CFP: 18th conference of the Early Book Society, University of Limerick, July 11th-15th 2023

CFP: Filologia Germanica 15 (2023)

Call for Submissions

Deadline for title/abstract: 15 April 2022

Deadline for paper: 31 December 2022):

‘ Meter and Rhythm in Medieval Germanic Texts’

FILOLOGIA GERMANICA – GERMANIC PHILOLOGY 15 (2023)

Volume 15 will focus on the themes of meter and rhythm in medieval Germanic texts. As Augustine already pointed out in De musica (3.2.4), although meter and rhythm can be considered to be constituents of medieval verse (ergo omnis versus est rhythmus et metrum), they do not always coincide (non omnis rhythmus etiam metrum). This very concept, reassessed in Beda’s definitions of meter as ratio cum modulatione and rhythm as modulatio sine ratione, finds a possible correlation in the Norse literary figures of the skáld and of the þulr, which are assumed to be differently associated with meter and rhythm, the former for being the holder of the art of versification, the latter for being a performer of mostly catalogue-like texts endowed with a rhythmicity suitable for easy memorization. A stimulating debate has recently arisen on the value and function of the alliterative meter and rhythm, taking up and updating the principles of Sieversian Germanic metrics on the basis of linguistic, literary and codicological theories (Kristján Árnason 1991, Russom 1998 and 2017 2004, Fulk 1992 and 2004, Bredehoft 2005, Bögl 2006, Neidorf et al. [Eds.] 2016, Weiskott 2016, Cornelius 2017, Hench – Estes 2018), rekindling the attention on the relationship between lyrics and music (Everist – Kelly [eds. ] 2018) and extending our gaze to rhyming poetry.

We invite you to submit contributions that fit into this perspective, in order to propose new evidence and / or stimulate a theoretical, linguistic and critical reflection on the nature and function of meter and rhythm in medieval Germanic texts. The volume will focus on different textual genres within poetry and prose production.

Scholars willing to contribute to this volume (which has a planned publication date of Autumn 2023) should send the following information and material to Letizia Vezzosi (letizia.vezzosi@unifi.it), by April 15th 2022:

–        name(s) of the author(s) and title of the essay;

–        a short abstract in Italian, English or German that should not exceed 2,500 characters (spaces included), except bibliography.

Further details available here.

CFP: Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire San Ochtú Céad Déag, UCC

Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire San Ochtú Céad Déag

2022 Annual Conference

University College Cork

17-18 June 2022

Plenary Speakers

Dr Neil Buttimer

Dr Gillian O’Brien

Prof David O’Shaughnessy

Call for Papers

The 2022 Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag is scheduled to take place as an in-person event in University College Cork, 17-18 June. We will be guided by public health requirements and by UCC institutional policies on Covid-19, and we may therefore need to adapt the format closer to the conference date.

Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers (in English or Irish) on any aspect of eighteenth-century Ireland, including its history, literature, language, and culture. The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is a multidisciplinary society, and we welcome papers from all disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary and comparative research. We particularly encourage early career scholars to submit proposals, as well as those working with new methodological and theoretical perspectives.

Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to Clíona Ó Gallchoir (c.gallchoir@ucc.ie) before Friday 15 April 2022. Proposals should include: name, institutional affiliation, paper title, and a 250-word abstract. Prospective speakers will be notified of a decision by Monday 3 May 2022. 

Cuirfear fáilte ar leith roimh pháipéir agus/nó roimh phainéil iomlána i nGaeilge ar ghné ar bith de shaol agus de shaíocht na Gaeilge san Ochtú Céad Déag. Iarrtar ar dhaoine ar mhaith leo páipéar 20 nóiméad a léamh, teideal an pháipéir mar aon le hachoimre ghairid (250 focal) a sheoladh chuig Máire Ní Íceadha (mniiceadha@ucc.ie) roimh 15 Aibreán 2022. Iarrtar orthu siúd a bhfuil spéis acu painéal a eagrú ainmneacha na gcainteoirí, na n-institiúidí lena mbaineann siad, teidil na bpáipéar agus achoimrí mar aon le hainm agus sonraí teagmhála an chathaoirligh a bheith san áireamh. Cuirfear scéala chuig cainteoirí roimh an Luan an 3 Bealtaine 2022.

The conference is held in association with the School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC and Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, UCC.

Queries should be addressed to one of the conference organisers:

Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, School of English, University College Cork.

E-mail: c.gallchoir@ucc.ie

Dr Máire Ní Íceadha, Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh.

R-phost: mniiceadha@ucc.ie

PLEASE NOTE THAT CURRENT UCC POLICY REQUIRES THAT CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS MUST PROVIDE AN EU DIGITAL COVID CERTIFICATE, OR EQUIVALENT PROOF OF IMMUNITY.

New Books in Medieval Studies

Our friends at Four Courts Press have announced publication of two new titles that will be of interest to our community:

Medieval Dublin XVIII, edited by Sean Duffy

and

Trinity College Library Dublin: A Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English and Some Old English, by John Scattergood, Niamh Pattwell and Emma Williams.

Congratulations all on the publication of such important scholarship.

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CFP: I Virtual Medieval Studies Conference, Nov 10, 17, 24 and Dec 1

I Virtual Medieval Studies Conference
Objective
The first edition of the Virtual Medieval Studies Conference is a pilot proposal that aims to bring together students of PhD who have an ongoing or newly presented research on some subject framed in the Middle Ages. The objective of this meeting will be to present research advances to exchange experiences from a mainly methodological approach. Each communicator will have a maximum time of 15 minutes to present their projects in addition to participating as a commentator of another participant’s work.

General Conditions
The I Virtual Medieval Studies Conference is open to PhD students from any university whose studies are conducted from one or more of the following disciplines: Archaeology, Philosophy, Philology, History, Historiography, History of Art, Literature and related. While the proposal for this event is mainly methodological, interested parties must submit a summary (maximum 3000 characters) considering the main elements of the research project, namely:

1)Topic
2) Objective of the research
3) Analysed and/or used Sources
4) Methodology

Practical Modalities
1)Those interested in participating must register and submit their summary in the form available at: https://forms.gle/5mx8ooV7XP2ZtEcA7 opened by October 15, 2020.
2) The participations may be held in Spanish, Catalan and English.
3) The event prioritizes Doctoral projects, but also considers the participation of Masters’ degree projects in the process of conclusion or recently presented.
4) If accepted, it shall be notified on October 25, date on which the final programme and summaries will be published.
5) Certificates of participation will be issued to communicators.

2020 Conference: Hearing and Auditory Perception, TCD 24-25 April

 

CFP: “Outlaws, Ballads and Bandits in Popular Tradition,” NUI

A Conference on “Outlaws, Ballads and Bandits in Popular Tradition” in conjunction with the Annual Irish Conference of Folklore and Ethnology/Tionól Béaloideasa agus Eitneolaíochta in Éirinn.

CFP: Domestic Devotions in Medieval Europe

Call for Contributors

 

Contributions are invited for a Special Issue of the journal Religion on the theme of ‘Domestic Devotions in Medieval Europe: Encountering the Sacred in the Everyday’

Guest Editor : Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth.

CFP: ‘Materialities & the Senses’, IMC, Leeds 2019

Deadline for proposals: 15^th September 2018

‘Materialities and the Senses’
International Medieval Congress 2019
Leeds, 1-4 July 2019

CFP: Early Book Society Conference 2019, University College Dublin

Deadline: 1 December 2018

CFP: Conflicting Chronologies in the Pre-modern World, UCD, 4-6 Oct 201

Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2018

Conflicting Chronologies in the Pre-modern World: Measuring Time from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, 4-6 October 2018

https://sites.google.com/view/conflictingchronologies

CFP: Irish Conference of Medievalists, UCC, 28-30 June 2018

Deadline: 9 March 2018

CFP: Imbas 2017, NUIG

Deadline:31 October 2017

‘Misconceptions of Late Antiquity and the “Dark Ages”‘

Imbas
NUI Galway
1-3 December 2017

News: Book Launch: Essays in honour of Billy Colfer

BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION

Four Courts Press
cordially invites you to the launch of

MEDIEVAL WEXFORD
Essays in memory of Billy Colfer

 

Ian W. Doyle & Bernard Browne, editors

at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday 1 December 2016

in the Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford

The book will be officially launched by

Conor Newman, Chairman of the Heritage Council of Ireland

RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie

To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at

http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/medieval-wexford/

 

Updated CFP: Borderlines XXI, UCC, 14-16 April 2017

Deadline: 3 February 2017

Event: Book Launch, Religion & Politics

BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION

Four Courts Press and

the Department of History, Maynooth University,

cordially invite you to the launch of

Religion and Politics

in Urban Ireland, c.1500–c.1750
Essays in Honour of Colm Lennon

 

Salvador Ryan & Clodagh Tait, editors

7 p.m. on Friday 25 November 2016

Atrium of the John Paul II Library,

South Campus, Maynooth University,

Maynooth, Co. Kildare

The book will be launched by
Dr Art Cosgrove, Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish History, UCD

RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie

To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at

http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/religion-and-politics-in-urban-ireland-c-1500c-1750/

CFP: The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland, New College, University of Edinburgh, 12 May 2017

CFP: Evil in the Middle Ages, Paris, 29 June – 1 July 2017

For its 14th Annual Symposium, the International Medieval Society invites abstracts on the theme of Evil in the Middle Ages. The concept of evil, and the tensions it reveals about the relationship between internal and external identities, fits well into recent trends in scholarship that have focused attention on medieval bodies, boundaries, and otherness. Medieval bodies frequently blur the distinctions between moral and non-moral evil. External, monstrous appearances are often seen as testament to internal dispositions, and illnesses might be seen as a reflection of a person’s evil nature. More generally, evil may stand in for an entire, contrasting ideological viewpoint, as much as for a particular kind of behavior, action, or being. It may appear in the world through intentional acts, as well as through accidental occurrences, through demonic intervention as much as through human weakness and sin. It may be rooted in anger, spread through violence, or thrive on ignorance, emerging from either the natural world or from mankind.

Alongside those working on bodies and monstrosity, the question of evil has also preoccupied scholars working to understand the limits of moral responsibility and the links between destiny and decision as shown in medieval literary, artistic and historical productions. The 14th Annual IMS Symposium on Evil aims to focus on the many facets of medieval evil, analysing the intersections between evil as concept and form, as well as taking into account medieval responses to evil and its potential effects.

This Symposium will thus explore (but is not limited to) three broad themes:
1) Concepts of evil: discourse on morality and moral understandings of evil; reflections on the relationship between good and evil; heresy and heretical beliefs, teachings, writings; evil and sin; evil and conscience; associations with hell, the devil; types of evil behavior or evil thoughts; categories of evil; evil as disorder/chaos; evil as corruption; evil and mankind
2) Embodied evil/being evil/evil beings: monstrosity; the demonic; perceptions of deformity and disfigurement; evil transformations and metamorphoses; magic and the supernatural; outward expressions of evil (e.g. through clothing, material possessions); evil objects
3) Responses to evil: punishments; the purging and/or exorcism of evil; inquisition; evil speech; warnings about evil (textual, visual, musical); ways to avoid evil or to protect oneself (talismans etc.); the temptation of evil; emotional responses to evil; social exclusion as a response to evil.

Through these broad themes, we aim to encourage the participation of researchers with varying backgrounds and fields of expertise: historians, art historians, musicologists, philologists, literary specialists, and specialists in the auxiliary sciences (palaeographers, epigraphists, codicologists, numismatists). While we focus on medieval France, compelling submissions focused on other geographical areas that also fit the conference theme are welcome and encouraged. By bringing together a wide variety of papers that both survey and explore this field, the IMS Symposium intends to bring a fresh perspective to the notion of evil in medieval culture.

Proposals of no more than 300 words (in English or French) for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to communications.ims.paris@gmail.com by November 5th 2016. Each should be accompanied by full contact information, a CV, and a list of the audio-visual equipment that you require.

Please be aware that the IMS-Paris submissions review process is highly competitive and is carried out on a strictly anonymous basis. The selection committee will email applicants in February to notify them of its decision. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS-Paris website. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students, free for IMS-Paris members).

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (French/English) organization that fosters exchanges between French and foreign scholars. For the past ten years, the IMS has served as a centre for medievalists who travel to France to conduct research, work, or study. For more information about the IMS-Paris and past symposia programmes, please visit our website: www.ims-paris.org.

IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize:
The IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best paper proposal by a graduate student. Applications should consist of:
1) a symposium paper abstract
2) an outline of a current research project (PhD. dissertation research)
3) the names and contact information of two academic referees
The prize-winner will be selected by the board and a committee of honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international travel/accommodation (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the Symposium.

CFP:Medieval Texts in Transit: Continuities and Shared Spaces, Berlin, July 2017

International Conference: Medieval Texts in Transit: Continuities and Shared Spaces
21–22 July 2017

Free University Berlin, in collaboration with the Sonderforschungsbereich 980, ‘Episteme in Bewegung’, Berlin, and the Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark (Odense)/University of York.

News: A handbook to Eddic Poetry

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia,
edited by Carolyne Larrington, Judy Quinn and Brittany Schorn

Contributors include: Carolyne Larrington, Margaret Clunies Ross, Joseph Harris, Judy Quinn, Bernt Ø. Thorvaldsen, Terry Gunnell, John Lindow, Jens Peter Schjødt, Stefan Brink, Lilla Kopár, John Hines, Brittany Schorn, R. D. Fulk, Maria Elena Ruggerini, David Clark, Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir and Heather O’Donoghue

Order here: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/european-literature/handbook-eddic-poetry-myths-and-legends-early-scandinavia?format=HB