplines.
Abstracts of 500-1000 words should be sent to John Newton
(j.g.newton_at_durham.ac.uk) or David Lindsay (davidaslindsay_at_hotmail.com) as soon
as possible, and no later than March 2004.
Call for Papers
Matheliende: The Online Journal of Medieval Studies at the
University of Georgia
Deadline: December 1, 2003
The editors of the about-to-be resurrected Matheliende are
seeking essays for our Fall 2003 revival issue. Our theme
is “Fact and/or Fantasy: Medieval Literature in the New
Millennium.†Contributors may focus, for example, on the
Tolkien phenomenon, the continuing relevance of the works of
C.S. Lewis, or the many areas in which medieval and modern
culture overlap. We especially welcome submissions on topics
which re-envision canonical medieval literature.
At the most recent meeting of the American Comparative Literature =
Association in San Marcos, the outgoing president lamented the fact that =
almost 90% of comparative literature sessions in recent years have been =
devoted to relatively modern texts and issues. What has happened to pre- =
and early modern topics in comparative literature?=20
Contributions are sought for a collection of essays addressing connections
between oral traditions--including folktales and folklore--and gender in
early modern literature. Send completed papers (no more than 5,000 words)or
abstracts by June 1, 2004 to both Karen Bamford <kbamford_at_mta.ca> and Mary
Ellen Lamb <marylamb_at_siu.edu>.
Karen Bamford
Associate Professor
Dept. of English, Mount Allison University
63D York St., Sackville, NB, Canada, E4L 1G9
phone: 506-364-2550; fax:506-364-2524
e-mail: kbamford_at_mta.ca
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR BOOK
England and the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Middle Ages