Conference: ‘Rythmes et Résonances: Les objets sonores au Moyen Âge’, DFK Paris and Online, 18th-20th May 2022

The conference ‘Rythmes et Resonances: Les objets sonores au Moyen Age’ will take place from 18th to 20th May 2022 at the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art – DFK Paris, 45 rue des Petits Champs, 75001 Paris, and online (Links below).

The conveners of this conference are Philippe Cordez, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art – DFK Paris; Rebecca Müller, Universität Heidelberg; and Joanna Olchawa, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Below is the full schedule of the conference in French:

Mercredi 18

14:00 Accueil et introduction
Philippe Cordez, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art – DFK Paris
Joanna Olchawa, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Rebecca Müller, Universität Heidelberg

Son et silence

Modération : Vincent Debiais, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

14:45 Valentina Baradel, Università degli Studi di Padova
When the ‘Bell Flies to Rome’. The Sounds of Darkness and the Liturgy of Tenebrae in the Middle Ages

15:30 Manfred Luchterhandt, Universität Göttingen
Das psalmodierte Bild: Die Ikonen Roms als sakrale Klangräume, ca. 900–1200

16:15 pause

16:45 William Diebold, Reed College, Portland
The Silence of Carolingian Art

18:00 Conférence du soir
Christian Freigang, Freie Universität Berlin
Images sonores : la cloche médiévale comme objet visuel

19:00 réception

Jeudi 19

Corps résonnants

Modération : Rebecca Müller, Universität Heidelberg

9:30 Heike Schlie, Paris Lodron-Universität Salzburg
Klangkörper: Objekt und Bild

10:15 Joanna Olchawa, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Die Stimme im Objekt. Repräsentation, Inszenierung, Klang

11:00 pause

Son et corps

Modération : Rebecca Müller, Universität Heidelberg

11:30 Gayathri Iyer, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Rhythms of the God and Resonances of the King: A Study of Ankle Bells in the Medieval South Indian Classical Dance Tradition

12:15 Irina Dudar, Universität zu Köln
Klimpern und Rasseln. Der Klang spätmittelalterlicher Schützenketten

13:00 Déjeuner

Objets musicaux

Modération : Joanna Olchawa, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

15:00 Martine Clouzot, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
Bulles, cloches, orgue et vielle à roue : voir et entendre les objets sonores du roi David au XIIIe siècle

15:45 Dennis Disselhoff, Universität Heidelberg
Das Herz Gottes als tönendes Musikinstrument – Gotteserfahrung im Klang als rhetorisches Konzept in der Mystik des Zisterzienserinnenklosters zu Helfta im 13. Jahrhundert

16:30 pause

Le bruit des armes

Modération : Joanna Olchawa, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

17:00 Raphael Stepken, Technische Universität Chemnitz
Minnesang, Gottesdonner, Höllenlärm. Die Sprachen der Kanone im Spätmittelalter

17:45 Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University, Tempe
“a wonder breme noyse”: The Sounds of Weapons in Middle English Romance

18:30 fin de la journée

Vendredi 20

Rythme et texte

Modération : Philippe Cordez, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art – DFK Paris

9:30 Jean-Marie Fritz, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
Meules et moulins dans la littérature médiévale : itération et circularité du son

10:15 Corinne Mühlemann, Københavns Universitet
The Rhythm of Shafts – Pattern Notations of Complex Weaves from the Medieval Islamic World

11:00 pause

Rythme et performance

Modération : Philippe Cordez, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art – DFK Paris

11:30 Robert Vogt, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Reassuring Rhythms, Spherical Harmony, and Cosmic Order. Towards a Reevaluation of Medieval Handwarmers

12:15 Andrew Albin, Fordham University, New York
Organology of a Rollean Soundbook: Resounding Cambridge University Library MS Dd.5.64, part 3

13:00 déjeuner

14:00 Corina Gannon, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
The Sound of Seven Planets and Seven Metals – The ‘Alchemical Handbell’ of Emperor Rudolf II

Discussion finale

14:45 Jean-Claude Schmitt, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Conclusions

15:30 fin

Below are the online registration links for each day:

18 mai
https://dfk-paris-org.zoom.us/j/83087928655?pwd=bGdzWmVtT1Z1WjgwR2Q4N3hLenBCZz09
830 8792 8655
286573

19 mai
https://dfk-paris-org.zoom.us/j/88442517858?pwd=NFpnUEJ1c1E3WDZCdHEraG1tNGt3dz09
884 4251 7858
062158

20 mai
https://dfk-paris-org.zoom.us/j/85754340279?pwd=blR6dDJTRTdqL0EwZzJUSTd6ZjBoUT09
857 5434 0279
618965

PhD Studentship: Medieval Greek Linguistics, Ghent University (Deadline 23rd April 2022)

The Department of Linguistics at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for a fully-funded and full-time doctoral research fellowship attached to the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project MELA. The meaning of language. A digital grammar of the Greek taught at schools in Late Constantinople. Prof. Dr. Andrea Cuomo, with his interest in the history of Medieval Greek and the reception of classical literature in Byzantium, is the principal investigator.

MELA primarily aims to create the first digital grammar of the Greek taught at schools in late Byzantium on the basis of textbooks for the teaching of Greek and their manuscript copies composed by (or within the networks of pupils, scribes, etc. of) scholars ranging from Planoudes (†1305) to Gregoras (†c. 1360). Overall, textbooks considered by MELA may be divided into the following categories: (1) works defined by author and genre (e.g. Planoudes’ Dialogue on Grammar); (2) lemmata on grammar that flowed into dictionaries (e.g. Moschopoulos’ Collection of Attic Words), provided with stylistic examples from model authors; 2a Comments on model authors; (3) scholars’ notes on grammatical topics; 3a anonymous treatises, sketches, reworked excerpts of larger works.

The successful applicant will write a doctoral dissertation in the digital humanities/Greek linguistics on the philological accuracy of the Greek text of the sources that constitute MELA’s digital grammar. MELA is an open-access searchable textual corpus database, created on the basis of textbooks for the teaching of Greek.

The successful candidate will have

an MA degree in disciplines relevant to MELA: Greek philology/ Greek linguistics/ digital humanities;
outstanding knowledge of Ancient and/or Medieval Greek;
a demonstrable interest in Byzantine studies and training in the digital humanities;
a strong knowledge of the literary and cultural history of post-classical Greek as evidenced by their study trajectory (optional courses, subject of papers and dissertations, letters of recommendation, etc.);
excellent command of English and of at least one of the following languages: Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, or Russian.

Apply online through the e-recruitment system before the application deadline (April 23, 2022). We do not accept late applications or applications that are not submitted through the online system.

Your application must include the following documents:

In the field ‘CV’: your CV and an overview of your study results (merged into one pdf file)
In the field ‘Cover letter’: your application letter in pdf format, in which you give an account of your scholarly background and interests.
In the field ‘Diploma’: a transcript of the required degree (if already in your possession). If you have a foreign diploma in a language other than our national languages (Dutch, French or German) or English, please add a translation in one of the mentioned languages.
In the field “other documents”:
- two (2) reference letters;
- an autobiographical statement highlighting why you are interested in this project, how it resonates with your own expertise, what relevant experience/knowledge you have; what added value you expect to bring to the project; what you expect from MELA and your doctorate;
- your MA dissertation (and possibly other relevant writing samples such as papers or a BA dissertation).

Note that the maximum file size for each field is 10 MB.

As Ghent University maintains an equal opportunities and diversity policy, everyone is encouraged to apply for this position.

MORE INFORMATION

Shortlisted candidates will be notified by May 16, 2022.

Interviews will take place between the end of May and the beginning of June 2022.

For more information about this vacancy, please contact Prof. Andrea Cuomo at:

Universiteit Gent

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Department of Linguistics

Blandijnberg 2 9000 Gent

E-Mail: Andrea.Cuomo@ugent.be.

Important: do NOT send your application by email, but apply online

Call for Papers: ‘Beyond the Sabbath: Witchcraft and its Stereotypes in Early Modern Europe’, Medici Archive Project, 16th September 2022 (Deadline 1st July 2022)

The antisocial character of witches has always been perceived as a danger to the established order. While the conventional stereotypes associated with witches have now been questioned and—to some extent—recalibrated, a constant factor that persists is the degree to which the “fama di strega” has played a fundamental role in prosecutorial processes. The aim of this conference is to reassess the broad assumption that social and cultural categories associated with individuals accused of witchcraft in early modern Europe are subject to conflicting perspectives. A crucial point of departure is to address, in light of new archival documentation, the ongoing debate between common perceptions (and misconceptions) and extant historical evidence. The organizers—Domizia Weber, Daniele Santarelli and Luca Al Sabbagh—invite proposals for twenty-minute unpublished papers in English or Italian. Ideal papers will interpret in a new and critical way the phenomenon of witch hunts, with particular emphasis on issues related to infamy, scapegoating, ignominy, violence, sexual behavior, sabbaths, legal proceedings, beliefs, folklore, hallucinations, therapeutic magic, medicine, and gender discrimination. The conference will take place at Palazzo Alberti in Florence on 16 September 2022. To apply, please send an abstract (max 250 words) and a short bio (max 200 words) by 1 July 2022 to education@medici.org.

Lecture: ‘The Black Death and the Justinianic Plague – Useful Frameworks for Historical Comparison? Insights from Big Data Paleoecology’, with Dr. Adam Izdebski and Dr. Kevin Bloomfield, 29th March 2022, 12:00 EST

The Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University invites you to join the seminar “The Black Death and the Justinianic Plague – Useful Frameworks for Historical Comparison? Insights from Big Data Paleoecology” with Dr. Adam Izdebski, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and Dr. Kevin Bloomfield, Cornell University.

The lecture will take place on Zoom on 29th March at 12:00 EST.

Advance registration required.

Call for Proposals: IAS-Sponsored Sessions at CAA 2023 (Deadline 15th April 2022)

The Italian Art Society (IAS) invites proposals for one sponsored conference session (1.5 hours) at CAA, to be held in New York City 15–18 February 2023.

IAS members interested in organizing a panel on any topic of Italian art and architecture and their study should send a brief abstract (250 words max.), session title, a short list of potential or desired speakers (they need not be confirmed), the name of the chair(s) with email addresses and affiliation, and a one-page CV.

Please also include the five CAA Fields of Study that best represent your proposal, per CAA proposal instructions. The first five selected will be used by CAA to filter submissions during the review process and are later searchable in the conference schedule. See an example from CAA 2022 and a PDF list on the original post, at the link included.

We will consider both completed panels and those soliciting contributors, which will be completed during CAA’s annual “Call for Participation” in the summer.

In preparing your application, please consult IAS Submission Guidelines and CAA’s 2023 Submission Portal, to ensure you have gathered the correct materials for the panel format you are submitting for consideration by IAS at this time.

Deadline: Please submit all materials via the online submission form by 15 April 2022.

Please contact Janis Elliot, the IAS Program Committee Chair (programs@italianartsociety.org), with any questions.

Please also note the following rules for participation in the CAA conference:
If an individual’s proposal is accepted and they are not currently a member of CAA, they must join CAA within 90 days of acceptance. All session participants (chair, presenter, discussant) must be current Individual CAA members, and register for the conference.

Your session, presentation, or paper content may not have been published previously or presented at another scholarly conference.

Internship: The Medici Archive Project Summer Internships, 6th June – 15th July 2022 (Deadline 30th April 2022)

The Medici Archive Project offers internships for undergraduates and graduate students. This year they will run from the start of June to mid-July at MAP’s headquarters in Palazzo Alberti in Florence.
Interns learn the ropes of archival research by shadowing a MAP scholar and helping their mentor with active investigations. Typical responsibilities include digitizing and indexing volumes, transcribing documents, assisting with social media and organizational tasks, public relations correspondence, copy editing, and conducting secondary research online and in local libraries and archives.

How to apply
Please send the following (in PDF format):
– A CV that outlines your academic background and relevant coursework.
– A personal statement (for details, see the Application Procedure to the left).
– One recommendation letter written by someone from your academic institution who knows you well. Recommendation letters can either be sent by you with your application packet, or by the recommender directly to us, using the following email address: education@medici.org.

In their personal statements, prospective interns should:
1) outline their academic interests and motivations for undertaking the internship;
2) indicate current Fellows and Staff Members with whom they would especially hope to collaborate;
3) indicate their level of proficiency in languages other than English, especially Italian, Spanish, German, or Hebrew;
4) note any relevant previous experience (archival experience is not required).

Completed applications and recommendation letters should be submitted to education@medici.org.

Online Conference: ‘(Re)Conceptualizing Communities’, First Annual Symposium Hosted by the Consortium Medievalists, 2nd April 2022, 10:00 – 18:00 EST

The First Annual Symposium Hosted by the Consortium Medievalists: (Re)Conceptualizing Communities will take place on Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 via Zoom. The link to register can be found after the full programme listed below:

10:00-10:15 AM (EST): Virtual Coffee and Welcome

Introduction by Dr. Hal Momma with The Consortium Medievalists

10:15-11:15 AM (EST): (Re)Conceptualizing Medieval Studies

Moderator: Katie Clark (NYU)

Dr. Afrodesia McCannon (NYU): Everyone in the Pool: Thinking about Race and Medieval Studies

Dr. Sierra Lomuto (Rowan University): Forthcoming

12:00-1:30 PM (EST): (Re)Conceptualizing Disability in the Middle Ages

Moderator: Margaret McCurry (NYU)

Dr. Tory Pearman (Miami University): Disability and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte Darthur

Dr. Kisha Tracy (Fitchburg State University): Saint Dymphna of Geel and Communities of Mental Health

Dr. Edward Wheatley (Emeritus, Loyola University, Chicago): Communities of People with Disabilities

2:00-3:00 PM (EST): (Re)Conceptualizing Professionalization

Community Discussion Open to All

Moderators: Alice Grissom (Fordham) and E.G. Asher (NYU)

How might the pandemic transform the trajectory of graduate student research and teaching, as well as undergraduate education? What is the assumed role of individuals and of communities in professionalization? Please join us as we consider these questions among others in a lively discussion open to all.

3:30-4:30 PM (EST): (Re)Thinking Medieval Community: A Perspective from Early Career Academics

Moderator: Alina Shubina (Columbia)

Dr. Ali Gibran Siddiqui (Princeton): Epistolary Spaces and Sacred Networks: A Reappraisal of the Ahrari Naqshbandi Tariqa

Dr. Tamar Rotman (Columbia): Envisioning Identities and Communities in Early Medieval Hagiographies

Dr. Hiba Abid (NYU): Forthcoming

5:00-6:00 PM (EST): Keynote Lecture

Moderator: Ariela Algaze (NYU)

Dr. Asa Mittman (CSU Chico): “Cast Them Out”: Building English Identity through Jewish Exclusion

The Consortium Medievalists are a group of graduate scholars from Columbia, CUNY, Fordham, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, Stony Brook, and Yale. We would like to kindly thank our sponsors: NYU Critical Theory and Medievalisms Forum, NYU Center for Disability Studies, Columbia Medieval Literature Colloquium, Fordham GSA and Medieval Studies, and an anonymous donor from NYU.

To R.S.V.P., click here.

Online conference: British Archaeological Association’s Romanesque conference: ‘Image & Narrative in Romanesque Art’, 28–30 March 2022

The seventh in the British Archaeological Association’s Romanesque conference series, Image and Narrative, is taking place at the British School at Rome. It will be available on Zoom. Times for the conference are in Italian (not UK) time

Please click the link to join the webinar which is for each of the days. (Passcode: 886218)

Conference programme

Monday 28 March 2022

Session 1: Chair: Grazia Fachechi

9.30 am Welcome and Introduction

9.45am Serena Romano, Image and Narrative in Rome during the ‘Romanesque’ period: A focus on San Crisogono

10.30am Questions

10.45am Break

11.15am Claudia Quattrocchi, Before Narrative: A multifocal method for mapping mural decoration in Central Italy

11.45am Marcello Angheben, Polysemy and multifunctionality in the apse mosaic at San Clemente: Gregorian reform, liturgy and devotion

12.15pm Questions

13.00pm Break

Session 2: Chair: Alison Perchuk

14.30pm Armin Bergmeier, Linear Time and Narrative in the Anagni Crypt Frescoes

15.00pm Andrea Worm, Narrative and Argument: The Emergence of Typological Cycles in the Twelfth Century

15.30pm Questions

15.45pm Break

Session 3: Chair: Béla Zsolt Szakács

16.15pm Kristin B. Aavitsland, Microarchitecture and Storytelling in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia

16.45pm Bella Arcidiacono, Stories from Genesis at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo and the Cathedral of Monreale: Relations, Interactions, Strategies

17.15pm Questions

Tuesday 29 March 2022

Session 4: Chair: Lindy Grant

9.30am Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, The Commissioning and Politics of Images in Twelfth-Century Northern Italy: From the Investiture Controversy to the Fight against Heresy

10.00am Deborah Kahn, Promoting Conformity: The Role of the Church in the Revival of Sculpture

10.30pm Questions

10.45pm Break

Session 5: Chair: Richard Plant

11.15am Jessica Berenbeim, Letter Forms and Literary Meaning: Script and Inscriptions c.1100

11.45am Robert Maxwell, The Narrative Time of Dreams

12.15pm Manuel Castiñeiras, Narrative Strategies, the Senses and ‘Iter’ at Pilgrimage Sites: Conques, Compostela and Bethlehem

12.45pm Questions

13.15pm Break

Session 6: Chair: Rose Walker

14.30pm Irene Caracciolo, A Comparative Analysis of the ‘tecnica mista’ panel portraits inserted into certain wall paintings in Romanesque Italy

15.00pm Mina Miyamoto, A Problem of Identification in Folio 1v. of the Salzburg Pericopes

15.30pm Questions

15.45pm Break

Session 7: Chair: Barbara Franzé

16.15pm Gaetano Curzi, Nature, Landscape and Hagiography on the façade of San Clemente a Casauria

16.45pm Claude Andrault-Schmit, An Unusual Scenography in the Service of Popular Devotion. The Deathbed Scene at Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Celle in Poitiers

17.15pm Questions

Wednesday 30 March 2022

Session 8: Chair: Manuel Castiñeiras

9.30am Wilfried Keil, The Narrative Frieze of Saint Domninus on the Façade of Fidenza Cathedral

10.00am Carles Sanchez, A Roman Saint in Catalonia: Sant Llorenc Dosmunts and the Shaping of Devotional Images through Romanesque Altar Frontals

10.30am Questions

10.45am Break

11.30am John McNeill, A Narrative of Intercession in the Cloister of Saint-Aubin at Angers

12.00pm Barbara Franzé, Image and Narrative in the Cloister at Moissac in the light of the Consecration Ritual

12.30pm Questions

12.45pm Break

Session 9: Chair: John McNeill

14.30pm Béla Zsolt Szakács, From Rome to Somogyvár: Transforming the Spinario

15.00pm Yael Barash, From Sin to Redemption: Narratives, Abstract Conclusions, and Composition in Hildegard of Bingen’s Illustrations

15.30pm Questions

15.45pm Break

16.15pm Alison Perchuk, Narrative Sequences of the Apocalypse in Romanesque Italy: Location, Function, Structure, Meaning

16.45pm Rose Walker, Old Testament Images in Navarre and Aragon in the Middle of the Twelfth Century: Sites of Theological and Social Tension

17.15pm Questions

Funding and Scholarships: ARTES Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize and CEEH Scholarships (Deadline 31st March 2022)

Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize

ARTES invites submissions for the Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize for the best art-historical essay on a Spanish theme. The deadline is 31st March 2022 and full details are available at https://artes-uk.org/2014/01/02/the-juan-facundo-riano-essay-medal/

Scholarships

Thanks to the generous support of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica), ARTES also awards a number of scholarships to students working on any aspect of Spanish visual culture before 1900. The deadline for all scholarship applications is also 31st March 2022 and there are further guidelines below.

Travel scholarships

Final year undergraduates and postgraduate students registered for a full or part-time degree course at a UK university may apply for up to £1000 towards the costs of travel to Spain for research purposes (which may include field work, attendance at a conference, or other recognised forms of research).

£3000 scholarship for PhD students or post-doctoral scholars in Spain who wish to conduct research in the UK

Doctoral students or those who received their doctorate less than four years before the application deadline may apply for this scholarship provided that they were or are registered for doctoral study at a university in Spain.

£3000 scholarship for PhD students at a UK university

ARTES offers one scholarship each year to a student registered for a full- or part-time doctoral degree at a UK university. The scholarship is intended to contribute towards the costs of tuition, living and/or research, and therefore students with full funding are not eligible.

Seminar: Round Table, ‘Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World’, IHR Seminar Europe 1150-1550, 24th March 2022, 17:30 GMT

The IHR Europe 1150-1550 seminar returns this Thursday 24^th March 5.30 pm. Catherine Holmes (Oxford), Jonathan Shepard (Oxford), Jo Van Steenbergen (Ghent) and Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth) will present their book Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700-c.1500: A Framework for Comparing Three Spheres. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

This seminar will take place online only. Please register online here.

Please send any enquiries to Andrew.Jotischky@rhul.ac.uk or emily.corran@ucl.ac.uk