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Rocco Rante, “Evolution of Settlement and Habitat in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and the Islamic Periods” (Penn, 4/6)

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On March 31, 2017

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Evolution of Settlement and Habitat in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and the Islamic Periods

 
Rocco Rante, Louvre Museum
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 5:30 pm
Fisher Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Rooom 224, 3340 Walnut Street
 
This presentation focuses on the evolution of settlements in the Bukhara Oasis resulting by the several transformations of the Zerafšan delta and the evolution of urbanism between the late Antiquity and the Islamic period, mostly concentering on habitat space evolution. The recent geo-archaeological researches directed under the aegis of the Louvre Museum brought to light the water changes of the Zerafšan delta since Neolithic to the Antiquity. These transformations generated changes in human behavior in terms of the occupation of territory as well as of the urban space. This development should be now imputed to the resulting landscape changes that generated a demographic increase and thus an exponential increase of settlements.
 
This lecture co-sponsored by Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The Middle East Center, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, “Les gestes paradoxaux du Testament de François Villon” (Penn, 3/21)

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On March 19, 2017

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A public lecture by Professor Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Université de Paris, IV):

“Donner ce que l’on n’a pas. Les gestes paradoxaux du Testament de François Villon”

Tuesday, March 21, 5:30pm

543 Williams Hall – Cherpack Lounge

University of Pennsylvania

 

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Speakers Announced for DVMA Spring Meeting! (Hopkins, 4/22)

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On March 12, 2017

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DVMA Spring 2017 Meeting

Johns Hopkins University

April 22

 

List of Speakers

Rachel Danford (Loyola University Maryland)

Erica Harman (University of Pennsylvania)—DVMA Paper Prize Winner!

Giancarla Periti (University of Toronto / CASVA)

Erin Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)

Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College)

 

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Call for Applications: SIMS Visiting Research Fellowship (Penn, due 5/1)

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On March 12, 2017

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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) is now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage.  Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of pre-modern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections.  SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.

The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the pre-modern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection.  Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term.

Applications are due May 1, 2017. More information on eligibility and the application process is available here: https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships-2.

For more information on SIMS, go to http://schoenberginstitute.org/. On Penn’s pre-modern manuscript holdings in general, go to: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren.

Manuscript Skills (Summer Course, Penn, 5/23-6/28)

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On March 3, 2017

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 MANUSCRIPT SKILLS: WORKING WITH PRE-1600 EUROPEAN MANUSCRIPTS

A SUMMER COURSE CO-SPONSORED BY SAS GRADUATE DIVISION & THE SCHOENBERG INSTITUTE FOR MANUSCRIPT STUDIES

NICHOLAS HERMAN, AMEY HUTCHINS, WILL NOEL, & DOT PORTER

23rd May – 28th June 2017 (Summer Session 1), T—W—Th 10:00-12:00

Vitale Media Lab, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

This non-credit course will introduce graduate students working in medieval and Renaissance periods to the disciplines of manuscript studies, such as codicology and paleography, and will provide an opportunity for students to analyze manuscripts relevant to their research interests in Penn’s collections.

Students will develop familiarity with digital humanities as applied to manuscript studies and gain confidence in using manuscript catalogs, working in special collections libraries, handling pre-modern manuscripts, and reading manuscript text.

The course instructors are all staff members of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts: Will Noel, Director; Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services; Nicholas Herman, Curator of Manuscripts; and Amey Hutchins, Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian.

The only requirement for course participation is an interest in working with manuscripts in research. While knowledge of Latin is useful, it is not required. We welcome graduate students, undergraduate students, and library staff from Penn and other local institutions. There is no fee for taking this course, but participants are encouraged to purchase the course textbook, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Clemens & Graham).

The deadline for applying is April 3rd. To confirm your interest in participating in this course, please email Amey Hutchins at ameyh@upenn.edu, describing any past paleographical experience, knowledge of Latin and other languages, and reasons for wishing to take this course.

http://schoenberginstitute.org

 

Auctoritas: 9th Annual Medievalists@Penn Graduate Conference (Penn, 3/17)

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On March 3, 2017

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AUCTORITAS
The 9th Annual Medievalists@Penn Graduate Conference

Friday, March 17th

8:30 – 5:30pm

Van Pelt Library – Rm 626/627

Keynote Address – Larry Scanlon – “Nature’s Unnatural Authority”

To register please email pennmedieval@gmail.com. A detailed schedule will soon be available at medieval-auctoritas.tumblr.com

Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll (Workshop, Yale University, 4/28-29)

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Call for Applications

DIGITAL EDITING AND THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ROLL

April 28th and 29th, 2017

Yale University

This graduate training workshop will cover topics in:

  • Paleography and Cataloging of Medieval Manuscript Rolls
  • Manuscript Transcription and Scholarly Editing 

  • Introduction to the Digital Edition: Challenges and Best Practices 

  • Collaborative Editing 

  • XML, Text Encoding Fundamentals and the TEI Schema 

No prior paleography or encoding experience is required. 


The workshop covers the fundamentals of digital editing while tackling the codicological challenges posed by manuscript rolls. Practical sessions inform collective editorial decision-making: participants will undertake the work of transcription and commentary, and encode (according to TEI P5 protocols) the text and images of a medieval manuscript roll. The workshop will result in a collaborative digital edition. 

The workshop will run April 28th and 29th, 2017 (Friday-Saturday) 9.30am-4.30pm. This graduate-run workshop is free of charge, and lunches will be provided for participants. A limited number of small need-based travel bursaries are available for participants traveling to New Haven. The workshop will be limited to ten places – preference will be given to graduate students with demonstrated need for training in manuscript study and text encoding. 

An information booklet and syllabus can be found on the website – please read this document before applying, and apply online by March 15. Applicants will be notified whether they can be offered a place by March 28th. 
For more information, see the project website (digitalrollsandfragments.com/workshops), or email organizers at digitalmanuscriptrolls@gmail.com.

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Mary Carruthers to Deliver 2017 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography (Penn, March 20, 21, and 23)

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On February 16, 2017

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Mary J. Carruthers, Professor of Literature Emeritus, New York University

Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages

Lecture Dates: March 20, 21, 23, 2017
All lectures begin at 5:30pm

Class of 1978 Pavilion
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th floor
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Monday, March 20, 2017: “Geometry and the Topics of Invention”

Tuesday, March 21, 2017: “The Shapes of Creativity 1: Trees, Towers, Buildings”

Thursday, March 23, 2017: “The Shapes of Creativity 2: Hands, Spheres, Cubits”

Cognitive Geometries explores the close relationships in medieval creative practice among geometric shapes, meditation, and the human ability to create original works. Focusing on materials crafted in the twelfth century, chiefly on the basis of Biblical texts, and then disseminated widely during the thirteenth century, each lecture investigates the fundamental cognitive insight of medieval diagram makers: that shape and pattern not only envision what we already know but also invite us to discover surprising logical relationships that can provoke our thinking in new ways.

Mary J. Carruthers is the Remarque Professor of Literature Emeritus at New York University and a Fellow (Quondam) of All Souls College, Oxford University. She has written extensively on medieval literature, memory and the history of spirituality. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale University (1965) and a B.A. in English from Wellesley College (1961). Carruthers is the author of twelve monographs including her 1990 canonical study, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge). She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the recipient of many academic honors. She was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1996 and a Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy in 2012. In 2003, Carruthers was awarded The Haskins Medal by the Medieval Academy of America for “the best book in the broad field of medieval studies during the past five years” for The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge).

For more information: (215) 898-7088; dmcknigh@upenn.edu or jpollack@upenn.edu

To RSVP please visit: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/rosenbachs.html

 

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 SIMS Graduate Student Fellowship (due 4/1)

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On February 16, 2017

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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) is now accepting applications for its 2017-2018 Graduate Student Research Fellowship. The fellowship has been established to encourage emerging scholars in the Delaware Valley area to engage with the rich manuscript resources at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and in Philadelphia.

This year, SIMS is pleased to offer the Graduate Student Fellowship in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia and the University of Fribourg-based project Fragmentarium (http://fragmentarium.ms), an international scholarly social network that enables libraries, collectors, researchers, and students to upload medieval manuscript fragments and to describe, transcribe, and assemble them online. Working under the guidance of SIMS’s Curator of Manuscripts, Dr. Nicholas Herman, the fellow will be responsible for researching manuscript cuttings and fragments from the John Frederick Lewis Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia and contributing the data to Fragmentarium.

The Free Library’s collection of over 2,000 European manuscript fragments, principally dating from the 11th to the 16th centuries, is one of the largest of its kind and remains relatively understudied. The fellow will have direct access to this extraordinary research material and the opportunity to engage in original scholarly research related to his or her field of study. Further, the fellow will become a participant in a major international digital humanities initiative while benefitting from extensive local expertise.

Applications are due April 1, 2017. For more information and how to apply, go to https://schoenberginstitute.org/graduate-student-research-fellowship-2/.

Rita Copeland, “An Emotional Anthology of Style: Glasgow Hunterian MS V.8.14” (Penn Material Texts, 2/20)

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On February 16, 2017

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How did medieval teaching identify the “literary” or “literature” as a particular quality to be achieved and imitated? What was the role of style in defining the realm of the “literary”? I will address these questions through a material context: a modest anthology from the thirteenth century, MS Glasgow, Hunterian, MS V.8.15. This teaching collection, devoted to rhetorical manuals and poems that illustrate rhetorical technique, expresses its interests in terms quite different from what we associate with better known and prestigious poetic anthologies such as the Codex Buranus as well as other teaching collections. The Glasgow anthology reveals its motives in terms that are at once material and meta-literary. It represents itself as a material witness to a period of innovative teaching, and it signals a moment at which medieval rhetoric recognizes itself as the instrument for theorizing literary style as the engine of emotion.

Rita Copeland is Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her fields include the history of rhetoric, literary theory, and medieval learning. Her new project is on rhetoric and the emotions in the Middle Ages. Her publications include Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages; Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the Middle Ages; Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (with I. Sluiter); The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (with P. Struck), and most recently, the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, 800-1558.

 

 

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