2008

18–21 June 2008. "Coexistence et Coopération au moyen âge/Coesistenza e cooperazione nel medioevo," the fourth Congrès Européen d'Études Médiévales, sponsored by the Fédération internationale des instituts d'études médiévales (FIDEM: http://web.letras.up.pt/fidem/), in Palermo. Contact: Alessandro Musco, Officina di Studi Medievali, Via del Parlamento, 32, I-90133 Palermo, Italy (staff@officinastudimedievali.it; http://www.officinastudimedievali.it).

19–21 June 2008. "The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audience,": a conference and festival, at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Contact: Susan Gingell, Dept. of English, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada (sag178@mail.usask.ca; http://www.usask.ca/english/news /Orality%20CFP.pdf).

24–26 June 2008. "Blood in Medieval France," the Fifth Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, in Paris. 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.

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 of 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. Keynote speaker: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London).

Call for papers: 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. 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, Archaeology, Art History, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, History, History of Medicine, History of Science, Language Studies, Literary Studies, Musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Theology, or 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 c.v., and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required for your presentation. 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 web-site. 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 (http://www.ims-paris.org).

26–28 June 2008. "La mesure," the first 2008 Conference of Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies, in Paris (INHA). Contact: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Univ. of Lausanne (agostino.paravicini@unil.ch).

1–6 July 2008. "Lawman in His Context," t he Sixth La3amon/Lawman International Conference, At Gregynog Hall (Univ. of Wales), Newtown, Powys, Wales. Call for papers: papers on the broad topic of Lawman and the context for his writing, including the Brut chronicle, other Arthurian and metrical chronicles (English and European) and the romance tradition in relation to Lawman are very welcome. A provisional program and registration forms will be sent later this autumn. Proposals for papers to the organizers: Raluca Radulescu (r.radulescu@bangor.ac.uk) or Rosamund Allen (r.s.allen@qmul.ac.uk).

3–5 July, 2008. "Ex Changes. Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and Reception of Ideas (c. 400-1400)." This international and interdisciplinary conference, organized by Claudia Bolgia (Univ. of Edinburgh) with the assistance of ianluca Raccagni (Univ. of Cambridge), will be held at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, U.K.

Taking Rome as the pivotal point of enquiry, and covering a period of a thousand years, the conference proposes to explore the theme of cultural transmission across time (from ancient Rome to "medieval" Rome) and/or space (from Rome to her "neighbours": Anglo-Saxon England, Carolingian Francia, Byzantium, Southern and Northern Italy, Gothic "Europe," and back to Rome herself). By bringing together scholars across a wide range of disciplines and exploring how cultural exchanges work as catalysts for change in their turn, one of the aims of the conference is to offer scholars an opportunity to engage each other, and their specialties, in a productive "exchange" of ideas on the rôle of Rome in the transmission of culture throughout the Middle Ages.

Contact: Claudia Bolgia, School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Univ. of Edinburgh, Minto House, 20 Chambers St., Edinburgh, EH1 1JZ, Scotland (+44-131-6504126; C.Bolgia@ed.ac.uk). For further details, programme and registration: events@crassh.cam.ac.uk (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/rome.html).

7–10 July 2008. "The Natural World" is the theme of the fifteenth International Medieval Congress, which will take place in Leeds. Call for papers: as in previous years, papers and sessions on all aspects of the study of the European Middle Ages are most welcome. Proposals much be submitted by 31 August 2007. The organizers prefer submissions on line at (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc). For further information, contact: Axel E. W. Müller, International Medieval Congress Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson 1.03, Univ. of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, U.K. (IMC@leeds.ac.uk).

7–11 July 2008. "Efficacy / Efficacité," the 8th International Conference on Word and Image Studies, sponsored by the International Association for Word & Image Studies, in Paris. With a focus on art's "efficacy," this congress hopes to encourage contributions that combine careful analyses of images and texts with the study of practices and beliefs. Asking what an image—verbal or visual—can prompt the viewer to do should allow us to enlarge our scope beyond the traditional boundaries of relevant scholarship. Particular attention will be paid to the relationships between texts, images and politics. The work of Louis Marin and of Armando Petrucci invites us to question images and writing as a site for the affirmation and contestation of power, for instance in caricatures, pamphlets, or protest writings. The pedagogical uses of images by religious and secular institutions also invite reflection, especially as they are based on a belief in the mnemonic, didactic, and emotional superiority of the visual over the verbal. The program also addresses the performing arts. Studying the totality of these artistic practices will allow us also to reflect on the "bridges between art and life" that Aby Warburg called "intermediary forms," such as ceremonies, festivals, political rallies, as well as certain forms of propaganda and advertisement. For further information, contact Véronique Plesch (vbplesch@colby.edu) or Béatrice Fraenkel (fraenkel@club-internet.fr; http://www.iawis.org).

10–12 July 2008. "The Medieval Schoolroom and the Literary Arts: Grammar and Its Institutions," at King's College and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

In Piers Plowman the figure Anima famously declares that 'grammar is ground of all', but how and in what ways was this true? This conference will bring together prominent intellectual and cultural historians of the Middle Ages with scholars of various medieval literatures in order to address this question. It will hope to begin an interdisciplinary conversation in which grammatical writings, commentary traditions, manuscript evidence, historical account, and the particular shapes and meanings discerned in literary texts can be brought to bear, simultaneously, in reconstructing and detailing medieval grammar's uses, effects, and broad reach. The conference will also hope to be more broadly exploratory in both method and theory, investigating not only the connection between schoolroom practices and the literary arts, but the variety of ways such connections might be construed.

This conference will bring together prominent intellectual and cultural historians of the Middle Ages with scholars of various medieval literatures in order to examine schoolroom texts, commentary traditions, manuscript evidence, historical account, and the shapes and meanings discerned in literary texts in order to detail medieval grammar's uses, effects, and reach. Plenary speakers: Martin Camargo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), Brian Cummings (Sussex University), Anne Grondeux (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Histoire des Théories Linguistiques), Ralph Hexter (Hampshire College), Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), Sarah Kay (Princeton University), C.H. Kneepkens (University of Groningen), Manfred Kraus (University of Tubingen), Helena Sanson (Cambridge University), Ineke Sluiter (Leiden University), Jorie Woods (University of Texas) Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University). See the website for registration forms (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/schoolroom.html).

11–13 July 2008. "Lollard Affiliations: Historical, Literary, Theological," an international conference of the Lollard Society to be held at Oriel College, Oxford. The conference will bring together historians, theologians, literary scholars, and other students of dissenting religion in late medieval and early modern England to explore, in as interdisciplinary a manner as possible, the numerous contexts that shaped not only Lollardy itself but also the subsequent historiography of Lollardy. Sessions will address the relationships between dissenting and mainstream practice, belief, and writing; methodology in Lollard studies; vernacular theology; and Lollardy and the Reformation, among other topics. Plenary speakers will be Anne Hudson (Oxford), Alastair Minnis (Yale), and Peter Marshall (Warwick).

Registration deadline is 18 April 2008. Full schedule and registration forms are available from Mishtooni Bose at Christ Church, Oxford (mishtooni.bose@chch.ox.ac.uk) or Patrick Hornbeck at Fordham University (hornbeck@fordham.edu).

11–13 July 2008. "Multilingualism in Medieval Britain, 1100–1400," a conference at Bristol University, England. This conference is devoted to the study of the linguistic and sociolinguistic situation in medieval Britain. Speakers include: Caroline Barron, Keith Busby, Alan Fletcher, Tony Hunt, Tim Machan, Anthony Musson, Thea Summerfield, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, and Laura Wright. Call for papers: Areas of interest include the purposes and effects of "code switching"; the functional and territorial distribution between Latin and vernacular languages; encounters between speakers of different languages in reality and literature; similarities and dissimilarities between medieval and modern modalities of multilingualism. The organizers particularly invite papers that explore these issues through a close analysis of one or two specific types of source material. The deadline for abstracts: 31 January, 2008. A volume of selected proceedings is anticipated. Contact: Ad Putter (a.d.putter@bristol.ac.uk) or Dr. Judith Jefferson (j.jefferson@bristol.ac.uk).

12–16 July 2008. "1408–2008: The Age of Gower," the First International Congress of the John Gower Society, at Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End. The year 2008 marks the 600th anniversary of John Gower's death. To commemorate this event, the John Gower Society, in conjunction with Cardiff University, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and Southwark Cathedral. Meals and housing accommodations will also be available on campus. Conference plans include

-evensong and readings from Gower's Latin, French and English poetry
-a reception in Southwark Cathedral

-a walking tour of "Gower's Southwark" led by historian Martha Carlin, author of Medieval Southwark.
-a special tour of the Museum of London

For those attendees going on to the New Chaucer Society Congress in Swansea, coaches will be arranged, and can be booked in advance. A stop in Ewelme will include a tour of the tomb of Chaucer's granddaughter and alms houses led by John Hines. Contact: R. F. Yeager, Dept. of English and Foreign Languages, Univ. of West Florida, Pensacola FL 32514 (fax: 850-474-2934; rfyeager@hotmail.com; http://www.johngower.org/conference/cfp.html).

15–16 July 2008. "The BT @ the BM: New Research on the Bayeux Tapestry," An International Conference at the British Museum, London. The Bayeux Tapestry has attained near iconic status. Although extremely well known and the subject of numerous studies—because it depicts the most famous events in English history—many aspects of the Tapestry remain contentious, even enigmatic. In recent years there has been increased interest in the Tapestry and further advances in our understanding of it, with scholars examining how, where, and why it was made, questioning its reliability and value as a historical source, and excavating its hidden meanings.

The purpose of the conference is to highlight new and recent research on the Tapestry, and to disseminate those findings to a wider audience, in the hope of furthering discussion, debate, and the sharing of ideas about this unique textile. Contact: Dr Michael Lewis, Deputy Head, Dept. of Portable Antiquities & Treasure, British Museum, London, WC1B 3DG (mlewis@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk). Please note that British Museum cannot cover speakers' expenses or pay any fees, but the conference fee will be waived for all contributors.

16–17 July, 2008. "Early English Law: A Centenary Conference on Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen of Felix Liebermann (1903–1916)," will be held, at the Institute for Historical Research in London. The conference is being organized by Stefan Jurasinski (SUNY-Brockport), Bruce O'Brien (Mary Washington), Lisi Oliver (LSU, and Andrew Rabin (University of Louisville) (http://www.history.ac.uk/conferences/medieval.php#79).

18–22 July 2008. The Sixteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society will be held at the University of Wales, Swansea (Wales). Sessions will follow several threads: Form and Aesthetics; Transitions, Ruptures, and Temporalities; Geographies and Colonizations; Making the Text (Manuscripts); Gender versus Sexuality; Nature, Science, and Technology; Devotion, Dissent, and Diaspora; Vernaculars and Identities; Gower; Professionalism and Pedagogy. Names of congress participants will be announced in the Fall 2007 Chaucer newsletter. Contact: Ruth Evans (ruth.evans@stir.ac.uk) or Stephanie Trigg (sjtrigg@unimelb.edu.au; http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/congress/congress2008call.php).

21–24 July 2008. "The Opera theologica of Scotus." This is Conference 2 of The Quadruple Congress: An International Commemoration of the 700th Anniversary of the Death of John Duns Scotus, at Oriel College, Oxford. Contact: Richard Cross, Oriel College, Oxford, U.K. (richard.cross@oriel.ox.ac.uk).

21–25 July 2008. The Institute of Byzantine Studies within the School of History and Anthropology of Queen's University Belfast is pleased to announce the Fifth International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle, at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. The format of this the fifth conference will follow in broad outline the previous four conferences. The aim is to allow scholars who work on the various aspects of the medieval chronicle (historical, literary, art-historical) to meet, announce new findings, present new methodologies and discuss the prospects for collaborative research. The main themes of the conference are:

Chronicle: history or literature?
The chronicle as a historiographical and/or literary genre;
genre identification; genre confusion and genre influence;
typologies of chronicle; classification;
conventions (historiographical, literary or otherwise) and topoi.

The function of chronicles in society; contexts historical, literary and social; patronage; reception of the text(s); literacy; orality; performance

The language(s) of the chronicle; inter-relationships of chronicles in multiple languages; prose and/or verse chronicles; manuscript traditions and dissemination; the arrangement of the text

How chronicles record the past; the relationship with 'time'; how the reality of the past is encapsulated in the literary form of the chronicle; how chronicles explain the past; motivations given to historical actors; the role of the Divine

How art functions in manuscripts of chronicles; do manuscript illuminations illustrate the texts or do they provide a different discourse that amplifies, re-enforces or contradicts the verbal text; origin and production of illuminations; relationships between author(s), scribe(s) and illuminator(s)

Call for papers: papers in English, French, or German are invited on any aspect of Medieval Chronicle [If you would like to give a paper but feel unable to present a paper in any of the three main conference languages, please contact the conference organiser.] The organisers particularly invite papers which address the relationships between chronicles in the western (Latin) and eastern (Byzantine Greek) traditions; papers which address the link between art and text; and papers which deal with the Polish chronicle traditions. Papers will be allocated to sections to give coherence and contrast; authors should identify the main theme to which their paper relates. Papers read at the conference will be strictly limited to twenty (20) minutes in length. The deadline for abstracts is 1 February 2008 (maximum length one side A4 paper, including bibliography). Letters of acceptance of proposed papers will be sent out on or before St Patrick's Day, 17 March 2008.

The conference will take place on the main campus of Queen's University Belfast near the centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast has two airports—Belfast International (Aldergrove) and George Best Belfast City (the Harbour airport)—with connections to many European cities and some transatlantic destinations. A further alternative is travel through Dublin in the Irish Republic (there are bus or train connections to Belfast). More detailed travel options will be given later, but as a preliminary notice, remember that Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, uses pounds sterling (£), not euros (€). Accommodation will be in Queen's Elms, recently modernised university housing near the university. Rooms are single and en suite, though some cheaper rooms with shared facilities have been arranged. Additionally there are a variety of guest houses and hotels (at a variety of prices) near the university. The current (November 2007) estimated price of the conference will be approximately £350, €500, $700 [please note that these figures are intended only as a guide]. Partial registrations and bookings will be available. Registration will begin on the afternoon of Monday, 21 July 2008. Contact: Dion C. Smythe, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, Belfast, N. Ireland BT7 1NN, U.K. (dionsmythe@hotmail.com).

2–5 September 2008. "Teaching Writing, Learning to Write," the XVIth Colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine CIPL), will be held at Senate House, University of London. From the medieval viewpoint writing meant not only the skill of handwriting, but also the ability to write with "correct" understanding of grammar, punctuation, etc. The colloquium will address the psychology and sociology of the medieval scribe. How did scribes learn to write in the Middle Ages? What was the social and cultural significance of a script chosen for a particular function ? How was script influenced by features of fashion? What was the interface between scribe and reader and the graphic signs used to communicate a message? Such questions have an impact on the transmission of texts, the growth of literacy, and the history of reading. Contact: Pamela Robinson, Institute of English Studies, Univ. of London, Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU, U.K. (pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk; http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/london/londonPapers.htm).

7–10 September 2008. "CHYMIA: Science and Nature in Early Europe (1450–1750)," an International Conference held at El Escorial, in Madrid. At San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Philip II planned a monument that would perpetuate his glory for centuries. A church for God. A monastery for the Jeronymite order. A palace for the king. A tomb for the Royal Spanish dynasty. A temple for science. It is this last aspect that, unfortunately, has received the least historical attention over the years. This temple of science hosted during the final decades of the sixteenth century some of the most advanced chemical practitioners in Early Modern Europe in its pharmacy and distillation laboratory. The monastery/palace of El Escorial will serve as a backdrop and co-host of this international conference on science and nature in Early Modern Europe. The conference seeks to bring together Spanish and international scholars of science to discuss several topics, including the role of Alchemy from recent historical perspectives. Contact: Miguel López Pérez, Organizing Committee (baeyens@revistaazogue.com; http://www.revistaazogue.com/conference/presentation.htm).

2–5 September 2008. "The Psychology and Sociology of the Medieval Copyist," the 16th colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine (CIPL) and APICES, at Senate House, University of London. Contact: Pamela Robinson (pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk).

4–6 September 2008. Fagel Symposium, at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1802, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Hendrik Fagel, Greffier of Holland, lived as an exile in London, where reduced circumstances eventually forced him to sell the family library. Trinity College, Dublin, aquired the entire collection, increasing the holdings of the College library by 40%, from 50 000 to 70 000 volumes. Representing the intellectual and social interests of a wealthy and distinguished Dutch family over a period of some 200 years, the collection transformed the contents of the university library that had until then been dominated by theology. Today Fagel's books, pamphlets and maps live a discrete life in the East Pavilion of the magnificent Old Library. The existence of the Fagel collection is virtually unknown outside Dublin and the research potential of these resources has been little exploited. To help remedy this situation a symposium will be held in Dublin (September 4-6). Its immediate purpose is to bring together a number of academics and librarians, who are working either on the history of the book or in any of the fields mentioned above (and others), to discuss the collection. Contact: Tim Jackson, Dept. of Germanic Studies, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland (tjackson@tcd.ie; http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/calls/).

9–12 September 2008. "1308." 36. Kölner Mediaevistentagung, at the Thomas-Institut der Universität Köoln, in Cologne. The conference will consider a historical moment: 1308, the year in which John Duns Scotus died in the house of the Cologne Franciscans. Scarcely anything is known of the circumstances, as is true of Scotus's time in Cologne generally. Explicit mention of the event is usually made only in later chronicles. Attention is rather given to other events: perhaps something regarding the process against the Templars, in which many masters and scholars were involved as authorities. Also in Cologne corresponding investigations were undertaken at the behest of Clemens V. In Poitiers on 12 August 1308, the same pope drew up the bull of convocation for the Council of Vienne. In the same year, Marguerite Porete was taken into custody and handed over to the Dominican Inquisitor, Humbert of Paris, the confewwor of Phillipp the Fair. While Durandus of St. Pourçain held his first lecture on the Sentences in Paris, Peter Sutton, Robert Cowton and William Ockham were active in Oxford; Meister Eckhart worked in Erfurt on his Opus tripartitum, which he would never finish; Dante's hopes of returning to Florence were definitively shattered with the failure of the Italian campaign of Henry VII, after the latter—and not the Cologne archbishop Henry II of Virneburg—was elected the successor of King Albert I, after Albert's murder at Königsfelden. In the same year, Robert of Anjou became Karl I, king of Hungary. And the amount of wine shipped into Bayonne reached a record volume: 104,815 barrels (= 850,000–900,000 hl).

2–4 October 2008. The annual meeting of the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) will be held at the Catholic University of American, in Washington, D.C. Contact: Sheryl Mullane-Corvi, Medieval Academy, 104 Mt. Auburn St., 5th Fl., Cambridge, MA 02138 (617-491-1622; SMC@MedievalAcademy.org; http://www.MedievalAcademy.org/cara/cara.htm).

2–5 October 2008. The 18th-Annual Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) Conference, at Texas Tech University. Plenary Speaker: Thomas F.X. Noble (Director, Medieval Institute, Notre Dame). Concert by Altramar. Saturday Theme: "The Medieval Southwest" features W. Michael Mathes on "Medieval Castile on the Llano Estacado: The Vázquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540–1541" and an exhibit devoted to "The Medieval Southwest: Manifestations of the Old World in the New," sponsored by Humanities Texas, the Helen Jones Foundation, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities. Contact: John Howe, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 41013, Lubbock, TX 79409-1013 (806-742-1004, ext 233; john.howe@ttu.edu; http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/infopage.htm).

3–5 October 2008. The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Midwest Conference on British Studies in Cincinnati, Ohio. Call for papers: we solicit proposals for panels on England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the British Empire broadly defined. Our interests range from the medieval to the modern and we welcome participation by historians, literary critics, economists, political scientists, sociologists, art historians, and scholars in allied disciplines. We invite panel proposals treating selected themes, methodology, and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussion of topical work. North American scholars, international scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals. Panels that include the full range from graduate students through senior faculty are especially encouraged. To be considered, all paper and panel proposals must be received by Friday, 15 February 2008. Contact: Steven Pincus, NACBS Program Chair, Dept. of History, Yale Univ., P.O. Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324 (nacbs@yale.edu; http://www.nacbs.org/ann.html).

4–5 October 2008. "Crusade, Jihad, and Identity in the Medieval World," a meeting of the New England Medieval Conference, at Dartmouth College. Call for papers: conference organizers are looking for papers engaging the question of how ideologies of crusade and jihad, or resistance to them, helped shape religious, political, communal, personal and gender identities in the medieval period. Papers are welcome from history, art history, comparative literature, Middle Eastern studies, and other fields, covering Europe, the Mediterranean world, Islamic lands, Spain and frontier regions. Deadline: 15 June 2008 . Contact: Cecilia Gaposchkin (m.c.gaposchkin@dartmouth.edu) or Christopher MacEvitt (christopher.h.macevitt @Dartmouth.edu).

16–19 October 2008. The Thirty-Fourth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (BSC) will be held at Rutgers University from Thursday evening, October 16, through Sunday lunch, October 19. The conference is the annual forum for the presentation and discussion of papers on every aspect of Byzantine studies, and is open to all, regardless of nationality or academic status. It is also the occasion of the annual meeting of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA), conducted by the current BSANA officers. Questions concerning local arrangements may be directed to the chair of the Local Arrangements Committee: Tia Kolbaba Dept. of Religion, School of Arts & Sciences, Rutgers University 70 Lipman Dr., Loree Bldg, Rm. 112, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525 (kolbaba@rci.rutgers.edu; http://www.bsana.net/conference/index.html).

17–18 Oct. 2008. "The Devil in Society in the Pre-modern World," an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto. Keynote speakers include Richard Kieckhefer and Audrey L. Meaney. Conference organizers invite submissions for individual 20-minute papers, panels, and workshops or round-tables dealing with any aspect of demonism and its manifestation in the classical, medieval, and Early Modern traditions. Possible topics include Antichrist and the end of the world; Demons and heresy; Demonic possession; Demonology and witchcraft; Demons and sceptics; Exorcism; Demons in art, literature, folklore, exempla or hagiography; Women as healers, mystics, and witches. Contact: Richard Raiswell Dept. of History, Univ. of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Ave., Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4P3 Canada (devilconf@ma.psu.edu).

22–24 October 2008. "Adam: Le premiere homme," the second 2008 Conference of Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies, at Lausanne University. Contact: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Univ. of Lausanne (agostino.paravicini@unil.ch).

26–28 October 2008. "Beyond Saints and Scholars: Medieval Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century," an International, Interdisciplinary Conference at Saint Louis University. Keynote lecturers:

>>John Bradley, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, National University of Ireland-Maynooth

>>Hiram Morgan, Lecturer, Department of History, University College-Cork

>>Rachel Moss, Lecturer, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College, Dublin.

Call for papers: the Conference sponsors request proposals for thirty-minute papers that address new approaches to medieval Irish studies. Topics favored include defining the temporal and geographic limits of medieval Ireland, applying new techniques to old sources, revising "traditional" views of medieval Ireland, crossing disciplinary boundaries, and providing European contexts for medieval Ireland. Send proposals to Thomas Finan, Dept. of History, 3800 Lindell Blvd., Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO 63108 (finantj@slu.edu) Sponsored by the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, the Mellon Faculty Development Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Louis University, and the Centers for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and International Studies at Saint Louis University.

28–29 October 2008. "Translating the Middle Ages," an international conference sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies and the Center for Translation Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Call for papers: 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 1 October 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): 15 April. Notification of acceptance: 15 May. Send abstracts and inquiries to Karen Fresco, Dir., Program in Medieval Studies (kfresco@uiuc.edu).

5–9 November 2008. "The Metaphysics and Ethics of Scotus." This is Conference 3 of The Quadruple Congress: An International Commemoration of the 700th Anniversary of the Death of John Duns Scotus, in Bonn and Cologne, Germany. Contact: Ludger Honnefelder (ami@albertus-magnus-institut.de).

14–15 November 2008. "Global Encounters: Legacies of Exchange and Conflict (1000-1700)" a Conference organized by the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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).

Call for papers: the new Program in MEMS at UNC, 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. 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; MEMS, the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UNC; Associate Provost for International Affairs, UNC Chapel Hill; The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University.

28-30 November 2008. Liber Conference Berlin. Manuscript librarians from across Europe will meet at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin to discuss matters of mutual professional interest. This Third International Conference of LIBER's Manuscript Librarians Group follows meetings at the Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm, in 2000 and at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, in 2003.

The conference will focus on ways in which we communicate the manuscript holdings of our institutions to researchers, to scholars and to the public who visit exhibitions and use the internet. The meeting will work towards a greater mutual knowledge and an active exchange of information and experiences among European libraries, in keeping with the aims of the Group.

There will be a limit of 100 participants. As we anticipate a high demand, you are advised to book early (http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/liber/index.html). The LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group recognises the unique significance of manuscript and archive collections, not only for the world of research and learning but also for the wider audience of those interested in history and cultural heritage. The primary aims of the Group are to act as a forum for curatorial concerns, and to enhance understanding and practical cooperation among curators across Europe, taking account of the differences in approach which have occurred historically.

2–6 December 2008. The Seventh Biennial International Conference of theAustralian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS), at the University of Tasmania, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Call for papers, paper proposals on all aspects of medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies are welcome. The deadline for abstracts from Australian and New Zealand participants is 1 Sept 2008. Participants from countries other than Australia and New Zealand can receive confirmation of their papers and panels by 1 March 2008, if needed. Conference organisers: Michael Bennett, Elizabeth Freeman, Martin Grimmer, Jenna Mead, Pam Sharpe, and Rodney Thomson (anzamems2008@utas.edu.au).

6 December 2008. "The Shape of Time in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," the Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, at Barnard College, in New York. An interdisciplinary conference exploring how time was measured, represented and imagined in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Call for papers: proposals are sought to address a range of topics including the technology of measuring and organizing time, calendars, models of time including astronomical, natural, and liturgical, and the expression of time in literature, fine arts, music, theater, historiography, law and science. Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2008. Contact Laurie Postlewate (212-854-2053; lpostlew@barnard.edu).

2009

19–22 March 2009. "Scotism through the Centuries." This is Conference 4 of The Quadruple Congress: An International Commemoration of the 700th Anniversary of the Death of John Duns Scotus, in Strasbourg. Contact: Mechthild Dreyer (dreyer@mail.uni-mainz.de).

3–4 April 2009. "The City in Medieval Life and Culture" is the theme of the 36th annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, to be held at the University of the South. Plenary lecturers are John Najemy (Cornell University) and Pamela King (University of Bristol). Call for papers: proposals are invited for papers or sessions relating to any aspect of the theme. Please submit abstract (maximum 250 words) and brief c.v. to sridyard@sewanee.edu no later than 1 October 2008. If you would like to propose a session, please include abstracts and c.v.s from all participants. For further information on the conference and on the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize please see: http://www.sewanee.edu/medieval/main.html. Contact: Susan J. Ridyard, Dept. of History, Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Univ. of the South, 735 University Ave., Sewanee TN 37383.

16–18 April 2009. "After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England," an international conference organized 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, in Oxford.

* Mapping Chronologies (chaired by James Simpson)
* The Dynamics of Orthodox Reform
* Humanism and Intellectual History
* Literary Self-Consciousness and Literary History
* Discerning the Discourse: Language and Spirituality
* Heresy and its Textual Afterlife

Plenary speakers to include: Jeremy Catto, Anne Hudson, David Lawton, Miri Rubin and Sarah Beckwith; conference respondent: Nicholas Watson. Conference committee: Vincent Gillespie, Helen Barr, Santha Bhattacharji, Mishtooni Bose, Kantik Ghosh, Annie Sutherland, John Watts. Call for papers: please send 500-word abstracts by 1 May 2008 to Vincent Gillespie, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford OX2 6QA, U.K. (vincent.gillespie@ell.ox.ac.uk).

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Panels and Chairs

Each session will have an anchor speaker. The following sessions are agreed (apart from session 1, the order is not yet fixed):

*Mapping Chronologies. A panel to set the agenda for the conference. James Simpson to chair.

*The Dynamics of Orthodox Reform

*Humanism and Intellectual History

*Literary Self-Consciousness and Literary History

*Discerning the Discourse: Language and Spirituality

*Heresy and Its Textual Afterlife

Sessions will be 90 minutes; separate plenaries; no more than two parallel sessions; 30-minute break between sessions. The first plenary will be at 4:00 on Thursday, followed by a prestigious reception and dinner.

Thursday: Registration from 2:00 onwards 4:00 Opening Plenary (Convocation House): Miri Rubin 5:30 Reception (Divinity School) 7:30 Dinner

Friday 9:30-11:00 Session 1: Mapping Chronologies: chaired by James Simpson 11:30-1:00 Session 2: The Dynamics of Orthodox Reform Lunch 2:00-3:30 Session 3: Humanism and Intellectual History 4:00 Second Plenary: Jeremy Catto and Anne Hudson in Conversation 5:30 or 6:00 Reception 7.30 Dinner

Saturday 9:30-11:00 Third Plenary: David Lawton 11:30-1:00 Session 4: Discerning the Discourse: Language and Spirituality 2:00-3:30 Session 5: Literary Self-Consciousness and Literary History 4:00 -5:30 Session 6: Heresy and Its Textual Afterlife 5:45-7:00 45 minute Final Plenary: Sarah Beckwith; Conference Respondent: Nicholas Watson 7:00 Drinks 7:45 Conference Dinner

22–25 April 2009. "Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy," an international conference to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the death of Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), has been organised by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham, and the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Call for papers: taking as its theme the legacy of Anselm, the conference will operate with a broad interdisciplinary remit. The organisers welcome papers on all aspects of the legacy of Anselm's thought and career. The conference will be an opportunity to celebrate, deepen and re-examine key questions about the name that Anselm has enjoyed in the fields of philosophy and theology; to re-assess the impact that he and the intellectual methods he developed had upon his immediate, 12th century and later successors; to look again at the historical Anselm and the role he played in the political and ecclesiastical issues of his day, and to explore the rich and diverse ways in which his memory has been preserved and debated since his death. It is hoped that the breadth and depth of Anselm's interests, from the centre of his monastic life to his activity in the world, will be reflected in the subject matter of the conference.

Please send proposed paper titles, with an abstract of 300 words (papers to be 20 minutes long) to: Giles E. M. Gasper, Dept. of History, Durham Univ., 43 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EX, U.K. (+44-191-3341073; g.e.m.gasper@durham.ac.uk; http://www.dur.ac.uk/cmrs/conferences/anselm2009/). The deadline for proposal submissions is mid-October 2008.

23–26 April 2009. The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 82nd annual meeting, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome.

Besides single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits. Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press.

Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin. When proposing a historical argument, state the major claim, summarize the evidence supporting the claim, and state the major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative, summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September 2008. E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted.

The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient software (http://histmed.org). If you are unable to submit proposals online, send eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to the Program Committee Chair, Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan, 100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0725 (734-647-6914; howard@umich.edu).

13–16 July 2009. "Heresy and Orthodoxy" will be the theme of the International Medieval Congress, Leeds. The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. Papers and sessions on any topic related to the European Middle Ages are welcome. Call for papers: Proposals completed on line are preferred. Proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2008; session proposals must be submitted by 30 September 2008. The Imc welcomes session and paper proposals submitted in all major European languages. Contact: Axel E. W. Müller, International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Bldg. 1.03, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (+44-113-343-3614; fax: +44-113-343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc).