Conference: ‘Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World’ Conference, University of York (2-3 June 2018)

Conference: ‘Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World’, Kings Manor at the University of York (2-3 June 2018)

The concepts of transmission and translation are central to the evolution of the pan-European multi-cultural nature of medieval society. Cross-cultural connections in the political arena, mercantile trade routes, the dissemination of Christianity and interactions with Islam and Judaism resulted in the appropriation and assimilation of practices, ideas and arts throughout the medieval world. These transactions were enabled by numerous factors and generated new fusions of style in architecture, art and iconography, literature and lifestyles which together importantly informed attitudes towards the self and others, senses of belonging and ownership, as well as conceptions of regionality. While these areas of enquiry have been much discussed in relation to contemporary society in sociological and anthropological scholarship, there remains much to explore about how they were articulated and achieved during the Middle Ages: what types of objects were transported and for what purpose(s); the impact of language on the transmission of ideas through manuscripts, literature and poetry; iconographic borrowings and theological impetus; processes of production; engagement with their societies of origin and those they infiltrated.

This two-day interdisciplinary conference will examine the significance of transmission and translation, and the associated themes encompassed by these terms in the medieval world. It will bring together early career researchers, emerging scholars and established academics from different disciplinary backgrounds as a forum for contextualising the movement of textual and material objects, as well as the ideas accompanying them.

Conference programme:

Day 1: Saturday 2^nd June

10:00 – 10:25, K/G33, Registration and Coffee

10:25, K133, Opening Remarks

Session 1: 10:30-12:00

Chair: Megan Henvey

Amanda Doviak (University of York) Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross
Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds) Transmissions and Translation of the Franks Casket
Heidi Stoner (Durham University) Kings, Wise Men and the Recognition of Christ: Understanding Early Medieval Insular Art

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch

Session 2: 1:30 – 3:00

Chair: Amanda Doviak

Artur Costrino (Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil) Cicero at the Carolingian Court: Re-evaluating the Variants of Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et uirtutibus in accordance with the mutilated manuscripts of De inuentione.
Mike Bintley (Canterbury Christ Church University) Rome Before and After Constantine in Cynewulf’s Juliana and Elene’
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen (University of Uppsala) The Transmission of Odin.

3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break

Session 3: 3:30-5:00

Chair: TBA

Nino Simonishvili (Independent Scholar) Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10^th
Lesley Milner (Institute of Historical Research) The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and its Importance for Medieval Christians.
John Mitchell (University of East Anglia) Abul-Abbas & All That: Visual Dynamics Between the Caliphate and the West in the Age of Charlemange.

5:00 – 5:15 Comfort Break

Keynote Lecture 5:15 – 6:15

From Demons to Axe Men: Adaptation and Invention in Early Irish Sculpture

Professor Roger Stalley

Chair: TBA

to be followed by a drinks reception

Day 2: Sunday 3^rd June

Session 1: 10:00-11:30

Chair: Amanda Doviak

Megan Henvey (University of York) Transmitting Religio-Political Conflict Back in Time: Northern Ireland’s Overlooked Early Medieval Sculptural Heritage.
Aideen M. Ireland (Independent Scholar) Cacophony in C – Crank, Custodian, Curator and Collector: The Remarkable Career of Sir William Betham.
Patrizio Gianferro (Independent Scholar) Manuscript Reproduction as Research Apparatus at the end of the Nineteenth Century.

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

Session 2: 12:00-13:30

Chair: Meg Boulton

Jane Hawkes (University of York) Crossing and Re-crossing: Translating and Transmitting: The “Art of the Archipelago”.
Heather Pulliam (University of Edinburgh) Letters of the Heart: Insular, Continental and Byzantine Images of Books and Their Keepers.
Christina E.C. Smith (Durham University) Of Border Britons and Bernicians: The High Crosses of South-East Scotland in Context.

13:30 – 15:00 Lunch

Session 3: 15:00-16:30

Chair: Heidi Stoner

Catherine Léglu (University of Reading) Blind Samson in Anglo-Norman French and visual adaptations of Judges 16.
Cher Casey (University of York) Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins.
Elisa Foster (University of York) Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Reconsidering Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral.

16:30 – 16:45 Closing Remarks

Registration is open until 8 May at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transmissions-and-translations-in-the-medieval-world-tickets-44682099362?aff=es2

Conference: Roads, Routes and Networks: Visualizing Art Historical Information, Cambridge, MA (30 April 2018)

Roads, Routes and Networks: Visualizing Art Historical Information
Digital Humanities Colloquium

Cambridge (MA), Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., April 30, 2018

Space and movement have always been fundamental for art history, through concepts such as center and periphery, roads for global exchange, or the experience of travel, among others. Geographical Information Systems are transforming the traditional ways to visualize these disciplinary discourses about dissemination, innovation and evolution. Network analysis is bringing to light people and places that had been very relevant in their own time as nodes for exchange or partnership, but have been usually overlooked by the focus on a few big names. Vast and quickly increasing amounts of digital data invite experimentation about their uses for teaching and research in the humanities. New challenges are appearing, such as ensuring the sustainability of digital resources and their interoperability, while guaranteeing open access to cultural information. The three case studies represented in the colloquium will provide an update on new and ongoing projects in this area, and introduce a shared reflection about the possibilities of digital information within art history.
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CFP: Museums and Identities, Warsaw, Poland (Deadline 1 May 2018)

Museums and Identities

Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów Warsaw, Poland, November 21 – 23, 2018
Deadline: May 1, 2018

By ICOM Austria, ICOM Czech Republic, ICOM Slovakia, ICOM Poland
and Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów

“Museums and landscapes are an essential element of humanity’s physical, natural, social and symbolic environment.” Based on this first sentence from the ICOM Resolution of the 24th ICOM General Conference in Milano 2016 “The Responsibility of Museums Towards Landscape” we want to continue the discussion initiated during the first Seminar in 2017, about the impact museums have and how they react to the landscape that surrounds them, urban or rural. What particular responsibility for protecting this natural heritage and to promote sustainable development do museums have?

But the term “Landscape” also implies other perspectives: How are museums influencing the cultural, social, economic or political identity of the area and society they are situated in? They choose what objects are collected, presented and protected, what stories are told and how. They define what is handed on to future generations. “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” to quote Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt and Spider-Man. Therefor we want to question the role of governmental authorities or financial sponsor and how they might influence the presentation or content of exhibitions. How do museums react to financial dependencies or state-ideologies?

As we are celebrating the European Year of Cultural Heritage this year, we celebrate the diverse cultural heritage across Europe. We want to raise the question if museums not only preserve Europe’s cultural heritage at national, regional and local level, but if they also are in the position to be an important factor to contribute to build an European identity that is felt to be still missing.

Call for Papers:

Topics of interest for submission include:
1. Perspectives: Different Identities and Missions of Museums
2. Neighbours: Impact of Museums on Cultural Landscapes and Social Networks
3. Politics: Museums in Historical and Contemporary Context
4. Nature: Environmental Impact of Museums
5. Economy: Impact of Museums on Local Development & Financial Sustainability
6. European Union: Impact of Museums on European Identity

We invite to send an original research abstracts, case studies before the Abstract submission deadline. All research papers will be evaluated by international Committee. All the accepted abstracts will be eligible to be presented at the seminar after the confirmation of participation.

Applications:
Please complete the attached application form and send it to:
konferencja@muzeum-wilanow.pl

Downloads:
CFP:
http://icom-oesterreich.at/sites/icom-oesterreich.at/files/attachments/call_for_papers.pdf

Application:
http://icom-oesterreich.at/sites/icom-oesterreich.at/files/attachments/cfp_app_form.docx

Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2018
Notification of accepted applications: May 31,2018

Language:
English

Publication:
Selection of lectures will be published

CFP: The Global Turn in Medieval Studies (Deadline 15 June 2018)

The Global Turn in Medieval Studies: the 94th Annual Meeting of The Medieval Academy of America

University of Pennsylvania

7-9 March 2019 | http://www.medievalacademy.org

The 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place in Philadelphia on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. The meeting is jointly hosted by the Medieval Academy of America, Bryn Mawr College, Delaware Valley Medieval Association, Haverford College, St. Joseph’s University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Villanova University.

Medievalists across various disciplines are taking a more geographically and methodologically global approach to the study of the Middle Ages. While the Organizing Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies, this year’s conference spotlights the “global turn” in medieval studies. To this end, we encourage session and paper proposals that treat the Middle Ages as a broad historical and cultural phenomenon, encompassing the full extent of Europe as well as the Middle East, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, and beyond. We also invite proposals that explore departures from traditional teleological discourses rooted in national interests, ones that apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods to study a broad array of subjects.

We especially encourage proposals that provoke explorations of the following “big questions”:

1) Periodization and the drawing of geographic borders in medieval studies can be helpful, but can also limit our ability to make connections, see patterns, or entertain dialogue among specialists in individual sub-fields. What do we mean when we speak of the “Middle Ages” in geographic, temporal, or disciplinary terms? What do we mean when we use contemporary geographical concepts, such as Europe or Asia? What do we mean when we say “Global Middle Ages”? What is in and what is out?

2) If we are to turn away from national models, what is an alternative? For instance, how can methodologies that highlight networks further our understanding of the “Global Middle Ages”? How might they contribute, for example, to understanding mechanisms of knowledge sharing and the development and use of religious, economic, and political systems?

3) Across all cultures in the medieval world, philosophers, theologians, scholars, healers, poets, artists, and musicians sought to understand the natural world and to apply that understanding to concrete ends. How do we make sense of their efforts? How might traditional paradigms of what we call “science,” philosophical inquiry, literary, and artistic practice be challenged?

4) Medieval studies has been at the forefront of the “digital turn” over the past few decades. How have digital approaches to scholarship altered the landscape for better or worse? In a global context, have new technologies broken barriers or created new ones? How do we create and evaluate digital scholarship in medieval studies vis à vis traditional methods?

Within the framework of these “big questions”, the organizing committee proposes the following threads:

*    Uses of the Medieval
*    Expanding Geographies of the Medieval
*    Re-thinking Periodization: Beyond Eurocentrism and Postcolonialism
*    Medieval Foundations of Contemporary Politics
*    Alexander the Great and World Thinking
*    Medieval Cosmologies
*    The Trojan Myth and Genealogies
*    What is Medieval/European/Literature?
*    Transmission and Technologies of Knowledge
*    Doing Science at Court
*    The Locations of Learning
*    Myths and Legends of Languages and Letters
*    Dante, Local and Global: Towards 2021
*    Deconstructing “National” Legal Traditions
*    Gender Matters
*    Ars/Arts: Intersections Across Disciplines and Borders
*    Global Manuscript Markets and Movements
*    Digitizing the Global Middle Ages: Practices, Sustainability, and Ethics
*    Approaches to Historiography
*    Interfaith Encounters, Real and Imagined
*    Religious and Cultural Ethics across Cultures: Conversation or Confrontation?
*    Saints and Sages
*    Words and Music

Proposals
Individuals may propose a:
*    single paper for a listed thread
*    full session on a listed thread
*    single paper not designated for a specific thread
*    full session on a topic outside the listed threads
*    poster, paper, full session, or workshop that explores the role and uses of digital technologies

Sessions are 90 minutes long, and typically consist of three 20-minute papers. Proposals should be geared to that length. The committee is interested in other formats as well: poster sessions, roundtables, workshops, etc. The Program Committee may suggest a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed.

Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration will be given to individuals whose field would not traditionally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.
In order to be considered, proposals must be complete and include the following:

(1) A cover sheet containing the proposer’s name, statement of Medieval Academy membership (or statement that the individual’s specialty would not traditionally involve membership in the Academy), professional status, email address, postal address, home or cell and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), and paper title;

(2) A second sheet containing the proposer’s name, session for which the proposal should be considered, title, 250-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements.

(3) Additional sheets as necessary containing all of the above information, plus a session abstract, when a full panel for a session is being proposed.

Submissions: Proposals should be submitted as attached PDFs to the MAA Program Committee by email to MAA2019@TheMedievalAcademy.org

The deadline is 15 June 2018.

Please do not send proposals directly to the Organizing Committee members.

Selection Procedure: Paper and panel proposals will be reviewed for their quality and for the significance and relevance of their topics. The Organizing Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2018 and the Committee will inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers by 10 September 2018.

Organizing Committee Members:
Lynn Ransom & Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania (co-chairs)
Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania
Chris Atwood, University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
Mary Caldwell, University of Pennsylvania
Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College
Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania
Fr. Allan Fitzgerald, Villanova University
Scott Francis, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Herman, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Izbicki, Rutgers University & Delaware Valley Medieval Association
Ada Kuskowski, University of Pennsylvania
Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania
Maud McInerney, Haverford College
Paul Patterson, St. Joseph’s University
Montserrat Piera, Temple University
Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania
Jerry Singerman, University of Pennsylvania Press
Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
Eva del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania
Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania (ex officio as MAA president)

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/