Daily Archives: 15 December 2011

21st Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Call For Papers

21st Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 30 August-2 September 2012
Conference Website

The theme of the conference is: Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2012

Keynote Speaker:  Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. Her main research areas are medieval literatures, Celtic studies, Arthurian literature, and critical theory.

In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme. We also invite scholars working on any related aspect of the Middle Ages or Renaissance to submit abstracts for consideration.

Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to Professor David Scott-Macnab by 31 January 2012.

London Palaeography Summer School 2012

London Palaeography Summer School
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of
London, 18–22 June 2012

The London Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in
Palaeography and Diplomatic. Courses range from a half to two days duration
and are given by experts in their respective fields from a wide range of
institutions. The full list of courses on offer is available at:

http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School12/index.htm

New Courses in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies

The Institute is pleased to announce that it will co-ordinate two new courses on behalf of the School of Advanced Study: Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600: palaeography, codicology and contextualisation, which will run as part of the London Rare Books School 2012 and a ten-week course on Palaeography and Diplomatic for Historians, commencing January 2012.

All the courses are suitable for MA, MRes, MPhil and PhD students and are also open to professional and other participants.

For enquiries, registration and programme information:

Website:  http://ies.sas.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7862-8680
E-mail:  cmps@sas.ac.uk