Medieval History
- Late Antiquity Newsletter -- Call For Papers, Apa 2013 Seattle
Letters in Late Antiquity Organizer: Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at BoulderSponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity We are fortunate to have more letters and letter collections from Late Antiquity than from the rest of Greco-Roman antiquity...
- Call For Papers: Late Antiquity
CALL FOR PAPERS: LATE ANTIQUITY The Society for Late Antiquity will be sponsoring three sessions at the International Medieval Studies Congress, May 13-16, 2010, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. As in the past, topics are open. One-page...
- Cfp
he Society for Late Antiquity solicits proposals for a panel to be held at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association on 8-11 January 2009 in Philadelphia, PA (USA). There are no funds available to subsidize travel, and panelists must...
- Journal Of Late Antiquity
Dear Members of the Late Antiquity Community and other interested folks-- The website for the Journal of Late Antiquity at the Johns Hopkins University Press now is ready to be accessed, with such things as subscription forms (it's very reasonably...
- Journal Of Late Antiquity
NEW JOURNAL JOURNAL of LATE ANTIQUITY The Johns Hopkins University Press The Journal of Late Antiquity (JLA) is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary journal covering the world of Late Antiquity, broadly defined, including the late Roman, western...
Medieval History
The Role of ?Performance? in Late Antiquity
The Role of ?Performance? in Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity
The 2014 panel sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, to be held in Jan. 2-5 in Chicago, will be devoted to the topic of ?performance? in all of its manifestations: administrative, bureaucratic, political, social, and religious. Late Antiquity was a world of ceremony, ritual, and performance. Performative rituals greased the wheels of interaction between patrons and clients, bishops and laity, officials and populace, and emperors and subjects. Manifestations of performance cropped up everywhere, in mime and pantomime, in circus factions, in religious liturgy, in the audience halls of the rich and powerful. Symbolic actions were manifested in verbal cues and gestures that were understood only by other participants in the performance. Different forms of expression had to be decoded in order to be understood. Meaning often lay beneath the surface. Things were not always as they seemed. Wheels moved within wheels. This panel will look at different kinds of manifestations of ?performance? in Late Antiquity, and consider why the concept of performance was so well suited to Late Antiquity as a uniquely defined period of history.
We invite the submission of abstracts offering new approaches to the many-sided issue of the role of ?performance?, broadly writ, in Late Antiquity. One-page abstracts (ca. 400 words) for papers requiring a maximum of 20 minutes to deliver should be sent no later than March 1, 2013 by email attachment as .doc or .rtf files to Ralph Mathisen at [email protected] or [email protected]. All submissions will be judged anonymously by two referees. Those whose papers are accepted must be members of the APA for 2013 and must attend the 2014 meeting in Chicago. For further information, please contact Ralph Mathisen, History, Classics, and Medieval Studies, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, at the email address above.
Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity
The 2014 panel sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, to be held in Jan. 2-5 in Chicago, will be devoted to the topic of ?performance? in all of its manifestations: administrative, bureaucratic, political, social, and religious. Late Antiquity was a world of ceremony, ritual, and performance. Performative rituals greased the wheels of interaction between patrons and clients, bishops and laity, officials and populace, and emperors and subjects. Manifestations of performance cropped up everywhere, in mime and pantomime, in circus factions, in religious liturgy, in the audience halls of the rich and powerful. Symbolic actions were manifested in verbal cues and gestures that were understood only by other participants in the performance. Different forms of expression had to be decoded in order to be understood. Meaning often lay beneath the surface. Things were not always as they seemed. Wheels moved within wheels. This panel will look at different kinds of manifestations of ?performance? in Late Antiquity, and consider why the concept of performance was so well suited to Late Antiquity as a uniquely defined period of history.
We invite the submission of abstracts offering new approaches to the many-sided issue of the role of ?performance?, broadly writ, in Late Antiquity. One-page abstracts (ca. 400 words) for papers requiring a maximum of 20 minutes to deliver should be sent no later than March 1, 2013 by email attachment as .doc or .rtf files to Ralph Mathisen at [email protected] or [email protected]. All submissions will be judged anonymously by two referees. Those whose papers are accepted must be members of the APA for 2013 and must attend the 2014 meeting in Chicago. For further information, please contact Ralph Mathisen, History, Classics, and Medieval Studies, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, at the email address above.
- Late Antiquity Newsletter -- Call For Papers, Apa 2013 Seattle
Letters in Late Antiquity Organizer: Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at BoulderSponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity We are fortunate to have more letters and letter collections from Late Antiquity than from the rest of Greco-Roman antiquity...
- Call For Papers: Late Antiquity
CALL FOR PAPERS: LATE ANTIQUITY The Society for Late Antiquity will be sponsoring three sessions at the International Medieval Studies Congress, May 13-16, 2010, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. As in the past, topics are open. One-page...
- Cfp
he Society for Late Antiquity solicits proposals for a panel to be held at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association on 8-11 January 2009 in Philadelphia, PA (USA). There are no funds available to subsidize travel, and panelists must...
- Journal Of Late Antiquity
Dear Members of the Late Antiquity Community and other interested folks-- The website for the Journal of Late Antiquity at the Johns Hopkins University Press now is ready to be accessed, with such things as subscription forms (it's very reasonably...
- Journal Of Late Antiquity
NEW JOURNAL JOURNAL of LATE ANTIQUITY The Johns Hopkins University Press The Journal of Late Antiquity (JLA) is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary journal covering the world of Late Antiquity, broadly defined, including the late Roman, western...