Delaware Valley Medieval Association

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Reactions: Medieval/Modern, a new exhibit in the Kislak Center at Penn

In conjunction with the 9th Annual Schoenberg Symposium of the same theme, Reactions: Medieval/Modern explores the many and varied ways that people have reacted to, and acted upon, manuscripts from the Middle Ages up to today. Reactions take many forms. They include the manipulation of physical objects through, for example, the marking up of texts, addition of illustrations, the disbinding books or rebinding fragments, as well as the manipulation of digital objects, thanks to new technologies involved in digitization, ink and parchment analysis, virtual reconstruction, among many other processes. Both the exhibition and symposium will also tackle how popular culture has reacted to manuscripts over time as witnessed by their use and appearance in books, games, and films.

A full-color illustrated companion volume exploring the themes of the exhibition will be available for purchase in late September. It includes and introduction by Dot Porter, exhibition curator, essays by Bruce Holsinger, Erik Kwakkel, Kathryn M. Rudy, Michael Livingston, Angela Bennett, and an exhibition checklist.

The exhibition will be on display in the Goldstein Family Gallery on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, until December 16th. I hope you’ll have a chance to come visit and take a look! The symposium will be November 17-19, and a separate announcement about that will come to the listserv soon.

Exhibit page on the Penn Libraries site: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/reactions.html

“Reactions to Manuscripts” Tumblr (for fun): http://reactionstomanuscripts.tumblr.com/

Medieval-Renaissance Welcome Back Event (Penn, 9/14)

Wednesday, September 14th, 5:00 PM
Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library

Panel: “The State of Medieval Science” 

Sponsored by the Faculty Working Group on Medieval Studies

Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr, History of Technology)
Renata Holod (Penn, History of Art and the Penn Museum)
Michael Solomon (Penn, History of Medicine)
Leah Devun (Rutgers, Gender and Sexuality)
Erin Connelly (Schoenberg Institute, Penn, History of Medicine)
 
The panel will be followed by a reception and a manuscript viewing in the Lea Library.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!

CFP: Moravian College Undergraduate Conference

The Eleventh Moravian College Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies will be held on Saturday December 3, 2016 on Moravian’s campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We’d be delighted if you’d bring the conference to the attention of your students and colleagues and encourage students to present or attend presentations and performances at the conference. We sincerely welcome contributions from all departments in explorations of connections to the period between approx. 500 C.E. and 1800 C.E. In the past, we’ve had some great papers, panels, and poster presentations that began as coursework, in addition to engaging performances in music, drama, and dance. The conference has generally drawn over 200 people and typically features presentations and performances by approximately 100 students from 30 schools or so.

The typical presentation format consists of a 15-minute paper or a 45-minute group performance, but alternative formats would certainly be considered. Both registration and submission of proposals will open October 3 and will be handled via the conference website. The deadline for the submission of proposals is November 4. For a look at past conferences, please visit our website at http://www.moravian.edu/medieval/

Highlights of this year’s conference will be a plenary presentation by Dr. Heide Estes (Dept. of English, Monmouth University); a performance of an adaptation of the medieval morality play, Everyman; and demonstrations and exhibits by artisans. We’ll be updating the website in the fall with additional details for this year’s conference. The conference typically runs from about 9:00am-4:00pm, with performance and reception following. Registration and all activities (apart from lunch) are free for presenters and attendees.

Bethlehem, in eastern Pennsylvania, is easily accessible from the Philadelphia area (about an hour and a half’s drive), the New York City area (about two hours’ drive), and other locations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

We would be happy to answer any questions you might have about the conference. Please feel free to email questions or requests for a cfp/flyer to jrblack@moravian.edu or sandybardsley@moravian.edu.

Communications Secretary and Membership Secretary

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Administrator access: http://dvmamedieval.com/administrator

Communications Secretary Duties

Updated August 2019

Weekly Duties

  • Check dvma@dvmamedieval.com emails for event announcements and other communications
  • Event announcements (see Walkthrough and Style Guide below)
    • Post event on website
    • Add event to MailChimp newsletter, linking back to announcement on DVMA website
    • Schedule MailChimp newsletter to deliver to email list and post on Facebook fan page

Occasional Duties

Communicating with Members

  • Fall Welcome Email (~4 weeks before 1st meeting)
    • Publicize year’s schedule of events (decided in May)
    • Advertise prizes offered and deadlines (December 15)
    • Membership benefits (join online!)
      • Discounted Penn card—deadline Dec. 1
      • Questions about membership status? Contact dvma@dvmamedieval.com
    • Direct readers to website / Facebook
    • Ask readers to forward to medievalists new in the area
  • Kalamazoo Blast (May)
    • 2 weeks before conference, request member submissions of their papers/panels
    • 1 week before (or week of) conference, circulate list of member’s papers/panels

Publicizing Meetings

  • 8 weeks out: obtain meeting name, time, location, speakers, titles, schedule, and publicity image from organizer(s)
    • Post on website as received
  • 4-6 weeks out: announcement to email list / Facebook via MailChimp newsletter
  • 2 weeks, 1 week, and 1 day out: reminders to email list / Facebook via MailChimp newsletter

Executive Council

  • Take minutes of meetings, distribute them to EC

 

Walkthrough and Style Guide

Posting New Events to the DVMA Website

Navigate to Content > Articles > Add New Article

Set Category as Announcements. Do not set as Featured.

Title format:

  • For lectures and talks: Author Full Name, “Talk Title” (Host Institution, Date)
  • For symposia and conferences: Conference Title (conference/symposium at Host Institution, Date)
  • For CFPs: CFP: Conference Title (Host Institution, Date)

MailChimp Newsletter

Add new events to the weekly newsletter on MailChimp. Use the same format as above for titles, and link to individual article post on DVMA website. 

Formatting DVMA Announcements vs. External Announcements

Use these formatting guidelines to emphasize DVMA-specific announcements within the newsletter.

  • In the email body, reserve Heading 1 for DVMA-specific announcements. For all others, use Heading 2.
  • Use highlight text for DVMA-specific announcements / designations. Accent color #cc6666  has so far only been used for DVMA announcements such as:
    • Prize winners
    • Buttons for DVMA events
    • Highlight text for DVMA events

 

Membership Secretary Duties

Produce list of active members to submit to Penn Library to make available Penn Card privilege (submit new list every year after first fall meeting; send updated list as requested or when a significant number of new members have registered)

Produce lists of active members as needed for relevant publicity and other purposes.

Answer inquiries regarding membership status from current and past members.

Organize committees for each prize in October-November every year:

In conversation with president, decide on executive council members to invite to serve on each award committee.

Gain commitment from award committee members.

Publicize prizes:

 

  • Deadline: January 15
  • Announcements 8 weeks, 4 weeks, and 2 weeks before deadline (11/15; 12/15; 1/1)

Gather submitted applications and mount to cloud (e.g., DropBox) for distribution to committee members; set deadlines for feedback.

Manage decision making process (January 15 – February 15)

Submit decision to president and communicate name of graduate student paper prize to be presented at next spring or fall meeting (by February 15)

 

CFP for Kalamazoo 2017: New Work on Manuscripts in Philadelphia

New Work on Manuscripts in Philadelphia: Looking towards the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis Project

In 2015, a collaboration led by the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and including 15 institutions was awarded $500K from the Council on Library and Information Resources for the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis project, which will digitize and put into the public domain over 400 manuscript codices. This session will celebrate the launch of the project by presenting a variety of papers showcasing the range of collections that will be made available through the BiblioPhilly project.

Have you been working with manuscripts from Philadelphia area collections? Consider submitting a proposal to participate in our session, sponsored by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. Please email a brief abstract to Dot Porter at dorp at upenn dot edu by September 15th for consideration.

Call for Papers from the Index of Christian Art

The Index of Christian Art invites submissions for two sessions in Image and Meaning in Medieval Manuscripts to honor Adelaide Bennett Hagens at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017.

Session I: Text-Image Dynamics in Medieval Manuscripts

Session II: Signs of Patronage in Medieval Manuscripts

The full CFP appears at http://ica.princeton.edu/conferences/. Submit proposals by September 15, 2016.

Image Credits

All images on this website are of works of medieval art in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The works of art are in the public domain, and the images are released under a Creative Commons Zero license.

Specific works include:

2016 Schoenberg Symposium Announcement

9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 17-19, 2016

Save the Date! Registration opens at the end of the summer.

Reactions: Medieval/Modern

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year’s theme, “Reactions: Medieval/Modern,” gives us space to explore the many and varied ways that people have reacted to, and acted upon, manuscripts from the Middle Ages up to today. Reactions take many forms. They include the manipulation of physical objects through, for example, the marking up of texts, addition of illustrations, the disbinding of books or rebinding of fragments, as well as the manipulation of digital objects, thanks to new technologies involved in digitization, ink and parchment analysis, virtual reconstruction, among many other processes. This symposium will also tackle how popular culture has reacted to manuscripts over time as witnessed by their use and appearance in books, games, and films. Our keynote speaker will be Michelle P. Brown, Professor emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and former Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library.

For more information and a list of speakers, visit the website: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium9.html.

DVMA Announcements & Events

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Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll & Fragment (November 18-19, 2016): Call for Applications

Organizers are pleased to announce a call for applicants to two digital humanities and manuscript studies workshops, running concurrently in fall 2016.

Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll
&
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Fragment

18-19 November 2016
Yale University

More information, syllabi and application links can be found on our website, www.digitalrollsandfragments.com/workshops/. Applications are due by July 15, 2016.

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