Lecture Series: London Society for Medieval Studies Summer Term 2018 Lecture Series

List of upcoming lectures with the London Society for Medieval Studies

Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated

Time: Tuesdays 19:00

Chair: Stephen Spencer (stephen.spencer@sas.ac.uk)

Joint secretaries: Ella Kilgallon

Treasurer: Giorgio Lizzul

Committee: Ella Kilgallon, Anaïs Waag, Helen Rampton, Emma Knowles, Calum Cockburn, Karel Fraaije

Summer Term 2018

17 April 19:00 – The Royal Anglo-Saxon Burials of Winchester – Barbara Yorke (University of Winchester), IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR

1 May 19:00 – Domesticating the Devil: The Early Medieval Contexts of Aldhelm’s Cat Riddle – Megan Cavell (University of Birmingham), Room G7, Ground Floor

15 May 19:00 – “Structuring the Sacred”: considering framing, space and place on the Easby Cross – Meg Boulton (University of York), IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR

29 May 19:00 – Is it all about the money? Joan of Navarre and the economic element of queenship – Elena Woodacre (University of Winchester), IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR

12 June 19:00 – London Society for Medieval Studies TBC, Room 246, Second Floor

Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650), Harvard University, 23 April 2018

2nd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650)

Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 23, 2018

Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies during the late medieval and early modern periods. Their dynastic, diplomatic, and military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in viceregal territories. Such efforts include architecture, both ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and historiography. The advent of the Monarchia Hispanica under Habsburg rule required careful elaborations of national, religious, racial, and gender identities, across a mosaic of multilingual and multiethnic populations. This second workshop aims to highlight some of these strategies, and to consolidate a forum for discussion of further research avenues, under the guidance of scholars from Spanish and American universities. It is made possible thanks to the collaboration of Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, and University of Valencia.

16.00 Welcome, opening remarks and panel.
Panelists:
– Replicating the Royal Image: Philip III’s portrait at Harvard Art Museums.
Cristina Morilla, Associate Paintings Conservator, Harvard Art Museums.

– Alliance, Emulation and Competition in the Habsburg Netherlands: The Case of a 16th-Century Alabaster Funerary Monument in Heverlee.
Jessie Park, Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art, Harvard Art Museums.

– Sofonisba Anguissola’s Self-Portraiture, from Court Propaganda to Meta-Artistic Sign. Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia; Research Fellow, Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University.

17.30 Q & A
Discussion moderated by Prof. Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University.

Location:
RCC Conference Room
26 Trowbridge St.
Cambridge, MA

Free registration. Please RSVP at
https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/2nd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650

CFP: Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna, 2-3 Nov 18) (Deadline 1 June 18)

Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond

Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 02. – 03.11.2018
Deadline: Jun 1, 2018

“It is always dramatic to cross a frontier, even though the frontier is only a brook”
(V. S. Pritchett, Geographical Magazine, December, 1942)

This workshop is organized as part of the project “Byzantine Stone Bridges: Material Evidence and Cultural Meaning,” managed by Dr. Galina Fingarova at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna. It is generously funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Elise-Richter-Program. For further information, see http://bridges.univie.ac.at/.

This project focuses on a long-overlooked aspect of architectural and cultural history – Byzantine stone bridges. It investigates the particularities of this type of architectural monuments built from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries on territories under imperial Byzantine rule. It addresses the following enquiries: 1) reconstructing the
significance of Byzantine stone bridges in the context of architectural history by analyzing the structural and technical innovations that are evident in the preserved monuments; and 2) understanding the importance of bridges as sources for a Byzantine cultural and social history, in particular, on a political, symbolic, and metaphorical level.

This workshop will expand on the project’s research questions and methodological approaches by placing these in a broader context. The workshop encourages an interdisciplinary discourse on the unique characteristic of rivers to define territories and boundaries and on their crossing as a means of connection in a real and figurative sense. It seeks to transcend both the territorial and chronological limits of the Byzantine Empire.

Confirmed Keynote: Professor Jim Crow (University of Edinburgh)

Scholars working in the fields of Roman, Late Antique, Byzantine, Medieval, Ottoman, and Middle Eastern Studies
are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers connected with but not limited to the following topics:
• Riverine landscapes;
• River crossings as political, social, military, or commercial events;
• Urban and rural communities on and along rivers;
• Architectural and engineering achievements in hydrology;
• Ford and ferry;
• Pontoon, wooden, and stone bridges;
• Related structures such as aqueducts, mills, etc.;
• Mythological and religious aspects of river crossings;
• Emotional experiences at or traversing rivers.

Please send proposals of no more than 300 words, including a title and an abstract, together with a short CV to Dr. Galina Fingarova (galina.fingarova@univie.ac.at) by June 1, 2018.

CFP: Studienkurs des Warburg-Hauses: Medialitaet des Sakralen (Hamburg, 24-28 Sep 18) (deadline: 7/05/18)

CFP: Studienkurs des Warburg-Hauses: Medialitaet des Sakralen (Hamburg, 24-28 Sep 18)

Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, 24. – 28.09.2018
Deadline: May 7, 2018

Call for Papers

Medialität des Sakralen:
Bilder und Vermittlungsstrategien des Heiligen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit

Studienkurs des Warburg-Hauses
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt und Lena Marschall, M.A., Universität Hamburg

Wird die Welt in getrennten Sphären von Diesseits und Jenseits, von Göttlichem und Kreatürlichem gedacht, bedarf es Strukturen der Vermittlung. Medialität ist deshalb in den letzten Jahren von den Kulturwissenschaften und der Theologie als zentraler Aspekt des Christentums herausgearbeitet worden. Christus und die Heiligen sind Medien im Sinne der Vermittlungsstrukturen zwischen der Menschheit und Gott. Das Heilige kann in seiner sinnlich wahrnehmbaren Konkretisierung – etwa in Form heiliger Orte, Objekte, Reliquien etc. – zum Medium werden. Gleichzeitig bedarf das Heilige selbst der Vermittlung: Denn der Mensch ist, wie etwa Gregor des Großen es formuliert, durch den Sündenfall so stumpf geworden, dass er das Göttliche nur über Hilfsmittel wie die sinnliche Vorstellung erkennen kann.

Hier kommt das Bild ins Spiel. Über die Präsenz des Heiligen in oder gleichsam hinter den Bildern ist in der Kunstwissenschaft viel gesprochen worden; über die medialen Funktionen von Bildern in Hinblick auf das Heilige noch nicht genug. Das ist nun Ziel des diesjährigen Studienkurses des Warburg-Hauses. Denkbare Aspekte könnten dabei sein:

– Bilder vervielfältigen / verbreiten Heiliges
– neue Bildmedien vermitteln Heiliges
– Bilder und heilige Orte / heilige Objekte
– die Körper der Heiligen – unsichtbar, sichtbar
– die Sakramente (als media salutis) und das Medium des Bildes
– Bilder thematisieren Vermittlungsprozesse zwischen dem Menschlichen und Göttlichen
– Reformationen der Vermittlungsfunktion von Bildern

Diese Punkte sind nur als Anregungen und Vorschläge zu verstehen.

Der jährlich im Warburg-Haus stattfindende Studienkurs, der gemeinsam vom Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminar der Universität Hamburg und der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung veranstaltet wird, bietet ein Forum für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler (http://www.warburg-haus.de/). Wir versprechen uns vom genius loci Motivation und Inspiration.

Erwünscht sind Bewerbungen von fortgeschrittenen Studierenden oder AbsolventInnen der Kunstgeschichte oder eines einschlägigen Bereichs der Kulturwissenschaften, die im weit gefassten thematischen Feld des Studienkurses eine Master- oder Doktorarbeit begonnen oder kürzlich abgeschlossen haben. Fortgeschrittene Studierende im Haupt- bzw. Masterstudium, die ein einschlägiges und konkretes Interesse entwickelt haben, sind ebenfalls eingeladen, sich zu bewerben. Die TeilnehmerInnen stellen in einem 30-minütigen Beitrag ihr Forschungsthema oder einen einschlägigen Aspekt vor. Intensive Diskussion und Austausch über diese Beiträge, über ausgewählte Aspekte des Rahmenthemas und einschlägige Texte soll im Mittelpunkt stehen. Außerdem ist eine eintägige Exkursion vorgesehen. Diskussionssprache des Studienkurses ist Deutsch, Nicht-MuttersprachlerInnen können ihre eigenen Beiträge jedoch auch in Englisch vortragen. Die Kosten für die Anreise (2. Klasse) und Unterbringung im Doppelzimmer trägt die Aby-Warburg-Stiftung.

Bewerbungen zur Teilnahme können in Deutsch oder Englisch verfasst sein und sollen die folgenden Unterlagen enthalten (alles in einem zusammenhängenden PDF):

1. Tabellarischer Lebenslauf
2. Kurze Skizze eines Vortragsthemas und Darlegung der Motivation für die Teilnahme (zusammen max. 500 Wörter)
2. Angabe der ungefähren Fahrtkosten

Die Bewerbungen sind bis zum 7. Mai 2018 zu richten an:
Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt und Lena Marschall, M.A.,
unter der E-Mail-Adresse: lena.marschall@uni-hamburg.de

CFP: ‘Hurt and healing: people, texts, and material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean’ – 19th Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies (University of Birmingham) (deadline 21st April 2018)

Hurt and Healing: people, texts, and material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean’.

The 19th Annual CBOMGS Postgraduate Colloquium

2nd June 2018

The Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 19th Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

The concepts of hurt, trauma and healing cross between the different disciplines that deal with Eastern Mediterranean. The colloquium aims to explore transformations and multifarious dimensions of the notions of trauma and wreckage, and their opposition, healing, from the Late Antiquity to the Present.

Whilst serving as antitheses to one another they are also complementary. After destruction and breakage, comes the need for repair. However, when a broken textile’s ripped edges are joined again, the visible seam signifies the damage that has happened. Trauma and healing are key concepts in medicine, psychology, and sociology. However, political ideology has constantly used them in order to justify the rising and the existence of authoritarian regimes. In the past, medicine, saints, and magic offered different ways for healing the body and the soul. The current aim of restoration practices is to heal remnants of cultural heritage after damage and to prevent damage with appropriate conservation strategies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Healing power of saints and healing people in society;
Medicine and magic;
Cultural heritage and material culture: restoration and preservation practices, as well as preventive actions for the preservation;
The individual aspects of trauma, especially in relation to the politics of gender, sexuality, class, race, and identity (sexual abuse, domestic violence, shame and fear, death and mourning or melancholia);
Collective experiences of trauma (war, genocide, terrorism, victims and perpetrators, practices of memory and oblivion);
Migration from the Late Antiquity to the current migration crisis and harrowing events in refugee camps;
Public health and medical, therapeutic approaches to illnesses and trauma;
Texts and images related to medical practices

Papers of approximately 20 minutes related to any of the fields covered by Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies are welcome. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words no later than Saturday 21st April 2018 to 2018cbomgscolloquium@gmail.com. Applicants will be notified of selection by 28th April 2018.

For more information click here: https://cbomgs2018colloquium.wordpress.com/

New Book roundup: Boydell & Brewer, 2018

Boydell & Brewer have announced their new publications for 2018. You can see the full list here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/media/wysiwyg/Catalogues/Medieval_Studies_Catalogue_-_2018.pdf

Here are four that were featured in the Boydell & Brewer: Medieval Herald 32.

Frisians and their North Sea Neighbour

Although Frisians neighboured Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Saxons and Danes in north-western Europe, the details of their lives, communities and culture have remained little-known. Why is this? Well, largely because Frisia and Frisian have meant different things to different people through time, and partly because Frisians had no tradition of writing until relatively late. We trust that this new collection, edited by John Hines and Nelleke IJssennagger, will help change that and broaden knowledge of and interest in the previously mysterious Frisians.

Read an interview with Dr IJssennagger.

Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547, by Dr Rhianydd Biebrach

Despite the modest distances that separate them, monuments in south Wales can differ greatly from those in north Wales or the west of England. And although they can tell us much about religious and cultural practices of the time and place, they have until now been sadly understudied. Rhianydd Biebrach explains their special significance, reveals her two favourite monuments and how she undertook her extensive research (losing her dining table in the process). And why we should all (continue to) be grateful to Michael Praed.

Read an interview with Dr Rhianydd Biebrach here.

The Saint and the Saga Hero: Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature, by Dr Siân E. Grønlie

While they might not seem to be natural literary bedfellows, Siân E. Grønlie’s new book explains the profound impact that the medieval saint’s life had on the saga literature of Iceland. Predating sagas by several centuries, the Latin lives of saints could, in some ways, be said to provide a model for the (anti-)heroes of the later written sagas, though these protagonists had of course usually led largely un-saintly lives. Here Dr Grønlie provides a quick introduction to both genres and guides us through the results of their intermingling.

Read an interview with Dr Siân E. Grønlie here.

The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy: Prophecy, Paradox, and Translatio, by Dr Laura Chuhan Campbell

Dr Campbell uses the figure of Merlin to demonstrate how language and culture shaped different takes on the same character and story. And what an ideal focus he makes, for within him texts, languages, events real and fictional all converged. Crucially, the language barrier between France and Italy proved highly porous and the fluidity of cultural exchange brought new translations with new narrative possibilities. Dr Campbell explains the remarkable process.

Read an interview with DrLaura Chuhan Campbell here.

Conference: New Light on Old Manuscripts; Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies, 25–27 April 2018

Austrian Academy of Sciences Sitzungssaal Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2 1010 Vienna, Austria

“New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies” brings together an international assembly of scholars who have been in the forefront of palimpsest studies in recent years, either in reading and analysing palimpsests texts, or in making them legible through advanced imaging and image processing methods. The conference will also feature work that has been accomplished in the course of the Sinai Palimpsests Project (http://sinaipalimpsests.org).

See full programme here: https://rchivecom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/palimpsests-conference-programme-25-27-2018.pdf

Programme:

WEDNESDAY, 25 APRIL 2018

09:00–10:30 Moderator: Otto Kresten

Michael B. Phelps – The Sinai Palimpsests Project: its History, Philosophy, and Contributions

Claudia Rapp – The Palimpsest Corpus at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Preliminary Observations

Giulia Rossetto – Greek under Arabic: Behind the Lines of Sinaiticus arabicus NF 66

10:30–11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:00–12:30 Moderator: Otto Kresten

Pasquale Orsini – Greek Scripts, Books and Texts: New Materials from Sinai

Agamemnon Tselikas – Textual Observations on Some Sinai Majuscule Palimpsests

Steve Delamarter – Getatchew Haile The Ethiopic Undertext of Sinai Greek NF 90: Discovery and Analysis

12:30–14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00–14:45 Moderator: Manfred Schreiner

Damianos Kasotakis – Implementing Spectral Imaging in the Sinai Desert

Kenneth Boydston – Beyond Discovery: Bringing More Good Things to Light

14:45–15:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:00–16:00 Moderator: Manfred Schreiner

Keith T. Knox – Recovery of Erased Text Using Unsupervised Methods

Roger L. Easton Jr. – Customized Processing of Multispectral Imagery of Palimpsests Based on Spectral Statistics

Dave Kelbe – Is it Magic? The Science Behind Image Processing: Perspectives and Possibilities

16:00–16:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

16:30–17:15 Moderator: Bernadette Frühmann

Michael B. Toth – Dispersed Palimpsest Offers Digital Insight into St. Catherine’s Library

Doug Emery – Reflections on the Digital Palimpsest: Data Modeling and Data Management

THURSDAY, 26 APRIL 2018

09:00–10:00 Moderator: Ernst Gamillscheg

Sebastian P. Brock – What Can Be Learnt, and What Not, from the Experience of the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsests

Grigory Kessel – Codex Arabicus (Sinai Arabic 514) Revisited

10:00–10:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK

10:15–11:30 Moderator: Basema Hamarneh

Christa Müller-Kessler – A Florilegium of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsests from St. Catherine’s Monastery

Alain J. Desreumaux – L’apport des palimpsestes du Sinaï à la codicologie araméenne christopalestinienne et aux versions anciennes des textes bibliques

11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

12:00–13:00 Moderator: Kurt Smolak

Michelle P. Brown – Arabic NF 8 and the Latin Manuscripts of St. Catherine’s, Sinai

Heinz Miklas – ‘Excavating’ the Slavonic Palimpsests in the New Sinaitic Finds

13:00–14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30–16:00 Moderator: Hans-Jürgen Feulner

Zaza Aleksidze – Dali Chitunashvili Palimpsest N/Sin Geo 7 Kept at the St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai (Identification of the Texts)

Bernard Outtier – New Insights in Christo-Palestinian Aramaic and Georgian Literatures

Jost Gippert – New Light on the Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of St. Catherine’s Monastery

16:00–16:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

16:30–18:00 Moderator: Katharina Kaska

Irmgard Schuler – Imaging for Manuscript Inspection

Simon Brenner – Photometric Stereo for Palimpsest Analysis

Leif Glaser – X-Ray Fluorescence Investigations on Erased Text Written in Iron Gall Ink

Ivan Shevchuk – Full Field Multispectral Imaging as a Tool for Text Recovery in Palimpsests

18:30 DINNER FOR INVITED GUESTS

FRIDAY, 27 APRIL 2018

09:00–11:00 Moderator: Andreas E. Müller

Felix Albrecht – Chiara Francesca Faraggiana di Sarzana – A Carbonized Septuagint Palimpsest of the Libri Sapientiales in Biblical Majuscule, Codex Taurinensis, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, C.V. 25 (Rahlfs-Ms. 3010): Its Text and Context

Jana Grusková – Giuseppe De Gregorio – Neueste Einblicke in einige palimpsestierte Handschriftenunikate aus den griechischen Beständen der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek

Bernard H. Stolte – Editing the Basilica and the Role of Palimpsests. The Case of Vindob. Suppl. gr. 200

11:00–11:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:30–13:00 Moderator: Christian Gastgeber

Dieter Harlfinger – Palimpsest-Forschung am Beispiel der Athener Handschrift EBE 192 mit juristischen Texten und Aristoteles-Kommentaren

André Binggeli – The Making of a Greek Palimpsest from the Patriarchal Library in Istanbul

Carla Falluomini – The Gothic Palimpsests: New Readings and Discoveries

13:00–14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30–16:00 Moderator: Bernhard Palme

Peter E. Pormann – The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Between Philology and Digital Humanities

Ronny Vollandt – Palimpsests from Cairo and Damascus: A Comparative Perspective from the Cairo Genizah and the Qubbat al-Khazna

Alba Fedeli – A Few Remarks on Qur’anic Palimpsests

16:00–16:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK

16:15–17:45 Moderator: Gerda Wolfram

Andreas Janke – Challenges in Working with Music Palimpsests

András Németh – Interactive Learning of Palimpsest Research: Virtual Guided Tour from the Invisible to the Abstract Reconstruction

Gregory Heyworth – From Technology to Text: Reading and Editing the Lacunose Manuscript

17:45–18:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

18:00–18:30 Discussion and Concluding Remarks

Course: Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy, Koç University, September 3–9, 2018 – DEADLINE: 15th April, 2018.

Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), September 3–9, 2018

DEADLINE: 15th April, 2018 (for 8 places)

We are delighted to announce that the Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy 2018 will take place between 3 and 9 September, in Istanbul, Turkey. The Programme will be convened by Ida Toth and Andreas Rhoby, and it will include contributions from over twenty leading specialists exploring Istanbul’s Byzantine inscriptional heritage, and its significance for the discipline of Byzantine Epigraphy as a whole.

Drawing on a wide range of topics such as display, taxonomy, context, ideology, and performance, the Programme will combine daily seminars, evening lectures, practical sessions in Istanbul’s museums, and guided visits to Byzantine monuments and excavation sites. It will provide an interactive platform for exchange of ideas among more experienced scholars of Byzantine epigraphic culture as well as involving younger academics, who require instruction and expert guidance in dealing with Byzantine inscriptional material.

Although contribution to the Programme is by invitation only, we welcome expressions of interest from scholars in early and/or middle stages of their academic career, whose research stands to significantly benefit from attending an intensive, week-long exploration of Byzantine epigraphic traditions. Please, note that the number of available places is limited to the maximum of eight.

Fees will not be charged. However, full funding will be offered only to three exceptional applicants. Non-funded participants should expect to cover their own travelling and accommodation costs.

DEADLINE: 15th April, 2018 (for 8 places)

Find out more information here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/blog/summer-programme-in-byzantine-epigraphy-koc-university-2018

Conference: Private Charters and Documentary Practice in the long 10th century, Rome, 18-20 April 2018

Conference: Private Charters and Documentary Practice in the long 10th century, Rome, 18-20 April 2018

Atti privati e pratiche documentarie nel lungo X secolo / Private Charters and Documentary Practice in the long 10th century (ca.870-ca.1030), conference Rome 18-20 April 2018

On the occasion of the publication of the twelfth and final volume of the edition of the ninth century St.-Gall charters, the University of Groningen, the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and the Stiftsarchiv St. Gall are organizing a conference on the changes of documentary practice in the long tenth century in Europe. This conference is a follow-up to an earlier one (Die Privaturkunden der Karolingerzeit) on the continuation and spread of the Roman heritage of documentary-legal administration, taking into account, among other things, the standardizing tendencies of the Carolingian empire. This time we will be dealing with what happened when the different parts of the Carolingian empire started to diverge after 870.

The entire programme is available here: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/news/agenda/2018-04-18-programmeknir.pdf

Find out more information here: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/news/agenda/2018-08-18-knir-privatechartersanddocumentarypractice?lang=en

Call for Paper: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (New York, 13-16 Feb 2019)

CAA Conference, New York, February 13 – 16, 2019
Deadline: Apr 18, 2018

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Call for Panel Proposal
College Art Association
New York, 13-16 February 2019
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (http://ssemw.org/) will sponsor one panel at the annual conference to be held in New York, 13-16 February 2019. We are soliciting proposals for panels that explore the relationships between women, gender, and artistic or material culture during the early modern period (c. 1300-1800). Cross-cultural or transnational panels are especially welcome.
CAA offers the SSEMW the opportunity to submit an already-formed panel or to participate in the association’s general call for participation. Panel proposals may therefore consist of a completed panel with pre-selected speakers or a call for participation that will be widely circulated. The format is similarly flexible, and might include three 20-minute papers, several “lightning” papers, a roundtable discussion, or other interactive format.

Panel proposals should be sent to Maria Maurer at maria-maurer@utusal.edu no later than Wednesday April 18th with the following materials:

– Abstract of 250-500 words describing the panel
– Name(s) of panel organizers and, for complete panels only, the speakers. Include the institutional affiliation and email address for each participant.
– One-page CV for organizers. For complete panels, a one-page CV is also required for speakers.
– CAA Member ID of each participant – please note that CAA requires all participants to be active members through February 16, 2019.
– For complete panels only: titles (max 15 words) and abstracts (max 250 words) of each paper.

Sponsorship by SSEMW signifies that the panel is pre-approved and automatically accepted by CAA.

CAA offers several travel grants to support participation by emerging scholars, women, and international scholars: http://www.collegeart.org/programs/travel-grants

Participants do not need to be members of SSEMW at the time of submission, but should join the society before CAA meets in February 2019. A regular membership costs $25; students, independent scholars and contingent faculty may join for $15.