Medieval History
The time draws near -- December 15th, to be exact -- for session proposals for the 2nd biennial meeting of the BABEL Working Group, "cruising in the ruins: the question of disciplinarity in the post/medieval university," to be held in Boston from 20-23 September 2012, and co-hosted by Northeastern University, Boston College, and M.I.T. If you are interested in submitting only an individual paper, don't worry -- shortly after we have assembled all of the finalized sessions, we will issue another call for individual papers, to be submitted to organized sessions or just as individual papers [the next deadline for submissions will likely be in mid- to late March]. We've gathered an exciting line-up of featured speakers -- Jane Bennett, Jeffrey Cohen, Carolyn Dinshaw, David Kaiser, Marget Long, Lindy Elkins-Tanton and Sans façon -- who cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and fields, from medieval studies to physics to planetary geology to political philosophy to architecture to public art to photography, and who have been asked to consider the possibility of new friendships (intellectual and otherwise) across and within local knowledges. We are hoping for a raucous and felicitous convergence of bodies of knowledge and singular voices to help us consider: what happens both deep within, but also, beyond and after disciplines? What happens when we re-sound our disciplinary wells, while also, inevitably, bumping into each other and occasionally hooking up, like Democritus’s atoms, with our disciplinary Others? We're hoping to consider (and dream) together what the “uni-” in “university” and “universe” might mean; what the “after” in “after inter-disciplinarity” might portend; what misfit heterotopias might be possible in a new multiversity; what the “cruising” in “cruising in the ruins” might invite. For more details about the meeting, and where to send session proposals, go here: http://blogs.cofc.edu/babelworkinggroup/2011/07/03/the-second-biennial-babel-conference-20-23-september-2012-boston/ For a glance at the program, with asbtracts, from our first biennial meeting, go here: http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htm Best, Eileen -- Eileen A. Joy, Assoc. Professor Dept. of English Language and Literature Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Peck Hall, Room 3206 Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431 (618) 650-3971 http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy Lead Ingenitor, The BABEL Working Group http://www.babelworkinggroup.org/
- Babel's Inaugural Biennial Meeting
he full program for BABEL's Inaugural Biennial Meeting, to be held at the University of Texas at Austin from 4-6 November 2010, is now online: http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htm Full details about how to register, where to...
- The Babel Working Group, "postmedieval: A Journal Of Medieval Cultural Studies,"
I'm a bit behind and once again trying to play catch up on announcements. This is one to note please: The BABEL Working Group, "postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies," and the University of Texas at Austin will be co-hosting the conference...
- Some News From Babel
FIRST, the special issue of "Journal of Narrative Theory" [v. 37, no. 2], "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project" is now available for viewing and downloading at Project Muse: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_narrative_theory/toc/jnt37.2.html...
- Babel News From Eileen
springtime is here, and there is much to report and to [hopefully] seduce you into: FIRST, the special issue of "Journal of Narrative Theory" [v. 37, no. 2], "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project" is now available for viewing and downloading...
- Sema
I want to share with everyone the Call for Papers for the 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, to be held on the campus of Saint Louis University in downtown Saint Louis from October 2-4, 2008, and co-hosted by Saint Louis University...
Medieval History
Call for Sessions: BABEL's 2nd Biennial Meeting
The time draws near -- December 15th, to be exact -- for session proposals for the 2nd biennial meeting of the BABEL Working Group, "cruising in the ruins: the question of disciplinarity in the post/medieval university," to be held in Boston from 20-23 September 2012, and co-hosted by Northeastern University, Boston College, and M.I.T. If you are interested in submitting only an individual paper, don't worry -- shortly after we have assembled all of the finalized sessions, we will issue another call for individual papers, to be submitted to organized sessions or just as individual papers [the next deadline for submissions will likely be in mid- to late March]. We've gathered an exciting line-up of featured speakers -- Jane Bennett, Jeffrey Cohen, Carolyn Dinshaw, David Kaiser, Marget Long, Lindy Elkins-Tanton and Sans façon -- who cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and fields, from medieval studies to physics to planetary geology to political philosophy to architecture to public art to photography, and who have been asked to consider the possibility of new friendships (intellectual and otherwise) across and within local knowledges. We are hoping for a raucous and felicitous convergence of bodies of knowledge and singular voices to help us consider: what happens both deep within, but also, beyond and after disciplines? What happens when we re-sound our disciplinary wells, while also, inevitably, bumping into each other and occasionally hooking up, like Democritus’s atoms, with our disciplinary Others? We're hoping to consider (and dream) together what the “uni-” in “university” and “universe” might mean; what the “after” in “after inter-disciplinarity” might portend; what misfit heterotopias might be possible in a new multiversity; what the “cruising” in “cruising in the ruins” might invite. For more details about the meeting, and where to send session proposals, go here: http://blogs.cofc.edu/babelworkinggroup/2011/07/03/the-second-biennial-babel-conference-20-23-september-2012-boston/ For a glance at the program, with asbtracts, from our first biennial meeting, go here: http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htm Best, Eileen -- Eileen A. Joy, Assoc. Professor Dept. of English Language and Literature Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Peck Hall, Room 3206 Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431 (618) 650-3971 http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy Lead Ingenitor, The BABEL Working Group http://www.babelworkinggroup.org/
- Babel's Inaugural Biennial Meeting
he full program for BABEL's Inaugural Biennial Meeting, to be held at the University of Texas at Austin from 4-6 November 2010, is now online: http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htm Full details about how to register, where to...
- The Babel Working Group, "postmedieval: A Journal Of Medieval Cultural Studies,"
I'm a bit behind and once again trying to play catch up on announcements. This is one to note please: The BABEL Working Group, "postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies," and the University of Texas at Austin will be co-hosting the conference...
- Some News From Babel
FIRST, the special issue of "Journal of Narrative Theory" [v. 37, no. 2], "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project" is now available for viewing and downloading at Project Muse: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_narrative_theory/toc/jnt37.2.html...
- Babel News From Eileen
springtime is here, and there is much to report and to [hopefully] seduce you into: FIRST, the special issue of "Journal of Narrative Theory" [v. 37, no. 2], "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project" is now available for viewing and downloading...
- Sema
I want to share with everyone the Call for Papers for the 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, to be held on the campus of Saint Louis University in downtown Saint Louis from October 2-4, 2008, and co-hosted by Saint Louis University...