To whom it may concern,
To whom it may concern,
Conference: Multilingual Literary Practices In A Multicultural World, From Archaic Greece To The Byzantine Empire
November 14, 2023 – November 15, 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS
Multilingualism in the ancient world has been of great interest to linguists and literary scholars alike. Linguists investigate borrowings and structural convergences between two or more languages and explore broader sociolinguistic questions such as regional diversification and linguistic ideologies (e.g. Adams et al. 2002; Bentein 2016; Clackson et al. 2020; Hogeterp 2018; Kaimio 1979). Literary scholars look into the socio-cultural context within which literary works were produced and received and the linguistic background that Greek-speaking and writing authors had – including the linguistic norms and standards that they tried to uphold in the Greek language itself – framing it in the broader question of (the struggle for) cultural identity (Adams 2020; Andrade 2013; Bozia 2018; Goldhill 2011, Lee at al. 2014). For both research strands, Archaic Greek dialectal variety and its literary manifestations, as well as multidialectal and multilingual contacts in Classical Greek, have been of interest. Similarly, the Post-classical period (including the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods) has been of particular relevance as a time of particularly intense language contact.
Scholars working in these two research strands tend to focus on different types of sources – literary and non-literary sources such as papyri and inscriptions – and adopt different methodologies, focusing on different types of research questions. The main aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, methodologies, and sources with the objective of developing a more integrated approach toward multilingual practices in various ways:
TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
A thematic issue with selected contributions will be published by The Journal of Literary Multilingualism. Leiden: Brill.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
JAMES CLACKSON, University of Cambridge
MARK JANSE, Ghent University
ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU, University of Reading
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals (500 words max) by December 15th, 2022 to Eleni Bozia (bozia@ufl.edu), Klaas Bentein (Klaas.Bentein@UGent.be), and Chiara Monaco (Chiara.Monaco@UGent.be).
REFERENCES
Adams, J. N., Mark Janse, and Simon Swain. 2002. Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Text. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Adams, Sean. 2020. Greek Genres and Jewish Authors. Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era. Baylor University Press.
Andrade, Nathanael J. 2013. Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World. Greek Culture in the Roman World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bentein, Klaas. 2016. Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be-Constructions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bozia, Eleni. 2018. “Immigration as acculturation: voluntary displacement in the Roman Empire.” In D. Arroyo (ed.) Displacement in language, Literature and Culture – 2016 CMLL Symposium, Selected Proceedings. Benalmádena, Málaga, Spain. 49-82.
Clackson, J., Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapetra, and Nicholas Zair. (eds.) 2020. Migration, Mobility, and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press.
Fournet, Jean-Luc. 2013. “Culture Grecque et Document Dans l’Égypte de l’Antiquité Tardive.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 43: 135–62.
Goldhill, Simon. 2011. Being Greek under Rome. Cambridge, GBR: Cambridge University Press.
Hogeterp, Albert L. A. 2018. Semitisms in Luke’s Greek: A Descriptive Analysis of Lexical and Syntactical Domains of Semitic Language Influence in Luke’s Gospel. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 401. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Kaimio, Jorma. 1979. “The Romans and the Greek Language.” Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 64: 1–379.
Lee, B.T., Ellen Finkelpearl, and Luca Graverini (eds.) 2014. Apuleius and Africa. Routledge.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
ELENI BOZIA, University of Florida
KLAAS BENTEIN, Ghent University
CHIARA MONACO, Ghent University
Call for Papers: The Ninth North American Syriac Symposium
“Syriac at the Center”
June 11-14, 2023
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together scholars and students for exchange and discussion on a wide variety of topics related to the language, literature, and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, extending chronologically from the first centuries CE to the present day and geographically from Syriac Christianity’s homeland in the Middle East to South India, China, and the worldwide diaspora.
In 2023, the Ninth North American Syriac Symposium will be held in person at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, June 11 to June 14. Most of the event will be hosted at the Yale Divinity School, with the opportunity to visit the Dura-Europos exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery and to see an exhibition of Syriac manuscripts from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The theme of this Symposium is “Syriac at the Center.” Syriac has often been treated as an auxiliary language in the modern humanities, an adjunct tool to scholarship on Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, early Islam, the histories of theology and of science, and other areas of inquiry. It is an “extra language” in humanistic curricula. This conference welcomes papers on topics that treat Syriac as central, not peripheral, to scholarly investigation. How do our research subjects look when we stand with Syriac and regard other traditions and areas as peripheral?
Positions of center and periphery are matters of perspective, easily leading to one-sided views. We therefore encourage papers on this theme that rise above mere encomia to the importance of the Syriac traditions, but go further, showing how centering Syriac reveals new solutions to old problems, as well as new problems and areas of inquiry, and complicates current scholarly assumptions.
We welcome particularly papers addressing
Any investigation into the Syriac traditions has the potential to contribute to the main theme of the symposium. We therefore also welcome generally presentations by scholars on their current research, even if they do not directly address the symposium’s theme.
Please submit a title and abstract of proposed communication (150–200 words), to https://nass23.yale.edu by January 2, 2023. Accepted speakers will be notified in February 2023.
For inquiries concerning the symposium, please do not hesitate to reach out to nass23yale@gmail.com.
The organizers,
Jimmy Daccache, Maria Doerfler, Kevin van Bladel
NB: This symposium coincides with the 6th Yale Liturgy Conference, June 12-15, 2023, held at the Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center, about five minutes’ walk from the Yale Divinity School. We expect to host a joint panel between both events and welcome proposals for contributions.
The Byzantinist Society of Cyprus (BSC/ΒΕΚ: Βυζαντινολογική Εταιρεία Κύπρου) invites papers to be presented at the Fourth International Conference on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, between the 17th and the 19th of March 2023.
The languages of the conference will be Greek, English, French and German.
Deadline for abstracts: December 19, 2022.
Find attached the call for papers and the Conference poster.
We would like to inform you that the deadline for abstracts for the UK Late Antiquity Network’s IMC 2023 strand – ‘Taste and Disgust in Late Antiquity’ – has been extended to Monday 12th September 2022.
The link to the full CfP can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/
Abstracts should be limited to 300 words and accompanied by a short academic bio. The deadline for submission is 11:59pm (GMT) on Monday 12th September 2022. Abstract submissions and/or queries should be sent to lateantiquenetwork@gmail.com.
Applications from masters students, those in the early stages of their PhD, and those without a current institutional affiliation are encouraged. Additionally, applications from female and non-binary scholars are also particularly welcome. Applicants are strongly encouraged to interpret taste in late antiquity broadly within the context of their own area of research.
With best wishes,
Henry Anderson (Exeter) and Ella Kirsh (Brown)
LAN Steering Committee
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture invites papers for its sponsored panel at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 11–13, 2023.
Audience and Action in Byzantine Ceremonies
Session organized by Nikolas Churik (Princeton University) & Erik Ellis (Hillsdale College)
This panel invites a wide-range of papers on the question of popular presence and participation in Byzantine public ritual. In particular, the panel is interested in idealized and non-idealized participation. It aims to consider especially how the people are understood to take part in public ceremonies through their normative representatives (guilds, nationalities, ethnic groups) or upset those norms due to some limiting factor (geography, social status, ability). The papers may come from relevant disciplines (literary/area studies, history, religious studies, art history, among others) and from any relevant linguistic or cultural field.
To read the full call for papers, please visit https://
Abstracts of 300 words are due September 15, 2022. Abstracts must be submitted using CONFEX, the conference portal (https://icms.confex.com/icms/
Please submit any questions about the panel to Nick Churik (nchurik[at]princeton.edu).
Funding
The Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse session participants up to $600 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. For scholars participating remotely, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse participants for conference registration.
Call for Papers for CAA 2023 “Engaged Art: Connections and Communities in the Classroom and Beyond.”
List members are warmly invited to submit a proposal to present at CAA’s 111th Annual Conference to be held February 15—18, 2023 at the New York Midtown Hilton for a SECAC session entitled “Engaged Art: Connections and Communities in the Classroom and Beyond.”
Engaged Art: Connections and Communities in the Classroom and Beyond
Session will present: In-Person (unless the conference is changed to virtual)
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: SECAC
Dr. Hallie G. Meredith, Washington State University
Email Address: hallie.meredith@
For details about how to submit a proposal, please click here.
What kinds of unique contributions can visual art make to create communities in the classroom and beyond? Incorporating core tenets focusing on decoloniality, combating institutional racism, and issues of intersectionality and social justice, there is increasing interest in engaging communities by means of visual expression. The advent of numerous terms index this, for example, Eco Art, New Genre Public Art and Social Practice. Interactions are crucial to foster awareness and space for collaborations. However engaged visual culture extends beyond studio practice to art education and art history with related concepts, such as, embodied and experiential learning. Fundamental to each of these instantiations is a focus on the power of civic engagement to experience and cultivate social change. From empowering marginalized communities to redefine museums, to public events providing opportunities to experience ancient technologies, to graduation requirements and university promotion guidelines highlighting community engagement activities, the dynamic and vital role of engaged communities is widely recognized within and beyond the Academy.
Given the myriad possibilities for partnerships among communities, this session asks: How is visual art uniquely positioned to engage communities both inside and outside of the classroom? How have you incorporated local partnerships to both teach students and build community relationships? What worked and what failed? Is community engagement a sustainable curricular format? Artists, designers, art educators, art historians and museum professionals are invited to submit abstracts focusing on visual art and culture concurrently integral to a teaching event or class and a community engagement partnership.
Proposals are due 23.59/11.59 pm PST on 31st August 2022.
For details about how to submit a proposal, please click here.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Session sponsored by the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)
Session co-organizers:
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