Free Online Latin Course for Summer 2016
Free Online Latin Course for Summer 2016
In the summer of 2016 William Turpin (Swarthmore College), Jen Faulkner (East Longmeadow High School) and Larry Swain (Bemidji State University) will offer another free online Medieval Latin translation course, using the Zoom video conferencing program. This summer we will read the “Life of Patrick” by Muirchú, and Patrick’s “Confession,” which are written in relatively straightforward, intuitive Latin. User-friendly editions (with a lot of vocabulary help) are or will be posted (see below).
The course is aimed above all at those who have completed a year or so of classical Latin at the college level, or the equivalent in high school. It should also be suitable for those whose Latin may be a little rusty, or for more accomplished Latinists with an interest in medieval Latin. The intention is to replicate the experience of a student in (say) a college Latin class at the early intermediate level, minus the quizzes, tests, and continuing assessment; there is no mechanism for awarding credit or certificates of attendance. The most immediate model, in fact, may be an informal reading group: the basic premise is that a small community of interested participants can both encourage and enhance what is essentially a private encounter with a text.
Zoom will allow eight active participants (i.e. people who may wish come online to translate a particular section of text) and an unlimited number of auditors, who will be able to submit questions and comments using the messaging function. The sessions will also be archived on YouTube. We will provide a webpage for interested participants to sign up for particular sections of the text; such participants will then be invited to translate and to raise questions or comment as seems appropriate. The instructors and other active participants will offer assistance and comments as necessary, just as in an ordinary class with participants sitting around a table.
Sessions will begin on Sunday, June 5, at 2PM Eastern time. General information about the course and subsequent online “discussions” can be accessed by joining the Google Plus “Community” entitled “Medieval Latin (Summer 2016): St. Patrick: Muirchu, Vita S. Patricii and Patrick’s “Confessio.” (
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106839324668039713380). The Google Plus page has a link to a webpage for the course, where you can find the texts and sign-up sheet for joining one of the weekly sessions as active participant (or go straight to
https://sites.google.com/a/swarthmore.edu?tab=m3)
Active participants will need a webcam and to install Zoom (which is free and easy to install); observers will find the link posted on the Google Plus page shortly before the session begins.
Call for Papers: Rowan University’s Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies
I am pleased to announce Rowan University’s Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Last year’s inaugural symposium was a great success, bringing in scholars from multiple states and from as far afield as England, Australia, and the Ukraine, and a collection of selected essays presented at the conference is currently under negotiation with Ashgate.
This year’s symposium is entitled ‘Representation and Reality in the Medieval Church’, and we are welcoming interdisciplinary papers from professional scholars and postgraduate researchers alike. This will be a two-day symposium, from 31 July – 1 August 2015, on the main campus of Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ; this year, the event is being co-sponsored by both Rowan and the University of Kent. There will be multiple sessions and plenary presentations by Dr. Barbara Bombi and Dr. Sarah James, both of the University of Kent. In addition, last year’s undergraduate panel was so well received that we will be continuing that tradition with four undergraduate students presenting 15-minute papers. We would especially like to encourage submissions from undergraduates outside of Rowan, as well, as this is an excellent chance for students to receive conference experience in a constructive, non-threatening environment.
I have attached the call for papers; as stated, submissions should be emailed to rowanmedievalsymposium@gmail.comby 1 May 2015. Any questions can be directed to myself, Jon-Mark Grussenmeyer (jg482@kent.ac.uk), and further information can be found on our website: http://rumedievalsymposium.wix.com/medieval-symposium.
Lastly, please do pass this email on to any relevant contacts that you might have. Thank you in advance for your help and support.
Respectfully yours,
Jon-Mark Grussenmeyer
University of Kent
Jill and John Avery Lecture Series in the History of Art
T. J. Clark, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
“Joachim’s Dream, or What Can Art History Say About Giotto?”
Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 5:00 pm (reception to follow).
College Hall 200, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Please circulate this invitation and the attached flyers widely.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Jill and John Avery Fund in the Department of the History of
Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Please contact Andre Dombrowski, adom@sas.upenn.edu, or David Young Kim,
davik@sas.upenn.edu, for further information.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/
Please note:
On Monday, October 13 at 6:30 pm, T. J. Clark will also speak at the
Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104:
“Test the West.” Kaja Silverman in conversation with T. J. Clark about art and
capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall
https://slought.org/resources/test_the_west
7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
November 6-8, 2014
Collecting Histories
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year’s symposium highlights the work of the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts by bringing together scholars and digital humanists whose work concerns the study of provenance and the history of collecting pre-modern manuscripts. The life of a manuscript book only just begins when the scribe lays down his pen. What happens from that moment to the present day can reveal a wealth of information about readership and reception across time, about the values of societies, institutions, and individuals who create, conserve, and disperse manuscript collections for a variety of reasons, and about the changing role of manuscripts across time, from simple vehicles of textual transmission to revered objects of collectors’ desires. The study of provenance is the study of the histories of the book.
For more information and to register online, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium7.html
Medieval Studies Lecture Series at the University of Pennsylvania (Kislak Center, 6th Floor of Van Pelt Library)
ALL DVMA Members welcome to attend!
Welcome Back Reception; Panel on “Why the Middle Ages Matter” (speakers tba)
September 16th, 5-7 PM
(cosponsored by the Library, Medieval Studies, and the Center for Ancient Studies)
Professor Alastair Minnis (Yale, English), October 23rd, 5-7 PM
http://english.yale.edu/faculty-staff/alastair-minnis
Professor Adam Kosto (Columbia, History), January 29th, 5-7 PM
http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Kosto.html
Professor Marina Rustow (Johns Hopkins, History), April 2nd, 5-7 PM
http://history.jhu.edu/directory/marina-rustow/
A Message from John Black (Moravian College) about the Moravian College Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (December 6, 2014)
http://www.moravian.edu/medieval/
We’re writing to remind you that the ninth Moravian College Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies will be held on Saturday December 6, 2014 on Moravian’s campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We’d be delighted if – as you are finishing final plans for fall courses and beginning your classes – you’d bring the conference to the attention of your students and colleagues and consider bringing students to deliver and enjoy presentations and performances at the conference. Medievalists and Early Modernists are typically interdisciplinary, so we sincerely welcome contributions from all departments. Proposals on all relevant topics are welcome, as long as there is some connection to the period between approx. 500 C.E. and 1800 C.E. Last year’s conference was attended by over 200 people and featured presentations and performances by approx. 100 students from 30 schools.
Both registration and the submission of proposals will open October 1 and will be handled via the conference website. The deadline for the submission of proposals is November 7. Registration will again be free for both presenters and attendees. For a brief preview of this year’s conference and 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. Kostis Kourelis (Dept. of Art and Art History, Franklin and Marshall College); a performance of early music ensemble by Sonnambula (http://www.sonnambula.org/), a New York City-based viol consort; and demonstrations and exhibits by artisans. We’ll be updating the website in the fall with additional details for this year’s conference.
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 .
All the best for the start of the new semester!
Sincerely,
John Black, English Department
Sandy Bardsley, History Department
Moravian College
1200 Main Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018
