Categorie: Call for papers

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Extended deadline for registration Winterschool ‘Communication and Exploitation of Knowledge’

The deadline for registration for the Winterschool ‘Communication and Exploitation of Knowledge’ is extended to 10 December 2014. The School’s PhD Students are specially invited to send in an application. External PhD Students (‘buitenpromovendi’) are welcome to apply as well.

  • Date and location: Fri-Sun 20-22 February, 2015, at Leiden University
  • Open to: Research-MA and PhD students registered through the Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek, as well as PhD students from the University of Cambridge
  • Fees: this conference is free of charge
  • Organization: Dr. Erik Kwakkel (Leiden) and Prof. dr. Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge)
  • Funding: Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek, Groningen.

Theme

This conference is devoted to communication and knowledge in the Middle Ages and is aimed at graduate students (both Research-MA and PhD) from all relevant disciplines. Students are invited to submit an abstract for a paper relating to their current research. The theme is defined broadly so as to attract participants with diverse backgrounds. Proposals may cover such topics as transmission channels, material means of communication, manuscripts as objects, textual genres related to communication, oral versus written communication, education, the medieval understanding of (or attitude to) communication and/or knowledge, comparing practices across space or time, etc. The conference aims to be a platform where graduate students can learn about current research in medieval communication (broadly understood), practice their presentation and chairing skills, and exchange ideas with peers from another research culture.

Participants and Papers

The program allows for thirty participants: fifteen Research-MA and seven PhD students affiliated to the Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek, as well as eight PhD students from the University of Cambridge. Regarding the Research-MA students, priority will be given to those enrolled in the Graduate Programme (Special Training Programme) of the Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek. PhD students are invited to give a twenty-minute paper, while MA-students will give shorter papers of ten minutes. The conference will start at 9 am on Friday 20 February and will run to 2 pm on Sunday 22 February. Lunch and dinner will be provided at no charge. Students from the UK are offered three nights of hotel (Thursday, Friday and Saturday night); Dutch participants are expected to find their own accommodation, or make suitable travel arrangements.

Registration

Students interested in participating are requested to submit an abstract (in English) of c. 250 words (PDF) to Erik Kwakkel (Dutch students) or Rosamond McKitterick (UK students). In addition, students are asked to submit a one-page letter of motivation (PDF). Selection is based on both your letter and abstract.

New closing date for applications: 10 December 2014.

Contact and Information

Dutch students: Erik Kwakkel (e.kwakkel@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Cambridge students: Rosamond McKitterick (rdm21@cam.ac.uk)

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Devotio Moderna and the Rederijkers (CFP Kalamazoo)

Call for Papers

50th International Medieval Congress

May 14-17, 2015

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo  Michigan

“The Devotio Moderna and the Rederijkers: Farce and Philosophy in Early Dutch Drama”

The Devotio Moderna and its teachings of spiritual interiority greatly influenced the religious life of the Low Countries throughout the later middle ages. Consequently, the literary and dramatic arts of this period were also influenced by the religious perspectives of the Devotio Moderna. This interface between fifteenth and sixteenth-century Dutch spirituality and its contemporaneous dramatic arts offers rich ground for intertextual studies. This session invites interdisciplinary papers on the Rederijker (Rhetorician) plays and their performance within the contexts of the spiritual interiority instructed by the Devotio Moderna.

The Redrijkers, their playwrights, plays, and performance, celebrated in morality and miracle plays the spirituality of the interior life or mocked it with farce and spectacle. The varied treatments the Rederijkers’ gave spiritual topics can be debated in terms of author, Redrijker chamber, and/or its religious leanings, political affiliations, and/or geographical location. Papers are welcomed which illuminate the Devotio Moderna’s perspectives on spirituality within the textual and dramatic fabric of Rederijker plays and their performance. Such scholarship will serve to broaden the English-speaking audience’s understanding of late medieval Dutch drama and its scope as a didactic theatrical medium.

One-page abstracts for papers for this session need to be received by/on September 30th (deadline extended) at the following address:  mmb@purdue.edu

ALSO: please print out and complete the participation information form on the 50th International Congress website, scan it, and include it as an attachment with your abstract. This form is available at:

http://wmich.edu/medieval/files/call-for-papers-2015.pdf   (see page 7)

 

If you have any questions about the session or the 2015 Congress, feel free to contact me and/or check the Congress website: http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

Best regards,

Mary Maxine Browne

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Lezing & Call for papers: doctoral seminar “The Trouble with Custom” (Leuven, 2-3/10)

In het kader van de presentatie van hun nieuwe boekenreeks, organiseert LECTIO een lezing en doctoral seminar rond het thema “The Trouble with Custom”. Op 2 oktober 2014 geeft professor Emily Kadens om 17h een lezing getiteld “The Intellectual History of Custom”. Deze is toegankelijk voor iedereen. Op 3 oktober volgt er een seminar voor doctorandi en post-docs rond hetzelfde thema. Deelnemers krijgen de kans om hun onderzoeksproject voor te stellen en te bediscussiëren met professor Kadens en de andere deelnemers. Kandidaten voor de seminar moeten appliceren voor 25 augustus 2014. Alle informatie kan worden nagelezen in de call for papers.

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Call for papers Historical Network Research Conference (15-19/09, Gent)

De organisatoren van de interdisciplinaire Historical Network Research Conference 2014 zijn op zoek naar lezingen over de integratie van sociale netwerk analyse in wetenschappelijk historisch onderzoek. Zij hopen ook papers uit de middeleeuwse studies aan te trekken. De conferentie gaat door van 15 tot 19 september aan de Universiteit Gent en in het STAM. Meer informatie vindt u in de call for papers en op de website van de conferentie. http://historicalnetworkresearch.org/?page_id=719.

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Call for papers negende Landschapscontactdag (3/10/2014)

Op 3 oktober 2014 vindt de negende editie van de jaarlijkse Landschapscontactdag plaats met als thema ‘De constructie van de wildernis’. Dit jaar ligt de focus op de dualiteit van oude cultuurlandschappen en hun natuurwaarde. De organisatie is op zoek naar vijf lezingen rond de problematiek van historisch landgebruik in zogenaamde natuurlandschappen met specifieke aandacht voor de relatie tussen landschap, landschapsbeheer en natuurbeheer in hedendaagse ‘wildernissen’. Kandidaten dienen vóór 2 juni een samenvatting (250-400 woorden) te mailen naar inge.verdurmen@rwo.vlaanderen.be. Suggesties voor wetenschappelijke excursies (regio Hasselt) en posterpresentaties zijn ook welkom. Meer info vindt u in de call for papers of op de website. https://www.onroerenderfgoed.be/nl/actueel/nieuws/negende-landschapscontactdag-call-for-papers/.

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Call for papers: Workshop “Les institutions de mobilisation populaire”/ “Institutions of Popular Mobilisation” (Gent, 5/12)

De coördinatoren van het interuniversitaire project Politisations ordinaires / Common Politisations lanceren een call for papers voor hun workshop getiteld Les institutions de mobilisation populaire/ Institutions of Popular Mobilisation die doorgaat op 5 december 2014 in Gent. De interdisciplinaire workshop focust op hoe verschillende stedelijke instituties functioneerden en hoe die het gewone volk voorzagen van de politieke cultuur noodzakelijk voor de ontwikkeling en organisatie van een kritisch publiek discours en populaire mobilisatie. Keynotes worden verzorgd door Marc Boone (Gent) en Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam). Applicanten moeten vóór 15 mei een korte abstract (max. 250 woorden) en een kort CV (max. 150 woorden) mailen naar Jan Dumolyn (Jan.Dumolyn@UGent.be) en Claire Judde de Lariviere (judde@univ-tlse2.fr). Meer informatie vindt u hier.

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New peer-reviewed journal: The Medieval Low Countries

The Medieval Low Countries is a new peer-reviewed journal by Brepols featuring articles on the Low Countries in its broadest sense from the start of the fifth to the second half of the sixteenth century. The journal is published as a single-volume annual review. The editorial board considers submissions from a wide range of disciplines (history, law, religion, art, architecture, literature, etc.). Interdisciplinary or comparative studies are especially welcome. The articles can be in English or French. More info can be found in the attached flyer and on www.brepols.net.