The Medieval Association of the Pacific

Call for Papers for MAP/MAA 2014

Scott Kleinman — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:30:00 +0000

Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2014: Call for Papers

Deadline for submission is 15 June 2013

The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific will be held jointly with the Medieval Academy of America on 10-12 April, in Los Angeles at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and hosted by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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 2012 and 2013; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

The complete Call for Papers with additional information, submission procedures, selections guidelines, and organizers is available here.

Please contact Prof. Massimo Ciavolella at UCLA, if you have any questions.

Critical/Liberal/Arts Symposium at UC Irvine

Scott Kleinman — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:47:38 +0000

A one-day symposium on the “Critical/Liberal/Arts” will be held at UC Irvine on Friday, April 19th. The eleven speakers include specialists in medieval studies and early modern studies (Aranye Fradenburg, Bruce Smith, Aaron Kunin, Maura Nolan, Brantley Bryant, Rebecca Davis) as well as an academic activist, a digital humanist, and a filmmaker. The following partial description of the aims of the symposium series:

The “hermeneutics of suspicion” has fallen under suspicion. There has been a turn against “critique” and away from “paranoid reading.” Yet critique — understood to encompass heterogeneous practices of judgment and pursuits of justice — has not outlived its usefulness. Critical/Liberal/Arts is a project and event-space seeking new articulations and performances of critique’s timeliness, beginning with two one-day symposia: at UC Irvine in April 2013, followed by another at The Graduate Center, CUNY in September 2013, with both symposia to be documented in a special issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. We have been inspired by the recent experiments of thinkers, artists, and technologists who are crafting, composing, curating, inventing, agitating, building, healing, resisting, and playing as ways of inquiring into the limits and consequences of our humanities, university, and world. Presenters were invited to think about critique in proximity to other modes of action, especially those of making and creation — to discover creation and critique inhering in one another, or wending apart, or crossing one another again and again like a pair of knives being whetted, or like the faces of the proverbial Mobius strip.

Find for day’s schedule here. Registration is open here, and space is limited.

MAP 2013 Program

Scott Kleinman — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:12:47 +0000

Note: This timetable is provisional. Further changes may be made to the program prior to the beginning of the conference.

Friday

9:00	1. Power and Piety in Northern Europe
	Chair: Matthew Kuefler, San Diego State University

	An Unknowing Traitor and Just King: Political Interaction in Late 13^th Century Iceland
	Sayaka Matsumoto, Kyoto University

	The Presence of Affective Piety in Medieval Ireland
	Daniel Najork, Arizona State University

	Pastoral Care or a War Against the Laity? Local Applications of Conciliar Law 1180-1250
	Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University


	2. History and Memory
	Chair: Thomas Barton, University of San Diego

	Online Medievalism: Racializing Beowulf and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
	Michelle Brooks, Independent Scholar

	Langland’s Failed Revisions across the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman
	Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles

	Narrative and Memory: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle(s), 937-55
	Alaric Trousdale, Western Oregon University


	3. Medieval Iberian Literature
	Chair: Kim Klimek, Metropolitan State University of Denver

	Hermeneutics of Prosody in the Libro de buen amor
	Guinevere Allen, Stanford University

	The Correspondences of Princess Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī: a Medieval Harlot, Muse and Poet
	Doaa Omran, University of New Mexico


	Authority and the Vernacular in the Mester de Clerecía: Towards a Religious Language of Sin and Redemption in the Poema de Fernán González
	Liliana Worth, Jesus College, Oxford


	4. Corporality, Spirituality, and Learning in the Writings of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
	Organizer: Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara University
	Chair: Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara University

	Ties That Bond: Hrotsvit and the Project of Spiritual Integration
	Michael Zampelli, SJ, Santa Clara University

	Speaking like Terence in Tenth century Germany
	Scott Wells, California State University, Los Angeles

	Transcorporal Virginity and the Chaste Seduction of the Text
	Lisa M.C. Weston, California State University, Fresno


11:00	5. Crusading Rhetoric
	Chair: Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University

	Exegesis and the Third Crusade: From Biblical Violence to Moral Reform in the Writings of the English Clergy
	John Cotts, Whitman College

	Islam in the Alexandre en Orient
	David Rollo, University of Southern California

	Exegesis and History in the Early Twelfth Century: The New Testament in the Latin Chronicles of the First Crusade
	Katherine Allen Smith, University of Puget Sound

	Gesta Francorum as Crusade Propaganda
	Stefan Vander Elst, University of San Diego


	6. Religious Images and Imagery
	Chair: Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles

	Church and Family: Donusdeo Malavolti and the bishopric of Siena, 1316-1350
	Brad Franco, University of Portland

	What Happened to that Seraph? Francis’s “Ecstasy” as Antecedent for “Annihilation” in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls
	Wendy Petersen-Boring, Willamette University


	Devotional Reliefs in Quattrocento Florence
	Sarah Kam-Gordon, University of Portland

	Soul-sleep and awakening: Gnostic affinities in Pearl and the ‘Hymn of the Pearl’ in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas
	Maura Giles-Watson, University of San Diego

	7. Saints and Sinners in Medieval Iberia
	Chair: Marie Kelleher, California State University, Long Beach

	Adultery, Bigamy, and Marriage Desertion in the Late Medieval Peasant Communities of Catalunya
	Michelle Armstrong-Partida, University of Texas at El Paso

	Legislative Regime Alimentary Regulations of Medieval Monastic Orders in the Hispanic Territories
	María Margarita Tascón González, Universidad de León

	A French Saint in Catalonia: Saint Gerald of Aurillac/Sant Grau d’Orlha
	Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University


	8. Reproductive Bodies
	Chair: Jane Georges, University of San Diego

	Byzantine Empresses and Bride Shows
	Kriszta Kotsis, University of Puget Sound

	Henry II’s and Cunegund’s Sanctity: Chastity or Disability?
	Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico

	Shameful Reading: The Revelations of the Female Body in Medieval Gynecological Texts
	Samantha Seal, Weber State University


2:30	9. The Religious Other
	Chair: Katherine Smith, University of Puget Sound

	Per mundum gyrante: Anti-Waldensian Persecutions and Itinerant Inquisitors in Germany, 1390-1407
	Eugene Smelyansky, University of California, Irvine

	The Condemnation of “Judaizers” in European Law, c. 1100-c. 1300
	Sean Murphy, Western Washington University


	The Devil Is in the Details: The Life and Times of Bernardino de Sahagún
	Kim Eherenman, University of San Diego

	10. Images of Disaster and Apocalypse
	Chair: Roger Dahood, University of Arizona

	May the Best Interpreter Win: The Battle over Apocalypse Interpretation and its Impact on Byzantine History and Eschatology
	Eugenia Constantinou, University of San Diego

	Adversus Paganos: Interpreting Natural Disaster in Late Antiquity
	David Patterson, University of British Columbia

	Virtual Pilgrimage in the Prick of Conscience
	Ellen Rentz, Claremont McKenna College

	11. Medieval Music
	Chair: Nancy Van Deusen, Claremont Graduate University

	Singing the Unsung Song of Repurposed Music Manuscripts
	Alicia Doyle, California State University, Long Beach

	Text Setting and Versification in the Madrigals of Jacopo da Bologna
	Lauren Jennings, University of Southern California

	Trading Salvation for Stew: the Ordo Ysaac et Rebecca and Musical Exegesis
	Leann Martin, University of Washington

	12. Theological Questions
	Chair: Michael Wagner, University of San Diego

	Making Excuses for Moses: Improper Intercession in Twelfth-Century Thought
	Philippa Byrne, University of Oxford

	Augustinian Divine Simplicity and Peter Lombard the Mediaeval Detractor: A Study in Lombard’s Heterodox Concept of a Trinitarian persona
	Scott Fennemas, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology

	What Can Be Learned from the Medieval Theorization of Ignorance?
	Lev Marder, University of California, Irvine


4:00	13. Beowulf
	Chair: Joseph McGowan, University of San Diego

	Loyalty before Love: Homosocial Bonds in Beowulf and Marie de France’s Bisclavret
	Cristina Acevedo, California State University, Fullerton

	Reputation Effects, Self-Presentation and Indirect Reciprocity: The Real Story behind Beowulf’s Altruism
	Jessie Bonafede, California State University, Fullerton

	Monstrosity and Kingship: Subjectivity and Social Mores in Beowulf
	Marjorie Housley, University of Connecticut


	14. Tradition and Folklore in Medieval England
	Chair: Kim Zarins, California State University, Sacramento

	Bald’s Leechcraft and the Traditional Holidays
	Amy Hall, Northwestern Oklahoma State University

	Devouring the Dead
	Heather Maring, Arizona State University

	Keeping Your Head: The Unbeheaded Giant in Chivalric Romance
	Rachel McClain, Montgomery College


	15. Arabic Mathematics and Cartography
	Chair: Eugenia Constantinou, University of San Diego

	A Visual Approach to Medieval Arabic Maps
	Sally Abed, University of Utah

	Old-fashioned versus New-fangled: Reading and Writing Numbers: 1200-1500
	John Crossley, Monash University

	Riches from the Middle Ages
	Barnabas Hughes, California State University, Northridge


	16. Gender and Personhood in French and English
	Chair: Joseph Parry, Brigham Young University

	The Invisible King: Le Roman de Silence and Trans Gender Virtue
	Terrilynn Cantlon, Mills College

	Finding Oneself in the Wilderness: The Trials of Marie de France’s Bisclavret and Sir Orfeo
	Caitlin Feener, California State University, Fullerton

	Gendered Bodies in Bisclavret and SILENCE
	Kristen Over, Northeastern Illinois University


Saturday

9:00	17. Cultural Identity in Britain
	Chair: Maura Giles-Watson, University of San Diego

	Englishness and Otherness: National Identity in Fourteenth-Century England
	Chris Anderson, Western Washington University

	Palimpsests of Place and Time in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae
	Siân Echard, University of British Columbia

	Betrayal and Treason in Wynnere and Wastoure
	Ruth Feiertag, The National Coalition of Independent Scholars

	“For Engelonde”: Defining English Identity in The Owl and the Nightingale
	Florence Newman, Towson University


	18. Medieval Manuscript Studies
	Chair: Justin Brock, University of New Mexico

	BN fr. 2456 Revisited: Manuscripts and Politics in Late 14th-Century France
	Michael Hanly, Washington State University

	Textual Traces of Performance Activity in TCD MS 432
	Jacqueline Jenkins, University of Calgary

	Queen Isabeau’s Art History Lesson in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othéa
	Nhora Serrano, California State University, Long Beach


	19. Contemporary Medievalism
	Chair: Heather Maring, Arizona State University

	“Sir Gary-Stu”: Le Morte D’Arthur as Malory’s Self-Insert Fan-Fiction
	Megan Abrahamson, University of New Mexico

	U.S. Health Care Truly Is Medieval: A Power Relations Analysis
	Jane Georges, University of San Diego

	Sustainability, Class, and Waste in the Awntyrs off Arthure
	Chelsea Henson, Woodbury University


	20. Sexual Boundaries in Medieval Literature
	Chair: Kim Eherenman, University of San Diego

	Two Medieval Concepts of Lingual Creativity
	James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis

	Language and Power in the Old French Fabliau La Demoisele qui ne poiit pas oir de foutre
	Megan Moore, University of Missouri, Columbia

	Midas’ Touch: Erotic Economies in Book V of the Confessio Amantis
	Diane Cady, Mills College

	Questions on Gender and Sexuality in Juan Manuel
	María Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego


11:00	21. Juan Manuel
	Organizer: María Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego
	Chair: María Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego

	Ethnic humor in El Conde Lucanor
	Ana Adams, Gustavus Adolphus College

	Deep Thoughts and Funny Sayings: Iberian Wisdom Literature and Juan Manuel’s viessos
	Jonathan Burgoyne, Ohio State University

	Don Juan Manuel as Poet: Argote’s Argument for Castilian Literary Antiquity
	Michael Hammer, San Francisco State University

	22. Material Cultures
	Chair: Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada

	Hronaes Ban: Meaning and Materiality and the Franks Casket
	Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico
	and Susan M. Kim, Illinois State University

	Medieval Theology of Power and City Seals
	Alfons Puigarnau, International University of Catalonia

	The Venetian Grosso of Enrico Dandolo: Recent Investigations into the First Pure Silver Coinage in Medieval Europe
	Kevin Roddy, University of California, Davis


	23. Chaucer
	Chair: Stefan Vander Elst, University of San Diego

	Petty or Powerful: Abuses of Divine Power in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
	Missy Guzmán, California State University, Fullerton

	“The fresshe beautee sleeth me sodeynly”: Violent Beauties and Suffering Knights in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
	Jenny Howe, Stonehill College

	“Is ther no remedye?”: The Problem of Consent in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale
	Sunyoung Lee, Arizona State University

	24. Beyond the Marriage Lens: Women and Work in Late Medieval Europe
	Organizer: Sarah Hanson, UC Santa Barbara
	Chair: Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University

	Anne of Bohemia and the Work of Queenship
	Kristen Geaman, University of Southern California

	Gender, Work, and Coming of Age in Late Medieval Douai
	Sarah Hanson, University of California, Santa Barbara

	Fleshing Out the Job Description for Breton Noblewomen in the Fourteenth Century
	Katie Sjursen, Southern Illinois University


2:00	25. Saints and Mystics
	Chair, Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico

	Seven Streams of the Breast: The significance of breastfeeding and female roles in Mechthild of Magdeburg’s The Flowing Light of the Godhead
	Adrienne Damiani, University of California, Berkeley

	“When a person eats” … the whole body is strengthened”
	Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount University

	Voice and Mirror: Narrative Strategies in Three Early Cistercian Vitae
	Marjory Lange, Western Oregon University

	Friendship and the Ambivalence of Richard Rolle
	R. Jacob McDonie, Pomona College


	26. Translation in/of Medieval England
	Chair: Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge

	A Dual Remedy for the Chaos of Babel: Examining John Trevisa’s Dialogue Between a Lord and a Clerk On Translation and Late Medieval English Vernacular Culture
	Justin Brock, University of New Mexico

	Walking the Tightrope of Translation
	Diana Coogle, University of Oregon

	Love and Language in Fourteenth-Century Ovidian Poetry
	John Fyler, Tufts University


	27. Placing Literature Back Into Composition–At All Levels
	Organizer: Megan Ozima, California State University, Fullerton
	Chair: Jessie Bonafede, California State University, Fullerton

	A Path for Student Success: Using Medieval Literature in the Basic Skills Classroom
	Amber Gillis, El Camino College Compton Center

	Shifting Through Student Success: SGGK’s Purpose in a Composition Class
	Megan Ozima, El Camino College

	Shock to the System: Unfamiliar Texts and Contemplations on the Place of Literature in the Composition Classroom Using SGGK and Beckett’s Endgame
	Coralyn Foults, California State University, Fullerton


	28. The Cotton Nero A.x Project: Recent Research and Discoveries
	Organizer: Murray McGillivray, University of Calgary

	Jaclyn Carter, University of Calgary
	Murray McGillivray, University of Calgary
	Kelsey Moskal, University of Calgary
	Kenna Olsen, Mount Royal University


	29. Violence and Authority
	Organizer: Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada, Reno
	Chair: John S. Ott, Portland State University

	Performative Violence in Medieval Southern Italy, 800-1100
	Sarah Whitten, SUNY Cortland

	The Consequences of Kidnapping the Bishop in Ottonian Ravenna
	Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada, Reno

	Resisting the Call to Arms in Medieval Catalonia: the Case of Tortosa
	Tom Barton, University of San Diego


4:00	30. Women, Magic, and the Divine
	Chair: Elizabeth Walsh, University of San Diego

	Morgan le Fey: Sister, Savior, Sorceress
	Emilee Howland-Davis, University of New Mexico

	Anonymous Heroines: The Dames and Pucelles of Chretien de Troyes’ Lancelot and Le Chevalier au Lion
	Alexandria Krause, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

	Des Origines et Mystères à Marie: Medieval Chthonic Female Deities
	Shauna Robertson, California State University, Fullerton


	31. Heroes and Monsters
	Organizer: Michael Heyes, Rice University, and Asa Mittman, California State University, Chico
	Chair: Asa Mittman, CSU Chico

	Heroic spectacle and monstrous invisibility in Beowulf, Andreas, and Elene
	Fabienne Michelet, University of Toronto

	Symbolic Bodies: Monstrosity and Heroism in Beowulf and OE Judith
	Rebecca Coleman, Mt. San Jacinto College

	In the Belly of the Beast
	Michael Heyes, Rice University


	32. Rendering Romance in Word and Image
	Organizer: Anne Laskaya, University of Oregon
	Chair: Kristen Over, Northeastern Illinois University

	Fifteenth Century Rhetorical Theory and Generic Congruity in Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff. 2.38
	Ben Ambler, Arizona State University

	Seeing the Seer: Images of Merlin
	Carol Harding, Western Oregon University

	Exploring fault-lines between images, manuscript, and edition: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
	Anne Laskaya, University of Oregon


	33. Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Kingship in Early English Political Writing
	Organizer: Jonathan Forbes, UC Santa Barbara
	Chair: Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

	Sovereign Identity in Guillaume D’Angleterre
	Shay Hopkins, University of California, Santa Barbara

	De affectui regis
	Paul J. Megna, University of California, Santa Barbara

	Traumatic Medievalism in Shakespeare’s Richard III
	Jonathan Forbes, University of California, Santa Barbara

MAP 2013 Conference Information and Registration

Scott Kleinman — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:56:52 +0000

Location

The 2013 MAP Conference will be held March 21-23, 2013 in Mother Rosalie Hill Hall at the in School of Leadership and Education Studies on the west end of the University of San Diego campus. The sessions will take place in rooms 131,133, 145 and the auditorium.

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Registration

All conference participants must be MAP or JSMES members. If you are a speaker and have not yet joined MAP or renewed your membership, please join MAP before registering. If you are already a MAP member, please login before registering. Once you have logged in, please go to the MAP 2013 Conference Registration page.

Registration fees are $70.00 for regular members and guests, and $35.00 for students. The deadline for registration is 8 March, 2013. After this date, a late registration fee of $10 will be charged.

In addition, the following registration options are available:

Friday Lunch – $15.00
Friday Banquet with Hosted Bar – $50.00
Saturday Lunch – $15.00

There will be an opening reception with a hosted bar in the Bishop Buddy Sala in Mother Rosalie Hill Hall on Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30.

A/V Equipment: All rooms are equipped with a computer and projection equipment. Cables to substitute a laptop (either MAC or PC) for the computer in the room will also be available. Please let us know if you have any unusual A/V requirements.

Conference Program

A provisional version of the Conference Program is available online.

Parking

There is no fee for guest parking on USD campus. Please obtain a visitor’s permit from the guard at the West Entrance Welcome Kiosk and park in the West Parking Structure (#2 on the campus map). Take the West campus loop tram to the main area of campus. This tram stops at the top of the hill, across the street from Mother Rosalie Hill Hall.

If you are staying either at The Dana or Days Inn, shuttles will leave these hotels for USD on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 and 5:00, on Friday morning at 8:00, on Friday evening at 6:30 and on Saturday morning at 7:30 (please note the different times). Transportation will return you to these hotels on Thursday night at 9:00, on Friday night at 5:45 and 10:00, and onSaturday evening at 5:30.

If you are staying at the Hacienda Hotel, available transportation is different for Friday and Saturday. On Friday, you can take the free shuttle provided by USD at the Old Town Transit Center. It will drop you off at the West Parking Structure, where you will board the West tram to the stop at Olin Hall. (Note—it’s only about 1/4 mile at most from the parking structure to Mother Rosalie Hill Hall.) On Friday night at 10:00 (after the banquet) transportation will take you back to the Hacienda. On Saturday, the shuttle will pick you up at the hotel at 7:30 a.m. and return to the hotel at 5:30.

Additional parking and transportation information can be obtained at the following links.

Accommodations

Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the following local hotels; please make your reservations through the particular hotel’s reservation department, mentioning the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference at University of San Diego.

Hacienda Hotel
4041 Harney Street
San Diego, CA 92110-2866

Reservations with Conference Rate ($130/night):

Enter dates of stay
Enter group code “medieval”
Click on “Check Rates”

The Dana – Mission Bay
1710 West Mission Bay Drive
San Diego, CA 92109
Reservations with Conference Rate ($149/night)

Days Hotel
543 Hotel Circle S.
San Diego, CA 92108
Reservations with Conference Rate ($76/night)

MAP 2013

Scott Kleinman — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:42:03 +0000

Thursday March 21, 2013 – Saturday March 23, 2013

5998 Alcalá Park

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2013 Conference of the Medieval Association of the Oacific

19th ACMRS Conference Call for Papers

Scott Kleinman — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:56:37 +0000

The 19^th Annual ACMRS Conference
14 – 16 February 2013
Renaissance Hotel, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Theme: Beasts, Humans and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Description: The 19^th Annual ACMRS Conference will be held on 14-16 February 2013, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Keynote speaker: Professor Juliana Schiesari, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis.

Call for Papers:

We welcome any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially those that focus on this year’s theme of beasts, humans and transhumans both in literal and metaphorical manifestations. Proposals must be submitted electronically at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference through 20 November 2012.

Details and information: http://www.acmrs.org/conferences/annual-acmrs-conference
Contact: acmrs@acmrs.org phone: 480-965-9323 fax: 480-965-1681

Call for Papers: University of British Columbia Medieval Workshop

Scott Kleinman — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:48:58 +0000

University of British Columbia
41^st Medieval Workshop

Interpretive Conflations: Exegesis and the Arts in the Middle Ages
7 – 9 November 2013

Biblical exegesis, though at the centre of the intellectual enterprise in the Middle Ages, is often neglected by modern scholars since it is primarily seen as a vehicle of theological thought. We contend, however, that biblical exegesis had a much more profound effect: it created the hermeneutic system for the Middle Ages and its influence was pervasive. Medieval scholars or artists trained on biblical exegesis would not abandon these thought-patterns when they composed or read other texts such as epics, hagiography, or historiography, regardless of whether these texts were written in Latin or the vernacular; nor did medieval artists neglect the hermeneutical patterns of exegesis when they turned to other endeavours such as painting, sculpture, or even music. Conversely, biblical exegesis was not exclusionary, but admitted secular, even pagan, literature as supporting material for its interpretation of the Bible, or made reference to historiography and even grammars.

The workshop will explore this interrelationship between biblical exegesis on the one hand and other medieval artistic products on the other. We invite papers that deal with the influence of biblical exegesis on other forms of medieval art, and with the influence of these other forms of art on exegesis. Papers that examine the interrelationship between Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist exegetical works and other artistic endeavours will also be welcome. All papers should remain within the time frame of the Middle Ages, i.e. approximately from 400 to 1500.

Given the multidisciplinary audience who will be in attendance at this workshop, we invite interested scholars to submit both a paper proposal (300 words) and a brief introductory statement placing their topic in the context of the medieval world and medieval studies more broadly. Participants at the workshop will also be expected to provide such introductory context in their papers at the time of delivery. There will be a time limit of 20 minutes per paper.

Deadline for submission of an abstract: 15 September 2012

Please submit an electronic copy to Professor Gernot Wieland, UBC English (gernot.wieland@ubc.ca).

Call for Papers: MAP 2013

Scott Kleinman — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:09:32 +0000

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2013 MAP conference, hosted by the University of San Diego, in San Diego, CA on March 21-23, 2013. The Program Committee invites proposals for individual 20-minute papers in any area of medieval studies, as well as organized sessions of three 20-minute papers. All speakers must be fully-paid (“active”) members of MAP in order to register for the conference.

The deadline for submissions has now passed.

Call for Papers: Charisma

Scott Kleinman — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:34:18 +0000

The Medieval and Renaissance Center of New York University’s Annual Spring Conference will take place on March 29, 2013.

Keynote speaker: Professor C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pre-conference address: Professor Paul Binski, Cambridge University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for papers that address the topic of charisma in any of its multiple forms and cultural sites: from an attribute of an individual person–whether a god-given grace or personally cultivated aura–to a feature of a work of art that affords it the power to uplift or dazzle a beholder; and from the elite productions and practices of church and state–such as Gothic cathedrals and royal regalia and processions–to such cult objects of religion and secular art as icons, relics, stones, pilgrimage shrines, weapons, and portraits; and to such quasi-historical and literary characters as Lancelot of the Lake, Don Quixote, Mephistopheles, and Helen of Troy. In approaching the topic of charisma, papers might touch on such phenomena as charm, enchantment, adoration, favor, grace, aura, enthusiasm, inspiration, magic of body and speech, fame, notoriety, fascination, glorification, elegance, divinity, embodiment, post-embodiment, sensuality, beauty, glamour, the elite, the heroic, and the supernatural. While recent conferences and publications on the topic of charisma have focused on charismatic preaching and religious institutions, this conference aims to explore charisma as a quality or force that charms, persuades, enchants, and transforms, a force that may appear as a magical quality not only of human personalities but also of works of art, of animals, and even of objects: in short, charisma no longer strictly in the sense of Max Weber’s studies of charismatic leadership, but in addition, charisma as it asserts itself in aesthetics, psychology, and anthropology.

Papers from every sub-discipline of Medieval and Renaissance Studies are welcome. Please send abstracts (250 words maximum) to Martha Rust (at martha.rust@nyu.edu) by September 15, 2012.

The Medieval and Renaissance Center will be able to offer assistance with travel and accommodation to conference participants living outside New York City.

Japan Society of Medieval European Studies 2012

Scott Kleinman — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:05:22 +0000

The Fourth Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Medieval European Studies 2012 is being held at Keio University (Central Tokyo) on 23 and 24 June. On Saturday 23 June, five papers are to be read from various disciplines related to medieval studies. On the Saturday evening, a reception is scheduled. On Saturday Keio University library also invites the participants to the special exhibition of medieval manuscripts from its holdings. On Sunday, after a poster session in the morning, a symposium titled ‘The Middle Ages and Renaissance’ is to be held. All papers are given in the Japanese language. The conference programme is available online.

Members of the Medieval Association of the Pacific can participate in the conference without paying entry fee. Please contact the JSMES office.
office@medievalstudies.jp.