Daily Archives: 24 June 2016

Editor of the ICMA Newsletter – Call For Nominations

Nominations and (especially) self-nominations are sought for the key position of editor of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Newsletter. This is a three-year appointment. Orientation would start in the fall of this year.

The ICMA newsletter (now distributed electronically) is a major vehicle for communication with the membership; it has a wide readership. The focus now being on feature articles, the work is creative and involves much interaction with ICMA members. The excellent current editor, Sherry Lindquist, is now preparing her two final issues (Summer and Fall 2016); the new editor’s first issue would be posted in Spring 2017. Sherry describes the position in this way.

The ICMA newsletter editor solicits and edits relevant reports, photos, and other content from the president, committee chairs and ICMA members for the triannual newsletter of the organization (Spring, Summer, Fall) which is distributed online. S/he solicits and edits short feature articles of topical interest to the membership of the ICMA and collaborates with the Student Committee on the Student Committee pages. The newsletter editor is not responsible for the graphic design or distribution of the newsletter. S/he is an ex-officio member of the ICMA Publications Committee and the Board of Directors.

If you would be interested in taking on this important task, please forward to Elizabeth Sears, Chair, Publications Committee (esears@umich.edu) a brief statement of interest and a current CV.

Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon – Call For Papers

Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon
University of Bergen, Norway
22-24 June, 2017

This international conference is organized by Professor Diane Watt and Dr Laura Saetveit Miles as part of the Leverhulme International Network, ‘Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon’, led by the University of Surrey, in collaboration with the Universities of Bangor, Bergen, Boston, Durham, Lausanne, Swansea, and Texas A&M. For further information please visit the network website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/medievalwomen.

Over the last three decades medieval women’s writing has become a significant focus of innovative research. Yet, despite this wealth of ground-breaking scholarship, the established canon of medieval literature has remained fundamentally unchallenged. This conference will explore the importance of considering women’s engagement with textual culture in understanding the medieval literary canon. While the network has hitherto focused largely on English texts and traditions, we welcome papers that focus on European sources.

Themes that will be explored in the conference include:

  • Women as authors
  • Women as patrons
  • Book ownership in the household
  • Anonymous texts
  • Genre and gender
  • Literary reception
  • Women as translators
  • Women readers
  • Book ownership in women’s religious communities
  • Manuscript production
  • Literary influence
  • Collaboration

We anticipate contributors giving papers of 20-30 minutes. Please submit proposed titles and abstracts of 300 words, with a short academic biography, by 15 September, 2016 to Lynette Kerridge: l.kerridge@surrey.ac.uk.