October 22-29 Center for Renaissance Studies presents Speech as Protest: Being Heard and Taking up Space in the Premodern World Roundtables

Panels on Censorship, Dissent, Representation in Time and Space, and Bringing the Premodern into Conversation with the Modern include presentations such as:

·         Saving Face, Early-Modern Musicians and Their Bodies

·         Testimonies of the Enslaved: Speaking within the Fraught Legal Terrain of Race Governance

·         Moderating Speech in the Feminine Counterpubilc: Eighteenth-Century Britain and the Bluestockings

·         “Traces of the Past”: Public Writing and Public Space in Southwest China

·         Contextualizing Sex Work in Early Modern Venice

·         A World on the Margins: Court Records and Sensory Experiences in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

Cost and Registration Information 

This virtual event will be free and open to the public. Space for some events will be limited, and priority will be given to scholars from CRS consortium institutions. To register, complete this online submission form.

ON CAMPUS EVENTS

Monday, October 5-Thursday, October 8 Ancient Studies Week Events

The Department of Ancient Studies invites you to celebrate Ancient Studies Week! We have an exciting lineup of events, listed below. We hope that you will join us. Please email Emily Hubbard (ehubbard@umbc.edu) with any questions.

Meeting Link:

 https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=me5ff8ce3ca2943871f631ff0e7e5b54b

Meeting Password: ancientstudies

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7:00-9:00pm—Webex Meeting: Student and Faculty Reading of Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria, an irreverent and scatological comedy about the tragedian Euripides’ attempts to liberate his kinsman from police custody.

Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m5ce58c042f68ef67573582f4044aab4f

Meeting Password: ancientstudies

Thursday, Oct. 8, 4:00-5:30pm—Webex Meeting: Ancient Studies Week Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky, “Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica.” Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Please visit the Dresher Center's webpage about this lecture for 

more information-(https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/humanities-forum-series/current-humanities-forum/?id=85473)

Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/onstage/g.php?MTID=e10e7d4fae8a1fc76fa06d71e0c76061e

COMMUNITY EVENTS

October 2-October 12  Folger Institute and Newberry Library Present Virtual Conference. Food and the Book: 1300-1800

This digital conference occurs on various days over 10/2/20-10/12/20.  The opening session brings together chefs and cookbook writers for a roundtable discussion.  Other sessions include “Food History in Archival Sources,” short papers, and sessions on “European Views on Indigenous American Foods” and “Race and Food in the Early Modern Book.” Registration for all or parts is free.  Information here.

October 12, 5:00 PM  Case Western Reserve University Presents Julius Lecture in Byzantine Art-Heaven on Earth: Justinian’s Hagia Sophia

This talk addresses the transformation of the basilica as an architectural form and its subsequent impact on architecture in the eastern Mediterranean. Justinian’s Hagia Sophia represents a critical moment in architectural history in terms of form, meaning, and aesthetics.

Robert Ousterhout is professor emeritus in history and art at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 2007-2017 and also served as director of the Center for Ancient Studies. He taught previously at the University of Illinois, where he received his PhD. Ousterhout’s fieldwork has concentrated on Byzantine architecture, monumental art, and urbanism in Constantinople, Thrace, Cappadocia, and Jerusalem.

Zoom Webinar Register Here

November 19, 1-2 PM  The Future of Medieval Disability Studies: An ACMRS Roundtable

This roundtable discussion brings together four scholars of medieval disability studies: Richard Godden (co-editor “Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World”), Jonathan Hsy (“Antiracist Medievalisms”), Cameron Hunt McNabb (The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe, an open-access volume on disability in the European Middle Ages) and Kristina Richardson (“Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World”).

Our speakers will discuss the state of the field and the ways in which we can imagine different, more inclusive futures.  This event is free and digital. Registration is required to attend. You will receive a secure livestream link to the email you registered with on the day of the event.  We will have live closed captioning throughout the event. The event will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel afterward.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-medieval-disability-studies-an-acmrs-roundtable-tickets-115090474708

For More Information Contact: Leah Newsom Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies acmrs@asu.eduacmrs.asu.edu

PAPERS AND CONFERENCES

Call for Submissions-2021-2022 Open Issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures.

Digital Philology is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval texts and cultures. See author guidelines at https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital-philology-journal-medieval-cultures/author-guidelines.

October 22-29 Center for Renaissance Studies presents Speech as Protest: Being Heard and Taking up Space in the Premodern World Roundtables

Panels on Censorship, Dissent, Representation in Time and Space, and Bringing the Premodern into Conversation with the Modern include presentations such as:

·         Saving Face, Early-Modern Musicians and Their Bodies

·         Testimonies of the Enslaved: Speaking within the Fraught Legal Terrain of Race Governance

·         Moderating Speech in the Feminine Counterpubilc: Eighteenth-Century Britain and the Bluestockings

·         “Traces of the Past”: Public Writing and Public Space in Southwest China

·         Contextualizing Sex Work in Early Modern Venice

·         A World on the Margins: Court Records and Sensory Experiences in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

Cost and Registration Information 

This virtual event will be free and open to the public. Space for some events will be limited, and priority will be given to scholars from CRS consortium institutions. To register, complete this online submission form.

November 18-20  Schoenberg Symposium: Manuscript Studies in the COVID-19 Age

Thanks to world-wide digitization efforts over the past twenty years, scholars at all levels and around the world have virtual access to more manuscripts and manuscript-related metadata than even a generation ago and are benefited by a broad array of digital tools, technologies, and resources that allow them to locate, gather, analyze, and interrogate digitized manuscripts and related metadata.

But in a Covid-19 Age, have these resources and tools been enough to continue manuscript research and study? Has access to these artifacts of our shared intellectual heritage become more open and equitable or are there still hurdles for scholarship around the world to overcome? Our goal is to offer a (virtual) space to discuss lessons learned since March and how those lessons can push us to better practice and development of strategies in the future.

The symposium will run Wednesday, November 18 to Friday, November 20. Each day will consist of a 90-minute session with papers in the morning, followed by a 90-minute panel discussion led by invited moderators in the afternoon. All sessions will be recorded and made available after each session.

Two events will be held conjunction with the symposium:

* Scholarly Editing Covid19-Style: Laura Morreale will lead a 3-day crowd-sourcing effort to transcribe, edit, and submit for publication an edition of Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience, from UPenn MS Codex 660 <https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cr5nc34> (f. 86r-95v).

* Virtual Lightning Round: Pre-recorded 5-minute lightning round talks featuring digital projects at all stages of development, from ideas to implementation. Want to feature your digital project? Submit your proposal here <https://forms.gle/aW4eRSr8fKtU6kPq8> by Friday, October 28, to be considered.
For program information and to register, go to: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13. Registration is free and open to the public but required. A Zoom link for all three days will be provided upon registration.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

The Medieval Academy of America’s Medieval Digital Resources

http://mdr-maa.org/resource/

This curated guide and database contains image banks, editions, translations, music and multimedia collections, interpretative websites and new works of digital scholarship in Medieval Studies.

University of Chicago Library’s Guide to Medieval Manuscript Research https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=813534&p=5805319

Contains Medieval Digital Humanities Collectives and Consortiums, Mapping Projects, Journals, links to Print Resources and Manuscript-Based Digital Humanities projects.

If you walk by the Folger this month, you’ll start seeing more signs of our renovation! Recently, we moved the statue of Puck on the west side of our building. In the next few weeks, we'll be picking up one of our beloved (and very big) magnolia trees and moving it sixty feet south of where it currently stands. Click below to learn more about our renovation, and follow us on social media to stay up to date on the latest magnolia moves!

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Toi Derricotte

There Is Too Much To Say

Thusday, October 22, 7:30 pm ET
$15 (suggested price) – $5 (minimum price)
Live on Zoom

Poet Toi Derricotte brings a fierce tenderness to the page. She reads from her recent collection of poetry I: New and Selected Poems, published in 2019 and shortlisted for the National Book Award.

Subscriptions on sale now. Single tickets available soon.

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Words, Words, Words

Virtual Book Club

Thursday, November 5, 6:30 pm ET
Free, Registration Required
Live on Zoom

Spaces for our virtual book club fill up quickly, so don't wait to sign up! Registration opens October 6 for our November meeting, when we'll discuss License to Quill by Jacopo della Quercia.

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Food and the Book: 1300 – 1800

This interdisciplinary virtual conference from the Folger Institute's Before 'Farm to Table' project and the Newberry Library examines the book as a primary intersection for foodways throughout the early modern world.

Cooking by the Book

A Conversation with Chefs and Authors

Friday, October 2, 1 pm ET
Free, Registration Required
Live on Zoom

What do cooks and writers learn from history's recipes and foodways? Food writers Tamar E. Adler and Michael Twitty, chef Paul Fehribach, and scholars Irina Dumitrescu and David B. Goldstein explore.

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Indigenous Foodways
Past and Present

Monday, October 12, 1 pm ET
Free, Registration Required
Live on Zoom

Chef Sean Sherman and scholars Elizabeth Hoover, Eli Suzukovich III, and Rose Miron discuss the ways Indigenous peoples preserved traditional foodways in spite of settler-colonialism.

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Critical Race Conversations

We Are What You Eat

Conversations on Food and Race

Thursday, October 15, 3 pm ET | Free
Live on YouTube

Scholars Gitanjali G. Shahani (San Francisco State University) and Jennifer Park (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) present a new Critical Race Conversation.

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Shakespeare Lightning Round

Tune in on Instagram Live

Join us for a fun, fast-paced, Shakespearean chat show. We ask our guests 30 lightning-fast questions about their favorite—and least favorite—things about the Bard.

Debra Ann Byrd

Wednesday, October 7, 5 pm ET

Live on Instagram

Debra Ann Byrd, actor, writer, and Harlem Shakespeare Festival Founder and Producing Artistic Director joins us to talk about her play Becoming Othello: A Black Girl's Journey, her research at the Folger, and more.

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Ken Ludwig

Wednesday, October 28, 5 pm ET
Live on Instagram

Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig joins us to talk about his newest play, his book How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, and the most underrated and overrated Shakespeare plays.

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New episodes of the Shakespeare Lightning Round coming soon!

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Folger Consort

Folger ENCORES

“Sonata Sopra L'Aria di Ruggiero”

Streaming on YouTube | Free

Watch Folger Consort's 2018 performance of one of Salamone Rossi's violin sonatas, with a new introduction from Folger Consort Co-Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein.

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Macbeth

Streaming on YouTube | Free

Witches! Ghosts! Something wicked coming this way! Folger Theatre and Two River Theater's bloody and magical Macbeth is perfect viewing for Halloween.

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Folger ENCORES

Love's Labor's Lost

Streaming on YouTube | Free

Director Vivienne Benesch and actor Zachary Fine both garnered Helen Hayes Award nominations for their work on Folger Theatre's Love's Labor's Lost. Watch a scene from that production with a special introduction from Benesch.

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Early modern English marriage advice- has much changed?

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the MEMS bi-weekly e-newsletter, sharing 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

September 30, 12 PM  A Day in the Life of a Teenage Samurai, Watch Party and Q & A on WebEx

Constantine Vaporis, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Asian Studies, partnered with TED-Ed Animations to produce A Day In the Life of a Teenage Samurai.  This original video draws from over thirty years of scholarship Vaporis has completed on Japanese history and culture. 

The video is set in Kôchi, Japan in 1800.  It is a brief window into the fictional life of 16-year-old Mori Banshirô, a samurai in training who aspires to be an artist. Banshirô’s journey takes place during the Edo period (1603 – 1868), which is the focus of Vaporis’s research.  For more information, check out: https://rebrand.ly/teenagesamurai.  A Q & A with Dr. Vaporis will immediately follow the viewing.

Sponsored by the Department of History, the Asian Studies Program, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Department of Visual Arts, and the History Student Council.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

September 30, 3 PM  Arizona State University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies hosts Indigeneity: A Dialogue with Natalie Diaz and Scott Stevens

Natalie Diaz and Scott Stevens discuss Shakespeare, poetry, and indigeneity.  This event is free and digital.  Registration is required, and participants receive a secure livestream link to the email you register with on the day of the event.  For more information, see:

https://asuevents.asu.edu/content/shakespeare-and-indigeneity-dialogue-natalie-diaz-and-scott-stevens?eventDate=2020-09-30

October 2-October 12  Folger Institute and Newberry Library Present Virtual Conference. Food and the Book: 1300-1800

This digital conference occurs on various days over 10/2/20-10/12/20.  The opening session brings together chefs and cookbook writers for a roundtable discussion.  Other sessions include “Food History in Archival Sources,” short papers, and sessions on “European Views on Indigenous American Foods” and “Race and Food in the Early Modern Book.” Registration for all or parts is free.  Information here.

PAPERS AND CONFERENCES

Call for Papers-2020 New England Medieval Conference: Race and the Middle Ages.  Abstracts due October 15, 2020.

The 46^th Annual New England Medieval Conference, Virtual Meeting Thursday, December 3, 2020. 

With the world-wide resurgence of anti-racist activism following the killing of George Floyd, we as medievalists feel compelled to reexamine notions of race in the pre-modern period.  Can speaking of “race” in the Middle Ages help us today?  How was race conceived in the Middle Ages?  Did race already dictate the lives of men and women and in medieval Europe?  To what extent did race and religion overlap in the Middle Ages?  We invite medievalists of all disciplines and specializations to explore these and other questions relating to the topic of race.  We welcome papers that deal with the origins and development of race from a variety of different perspectives.  We are likewise very interested in essays focusing on the treatment of race without medieval Western Europe.

Please send an abstract of 250 words and a recent CV to Meriem Pagès (mpages@keene.edu).  Please make sure to provide your name and full professional affiliation (institution and level of study) in your proposal. http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-2020-new-england-medieval-conference/

DIGITAL RESOURCES

The Medieval Academy of America offers Webinars and Digital Content

https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/MAAWebinars

These recorded webinars are on topics such as: Race, Racism and Teaching the Middle Ages, Medieval Freelancing 101, Techniques and Tools for Teaching, Learning and Researching Online, Manuscripts, Mapping, and Modeling, The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death, Research in the Era of COVID-19.

Also, check out their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ3CMBjLL-vGjldC6fXPn9w

The Walters Art Gallery Virtual Museum’s Digital Collections and Manuscripts

The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore has recently re-opened, and it also possesses an extensive digital collection of art, manuscripts ,and video content.  Manuscripts can be found at:The Walters Ex Libris.  Their You Tube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfx1V0QdgrTuQ93NJcFJZ92cf596nV_8v

For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Museum Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu.

Watch Party and Q&A

October 2-October 12  Folger Institute and Newberry Library Present Virtual Conference. Food and the Book: 1300-1800

This digital conference occurs on various days over 10/2/20-10/12/20.  The opening session brings together chefs and cookbook writers for a roundtable discussion.  Other sessions include “Food History in Archival Sources,” short papers, and sessions on “European Views on Indigenous American Foods” and “Race and Food in the Early Modern Book.” Registration for all or parts is free.  Information here.