http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/
Contents of This Issue
1. Sixth Annual Conference
2. Forthcoming Conferences
3. 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
Dr Carol Williams, Monash University
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.
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
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:
TRENDS, METHODOLOGIES AND RESOURCES IN STUDYING MEDIEVAL AND EARLY
MODERN RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
http://arts.monash.edu.au/religion-theology/conference/pats.php
Thursday 19 November 2009
A NEER-MCD Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS).
INTERPRETING ST FRANCIS IN A MULTI-RELIGIOUS SOCIETY: FROM THE MIDDLE
AGES TO THE PRESENT
http://arts.monash.edu.au/religion-theology/conference/
20-21 November 2009
A conference celebrating the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Franciscan movement. Presented by the Yarra Theological Union, Melbourne College of Divinity and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University.
HOMER AND THE EPIC TRADITION (HOMER SEMINAR V)
Saturday and Sunday 28-29 November, 2009
This weekend seminar, to be held at The Australian National University, Canberra, is intended to give Australasian scholars interested in the epic tradition in the ancient Greek and Roman world - especially (but not only) postgraduates and early-career researchers - an opportunity to test out ideas, methodologies and findings in a supportive environment, and to maximise the possibility of constructive feedback. The focus of the seminar will be the great epics of the ancient world and their afterlife. If you are interested in these topics you are most welcome.
Those interested in participating in the seminar are asked to contact us and, if you wish to give a paper, to propose a paper-title and an abstract (of up to a page in length). The time allowed for each paper will be 45 minutes; the presentation of the paper itself should occupy no more than 20-25 minutes. Papers may be pre-circulated electronically. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 30 September 2009. If you intend to come to the seminar but do not wish to give a paper, do let us know before 31 October that you will be attending.
It is proposed that the first session of the seminar will begin on Saturday morning and that the seminar will conclude at lunchtime on Sunday.
There is no registration fee payable for what will be a small and more or less informal gathering. We shall, however, ask you on that weekend to pay $20, which will cover a picnic lunch (by Silo) on the Saturday, morning and afternoon teas, and end-of-day drinks as well.
Accommodation Information
If you need any assistance in making a booking we are happy to help. But here are some phone numbers and email addresses:
University House 6125 5211 (accommodation.unihouse@anu.edu.au)
Liversidge Court 6125 1100 (reservations.uas@anu.edu.au)
Bruce Hall 6125 6000 (bruce@anu.edu.au)
Fenner Hall 6125 9101 (enquiries.fenner@anu.edu.au)
Jessica Dietrich and Elizabeth Minchin
Classics and Ancient History Program, School of Humanities
The Australian National University
email: Jessica.Dietrich@anu.edu.au; Elizabeth.Minchin@anu.edu.au
For details of the weekend as the program is settled, see http://cass.anu.edu.au/humanities/events/CLASSICS_EVENTS_INDEX.php
44TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place May 13-16, 2010 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Details at http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/.
BYZANTIUM WITHOUT BORDERS
http://22byzantinecongress.org/
The 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies will be held at the University of Sofia, 22-27 August 2011. Details and the registration form are available on the conference web site.
3. 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 either 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.
M-F Alamichel, Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain (Peter Lang, 2008).
M Brett and K G Cushing (eds), Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval Canon Law in Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl (Ashgate, 2009).
S MacLean (ed), History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: The Chronicle of Regino of Prüm and Adalbert of Madeburg (Manchester University Press, 2008).