The MEMS bi-weekly e-newsletter shares information about events, conferences, calls for papers, student and faculty work in the field, and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. If you have any items you would like to share in the newsletter, please send them to Laurel Bassett at lburgg1@umbc.edu.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
Mark Your Calendars!!!! MEMS Colloquium: April 7: 7 PM
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies minor of UMBC’s Department of History hosts Dr. Elizabeth Randell Upton, an Associate Professor of Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Dr. Randell Upton’s primary research area is medieval music. Her recent work examines late fourteenth and early fifteenth century vocal music to discover evidence for the experiences of performers and listeners in the medieval past, recorded in surviving musical notation. Join us on Zoom for her lecture: “Listeners as Players, Music as Play.” For questions or further information, contact Laurel Bassett: lburgg1@umbc.edu.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Friday March 5, 4:00 PM: The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University presents “Making and Knowing in Sixteenth-Century Europe” with Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
Professor Smith is the founding director of The Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University that explores the intersections between artistic making and scientific knowing. The Project has now created a digital critical edition of an anonymous sixteenth-century French artisanal and technical manuscript. This digital edition includes transcription, English translation, encoding of text, multimedia annotations, analyses of techniques and a searchable format in French and English. This lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is requested and the form can be accessed at https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/cmrs-lecture-pamela-smith-columbia-university-making-and-knowing-sixteenth-century-europe.
Friday March 12, 12 PM: Yale Lectures in Late Antique & Byzantine Art and Architecture presents Africa in Late Antiquity: Faith, Politics, & Commerce Between the Mediterranean & The Red Sea
This online lecture will be presented by Dr. Andrea Achi from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Consult the following link for more information including ways to register: https://twitter.com/MedievalArtRes/status/1366315698394431496
Thursday March 18, 9 AM (CST): The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Presents A Roundtable on the Present and Future of Manuscript Studies
This Zoom roundtable will respond to Ralph Hanna’s pre-recorded talk “Adventures in Libraries: Thoughts on Epistemology.” Professor Hanna’s talk focuses on the lessons learned from his career studying medieval manuscripts and the stories of those who made, used, and collected them. This roundtable will continue this conversation; panelists will share their own adventures in libraries and consider the paths ahead for the next generations of manuscript scholars. To view the pre-recorded lecture and register for this free event, please consult: https://www.newberry.org/03182021-adventures-libraries-thoughts-epistemology.
Thursday March 18, 3:00 PM-4:15 PM: The Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Critical Race Conversations: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Black Life and Anti-Black Violence in the Early Modern World
This youtube event with Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), Cecile Fromont (Yale University) and Robin Mitchell (California State University Channel Islands) will discuss what it means to center the African continent in the study of the “early modern” and what kinds of conversations this study engenders in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. For more information, consult:
https://www.folger.edu/critical-race-conversations#Reading,%20Writing,%20and%20Teaching
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Call for Papers: 97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America March 9-13, 2022 The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies and medievalism studies. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from those working outside of traditional academic positions. The meeting will take place on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and is committed to fostering conversation around the fifth-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Additional themes and threads of the meeting include: rethinking the global medieval, vulnerability and the ethics of care, queering the medieval, inter-religious coexistence and conflict, trade and cultural exchange and diplomacy and ambassadorial practices. Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2021. For more information, please consult: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2022AnnualMeeting
DIGITAL RESOURCES
“Houston, we have a problem:” Erasing Black Scholars in Old English Literature.”
This article, posted at ACMRS Arizona, details experiences of Black students and professors as they work with premodern texts and grammars. The hyperlinks liberally splashed across this article all take the reader to powerful further research and commentary on the subject.
Check out the new digital critical edition of The Canterbury Tales:
https://www.canterburytalesproject.org/
For ongoing digital updates from the Medieval (academic) world, check out #medievaltwitter, #shakeRace, and #raceB4Race.
On our website!
Check out videos of curator Ashley Dimmig’s presentation: Exploring Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery and MEMS faculty Dr. James Magruder’s presentations on Instrumental to Intellectual: Italian Female Artists, 1600s and Resurrection, Metamorphosis, and the Art of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age. http://mems.umbc.edu.
For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu