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Boccaccio’s 700th Birthday Party
Greetings, friends of the medieval and early modern eras!
2013 is the 700th birthday of our boy Giovanni Boccaccio, and before the year is out, we’d would like to throw him a party.
The party will be co-chosted by the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study and the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group.
Monday, December 16 (reading day)
5:00 pm
GC, room 5414
The party is potluck. We encourage you to try a period or themed recipe, but that is not at all required. (If everyone brought an authentic dish, we might end up with another evening of six pies and three versions of carrots.) Check out www.godecookery.com for ideas.
If you know what you might bring, please comment below. If you plan to come but don’t know what you might bring, comment below.
We hope you can join us in celebrating the birthday of a famous plague survivor. Oh, and author, poet, and humanist.
New Directions in Medieval Scholarship – Roundtable
Friday, November 15, 3:00pm
CUNY Graduate Center, room 5409
New Directions in Medieval Scholarship
Fifth Annual Roundtable
Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
Moderator: David Greetham, Graduate Center, English
- Lauren Mancia, Brooklyn College, History
“Affective Devotion as Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Benedictine Monastery” - William McClellan, Baruch College, English
A reading of the Clerk’s Tale and the Man of Law’s Tale using Al Shoaf’s “reading history-as-ethical-meditation” - Katharine Goodland, College of Staten Island, English
“Medieval Drama in Black and White”
Following the presentations, all are encouraged to engage in open discussion regarding current trends in medieval studies.
Guest Speaker: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Friday, November 8, 2013 – 3:00 pm
Graduate Center, CUNY – room 5409
Utility French and the Making of English Literate Culture
In recent years, historical socio-linguistics and attention to manuscript culture have broadened our approach to ‘literary history,’ and re-contexualised our post-medieval term, ‘literature’. These perspectives help to bring into view a broader spectrum of medieval writings and to trouble boundaries between the literary and the documentary. This paper will explore the new rush to textuality, to writing down disciplinary, occupational, and technical knowledge in treatises, compilations, and encyclopaedias across the thirteenth century in England. Literary scholars have tended to focus study of utilitarian writing, as also of bureaucratic and documentary cultures, on Anglophone writings in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but these texts form only one strand of a more complicated multilingual story.
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne,
Thomas F. X. and Teresa Mullarkey Chair of Literature,
English Department,
Fordham University
Call for Papers: Medieval Celebrations
9th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
February 28, 2014
“Medieval Celebrations”
The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, CUNY Graduate Center’s student-run organization for medieval studies, is hosting their ninth annual graduate student conference: Medieval Celebrations. We invite grad students to submit proposals about celebrations of all kinds.
Topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
· Festivals, feasts, and food
· Holy days and saints days
· Forms of ritual
· The Mass
· Coronation
· Baptisms, weddings, and funerals
· Entertainment and performance
· Agriculture and pagan vestiges
· Markets
· Mockery and foolery
We also invite grad student performers of medieval music or dramatic arts to submit proposals for short performances (up to 30 minutes; please include estimation of time).
Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words by Nov. 30 Dec. 13, 2013.
Include your name and affiliation.
Papers must be 15-20 minutes in length, and performances no more than 30 minutes.
Submissions should be emailed to medievalstudy@gmail.com
Call for Papers: Medieval Congress 2014
The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study is currently accepting abstracts for its panel at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (May 8 – 11, 2014) titled: “New Media and the Medieval Ages.”
The field of medieval studies has a relatively long and recognized history of scholarship assisted by technology. One of the first to merge new advances in technology with humanities scholarship was a medievalist, Fr. Roberto Busa, who in the 1940s conceived and developed the Index Thomisticus—a tool for performing text searches within the massive corpus of Aquinas’s works—in collaboration with IBM. Today dozens of digital resources are available for the medievalist: online collections of digitized manuscript images, full-text databases, online scholarly editions, and tens of thousands of books and journals. One of the more recent and popular trends amongst medievalists in new media technology is the transformation of widely conceived medieval texts and data into new forms of media and technology. Projects such as Piers Plowman Electronic Archive and the Mapping Medieval Chester project exemplify only a few of the innovative applications of new media to our study of the medieval world.
Shared amongst these projects’ use of digital tools is an emphasis on remediation, taking data in one form and transforming and transposing it into another form of usable media. Additionally, through a greater focus on developments in contemporary technology, or as result of its proliferation, scholars and researchers have also become more attuned to the use, development, and creation of medieval technologies in the contexts of the written word, manuscripts, works of art, music, architecture, warfare, urban planning, and others. The panel “New Media and the Middle Ages” aims at addressing some of the key concepts, questions, and methodologies concerning the convergences between developments in both new and old technologies and our study of the medieval past. Papers might address such questions as: What insights might digital humanities allow in our study of medieval texts, architecture, music, manuscripts, and art? What kinds of multimedia objects or events existed in the medieval period, and how might we as modern scholars still have access to them? What are the consequences of considering medieval manuscripts, texts, and works of art as multimedia works?
Other topics for presentations include:
- Translation and dictionary projects
- Digital projects in the visual and performance arts
- Encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts
- Management and preservation of digital resources
- The cultural impact of the new media
- The role of digital humanities in academic curricula
- Funding and sustainability of long-term projects
Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words by September 15, 2013.
Include your name and affiliation.
Papers must be 15-20 minutes in length.
Submissions should be emailed to medievalstudy@gmail.com along with a completed participant information form (found at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html)
Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, Medieval Studies Certificate Program
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Symposium: Christ Among the Medieval Mendicants
Friday August 23, 2013
8:30am-6:30pm
We would like to invite everyone to a symposium at the Graduate Center on August 23, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Corpus Christi as a feast day and in conjunction with the Morgan Library’s exhibit “Illuminating the Faith”
www.eventbrite.com/event/7450226829
8th Annual PKMS Conference: “New Media and the Middle Ages”
Friday, March 1
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Room 9205
Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10016
8th Annual PKMS Conference
“New Media and the Middle Ages”
10:00 Registration
10:30 Panel 1: Sacred Technologies: Media and Memory
Moderator: Debra Hilborn, Graduate Center, CUNY
“Office Prayer as Technology-use”
Paul Holchak, English Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
Abstract
“A Multimedia Devotional Panel and the Journey from the Material to the Immaterial”
Sarah Dillon, Assistant Professor, Kingsborough Community College
Abstract
11:45 Panel 2: Digital Exploration: Mapping and Data Mining”
Moderator: David Heayn, Graduate Center, CUNY
“Exploratory Analysis of Arabic Biographical Collections: the case of al-Dhahabi’s (d. 1347 CE) ‘History of Islam'”
Maxim Romanov, PhD Candidate in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Michigan
50 Seconds of Islamic History
Abstract
“The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Map: Google Earth and 1,000-year-old Texts”
Rebecca Shores, University of North Carolina
Abstract
12:45 Lunch Break
1:45 Keynote: “Virtual Mappa, or History Lessons in New Media”
Martin Foys, Associate Professor of English, Drew University; Co-director of the Digital Mappaemundi Project
3:00 Panel 3: Digital Humanities at Work: Current Projects
Moderator: Chase Robinson, Provost, Graduate Center, CUNY
“Mapping a Medieval Career: Jean Gerson, Joan of Arc and the Power of Data Visualization”
Miriam Ward, SUNY New Paltz
Abstract
“Documenting Cappadocia: Building a Community through Digital Scholarship”
Alice Lynn McMichael, Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY
Documenting Cappadocia
4:00 Reception
The Eighth Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Interdisciplinary Student Conference
with the generous support of the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Doctoral Students Council, and Art History, History, English, Music, and Theatre departments.
