ON CAMPUS EVENTS
Monday, October 5-Thursday, October 8 Ancient Studies Week Events
The Department of Ancient Studies invites you to celebrate Ancient Studies Week! We have an exciting lineup of events, listed below. We hope that you will join us. Please email Emily Hubbard (ehubbard@umbc.edu) with any questions.
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 4:00-7:00pm—Webex Meeting: Homerathon: A Reading of Selections of Homer’s Iliad.
Meeting Link:
https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=me5ff8ce3ca2943871f631ff0e7e5b54b
Meeting Password: ancientstudies
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7:00-9:00pm—Webex Meeting: Student and Faculty Reading of Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria, an irreverent and scatological comedy about the tragedian Euripides’ attempts to liberate his kinsman from police custody.
Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m5ce58c042f68ef67573582f4044aab4f
Meeting Password: ancientstudies
Thursday, Oct. 8, 4:00-5:30pm—Webex Meeting: Ancient Studies Week Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky, “Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica.” Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Please visit the Dresher Center's webpage about this lecture for
more information-(https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/humanities-forum-series/current-humanities-forum/?id=85473)
Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/onstage/g.php?MTID=e10e7d4fae8a1fc76fa06d71e0c76061e
COMMUNITY EVENTS
October 2-October 12 Folger Institute and Newberry Library Present Virtual Conference. Food and the Book: 1300-1800
This digital conference occurs on various days over 10/2/20-10/12/20. The opening session brings together chefs and cookbook writers for a roundtable discussion. Other sessions include “Food History in Archival Sources,” short papers, and sessions on “European Views on Indigenous American Foods” and “Race and Food in the Early Modern Book.” Registration for all or parts is free. Information here.
October 12, 5:00 PM Case Western Reserve University Presents Julius Lecture in Byzantine Art-Heaven on Earth: Justinian’s Hagia Sophia
This talk addresses the transformation of the basilica as an architectural form and its subsequent impact on architecture in the eastern Mediterranean. Justinian’s Hagia Sophia represents a critical moment in architectural history in terms of form, meaning, and aesthetics.
Robert Ousterhout is professor emeritus in history and art at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 2007-2017 and also served as director of the Center for Ancient Studies. He taught previously at the University of Illinois, where he received his PhD. Ousterhout’s fieldwork has concentrated on Byzantine architecture, monumental art, and urbanism in Constantinople, Thrace, Cappadocia, and Jerusalem.
Zoom Webinar Register Here
November 19, 1-2 PM The Future of Medieval Disability Studies: An ACMRS Roundtable
This roundtable discussion brings together four scholars of medieval disability studies: Richard Godden (co-editor “Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World”), Jonathan Hsy (“Antiracist Medievalisms”), Cameron Hunt McNabb (The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe, an open-access volume on disability in the European Middle Ages) and Kristina Richardson (“Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World”).
Our speakers will discuss the state of the field and the ways in which we can imagine different, more inclusive futures. This event is free and digital. Registration is required to attend. You will receive a secure livestream link to the email you registered with on the day of the event. We will have live closed captioning throughout the event. The event will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel afterward.
For More Information Contact: Leah Newsom Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies acmrs@asu.eduacmrs.asu.edu
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Call for Submissions-2021-2022 Open Issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures.
Digital Philology is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval texts and cultures. See author guidelines at https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital-philology-journal-medieval-cultures/author-guidelines.
October 22-29 Center for Renaissance Studies presents Speech as Protest: Being Heard and Taking up Space in the Premodern World Roundtables
Panels on Censorship, Dissent, Representation in Time and Space, and Bringing the Premodern into Conversation with the Modern include presentations such as:
· Saving Face, Early-Modern Musicians and Their Bodies
· Testimonies of the Enslaved: Speaking within the Fraught Legal Terrain of Race Governance
· Moderating Speech in the Feminine Counterpubilc: Eighteenth-Century Britain and the Bluestockings
· “Traces of the Past”: Public Writing and Public Space in Southwest China
· Contextualizing Sex Work in Early Modern Venice
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World on the Margins: Court Records and Sensory Experiences in
Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Cost and Registration Information
This virtual event will be free and open to the public. Space for some events will be limited, and priority will be given to scholars from CRS consortium institutions. To register, complete this online submission form.
November 18-20 Schoenberg Symposium: Manuscript Studies in the COVID-19 Age
Thanks to world-wide digitization efforts over the past twenty years, scholars at all levels and around the world have virtual access to more manuscripts and manuscript-related metadata than even a generation ago and are benefited by a broad array of digital tools, technologies, and resources that allow them to locate, gather, analyze, and interrogate digitized manuscripts and related metadata.
But in a Covid-19 Age, have these resources and tools been enough to continue manuscript research and study? Has access to these artifacts of our shared intellectual heritage become more open and equitable or are there still hurdles for scholarship around the world to overcome? Our goal is to offer a (virtual) space to discuss lessons learned since March and how those lessons can push us to better practice and development of strategies in the future.
The symposium will run Wednesday, November 18 to Friday, November 20. Each day will consist of a 90-minute session with papers in the morning, followed by a 90-minute panel discussion led by invited moderators in the afternoon. All sessions will be recorded and made available after each session.
Two events will be held conjunction with the symposium:
* Scholarly Editing Covid19-Style: Laura Morreale will lead a 3-day crowd-sourcing effort to transcribe, edit, and submit for publication an edition of Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience, from UPenn MS Codex 660 <https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cr5nc34> (f. 86r-95v).
* Virtual Lightning
Round: Pre-recorded 5-minute lightning round talks featuring digital projects
at all stages of development, from ideas to implementation. Want to feature
your digital project? Submit your proposal here <https://forms.gle/aW4eRSr8fKtU6kPq8> by Friday, October 28, to be considered.
For program information and to register, go to: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13. Registration is free and open to the public
but required. A Zoom link for all three days will be provided upon
registration.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
The Medieval Academy of America’s Medieval Digital Resources
This curated guide and database contains image banks, editions, translations, music and multimedia collections, interpretative websites and new works of digital scholarship in Medieval Studies.
University of Chicago Library’s Guide to Medieval Manuscript Research https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=813534&p=5805319
Contains Medieval Digital Humanities Collectives and Consortiums, Mapping Projects, Journals, links to Print Resources and Manuscript-Based Digital Humanities projects.
For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Museum Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu.
