Medieval Resources Online - Calendar 2010

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Past Conferences

January 2010

7-10 January 2010. 'Gender and the Family: Annual Gender and Medieval Studies Conference', to be held in Birmingham.
Family is arguably the fundamental and universal unit of gendered experience. Gender identities and embodied understandings of the world are acquired through socialization into family configurations of relatedness. This conference will examine the functions and representations of the medieval family in a range of contexts, addressing the ways in which the family could be used to reinforce or challenge wider forms of association and provide a rich metaphorical language for use in the articulation and legitimization of wider social institutions and hierarchies. It will examine the ways in which gender roles inform the definition of the medieval family and affect its internal economy, emotional dynamics, and links to other institutions and social networks. Further information: http://medievalgender.co.uk/

20-22 January 2010. 'Acteurs des transferts culturels en Méditerranée médievale: Sphères d'activités, contributions, fonctions', Tagung der Groupe de recherche FranceMed à l'Institut historique allemand de Paris, in Paris. Further information: Daniel König, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris; dkoenig@dhi-paris.fr; http://www.dhi-paris.fr/index.php?id=262&L=0

28-29 January 2010. 'Migration als soziale Herausforderung: Historische Formen solidarischen Handelns von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert', tagung des Historischen Instituts der Universität Stuttgart; in Kooperation mit dem Stuttgarter Arbeitskreis für Historische Migrationsforschung e.V. und dem Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, in Stuttgart. Further information: Prof. Dr. Peter Scholz, Univ. Stuttgart, Hist. Inst. Abt. Alte Geschichte, Keplerstr. 17 (K II/8), 70174 Stuttgart; sekretariat.altegeschichte[at]hi.uni-stuttgart.de; http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hiag/

29 January 2010. 'Zeichen - Symbol - Identität. Notarszeichen auf spätmittelalterlichen Urkunden', Tagung des Herder-Instituts Marburg (LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Kulturtechniken und ihre Medialisierung"), in Gießen. Further information: Dr. Norbert Kersken, Herder-Institut, Marburg; norbert.kersken@herder-institut.de

30 January 2010.'Pre-modern Towns Group Annual conference 2010', the 32nd annual meeting of historians, geographers, archaeologists, and others working on the medieval and early modern town, to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, WC1. Further information: v.harding@bbk.ac.uk ; http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/1110

February 2010

10-13 February 2010. College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago. February may not seem to be the ideal time for a trip to wintry Chicago. But with CAA's Annual Conference in the Windy City for nearly a week that month, there's no better place for artists and scholars to be. For the first time since 2001, Chicago will host the 98th Annual Conference, taking place Wednesday, February 10-Saturday, February 13, 2010. The Hyatt Regency Chicago is the conference headquarters hotel, holding most sessions and panels, Career Services and the Book and Trade Fair, receptions and special events, and more. Other events will take place throughout the city. Further information: http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/.

11-12 February 2010. 'Crisis a l'Edat Mitjana: models, explicacions i representacions', a conference to be held in Lleida. El debat sobre les causes de les crisis alimentàries és un dels reptes més importants de l'Economia, no només per raons estrictament intellectuals o científiques, sinó també i sobretot per les seves implicacions ètiques en la responsabilitat dels actors polítics i econòmics involucrats així com en les polítiques que cal dur a terme per a tractar d'eradicar definitivament la fam de la
Història. Per raons molt diferents, la qüestió de les causes de les crisis que afectaren cíclicament la societat europea reindustrial,
aparentment resolta des de l'elaboració els anys trenta del model d'Ernest Labrousse de les crisis de cicle curt o de “tipus antic”, ha guanyat centralitat i actualitat en el debat historiogràfic arran de la crisi de l'estructuralisme marxista i de la recepció dels nous models provinents de l'Economia institucional. Further information: medieval@historia.udl.cat; http://www.medieval.udl.cat

11-13 February 2010. 'Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance', the 16th ACMRS conference to be held in Tempe, Arizona. ACMRS welcomes papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and especially those that focus on this year's theme of humanity and the natural world, both in literal and metaphorical manifestations. Call for papers deadline: 16 October 2009. Further information: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference; acmrs@asu.edu.

11-13 February 2010. 'Learned Tools in Medieval Administration', a conference to be held in Zürich.The conference explores the development and uses of administrative techniques and intellectual tools in administration during the later Middle Ages. It asks how techniques originally developed in theology and scholarship contributed to shaping the particular ways in which institutional power, including emerging state power, came to operate. It also poses the related question of how administrative practice reflected back on the period's scholarly work. Some of the tools of administrative practice to be considered are means of organizing texts such as indexing, alphabetizing, numbering, glossing, using tables, and constructing diagrams. These will be considered alongside new forms of administrative ordering such as monetization and other techniques for the quantification of qualities and the rationalization of assessment procedures. Further information: kerstin.seidel@ hist.uzh.ch; http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=13069

12-14 February 2010. ' From Augustine to Anglicanism: Anglicans in Australia and Beyond', a scholarly conference, open to those in postgraduate study and beyond, exploring the historical and theological expressions of the Anglican Communion, with special reference to the 150th celebrations of the Diocese of Queensland but open to scholars researching any aspect of the Anglican Church in Australia and abroad. The conference will be held at St Francis' Theological College, Brisbane, Queensland. Further information: conference@anglicans-in-australia-and-beyond.org; www.anglicans-in-australia-and-beyond.org

13 February 2010. 'Matthew Paris Symposium', symposium organised by the Fraternity of Friends of St Albans Abbey to mark the 750th anniversary of the death of Matthew Paris, the famous chronicler, cartographer and artist who was a monk at St Albans in the 13th century. Further information: info@christianstudies.org.uk; http://www.christianstudies.org.uk/Matthew%20Paris%20Symposium.html

13 February 2010. 'Staging the Medieval Symposium', to be held at the University of Hull, to coincide with a forthcoming production of the celebrated medieval morality play Mankind. Confirmed speakers include Carl Heap, the founder of the Medieval Players and director of Shakespeare for schools for the NT; Dr Elisabeth Dutton, Professor Alexandra Johnston, Professor John McKinnell, Professor Peter Meredith, Professor Meg Twycross, and Professor Gweno Williams.
Mankind will be playing in the Donald Roy Theatre in the Gulbenkian Centre from 10th-13th February at 7.30pm.
There will be a further Saturday matinee performance on 13th February at 3pm as part of the symposium which will then be followed by an after-show discussion. It will cost £10 (£5 for students) to attend the symposium and this will include the ticket for the play. Stand alone tickets cost £6 full price; £4 concessions. Registration will start from 10am and the symposium will get under way at 10.45am. It is scheduled to finish formally by about 5.30pm. For anyone wishing to stay on in Hull on the Saturday night, there will be the chance to visit Beverley on the Sunday. Further information: Dr Philip Crispin p.crispin@hull.ac.uk

13-14 February 2010. 'A Celebration of Iconic Collections and Excavations from the Viking World', a one-day conference organised by the York Archaeological Trust, to be held at York St John University. JORVIK Viking Centre opened its doors 25 years ago and since that time has enabled over 15 million visitors to see the unique reconstruction of the Viking- Age city of Jorvik and view some of the 40,000 objects that were unearthed during the five year Coppergate excavation. This conference, celebrating JORVIK's 25th year, brings together speakers who interpret some of the best known Viking-Age collections of material and archaeological sites from around the world, as well as those that directed the Coppergate excavation which led to the success of JORVIK Viking Centre. Further information: http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/events1.htm

17-20 February 2010. 'V Simposio Internacional de Jóvenes Medievalistas' to be held in Lorca. Se convoca a todos los investigadores que tengan 30 años o menos en el momento del fin del plazo máximo de presentación de originales (31 de octubre de 2009), para que presenten trabajos originales de investigación a este simposio, del tema y contenido en el marco temporal de la Edad Media o referido a ella. Se seleccionarán quince estudios de todos los presentados, que tendrán que ajustarse a las siguientes condiciones de presentación. Further information: http://jovenesmedievalistas.net/nuevo.htm.

17-10 February 2010. 'Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict', the Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies to be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. The focus will be on the “worlds” of the Mediterranean and the impact of the crusades on them. All topics relating to the crusading movement are welcome. Phase II will conclude with a plenary roundtable discussion, reception, and a banquet. Further information: Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies; cmrs@slu.edu; http://crusades.slu.edu/symposium/.

18-20 February 2010. 'Revealing Medieval and Renaissance Europe : Makers and Markets 1100 - 1600', a conference to be held in the V&A Museum Lecture Theatre. The Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the V&A open to the public in November 2009, presenting an innovative display of the Museum's exceptional European collections dating from 300-1600. Focusing on one of the gallery themes and the date range 1100-1600, the aim of this conference is to cast new light on our understanding of artistic production, how objects were traded and used, and what this reveals about the culture in which they were produced. Further information: m.pye@vam.ac.uk; Victoria and Albert Museum, Adult Learning Team, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL.

18-20 February 2010. 'The Ends of Romance?', the 25th annual conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM) will be held jointly with the Illinois Medieval Association (IMA), at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. Further information: Mickey Sweeney, msweeney@dom.edu.

19 February 2010.'Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England', the Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference, sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (ASSC), Columbia University, and the Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies, to be held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. The theme of this year's conference will explore various instances of fear and loathing in the literatures and cultures of early medieval Northern Europe (Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Scandinavian). This could include fears and anxieties produced by encounters with cultural outsiders as well as internal conflicts within a single society or individual. Further information: HarvardAngloSaxon@gmail.com; ASSC@columbia.edu; http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.

19-20 February 2010. 'The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities', a Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University. How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the "medium is the message," then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? Further information: pdp@yale.edu; http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp.

19-20 February 2010. 'Authorship', the Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium, organised by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: anonymity; workshop or group works; collective or collaborative authorship; relationships between sponsors and authors; writing vs. dictating; writings on creative endeavors; the author's voice in a text; anthologies; collections of written works; citations; silvae; salon and academy writing; implied author, implied readers; actors as authors; improvisation. Further information: Michelle Prats, m.prats@miami.edu; http://www.as.miami.edu/mll/events/.

20 February 2010. 'Justice / Injustice', the February Colloquium of the London Medieval Society. Further information: http://www.the-lms.org/

20 February 2010. 'Speech into Text', a day seminar of the Medieval and Early Modern Research group of the University of Northumbria. For further details, contact: a.cowan@northumbria.ac.uk or lesley.twomey@northumbria.ac.uk.For details of MEM activities, see: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/history/groups/memgroup/

20 February 2010. 'Disease and Disability in the Middles Ages', Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Symposium. Further information: renaissance@newberry.org; http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/diseasedisability.html

23-25 February 2010. 'Geistige und Körperliche Arbeit im Mittelalter', 5. Symposium zur Philosophie des Mittelalters an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Further information: Alia Estakhr, Lüerstraße 46, 30175 Hannover; aliaestakhr@web.de

24-27 February 2010. 'Mythos und Geschichte', Tagung der dt.-österreichischen Sektion der Internationalen Artusgesellschaft, in Straßburg. Further information: Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Germanistik, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 B 35394 Gießen; cora.dietl@germanistik.uni-giessen.de; http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g91159/kolloquien-dt.htm

25-26 February 2010. 'Kommunikationsnetze des Ritteradels im Reich um 1500', a conference to be held in Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Soziale Netzwerke als historische Phänomene haben in den letzten Jahren in den Geschichtswissenschaften eine erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit gefunden. Die Herausstellung des „kommunikativen Faktors“ im Tagungstitel soll an dieser Stelle dazu anregen, über das Gefüge sozialer Konstellationen hinaus im Sinne eines lebensweltlichen Ansatzes insbesondere auch nach den Intentionen, Werten und Normen im Milieu des Ritteradels zu fragen, die im kommunikativen Handeln der Akteure deutlich werden. Eine wichtige Frage bei der Untersuchung der Kommunikationsnetze ist diejenige nach deren Beständigkeit und damit nach dem Grad ihrer Institutionalisierung. Gewinnen die kommunikativen Netze Konstanz und Regelmäßigkeit über die Zeit hinweg und hinsichtlich der jeweils Beteiligten, dann zeichnen sie sich durch eine erhöhte „Erwartungssicherheit“ für die Akteure aus und der Grad der Institutionalisierung nimmt zu. Further information: Sabine Reichert, s.reichert@ uni-mainz.de; http:/ /www.uni-mainz.de /FB /Geschichte /hist3 /index.php

25-27 February 2010. 'Les Bibles atlantiques: Le manuscrit biblique à l'époque de la réforme ecclésiastique du XIe siècle', to be held at the Université de Genève. Les Bibles atlantiques, produites entre la moitié du XIe et la moitié du XIIe siècle dans la région de Rome, constituent un genre particulier du manuscrit biblique. Ces manuscrits présentent des caractères spécifiques et un degré plutôt élevé d'uniformité de tous les caractères matériels et textuels. La production et la circulation de ces manuscrits bibliques s'inscrivent dans le mouvement de renouveau moral et spirituel de l'Église au XIe siècle que les historiens appellent couramment la Réforme grégorienne. Avec leurs caractéristiques matérielles et textuelles, les Bibles atlantiques semblent bien répondre à l'exigence des réformateurs romains de définir un modèle qui puisse s'imposer par l'autorité théologique du contenu et par la monumentalité de l'aspect extérieur. Call for papers deadline 30 September 2009. Further information: Nadia Togni, Faculté de théologie, Uni Bastions, 5, rue De-Candolle, CH-1211 Genève 4; nadia.togni@unige.ch; http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle14257.html.

26-27 February 2010. 'Language and Silence', the 16th annual postgraduate medieval conference, to be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol. The University of Bristol hosts the longest-running international medieval postgraduate conference in the UK. Each year we offer medievalists the opportunity to present their research, discuss ideas, and foster links bridging disciplinary and geographical boundaries. This year we invite proposals for papers from postgraduates and early career scholars on the theme of ‘Language and Silence'. Issues of language and silence permeate both religious and political life in the Middle Ages: from attempts to engage with and communicate spiritual experience, to the complex negotiations involved in balancing the demands of the solitary religious life with the needs of the community, to the political pressures on everyday language in times when charges of heresy are a real concern. In private life, too, the ability or authority to speak was governed by a complex array of theological, philosophical and social codes. This conference aims to address issues such as these in the context of medieval life, and also some of the broader issues of language, and its absence, raised by such debate. Call for papers deadline: 8 January 2010. Further information: Edwina Thorn, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol, Graduate School of Arts, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB, UK; Edwina.Thorn@bristol.ac.uk

27 February 2010. 'Monastic and Religious Life in the Middle Ages', the 34th annual meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association to be held at Conception Abbey, near Maryville, Missouri. Papers on any medieval topic will be considered. Further information: http://www.midamericamedievalassociation.org; http://www.conceptionabbey.org/.

March 2010

1-2 March 2010. 'Seeing Voices: The fifth annual MANCASS conference ' to be held at the University of Manchester. How do we evaluate early medieval visual and material cultures? How do we ?see?, via art and artefacts, the multivalent voices of the Anglo-Saxon world? This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference aims to explore and interpret the contribution made by Anglo-Saxon artwork and material objects to the various cultural discourses of the era ? involving ideas about family, gender, religion and belief, nationhood and identity. It also seeks to address the issue of how the multi-disciplinary voices of researchers in Anglo-Saxon studies can speak effectively to each other. The conference also includes an Interdisciplinary Research Master Class with Professor Catherine Karkov (Leeds) and Professor Gale Owen-Crocker (Manchester). Twenty-minute papers are invited for submission that explore how we interpret image and object as discursive media. Presentations of research that challenge the discreteness of Anglo-Saxon literature, art and artefact are particularly encouraged. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Melissa Markauskas. Call for papers deadline: 20 January 2010. Further information: melissa.markauskas@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk.

1-3 March 2010. 'Transformationen und Umbrüche des 12./13. Jahrhunderts', 4. Sektion zur slawischen Archäologie, Tagung im Rahmen der Jahrestagung des Mittel- und Ostdeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung, in Görlitz. Further information: Dr. Thomas Kersting, Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum, Wünsdorfer Platz 4-5, Zossen (Ortsteil Wünsdorf), 15806 Brandenburg, Germany; thomas.kersting@bldam-brandenburg.de

2-4 March 2010. 'Guerra y paz en la Edad Media', IV interdisciplinary seminar of the Facultad de Geografia e Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Las invasiones bárbaras, la Reconquista , las Cruzadas, la Guerra de los Cien Años y un largo etcétera demuestran hasta qué punto la actividad bélica en el Medievo supuso uno de los factores más destacados en la evolución de las diferentes sociedades que se originaron y desarrollaron durante este largo período. Toda la sociedad protagonizó y tuvo que aprender a convivir con los numerosos acontecimientos bélicos que se sucedieron: nobles y campesinos, eclesiásticos e intelectuales, mujeres y minorías… La cronística, la literatura y las diversas manifestaciones artísticas surgidas en estas centurias dan sobrada prueba de que en esta época la guerra, al igual que en otros tiempos, fue una constante que marcó decisivamente el devenir histórico. Junto a ella no podemos olvidar la paz, las treguas y el sosiego necesario para que la población de los distintos reinos emprendiera nuevos caminos en el avance social con profundos cambios en las finanzas, las formas diplomáticas, el pensamiento, la cultura… Further information: Depto. Historia Medieval, planta 11, Planta 11, despachos 7, 13, 23, 25, 27 y 29;aarranzg@ghis.ucm.es; mprabade@ghis.ucm.es; malvira@ghis.ucm.es; http://www.ucm.es/info/media

4-7 March 2010. The thirty-second UC Celtic Studies Conference. Sessions will focus on all aspects of Celtic culture including language, literature, history, art and archaeology, from late antiquity until the present day. Further information: Professor Nagy, jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu; http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/calendar_mar10.html

5-6 March 2010. The annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP), hosted by the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. The Program Committee invites proposals for individual 20-minute papers in any area of medieval studies, as well as organized sessions of three 20-minute papers.Further information: http://www.csun.edu/english/map09/

5-7 March 2010. 'Ripen 1460: 550 Jahre politische Partizipation in Schleswig-Holstein?', Tagung des Lehrstuhl für Regionalgeschichte mit Schwerpunkt Schleswig Holstein an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, und des Landeskulturzentrums Salzau. Further information: Historisches Seminar der CAU Kiel, Lehrstuhl
für Regionalgeschichte, Leibnizstraße 8, 24098 Kiel, Germany; b.buesing@email.uni-kiel.de

11-12 March 2010. 'Vasconia en la Alta Edad Media (450-1000): Poderes y comunidades rurales en el norte Peninsular', a conference to be held at the Universidad del País Vasco. El coloquio internacional Vasconia en la Alta Edad Media, 450-1000. Poderes y comunidades rurales en el norte Peninsular se enmarca en las actividades realizadas por el Grupo de investigación en Arqueología Medieval y Postmedieval de la Universidad del País Vasco y del Master interuniversitario en Europa y el Mundo Atlántico: Poder, Cultura y Sociedad. El objetivo de este coloquio es doble. Por un lado se pretende hacer un estado de la cuestión sobre nuestros conocimientos del territorio vascón en el período comprendido entre los años 450-1000 teniendo en cuenta los notables avances que han tenido lugar en el último decenio. La tesis doctoral de I. García Camino (2002), el proyecto de la Catedral de Santa María o el de los despoblados alaveses han supuesto la plena integración al debate historiográfico del registro arqueológico. Por otro lado, y a partir de la tesis doctoral de J. J. Larrea (1998) y otros trabajos recientes se ha producido una profunda renovación de los estudios sobre este período, cuestionando determinados cliches historiográficos e introduciendo nuevas temáticas de análisis. Further information: arqueologiadelasaldeas@gmail.com; http://www.arqueologiadelasaldeas.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53

11-12 March 2010. 'V Curs internacional d'arqueologia medieval: Recerca avançada en arqueologia medievals', a conference to be held at the Universitat de Lleida. El Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Estudis Medievals “Espai, Poder i Cultura” de les universitats de Lleida i Rovira i Virgili organitza el V Curs Internacional d'Arqueologia Medieval. La recerca avançada en arqueologia medieval pretén convertir-se en un concepte on s'englobin els projectes de recerca que cerquen assolir objectius històrics innovadors, i que utilitzin les noves tecnologies com a metodologia rigorosa que garanteixi l'anàlisi de les fonts materials. Further information: http://www.medieval.udl.cat/esp/cursos7.html

11-13 March 2010. 'Genus und Generatio. Rollenerwartungen und Rollenerfüllungen im Spannungsfeld der Geschlechter und Generationen in Antike und (Früh-)Mittelalter', Tagung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs "Generationen-bewusstsein und Generationenkonflikte in Antike und Mittelalter", der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Further information: Anika Auer (anika.auer@uni-bamberg.de); Johannes Brehm (johannes.brehm@uni-bamberg.de)

11-13 March 2010.The ninth annual Vagantes Traveling Medieval Graduate Student Conference will be held at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. Further information: http://www.vagantesconference.org/

11-13 March 2010. The seventeenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place in Sarasota, Florida. The conference will be held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. Further information: Nova Myhill, Division of Humanities, New College of Florida, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota FL 34243, USA; nmyhill@ncf.edu; http://faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies.

13 March 2010. 'Ecclesiastical History Society: Postgraduate Colloquium on the History of Christianity', to be held at the University of Manchester. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory invite research student members—or prospective members—of the EHS to join us for the 2010 Postgraduate Colloquium. This has traditionally been an informal opportunity for students to get to know one another and to learn about each other's work, and the papers are at least as interesting as those at the main conference! We would welcome offers of twenty-minute papers (on any topic in the history of Christianity) by 1 February 2009. Further information: Dr Geordan Hammond, ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk; http://ehs.bangor.ac.uk/.

13 March 2010. 'Halbjahrestreffen Netzwerk Reformationsgeschichte'. Das ‚Netzwerk Reformationsgeschichte‘ ist ein lockerer Zusammenschluß von NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen. Es führt Kirchen- und AllgemeinhistorikerInnen mit Schwerpunkt im Bereich der Kirchen-, Frömmigkeits- und Theologiegeschichte des Spätmittelalters und der Europäischen Reformationen zusammen. Ziele sind der gegenseitige Austausch über aktuelle Forschungsvorhaben sowie methodische und theoretische Diskussionen. Die halbjährlich an wechselnden Orten stattfindenden Treffen bieten allen Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Gelegenheit, Promotions- und Post-Doc-Vorhaben zu präsentieren. Further information: Dr. Tobias Sarx, sarx@staff.uni-marburg.de; http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=12918

15-16 March 2010. 'Politics, Faith, and Reason', the third Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, to be held at the University of Cambridge. The theme of the 2010 conference will be “Politics, Faith, and Reason”, and papers will be considered which deal with any period and tradition in the history of political thought from antiquity to the present. Papers which bring an historical perspective to bear on problems of contemporary political theory will be welcomed. A keynote address will be given by Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge. Further information: ptihconf@hermes.cam.ac.uk.

16 March 2010. 'Write Fast and Take Chances: New Approaches to Arms and Armour Collections in London' a study day to be held in London. Further information: +44 (20) 7563-9551; booking@wallacecollection.org; http://www.wallacecollection.org/collections/event/2560

17-20 March 2010. V Simposio Internacional de Jóvenes Medievalistas, an international symposium to be held in Lorca, Spain. Further information: info@jovenesmedievalistas.net; http://jovenesmedievalistas.net/nuevo.htm

18-21 March 2010. 'Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting', to be held at Yale University, USA. Further information: anders.winroth@yale.edu; http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33799240816

18-21 March 2010. 'Colloque International à l'occasion du IXe centenaire de la naissance d'Aelred de Rievaulx', to be held at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse. Le thème retenu est celui de l' Intentio cordis - Temps, histoire, mémoire chez Ælred de Rievaulx. Il sera traité sous de multiples angles de vue par divers spécialistes, moines, moniales ou autres, spécialistes du Moyen-Âge en général et des questions aelrediennes en particulier. La provenance et la qualité des intervenants assurent à cette rencontre une dimension internationale et un niveau académique tout en gardant une visée pastorale. Si nécessaire des traductions seront assurées vers le français, au moins pour les échanges qui suivront les interventions, qui, elles, seront toutes données en français. Further information: Père Pierre-André Burton, Abbaye Sainte Marie du Désert, 31530 Bellegarde Sainte Marie, France; +33 (5) 6213-4545; fax +33 (5) 6213-9610; desert-noviciat@wanadoo; http://abbayedudesert.com/Actualites/actualites.htm

19 March 2010. 'Corps (Dé)formés: Perceptions de l'Altérité au Moyen-Âge/(De)formierte', a conference to be held in Strasbourg. «Que fait, dans les monastères, devant les yeux des frères occupés avec les prières, cette galerie de monstres ridicules; cette beauté confusément difformée et cette belle difformité?» Cette célèbre question de Bernard de Clairvaux n'a pas encore été résolue. Et ce ne sont pas seulement dans les monastères et les églises que nous pouvons trouver des représentations de ces «monstres»: ils sont aussi partout dans la littérature médiévale.. Les êtres difformes, aussi bien que les corps déformés, jouent un rôle décisif dans la pensée médiévale, en devenant une espèce de miroir déformant du «Soi», dont l'observation mène à une auto réflexion. Il est possible d'observer parmi plusieurs «mirabilia mundi» que l'étrange n'est pas totalement étranger. Les contacts avec ces êtres lointains seront, de cette manière, instrumentalisés, à fin d'établir une réflexion sur Soi-même, en donnant place aussi à des nouvelles perspectives de compréhension de l'Autre. Grâce aux contacts interculturels croissants, cela sera de plus en plus important. Further information: Gabriela Antunes/Björn Reich, Universität Göttingen, Graduiertenkolleg "Expertenkulturen des 12. bis 16. Jahrhunderts", Goßlerstr. 15a, 37073 Göttingen; caligo_aeterna@gmx.de; http:/ /www.bjreich.2page.de.

19 March 2010. 'What Period is it Anyway? Negotiating Temporal Boundaries in Medieval Studies', the Hilton Shepherd Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Postgraduate Symposium, to be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme for papers is real and perceived periodisation in Medieval studies: when does Late Antiquity become the Middle Ages? What does the transformation from Roman to Medieval or Anglo-Saxon mean? Are these temporal boundaries a help or a hindrance? All the questions and more are waiting to be addressed! Further information: hiltonshepherd@hotmail.co.uk

20 March 2010. 'Symposium in Early Medieval Coinage', a conference to be held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Further information: Tony Abramson, 20 Belvedere Avenue, Leeds LS17 8BW, UK; +44 (113) 225-0680; t.abramson@ntlworld.com.

22-24 March 2010. ' York 1190: Jews and Others in theWake of Massacre ', a conference to be held at Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. This conference will aim to use the events of 1189-90 as a lens through which to reassess society in England in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The York massacre was not just a local event but one of a series of violent attacks on local communities of Jews across England in 1189-90. This wider conflict provides an important insight into the rapidly changing nature of English society. We therefore wish to invite papers not only on Anglo-Jewry but on the wider interpretative frameworks of scholarship on English culture, society and government within which the events of 1190 need to be located. Further information: Dr Sarah Ress Jones, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York YO1 7EP, UK; srrj1@york.ac.uk; http://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/york-1190/

22-24 March 2010. 'Raumstrukturen und Raumausstattung auf Burgen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit', Internationaler Kongress des Instituts für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Krems, Austria. Further information: imareal@oeaw.ac.at

22-25 March 2010. Old St Peter's Rome', a conference at the British School at Rome, Italy. The basilica that was built by Constantine at the Vatican in the early fourth century to mark the burial place of the Apostle Peter became the central place for Christian worship in the West for more than a millennium until its protracted demolition over the course of the sixteenth century. The essential chronology of the construction of Old St Peter's, and the major modifications made to its fabric over subsequent centuries, are well established. But a great many questions remain to be answered about details of the building and its monuments, and on the ways in which the basilica and its environs functioned as a 'theatre' of worship, burial and power throughout the middle ages from the fourth to sixteenth centuries. Further information: Carol Richardson, Open Univ., c.m.richardson@open.ac.uk; Joanna Story, University of Leicester, UK, js73@le.ac.uk.

23-26 March 2010. Fourth International FLaRN Conference, in Paderborn. Further information: Eva Berlage, Irina Dahlmann, Universität Paderborn, FLaRN 2010 (c/o Gabriele Kipp), Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany; flarn2010[at]uni-paderborn.de

26 March 2010. 'Cultural, Diplomatic and Military Engagements in the Islamic World / İslam Dünyasında Kültürel, Diplomatik ve Askeri Mücadeleler', part of the RCAC Fellows' Mini-Symposia Series, to be held at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul. Further information: http://www.rcac.ku.edu.tr/.

26-27 March 2010. 'Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe: Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations', a conference to be held at the Université York, Toronto. Appel à contributions pour un atelier international sur l'histoire environnementale de l'Europe du Centre-Est au Moyen Âge, organisé par le départment d'Histoire de l'Université York (Toronto) et la Graduate School « Human Development in Landscapes », Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. Further information: http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~aklammt/

26-27 March 2010. 'Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega: A Graduate Symposium on the Poet's Universe', is sponsored by the Department of Italian Language and Literature, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Dante's Divine Comedy is a totalizing vision - a work emanating from and culminating in the poet's glimpse of a universe 'bound with love in a single volume'. In the twenty-first century, the goals of universal digitization and constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed from Dante's vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic impulse that stretches back to, and extends well beyond, the fourteenth century. 'Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega' will explore how the encyclopedism of today can enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante's universe and its poetic representation. Further information: yaledantesymposium@gmail.com; http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html.

26-28 March 2010. 'The Supernatural', the Folklore Society AGM and Confererence 2010, to be held at Trinity University College, Horsforth, Leeds. Further information: http://www.folklore-society.com/aboutus/cfp.asp.

27-28 March 2010. 'New Directions in Medieval Scandinavian Studies', the 30th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, will be held at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, in New York City. This international conference seeks to explore the ways in which traditional interpretations of medieval Scandinavian culture, literature, history, and religion are being challenged or advanced by new methodologies and new questions. Further information: Conference Committee, Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA; medievals@fordham.edu.

27-29 March 2010. 'Byzantium behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion', XLIII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham. We invite communications (maximum 13 minutes) to be delivered during the symposium. Communications can deal with any subject related to Byzantine studies, but especially welcome are communications on the theme of the symposium. As usual, we will read the
proposals. Please send proposals for communications (title and 150-word abstract). Further information: Dr Dimiter Angelov, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, Arts Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; d.angelov@bham.ac.uk; http://www.iaa.bham.ac.uk/conferences/byzantine

29-30 March 2010. 'Croch Saithir : Envisioning Christ on the Cross in the Early Medieval West', a conference to be held at University College Cork, Ireland. Further information: Dr. Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Department of the History of Art, University College Cork, Ireland; j.nighradaigh@ucc.ie; http://www.christonthecross.org

30 March-1 April 2010. 'The Anglo-Saxons in their World', the MANCASS Easter conference at Hulme Hall.Topics might include: the Anglo-Saxons and their Geographical Neighbours; Distant lands and exotic inhabitants; the social and economic world; the gendered world; the spiritual world. Call for papers: send 20 minute paper proposals to gale.owencrocker@ntlworld.com. Further information: brian.schneider11@yahoo.co.uk.

30-31 March 2010. 'Utrumque ius', part of the Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages (CLASMA) Research Network Colloquium Programme. The first of our planned four colloquia, Utrumque ius , will focus on the ‘technical' issues of the discipline: the genres and formats of medieval legal collections; people and books; education ‘centres'; and how lawyers were trained and became professionals. It will also address navigating the books and related literature, as well as the benefits and difficulties of using legal texts as historical sources. The subsequent colloquia will be: 2. Lawyers, Clients and Church Courts 3. Law and Change in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 4. ‘Crime and Punishment'. Further information: Danica Summerlin, CLASMA Administrative Assistant at clasma.colloquia@googlemail.com

April 2010

9-10 April 2010. 'Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega: A Graduate Symposium on the Poet's Universe', is sponsored by the Department of Italian Language and Literature, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Dante's Divine Comedy is a totalizing vision - a work emanating from and culminating in the poet's glimpse of a universe 'bound with love in a single volume'. In the twenty-first century, the goals of universal digitization and constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed from Dante's vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic impulse that stretches back to, and extends well beyond, the fourteenth century. 'Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega' will explore how the encyclopedism of today can enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante's universe and its poetic representation. Further information: yaledantesymposium@gmail.com; http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html.

9-10 April 2010. 'Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages', the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of medieval pilgrimage. We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions on particular topics related the theme. Further information: Prof. S. Raulston, Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, 735 University Ave, Sewanee TN 37383, USA; sraulsto@sewanee.edu; http://www.sewanee.edu/medieval/main.html.

9-11 April 2010. 'Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe', a meeting of the British Archaeological Association, in London. The British Archaeological Association is organising the first what we hope will become a bienniel series of conferences around Europe concerned with the art and architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries. The conference aims to examine how and why a concern for the past manifested itself in the art and architecture of the Latin Church during the Romanesque period. This took many forms, from the casual, even careless, reuse of Antique material, to a specific desire to re-present or emulate earlier objects or buildings. The papers at the conference are therefore concerned with the revival of classical or earlier medieval forms, spolia, selective quotation, archaism, and the construction of histories. For certain institutions the past was the future in more than a theological or universal sense - it was a concern for immediate and local reasons. On a more mundane level Roman and early medieval forms, particularly ornamental and geometric forms, were used in new combinations in the 11th and 12th centuries. The manner and reasons whereby particular forms are selected can throw light on how a local sense of Romanitas intersects with a sense of Romanitas elsewhere. Is what passes for the past in Romanesque Ireland or Hungary very different from the past as viewed from southern Italy? Further information: jsmcneill@btinternet.com or rplant62@hotmail.com; http://www.britarch.ac.uk/baa/conferences.html

9-11 April 2010. 'Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages', a postgraduate conference to be held at the University of St Andrews. This is an AHRC funded three day postgraduate conference organized under the Beyond Text Student-Led Initiatives Project. The content of the sessions is flexible to allow the presentations to be as innovative and exciting as possible. We may move sessions to early morning or night, or to locations outside the conference room. For example, a postgraduate working on medieval astronomy might like to demonstrate an astrolabe at night - St Andrews has low levels of light pollution as well as the services of the University Observatory. There will be opportunities to demonstrate medieval drama and music which were meant to instruct their audience about the natural or supernatural world or students might, within the bounds of health and safety regulations, attempt to recreate alchemical practices. We are looking for postgraduates who wish to explore 'Beyond Text' - examining aspects of medieval text and image and the relationship of these to the 'real world'. We shall also be holding a poster session where postgraduates can illustrate their current research in an informal atmosphere. Further information: Trish Stewart, Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews 71 South Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9QW; +44 (1334) 463-332, UK; ps273@st-andrews.ac.uk; http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences.html.

10 April 2010. 'Medieval Perspectives: From the Mundane to the Miraculous', the 27th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, to be held at the University of Connecticut. Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Further information: Pamela Longo or Jeanette Zissell, uconn.nemsc@gmail.com; http://medievalstudies.uconn.edu/NEConsortium.htm.

13-16 April 2010. 8th European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, Belgium. The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in a large number of networks: Africa, Antiquity, Asia, Criminal Justice, Culture, Economics, Education and Childhood, Elites, Ethnicity and Migration, Family and Demography, Geography, Health, History and Computing, Labour, Latin America, Material and Consumer Culture, Middle Ages, Oral History, Politics, Religion Rural Sexuality, Social Inequality, Technology Theory, Urban Women and Gender, World History. The Conference fee will be Euro 200 for participants who pay in advance, Euro 250 for participants who pay at the conference. One- day attendance will be Euro 100 for participants who pay in advance, and Euro 125 for participants who pay at the conference. There is a special fee for MA students of Euro 50. The deadline for pre-registration on our website is 1 May 2009. The European Social Science History Conference 2010 is organized by the International Institute of Social History. Further information: Professor David Lindenfeld, History Department, Louisiana State University; hylind@lsu.edu; Professor Matthias Middell, Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany middell@uni-leipzig.de; http://www.iisg.nl/esshc; http://www.iisg.nl/esshc.

15-16 April 2010. 'Secularisation in the Christian World', a colloquium to mark the retirement of Hugh McLeod, to be held at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. Colloquium fee: £38.50 (excludes dinner on Thursday and overnight accommodation). Offers of papers (by 29 January 2010) and all enquiries should be addressed to the colloquium organiser: Dr. Michael Snape, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; M.F.Snape@bham.ac.uk.

15-17 April 2010. 'Association of Art Historians Annual Conference in Glasgow'. Various critical themes have shaped AAH conferences in recent years, and provided a focus for disciplinary self-reflection. We seek to continue in this reflective spirit, but rather than organise papers thematically, this call for papers is a general one from which different themes are expected to emerge. The year 2010 marks the beginning of a new decade in 21st-century art historical investigation and an ideal moment for a reassessment of historical objects, issues, and methods, as well as acknowledging newer works of art and criticism developed across disciplines, periods, media and practice boundaries. Papers that address or employ new methods and issues are welcome, but equally important will be state-of-the-discipline investigations and critical assessments that may be uni- or multi-disciplinary, object-based, pedagogical, interrogative, theoretical, or performative. While we hope that the full historical and methodological range of the discipline will be represented, and the proposal of sessions devoted to the widest possible range of periods and cultures is encouraged, the 2010 conference particularly welcomes proposals related to medieval and Renaissance topics. Further information: http://aah.org.uk/future-conferences

16-17 April 2010. 'Error: Aspects and Approaches', the sixth Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference. Contributions are welcomed from diverse fields of research. Call for papers deadline: 5 January 2010. Papers will be 20 minutes or less. Please email 250-word abstracts (text only, no attachments please) to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 5th January 2010. Suggested topics might include: Misunderstanding; Miscommunication; Misinterpretation; Misattribution; Mistranslation; Scribal error; Mismatch (image vs. text); Retractions; Textual variance; Factual error; Received error; Personification of error; Mistaken identity; Political mistake; False confessions; Lying; Confusion; Deception; Knightly errance; Theological error; Spiritual error; Scientific error; Disharmony/Discord; Medievalism; Early Modern and later (mis)corrections; Epistemology; Logic; Crime and misdemeanour. Further information: oxgradconf@gmail.com; http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/omgc.html.

16-17 April 2010. 'Time, Temporality, History', the 31st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, at Plymouth State University, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider questions of periodization, historicity, and temporality. Papers may consider: how people conceived of, constructed, interacted with, measured, or produced "time" in medieval and Early Modern cultures; how we currently construct or deconstruct history; how studying temporality illuminates other subjects. Papers need not be confined to the theme, but may cover many aspects of medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history and music. Further information: Karolyn Kinane Dir., Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Dept. of English MSC 40, 17 High St., Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH 03264, USA; PSUForum@gmail.com; http://www.plymouth.edu/medieval.

16-17 April 2010. 'From Space to Place: The spatial Dimension in the History of Western Europe', an interdisciplinary conference to be held at the German Historical Institute, London. This conference will explore the so-called ‘spatial turn in history' discussed among historians for the last decade or so and inspired by earlier anthropological ideas and the interdisciplinary approach by sociologists, especially geographers. It challenges the idea of place or space in history as an unreflected essentialist category linked to tradition and immutability. Instead, space as place is shown to be socially and culturally constructed, mediated and contested. Organised into three separate but interlinking topics (social space, workplace and intimate space) papers will investigate how specific spaces in the past not only evoked but conveyed political, social, cultural and symbolic meaning and conversely how particular spaces/places influenced this meaning. Further information: s.deacy@roehampton.ac.uk; http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/chat/conferences/index.html

16-18 April 2010. ' XI LAS CLAVES DEL ROMÁNICO: Maestros del románico en el Camino de Santiago'. En las últimas décadas la visión del románico español en relación con el Camino de Santiago ha variado considerablemente. Atrás quedó aquel atractivo esquema que hacía del propio estilo un peregrino más en la ruta de Jaca a Compostela, con experiencias decisivas en el trayecto que alcanzaban su plenitud en la catedral del Apóstol. Pronto se dieron cuenta los investigadores que la expansión del románico era tan amplia que resultaba complicado adscribir en exclusiva determinadas peculiaridades de él a las comarcas por las que discurría el itinerario jacobeo. Eran muchos los monumentos alejados de la ruta en los que se podían detectar rasgos muy semejantes a los que se podían ver en algunos edificios ubicados en ella. Aún así, nadie ha negado hasta ahora que durante los siglos XI y XII el Camino fue un lugar de intercambio de experiencias donde coincidieron algunos de los maestros y talleres más importantes del momento que dejaron muestras de su actividad en destacados puntos del recorrido. Further information: plhuerta@santamarialareal.org; http://www.santamarialareal.org/cursos_ficha.aspx?sec=9&idsec=9&cod=32

21-24 April 2010. 'Perspektiven der europäischen Pilgerzeichenforschung / Medieval pilgrim badges: Prospects of European research', organised by Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin; Faculteit der Letteren der Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; and the Centrum medievistických studií / Centre for Medieval Studies, Praha Prag. Pilgerzeichen waren im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter als seriell gefertigtes Massenprodukt europaweit verbreitet. Ihre Erforschung umfasst ein breites Spektrum an kulturwissenschaftlichen Aussagemöglichkeiten, das von einzigartigen Mobilitätsdaten bis zu Beschreibung von Frömmigkeitsbewegungen oder der Verbreitung von ikonografischen Typen durch dieses Massenbildmedium reicht. Die Erforschung dieser Metallgüsse lässt sich freilich nur als interdisziplinäres und zwischen den europäischen Ländern vernetztes Unternehmen betreiben, was bisher selten gelang. Further information: Jan Hrdina, Archiv der Hauptstadt Prag, Archivní 6, CZ – 149 00 Praha 4; jan.hrdina@centrum.cz; http:/ /cms.flu.cas.cz /signa

22-24 April 2010. 'Femininities', the University of York's 10th Cultural History Conference. This three-day international conference, organised by the Department of History, marks the ten year anniversary of the department's annual Cultural History Conference. Focusing on the theme of ‘femininities' this conference brings together leading international scholars to examine the state of the field in women's history, gender history and the history of sexuality and consider the past, present and future of the category of ‘femininities' as a category of historical analysis. Speakers include Judith Halberstam, Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Barbara Taylor. Further information: Dr Hannah Greig hg524@york.ac.uk; http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/research/conf/femininities/

22-24 April 2010. 'Cultures of Ceramics in Global History, 1300-1800', to be held at the University of Warwick. Chinese ceramics were among the most sought-after material artefacts of the early modern world, featuring prominently in museums and private collections from Eurasia and Africa to the Americas and Australia. Evidence from land- and sea-based archaeological explorations continues to expand the story of these objects' wide dissemination, in particular that of the famous blue-and-white wares manufactured in Jingdezhen (southern China). By the turn of the nineteenth century many millions of ceramic objects had found their way from this single Chinese town into the daily lives of people across the globe. This international conference to be held at the University of Warwick will bring together experts in a wide range of disciplines and geographical areas. Further information: Dr Stephen McDowall, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK; s.j.mcdowall@warwick.ac.uk; http:/ /www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac /arts /history /ghcc /research /globalporcelain/

22-24 April 2010. 'Region, State, Nation, Community: New Research in Scandinavian and Baltic Studies', the 100th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) and the 22nd Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), will meet in Seattle, Washington. AABS welcomes papers, panels, and roundtable presentations for the first joint conference of Scandinavian and Baltic Studies in the United States. The conference aims to highlight and foster academic inquiry that draws comparisons between Scandinavia (Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland) and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Papers that examine stateless peoples and those left outside of the Scandinavian/Baltic approach, but sharing the same geographic space, are equally welcome. Papers and panels devoted to individual states are also welcome. Contributions are encouraged from disciplines including (but not limited to): anthropology, architecture, communication, cultural studies, demography, economics, education, environment, ethnic relations, film studies, fine arts, gender studies, geography, history, international relations, law, linguistics, literature, memory, political science, psychology, public health, religion, sociology, tourism, and advancing Baltic and Scandinavian studies. Further information: aldisp@u.washington.edu; http://depts.washington.edu/aabs/.

23-24 April 2010. 'Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages', a two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Now in its third year, the conference aims to create a lively and welcoming forum for postgraduate students and academic staff to build contacts, present research and participate in creative discussion on the topics of gender and transgression in the Middle Ages. We are especially keen to explore the ways in which these topics, frequently studied in reference to points of rupture or breakdown, may also be discussed in their relation to growth and change in the past. We invite speakers working in the areas of History, Language, Literature, Art History, Theology, Philosophy, and any other relevant discipline to submit proposals for papers of approximately 20 minutes in length which engage with the themes of gender and/or transgression in the mediaeval period. Possible topics for papers might include, but are by no means limited to: how may concepts of gender and/or transgression have been significant in mediaeval contexts?; in what ways do these categories of analysis affect our study of religious (both ortho- and heterodox), social, economic or political history?; can transgression be seen as a constructive force in the Middle Ages?; to what extent can the analytical categories of gender and transgression be usefully combined?; against what did mediaeval people transgress? (a point raised at the 2009 conference by keynote speaker Professor John Arnold). All delegates are invited to attend an evening meal after the first day's sessions. Refreshments will be provided throughout the second day, which will conclude with an informal roundtable discussion and wine reception. Please send abstracts for papers of approximately 300 words to the contact email address. Call for papers deadline: 14 th February 2010. Further information: genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk; http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/Gender%202010.html

24 April 2010. 'Commerce, Combat, and Colonisation', a one-day postgraduate symposium at the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. From Normans and Vikings to the Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Knights, medieval Northern Europe provides numerous examples of peoples, kingdoms, trade organizations, and religious orders interacting by means of exchange, invasion, and settlement to lay the foundations of modern Europe. The IMS postgraduate symposium seeks to be a forum for the discussion of groups such as those mentioned above and others that had an impact on the boundaries, culture, trade, and ideologies of Northern Europe. We accept proposals from postgraduates at all stages of their research. Call for papers deadline: 31 January 2010. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words. Further information: imssymp@leeds.ac.uk.

24 April 2010. 'Underpinnings: The Evolution of Underwear from the Middle Ages through Early Modernity', a conference organized by the undergraduate students of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University ( Binghamton , NY ) in conjunction with Troubadours and Trebuchets, The Medieval Studies Club. From the trailing sleeves and towering headdresses of the High Middle Ages to the ornate, jewel-encrusted ensembles of Elizabethan England and the elaborate turbans of the Mamluk and Ottoman empires, clothing and headgear have captured the imagination of historians for decades. Few, however, have given thought to what lies beneath, which, even while having a functional role, comprises a system of sartorial signs that tell much with respect to social mores and shifting views of the body. This conference aims to explore the evolution of undergarments from the Middle Ages through the early modern era in a variety of contexts, from the material forms of the garments themselves to their symbolic associations and latent meaning. Further information: CEMERS (ATTN: Undergarment Conference), Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA; hallen1@binghamton.edu.

24 April 2010. ‘The Voyage of Brendan', a one-day conference at Norwich Cathedral on one of the most popular works of medieval literature, with particular reference to religious aspects of the narrative. Further information: http://www.cathedral.org.uk/learning/conferences-the-voyage-of-brendan.aspx ; library@cathedral.org.uk

28-30 April 2010. 'Writing England: Books 1000-1400', a conference to be held at the University of Leicester. The production and use of books in Medieval England reveal much about the complex matrix of competing and collaborating religious and intellectual movements, linguistic encounters, and literary and cultural developments. After the success of the Writing England Conference in 2007, we have expanded the temporal remit of the conference to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes at the heart of the medieval period. Drawing upon different approaches and perspectives, this conference aims to investigate the writers, compilers, manufacture and reception of books in England between c. 1000 and 1400. ‘Writing England' will open up the debate for an interdisciplinary study of book cultures in the Middle Ages, and allow for cross-fertilization of ideas and research interests across the period. Call for papers deadline: 30 October 2009. Further information: http://www.le.ac.uk/users/odr1/writingengland/index.html

28-30 April 2010. 'I Encuentro Complutense Jóvenes Investigadores de Historia del Arte'. El objetivo del II Encuentro es que los actuales doctorandos o recientes doctores en Historia del Arte puedan compartir los resultados de sus investigaciones con otros historiadores del arte. Consideramos importante que se conozca la actividad investigadora que se está llevando a cabo en este momento en las distintas universidades españolas. De este modo, el II Encuentro se celebrará con el fin de crear un foro de discusión sobre metodologías, planteamientos y exposición de algunos resultados concretos de la labor de cada investigador.El objetivo del II Encuentro es que los actuales doctorandos o recientes doctores en Historia del Arte puedan compartir los resultados de sus investigaciones con otros historiadores del arte. Consideramos importante que se conozca la actividad investigadora que se está llevando a cabo en este momento en las distintas universidades españolas. De este modo, el
II Encuentro se celebrará con el fin de crear un foro de discusión sobre metodologías, planteamientos y exposición de algunos resultados concretos de la labor de cada investigador. Further information: jornadasharte@gmail.com; http://www.ucm.es/centros/cont/descargas/documento15691.pdf

29 April-2 May 2010. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, to be held in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Call for papers: the Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Further information:http://histmed.org.

May 2010

3-4 May 2010. 'Postgraduate Conference in the History of Political Thought', to be held in London (venue tba). A new postgraduate forum in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought based in London would like to invite proposals for papers for our first postgraduate conference, to be held in in early May 2010. The theme of the conference will be "Democracy and Republicanism" and Professor John Dunn will deliver the keynote address. Submissions for papers will be welcomed from any postgraduate student working in intellectual history or a related field. We are particularly keen to receive papers that address the complex historical relationship between the two concepts under discussion.Attendance is free, but please register on the website. Further information: conference@historyofpoliticalthought.net; http://www.historyofpoliticalthought.net

5-7 May 2010. '3rd Mediterranean Maritime History Network Conference', a conference to be held in Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey. Proposals are invited for papers/short communications informing on current research being undertaken on Mediterranean maritime history since the thirteenth century CE on the use of the sea as a resource, for transport, power projection, scientific purposes, leisure activities, and as an inspiration in culture and ideology. In addition, a special session is set aside for contributions on the maritime history of Izmir which can refer even to the period before the thirteenth century CE. Call for papers deadline: 31 August 2009. Further information: Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, Msida MSD 06 Malta; +356 2133-9980; carmel.vassallo@um.edu.mt; http://itf.ieu.edu.tr/conference/index.html.

7 May 2010. 'Glossaires et lexiques médiévaux inédits: bilan et perspectives', colloque annuel de la FIDEM. Les actes d'un Congrès organisé par la FIDEM en 1994 ont été publiés sous le titre « Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'Antiquité tardive à la fin du moyen âge ». Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996 (Textes et études du moyen âge, 4). Ce volume a permis de donner une impulsion nouvelle aux études consacrées à ces recueils inédits. Une documentation très intéressante y a été rassemblée, qui a déjà donné lieu à des éditions critiques de textes encore inédits. Mais tous les secteurs n'avaient pu être abordés pendant ces journées, étant donné l'ampleur du sujet. A la demande plusieurs chercheurs, il a donc semblé intéressant de faire le point quinze ans après pour évaluer les progrès accomplis, mais aussi pour couvrir des secteurs qui n'avaient pu être envisagés dans ce premier volume. Beaucoup de progrès ont été faits depuis, surtout dans le domaine des lexiques bilingues et trilingues ainsi que pour certains recueils systématiques consacrés à diverses branches du savoir, comme la médecine, les sciences, la grammaire ou la philosophie, par exemple. Diverses équipes travaillent d'ailleurs désormais dans ces secteurs. Further information: jacquelinehamesse@yahoo.fr ou par poste au Prof. Jacqueline Hamesse, Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Place du Cardinal Mercier, 14, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; http://web3.letras.up.pt/fidem/

10 May 2010. 'Le mécénat féminin en France et en Bourgogne (XVe-XVIe siècles): Nouvelles perspectives', 'Reconsidering Women's patronage in France and Burgundy (15th and 16th Centuries)', a one day symposium to be held at the Université de Liège. Attendance is free but places are limited: please let us know by 30 April if you would like to attend by sending an email to Elizabeth.LEstrange@ulg.ac.be or Laure.Fagnart@ulg.ac.be. Further information: http://sites.google.com/site/patronagemecenat/

11-14 May 2010. 'MC Aniversario de la muerte de Alfonso III y de la tripartición del territorio: el Reino de Asturias, el Reino de Galicia y el Reino de León - Arte, cultura y religiosidad en los siglos VIII a XI', an international conference in Oviedo. A la muerte de Alfonso III en el año 910, el reino de Asturias se divide entre sus tres hijos, fundándose el Reino de León con García I, conservando Fruela II Asturias y Ordoño II Galicia. Actividad de 24 horas equiparable a un crédito de libre configuración de la Universidad de Oviedo (pendiente de aprobación). El programa del Congreso y las diversas cuestiones relativas a la organización se facilitarán a las personas que se inscriban, cubriendo el boletín de inscripción que se incluye más abajo en esta misma página. Further information: proyectofakilo@yahoo.es; http://www.uniovi.es/Alfonso_Garcia_Leal/congreso%20internacional.htm

13-16 May 2010. The forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies will take place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Further information: International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432, USA; mdvl_congres@wmich.edu; http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/.

14-16 May 2010. Histfest 2010, a postgraduate conference to be held at Lancaster University. Now in its fifteenth year, Histfest provides an ideal forum for presenting postgraduate research at any stage of progress to a supportive and constructive audience. The conference welcomes papers from any field of historical research and related disciplines. This year we are also inviting submissions of poster displays. There is no overarching theme but topics of research might fall within one of the following categories: power, conflict, religion; society, culture, environment; identity, memory, gender. Further information: James Bowen j.bowen@lancaster.ac.uk; http://www.lancs.ac.uk/histfest

17-19 May 2010. 'Kolloquium zur Militärgeschichte für Nachwuchswissenschaftler', a conference to be held in Mainz. Das Kolloquium zur Militärgeschichte wendet sich gezielt an Nachwuchswissenschaftler. Insbesondere Doktoranden soll die Gelegenheit gegeben werden, sich inhaltlich mit einem interdisziplinär und international besetzten Auditorium auszutauschen. Die Veranstaltung ist für alle methodischen, thematischen oder zeitlichen Perspektiven offen. Technikgeschichtliche Ansätze sind besonders erwünscht. Further information: Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Historisches Seminar Abt. IV, 55099 Mainz; sneitzel@ uni-mainz.de; http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=12967

19-20 May 2010. 'Chaucer at Galway', a multi-disciplinary conference on Geoffrey Chaucer, to be held in the National University of Ireland, at Galway. Call for papers deadline: 25 January 2010. Proposals for papers on any aspect of Chaucer's work, life, milieu, influence, etc. are welcome. Individual sessions will be framed around the themes that emerge from the call for papers. Please send a 200-word proposal to the email address listed. Further information: Clíodhna Carney cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie

19-20 May 2010.'Annual Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium' , to be held at the UCD School of Archaeology. The Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium is an interactive forum run for and by graduate research students who focus on the archaeology of the Early Medieval period, roughly the period between the 4th-12th centuries AD. EMASS aims to provide a constructive and interdisciplinary forum to facilitate discussion and debate between researchers from different institutions and specialities, in a friendly and helpful environment. Further information: http://www.emass2010.com/

20-22 May 2010. 'Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century', a conference organized by the Early English Text Society, in Oxford. Panels will address such topics as: Brut Chronicles; From Script to Print to HTML: Electronic Editions; Palaeography, Dialectology, and the Editorial Process; Editing British Texts in Latin, Anglo-Norman, Celtic, and Scots; In Praise of the Variant: Why Edit Critically?; Desiderata: What still needs doing?; Further information: Vincent Gillespie, vincent.gillespie@ell.ox.ac.uk.

21 May 2010. 'Tracing the New 'état des choses': From the Byzantine to the Ottoman Regime / Bizans'tan Osmanlı Düzenine: Yeni Koşulları İzleme', part of the RCAC Fellows' Mini-Symposia Series, to be held at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul. Further information: http://www.rcac.ku.edu.tr/.

21-23 May 2010. 'Revisiting New Towns of the Middle Ages', a Conference and Field-Seminar in the Ancient Town of Winchelsea in Memory of Professor M.W. Beresford. This conference focuses on the continuing legacy of Professor Maurice Beresford's 'New Towns of the Middle Ages' and draws together both academic and general audiences of his book to reflect on the recent advances in research on the topic of medieval new towns and their planning. Conference speakers will explore the societies, landscapes and material cultures of medieval 'new town', placing them in an international comparative context, as well as their own local settings. To this end, Winchelsea itself provides an important case-study, as Professor Beresford had recognized, so the second day of the programme includes lectures on the town's medieval archaeology, history and planning, as well as a field-visit around the impressive remains of 'New Winchelsea'. Further information: was@winchelsea.net; http://www.winchelsea.net/Conference.htm.

21-24 May 2010. Chester 2010: Drama and Religion 1555-1575', a symposium about the Chester Cycle in context, along with a staged Catholic version of the complete Chester Cycle of 23 processional pageant-wagon plays, to be held at the University of Toronto, Canada. Further information: david.klausner@utoronto.ca; ostovich@mcmaster.ca; j33rober@uwaterloo.ca.

23-24 May 2010. ' Mehr als Koggen und Kaufleute: Die Hansehistoriographie und ihre Berührungspunkte mit aktuellen Projekten der Spätmittelalterforschung', Tagung in Halle an der Saale. Further information: Ulla Reiß, Universität Frankfurt, Grüneburgweg 1, 60629 Frankfurt (M), Germany; hanseworkshop@googlemail.com

26-30 May 2010. 'Cultural Histories: Close Readings, Critical Syntheses', the annual conference of the International Society for Cultural History, to be held at the University of Turku. Cultural historians' enquiries often encounter a tension between the need to build up holistic interpretations and syntheses and the need for close reading, for dense microhistorical analyses. The Conference investigates the ways in which today's cultural historians perceive “the grand narratives” and holistic interpretations. It explores the challenges that are involved in combining micro- and macro levels, and asks what kinds of new viewpoints the cultural historian's investigations can open. The Conference is thematically open. Original papers addressing theoretical and/or methodological questions or suggesting new interpretations arising from empirical analysis are welcomed. Further information: Hannu Salmi hansalmi@utu.fi; http://www.abdn.ac.uk/isch/conference.shtml.

26-28 May 2010. 'Les Ordres Religieux Militaires dans la Ville Medievale', to be held in Clermont-Ferrand. Further information: Guillaume Tatti, + 33 (473) 346-848; chec@univ-bpclermont.fr

27-29 May 2010. A conference on codicology and history of the manuscript in Arabic script, organized by CSIC, Madrid, and EPHE, Paris. In the course of the centuries, the Islamic world has witnessed an intense activity of composition of texts, which was in its turn going hand in hand with an equally intense activity of transcription of those texts. Researches and publications on the codicology of the manuscripts in Arabic script have been growing over the last quarter of a century, thus allowing us to know better their composition and peculiarities. Much still remains to be done, but the amount of codicological data now available enables us to get a broader view of this field of research and to start taking into consideration the history of the book in the Islamic world. On this last issue, although the question of the total number of Arabic manuscripts still remains unanswered, a quantitative approach seems under the present circumstances better qualified to lead on to significant results. The goal of the present conference, which is a sequel of those which were held in Istanbul (1986), Paris (1994) and Bologna (2000), is to open new perspectives of research and to bring fresh contributions to the history of the manuscript in Arabic script, a still underdeveloped field of investigation which will contribute significantly to the history of the book in general. The need to address these various new questions does not mean that we consider that any effort at exploring the technical aspects should be discontinued. The section dedicated to codicology in the programme of the conference is as important as ever. Similarly, papers devoted to the use of books in Islamic societies or to the culture of the book would find their place within the frame of this conference. Due to the close relationship between the manuscript and the lithographed book from a technical point of view, contributions about the latter could also take place within the programme of the conference and help starting a discussion on the continuities between these two kinds of books as well as on the changes introduced by lithography. Further information: http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/madridcall.pdf

June 2010

3-5 June 2010. 'Las Teorías de la Virtud en la Edad Media', the VI Jornadas de Pensamiento Medieval, to be held at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina). El tema de las virtudes tuvo una presencia permanente durante la Edad Media. Desde los primeros tratados patrísticos, pasando por los specula principis del Alto Medioevo, hasta el gran despliegue doctrinal en las summae del siglo XIII, los hábitos buenos que disponían al hombre para la práctica del bien y, consecuentemente, lo acercaban a su fin último, fue objeto de análisis y discusión. Heredada de las escuelas filosóficas griegas y latinas, la fundamentación filosófica de las virtudes se vio enriquecida en el Medioevo cristiano a partir del ámbito propicio que significaron las universidades y escuelas catedralicias.Further information: rpereto@gmail.com; lauraestrada@fibertel.com.ar; http://www.medievalismo.org/pdf/junio2010-mendoza.pdf

3-6 June 2010. 'Conference on Mediterranean Worlds: Myth of the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean of Myths', organised by the Department of History and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus and Department of Historical and Social Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy. Eastern Mediterranean University invites participation in the second edition of Mediterranean Worlds Conference, an interdisciplinary conference on the narratives of this remarkable region. What is of express interest to this conference is the way in which civilisational shifts, fusions, faultlines and oscillations of the Mediterranean world have given rise to extraordinary interpretations, life-world strategies and symbolic constructions. Such activity is manifested in the remarkable literature and art, philosophies, religions, archaeological readings, political theories and economic practices of the region. Call for papers deadline: 15 February 2010. Abstracts of 250 words to the contact email address. Further information:chair@medworlds.org; http://www.medworlds.org.

4-6 June 2010. 'Displaying Word and Image', the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI) Focus Conference, at the University of Ulster, School of Art and Design, Belfast, U.K. This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display. Relevant questions will be, e.g., how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field? We seek with this conference to (in)form a network that will investigate literary art exhibitions and work on relevant outputs. A publication on the conference theme is being planned. Further information: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (m.lermhayes@ulster.ac.uk); Dr Karen Brown (karen.brown@ucd.ie).

5 June 2010. 'Imagining Inquisition in Medieval England', to be held at Queen Mary College, London. Inquisitio (‘inquiry', ‘investigation') in the later medieval period was one means of investigating crime in general and heresy in particular. Scholarship on medieval inquisition, ranging from Edward Peters's, Inquisition (1989), to John Arnold's Inquisition and Power (2001) and Christine Caldwell Ames's Righteous Persecution (2009), has done much to illuminate its role in continental Europe, not only in combating heresy but also in shaping individuals and communities. However, the place of inquisition in England has not been so clearly established. As has often been noted by historians of the Middle Ages, England occupied a unique position in relation to ecclesiastical developments in medieval Europe, being somewhat outside the immediate influence of Rome and the continent. Our aim is to investigate the role of inquisitio in medieval England and the medieval English imagination, not only by exploring inquisition's specific legal and pastoral applications, but by examining its more general role as a dialogic mode of inquiry and means of discerning truth. This workshop, which is part of a research project on inquisition and confession in medieval England, is an opportunity to reconsider the standard history and role of inquisitio in medieval England and to explore it not merely as part of a developing ‘Inquisition' but as part of a broader development in the medieval English consciousness. Further information: Mary Flannery (m.flannery@qmul.ac.uk) or Katie Walter (katie.walter@rub.de).

7-8 June 2010. ' Conflict and Controversy', the second annual postgraduate conference, to be held at the University of Manchester. The Middle Ages are understood as a most barbarous period; a time when conflict was fought out on the battlefields with bloodshed and brutality. This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference seeks to examine this idea, both broadening an understanding of warfare and violence in the medieval period, as well as analysing other ways in which difference was articulated and (un)resolved at individual, societal and national levels. Delegates may also wish to consider how our own twenty-first century sensibilities affect our understanding of conflict in premodern cultures. Topics might include, but are not limited to: The role of trauma in shaping national and individual identities; Manifestations of discord within the organisations intended; to regulate society; church, government and monarchy; Spectacular violence and public displays of brutality; Heretical subjects and deviance in Christological culture; The politicised uses of violent images in written and visual narratives; Political conflicts and the distribution of power; Inner conflicts and anxieties about personal selfhood; Representations of conflict in familial or domestic spheres; Representations of medieval conflict in post-medieval culture. Call for papers deadline: 28 February 2010. Further information: medconflict@live.co.uk

8 June 2010. 'The Art of Collaboration: Interdisciplinary Approaches to History', an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Nottingham. The aim of the conference is to examine interdisciplinary approaches to history and to identify how collaborative work between ancillary disciplines can improve and redefine historical writing. This might include drawing upon the theories of the social sciences or psychoanalysis, or by applying geographical or Marxist frameworks to history, all of which offer interesting and rewarding approaches; as Loewenberg said: ‘Each historian and each age redefines categories of evidence in the light of its needs, sensibilities, and perceptions.' It is in this spirit that the conference welcomes proposals from postgraduate students wishing to submit a 15-20 minute paper on any aspect of collaborative history. The conference also offers postgraduates the chance to hone their skills and build confidence in conference participation as well as the opportunity to talk about working methods and to meet colleagues working on a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to history. Further information: Katie McDade School of History, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK; +44 (115) 951-5928; ahxkm1@nottingham.ac.uk;

10-12 June 2010. 'Studium Conference: Sacred Space, Sacred Memory: Bishop-Saints and their Cities', an international conference to be held in Tours, France. The history of many European cities was shaped by one or more saintly figures whose ties to the city—real or imagined—had both spiritual and tangible consequences. The topography of the city, its economy, its institutions, its liturgy, its reputation, and even its inhabitants' sense of civic pride, could all be shaped by and were dependent upon an idiosyncratic understanding of the saint's association with the city. The figure of the bishop-saint, moreover, bestowed with extraordinary spiritual and temporal prerogatives, represents a distinctive type which this conference seeks to address. What was his impact on religious, political, and cultural practices and institutions in a given city? What are some of the privileges associated with promoting his cult? In what ways do local claims on the bishop-saint evince tensions on a regional/national level or between elites and the masses? Possible perspectives on these and other related issues may include, but are not restricted to, liturgy, music, hagiography, art history, theology, history, and paleography. Call for papers deadline: 30 January 2010. The conference organisers are soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Conference, and are inviting scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to offer their perspectives on issues coinciding with the Conference's theme. Ideally, papers will deal with different parts of Europe and address periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed. Further information: Christine Bousquet (Christine.bousquet@univ-tours.fr) or Yossi Maurey (ymaurey@mscc.huji.ac.il).

10-13 June 2010. 'Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ', the culmination of the AHRC-funded 'Geographies of Orthodoxy' project, at Queen's University, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Call for papers: the conference invites papers on any aspect of late medieval Christological piety, with a particular emphasis on the cultural manifestations of the pseudo-Bonaventuran tradition, in all European contexts. Topics might include: The production and reception of late medieval lives of Christ; Lives of Christ in visual and material culture; Political and theological controversies; Lives of Christ, Latin and vernacular; Lives of Christ across the Reformations; Lives of Christ and histories of the book; Lay access and pastoral care. Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent by 30 September 2009 to Ryan Perry, r.perry@qub.ac.uk; http://www.qub.ac.uk/geographies-of-orthodoxy.

11 June 2010. '“Every discrete person that redeth or hereth this...”: readers, listeners and owners of books in the Middle Ages', the Sixth Annual Medievalism Transformed Conference, to be held at Bangor University. This is an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference accepting papers on studies in the medieval period, especially literature, history, theology and music; other subjects will be considered as well. We welcome proposals on the theme of the medieval audience: modes in which a text
is presented to the public and interactions between the author and the book reader, listener or owner. Call for papers deadline: 1 April 2010. Further information: medievalismtransformed@bangor.ac.uk

11-12 June 2010. 'Writing Central Eastern Europe', a conference to be held at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In his inspiring and provoking book, Larry Wolff analyses the invention of Eastern Europe in the time of the Enlightenment. The question is whether Eastern Europe as a concept existed earlier? What about the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries? In what way can we perceive Eastern, versus Central Europe, versus Europe over time in history and where are their borders? The Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University will host a conference devoted to travel writing on Central, Central Eastern and Eastern Europe. We are interested in papers on travel accounts, diaries, letters, travel journals and alike presenting the confrontation of travellers with the Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Baltic peoples and their territories throughout history. Since we do not define and do not want to define borders, papers on neighbouring regions (Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro) or indeed transregional travel accounts will also be considered. Further information: Jakub Basista, basista@chello.pl

11-12 June 2010. 'Neues aus dem Mittelalter' - das vierte Kolloquium des Historischen Instituts der Universität Mannheim und des Instituts für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte Heidelberg möchte zum einen ein Forum für die Diskussion aktueller Forschungen im Bereich der Mediävistik sein. Zum anderen soll gerade jungen Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftlern die Gelegenheit gegeben werden, ihre laufenden Dissertations- und Habilitationsprojekte vorzustellen. Neben dem wissenschaftlichen Austausch und methodisch-theoretischen Diskussionen stehen daher vor allem die Vernetzung und der persönliche Kontakt im Zentrum. Further information: Tanja Skambraks, Universität Mannheim, Historisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, 68131 Mannheim; tanja.skambraks@ uni-mannheim.de; http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=12770

11-13 June 2010. 'Migrationsprozesse im Grenzraum in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart', a conference to be held at Oberes Schloß. Die Migrationsforschung im deutsch-tschechischen (böhmischen) Kontext orientiert sich traditionell auf Themen und Perspektiven, die einerseits mit großen Themen sowie Mythen der nationalgeschichtlichen Diskurse, andererseits mit den so genannten „traumatischen Punkten“ der gegenseitigen Beziehungsgeschichte eng zusammenhängen. Wiewohl in diesen Bereichen in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine beachtenswerte Innovation stattgefunden hat, bleibt der nationalgeschichtliche Rahmen oder aber der Kontext der Vergangenheitsbewältigung stets im Vordergrund des Interesses. Further information: Prof. Dr. Milos Reznik (milos.reznik@phil.tu-chemnitz.de) and Katja Rosenbaum (katja.rosenbaum@ phil.tu-chemnitz.de); http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=13057

16-17 June 2010. 'The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research', the Third International Margot Conference to be held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.Call for papers deadline: 2 October 2009. During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to: digital paleography; translation and dictionary projects; digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation tools, paratextual information, etc.); text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.); encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and extensions of these protocols); management and preservation of digital resources; information design and modeling; the cultural impact of the new media; software studies; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula; funding and sustainability of long-term projects; Further information: Professor Laurie Postlewate, lpostlew@barnard.edu; http://conferences.cdrs.columbia.edu/dma/index.php/digitalmiddleages/dma2010

17-18 June 2010. 'Cities and Nationalisms', a conference to be held at the Institute for Historical Research, London. The Centre for Metropolitan History invites individual and panel proposals for a two-day conference on ‘Cities and Nationalisms', to be held at the Institute of Historical Research. Possible themes might include how festivals and parades, or the built environment, or literary and visual accounts of the city, have promoted or maintained nationalisms. Another possible theme would be how senses of urban community or territoriality interacted with nationalisms, ‘ethno-nationalisms' or ‘loyalism' in cities as a whole, parts of cities, or in divided cities. Particularly welcome would be papers or panels that investigate the relationship between cities and nationalisms for hitherto under-explored places and periods. This might be for provincial or colonial cities, or for cities of Asia, Africa or Latin America, or for European capital cities outside the period of high imperialism. But all proposals that address the broad theme of the conference will be considered. Further information: Vivian Bickford-Smith, CMH, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK; +44 (20) 7862-8799; +44 (20) 7862-8793; vivian.bickford@sas.ac.uk

17-19 June 2010. '"Grenzen" als Dimensionen von Policey, Strafjustiz und Kriminalität vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart', Tagung der Akademie der Diözese Stuttgart-Rottenburg, der Stiftung Berliner Mauer und des Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur l'Allemagne Paris. Further information: Falk Bretschneider, EHESS/CRIA, 96 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France; bretschn@ehess.fr

18-20 June 2010. 'Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises für Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte', Tagung in Dresden, es findet ebenfalls ein Nachwuchsworkshop statt. Further information: Bertram Kaschek, Insitut für Kunst- und Musikwissenschaft, TU Dresden, Germany; bertram.kaschek@tu-dresden.de

19-20 June 2010. 'Let the Games Begin: The Medieval World at Play', a postgraduate symposium at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. Call for papers deadline: 29 March 2010. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to: Children's games / play / toys Courtly games Chess / card / board games Drinking games Love games Competitions Jousts / Tournaments / War games Fairs Hunting / Hawking Sports: archery, hammer-throwing, quarter-staff contests, stoolball, hurling, gameball, wrestling etc. Further information: Medieval Studies Conference c/o Dr Katariina Nara SOMLAL University of Sheffield Jessop West 1 Upper Hanover Street Sheffield S3 7RA U.K; gameplayconference@shef.ac.uk

24-25 June 2010. 'Identity and the Other British Isles', a conference to be held at the University of Huddersfield. As issues of nationalism, identity, and what it means to be ‘British' continue to affect the cultural and political landscape of Britain itself, its impact on the islands that share (or have shared) a cultural heritage with the United Kingdom has become new ground for academics. The conference will bring together research from a range of disciplines in order to explore issues of Britishness within island culture and society. Papers are welcomed on the identities, cultures, history, heritage, and society of any island/islands which share a cultural heritage with Britain. This includes islands within the ‘British archipelago' and around the world. The focus of the conference is on smaller islands, and those whose relationships with Britain and Britishness have been often neglected in academic study. Further information: d.travers@hud.ac.uk; http://www2.hud.ac.uk/asb/identity_and_other_british_isles.php

24-26 June 2010. 'Popular Wisdom on Medieval Choir Stalls', the IXth Misericordia International Colloquium, organised by the Department of Art History, Radboud University, to be held in Nijmegen. The title popular wisdom refers to the visual representation of proverbs, fables and tales which forms an important part of non-verbal communication, mainly between the 11th and the end of the 17th centuries in Northern European art. Its importance for the exchange of world knowledge in pre-modern culture seems to be clear at first sight, though research has only been done with respect to either long established traditions or famous artists. The prime focus of the conference will be late medieval choir stalls and misericords in particular. However, papers from related fields and disciplines will be very welcome. In addition to iconography, approaches may include considerations of patronage, audiences and interpretation. Further information: Christel Theunissen, Radboud University, Department of Art History, PO Box 9103, 6500 HD, Nijmegen, Netherlands; c.theunissen@let.ru.nl.

24-26 June 2010. 'Translatio', 7th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society. Further information: Julian Führer, Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland; julian.fuehrer@access.uzh.ch, contact@ims-paris.org; http://www.ims-paris.org

26 June 2010. 'Emotions and Health, 1200-1700', one day symposium organised by the Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary, University of London. Registration fee: £20 (£10 students and concessions). Further information: Elena Carrera e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk; Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS.

27-29 June 2010. 'Ageing and Health', the 2010 annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History. Proposals are invited for thirty-minute papers (in either English or French) on any aspect of French history from the late medieval to the modern period. Proposals for panels of two or three papers are also invited. Our theme is not exclusive as to subject. Panel-paper contributions can properly reflect the broad diversity of the discipline of French History. However, we would be particularly interested in receiving proposals in and around the following subjects: Issues around theoretical frameworks and historiography of ageing and health; History of Medicine; Public Health Policy; Treatment of Demographic Issues; Mental Health; Treatment of Old Age in French Society and or as a historical subject. Call for papers deadline: 31 January 2010. Further information: Dr Rachel Hammersley, Rachel.Hammersley@ncl.ac.uk.

30 June-2 July 2010. 'Medieval and Early Modern Authorship', a conference to be held at the University of Geneva. Authorship has come to the forefront of medieval and early modern English studies in recent years. The objective of this conference is to take stock of a duly socialized form of authorship which recognizes that while authors have agency, that agency is circumscribed by the multi-faceted social, legal, institutional, and intertextual pressures within which authorship takes place. Contributions are invited on any aspect of medieval and early modern authorship. Further information: Authorship2010 Conference, Department of English, Faculté des Lettres, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; authorship2010@unige.ch; http://www.samemes.org.

July 2010

1-2 July 2010. 'Learning at the interface: Museum and University Collaborations', a conference to be held at the Sackler Centre for Arts Education, V&A, London. How can museums and universities work together purposefully to enhance the learning of higher education students? The conference aims to provide a forum for debate surrounding the policy implications of this work and a platform for discussion of issues and ideas that are relevant to the museum and higher education sectors. It will bring together policy makers, curators, educators, academics, students and leading professionals from the educational, creative and cultural sectors. Themes:* Museums and university partnerships - opportunities and barriers* The role of museums in supporting HE student learning* The educational philosophies and theories that underpin learning and research in museums and HE. Call for papers deadline: 2 February 2010. Further information: Sol Sneltvedt, S.Sneltvedt@brighton.ac.uk; http://cetld.brighton.ac.uk/events/learning-at-the-interface-conference-information/conference-programme

1-3 July 2010. 'I-CHORA 5 - 5th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives - Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time.' The conference will explore the subject of 'Records, archives and technology: interdependence overtime' from a historical pont of view but will interpret it as widely as possible. It will consider the evolving interrelationships between records, archives and any technology, not just the digital records of our time and will embrace any kind of interdependence including, the role, challenges, or opportunities of technologies in creating, maintaining or using records. Further information: Jane Shillaker, Research and Collections Development, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, UK; janeshillaker@nationalarchives.gov.uk

3 July 2010. 'Text and Textiles', a day seminar of the Medieval and Early Modern Research group of the University of Northumbria. For further details, contact: a.cowan@northumbria.ac.uk or lesley.twomey@northumbria.ac.uk.For details of MEM activities, see: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/history/groups/memgroup/

8-9 July 2010. 'Postcolonising the Medieval Image' a postgraduate workshop, to be held at the University of Leeds. As part of the Research Network "Postcolonising the Medieval Image", supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, we now invite postgraduate participants to join us for 2 days of keynote lecture, presentations, seminars, discussions, and lectures. MA students, Ph.D. students and postdocs are invited to informally present their research projects for discussion. Any project that may be relevant to the use of postcolonial questions in relation to medieval art or medievalism will be welcome. Further information: http://post-col-med.leeds.ac.uk/; Dr Alex Hannay: post-col-med@leeds.ac.uk; Dr Eva Frojmovic, e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk; Prof. Catherine Karkov: c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk;

8-10 July 2010. 'Zoroastrianism', the Thirtieth Ninth International Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, to held at the University of Oxford. The conference aims to study Zoroastrian religion and culture, and it will start on Thursday 08 July at 9am, finishing on Saturday 10 July at 1pm. Each speaker's paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. Further information: ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, UK; Tel. +44 (1865) 514-041; Fax +44 (1865)516-824; aram@aramsociety.org.

8-10 July 2010. 'Central Asian Islamic Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections', the Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference, organized by the Islamic Manuscript Association, will be held at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, England. The Conference will be hosted by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge. Call for papers deadline: 31 January 2010. The Association invites the submission of abstracts on topics related to the study of Islamic manuscripts - particularly codicology - and the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections. Preference will be shown to submissions pertaining to the Conference's theme. The Conference will be organised around the Association's four key working areas: cataloguing, conservation, digitisation, and research and publishing; and papers falling into these broad categories will be included in the relevant panel. The Association will also consider submissions on topics that do not fall directly under the purviews of the working groups but are yet concerned with scholarship on Islamic manuscripts or the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections. Please note that the total number of papers accepted will not exceed 25 and that preference will be given to speakers who have not presented papers at the Association's previous conferences. The invitation is open to members and non-members of the Association. The languages of the Conference will be Arabic and English and submissions will be accepted in both languages. Please send an abstract of 500 words, a resume, and the cover sheet (available at http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2010conference/CallForPapers.html) to the Association's Executive Committee. Further information: The Islamic Manuscript Association Ltd, c/o 33 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QY, UK; fax: +44 (1223) 302-218; ima@islamicmanuscript.org.

10 July 2010. 'Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: A Symposium', a celebratory colloquium for Bella Millett organised by her friends, to be held at the University of Southampton. This one-day colloquium addresses academic issues which have been at the heart of Bella Millett's own distinguished academic career and of those specialists with whom she has worked most closely. It is related to, but extends, the cutting-edge scholarship in Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: Essays in Honour of Bella Millett , ed. by Cate Gunn and Catherine Innes-Parker (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with the Boydell Press, 2009). Further information: Prof. John McGavin j.j.mcgavin@soton.ac.uk; http://www.humanities.soton.ac.uk/conferences.

10-11 July 2010 (rescheduled from 24-25 April 2010). 'Imagining Astrology: Painted Schemes and Threads of the Soul', a two-day international conference at the University of Bristol. Astrology as a way of understanding the world has woven its thread into cultures since Mesopotamian times. along with its technical descriptions of calculation and interpretation, whether written on clay tablets or vellum, using stylus, quill or printing press, it has also taken form in sculpture, mosaics and painting, as well as inhabiting such esoteric bodies of knowledge as Kabblah, alchemy and magic. Further information: hadrg@bristol.ac.uk; www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/imaginingastrology

12-14 July, 2010. 'Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible', a conference hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book, at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the beginning of the thirteenth century a new type of Bible emerged from Paris and southern England and spread rapidly throughout Western Europe. Innovations in script and parchment enabled the creation of single-volume Bibles, some of which could easily fit a modern pocket; other features, such as the modern chapter division, introduced unprecedented ease of usage. These Bibles became the template for Gutenberg's celebrated 42-line version and have had an influence on printed Bibles ever since. Today, hundreds of these manuscripts survive, bearing witness to one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. The ubiquity of these Bibles has only recently been met by scholarly interest, and questions remain regarding their evolution as well as their place within the medieval university, pulpit and priory. The conference will bring together experts in medieval liturgy and sermons, art, religion and manuscripts, to examine the material culture of the Late Medieval Bible and its setting. Presentations, discussions and two workshops would draw on the wealth of manuscripts in the University Library and the NLS in analysing variants of text and layout, imagery and addenda. Further information: Centre for the History of the Book, 22a Buccleuch Place, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LN, UK; L.M.B@ed.ac.uk

12-14 July 2010. 'Death at Court'. Since the early 1980s, studies of numerous aspects concerning rulers, their courts and residences, have become an integral part of Medieval research. The upcoming conference, for its part, is not only concerned with a comparative approach to European court culture, but aims for a more global perspective. Thus, it continues the work of the Court Culture Group, which was very recently founded almost exclusively by American scholars, but which can since claim a worldwide membership. A volume of conference proceedings (‘Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture: China, Europe and Japan') has been published in 2005 as part of this work and a second conference was organized in Coburg in 2006, entitled ‘Courts as Symbolic Systems and Forms of Communication'. Further information: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Spieß, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Geschichte des Mittelalters und Hist. Hilfswissenschaften, Historisches Institut, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Domstr. 9a, 17487 Greifswald, Germany;spiess@uni-greifswald.de; http://www.phil.uni-greifswald.de/bereich2/histin/ls/ma.html

12-15 July 2010. International Medieval Congress, in Leeds. Contact: Axel E. W. Müller, International Medieval Congress, Parkinson Bldg. 1.03, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; +44 (113) 343-3614; fax: +44 (113) 343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/).

15-19 July 2010. The Seventeenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society will take place in Siena, Italy, in 2010. In keeping with the suggestions made at the 2003 Glasgow Congress, there is no single theme for the Congress. The overall structure reflects areas of inquiry that emerged from members' initial proposals for sessions. Sessions will consequently follow several threads: Chaucerian Temporalities; Medievalisms; Found in Translation: Italy and England in the Age of Chaucer; Transnationalism; Insular Multilingualisms; Political Languages; Visual Cultures; Religious Practice, Institutions, and Theology: Chaucerian Contexts; Bodies; Animal Discourses; Philosophy and Science; and Manuscripts and Printed Books. In addition, there will be a number of non-aligned panels and sessions, and several plenary sessions. Further information; http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/congress/congress2010call.php.

16-18 July 2010. Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference 2010. The 4th National Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies will be held in the historic city of York on 16-18 July 2010. The conference will follow immediately after the Leeds Medieval Congress and will coincide with the final weekend of the York Early Music Festival--which will feature The Sixteen performing the music of Tallis and others in the York Minster, a major new performance of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers, and a partial performance of the York Mystery Plays in the streets of the city. The conference will also feature workshops on publishing and research funding (including presentations by Andrew Hadfield, Editor of Renaissance Studies; Sarah Stanton, Literature Editor at Cambridge University Press; and Shearer West, Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Confirmed plenary speakers include Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, London), Iain Fenlon (Cambridge), and Penelope Gouk (Manchester). We now invite proposals for panels (max. 90 minutes) on any aspect of Renaissance history, art, literature or culture, and for individual papers (max. 25 minutes) on one of the following themes: Rethinking the Medieval/Renaissance Divide; At the Boundaries of Science; Soundscapes and Landscapes, Environments and Ecologies; Possessions and Collections; Between Spirituality and Materiality; Cultural Encounters. Call for papers deadline: 25 September 2009. Further information: ws505@york.ac.uk; http://www.rensoc.org.uk/SRSNationalConference2010.htm

17 July 2010. 'Where there is no ruler the people falls". England's road to regicide, 1317-27', to be held at the National Archives, Kew. The National Archives will be hosting a one day conference at Kew focusing on the tumultuous last decade of Edward II's reign, a period that culminated in the unprecedented deposition of a post-Conquest English king and his probable murder. In recent years this important period of English history has undergone a resurgence of academic interest. Based heavily upon documents held by The National Archives, this conference will look at three major themes: the nature of Edward's kingship, the impact of personalities upon events and the reasons, both short and long-term, for Edward's deposition. Leading academics will discuss topics such as whether Edward II was a ‘tyrant', the loyalty of his household knights, the critically important relationship with his Queen, and the social impact that the political turmoil exerted upon the population. There will also be an exclusive opportunity to view key original documents from this crucial decade in English history. Further information: Dr Adrian Jobson, Advice & Records Knowledge, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, UK, TW9 4DU; +44(0)208 876 3444; adrian.jobson@nationalarchives.gov.uk

17-19 July 2010. 'Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles', the second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS), to be held at the University of Cambridge. CICS intends to carry on the strong record of publication, with itsinaugural proceedings forthcoming in The Medieval Chronicle, vols IV and V,2009 and 2010. Brepols Publishers have expressed a firm interest inpublishing a thematic set of proceedings of the 2010 Symposium, subject to the text being submitted to peer review and accepted by the editorial board.The new symposium will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions, a tour of Cambridge College Libraries, formal conference dinner, publications fair and wine reception. Refreshments and lunches are provided for conference guests and college accommodation is available. As on the previous occasion, a limited number of small bursaries will be awarded.We invite proposals from scholars in the disciplines including but not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. Further information: CambridgeICS@gmail.com ; http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html

17-21 July 2010. 'Newcastle and Northumberland', the British Archaeological Society 2010 Summer Conference, to be held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.This is an area outstandingly rich in monuments and buildings from all periods, many of them set in locations of striking beauty and grandeur. They include unquestionably the greatest survival of Roman Britain, Hadrian's Wall, whose presence has influenced the development of the region ever since, together with well-preserved remains of forts and civilian settlements. Here may be seen some of the most evocative remains of Anglo-Saxon Christianity, including standing buildings of the monastery at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, and the crypt of Bishop Wilfrid's cathedral at Hexham. Northumberland is well provided with medieval great churches, including Lindisfarne, Tynemouth, Brinkburn and the present abbey church at Hexham. Further information: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/baa/conferences.html

19-24 July 2010. The 13th Colloquium of SITM (Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval) will meet in Giessen, Germany. Papers will be in English, French, or German. Further information: Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Germanistik, Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B, 35394 Gießen, Germany; http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g91159/sitm.htm.

20-22 July 2010. 'Engendering Gender: Production, Transmission and Change 1450-1950', a conference to be held at University of Exeter, Streatham Campus. This interdisciplinary conference will explore concepts of gendered identities across the period 1450-1950. Breaking free of the traditional constraints of periodization, this conference will promote discussion that transcends period boundaries (i.e. medieval, early modern, long-eighteenth century, modern), and considers how far gender identities are modified by religious, political, medical, social and cultural shifts, or are punctuated only by sudden, limited, periods of change. In particular, 'Engendering Gender' aims to explore key sites of gender construction and the transmission of gendered norms, both public and private. Call for papers deadline: 28 August 2009. Further information: Department of History University of Exeter Amory Building Rennes Drive Exeter; EX4 4RJ, UK; +44 (1392) 264-184; H.French@exeter.ac.uk; http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/history/conferences/engenderinggender.php.

21-24 July 2010. Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference 2010. The conferences for 2010-11 will be on the theme of THE CHURCH AND LITERATURE, under the presidency of Dr Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham). Further information: http://www.ehsoc.org.uk/

23-27 July 2010. 'Medieval Translator 2010', the international Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, at the Università degli Studi di Padova, in Padua, Italy. Linguistic and literary traditions include translation in their myth of origin-thus the linguistic and scholar Gianfranco Folena proposed to substitute the motto In principio fuit poëta with the humbler In principio fuit interpres. Following his suggestion, we welcome papers addressing translation in the Middle Ages, marking the relationship between classical, Middle Eastern, and vernacular languages, and studying translation as the representation of ideas and texts in different media. Further information: Alessandra Petrina and Monica Santini, Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Via Beato Pellegrino, 26, 35100 Padua, Italy; alessandra.petrina@unipd.it; monica.santini@unipd.it.

25-27 July 2010. 'Textus Roffensis: Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England', to be held at Medway Campus of University of Kent, UK. Textus Roffensis is a Rochester Cathedral book of the early 12th century that holds some of the most significant legal texts issued by England's various early medieval kingdoms going back to the laws of King Æthelbert of Kent (c. 604). It also preserves abundant records from one of England's earliest episcopal sees. This conference will gather, for the first time, work in the disciplines of history, English, linguistics, political science and codicology in order to address the context for the creation of Textus Roffensis, the language of its texts, English laws and their legal, political, and cultural agendas, the relationship of the Church and royal government, and the legacy of the book and its texts. Call for papers deadline: 15 November. The organizers are interested in papers or panels on all topics related to Textus Roffensis. Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Interested scholars should submit a one paragraph proposal along with a curriculum vitae to Bruce O'Brien, programme coordinator. Further information: Bruce O'Brien, School of History, University of Kent; bobrien@umw.edu

25-29 July 2010. 'Judaism in the Mediterranean Context', the Ninth EAJS (European Association for Jewish Studies) Congress, to be held in Ravenna. Proposals for papers are welcome from all scholars in the various fields of Jewish studies. The Sections of the Congress will be: Biblical History and Archaeology; Biblical Literature and Language; Second Temple Judaism; Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity; Rabbinic Literature;Medieval Jewish History; Medieval Jewish Literature; Manuscripts, Codices and Books; Early Modern History (1492-1600); Modern Jewish History (1600-1933); Modern Jewish Literature; Jewish Languages; Jewish Arts; Contemporary Jewish History (after 1933); Jewish Philosophy; Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah, Magic. Further information: http://www.eurojewishstudies.org/display.php?sectionid=12&item=480

25-29 July 2010. 'The Bible in the Iberian World: Fundamentals of a Religious Melting Pot', an international conference organised by the Society of Biblical Literature, to be held in Tartu, Estonia. For this year's session, we would like to gather scholars with different backgrounds in order to enlighten the Iberian world's biblical understanding and experience. Therefore, it is our goal to join in this session papers that deal not only with the interpretation of the sacred texts within the Iberian space, but also with how these peoples have lived their religiosity not just in the Iberian Peninsula but also in the colonies. Further information: http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=16&VolunteerUnitId=513

25-30 July 2010. The Thirteenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS) will take place in Montreal, Canada. The Congress's overarching theme is "Courtly Cultures on the Move," and speakers are especially invited to consider the theme in relation to three areas: transmission and reception of courtliness; books and courtly culture; and languages of courtliness. All speakers must be members of the ICLS and should indicate their branch affiliation in their abstract. Further information: http://www.icls2010.ca/en/home.html.

August 2010

2-5 August 2010. 'El monacato espontáneo: eremitas y eremitorios en el mundo medieval', XXIV Seminario sobre Historia del Monacato. El monacato ha presentado, históricamente, dos modalidades generales. Una, la cenobítica: es una forma de ascetismo que se institucionaliza a través de la vida en comunidad y de la observancia de una determinada regla o de unos usos monásticos que, en origen, procedían de reglas diversas. La mayor parte de nuestros Seminarios han explorado esa modalidad. Pero una segunda forma de monacato fue y puede seguir siendo la eremítica o anacorética: en la soledad escogida del desierto, el ermitaño trata de colmar sus aspiraciones a la perfección y el contacto con Dios. Further information: Secretaría de Cursos y Seminarios, Fundación Santa María la Real, 34800 Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia); plhuerta@santamarialareal.org; http://www.santamarialareal.org/cursos_ficha.aspx?sec=9&idsec=9&cod=31

6-10 August 2010. 'Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies', a conference organised by the European Science Foundation, to be held in Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden. There has been a recent surge of scholarship from human geography, sociology, history, architecture, and cultural studies that focuses on migration as a social, political, cultural and material process. This area of research on migration examines migrants' transnational spatial practices, social and political identities and relationships with the state. Central to this research has been a recognition that at the heart of migration lies a fundamental transformation in spaces and places that are linked to the social and cultural meanings of home and belonging. Further information: http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=6500.

12-20 August 2010. 7th International Summer School in Manuscript Studies, an 8-day intensive course in medieval and early-modern Scandinavian manuscript studies. Topics covered include palaeography, codicology, manuscript description and transcription, basic editorial technique and the theory and practice of textual criticism. Further information: mjd@hum.ku.dk; http://nfi.ku.dk/kalender/7th-int-manuscript/

16-25 August 2010. 'Viking Age Scandinavia: Transformation and Expansion', summer school at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Further information: http://www.aal.au.dk/en/medieval/studies/summer

22-28 August 2010. The next congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further information: http://www.ichs2010.org/themes.asp

29 August-4 September 2010. 'Shaping Europe: Imagined Spaces and Cultural Transactions 1450-1700', the Crossroads Summerschool. Shaping Europe: Imagined Spaces and Cultural Transactions 1450 - 1700 is the subject of a series of three summer schools to be held at the Universities of Basel, Sussex and Frankfurt from 2010 to 2012. The summer schools are organised by Susanna Burghartz, Basel, Gisela Engel, Frankfurt, Ina Habermann, Basel, Margaret Healy, Sussex, Tom Healy, Sussex and Susanne Scholz, Frankfurt. From a historical moment at which Europe – both as a concept and as a geopolitical entity – is redefining its boundaries and its political status, these summer schools will look back to the time when the values, institutions and spatial boundaries of what is today seen as European emerged. The thematic focus will be on ways in which early modern subjects, groups and institutions shaped the spaces they lived in, and how they produced and negotiated social, cultural and political structures through the interaction of texts and images, the transfer of ideas, values and material objects, as well as rites of inclusion and exclusion. Further information: Sabina Horber, Kompetenzzentrum Kulturelle Topographien Nadelberg 6 CH-4051; sabina.horber@ unibas.ch; http://kultop.unibas.ch/en/training/summer-school

September 2010

1-4 September 2010.'City and Society in European History', the 10th International Conference on Urban History, organized by the European Association for Urban History, will meet in Ghent, Belgium. Further information: http://www.eauh2010.UGent.be/.

2-4 September 2010. The Fifteenth Century Conference 2010 will be held at the University of Southampton. It is intended that sessions will reflect a particular focus on the theme of England's wars 1399-1500, and social and economic history (broadly conceived). However, proposals for papers or sessions on any fifteenth-century topic are welcome. Further information: School of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK S017 1BJ; Professor Anne Curry (a.e.curry@soton.ac.uk); Dr Chris Briggs (C.D.Briggs@soton.ac.uk).

4-6 September 2010. 'The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions post Mortem: The Source, the Process and the Potential', to be held at the University of Winchester. Further information: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/academicdepartments/history/newsandevents/Pages/InquisitionsPostMortem.aspx

7-10 September 2010. 'Autograph Manuscripts of the Middle Ages', the XVIIth Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine, to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. On the basis of a representative panel of individual cases, the Conference will explore the wide range of problems arising from autograph manuscripts of the Middle Ages (in the strict acception of those texts whose author and copyist is one single person) in the fields of palaeography, codicology, the transmission and diffusion of Medieval texts and their modern edition. Further information: pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk; http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/

9-11 September 2010. 'The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme', the Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics, to be held at Munich University, in Munich, Germany. While the first conference in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to the wide field of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme including both positional and free allographs and their relationships regarding phonemes and allophones. We therefore welcome contributions relating to the historical stages of the European languages and writing systems, with regard to the following questions: 1. Depiction of sounds by characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one grapheme = one phoneme)? 2. Ways of reflecting language change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction or extension of the characters in the system. 3. New characters - obsolete characters: Necessity of creating new characters for the system or reactivating old ones? Further information: Gaby Waxenberger, Ludwigs-Maximilians Universität, München (LMU), Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Schellingstr. 3/RG, 80799 München, Germany; soundandscript@googlemail.com.

9-11 September 2010. 'Die Schedula diversarum artium: Ein Handbuch mittelalterlicher Kunst?', Internationale Tagung des Thomas-Instituts der Universität zu Köln und des Museums Schnütgen der Stadt Köln, in Köln. Further information: Prof. Dr. Andreas Speer, Dr. Ilya Dines, David Wimmer M. A., Thomas-Insitut der Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, 50923 Köln, Germany; thomas-institut@uni-koeln.de; http://www.thomasinst.uni-koeln.de

11-12 September 2010. 'Gender and the Pre-Modern City', a conference at the University of Nottingham. Engagement with the space of the pre-modern city has found particular expression in scholarship concerned with the construction of gender. This issue seeks to expand these discussions by focusing on the ways in which gender is negotiated in urban spaces anywhere in the world that predate or were unaffected by ‘modernity' via the processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Western industrialisation and globalisation. Our definition of 'pre-modern' is deliberately broad so as not to exclude relevant case studies from anywhere in the world, and to avoid implying that our focus of interest is Europe and the Western world. Clearly, our understanding of a ‘city' varies depending on indigenous cultural contexts, and definitions of a ‘city' may refer to temporary spaces and structures largely devoid of permanent inhabitants. Notions of gender and the pre-modern city may equally be explored through an emphasis on the social and political stratification and processes that regulate residence, presence, movement, and the expression of power and authority within these spaces. Further information: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/art-history/research/conferences/gender.aspx

10-12 September 2010. The next meeting of the Cooperative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network (CARMEN) will be held at Tallinn, Estonia.

14-17 September 2010. 'Knotenpunkt Byzanz' a conference to be held in Köln, Germany. Further information: www.kmt.uni-koeln.de ; www.thomasinst.uni-koeln.de

15-18 September 2010. 'Libri vitae - Christliches Totengedenken zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne', to be held at St Gallen, Altes Bad Pfäfers and Abtei Pfäfers, organised by Stiftsarchiv St Gallen and Technische Universität Dortmund in cooperation with Universität Duisburg-Essen. Der Umgang der Lebenden mit dem Tod sowie der Umgang der Lebenden mit dem Leben angesichts des Todes prägt seit jeher das Denken und Handeln von Individuen und Gruppen. Die menschliche Angst vor Tod und Vergessen gehört bis heute zu den bestimmenden Triebkräften der Alltags- und Volkskultur – und unseres Daseins überhaupt. Der Bodenseeraum ist äusserst reich an schriftlichen Zeugnissen der mittelalterlichen und neuzeitlichen Gedächtniskultur. Anhand von Verbrüderungsbüchern, Nekrologen, Jahrzeitbüchern, Stiftungsurkunden und anderen Exponaten zeigt die Ausstellung deren Entwicklung vom Frühmittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Further information: www.sg.ch/home/kultur/stiftsarchiv/aktuell/buecher_des_lebens.html

16-18 September 2010. '1000 Jahre St. Michael in Hildesheim', an international symposium organised by Internationales Symposium des Hornemann Instituts im Rahmen des landeskirchlichen Festprogramms "Gottes Engel weichen nie. St. Michael 2010", to be held in St. Michael in Hildesheim. Further information: Dr. Angela Weyer, HORNEMANN INSTITUT, Kardinal-Bertram-Strasse 36, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany: +49 (5121) 408-179; weyer@hornemann-institut.de; http://www.hornemann-institut.de.

16-18 September 2010. 'Nobleza y Monarquía: Los linajes nobiliarios en el Reino de Granada. Siglos XV-XIX', a symposium to be held in Huéscar, Spain. Further information: asociacion@raigadas.es; http://www.raigadas.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=125

17 September 2010. ' Dante in France', a workshop, co-organised by the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies and the Department of French, which will explore aspects of the reception of Dante in French culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Further information: Russell Goulbourne ( r.j.goulbourne@leeds.ac.uk), Matthew Treherne ( m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk) or Claire Honess ( c.e.honess@leeds.ac.uk).

18 September 2010. 'Painted Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in St Mary's Deerhurst', a Friends of Deerhurst Church Annual Lecture, by Emily Howe, to be held in Deerhurst Church, Nr Tewkesbury. Further information: http://www.deerhurstfriends.co.uk.

18-19 September 2010. 'The Ontology of the Soul in Medieval Arabic Thought', to be held at SOAS, University of London. The nature of the soul and its relation to the body are topics that occupied both philosophers and theologians in the medieval Arabic intellectual tradition, and were often central to their broader philosophical and theological systems. Bringing together a group of specialists in Arabic intellectual history, this conference will be both an occasion to explore the history of psychology in medieval Arabic thought and a forum to consider the interaction between the different intellectual traditions that thrived in the same wider milieu of medieval Islamic culture. Further information: http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event60075.html

19-23 September 2010. 'Deutscher Germanistentag 2010: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur im europäischen Kontext', a conference at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.

21-22 September 2010. 'Between Stability and Transformation: Textual Traditions in the Medieval Netherlands', a conference to be held at Ghent University. The Department of Dutch Literature of Ghent University, the Department of Dutch Language and Culture of Radboud University Nijmegen and the Ruusbroecgenootschap ( University of Antwerp ) will hold an international conference on the transformation of texts and textual complexes in the medieval Netherlands. We hereby invite paper proposals exploring this theme. Texts are subject to transformation, especially during the Middle Ages. The medieval textual culture was a manuscript culture that was characterized in a unique way by variance. Every new copy offered the scribe the possibility to adapt the text to new contextual circumstances. Central questions will therefore be: what happened to a text when it arrived outside the context where it originated? Why were texts varied in the Middle Ages? How did changing circumstances lead to adaptations within a text, so that it would function in an optimal way in its new context? How did the influence of the context manifest itself in medieval texts? Why were some texts not adapted, even when the circumstances seem to be perfect to provoke a change? These questions do not have to be limited to individual texts. One could think of larger textual complexes as well, such as manuscripts and book collections (libraries), as they were also subject to transformation and reveal in their composition a dynamic that is connected to contextual changes. Call for papers deadline: 9 February 2010. Abstracts of max. 250 words to be sent to the contact email address. Further information: stabilityandtransformation@gmail.com; http://www.stabilityandtransformation.ugent.be

23 September 2010. 'Charity and the City: Ancient, Medieval and Modern', a workshop for postgraduates and early career researchers, to be held at Hughes Hall, Unversity of Cambridge. This one-day workshop, organized by the New Researchers Committee of the Voluntary Action History Society and supported by the Economic History Society, offers postgraduate students and early career researchers in history an opportunity to discuss issues relating to the study of urban charity, in all periods (ancient, medieval and modern) and all parts of the world. We welcome 20-minute papers addressing conceptual and methodological challenges arising from the speaker's own research on charity and the city. Call for papers deadline: 15 August 2010. Further information: Dr Elma Brenner workshops@vahs.org.uk; http://www.vahs.org.uk .

23-26 September 2010. 'Stadtkultur des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit in Ostmitteleuropa und ihre Renaissance im 19. Jahrhundert', Tagung in Nürnberg. Further information: Dr. Marco Bogade, Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, Johann-Justus-Weg 147a, 26127 Oldenburg, Germany; marco.bogade@uni-oldenburg.de.

24-25 September 2010.'Negotiating Trade: Commercial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval and Early Modern World', an interdisciplinary conference presented by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). With the ongoing development of trans-regional commerce, trade in the medieval and early modern periods required an increasing number of institutions (social, economic, legal, and administrative) to mediate between local and foreign merchants, and among merchants, state officials, creditors, money exchangers, and brokers. Such institutions protected those who traveled long distances and assisted them in unfamiliar systems of exchange even as they permitted local polities to control and profit from the activities of this growing merchant class. Alongside these institutions may be counted the increasingly international systems of credit and banking, which operated above or beyond the sphere of states issuing currencies, and a growing class of agents who served “on the ground,” as it were, translating local languages and practices for traveling merchants. Call for papers deadline: 30 October 2009. Further information: cemers@binghamton.edu; http://cemers.binghamton.edu.

24-26 September 2010. 'Alter(n) in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit'. Die kulturhistorische Forschung hat sich in den letzten Jahren vermehrt den Themen Krankheit und Alter(n) sowie den damit verbundenen Problembereichen wie Armut und Todesnähe gewidmet. Die Dichotomie des hohen Alters und des Prozesses des Älterwerdens zwischen Weisheit und Krankheit allerdings ist einseitig sozialgeschichtlich oder biografisch abgearbeitet worden, während eine wirkliche Diskursanalyse über das Altern nicht erfolgt ist, die dem Alter(n) eine ähnliche Analysekraft verleiht wie den Kategorien Schicht, Geschlecht oder Ethnie. Mit Fokus auf die romanischen Länder in den Epochen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit soll die vom Netzwerk MIRA - Mittelalter und Renaissance in der Romania veranstaltete Tagung dazu einen Beitrag leisten. Further information: Alexandra Stanislaw-Kemenah, MIRA / Institut für Romanistik 01062 Dresden, Germany; alexandra.stanislaw-kemenah@web.de; http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=20449

24-26 September 2010. 'Majesty, Memory and Mourning in the Middle Ages', the twentieth annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association, to be held at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. In the call for papers the organizers note that this year's theme is “Majesty, Memory, and Mourning in the Middle Ages,” but that papers are welcomed on all aspects of medieval history and culture, including medieval art, languages, literature, medievalism, and music. Some aspects of the conference will also be different, and “will feature two distinct types of panels. In honor of our Texas heritage, we are calling the first type a ‘Roundup.' The Roundup will function like a workshop where presenters, lead by an organizer, examine the state of a particular question in specific areas of medieval studies. Presenters should prepare a succinct thesis, spoken in no more than 5 minutes. These will be grouped to promote maximum interchange. These panels will give participants a chance to collaborate in a manner not typically associated with conference papers.” Further information: Bonnie Wheeler (bwheeler@smu.edu) and Don Kagay (dkagay1@netzero.com).

27-30 September 2010. 'Líneas y Pautas en el estudio de la Literatura Medieval y Renacentista', the III Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, to be held in Oviedo. Further information: banos@uniovi.es; mariafferreiro@gmail.com; http://www.la-semyr.es/?page_id=4

27 September-1 October 2010. 'Navarra, un espacio de cultura', VII Congreso de Historia de Navarra, to be held in Pamplona. Esta nueva edición del Congreso de Historia de Navarra pretende ser, una vez más, un lugar de encuentro personal e intelectual de todos los historiadores y cultivadores de la disciplina que tienen por objeto de sus investigaciones a Navarra. Analizarla como un espacio de cultura, entendida ésta en su sentido más amplio y humanístico, permitirá acercarnos a todas las formas y expresiones de la sociedad Navarra a lo largo de los tiempos. La cultura, de hecho, hace referencia al amplio conjunto de valores, creencias, actitudes, formas de vida y de comportamiento, sistemas de organización social y política, manifestaciones artísticas, literarias, científicas o tecnológicas, ritos y símbolos, que nos definen, que nos permiten interpretar nuestra existencia y experiencia, y que transmitimos de una generación a otra. Bajo el título Navarra: un espacio de cultura se acogerán, por tanto, todas aquellas investigaciones de los más diversos ámbitos (economía, educación, política, sociedad, derecho…) y relativas a todas las etapas históricas, que rescaten para el presente los hilos de esa “trama de significados” que es nuestra propia cultura. Further information: sehn@sehn.org.es; http://www.sehn.org.es/congreso2010.html

28 September-1 October 2010. 48. Deutscher Historikertag.Auch für diesen Historikertag haben Vorstand und Ausschuss des Verbandes der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands (VHD) ein Schwerpunktthema beschlossen. Allerdings müssen sich Sektionsvorschläge nicht zwingend an diesem Schwerpunktthema orientieren, vielmehr soll ein gewisser Anteil am Gesamtprogramm auch mit thematisch anders ausgerichteten Sektionen besetzt werden, um der Spannweite aktueller Forschungen hinreichend Platz einzuräumen. Gleichwohl hoffen Vorstand und Ausschuss, dass bereits das Schwerpunktthema selbst eine breite Resonanz finden wird, das den Titel trägt: "Über Grenzen". Further information: Nora Helmli, Geschäftsführung
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323 Frankfurt; geschaeftsstelle@historikerverband.de; http:/ /www.historikerverband.de

October 2010

1-2 October 2010. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) will be held at the University of Notre Dame, in Notre Dame, Indiana. Further information: Sheryl Mullane-Corvi, Medieval Academy, 104 Mt. Auburn St., 5th Fl., Cambridge, MA, USA; SMC@MedievalAcademy.org; http://www.MedievalAcademy.org/cara/cara.htm.

7-9 October 2010. 'Gregorio IX e gli Ordini Mendicanti', a conference to be held in Assisi, organised by the Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani. Further information: http://www.sisf-assisi.it/convegno_nuovo.htm

7-10 October 2010. The 30th IPH Congress of International Paper Historians will take place in Angoulême, France, hosted by the Association Française d'Histoire du Papier et des Papeteries (AFHEPP). The themes of the congress will cover three main aspects inspired by the local history of papermaking in the Angoumois: Session 1: Side-industries and crafts connected to Papermaking; Session 2: Paper Economy and Trade: national and international Interactions; Session 3: The Uses of Paper: Gestures, Words, Expertise. The length of the presentations at the Congress will be 20 minutes. The congress languages are English and French, as well as German: please note that no translation will be provided, except for the written translation of abstracts. Further information: Denis Peaucelle, Musée du Papier, IPH Congress, 134 rue de Bordeaux, 16000 Angoulême, France; denis.peaucelle@afhepp.org; http://afhepp.org.

9 October 2010. 'Wars of the Roses: Triumphs and Defeats', a conference organised by the Richard III Foundation, Inc. at the Dixie Grammar School in Market Bosworth, UK. Further information: The Richard III Foundation, Ms. Dorothy Davies, Half Moon House, 32 Church Lane , Ryde. Isle of Wight PO33 2NB; Richard3Foundation@yahoo.com; www.richard111.com .

12-13 October 2010. 'Kinder in den Großstädten seit dem Mittelalter bis zur Industrialisierung', 29. Internationale Tagung des Archivs der Hauptstadt Prag und des Instituts für Internationale Studien der Karls-Universität Prag, in Prag. Further information: Olga Fejtova, Archiv hlavního mesta Prahy, Archivní 6, 149 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; Olga.Fejtova@cityofprague.cz; http://www.ahmp.cz/eng/index.html

15-17 October 2010. 'Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish Mysticism Around the Time of Chrétien de Troyes', a symposium to be held at Eagle Hill Foundation, Steuben, Maine, USA. This symposium will have a dual thematic focus on (1)
major esoteric and mystical movements of the fascinatingly rich intellectual and religious cultures of the 12th and early 13th centuries, namely, alchemy, hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish mysticism; and (2) the works of Chrétien de Troyes,
whose Arthurian romances seem to suggest an awareness of some aspects of these movements. Recent scholarship has suggested that there was not only a higher degree of intercultural and interreligious permeability during this time period - especially between Spain and France - than previously suspected, but that important channels of transmission of ideas,
treatises, and texts have been overlooked. The symposium is intended to foster an exchange of ideas among participants,
whose areas of expertise are generally considered to be distinct from one another. Further information: Dr. Ingrid E. Lotze,
office@eaglehill.us; +1 (207) 546-2821; Eagle Hill Foundation, PO Box 9, Steuben, Maine, USA; http://www.eaglehill.us

17-22 October 2010. 'St Thomas Becket and the Vernacular Medieval Literature', an international conference to be held in Monte Verità, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland. The Conference will be divided into two themes (consisting of several sub-divided sessions):
A) 1155-1170: "Warriors of God and Culture. Thomas Becket and his eruditi".
B) After 1170. "Perpetuating Myth".

The stimulating and unique ambiance of Monte Verità has been chosen to organize a conference with a familiar and scientifically inspiring fragrance. Call for papers deadline: 15 August 2010. Further information: congress@becketproject.ch; http://www.becketproject.ch

21-23 October 2010. 'Shame between Punishment & Penance: The Social Usages of Shame in the Middle-Ages and Early Modern Times', an international conference organised by Bénédicte Sère and Joerg Wettlaufer, to be held in Paris. Shame is a multilayered and “moral” emotion and is a fundamental component of human identity. It remains to a large extent unexplored in its historical dimension so far. Aristotle understood shame as a deeply social phenomenon and regarded it as the conception of bad reputation, i.e., as “certain pain and uneasiness about those evils, which can cause a bad reputation”. This conference is concerned with the historical and cultural coding of this emotion by observing its social use in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Times. The scientific exchange will focus on the Christian and theological discourses on shame in the contexts of confession and punishment and their reflex on the organisation of social relations of medieval and early modern humans. Further information: Dr. Bénedicte Sère, Paris-Ouest Nanterre, 200 ave la République, 92000 Nanterre Cedex, France; benedicte.sere@sfr.fr; http://www.shamestudies.de/paris/

21-24 October 2010. 'Byzantine and Ottoman Civilizations in World History', a symposium sponsored by Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Association, Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Association proudly announce a symposium focusing on the world-historical significance of Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations, 330-1922. The symposium will consist of 30 papers plus a keynote address and several other plenary sessions. The official languages of the symposium will be English and Turkish. Call for papers deadline: Panel and paper proposals dealing with either Byzantine or Ottoman civilizations (or both) in the context of world history and across all relevant disciplines are invited and should be submitted electronically no later than 1 October 2009 to the World History Association's dedicated web page, which will be up by 15 July 2009. Further information: A. J. Andrea at aandrea@uvm.edu, Hayrettin Yucesoy at yucesoyh@slu.edu, or Nurullah Ardi at nurullahardic@sehir.edu.tr; http://www.thewha.org.

28-29 October 2010. 'Història de l'esglèsia i la religiositat: Els premonstratesos a l'Edad Mitjana', a conference to be held at Monestir de les Avellanes (Os de Balaguer). Further information: Flocel Sabaté Curull, Professor of Medieval History, University of Lleida; medieval@historia.udl.cat; www.medieval.udl.cat.

November 2010

1-2 November 2010. 'Miniatures and Music at the Court of Anjou, Naples, ca. 1340', to be held at Leuven.Het colloquium is het wetenschappelijk sluitstuk van het onderzoeksproject rond de Anjoubijbel en biedt een interdisciplinair forum voor musicologische, kunsthistorische en boekhistorische benaderingen. De artistieke beeldtaal, patronage en receptie van verluchte codices en het muzikale repertoire aan het koninklijk hof van Napels vullen het verhaal aan. Further information: Annelies Vogels (annelies.vogels@arts.kuleuven.be); +32 (0)16 32 47 10; Lieve Watteeuw (lieve.watteeuw@arts.kuleuven.be); +32 (0)477 27 26 68); http://www.bijbelvananjou.be/colloquium

3-6 November 2010. 'Las mentalidades medievales y sus persepectivas', the III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Medievales and VI Jornadas Internacionales de Pensamiento Medieval. Las nuevas miradas acerca de la Edad Media han planteado importantes interrogantes. ¿El Medioevo fue un período histórico “lógico” y capaz de ser leído e interpretado solamente con las herramientas de la razón cartesiana? ¿Es adecuado suponer que los medievales habrían pensado con categorías mentales idénticas a las nuestras? La cultura medieval se nos presenta como un conjunto heterogéneo de representaciones y de comportamientos en el que el principal elemento de unidad es la religión cristiana (H. MARTIN, Mentalités médiévales, PUF, Paris, 2001). Y es, justamente, esta riquísima diversidad, y esta unidad de fondo, la que nos alienta a intentar nuevas miradas y nuevos enfoques sobre el Medioevo. 'Las Mentalidades Medievales y sus perspectivas' como temática de este Congreso, busca aproximarse a estas nuevas consideraciones de la Edad Media y de su cultura a través de abordaje multidisciplinar y/o desde el enfoque de las disciplinas específicas. Further information: rpereto@gmail.com; lucero_cristina@hotmail.com; http://cefim.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/congreso-internacional-de-estudios-medievales/

5-7 November 2010. 'Other Worlds and the Otherworldly in the Middle Ages', the New England Medieval Conference. Further information: http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/default.htm

6 November 2010. 'Constructing and Transmitting Identities in the Medieval World: Textual and Material Perspectives', 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference of the Institute for Medieval Research, at the University of Nottingham. The recent interest in ‘identity politics' is testament to the enduring importance of the construction and expression of identities in the present and the past. Whether consciously or unconsciously, individuals and groups in contemporary and medieval societies were constantly formulating, evolving and accumulating their sense of self. They defined their ‘life-world' in multiple spheres, from the cultural, political and religious to the economic, material and ethnic. Recognising the usefulness of an interdisciplinary approach to the question of identity, this conference encourages contributions from postgraduates from a wide range of disciplines, incorporating archaeological, historical, literary or sociological methods. Research will be presented either in the form of a paper presentation or a poster, and should address how medieval identities were constructed, manifested and transmitted. It is hoped that a wide range of themes and source materials, from literature to material culture, will be utilised. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: Material culture and its study in social history and archaeology; Architecture; Music and theatre; Gender, sexuality and the body; Politics and trade; Interaction between different cultures; Art, iconography and heraldry as visual markers of identity. Call for papers deadline: 1 August, 2010. Abstracts of c. 200 words for both paper presentations and posters, not exceeding 250 words, to be sent via email. Further information: Teva Vidal, aextov@nottingham.ac.uk; http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Medieval/Research/Conferences/PostgradConference2010.aspx

8-10 November 2010. 'Heresy, Magic and Natural Philosophy' , a symposium organised by the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies. Ideas of past eras can be difficult to recognize. The medieval and renaissance understanding of the world evolved from faith, magic and science, and provided the framework for human knowledge. However, these ideas were not homogeneous. They changed from one period to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within common frames of interpretation. It is the purpose of this symposium to shed new light on medieval and renaissance (c. 1400-1650) perceptions of the universe by challenging traditional disciplinary and chronological boundaries. Further information: http://www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/C_Middelalder/Symposium/2010.aspx

12-13 November 2010. 'Sanctity and Literature', an interdisciplinary symposium to be held at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany that focuses on saints, their lives and the interface of sanctity and literature. Registration is open till October 15; for the registration details, the (provisional) programme and information on accommodation and the conference venue, visit www.rub.de/sanctity-literature. Further information: Eva von Contzen ( Eva.Contzen@rub.de ), Department of English, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany; Eva.Contzen@rub.de ; +49 (234) 322-5732.

13 November 2010. 'Sex, Violence and Religion in the Northern Province, 1300-1858: A one day conference celebrating the launch of the York Cause Papers Database', a one-day conference to be held at the University of York. The York Cause Papers, records of the cases held in the church courts of the Diocese of York between 1300 and 1858, are the most extensive records of their type in the United Kingdom. For the first time detailed records of over 13,000 individual court cases covering Yorkshire and beyond are available through an online catalogue. To celebrate the launch of the York Cause Papers Database, the Borthwick Institute for Archives is pleased to present a one day conference bringing together leading academics working on church court records. Topics will include the use of the cause papers in local and family history, ecclesiastical lawyers, gender and memory, storytelling in the courts, tithes, penance and marriage. There will also be an introduction to the database. Further information: Ms Sara L Slinn sls6@york.ac.uk.

18-19 November 2010. 'Ciutats, viles, sagreres: Els nuclis urbans a la Baixa Edat Mitjana (S. XIII-XV)', the II seminari d'Estudis Medievals d'Hostalri, organised by l' Àrea de Patrimopni de l'ajuntament i l'Arxiu Històric d'Hostalric. A la Baixa Edat Mitjana es consolida un concepte de vila sota uns trets coetàniament molt homogenis i caracteristics: una població concentrada, compacta i solidària a nivell fisic-rere muralles - , a nivell de reacció - solidaritat municipal-i a nivell juridic-conjunt lefislatiu propi-, amb un dinamisme socioeconomic que comporta un elevat desenvolupament dels sectors secundari i terciari , endegador d'una capitalitat sobre l'ntorn rural. Further information: http://www.hostalric.cat/ca/viure_a_hostalric/pagina/325

19-20 November 2010. 'The Bible and Women: Reformations and Counter Reformations in the Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Austria)', a conference to be held at Universitat Abat Oliba CEU. In recent centuries Biblical research has dealt mainly with historical texts and rarely with the history of interpretation. The European context lacks a work of exegesis of the historical reception which broadens the aim of its investigation to an extended period of time. The Bible and the Women, established by an international, interfaith and interdisciplinary research, joins scholars of Christian and Jewish culture, belonging to the four areas of scientific languages (Italian, German, English and Spanish). The Bible is analyzed regarding the relationship between women and sacred text. The purpose of this project is to investigate the influence of the Bible in the history of cultural, social and political life in Western civilization, especially focusing on the most relevant gender issues, attempting to fill certain gaps in the biblical and historical fields. Further information: info@fondazionevalero.org; www.fondazionevalerio.org

18-20 November 2010. 'Natural, Unnatural, & Supernatural', the 36th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association. We welcome papers and panels dealing with all aspects of the Middle Ages, but we particularly encourage those examining elements of the natural, unnatural, and supernatural in the medieval world. As it does every year, the SEMA annual conference encourages submissions from all branches of medieval studies, including but not limited to history, art, science, philosophy, theology, archaeology, paleography, language, and literatures. Proposals for entire sessions and for interdisciplinary presentations are strongly encouraged, although individual paper proposals are welcome as well. Offers to serve as session moderators are also welcome. Further information: Dr Matthew Gabriele mgabriele@vt.edu; +1.540.231.2293; Virginia Tech 342 Lane Hall (0227) Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA; http://www.rc.vt.edu/medieval/sema2010

26-27 November 2010. 'Text und Gerechtigkeit in Spätantike und Mittelalter', Tagung des Exzellenzclusters "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen",Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, in Frankfurt am Main. Further information: Dr. Gabriele Annas, Goethe-Universität, Historisches Seminar, Grüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; nnas@em.uni-frankfurt.de

28 November-31 December 2010. 8th Annual International Conference on History: From Ancient to Modern. The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will organize its 8th Annual International Conference on History in Athens, Greece on 28-31 of December 2010. The conference will be held in downtown Athens, within walking distance of the Acropolis (Parthenon) and other historical sites of Athens. Further information: Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos gtp@atiner.gr; http://www.atiner.gr/docs/History.htm

December 2010

2-3 Dcember 2010. 'Mapping Africa from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century: Construction, Transmission and Circulation of Cartographic Knowledge about Africa', a conference to be held in Paris, cosponsored by the CEMAf http://www.cemaf.cnrs.fr/ , the National Library of France (BNF http://www.bnf.fr/ ) and the French comittee of Cartography http://www.lecfc.fr/. Colonial mapping of Africa during 20th century has received much insightful attention but recent research invites us to overlook the western bias by considering knowledge construction in a global and interconnected perspective while re-inserting the chronology of the colonial moment in the longue durée. We will seek to develop a history of geographical and cartographic knowledge encompassing simultaneously European, Islamic, and African productions and highlighting circulation of knowledge and practices between these different spaces. Rejecting the idea of westernization of the world undertaken through maps we wish to question knowledge and discourses about the representation of African spaces. One of the main aims of this conference will be to analyse in depth the construction and circulation of geographical knowledge between the different cultural areas. We invite paper submissions on transfers and circulation of cartographic practices and on the origin of geographical knowledge. We are interested in hearing from scholars who would study the heterogeneity of cartographic knowledge in maps originating from one or numerous cartographic traditions. We welcome papers, not only on the representation of the continent and transcontinental exchanges, but also on local or regional microhistory. Call for papers deadline: 3 May 2010. Further information: Camille Lefebvre (CEMAf), Robin Seignobos (University of Paris I), Vincent Hiribarren (University of Leeds), cartographierlafrique@gmail.com.

2-4 December 2010. 'La Evolución de las Relaciones de Sucesos Impresas y Otros Géneros Editoriales Afines en la Edad Moderna', the VI coloquio internacional de la Sociedad para el Estudio de las Relaciones de Sucesos, to be held in San Millán de la Cogolla, and organised by Cilengua, Instituto Biblioteca Hispánica. En este congreso se prestará atención a estos aspectos en el amplio periodo cronológico de la Edad Moderna, tal como se manifiestan en las relaciones tanto impresas como manuscritas, así como también en los denominados géneros editoriales afines. Further information: instituto.biblioteca@cilengua.es; http://www.cilengua.es/

3-5 December 2010. 'Contemporary Perspectives on the Medieval World', an international colloquium to be held at the University of Pitesti.The main topics of the Contemporary Perspectives on Medieval World Colloquium are: Foreign and Romanian Old Books Studies; Pre-modern and Medieval Literary Studies; Studies in Applied and Theoretical Linguistics; Paremiology Studies; Studies in Imagology and Mentalities; Applied and Theoretical Studies in Rhetoric and Argumentation; Classical Philology Studies,
Studies in History and Philosophy; Comparative Literary Studies; Slavonic Writings and Paleo-Slavic Studies. The final papers, as well as the abstracts, will be written and held in one of the international languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, etc. During the Colloquim they may be presented in Romanian as well. Further information: http://www.upit.ro/index.php?i=2298

4 December 2010. 'Animals and Humans in the Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance', the 22nd Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, to be held at Barnard College, Columbia University, NYC. An interdisciplinary conference that will explore some of the many ways in which the human-animal connection and 'divide' was imagined, employed, figured and explained by people in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Call for papers deadline: 1 June 2010. Further information: Professor Laurie Postlewate, lpostlew@barnard.edu.

4 December 2010. 'Woods and their uses in medieval to modern Britain', the British Agricultural History Society Winter Conference, to be held at Institute of Historical Research, London. Further information: Dr Jane Whittle j.c.whittle@ex.ac.uk; +44 (1392) 723-292; http://www.bahs.org.uk

7-8 December 2010. 'Law and Archaeology in the Early and High Middle Ages, AD 400-1200', to be held at the Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen. It is our hope that with an interdisciplinary conference we can generate co-operation between the two disciplines in order to illuminate the ‘legal mentality' of the period AD 400-1200. We hope that the development of new questions and new approaches to both the archaeological material and the written culture will generate new answers and point out new paths for comparative studies in future co-operation. Further information: http://jura.ku.dk/crs/english/calendar/bja_100628/

12-13 December 2010. 'Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe: Disability and the Law', Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop to be held at the University fo Nottingham. The leading UK interdisciplinary forum for scholars working on disease, disability and medicine in a variety of disciplines and regions of Medieval Europe, the workshop invites session proposals and offers of individual papers for the 2010 meeting. Papers in any discipline, including archaeology, history, art, palaeopathology and textual studies relating to the study of disease, disability and medicine in the medieval past are welcome. Abstracts (300 words maximum) should be submitted electronically to Dr Christina Lee by 30 September 2010 at the latest. Further information: Dr Christina Lee, christina.lee@nottingham.ac.uk; http://disease.nottingham.ac.uk/doku.php?id=start

13 December 2010. 'Transferts techniques et technologiques dans l'Europe gothique Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art', study-day organised by the Université de Liège and Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail. Further information: Programma; transferts@inha.fr

13-15 December 2010. 'MediterráneoS', the International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, to be held at Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC), Madrid. Throughout history, different cultural traditions, all of them with a considerable linguistic diversity, have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. The International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures seeks to provide a transverse and interdisciplinary framework of discussion and reflection on the intellectual and cultural production of the Mediterranean and the Near East, from its earliest stages to the present. More precisely, this meeting pursues the analysis of the different political, religious and social trends of thought, material culture and artistic, literary and linguistic expressions brought together in this geographical area, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions within different space-time surroundings.

13-15 December 2010. 'Conseil, conseillers et conseillères en péninsule Ibérique au Moyen Âge', a colloquium organised by the Séminaire d'études médiévales hispaniques - Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne and
Groupe de recherche "Approche interdisciplinaire des logiques de pouvoir dans les sociétés ibériques médiévales" - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Further information: Programma; Hélène Thieulin Pardo, elena.thieulin.pardo@free.fr

14 December 2010. 'L'histoire des bibliothèques: état de la recherche', a conference to be held in Paris. Further information: Jean Guillemain, Service de Documentation sur le livre et la lecture, Département Littérature et art, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Quai François-Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13;jean.guillemain@bnf.fr ; http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle18028.html

15-17 December 2010. 'Els usos de l'aigua en la història: De l'antiguitat als nostres dies', V Congrés d'Història Agrària dels Països Catalans. El doctor Emili Giralt i Raventós, traspassat l'any 2008, va impulsar el coneixement de la història agrària als Països Catalans i ho va fer, entre altres iniciatives, a través de l'organització dels Col·loquis d'Història Agrària, que tenien com a àmbit aquest territori. En homenatge a la seva persona i a la seva obra, la revista Estudis d'Història Agrària , que ell mateix va fundar, el Centre d'Estudis Històrics Internacionals de la Universitat de Barcelona, el Centre de Recerca d'Història Rural de la Universitat de Girona, la Institució Catalana d'Estudis Agraris i la Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans i el Patronat Josep Lladonosa d'Alguaire -Universitat de Lleida convoquem tots els historiadors i estudiosos a fer aportacions al V Congrés d'Història Agrària que dedicarem a «Els usos de l'aigua en la història. De l'antiguitat als nostres dies». Further information: vcha@udg.edu; http://k.udg.edu/VCHA

15-19 December 2010. 'IV International Congress History under Debate', a conference to be held at Santiago de Compostela, to debate on the discipline of history, the great events and historical processes that we are witnessing and the demands of other cultural, political and social subjects that have a part in the writing of history. We will be looking at what the job of the historian should be like in the 21st century. New ways of working with the sources and theories, of orienting the didactics of history, of connecting with readers and viewers through new technologies. By developing new paradigms, networks and tendencies such as History under Debate and others that arise from the new realities of the century. Contributing from the common ground of methodology, epistemology, historiography, immediate history and digital history to the indispensable defragmentation of an ancient science that seeks a new spring in the age of globalisations without giving up historiographic breakthroughs from the 20th century that are being reformulated. Living academic history more globally and collectively means showing an concern for the shared present, contributing our historical knowledge to the understanding and evolution of the major issues of a global now that is increasingly determining to grasp the form and the content of the job of historians, and humanities and social sciences at large. Further information: http://www.h-debate.com/congresos/4/menu_def_ing.htm.

16 December 2010. 'New Approaches to Medieval Religious Cultures: Concepts, Perceptions, and Practices of Piety and Charity', an interdisciplinary workshop to be held at the German Historical Institute London. Papers are invited for an interdisciplinary workshop exploring new directions for research in the field of medieval religious cultures (c.500–c.1500). The emphasis of the workshop will be on methodologies and the formulation of research questions and problems, with the aim to distinguish new fields of enquiry and trends of research, and to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration. Call for Papers deadline: 6 August 2010. Further information: Dr Jochen Schenk (GHIL), or Dr William Purkis (University of Birmingham).

16-17 December 2010. 'Italiani/Italiane: Discorsi storici, tipologie, tradizioni', conference organised by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Associazione degli Italianisti Italiani, Società Italiana delle Storiche, Società Italiana degli Storici Medievisti, Società Italiana per la Storia dell'Età Moderna, Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea and Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani, to be held in Rome. Further information:att.culturali@treccani.it; http://www.treccani.it/Portale/sito/istituto/attivita_culturali/150_anni_Italia/cs027.html

16-18 December 2010. 'Die Christianisierung Europas: Entstehung, Entwicklung und Konsolidierung im archäologischen Befund', a conference to be held at the Archäologisches Institut, Universität zu Köln.Further information: Sebastian Ristow, Archäologisches Institut der Universität zu Köln; Christentum.EU@gmail.com ; http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=14633

17 December 2010. 'Le premier essor des archives princières dans les anciens Pays-Bas (XIIe-XIVe siècle)', a study day to beheld at the Université de Namur (FUNDP - Académie Louvain). Further information: Jean-François Nieus, Université de Namur (FUNDP - Académie Louvain), Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Département d'Histoire, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B - 5000 Namur; jfnieus@fundp.ac.be; http://fermi.univr.it/rm/calendario/2010/Prog/prog-Archives_princieres.pdf

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