Daily Archives: 26 September 2016

Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Prize – Call For Applications

We are very pleased to announce that, beginning in 2017, the Medieval Academy of America will add a Digital Humanities Prize to its suite of publication honors, to be awarded alongside the Haskins Medal, the Brown Prize, and the Elliott Prize. The annual Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Prize will be awarded to an outstanding digital research project in Medieval Studies created and launched within the last five years. The Prize – an award of $1,000 – will be presented at the Medieval Academy of America’s Annual Meeting.

The Digital Initiatives Advisory Board (DIAB) of the Medieval Academy of America will select the award-winning project based on DIAB’s established criteria for high-quality digital medievalist projects, considering the following criteria, among others: quality of research and contributions to Medieval Studies; goals and methodologies of the project; design, presentation, and accessibility of the project; sustainability of the project and compatibility of its metadata.

Nominations are now being accepted online and must be submitted by midnight on October 15. Click here for more information about the Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Prize.

Early Modern Debts: Obligation & Cancellation in European Culture, 1550-1700 – Call For Papers

Early Modern Debts: Obligation & Cancellation in European Culture, 1550-1700
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bavaria
21-22 September, 2017

Symposium Website

Historians, philosophers, economists, scholars of art, literature and theatre have begun to attend more closely to the role of debt in early modern culture. It has become clear that private debt, nebulously conceived as credit, was involved in the production and reproduction of social relations, political ideology, even subjectivity. The history of debt has become an object of serious interdisciplinary interest, but the question of how apparently distinct forms of debt co-developed is often suspended.

Early Modern Debts will stimulate rigorous interdisciplinary work on debt and credit in early modern culture. It addresses the relationship between general theories of debt and particular experiences or operations of debt, and explores how different sorts of credit interacted.

The organizers call for papers that take, as their central theme, debt and the interrelationship of different kinds of debt in early modern culture. Papers of a comparative and/or multilingual nature will be preferred.

Please provide a title and an abstract of approximately 300 words. The deadline for proposals is 1 November, 2016. To submit a proposal, please visit the Symposium’s website: http://early-modern-debts.space