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Contents of This Issue
1. Sixth Annual Conference
2. Membership Renewals
3. Forthcoming Conferences
4.
Links of Interest
5. Books for Review
1. AEMA Sixth Annual Conference - Gathering the Threads: Weaving the Early Medieval World - Registration Now Open
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.
Registration is now open and the registration form is available on the web site, together with details of the conference dinner, invited speakers and abstracts received to date.
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.
Plenary speakers:
Dr Felicity Harley-McGowan, Honorary Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Dr Ann Trindade, Principal Fellow, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
Dr Carol Williams, Monash University
Accommodation:
Accommodation suggestions are now 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.
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 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:
EARLY CELTIC LEGAL LANGUAGE
A symposium at the University of Sydney, Friday 28 August 2009
DINING DIVINELY: BANQUETING IN HONOUR OF THE GODS
7-9 July 2010
The Department of Classics at the University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Commensality marked a range of public and private occasions in the ancient Mediterranean world. This colloquium will explore the evidence for banquets and feasts held in conjunction with or as a form of religious observance. Offers of papers from any branch of Classical Studies concerning the following topics are welcomed:
The archaeological evidence for banquets (architecture, furnishings, food remains, representations of banqueting) with a religious dimension.
Banquets associated with particular religious festivals or rites, or part of private occasions with a religious dimension (eg funerals).
Literary or epigraphical evidence for religious banqueting.
An abstract of 250 words indicating the thesis, evidence and conclusions of the paper offered and including the name, academic affiliation, postal address and email address of the presenter should be sent to the conference organiser at the address below. Email attachments and facsimiles are preferred. Papers will be 20-30 minutes long, depending on the final number of participants.
Abstracts must be received on or before 1 October 2009. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 15 December 2009. The registration fee will be around US $120/€85 (postgraduates US $85/€60).
Organiser:
Alison B. Griffith
Department of Classics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
NEW ZEALAND
Ph: ++64-3-364-2987 ext. 8578
Fax: ++64-3-364-2576
alison.griffith@canterbury.ac.nz
The following items have been added to the Links page on the Association web site:
Codex Sinaiticus
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en
The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, conservators and curators, the Project gives everyone the opportunity to connect directly with this famous manuscript.
European History Primary Sources
http://primary-sources.eui.eu/
The Department of History and Civilization and the Library of the European University Institute, Florence, provide this index of scholarly web sites that offer on-line access to primary sources on the history of Europe from Medieval and Early Modern History up to the most recent history of the European integration process. The purpose of European History Primary Sources is to provide historians with an easily searchable index of web sites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe. As the number of digital archives and collections on the internet continues to grow, maintaining an overview becomes increasingly difficult. EHPS strives to fill that gap by selecting the most important collections of digital primary sources for the history of Europe, either as a whole or for individual countries. EHPS is updated continuously and several collaborative features are introduced in the portal. It is very easy to stay updated on new entries and registered users can bookmark entries, leave comments to add their experiences to the descriptions on EHPS listed web sites, complete EHPS abstracts with their own individual experiences and suggest new web sites to be included.
Medieval Feminist Forum
The backfile of Medieval Feminist Forum, nos. 1-43.2 (1986-2007) is accessible online at no charge at http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/. The MFF archive is hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries and was constructed by staff in the UI Libraries Digital Library Services unit using The Berkeley Electronic Press’s Digital Commons platform.
5. 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 at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/publications.html#review and the style guide at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/styleguide.html#reviews.
M-F Alamichel, Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain (Peter Lang, 2008).