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February

21-23 February 2012. 'Achronicity/Anachronism (1000-1700)'. An Interdisciplinary Conference to take place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This conference will provide a select group of scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplinary fields in the humanities an opportunity to investigate together the creative potential of anachronism and/or achronicity. It addresses the ways in which temporality was conceptualized, experienced, strategically exploited, aesthetically constructed and ideologically challenged in the medieval and early modern periods. Some of the questions driving this conference are: How can anachronism/achronicity be strategically deployed to highlight problematic aspects of temporality? How can anachronism/achronicity be used to signify competing temporal frames? How does anachronism/achronicity contribute to expressing complex schemes of history, e.g. by linking the eschatological to everyday experience? How does anachronism/achronicity point to the materiality of the historical object itself? Call for papers deadline: 30 April 2012. For more information e-mail: anachronicityunc@gmail.com.

28 February - 2 March 2013. 'Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond' an interdisciplinary conference to be held at Boston University (USA).
Contributions from prospective participants are invited for an interdisciplinary conference examining the practices and values attached to the human voice in medieval cultures.  An edited volume is planned. The question of 'voice and voicelessness' engages with several important trends in medieval studies today, including issues of law and representation; theology and embodiment; historicist models of subjectivity; the poetics and esthetics of marginality; and the linguistic dynamics of intercultural encounter. The first goal of the project is to examine the axis proposed by the conference title as approached by scholars working on medieval literatures, theology, law, art history, history, philosophy, and musicology. The project's second, methodological goal is to seek a common ground of interdisciplinary engagement by examining how distinct areas of scholarly endeavor approach a problem of universal resonance but elusive definition. This pursuit will be further enriched by the conference's international composition, so that disciplinary, methodological, and national habits of thought and argument will be brought into dialogue. The topic of voice and voicelessness engages with questions related to the expression of self and respect for an other, and so lends itself particularly well to this multi-level encounter. Contributions that are transnational or transdisciplinary in nature, or which interrogate the relations between contemporary and medieval thought will be especially appreciated. Prospective contributors are invited to send 500-word abstracts to kleiman@bu.edu using the keyword 'Voice' in the message title. Call for papers deadline: 15 July 2012. Please include a recent CV with your submission. Papers as delivered should be 30 minutes in length. The language of the conference and publication is English. Selected participants will be notified no later than July 30, 2012.

March

April

26-27 April 2013. 'Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts'. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length and may be delivered in English or Italian. Send abstracts and brief CVs by 15 September 15 2012, to cemers@binghamton.edu. Inquiries may be directed to Professors Olivia Holmes at oholmes@binghamton.edu or Dana Stewart at stewart@binghamton.edu.

May

9-12 May 2013. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

31 May- 1 June 2013. 'The Place of Hell: Topographies, Structures, Geneologies', an international conference held at King's College London and The Warburg Institute.A belief in Hell has been a staple of Christian thought from the earliest period of this religion.  The depiction of Hell and its denizens – the devil, demons and the punished sinners – has an equally long history going back to at least the sixth century. From the eleventh century onwards, images of Hell become proliferate and more detailed in their presentation of the damned and their torments – in parallel to such texts as the popular Apocalypse of the Virgin. Artists come up with different solutions in picturing the various torments inflicted upon the sinners as well as the places where these torments take place. In the art of the late Byzantine period and the late medieval west, the various figures of the damned are presented with inscriptions detailing the crimes and sins for which they are being punished. In western Europe, literary texts add detail to the vision of Hell as well, starting with the 11th-century Vision of Tondal and culminating in Dante's Divine Comedy. The images as well as the texts that we assume they are illustrating offer a rich field for research. Questions of iconography as well as the exploration of social meanings attached to these powerful representations present themselves. The exploration of developments within the body of texts on and depictions of Hell can be particularly fruitful. The aim of this conference is to explore the place Hell occupied within society and art as well as the way Hell was envisaged as a physical place. The conference is organized as part of the Leverhulme Trust International Network project Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th-17th centuries). The island of Crete was governed by the Venetians from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. During this period, the interplay of the religion and culture of the colonizers (Roman Catholic and Italian) and the majority of the population (Byzantine and Greek Orthodox) created tangible tensions. We are therefore particularly interested in material from the historical era covered by the project, approaches that involve comparisons between east  and west, and presentations with a particular focus on Crete. Did depictions of Hell on the island's churches follow theological debates and trends? Was their primary function the edification of the Orthodox congregations, or are other readings possible? Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to: Texts about Hell and punishments for sinners in the Greek Orthodox world and/or the Latin west(13th-17th centuries); Images of Hell, with particular emphasis on its layout and topography as well as the layout of its pictorial representation; Comparative papers on the interaction between Orthodox and Catholic notions and representations of Hell in the late medieval and early modern eastern Mediterranean; The origins – both textual and pictorial – of  perceptions and representations of the Afterlife and Hell in particular within the Christian tradition; The use of Hell and punishment for sinners within contexts of social control (especially in rural communities) and afterlife management strategies.Call for papers deadline: 30 June 2012 to Dionysios.stathakopoulos@kcl.ac.uk and Rembrandt.Duits@sas.ac.uk.

June

July

1-4 July 2013. The 20th International Medieval Congress (IMC) will be held at the University of Leeds, in Leeds, England. Further information: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc.

11-12 July 2013. 'Locating Boccaccio in 2013' to be held at The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. For more information visit: http://locatingboccaccio.wordpress.com/

29 July - 2 August 2013. 'International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2013 Conference' will be held in Dublin, hosted jointly by University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. The theme of ISAS 2013 is Insular Cultures, interpreted very broadly. The focus will be on relations between Anglo-Saxon England and Ireland in the early Middle Ages but papers on relations between the Anglo-Saxons and their other Celtic neighbours will also be welcome. Related topics, such as continental influence on insular cultures and relations with Iceland, will also be included. For more information visit: http://isas.us/conf.html.

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