CFP: NEMSC Graduate Student Conference, March 16, 2013

I am currently in the midst of co-organizing a rotating graduate conference, which will be hosted this academic year by the University of Connecticut (my home institution). So I'm posting the CFP here in hopes of getting the word out to any and all interested attenders. Please feel free to pass it on!

30th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference

"Collaborations"

Saturday, March 16, 2013

University of Connecticut

Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 30th annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, to be held at the University of Connecticut on Saturday, March 16, 2013. This year’s theme will be "Collaborations."

"Collaborations" is a concept that pervades both the medieval period and the field of medieval studies, and provides a major theme for considering a variety of relevant subjects. In its breadth, this theme is meant to encompass a wide array of topics from graduate students working in all areas of medieval studies. Toward this end, we welcome papers from an assortment of disciplines, including:

Anthropology — Archaeology — Art History — Byzantine Studies — Classical Studies —Digital Humanities — Gender Studies — History — History of Science — Islamic Studies — Judaic Studies — Language Studies — Literary Studies — Mediterranean Studies — Manuscript Studies — Musicology — Philosophy — Religious Studies — Theology

We also look forward to papers that incorporate or deal with notions of interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary methods; and that examine the theme of collaborations theoretically.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Collaborations in medieval culture
Receptions of the medieval in the modern world
Collaborations in academia
Interdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary methodologies
Theories of collaboration

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2013. Abstracts of up to 250 words should be e-mailed to Brandon Hawk and Patrick Butler at uconn.nemsc@gmail.com. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length and read in English. Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the conference will have the opportunity to submit their papers prior to the conference to be considered for the Alison Goddard Elliott Award for the Outstanding Conference Paper.

For more information about NEMSC, see our website: http://www.medievalstudies.uconn.edu/organizations.html.

CFP Leeds 2013 - Charlemagne in Latin

CALL FOR PAPERS

CHARLEMAGNE IN LATIN

INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS (LEEDS, 2013)

Organisers:
Dr Matthew Gabriele (Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech)
Dr William Purkis (Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham)

These sessions seek to explore the multiplicity of ways in which the life and legend of Charlemagne featured in various Latin textual environments between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. They will examine which aspects of the Charlemagne legend subsequent generations of Latin writers were concerned with, how these changed over time, and why. More generally, they will identify the diversity of textual surroundings in which the legend of Charlemagne was to be found during this period. In so doing, the sessions seek to offer a fresh approach to assessing the cultural impact of Carolingian memory in the medieval West. Papers are invited from those who work on narrative sources (such as the so-called Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle) as well as those who work on a broader range of Latin material, including (but not limited to) diplomatics, miracle stories, exempla, and liturgical materials.

The sessions constitute one strand in an on-going research project on Charlemagne: A European Icon, based at the University of Bristol, UK. The project is concerned with examining the ways in which Charlemagne was appropriated by different linguistic cultures in medieval Europe. It is anticipated that an edited collection of essays on Charlemagne in Latin will be published as part of this project in due course.

For further details, or to submit an abstract (c. 250 words), please contact either Dr Matthew Gabriele or Dr William Purkis by 14 September 2012.