Monthly Archives: December 2017

Irish Archaeology Field School (IAFS) Forensic Anthropology Course

The Irish Archaeology Field School (IAFS) provides third level training in heritage based studies to a number of university partners (see www.iafs.ie for more detail). This year the IAFS are launching an exciting new forensic anthropology course (see here) in partnership with Maynooth University and the Irish National Heritage Park. This week long course will run twice, starting March 11th and June 10th and carries 7.5 ECTS credits (awarded by Maynooth University).

The program will be taught from the site of Carrick Castle (and settlement), the first Norman Castle in Ireland, constructed in 1169. The castle site is located within the stunning confines of the Irish National Heritage Park in Wexford, southeast Ireland, a 40 acre parkland featuring the largest open air museum in Ireland. The course is particularly suitable for any students with an interest in osteoarchaeology and physical/forensic anthropology but may also appeal to a wide range of backgrounds including archaeology, history, anthropology, medieval studies – or just students looking for a unique study abroad experience in general. The program will include students of all ages and nationalities.

Brochure https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/Forensic%20Anthro%20Brochure_0.pdf

For further information contact:

Mairead Stobie
Program Administrator 

mairead.stobie@iafs.ie 

Palsgrave Macmillan Christmas Special – Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda

Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society compares two successful, elite medieval women, Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda, for their relative ability to retain their wealth and power in the midst of the profound social changes of the eleventh century. The careers of the Ottonian queen and empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda of Tuscany reveal a growth of opportunities for women to access wealth and power. These two women are analysed under three categories: their relationships with family and friends, how they managed their property (particularly land) and how they ruled. This analysis encourages a better understanding of gender relations in both the past and the present.

Palgrave Macmillan are offering a special Christmas price of US$14.99/€14.99 until Dec. 31 with the code PALHOLIDAY17.

The link is here: https://www.palgrave.com/us/shop/holiday/humanities (scroll down to see the book).

See attached for front and back covers and flyer for the Holiday price.

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Reading Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Professional Masterclass by Professor Michelle P. Brown

Reading Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Professional Masterclass by Professor Michelle P. Brown

When Wednesday 24 January 2018 from 09:30AM to 04:00PM

Venue Great Southern Room, State Library of Western Australia 

Details Professor Brown will share her expertise in a Masterclass for the collecting sector, students and scholars.  The Masterclass will examine manufacturing techniques and contexts for the commissioning and making of illuminated manuscripts from late antiquity to the early 16th century. Professor Brown will relate the principles established in the making of illuminated manuscripts to the early printed book and into the electronic age.

The Masterclass is strictly limited to 50 places. 

For information contact Dr Kate Gregory 9427 3480

https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/whats-on/events-exhibitions/reading-medieval-illuminated-manuscripts-professional-masterclass

Moving to the Left: The Art and Development of the Frontispiece – Exhibition, Otago

Moving to the Left: The Art and Development of the Frontispiece 

Special Collections, University of Otago

What is a frontispiece? When did they first appear in print? Where do they sit in relation to the rest of a book’s contents? These are just some of the questions that the exhibition, ‘Moving to the Left: The Art and Development of the Frontispiece’, hopes to answer, with the help of just a few examples from the printed books in Special Collections, University of Otago. This exhibition starts in Special Collections, the de Beer Gallery, on Friday 15 December 2017. It runs through to 9 March 2018.

Debate surrounds the frontispiece, a word coined into the English language about the 1600s (OED). In the early print period, it seems that the frontispiece and the title-page, usually an engraved one, were treated synonymously. The convention was to often find the frontispiece on the recto page, where the title-page would normally be. Some scholars claim that the first frontispieces appeared in print in the late 15th century. Judging from samples in Special Collections, the move to the left certainly occurred before the 1750s.

A whole host of individuals can have a hand in the creation of a frontispiece: authors, publishers, artists, engravers, etchers, and photographers. Sometimes the name of the artist and/or engraver is included. In this exhibition, there is the work of past artists and engravers such as Charles Turner, Samuel Wale, William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, William Rogers, Michael vanderGucht, and Wencelaus Hollar. Modern samples include work by Lyn Ward, Agnes Miller Parker, Wayne Seyb, and Marta Chudolinska. The binding process is also an important factor in placement of frontispieces; binders often disregarded instructions.

The exhibition is grouped into various subject headings such as Christian Symbolism, Emblematics, Classical Studies, Portraits, and Moderns. Notable works on display include James Howell’s Londinopolis; An Historicall Discourse (1657); John Evelyn’s Sculptura (1662); Robert Nelson’s A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England (1732); Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1682); Edward Chamberlayne’s Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England.(1684); and John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1688). Moderns include Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1903); Selma Lagerlöf’s The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1950); and Mickey Spillane’s I’ll Die Tomorrow (2009).
According to the Dutch painter and art theorist, Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711), in his The Art of Painting, all frontispiece compositions should have three distinctive qualities: one, they must be pleasing to the eye; two, they must reflect well on the author and artist; and three, they must help the book-seller actually sell the book. Please do visit the exhibition, and as you make your way through it, please consider some of these aspects in the art of the frontispiece.

‘Moving to the Left: The Art and Development of the Frontispiece’
15 December 2017 to 9 March 2018.
De Beer Gallery, 1st floor, Central Library

Eventually this exhibition will go online, so watch this space.
In addition, if anyone would like a copy of the poster and handlist (physical or e-versions), please just ask.

For further information, please contact  Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz or Romilly Smith at Romilly.smith@otago.ac.nz
Phone: (03) 479-8330

Medieval Academy of America -Seeking Nominations for the Graduate Student Committee

The Medieval Academy of America is currently accepting self-nominations for vacancies opening up on the Graduate Student Committee (GSC) for the 2018-2020 term. The GSC comprises six members appointed for a two-year term on a rotating basis. There are three openings to be filled. Self-nominations are open to all graduate students, worldwide, who are members of the MAA and have at least two years remaining in their program of study.

The GSC represents and promotes the participation of graduate student medievalists within the MAA and the broader academic community. In addition to fostering international and interdisciplinary exchange, the GSC is dedicated to providing guidance on research, teaching, publishing, professionalization, funding, and employment, as well as offering a forum for the expression of the concerns and interests of our colleagues. Our responsibilities, thus, include organizing pre-professionalizing panels and social events annually at ICMS Kalamazoo, the MAA Annual Meeting, IMC Leeds, and biennially at ANZAMEMS. We also run a successful and popular Mentorship Program that pairs graduate students with faculty to discuss any aspect of our profession such as teaching, publishing, finding a successful work/life balance, maneuvering the job market, and more. In addition, we seek to bring together graduate students through virtual communities such as the growing Graduate Student Group on the MAA website, Facebook, Twitter, the med-grad listserv, and a regular newsletter.

GSC members are asked to attend the Committee’s annual business meeting at Kalamazoo for the duration of their term and to communicate regularly with the group via email and Skype. Ideal applicants are expected to work well both independently and as part of a team in a collaborative environment. Previous experience with organizing conference panels and social events, as well as facility with social and digital media are not required, but may be a benefit.

Interested applicants should submit the following by January 15, 2018:

– The Nomination Form;
– A brief CV (2 pages maximum) uploaded as part of the Nomination Form;
– A recommendation letter from your faculty advisor, sent to the Executive Director of the Medieval Academy by mail or as a PDF attachment (on letterhead with signature, to LFD@TheMedievalAcademy.org).

New members will be selected by the Committee on Committees and confirmed by the Council of the Medieval Academy at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, 1-3 March 2018. If you have any questions, please contact us at gsc@themedievalacademy.org

Click here to apply

 

93rd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

93rd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA

Emory University, Atlanta Georgia
1 – 3 March 2018

Program: Click here for the conference program.

Location: Emory Conference Center Hotel, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
 

Emory University is pleased to host the Medieval Academy of America for the first time since 1984. Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is the busiest in the world, and travel is made even more convenient by the recent addition of the Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal. Atlanta is also home to the High Museum of Art, Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, the Martin Luther King Center, the Civil Rights Museum, the Center for Disease Control, and of course, the Coca-Cola Museum. A more ambitious trip, approximately an hour and a half south of the city, takes you to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. The entire conference will be held and housed at the Emory Conference Center, a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired building located on a 26-acre forest preserve.  Shops and restaurants are adjacent at Emory Point. 

Emory University:  http://www.emory.edu

Emory Conference Center:  http://www.emoryconferencecenter.com

Emory Point:  http://www.emory-point.com

Themes:

1. Representing the Mysteries of Faith in Art, Liturgy, and Devotion

2. The Religious Orders: Diffusion of Artistic and Religious Practices between Monastery and City

3. The Medieval Artes and their Books

4. The Long Fourteenth Century

5. Transconfessional Spaces in Andalusi Cities

6. Umayyad Córdoba and Nasrid Granada: Poetry, Philosophy, and Architecture

7. Restoring Medieval Buildings: Gains, Problems, and Technologies     

8. Materiality of Medieval Objects: What Now?

9. Monumental Narratives: Bayeux and Beyond

10. Legal History of Landholding and Property       

11. New Medieval Economic Institutions

12. Legacy of Rome: Legal, Literary, and Artistic    

13. Migration, Movement, and Slavery         

14. Female Spirituality and Mysticism

15. Bible Translation and Reform Movements

16. Medieval Cosmographies and Geographies

17. Trade and Material Culture in the Mediterranean

18. Chaucer and the Poets

19. Anglo-Saxon Objects and Spaces, Poems and Places

20. Faith and Inquiry: Exegesis, Speculative Theology, and Normative Argument

21. Faith and Culture: Devotional Practices, Symbolism, and Lived Religion

22. Transgressing “Isms”: Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism . . .

23. Comparative Kingship from the Carolingians to 1300

24. Truth, “Truthiness,” and Falsehood in Documentary Practice

 

Emory Program Committee

Co-chairs: Elizabeth Carson Pastan and James H. Morey

Richard Barton (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
John Bugge
C. Jean Campbell
María Carrión
Kevin Corrigan
Judith Evans-Grubbs
Roxani Margariti
Walter Melion
Philp Reynolds
Alexander Volokh

2018 CHE Conference ‘The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders’ – Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS – CHE Conference, Western Australia
2018 CHE Conference ‘The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders’

Conference Date: 14‒15 June 2018
Venue: University Club of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia
Enquiries: Pam Bond, emotions@uwa.edu.au
Call for Papers Deadline: 2 February 2018
Bursary Applications Deadline: 2 March 2018

http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-future-of-emotions-conversations-without-borders/?page=2

Holiday Book Sale – Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society

HOLIDAY BOOK SALE

Penny Nash’s book Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017,  is on holiday sale at US$14.99 plus VAT until December 31 with the code PALHOLIDAY17

The link is here: https://www.palgrave.com/us/shop/holiday/humanities (scroll down to see the book)

Otago Printer in Residence Programme – SNAP

The latest University of Otago Printer in Residence programme resulted in SNAP, a volume of verse by poet/writer David Eggleton; images by artist Nigel Brown; and hand-printed by John Holmes.

Check out the first two at: http://www.anzliterature.com/member/david-eggleton/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Brown

SNAP would be the perfect gift for some bookish sort. Limited edition, hand printed, and wonderful images to the text. 100 copies were hand printed and each copy sells for NZ$120.00 & postage.

If you or your institution are interested in this truly local production, please contact Donald Kerr mailto:donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz to secure a copy, or two.