Medieval History
The University of California, Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies
invites papers for two sponsored sessions at the 51st International Congress on
Medieval Studies, to be held from May 12-15, 2016:
Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages I: Huizinga
Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages II: Panofsky
These sessions are an extension of the series that began at the 49th Congress, with panels on Auerbach and Kantorowicz, and continued at the 50th congress, with panels on Arendt and Curtius. As in the past, each session this year examines one of the major intellectual figures of the post-war period, considered in light of their own contemporary moments and their lasting influence in our own. The first session is dedicated to the work of Johan Huizinga and the second to Erwin Panofsky. Each of these scholars has contributed to our understanding of the Middle Ages and to the methodologies we use in our studies--literary, historical, philological, political. Their work has also helped the Middle Ages to remain in the peripheral vision of those scholars working in other and later fields. Huizinga, in many ways one of the founders of cultural history, presented us with a decadent late Middle Ages and a world in decline, a vision of the period that still sets the terms of the debate about the period both for the broader public and in the work of many scholars. Panofsky?s homology between the structures of Scholastic thought and the architecture of the gothic cathedral stressed the importance of habitus, a concept that influenced the work of his early French translator, Pierre Bourdieu, and has continued to be an important concept in sociology and discourse analysis. Despite citations of their work by Medievalists declining steadily since the 1980s, their ideas have become ever more ingrained in scholarly assumptions about the Middle Ages. It is time now to revisit these ideas and directly address the intellectual contexts in which they were formed.
We invite papers from all disciplines that engage with the scholarship
of Huizinga or Panofsky. Please submit abstracts of no more than one page
along with a participant information form
<http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF> to
[email protected] by September 10th, 2015.
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Medieval History
The University of California, Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies invites papers for two sponsored sessions at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held from May 12-15, 2016:
The University of California, Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies
invites papers for two sponsored sessions at the 51st International Congress on
Medieval Studies, to be held from May 12-15, 2016:
Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages I: Huizinga
Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages II: Panofsky
These sessions are an extension of the series that began at the 49th Congress, with panels on Auerbach and Kantorowicz, and continued at the 50th congress, with panels on Arendt and Curtius. As in the past, each session this year examines one of the major intellectual figures of the post-war period, considered in light of their own contemporary moments and their lasting influence in our own. The first session is dedicated to the work of Johan Huizinga and the second to Erwin Panofsky. Each of these scholars has contributed to our understanding of the Middle Ages and to the methodologies we use in our studies--literary, historical, philological, political. Their work has also helped the Middle Ages to remain in the peripheral vision of those scholars working in other and later fields. Huizinga, in many ways one of the founders of cultural history, presented us with a decadent late Middle Ages and a world in decline, a vision of the period that still sets the terms of the debate about the period both for the broader public and in the work of many scholars. Panofsky?s homology between the structures of Scholastic thought and the architecture of the gothic cathedral stressed the importance of habitus, a concept that influenced the work of his early French translator, Pierre Bourdieu, and has continued to be an important concept in sociology and discourse analysis. Despite citations of their work by Medievalists declining steadily since the 1980s, their ideas have become ever more ingrained in scholarly assumptions about the Middle Ages. It is time now to revisit these ideas and directly address the intellectual contexts in which they were formed.
We invite papers from all disciplines that engage with the scholarship
of Huizinga or Panofsky. Please submit abstracts of no more than one page
along with a participant information form
<http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF> to
[email protected] by September 10th, 2015.
- Call For Papers: Society For The Study Of Anglo-saxon Homiletics At Kalamazoo 2014
Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI) May 8-11, 2014 New Methods in Anglo-Saxon Homiletics For over ten years at Kalamazoo, the Society for...
- Cfp: International Pearl-poet Society
The International Pearl-Poet Society is sponsoring the following two paper sessions at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 12-15, 2016) at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI: I: Speech, Sermons, and Silence in the Pearl-Poems...
- Kalamazoo 2011: Symposium On Teachers And Students In The Middle Ages
Kalamazoo 2011: Symposium on Teachers and Students in the Middle Ages (May 12-15, 2011) The Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University invites contributions to a session on medieval teachers and students for the 46th International Congress...
- E-periodization: Questioning Disciplinary Divisions Of Time In The English Middle Ages
LAST CALL! CFP: RE-PERIODIZATION: QUESTIONING DISCIPLINARY DIVISIONS OF TIME IN THE ENGLISH MIDDLE AGES International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010 *Apologies for cross-posting!* We are...
- The Hispanic Seminary Of Medieval Studies Cfp
Call for Papers 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A. 7-10 May, 2009 The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies is sponsoring the following two sessions at the 44th International Congress...