CFP: Digitizing the Medieval Archive 2014, April 25-26, Toronto, ON

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Keynote Speakers:

David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)

Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)

Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library)

The discussion about the digitization of the Middle Ages, by its very nature, tends to be one that takes place in an online setting. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly popular topic of Internet conversation, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to come together in real time to consider and discuss the possibilities of a digitized medieval archive.

Click here for the full call for papers and check the conference website for more information. Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2013 for consideration. To contact the conference organizers write to digitizingmedievalarchive@gmail.com.

AMEMG Conference Program, Charlottetown, 4-5 October 2013

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UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Friday, October 4

8pm Welcome Reception (location TBA)

Saturday, October 5

Session 1: 9:00-10:15am Europeans and non-Europeans

Chair: Gary Waite, UNBF

Richard Raiswell, UPEI – Calvin, Rhetoric and the Representation of India in Early 17th C

Robin Vose, STU – The Inquisitor’s Matrix: a Global Survey of Inquisition Manuals: Mexico

Pamela Bastante, UPEI – Fray Martín de León and Novo-Hispanic Tradition of the Ars Moriendi

Session 2: 10:30-12:30pm: Politics, Religion, and the People

     Chair: Edie Snook, UNBF

Greg Kennedy, UdM – The Projection of French Naval Power into Atlantic North America

Catherine Innes-Parker, UPEI – Antoinette Auger and the French Counter-Reformation

Neil Robertson, UKC – Justice as Charity: The Political Vision of Dante’s Paradiso

Christina Luckyj, Dal – Early Modern Women Writers and the Politics of the Female Voice

Jeremy Hayhoe, UdM – 18th c French Villagers and Migration

Bill Barker, Dal – Gabriel Harvey’s Political Reading

12:30 -1:30pm LUNCH

Session 3: 1:30-3:15 pm: Medicine, Science, and the Occult

Chair: Richard Raiswell, UPEI

Janine Rogers, MTA – Medieval Codicology and the History of Science Collection

Kathryn Morris, UKC – Superstition and 18th c Vampire Debates

Karim Baccouche, UNBF – Origins of the Witches’ Sabbat 15thC

Edith Snook, UNBF – Women’s Writing and Medicine in Early Modern England

Wendy Churchill, UNBF – Medical Conduct and Morality in Early Modern Britain and its Empire

Session 4: 3:30-4:45 – Teaching and Performing Early Modern, Then and Now

Chair: Janine Rogers, MTA

Shannon Murray, UPEI – Satan Teaches Paradise Lost

Sandra Bell, UNBSJ – Learning Shakespeare through Performance

Adriana Benzaquen, UPEI – Educational Designs: Younger Sons in the Late Seventeenth Century

Michel Cardin UdM – The Theorbo, as a Solo and a Continuo Instrument, 1600 and 1750

5-6pm: AMEMG Business Meeting: The Future

Election of Executive

7pm AMEMG Banquet or Dinner out

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Call for Presenters for the 2013 Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, UPEI, 4-5 October 2013

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Please submit your intention to participate by sending, by 15 August 2013, a brief, 100-200 word description of your 10 minute presentation on current / proposed research to:

Edith Snook, AMEMG Secretary, and copied to AMEMG Chair, Gary Waite (see “Contact” page of the website for details).

Started two years ago, AMEMG now has 45 members from across the Atlantic Canada region and is still growing. Its mission as stated in its Constitution of 2011, is: “the promotion and development of Medieval and Early Modern studies in the Atlantic Region on a multi-disciplinary basis; and that of promoting the scholarly activities of its members and their students. It also seeks to support and collaborate with other relevant scholarly organizations that benefit the research of the AMEMG membership.”

We have had a number of meetings combining face to face and Skype interaction, and it is now time that we provide a venue in which members can present their current research interests and interact with colleagues in the region. Ultimately the goal is to promote cross-disciplinary comparison and collaboration.

We are therefore calling for participants who will make 5-10 minute presentations as part of roundtablediscussions. These will be organized around subjects that are both as thematically coherent and as broadly multi-disciplinary as possible. Final topics will be determined by the AMEMG Executive on the basis of submissions. These roundtables, could, for example, include:

1. Extra-European contact and interaction

2. Religion, Inquisition, Law, Politics and Political Philosophy

3. Medicine, Science, Occult

4. Cultural Productions

There also will be a meeting of AMEMG to elect a new Executive, vote on various matters, and plot the future of the group.

Tentative schedule: (Other activities will be arranged as possible)

Friday, 4 October, 7pm: Registration, Reception, Introductions, Informal Discussion

Saturday, 5 October, 9-10:30 Roundtable I

10:30-11:00 Nutrition Break

11:00-12:30 Roundtable II

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Roundtable III

3:30-4:30 AMEMG Meeting

7:00 Dinner //

Return home on Sunday 6 October

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