Upcoming Medieval Conferences and Journal CFPs

1. Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies, http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/Main_Page

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of monsters and monstrosities in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. We are also interested in book reviews on foundational works that would be helpful for graduate students exploring medieval monsters and monstrosities. Article submissions may address but are not limited to:

-Bestiaries and manuscript illuminations of monstrosities
-Classical and Eastern transmissions and receptions of monsters
-Desires and sins of the flesh that degrade humans into monstrosities in allegories, exempla, and
hagiography
-The Green Man, the Owl Man, the Wild Man and the Wild Woman
-Medical accounts of monstrous births and the ‘monstrous’ female, intersexed, or male body
-Monsters and monstrosities in epics, exempla, fables, lais, and romances
-Monsters and monstrosities in chronicles and travel literature
-Purgatorial and demonic monsters and monstrosities in visionary literature
-The racial ‘other’ as a monstrosity
-Saints as and/or versus monsters and monstrosities in vitae and legends
-Transformations of humans into animals and vice versa


The 2009 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2010. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews to submit@hortulus.net by February 15, 2010.

2. CHAUCER AT GALWAY CONFERENCE MAY 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS

19th-20th MAY 2010 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

A multi-disciplinary conference on Geoffrey Chaucer will be held in the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland on 19th-20th May 2010. Proposals for papers on any aspect of Chaucer’s work, life, milieu, influence, etc. are welcome. Individual sessions will be framed around the themes that emerge from the call for papers.

Key-note papers will be given by

Professor Alastair Minnis of Yale University
Professor Helen Phillips, Cardiff University
Professor John Thompson, Queen’s University, Belfast

Please send a 200-word proposal by 25th January 2010 to:

cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie


Contacts:
Dr. Clíodhna Carney cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie
Dr. Catherine LaFarge catherine.lafarge@nuigalway.ie
Dr. Frances McCormack frances.mccormack@nuigalway.ie
Ms. Marina Ansaldo marina_ansaldo@yahoo.it


3. 24th Annual Irish Conference of Medievalists: NUI, Galway, 25–27 June 2010, http://www.irishmedievalists.com/

Since its establishment in 1987, the Irish Conference of Medievalists (ICM) has always displayed in its programme an eclectic selection of papers, aiming not only at representing the current state of Medieval Studies in Ireland and abroad, but also at informing the audience on the latest achievements and the future directions of this scholarly area.

The twenty-fourth ICM, which will be held in the National University of Ireland, Galway, 25–27 June 2010, will continue the conference’s inter-disciplinary approach, considering proposals for papers in medieval archaeology, art, history, linguistics, literature and philology.

The conference will also host plenary sessions that will provide our audience with an opportunity to benefit from the work of some of the most eminent scholars in the field. Prof. Thomas Charles-Edwards (Professor of Celtic in Jesus College, Oxford) will open the conference. Two other plenary sessions will focus on specific themes of wide interest in the area of Medieval Studies: one will deal with the famous Old Irish text known as Amrae Coluimb Chille, while the other will concern research undertaken by the Dublin-based Discovery Programme.

Call for papers (9 Dec 2009)

Proposals should include a title and short abstract (200 words), as well as the speaker’s name, postal and e-mail addresses. The deadline for submission is 28 February 2009. Please send proposals to:

Dr Jacopo Bisagni
Department of Classics
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway, Ireland
or by e-mail to: jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

Registration fee: full €40; students €25 (includes all tea breaks and Saturday lunch).
Conference dinner (Saturday evening): €50.

Imbas 2009 conference schedule

The conference schedule is now available at
http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/22/

Plenary Speaker 13 November 2009

UPDATE:

Prof. Wood's talk, 'Debating the Barbarian Settlement: The Origins of a Historical Problem' will take place on Friday 13 November at 5.30; the reception will begin at 5.


Our plenary speaker has been confirmed as Ian Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds. Prof. Woods will be speaking about his new book, which deals with the historiography of the Fall of the Roman Empire. The work addresses both the formation of the barbarian kingdoms, and why they are described in the way that they are, covering polices of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The speech will take place in the Moore Institute, Arts Concourse, NUIG; time to be confirmed. A cheese and wine reception will be provided beforehand.

Registration and Travel Bursaries Forms

Registration forms for both delegates and non-speakers as well as applications for the travel bursaries are available to download at http://medieval.starlight.ie/site/view/105/. All forms should be returned to imbasnuig@gmail.com by 16 October.

Imbas Journal

A selection of papers will be published in our new established peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts.

Preliminary Publishing Guidelines
• Deadline for journal submissions will be 14 February 2010. Papers submitted after this deadline will not be accepted.
• Submitted papers must not exceed 5000 words in length (not including the bibliography) and must be formatted in the MHRA style with footnotes
• Papers will be selected through a competitive peer-reviewed selection. An initial selection will be made by the conference committee. Successful papers will then be assessed by an external committee consisting of six lecturers of various disciplines from various Irish universities.
• The members of the external editing committee for 2009 are: Dr. Ken Rooney (Dpt. of English, University College Cork), Dr. Catherine Swift (Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), Dr Christina Haywood (Dpt. Head, School of Classics, University College Dublin), Dr Mark Gardiner (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology, Queens University Belfast), Dr. Ian Robinson (Dpt. of History, Trinity College Dublin) and Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolchain (Dpt. of Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth).
• Selected papers will be subject to two rounds of editing before being made available on the Imbas website as well as open-access journal databases
• The number of published papers will depend upon submissions. It is likely that approximately five papers will be published.
• Authors will retain copyrights over the published material and will be free to publish the material elsewhere
• A paper publication of these chosen articles will be made obtainable through a self-publication website (http://www.lulu.com/uk), through which the journal will be available for order on demand

2008 Conference Papers

A selection of the conference papers from the 2008 event are now available to download at http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/62

Email contact

The new email address for the conference is imbasnuig@gmail.com. Our new website is http://medieval.starlight.ie

2009 Call for Papers

Imbas:

The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference, November 13-15^th 2009.

We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary medievalists’ conference being held in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway from November 13-15^th 2009. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including language, history literature, art, archaeology and philosophy. The theme for 2009 is Alliances. Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive.

Papers might deal with but are not limited to such topics as:

• Religious, political and military alliances
• Relationships between cultural institutions
• Marriage
• Commerce and economics
• Patronage
• Rebellion and heresy
• Marginality

A selection of papers will be published in our new established peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts. The committee are also delighted to offer a number of travel bursaries to delegates on a competitive basis.

Abstracts of 250 words for a twenty paper must be submitted before October 9 2009. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded to Imbas/Grace Windsor, Dpt. of English, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Rd, Galway, Ireland.

News on the 2009 conference

The NUIG Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference will be held from 13-15th November 2009 in the Moore Institute. The theme of this year's conference will be 'Alliances'. A more detailed call for papers will follow in due course.

As part of our expansion of the event, we will be offering two forms of publication to the delegates. Firstly, all panels will be recorded and made available as Pod casts. Secondly, we will be publishing a selection of the papers in our newly established peer-reviewed journal, which will be available through our website and open-access journal databases.

Our new conference website is under construction; for now, we can be contacted at info@medievalpower.com

Power in the Middle Ages, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 7-9th 2008.

In May 2008, three doctoral students of the English Department, NUIG - Grace Windsor, Lisa Padden and Dermot Burns- organized a three day conference for postgraduate students of Medieval Studies. The conference was a major success, with twenty-two delegates from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Portugal in attendance. Our theme was Power in the Middle Ages: the cfp, conference program and paper abstracts are available at www.medievalpower.com. A review of the conference is available at http://fmrsi.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/cuttingsissuefour.pdf. A selection of the conference papers will be published electronically via our website in March 2009.

The 2009 conference committee- Grace Windsor, Lisa Padden, Jena Web and Francesca Bezzone- are currently organizing the event for November 13-15th 2009. Further information will be posted in due course.