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Contents of This Issue
1. Sixth Annual Conference
2. Membership Renewals
3. Member Directory
4. Annual General Meeting
5. Forthcoming Conferences
6. Links of Interest
7. Books for Review
1. AEMA Sixth Annual Conference - Gathering the Threads: Weaving the Early Medieval World - Programme Now Available
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/conference2009/
AEMA's sixth annual conference will be held from 30 September-2 October 2009 at the Caulfield Campus of Monash University, Victoria.
From the Middle East to the North Atlantic, cultural differences were woven into the new social fabric of the early medieval world. Peoples, languages, religions, traditions and technologies were the threads woven into the period's complex tapestry.
The preliminary programme is now available on the web site.
Registration is now open and the registration form is available on the web site, together with details of the conference dinner, plenary speakers and abstracts.
Campus information, maps and public transport details are also linked from the web site.
Plenary Speakers:
Dr Felicity Harley-McGowan, Honorary Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Dr Carol Williams, Monash University
Accommodation:
Accommodation suggestions are available on the conference web site. Hotels Combined are offering an online search and booking service and a rebate of 10% of the cost of accommodation.
Postgraduate/Early Career Researcher Funding Assistance:
Funding has generously been allocated from the Network for Early European Research for Australian post-graduate and early career researchers presenting papers to assist with registration and travel costs. The amount of funding for individuals is dependent on the number of requests. If you qualify and would like to be considered for this funding, please contact the Conference Convener (Natasha.Amendola@arts.monash.edu.au).
Conference Convenor:
Natasha Amendola Natasha.Amendola@arts.monash.edu.au
School of Historical Studies
Building 11, Clayton Campus
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia
Membership renewals were due on 30 June; details of the revised fees as agreed at the Annual General Meeting and the renewal form can be found at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/membership.html. The membership year is 1 July-30 June. For new members who have joined recently, please note: members at 30 April in any given year receive the Journal for that year; members joining from 1 May onwards will not receive the Journal for that first (part) year but the membership will continue until 30 June of the following year (i.e. up to fourteen months) and they will receive the Journal for that following (full) year.
The Member Directory will be circulated at the Annual General Meeting and is available online (members only - password required). The Directory is an opt-in document: it is intended to be a source of contacts and information for collaboration between Association members. If you are already in the Directory then please check your details and forward any amendments to aema@vicnet.net.au. If you have not been previously included in the Directory but would like to be added then please forward your details.
The Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held during the September Conference at Monash University. Members are encouraged to nominate for positions on the committee for the forthcoming year.
The Notice of Meeting and Agenda will be emailed to members in September. Requests for item to be included in the Agenda should be sent by email to aema@vicnet.net.au.
The Nomination and Proxy Forms are available on the Annual General Meeting section of the conference web site.
Only current financial members are eligible to vote at the Annual General Meeting: please remember to renew your membership.
The Conferences page on the Association web site (http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/conferences.html) lists a range of conferences of interest to members in chronological order. This list is continually updated and each issue of this Newsletter lists the conferences that have been added since the previous issue. For recent lists of updates please refer to back issues of the Newsletter; the most recent issues are available on the web site at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/publications.html#newsletter.
This month the following conferences have been added:
CULTURAL FORMS AND IDEOLOGY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE AND ITS COLONIES: A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR CHARLES ZIKA
Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September 2009, 9:00 am-6:00 pm daily, Graduate House, 220 Leicester Street (corner of Grattan Street), The University of Melbourne, Parkville.
For more than thirty years, Charles Zika's influential work in early modern European history has been recognised internationally for its remarkable scholarship and path-breaking methodology. Covering fields such as magic and witchcraft, the history of visual culture, religious reform and colonial history, Zika's work will be honoured by a conference taking up some of his key methodological and empirical themes. Australian-based and international speakers will present in a single-stream format, with an accompanying poster session to showcase the work of Charles's current and recent postgraduate students.
Registration: $160. Concession rate of $80. A daily rate also available for those only available to attend one day (full $85/concession $45). Registration includes coffee and tea on arrival, lunch and morning and afternoon tea on both days. Non-speakers are very welcome to register and to participate in question times.
Dinner
A dinner will also be held to coincide with the conference and to mark Charles's retirement, on Saturday 12 September. All Charles's many colleagues and friends are welcome to attend, whether or not attending the conference: 7:00 pm (for 7:30 pm start), University House; 2 courses and wine, $75 per head ($65 concession). Speakers: Professor Pat Grimshaw and Professor Charles Sowerwine.
SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY
The Society for Late Antiquity will be sponsoring three sessions at the International Medieval Studies Congress 13-16 May 2010 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As in the past, topics are open. One-page abstracts for 15-minute papers are invited relating to the history, literature, religion, art, archaeology, culture and society of Late Antiquity (that is, the European, North African, and Western Asian world ca. 250-750). Attention should be given to how the paper relates to Late Antiquity as a discrete period with its own individual characteristics.
Abstracts may be forwarded, preferably by e-mail, to Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm@illinois.edu and ruricius@msn.com. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 September 2009. Please note that with the exception of a few awards (information available from conference organizers at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/) there is no travel funding available for participants and that the submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to attend the conference should the abstract be accepted.
PRAYER AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE EARLY CHURCH VI: POLITICS AND RELIGION
The sixth conference in this triennial series will take place on the Melbourne campus of the Australian Catholic University from 7-10 July 2010. Full details including registration and the call for papers (closing 23 April 2010) can be found on the conference web site: http://www.prayerspirit.com.au/.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Sarah Coakley
Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity
Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, England
Professor Hal Drake
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Sean Freyne
Director of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus Professor of Theology
Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS: TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION
The seventeenth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds from 12-15 July 2010. Paper proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2009; session proposals must be submitted by 30 September 2009. Full details at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2010_call.html.
The following item has been added to the Links page on the Association web site:
Monasticon Hibernicum Project
http://monasticon.celt.dias.ie/
Containing a searchable database of over 5,500 early Christian ecclesiastical settlements in Ireland from the 5th to the12th centuries this is a joint project with the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
7. Books Available for Reviewing
In an effort to broaden the reviews section of JAEMA we are currently seeking reviewers for foreign language publications. Members who are competent to review books in modern languages other than English are asked to contact the reviews editor, Kathleen Neal kbneal@unimelb.edu.au, and nominate the language(s) that they are able to read. These reviewers will be contacted when books in their nominated language(s) become available.
The following item is available for review for the Association's Journal; please email Kathleen Neal kbneal@unimelb.edu.au if you would like to review this item. For full details regarding preparation and submission of reviews see the web site and the style guide.
Katherine Simms, Medieval Gaelic Sources (Dublin, 2009).