March 2009 Newsletter for Members of the Australian Early Medieval Association

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/

aema@vicnet.net.au

Contents of This Issue

1. Sixth Annual Conference
2. AEMA 2009 Calendar
3. Forthcoming Conferences
4. Books for Review


1. AEMA Sixth Annual Conference - Gathering the Threads: Weaving the Early Medieval World

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 Australian Early Medieval Association invites papers which explore the patterns and intersections formed by these diverse threads.

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

Papers on any other aspect of early medieval research or scholarship will also be accepted. A title and a 250 word abstract for papers of twenty minutes in length should be submitted to the conference convenor by June 30 2009. Please include affiliation and contact details with your abstract.

Presenters will be invited to publish their papers in the refereed Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association.

Conference convenor:

Natasha Amendola Natasha.Amendola@arts.monash.edu.au
School of Historical Studies
Building 11, Clayton Campus
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia

Download the call for papers


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2. AEMA 2009 Calendar - Discounted Price $15

For the first time, the Association has produced a fully-illustrated calendar. The 2009 calendar features twelve large and numerous smaller illustrations covering a broad geographical selection of sites in the early medieval period. A low-resolution version is available for viewing at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/calendar.pdf. Copies cost the discounted price of AUD $15.00 (including postage) and can be ordered from Andrew Stephenson at andrewws@unimelb.edu.au.


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3.  Forthcoming Conferences

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:


BATTLE AND BLOODSHED: REPRESENTATIONS OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Call for Papers

13–14 June 2009, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield

We invite postgraduate students and early career researchers working in any field of Medieval Studies to submit abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sheffield, organised by medievalists in the Department of French and hosted by the Humanities Research Institute. We welcome papers which approach issues in the interpretation of representations of war in medieval society. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to:

Keynote speaker will be Dr Karen Watts, Senior Curator of European Armour at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.

Please send proposals of no more than 250 words for a twenty minute paper in English with your name, institution and contact details either by e-mail to battleconference@sheffield.ac.uk or by post to the address below by 27 March 2009.

Battle Conference
c/o Department of French
SOMLAL
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA
UK

For further information, please see our http://www.shef.ac.uk/medieval-war-conference/ or contact the organisers (Dr Katariina Närä, Lorna Bleach, Keira Borrill, Joanne Young) at the e-mail address above.


ASIA-PACIFIC EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES SOCIETY 5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society (formerly known as Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society) will be held at Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan, from 10-12 September 2009. The theme of the conference is Letters in Early Christianity. The call for papers, the registration form and information about accommodation in Sendai are available at http://www.cecs.acu.edu.au/apecss-conf2009.html.This annual conference is developing into an exciting and stimulating forum for research interaction from scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Russia, the Philippines and other countries in the Asia-Pacific area. Please note the deadline of 30 April for the call for papers.


PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 2009 CONFERENCE

http://pamla.org/2009/

November 6-7 2009, San Francisco State University, California.

The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference covers an extensive range of session topics including Greek and Latin Classics, East-West literary relations, Beowulf, Chaucer, English, medieval literature and many others.

The call for papers (online submission) closes 15 March.


MEDIEVAL TRANSLATOR 2010

Papers are invited for Medieval Translator 2010 - In principio fuit interpres: The Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, to be hosted by the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, 23-27 July 2010.

Linguistic and literary traditions include translation in their myth of origin – thus the linguistic and scholar Gianfranco Folena proposed to substitute the motto In principio fuit poëta with the humbler In principio fuit interpres. Following his suggestion, we welcome papers addressing translation in the Middle Ages, marking the relationship between classical, Middle Eastern and vernacular languages and studying translation as the representation of ideas and texts in different media.

Plenary speakers: Roger Ellis, Domenico Pezzini, David Wallace.

Papers may be given in English, French or Italian and should be twenty minutes long. Please send a 500-word abstract and brief curriculum vitae by 31 August 2009 to:

Alessandra Petrina and Monica Santini
Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche e Slave
Via Beato Pellegrino, 26
35100 Padova
Italy

0r as an email attachment to both these e-mail addresses:
alessandra.petrina@unipd.it
monica.santini@unipd.it

Further information about the conference will be available in Spring 2009.

Following previous practice, it is planned to publish a book of selected papers in the peer-reviewed Medieval Translator series (Brepols) following the conference.


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4. 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 items are available for review for the Association's Journal; please email Kathleen Neal kbneal@unimelb.edu.au if you would like to review any of these items.  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.

J R Davis and M McCormick (eds), The Long Morning of Medieval Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval Studies (Aldershot, 2008).

I S Robinson, Eleventh-Century Germany: The Swabian Chronicles (Manchester, 2008).


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