1 December, 2008...9:07 pm

NOVEMBER 2008

1 November
Deadline for paper proposals: “Global Languages, Local Cultures”: ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Annual Meeting, Harvard University

(1 November)
Deadline for paper proposals: “Theorizing Narrative Genres and Gender / Théorisation des genres narratifs et études de genre”: 3rd International Conference of the NEWW (New approaches to European Women’s Writing) Project, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

(1 November)
Deadline for proposals: “Religion and Theatre” Focus Group at the 2009 ATHE/AATE Conference

(1 November)
Deadline for proposals: “Variance, variantes, variations“; Paris IV-Sorbonne

1 – 2 November
Festival: “Battle of Ideas”; Royal College of Art

2 November
Deadline for paper proposals: The California State University, Long Beach, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Inaugural Graduate Student Conference: The Politics of Communication, 800-1600″

(2 November)
Deadline for paper proposals: “Michelangelo’s Neoplatonism” session, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Geneva

3 November
Deadline for paper proposals: “Late Shakespeare: Texts and Afterlives“; Trinity College Dublin

(3 November)
Deadline for paper proposals: “The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance”: 15th Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS); Tempe, Arizona

6 – 8 November
Conference: “Le Socratisme de Montaigne“; Lyons

7 November
Deadline for proposals: Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference

(7 November)
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Research Seminar: 4 p.m., K114, Arts/Newman, UCD

(7 November)
Deadline for proposals: Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (CLAI), First Postgraduate Symposium

(7 November)
“Form and Function of Images in Books”: 17th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing; Toronto

7 – 8 November

Irish Heritage Council Conference: “Across the Narrow Sea: Plantations in Ulster”; Monaghan

7 – 9 November
Postgraduate conference: Power in the Middle Ages, NUI Galway

8 November
Tenth Annual Seminar: Na Ranna Gaeilge, COC – Cumann na Scribhreann nGaedhilge, UCC

(8 November)
Celestial Harmonies: a workshop on the Byzantine liturgy and its historic setting; London

(8 November)
Uncovering Trim Town: a conference outlining the results of the 1990-2008 archaeological excavations

10 November
Digital Humanities Observatory Autumn Lecture Series: Masterclass/seminar: Prof. Ray Siemens, “Theories and Pragmatic Foundations of the Electronic Book: A digital humanities perspective”; RIA, 2.00 – 5.00 p.m.

11 November
Third Annual Distinguished Lecture, Centre for the History of the Media, UCD

(11 November)
Maynooth Medieval and Renaissance Forum Seminar Series: Dr Carrie Griffin (Forum co-ordinatrix)

12 November
“FORWARD”: Early Modern Social History Symposium, Nottingham
***UPDATE: POSTPONED*** (contact Rita Wierzbicki, Nottingham Trent University for further information)

14 November
British Academy deadlines: Research Development Awards and Senior Research Fellowships; and the Wolfson Research Professorships

(14 November)
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Research Seminar: 4 p.m., K114, Arts/Newman, UCD

15 November
The California State University, Long Beach, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Inaugural Graduate Student Conference: The Politics of Communication, 800-1600

(15 November)
Deadline for Accipe et Devora: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption of MSS and Printed Books, 1350-1550, University of Exeter

(15 November)
Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium: “The Poetry of Plants“; TCD Long Room Hub

17 – 19 November
Tradition and the Individual Talent: Modes of Authorship in the Middle Ages; Bergen

19 – 21 November
David Rundle visiting series: ‘From Manuscripts to Incunabula’; Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD:

19 November
Public lecture: ‘English Light on Renaissance Humanism’; 7.30 p.m., Swift Theatre, TCD

20 November
Palaography workshop open to all: 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Room 4050A, Arts Building,TCD

20 November
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (see UCD School of Philosophy Blog for some further comments…)

21 November
Golden Age Research Symposium, Department of Hispanic Studies, University College Cork

(21 November)
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Research Seminar: 4 p.m., K114, Arts/Newman, UCD

(21 November)
Workshop: Teaching Medieval and Early-Modern Culture to Students of Modern Languages, University of Leeds

(21 November)
A. Mayer Memorial Lecture, British Library: Christine Scollen-Jimack, ‘Marot, Deschamps and the 592 Squirrels’

(21 November)
Deadline for submissions: Oenach: Journal of the FMRSI

(21 November)
Deadline (extension!) for proposals: “Saints and Sinners of the  Middle Ages”: 7th Annual Comitatus Graduate Student Conference, Purdue University

21 – 23 November
French Studies in Scotland conference: ARCHITECTURES; The Burn, Glenesk, Brechin; near Edzell (Tayside)

22 November
Heritage Council INSTAR project symposium: ‘Mapping Death: burials in Ireland from 1st to 8th century AD’; UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, the Discovery Programme and UCD School of History & Archives; K114, Newman Building, UCD, Dublin

27 November
Deadline for proposals: Lesbian Lives XVI: ‘Representations of the Lesbian in Art, Culture and the Media’; UCD

(27 November)
Early Music Seminar, UCC Department of Music: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Music Lecture Room, St Vincent’s, Sunday’s Well, Cork

28 November
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Research Seminar: 4 p.m., K114, Arts/Newman, UCD

(28 November)
Deadline for paper proposals: Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium, University of South Florida

(28 November)
Deadline for proposals:  “Early Modern Irish Archaeologies… The Familiar Past?” Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group Conference; Sligo

(28 November)
Formal launch of the Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (CLAI); RIA, Dublin

29 November
Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (CLAI), First International Postgraduate Symposium in Comparative Literature

(28 – 29 November)
Tionól 2008; School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

30 November
Deadline for proposals: PCA conference, “Film Adaptation” (4 – 8 November 2009)

(30 November)
Deadline for proposals: “Copy That!: Reproduction and Pedagogy”: 2009 Graduate Student Symposium; Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University

(30 November)
Deadline for proposals: 4th International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities; Istanbul