Calls for Papers

For a more exhaustive list of calls for papers and upcoming conferences relating to Medieval Studies, see the website of the Medieval Academy of America.

CFP: Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium

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The Centre is soliciting abstracts (one page) from CMS students for papers dealing with any aspect of medieval studies. Submissions for papers on any topic are welcome: history, literature (Latin and/or vernacular), art history, philosophy, music, medicine etc.

The colloquium will be sponsored jointly by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Universität zu Köln and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto and it will take place in Cologne on November 14-16, 2013. Its aim is to promote discussion and exchange among graduate students and faculty from both institutions. Costs for travel and accommodation will be covered.

Cologne was among the most important German cities of the Middle Ages and still boasts twelve Romanesque churches and many other buildings from the later Middle Ages. It is home to the biggest medieval urban archive north of the Alps and several other important archives and libraries (e.g. the library of the archdiocese). With over 40,000 students the University of Cologne is one of the biggest German universities.

Please submit abstracts by May 24th to Professor Martin Pickavé (email hidden; JavaScript is required).

For a pdf-version of this call for papers see here.

Call for Papers: CMS Conference – Digitizing the Medieval Archive

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Digitizing the Medieval Archive: An International Conference
Centre for Medieval Studies ⋅ University of Toronto ⋅ March 27-29, 2014

Keynote Speakers:
David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)
Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library)

The discussion about the digitization of the Middle Ages, by its very nature, tends to be one that takes place in an online setting. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly popular topic of Internet conversation, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to come together in real time to consider and discuss the possibilities of a digitized medieval archive.

Click here for the full call for papers and the check the conference website for more information. Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2013 for consideration. To contact the conference organizers write to email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Call for Paper: Canada Chaucer Seminar 2013

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Canada Chaucer Seminar
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

Call for Papers

The fifth annual Canada Chaucer Seminar will be held at the University of Toronto on Saturday, April 27th, 2013. The aim of the seminar is to provide a one-day forum that will bring together scholars, from Canada and elsewhere, working on Chaucer and on late medieval literature and culture.

The 2013 gathering will include plenary papers by Ardis Butterfield (Yale) and James Weldon (Wilfrid Laurier), several sessions of conference papers, and a concluding roundtable.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute conference papers on any aspect late medieval English literary culture. Submit one-page abstracts by 15 January 2013 to: email hidden; JavaScript is required and email hidden; JavaScript is required.

CFP: Freiburg-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium 2012

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The Centre is soliciting one-page abstracts from CMS students for 30 minute papers to be delivered at next fall’s Freiburg-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium (October 4-6), which will be held in Toronto. The theme, “Integrating Bodies of Knowledge”, reflects the essential point of the colloquium exchange, namely, a broad range of research explored across academic disciplines and international perspectives. Abstracts on any medieval topic will be given full consideration.

This colloquium is jointly sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Mittelalterzentrum of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Participants will present their work as part of a three-day-long exchange of ideas and techniques with scholars from Freiburg. Each paper will have a respondent, a specialist chosen from the faculty of the partner institution, to offer insight and direct discussion. Costs for lunch and dinner will be covered for CMS presenters. Six abstracts will be selected on a competitive basis.

Abstracts should be submitted by 16 May to Professor John Magee (email hidden; JavaScript is required).

Click here for a hardcopy of this Call for Papers.

17th Annual Concordia Graduate Student History Conference

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17th Annual History in the Making Conference
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Concordia University, Montreal

“Shattered Spaces: Piecing Together Narratives of Crisis and Change”

As we approach the centenary of the First World War, which fueled a maelstrom of death and destruction on unprecedented scales, we may be inclined to consider the Great War a historical watershed that shattered countless physical and ideological spaces. War, genocide, economic collapse, and natural disasters can all be called shattering forces that catalyze crisis and change.The Concordia University Graduate History Students’ Association is pleased to announce the 17th annual History in the Making Conference. This year’s theme, “Shattered Spaces: Piecing Together Narratives of Crisis and Change”, will investigate the ways that victims of crises have reconciled, reconstructed, or parted with ruptured spaces. These spaces can be physical, through the shattering of populations, institutions, and landscapes, or metaphorical, through the shattering of ethnic, religious, gendered, and ideological spaces. How, then, have political, economic, social, and natural forces brought about crisis and change? By following the trajectory of crisis and change, how might these rupturing experiences be historicized and incorporated into the larger discourse of the shattered space?
We welcome presentation topics that explore a variety of issues:
Shattered (physical) spaces:
War, zones of conflict, contentious borderlands, urbanization, natural disasters.

Shattered (social, political, and economic) spaces:
Genocide, coup d’états and regime changes, economic collapse, revolution, social movements, immigration/emigration.

Shattered (ideological) spaces:
Ethnic, religious, gender and sexual identity; memory, stories and oral testimony.

Shattered (transnational) spaces:
The environment, disease, inventions and innovations, media and communication.

We encourage perspectives across all historical disciplines and time periods, as well as cross-disciplinary approaches such as museum studies, art history, and medicine.Candidates must submit a brief biographical sketch (max. 150 words) and a paper abstract (max. 250 words) no later than January 9th, 2012. Successful applicants will be invited to present their papers by January 23rd via e-mail.

Please send submissions to the Graduate History Students’ Association [GHSA] at email hidden; JavaScript is required select number of conference papers will be published in the spring 2012issue of our peer-reviewed History in the Making journal. Graduate History Students’ Association [GHSA]Department of History, Concordia University1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, LB-1001,03,Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8E

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The Graduate Conference of Magdalene Medievalists Society

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Medieval Multilingualism in the British Isles
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Saturday 21st July 2012
Keynote Speaker: Dr Tony Hunt, St Peter’s College, Oxford

The phenomenon of multilingualism in the Middle Ages has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention in recent years, with at least two major essay collections and one conference devoted to the topic since the Millennium, and numerous articles and book chapters. This graduate and early career conference aims to give those new to the field an opportunity to contribute to what has become an important site of critical debate.

Whilst recent scholarship has become steadily more aware of the interconnected nature of Anglo-Norman and Middle English, the use of Latin and its links to the vernaculars has often provoked less sustained attention than is justified by the language’s conceptual and administrative importance. The relationships between the mainstream trilingual culture of England and its contiguous linguistic enclaves (such as Cornish, Cumbric, Welsh, Hebrew, Flemish, Norse, Pictish, Manx, Irish and Scottish Gaelic) also frequently remain comparatively obscure. There is conflicting evidence about the medieval awareness of multilingualism, of the relationships between languages and of the phenomenon of language change; such contemporary treatments of these phenomena as survive often rely extensively on Biblical and Patristic accounts of sacred languages. In view of this complex picture, the conference is intended not only to facilitate a closer examination of the phenomenon of multilingualism, but also of medieval attitudes to its manifestations.

We invite papers that address any aspect of the interaction between the speakers of different languages in the Middle Ages, including, but not limited to:

- attitudes to the tres linguae sacrae and to the vernaculars
- pedagogy and medieval perceptions of language acquisition
- translation
- orality and its depictions
- medieval views of linguistic history
- code-switching, miscellanies, and scribal practice

We will accept submissions from graduate students and early career scholars in English and other languages and literatures, History, Linguistics, and all related disciplines. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length; please send abstracts of 250 words or less to Sara Harris, email hidden; JavaScript is required by February 1st, 2012. Further information will be available at www.magdalenemedievalists.wordpress.com/conference.

Annual Symposium of the Friends of the Mediaeval Studies Society of the Royal Ontario Museum

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24th MARCH 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS

This is to announce, and is a call for papers to be presented at, the 7th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the Mediaeval Studies Society of the Royal Ontario Museum (FMSS-ROM). The FMSS-ROM is an association of ROM members and individuals that are professionally involved with the mediaeval period, who collectively wish to forward understanding of the mediaeval period.

Eight speakers will talk on various aspects of the Mediaeval world, including archaeology, history, culture, and art. The nature of the talks will be scholarly, but accessible to non-specialists. Chronologically, the scope of the society, and of the symposium, runs from the late classical world leading up to mediaeval times, and encompasses the Renaissance at the end. Geographically it crosses the Old World from Europe to Asia and Africa, having a general interest in the Age of the Stirrup wherever it occurs.

The FMSS-ROM invites scholars to submit proposals for papers to be given at this symposium. The deadline is JANUARY 15th 2012, and the proposals should eventually comprise a single page comprising your name, contact address, affiliation, and an abstract of the paper; but if you are pressed for time a title and a rough idea what you want to speak about may get you a spot. Proposed papers can deal with any subject in the broad remit of the FMSS-ROM. The subject need not be an object or collection at the ROM. Presentations cannot be longer than 30 minutes in length.

The Symposium papers will be presented on SATURDAY, 24TH MARCH, 2012 in the ROM Eaton Theatre, 100 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto. The event will take place from 9:30am to 5pm. The format is usually two speakers separated by breaks and lunch, for which lunch and refreshments are provided.

Participation in the symposium is free to speakers and those accompanying them, and professional mediaevalists (faculty and graduate students). Entry fee for the public is typically around $70, and will be used entirely to support the event, with any surplus going to support mediaeval-themed programming at the ROM. We can support travel costs of some speakers, but the event is chiefly aimed at raising funds for public programming towards the FMSS objectives.

All paper proposals and enquiries should be sent to Robert Mason at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Work in Medieval Studies: Fall 2011

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WIMS (the Work in Medieval Studies Series) is CMS’s graduate lecture and workshop series, a venue for the graduate students of CMS to develop our professional presentation skills and respond to each other’s ideas, sharing works in progress in an informal but constructive forum.

Presentations typically last anywhere between 15 and 30 minutes and can consist of (draft) conference papers, dissertation chapters, articles, former term papers – or just interesting ideas worth an airing! Each talk is followed by a short discussion period giving students the opportunity to receive feedback on their work in a supportive environment. We meet in the Great Hall on Fridays at 3pm and although WIMS is housed in CMS, we welcome students from all disciplines and departments working on a medieval topic. WIMS events are a truly excellent way of being involved at the Centre, and coffee, tea, and snacks are always on offer. Last year, WIMS had one of its best years yet – this year, it will also provide a good opportunity to get ready for CMS’s own 33rd Medieval Colloquium in March.

So, we are now looking for volunteers among you who would like to speak during the Fall 2011 term, and in particular for those keeners who would be willing to present for us in September and October.

After a year of setting the bar very high indeed, Richard Shaw is retiring as WIMS co-chair, and Jessica Lockhart will be joined by new co-chairs Annika Ekman and Eduardo Fabbro for the 2011-2012 series. If you want a bit more information about WIMS, and especially if you’re interested in giving a talk, then please contact us directly at email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required or email hidden; JavaScript is required.

CFP: Atlantic Medieval Association Annual Conference

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The Atlantic Medieval Association (AMA) will hold its annual conference at Dalhousie University in Halifax September 30-October 1.

The Plenary Speaker will be Dr. Toni Healey, Editor ofthe Dictionary of Old English.

Paper proposals are welcome on all topics concerning the Middle Ages; abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Kathy Cawsey at email hidden; JavaScript is required by
August 30, 2011.

Non-presenting participants who wish to develop relationships with other Atlantic medievalists are also very welcome.

CFP: 32nd Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians

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32nd Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, University of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada / 9-10 March, 2012

We would like to inform you that the 32nd annual CCMAH will be co-hosted by the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg on 9-10 March, 2012. We are calling for papers on any subject related to medieval or medieval revival art, architecture or visual culture. Papers may not exceed 20 minutes in length. Please submit a max one-page abstract by 15 September, 2011 to either: Claire Labrecque, email hidden; JavaScript is required, or Jim Bugslag, email hidden; JavaScript is required. We are hoping to receive your proposals as soon as possible, as we plan to apply for grants in September. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone else who may be interested. We look forward to seeing you in Winnipeg in March 2012.

CCMAH 2012 organizing committee: Claire Labrecque, University of Winnipeg, and Jim Bugslag, University of Manitoba