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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, the Centre for Medieval Literature (U of York and U of Southern Denmark), the Penn School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of History, French and Francophone Studies, the Department of English, Italian Studies, and Comparative Literature

present

Charles IV:

An Emperor in Europe (1316–2016)

13-14 October, 2016

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

 This symposium commemorates the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, the author of the Golden Bull, the “second Constantine,” the “Last Emperor,” the proponent of a Church Union, the founder of the first university in Central and Eastern Europe, a patron of all humanist scholars and artists, and “the father of the Czech nation.” The symposium brings together an international and interdisciplinary panel of scholars, who examine a number of aspects of Charles’s reign and ponder their implications for past and present (see attached program).

The symposium is free and open to the public. For more info and to register please go to:

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/charles_iv.html

A lecture by Dr. Sara Lipton

Temple Covenant of Peace

1451 Northampton St., Easton, PA

Saturday, November 12th at 7:00 p.m.

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

November 17-19, 2016

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, films, and tattoo art. 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 to register, visit the website: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium9.html.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.