47th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Proposals are invited for conference papers on a session on “Court Culture in Medieval Iberia” sponsored by IMANA at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, on 10–13 May 2012.
This session is intended to study the characteristics of Medieval Iberian royal courts (incorporating both royal households and parliamentary bodies). Papers included may address political patronage and the creation of networks of power and influence, the dynamics of hierarchy and interdependence and how those contributed to the formation of networks, connecting individuals, groups and/or cliques. Of particular interest are papers that explore literature and patronage, and related issues such as the production, circulation and consumption of ideas, books and objects. Together all of this will contribute to a discussion of courtly patronage as a means for establishing the legitimacy of the monarchy and the political status quo.
Send proposal (150-word abstract and a one-page CV) before September 15, 2011 (earlier proposals are welcome and encouraged). Send proposals to Nuria Silleras-Fernandez at silleras@colorado.edu.
NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
The eighteenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 8–10 March 2012 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome.
The conference will be held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. The college, located on Sarasota Bay, is adjacent to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which will offer tours arranged for conference participants. Sarasota is noted for its beautiful public beaches, theater, art and music. Average temperatures in March are a pleasant high of 77F (25C) and a low of 57F (14C).
More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions:
http://faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies
The deadline for abstracts is 15 September 2011. Send inquiries and abstracts (email preferred; no attachments please) to:
nmyhill@ncf.edu
Nova Myhill
Division of Humanities
New College of Florida
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota FL 34243
BEYOND ITALY AND NEW SPAIN
Itineraries for an Iberian Art History (1440-1640)
Organizers: Michael Cole and Alessandra Russo
April, 27th-29th, 2012
Columbia University
The Italian Academy for
Advanced Studies in America / Department of Latin American and Iberian
Cultures, Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and Archeology
Call for papers
This conference aims to open new dialogues on Iberian art and architecture
from the decade that saw the Aragonese conquest of Southern Italy (1443) and the
establishment of the first Portuguese trading station on the African island of
Arguim (1449) to that of the separation of the Portuguese and the Spanish crowns
(1640).
Art historical scholarship on Spanish Naples, Hapsburg Netherlands, New Spain
or Peru, like that on Portugal and on the former Portuguese possessions, has
largely remained local. We therefore invite proposals for papers that would
discuss artistic dynamics in or between at least two zones of the Iberian atlas
(Portugal, Brazil, Flanders, Spain, Goa, Macao, Milan, Naples, Peru, the
Philippines, Sicily, Sierra Leone, etc.). Themes may include the movement,
reinstallation, and reinterpretation of images and objects; the materials of art
making and their changing (or unchanging) meaning; printed and other
reproductions and their relationship to new originals; the reinterpretation of
architectural models in response to differing landscapes, labor conditions,
technologies, and functional requirements; the travel of artists, patrons, and
viewers; competing religious, political, intellectual, or patronage networks
(Jesuits vs Franciscans, traders vs missionaries, Portuguese vs Dutch, etc.);
the literature of art and its forms across space. Especially welcome are
proposals that address both specific works and methodological questions.
Please send proposals by September, 25th, 2011 to:
mc3371@columbia.edu and
ar2701@columbia.edu
Accepted papers will receive funding for travel to NYC.
"Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous"
Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference
October 27-29, 2011
The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation in its second bi-annual meeting from October 27-29, 2011 in Dandridge, TN. Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the beautiful Fall color season!
Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.
In honor of All Saints Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing with the teaching of Saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.
Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight double-spaced pages).
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler (kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30, 2011.
WEBB-SMITH ESSAY COMPETITION
$500 for the best research essay on:
"Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Medieval
Mediterranean"
The Department of History at the University of
Texas-Arlington is announcing its 47th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Essay
Competition. The topic for 2011-2012 is “Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the
Medieval Mediterranean.” We are looking for original, unpublished article-length
essays (maximum 10,000 words plus endnotes) in English that explore relations
between the three major cultures in the medieval Mediterranean, or the movements
of people, goods, or ideas within or across the region. Geographically,
submissions treating any sub-region of the Mediterranean, or links between
various areas are welcome. Questions may concern, but are not limited to:
cultural or technological transfers, trade and its social or political
implications, warfare, conquest, migration, and theories of Mediterranean
unity/disunity or inter-cultural relations. Papers that engage with current
scholarship debating the connections within the Mediterranean or the utility of
discussing multiculturalism in the Middle Ages are especially welcome. The goal
of this day-long conference will be to critically examine aspects of the
multi-cultural Mediterranean and what it means for scholars to speak of the sea
as one region with several religious cultures.
The winning essays will be published in a
forthcoming volume of the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series,
published by Texas A&M Press, along with essays by the lecturers Paul M. Cobb, Travis Bruce, and Robin
Vose.
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2012
Send submissions either electronically ( jlawrenc@exchange.uta.edu) or by mail to
Jennifer Lawrence, Chair, Webb Lectures Committee, Department of History, UT
Arlington, Box 19529, Arlington, TX 76019-0529.
