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NEWSLETTER 44: JUNE 2002
CONTENTS
1.
Call for Papers: AABS Conference 2003
2.
Forthcoming Conferences, Seminars, and Events: Australia
3.
Forthcoming Conferences, Seminars, and Events: International
4.
News and Recent Publications
5.
Next Newsletter
Appendix
I: AABS Executive 2001-2005
Appendix
II: Web address for previous Newsletters
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: AABS CONFERENCE XIII, 2003
Feast, Fast or Famine: An Internbational Conference on Food and Drink in Byzantium
University of Adelaide, 8-10 July 2003
The Australian Association for Byzantine Studies is pleased to announce its thirteenth conference, to be held in collaboration with the University of Adelaide Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink, on the beautiful downtown campus of the University of Adelaide and the adjacent North Terrace cultural precinct, 8-10 July 2003.
In the Byzantine world, eating and drinking were more than just an everyday activity. Banquets became the opportunity for assassinations, imperial marriages introduced new eating habits, men and women denied their bodies food in excesses of ascetic fervour. The feeding of armies as they marched across the landscape had a profound effect omn food supply and local economies, as did the logistics of supply on the success or failure of military campaigns. In South Australia, centre of the Australian wine and food industry, and in particular, at the University of Adelaide, host to the Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink, what could be a more appropriate topic to explore?
Add the very attractive exchange rate on the Australian dollar for residents of the UK and USA, and the opportunity to sample high quality South Australian food and wine, and you have an event that is an absolute must for the 2003 conference calendar.
Two international speakers of outstanding reputation will deliver keynote papers (open also to the general public):
- Professor Eunice Maguire (Curator, John Hopkins Archaeological Collection and Director of Museum Studies, History of Art Department, John Hopkins University)
- Professor John Haldon (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham)
In addition, the young scholar Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos (Institut fur Byzantinistik und Neograzistik, Universitat Wien) will present the fruits of his research into the intriguing topics of cannibalism, epidemics, and famines in the early Byzantine world.
Papers are invited from all other scholars on any aspect of eating and drinking in the Byzantine world. The possibilities are vast and include the relationship between hospitality and politics; material objects associated with food and drink; the portrayal of food gathering or consumption in art; restriction of diet (fasting/famine); diet and medicine/health; poisons; the economics of food production; transport; the sociology of eating and drinking; the treatment of food in literature; regional industries; and the provisioning of armies. Papers which address the topic metaphorically (e.g. music or poetry as food for the soul) are also welcome.
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2003.
Conference Organisers:
- Dr Paul Tuffin (paul.tuffin@adelaide.edu.au)
- Dr Wendy Mayer (wendy.mayer@adelaide.edu.au)
Details of registration, accommodation, and transport can be viewed on the AABS Web site at: http://www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/AABS
2. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND EVENTS: AUSTRALIA 2002-2003
2002
6
June 2002: Society for the Study of Early Christianity: Macquarie
University, 7:30 pm
Professor
Brian Croke (Catholic Education Commission): `Mommsen and Early
Christianity'
Enquiries: Mrs Pat Geidans
(+61-2-9850 7512) or Assoc. Professor Alanna Nobbs (+61-2-9850 8844)
Email: pgeidans@pip.hmn.mq.edu.au
10-13
July 2002: Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church III: `Liturgy and
Life'
Australian Catholic University,
St Patrick's Campus, Melbourne.
The third triennial Prayer
and Spirituality in the Early Church conference, run by the Centre for
Early Christian Studies, will thematically explore the relationship between
worship and daily life for Christians of the early period. The conference
will also host an inter-faith forum involving scholars from each of the
monotheistic traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, exploring the
relationship between these faiths at the everyday level during the early
stages of their interaction. Invited speakers include:
- Dr
Verna Harrison (Sr. Nonna), Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for
Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge
-
Professor Charles Kannengiesser
-
Professor Philip Esler, Professor of Biblical Criticism at the University
of St Andrew's, Scotland
- Rabbi
Dr Elliot Ginsburg
-
Professor Gabriele Winkler, Professor of Liturgiology at the University
of Tubingen, Germany
-
Professor Ahmad Shboul, Arab, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
at the University of Sydney
Call for papers: deadline
for submissions: Friday 5 April 2002
Web address for fuller
details on submission of papers; registration; accommodation and travel
arrangements: http://www.acu.edu.au/earlychr
Email: prayerspirit@patrick.acu.edu.au
22
August 2002: Society for the Study of Early Christianity: Macquarie
University, 1:00 pm
Mr
Peter Edwell (Macquarie University): `Christian Architecture in
Late Roman Syria'
Enquiries: Mrs Pat Geidans
(+61-2-9850 7512) or Assoc. Professor Alanna Nobbs (+61-2-9850 8844)
Email: pgeidans@pip.hmn.mq.edu.au
30
September - 4 October 2002: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of
Sydney: `The Logistics of Crusading and Related Military Activities'
A workshop of ten scholars,
including invited participants from Canada, UK, USA, and Israel.
Synopses of participants' presentations will be posted in advance on the
conference Web site. The workshop itself will take the form of `brain-storming'
sessions in which participants will address their topics for an hour, followed
by an hour's discussion by the group. Participation by other scholars is
invited. The workshop will be open to members of the CMS, scholars,
students, and the general public on a cost-recovery basis. Postgraduate
students are particularly welcomed.
Registration: by 20 September
2002.
Web site address: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/medieval/events.html
Workshop Coordinator:
Assoc. Professor John Pryor. Tel. +61-2-9351 2840
Fax. +61-2-0351 3918
Email: john.pryor@history.usyd.edu.au
22
November 2002: Society for the Study of Early Christianity: Macquarie
University, 7:30 pm
Dr
Ken Parry (Macquarie University): `A Religion of Pots and Pans:
The Early Christian Polemic Against Gods and Their Idols'
Enquiries: Mrs Pat Geidans
(+61-2-9850 7512) or Assoc. Professor Alanna Nobbs (+61-2-9850 8844)
Email: pgeidans@pip.hmn.mq.edu.au
2003
5-9
February 2003: Australian Society for Classical Studies Conference XXIV:
Macquarie University
Call for Papers:
papers of 20 or 40 minutes duration, and `poster' type presentations, are
sought. Offers of papers please, with synopsis of about 100 words,
by Wednesday 31 July 2002, to the email address below. Web address
for fuller details on submission of papers; registration; accommodation
and travel arrangements: http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/ASCSXXIV/Conference.html
Conference Organiser:
Dr Bruce Marshall Email: bmarshall@hmn.mq.edu.au
Tel. +61-2-9850 7789,
+61-2-9850 5654, +61-2-9850 8833
5-8
February, 2003: Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and
Early Modern Studies Conference IV: `Memory and Commemoration' University
of Melbourne
Call for papers: 20-minute
presentations are sought on topics such as forms of commemoration and ways
of remembering across time and space; modern creation and recollection
of medieval and early modern pasts; historical, literary, and artistic
representations of memory; on material and ritual culture of commemorating
the living and dead, past events, and mythic occurences, genealogies, tradition,
and familial dead.
Invited speakers include:
-
Professor Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles
-
Professor Dale Kent, University of California, Riverside
-
Dr Judith Richards, La Trobe University
-
Professor Paul Strohm, University of Oxford
Web address for fuller
details on submission of papers; registration; accommodation and travel
arrangements: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/anzamems
Conference
Organiser: Dr Megan Cassidy-Welch
Email: anzamems-2003@unimelb.edu.au
8-10
July 2003: AABS Conference XIII: `Fear, Fast, of Famine: An International
Conference on Food and Drink in Byzantium'
University of Adelaide
Conference Organisers:
Dr Paul Tuffin (paul.tuffin@adelaide.edu.au),
Dr Wendy Mayer (wendy.mayer@adelaide.edu.au)
Deadline for submissions:
15 March 2003.
See `Call for Papers'
above.
3. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND EVENTS: INTERNATIONAL 2002-2004
2002
6-9
June 2002: `The Early Christian Book'
Centre for the Study
of Early Christian Studies, Catholic University of America
Contact: Lani Mullaney
Email: mullanay@cua.edu
Web site: http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/ecs/Conference.html
8-11
July 2002: `Exile'
International Medieval
Congress, University of Leeds
Contact: Axel E. Muller
or Josine Opmeer
Tel: +44-113-233-3614
Fax: +44-113-233-3616
Email: IMC@leeds.ac.uk
Web address: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc2002/imc2002.htm
12-17
July: Third International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle
Doorn/Utrecht
Contact: Erik Kooper
Tel: +31-30-253-6187
Fax: +31-30-253-6000
Email: medchron@let.uu.nl
1-6
September 2002: `Medicine and Inter-Cultural Exchanges: Byzantium,
the Arabic World, the Ottoman Empire'
Congress of the International
Society for the History of Medicine, Istanbul
Topics include medieval
medicine, medicine in the Near East through history, and relations between
Turkish medicine and the medicine of the eastern and western worlds.
Contact: Dr Yesim Isil
Ulman.
Email: yesimul@yahoo.com
or yesimul@superonline.com
3-6
October 2002: 28th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference
Ohio State University,
Columbus
Contact: Emily Albu
Email: emalbu@ucdavis.edu
Web: http://www.byzconf.org
14-26
October 2002: `Promised Lands: The Bible, Christian Missions, and Colonial
Histories in Latin Christendom, 400-1700 AD'
Committee for Medieval
Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Organiser: Mark Vessey
Email: mvessey@interchange.ubc.ca
6-8
December 2002: `Ancient Studies, New Technology II: The World Wide
Web and Scholarship in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies'
Rutgers University
Contact: Professor Ralph
Mathisen
Email: ralph.w.mathisen@sc.edu
Web address: http://tabula.rutgers.edu/conferences/ancient_studies2002
2003
28
February-1 March 2003: `Limina: Thresholds and Borders'
6th Annual Symposium,
Saint Michael's College, University of Toronto
Papers are invited on
themes exploring the nature and variety of limina, ancient, medieval, and
modern, in fine arts, architecture, liturgy, literature, psychology, philosophy,
theology, religion, law, history, and cultural studies. Abstracts
to be submitted please by 16 September 2002.
Contact: Professor J.
Goering
Email: goering@chass.utoronto.ca
22
February 2003: `Perceptions of the Past/Visions of the Future'
Interdisciplinary conference
Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of Toronto
Call for papers: by 16
September 2002
Email: medieval@chass.utoronto.ca
20-23
March 2003: `Shifting Frontiers V: Violence, Victims, and Remedies in Late
Antiquity'
University of California,
Santa Barbara
Papers are invited on
topics evaluating the role of violence in the period ca. 200 to 800 CE,
including contemporary responses to violence in law and literature; the
role of mob violence; the rhetoric of violence; late antique musings on
the relationship between violence, cruelty, and virtue; legal attempts
to chanel, regulate, and monopolize violence; the faces of violence in
art and literature; and the effect of violence on material culture and
the urban landscape.
Abstracts of no more
than 300 words by 1 August 2002.
Conference Organiser:
Professor Hal Drake.
Email: drake@history.ucsb.edu
1-4
May 2003: 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University
Fax: +616-387-8750
Email: mdvl_congres@wmich.edu
Web: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress
10-14
June 2003: `Frontiers in the Middle Ages'
3rd European Congress
of Medieval Studies
University of Jyvaskyla,
Finland
Contact: Outi Merisalo
Fax: +358-14-260-1405
Web: http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~merisalo
14-17
July 2003: `Power and Authority'
International Medieval
Congress, University of Leeds
Tel: +44-113-233-3614
Fax: +44-113-233-3616
Email: IMC@leeds.ac.uk
Web address: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc.htm
2004
30
April - 2 May: `Byzantine Egypt'
Dumbarton Oaks Symposium
Washington DC
Contact: Caitlin McGurk
Email: mcgurkc@doaks.org
4. NEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Members will be pleased to note the publication of the following books:
Brian Croke, Count Marcellinus and His Chronicle, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 (xvi + 300pp)
J. B. Burke and R. D.
Scott (eds.), Byzantine Macedonia: Art, Architecture, Music and Hagiography,
National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research, La Trobe University,
Melbourne, 2001 (xiv + 256pp) $28 plus postage, available from National
Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research, La Trobe University, Bundoora,
Victoria 3083, Australia.
This is of course the
companion volume to Byzantina Australiensis vol 13: J. B. Burke and R.
D. Scott (eds.), Byzantine Macedonia: Identity, Image and History
, Melbourne, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 2000 (xvi +
231pp).
Byzantina Australiensia
Volumes in the series Byzantina Australiensia, published by the AABS, may be ordered through the email address: byzaus@mcauley.acu.edu.au
The most recent volumes are the Byzantine Macedonia volume (above), and John Kaminiates, The Capture of Thessaloniki, translated with introduction and notes by David Frendo and Athanasios Fotiou, Byzantina Australiensia vol. 12 (Perth 2000)
President's News
The president, John Melville-Jones, spent January in Thessaloniki as a guest of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. At the beginning of February he visited the library of Zagora (Pelion), in order to inspect the manuscript of the Logos Historikos of St Symeon of Thessaloniki which deals with the Venetian occupation of Thessaloniki in 1423-30. He also attended the Spring Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks at the end of April, and then travelled to Kalamazoo to participate in the 37th International Congress on Mediaeval Studies, where he gave a paper on Venetian mediaeval chronicles. As a result, he has been asked to contribute a chapter on this subject to a collection of essays on Italian chronicles which is being prepared for Pennsylvania State University Press.
Dr Tessa Rajak
Dr Tessa Rajak of Reading University was Visiting Fellow of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity at Macquarie University during April-May 2002. Dr Rajak delivered several public lectures on the Septuagint Bible, and participated in a month-long seminar and a day conference on Jewish-early Christian interactions.
Catholic University of America: Stipends in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Medieval Latin and Greek doctoral studies
The Department of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., encourages applications for its doctoral program in late antique and medieval Latin language, literature, and culture. Applicants should have completed a B.A. or M.A. program in Classics and be primarily interested in studying late antiquity, Byzantine Greek, and medieval Latin against the background of ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture. Exceptionally qualified applicants intent on an academic career may be eligible for full- tuition scholarships and $15,000 stipends. For information about the program and to apply, please visit our website at http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/gl/department/programs2.html, or contact the Chair, Dr. Linda Safran, safran@cua.edu or telephone +1-202-319-5216.
Newsletters
`Canadio-Byzantina,' the newsletter of the Canadian Committee of Byzantinists, is now exchanged with the AABS Newsletter. The most recent issue (no. 13, January 2002) includes inter alia a list of members of the Committee, including research, publications, and email addresses. Anyone wishing to peruse this newsletter, please contact Andrew Gillett at the address below.
Contributions for the
next Newsletter (November 2002) are very welcome. Please direct them
to:
Dr Andrew Gillett, Department
of Ancient History, Division of Humanities, Macquarie University NSW 2109
Australia
Fax: +61-2-9850 9001
Email: andrew.gillett@mq.edu.au
or agillett@hmn.mq.edu.au
APPENDIX I: Full list of AABS Executive 2001-2005
President:
Assoc. Professor John
Melville-Jones
Department of Classics
and Ancient History
University of Western
Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Email: jrmelvil@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Secretary:
Dr Wendy Mayer
Centre for Early Christian
Studies
Australian Catholic University
McAuley Campus
PO Box 247
Everton Park QLD 4053
Email: wendy.mayer@adelaide.edu.au
Treasurer:
Dr Lynda Garland
School of Classics and
History
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
Email: ldillon@metz.une.edu.au
Other members:
Professor Pauline Allen
Centre for Early Christian
Studies
Australian Catholic University
PO Box 247
Everton Park OLD 4053
Email: P.Allen@mcauley.acu.edu.au
(Byzantina Australiensia
distribution; past president)
Dr Andrew Gillett
Department of Ancient
History, Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia
Email: andrew.gillett@mq.edu.au
or agillett@hmn.mq.edu.au
(Newsletter editor)
Dr Ann Moffatt
Department of Classics
and Modern European Languages
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Email: ann.moffatt@anu.edu.au
Assoc. Professor Roger
Scott
Department of Classics
and Archaeology
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3053
Email: r.scott@arts.unimelb.edu.au
Dr Paul Tuffin
Classics
Centre for European Languages
University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA 5005
Email: paul.tuffin@adelaide.edu.au
APPENDIX
II:
Copies of previous AABS
Newsletters numbers 36 (1998) to 43 (2001) can be viewed at the AABS Web
site: http://www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/AABS