The MEMS bi-weekly e-newsletter shares information about events, conferences, calls for papers, student and faculty work in the field, and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. If you have items you wish to share in the newsletter, send them to Laurel Bassett at lburgg1@umbc.edu.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learns:
Thank you to Dr. Johnson for leading our inaugural and mellifluous Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learn on Musical Instruments of the Renaissance! You can see a video of her talk and the Q and A on the main page of our website: http://mems.umbc.edu.
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The next Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learn will be led by Dr. James Magruder on 12/9/20 at 12:15 on Webex: Female Painters in the Early Modern Era. |
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: MEMS FALL EVENT!
November 18 4 PM Exploring Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum on Webex
Join curator Ashley Dimmig from the Walters Art Gallery for a virtual presentation of Islamic Manuscripts, with Q and A to follow, sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies and History Department.
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1207944105
Password: JPtDGbfK
Access code: 120 794 410 5
MEMS WINTER AND SPRING ‘21 COURSE OFFERINGS
Check out upcoming course offerings at our website: https://mems.umbc.edu or our MEMS group post: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems/posts/97158 (If you would prefer to see a PDF document of the course offerings, email Laurel at lburgg1@umbc.edu.)
COMMUNITY EVENTS
November 13, 12-1 PM CDT Newberry Hosts: Things of Darkness, Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England
CRS is pleased to announce the first session Race in Dialogue, a new series of virtual conversations on premodern critical race studies and Indigenous studies. The first session features Professors Kim F. Hall (Barnard College) and Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago) in conversation about the legacy of Hall’s Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England, a foundational text in premodern critical race studies that celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2020.
This is free and open to all; registration in advance is required. For more information and the link to online registration, visit our website: https://www.newberry.org/11132020-race-dialogue
If you have any questions, please send an email to renaissance@newberry.org.
November 13, 4 PM EST Medieval and Early Modern Orients hosts ONLINE SEMINAR: The Shah’s ilchi: Robert Sherley and the Triangulation of Early Modern Encounter
“The Shah’s ilchi” reveals a triangulation of transnational encounter in the Global Renaissance between the Safavid Persians, the Ottoman Turks, and an English adventurer named Robert Sherley. After becoming an ilchi (messenger) to Shah Abbas I of Safavid Persia in 1608, Sherley gains notoriety in England as the Shah’s “ambassador”, a mistranslation of the Persian post which elevated his status from an expendable envoy to an important diplomat. The literature about Sherley likewise reveals a fantasy of Anglo-Persian intimacy through the image of the “Persian habit”, that is, of Robert’s sartorial and behavioural comportment into Persianness. far from the contemporaneous concerns about “turning Turk” in Early Modern English theater, Robert’s “Persian habit” suggested geographical and social mobility with the promise of a possible future for England in Persia. These fantasies of Anglo-Persian intimacy, however, elide the historical truths surrounding the desires of the Safavid shahs to advance their empire without interference from England.
To attend, email liza.blake@utoronto.ca
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
The Renaissance Society of America’s Spring Virtual Conference: April 2021
Find the updated details about RSA Virtual 2021 on our website. The submission portal for Virtual 2021 will open on Monday, November 16, 2020. The deadline for all submissions will be Tuesday, December 15. You’ll receive another email when the submission site is open.
The Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for their Symposium June 21-23, 2021
They seek proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.
For more information, go to: https://www.smrs-slu.org/
JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS
National Gallery of Art Library Seeks Student Assistants: Positions in Reader Services and Image Collections Available
The National Gallery of Art Library welcomes applicants for part-time student assistant positions in the Reader Services and Image Collections departments. Students will assist Gallery curators, scholars in the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and members of the public with their research and use of the library’s extensive image collections.
These positions are designed to introduce students to the world of libraries in cultural heritage organizations and provide opportunities for interest-driven exploration of the museum and library fields. Applicants should be enrolled at least half-time as students and be able to work both onsite and from a remote computer. For more specific information about the positions, see the attached job descriptions.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
Check out this introduction to the Huntington’s Incunabula Medica, or the Wisdom of Premodern Medicine, containing books, broadsides, pamphlets, and manuscripts. The Huntington is in the process of digitizing this massive collection and you can access already digitized materials through the introductory article: https://www.huntington.org/verso/2020/10/wisdom-premodern-medicine
#Direct from Twitter
Check out Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy’s post:Some takeaways from my talk today for @ClaremontCTL "Can Shakespeare Be Anti-Racist?" Follow the link https://twitter.com/DrDadabhoy/status/1321958899939860481 or see her slide on the next page on best practices in engaging with Anti-racist Shakespeare.
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
