Komende zondag 20 januari 2013 vindt de laatste lezing plaats in het kader van de tentoonstelling ‘De weg naar Van Eyck’. Kunstenaars Olphaert den Otter en Pam Emmerik geven hun visie op de tentoonstelling. De kosten zijn €3,50 en reserveren is verplicht. Meer informatie vindt u op onderstaande pagina.
http://www.boijmans.nl/nl/7/kalender/calendaritem/1276/lezingen-de-weg-naar-van-eyck
Prijs Vlaanderen voor Geschiedkundige Wetenschappen
De Academische Stichting Leuven kent, in samenwerking met de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk (KULAK) en het Komitee voor Frans-Vlaanderen v.z.w., een vijfjaarlijkse prijs toe ter bekroning van een oorspronkelijke, wetenschappelijk verantwoorde studie met betrekking tot de geschiedenis van Vlaanderen. In aanmerking komen proefschriften (of studies van vergelijkbaar niveau) die in de loop van afgelopen vijf jaar zijn verdedigd en/of gepubliceerd.
Uiterste indiendatum: 31 januari 2013
Voor meer informatie: http://www.kuleuven.be/asl/prijzen/Vlaanderen.htm
Masterclass HERA-project
What can we learn from a manuscript?
Eind april 2013 vindt in Utrecht een congres plaats ter afronding van het HERA-project ‘Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript’. Ter gelegenheid hiervan wordt met steun van de Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek op woensdagmiddag 24 april 2013 een masterclass georganiseerd voor PhD- en ReMaster-studenten. De deelnemers zullen door de romanist/codicoloog Keith Busby (Wisconsin) en twee postdoc onderzoekers die in het HERA-project participeren, Gareth Griffith (Bristol) en Nicola Zotz (Wenen), verteld worden welke vragen je aan een middeleeuws handschrift kunt stellen. Deelname is gratis, aanmelden is verplicht. Geïnteresseerden kunnen zich tot uiterlijk 15 februari 2013 opgeven bij Vera Westra (S.V.Westra@uu.nl).
Tweede Dag van de Medioneerlandistiek
Tweede Dag van de Medioneerlandistiek
Als vervolg op de zeer succesvolle Eerste Dag van de Medioneerlandistiek, die op 14 oktober 2011 in Antwerpen georganiseerd werd, zal op donderdag 13 juni 2013 in Utrecht de Tweede Dag plaatsvinden. De voorbereidende werkzaamheden zijn inmiddels in gang gezet. Tot de collega’s die een lezing toegezegd hebben, behoren Jonas van Mulder (Antwerpen), Renée Gabriël (Nijmegen) en Remco Sleiderink (Brussel). Daarnaast willen we alle deelnemers de mogelijkheid bieden om hun lopend onderzoek te presenteren via een posterpresentatie. Over de precieze invulling van het programma volgen begin februari 2013 nadere berichten. Voor het moment volstaat het om de Medioneerlandici aan te moedigen 13 juni 2013 alvast te reserveren voor deze bijeenkomst.
Sectie Middelnederlandse Letterkunde, UU
Symposium: A Bunch of Books. Book Collections in the Medieval Low Countries
Symposium at the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Queeste
Organised in cooperation with Radboud University Nijmegen
Date: 14 February 2013
Venue: Gymnasion, room GN 3, Heyendaalseweg 141, 6525 AJ Nijmegen.
Route: http://www.ru.nl/contact/bereikbaarheid/
Costs: €15,– (students 7,50)
Registration: Please send an e-mail to Renée Gabriël (r.gabriel@let.ru.nl) before 1 February 2013
| Theme Due to the überlieferungsgeschichtliche Methode and New Philology, the idea that the meaning of texts is determined by the material context in which they are preserved has become central to the study of historical literature in the Low Countries. However, this approach has mainly inspired researchers to study texts in their manuscript context, especially that of miscellanies. During a symposium on book collections we would like to explore the significance of material context outside the manuscript. Not only individual texts, but also manuscripts as a whole functioned in the context of a larger collection of books and derived meaning from the context of this collection. In Memory’s Library. Medieval Books in Early Modern England(2008) Jennifer Summit stated that ‘libraries were dynamic institutions that actively processed, shaped, and imposed meaning on the very materials they contained’.The focus of this symposium will be on the ways in which books functioned in the context of a collection, on how individual books related to collections as a whole and to the users and owners of these collections. Book collections constitute a melting point of materials and themes that are often studied separately: Latin and vernacular texts, religious and secular literature, manuscript and print, rhyme and prose, splendour and plainness, old and new. By making use of inventories, library catalogues and preserved manuscripts the speakers at this symposium investigate the characteristics, size and meaning of book collections in the Low Countries. They address questions about the owners and users of these collections, social and cultural exchange, the formation of meaning, the organisation of collections, and the consequences of this approach for our view on literary history. The confrontation of the study of texts in their manuscript context and in book collections will be one of the central discussion points of this day. |
Program (download pdf)
| 10:30 | Welcome and Coffee |
| 11:00 | Introduction |
| Suzan Folkerts and Renée Gabriël | |
| 11:15 |
Keynote |
| Texts in medieval libraries: Thoughts for an integrated approach | |
| Prof. Dr Albert Derolez (Ghent University) | |
| 12:00 |
Books that are collections of books |
| Prof. Dr Herman Brinkman (Huygens ING / University of Amsterdam) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Collecting Religious Knowledge: books, libraries and networks |
| Dr Sabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen) | |
| 14:30 |
Book Collections and their Use. Some Examples from Princely and Noble Libraries |
| Dr Hanno Wijsman (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes Paris) | |
| 15:00 | Coffee and Tea break |
| 15:30 | The Beckers Connection: Some Thoughts on the Latin Books of Hours in the Soeterbeeck Collection |
| Ad Poirters MA, in collaboration with Dr Hans Kienhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen) | |
| 16:00 | Keynote |
| Devotional anthologies: Collectors of religious texts and their methods | |
| Dr Ryan Perry (University of Kent) | |
| 16:45 | Drinks |
You are also invited to the public lecture Medieval Manuscripts as Truly Open Data by Dr. Will Noel, Director of The Special Collections Center and The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (University of Pennsylvania) on Wednesday 13 February at 16:30.
http://www.queeste.verloren.nl/symposium
CEU summer courses
De Central European University te Budapest organiseert een aantal summer schools die interessant kunnen zijn voor mediëvisten. Meer informatie vindt u hieronder.
Course details:
1. MEDIEVAL CODICOLOGY AND PALAEOGRAPHY:
DATES: 15 -20 JULY, 2013
Course director:
Anna Somfai, Senior Research Fellow, Medieval Studies Department,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty:
Niels Gaul, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary; David Juste, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Munich, Germany;
András Németh, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy; Inmaculada
Perez Martín, Instituto de lenguas y culturas del mediterraneao y
oriente proximo, Madrid, Spain; Katalin Szende, Medieval Studies
Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/codicology-2013
2. READING OLD BODIES: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE BIO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL
HERITAGE
DATES: 1-12 JULY, 2013
Course director:
Irene Barbiera, Research Fellow, Department of Medieval Studies,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty:
Bonnie Effros, Department of History, University of Florida,
Gainesville, USA; Gundula Muldner, Department of Archaeology, University
of Reading, UK; Raphael Panhuysen, Department of History, Archaeology
and Area Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Ildiko Pap,
Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest,
Hungary; Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European
University, Budapest, Hungary
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/oldbodies-2013
Financial aid is available.
Application deadline: February 15, 2013
Please visit the individual course web sites for specific information.
Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Hungary
http://www.summer.ceu.hu
e-mail:summeru@ceu.hu
tel: 36 1 327 3811
Pro Civitate Prijs
De Koninklijke Academies voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten van België reiken de ‘Pro Civitate’ Prijs uit aan een onuitgegeven doctoraatsverhandeling die een originele en belangrijke bijdrage vormt tot de stadsgeschiedenis of tot de lokale geschiedenis. Meer informatie vindt u in bijgaande oproep.
Summer School – Crossing the Languages of Medieval Europe
In juni 2013 organiseren het Centre for Medieval Literature (University of Southern Denmark en University of York) en het Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Universiteit Gent) een Summer School. Het thema is Crossing the Languages of Medieval Europe: Historical, Linguistic and Literary Approaches. De Summer School gaat door in de Academia Belgica te Rome van 3 tot 8 juni 2013. Er zijn vijf beurzen voor het bijwonen van de Summer School beschikbaar. Meer informatie in bijgevoegde folder.
Call for papers: Experiences of Governance: Navigating Jurisdictional Spheres in the Later Middle Ages
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London
Saturday 2 March 2013
Sponsors: Oxford Centre for Medieval History
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College
Organisers: Tom Johnson (Birkbeck College, London)
Samantha Sagui (Fordham University)
Eliza Hartrich (Merton College, Oxford)
Keynote Speakers: Dr Ian Forrest (Oriel College, Oxford)
Prof Jelle Haemers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from Britain and the Continent who are interested in exploring the ways in which late-medieval people navigated the law, legal institutions, and jurisdictions. Rather than focusing on the formal rules according to which legal and governing institutions operated, this conference highlights the practical experience of consumers of the law in later medieval Europe. In line with the ‘new legal history’, it hopes to encourage an approach that considers legal processes in the later middle ages as a product of wider society and culture, and, in particular, to examine popular ideas of justice and order which informed litigants’ use of the legal mechanisms at their disposal.
We invite postgraduate students and early career academics to present twenty-minute papers. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- The contrasting experiences of local, seigneurial, royal, and ecclesiastical jurisdictions
- The way that consumers of the law negotiated jurisdictions, and how they formulated jurisdictional differences for their own purposes
- Popular constructions and contestations of law and legal norms
- Formal and informal mechanisms for social control, and the relationship between such mechanisms
- The construction and negotiation of legal and jurisdictional boundaries
Please submit a 300-word abstract to Tom Johnson (tomlukejohnson@gmail.com) by 15th December 2012.
Further information can be found on our conference page at the IHR website, http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/7722.
Call for papers: Water History Conference
IWHA Conference – Montpellier, France
The International Water History Association holds its next conference in Montpellier, southern France between June 25 and 29, 2013.The conference itself will take place from 26 to 28 June 2013 in the Pierres Vives archival building of the Conseil General de l’Herault, whose support is kindly acknowledged.
Abstracts and sessions
The program committee welcomes abstracts for individual papers as well as proposals for complete sessions. Session proposals should include either 1) three papers and a commentator or 2) four papers; the inclusion of a session chair is encouraged. Proposals for double sessions will also be accepted. We seek papers on all aspects of water history, from rivers to drops, from seas to mountain lakes, from technologies to cultures. Having said that, submissions on three topics are encouraged:
- Archival sources – as the conference is hosted in Pierrevives
- Irrigation – as Montpellier is surrounded by and is famous for its irrigation
- Cooperation – as 2013 is the UN International Year of Water Cooperation
Submission process for abstracts and sessions
- All abstracts, both for individual papers and those proposed for sessions, will be reviewed by the program committee. Paper abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
- Individual abstracts should be submitted by the main author.
- Complete session proposals should contain the session title, a 100-word description of the session, names, affiliations, and contact information of presenters, commentators, and chair, and titles and abstracts for all the papers. Session proposals should be submitted by the session organizer.
Send session and abstract proposals to Waterhistory2013@tudelft.nl
Time schedule
- Abstracts and sessions can be submitted between October 1st 2012 and December 31st2012.
- Decisions on acceptance are foreseen to be available on March 1st 2013.
- The final conference program will be available on May 1st 2013. To appear on the program, presenters with accepted abstracts need to register before April 1st 2013.
Practical information
More detailed information on fees and other practical issues will become available soon. But reserve the last week of June in 2013 for Montpellier!
On June 25, a trip to the fascinating site of Montady, a 13th century radioconcentric drainage project, will be on offer for those who arrive early.
On the night of June 28, the conference dinner will be held in Chateau de Bocaud, the city of Jacou, near the old noria, which has just been restored by the municipality.
On June 27, IWHA will invite the public of Montpellier to hear our work on water history.
For those who want to go on, Saturday June 29 will be a day for others possible visits in the region.