L'Agenda des Médiévistes

We are pleased to open the Call for Papers for the eleventh Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. The conference will take place at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th April 2015.

This year, the conference theme is Colour.

The conference is aimed at early career scholars and graduate students working in medieval studies. Contributions are welcomed from diverse fields of research such as history of art and architecture, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes. Please email 250-word abstracts (text only, no attachments please) to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 25th January 2015.

The registration fee is expected to be £15. There will be a conference dinner on the first night of the conference; it is hoped that this will cost in the region of £25. All updates and further information, including details of travel bursaries, can be obtained from this webpage, and will also be announced on our twitter account: http://www.twitter.com/OxMedGradConf .

For further information on previous Medieval Graduate Conferences, please click here.
– See more at: http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/conf_grad.shtml#sthash.QbJTEmEA.dpuf

Source de l’information : Medium Aevum

Submission deadline: January 1, 2015
Conference date(s): June 30, 2015 – July 4, 2015

Conference Venue:
History of Parliament Trust
London, United Kingdom

The year 2015 marks two anniversaries of enormous significance in the history of English, and British constitutional and legal history: the 800th anniversary of King John’s acceptance of Magna Carta, the great charter of liberties of the English nation in 1215; and the 750th anniversary of the Parliament summoned by Simon de Montfort in 1265, following his defeat of King Henry III in a civil war which was the culmination of a baronial revolt. To mark these anniversaries, the History of Parliament Trust will in 2015 host the annual conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (ICHRPI: http://www.ichrpi.com/).

The conference will take 1215 and 1265 as a starting point for an exploration of the initiation and development of political institutions from the early Middle Ages onwards, and an assessment of their role in state formation or nation building. It will consider the significance of foundational documents and events such as Magna Carta and the de Montfort Parliament and how these – and the historiography of Parliaments – became so important in the subsequent history of Parliament and political institutions – how, for example, Magna Carta and the de Montfort Parliament were built up and depicted as central events in the building of the English state.

The conference will set the foundation of the English and British constitutional tradition alongside that of other jurisdictions elsewhere; it will explore other confrontations between communal traditions and royal powers and how these were expressed and resolved; it will seek to compare the development of the English political tradition with contemporary parallel institutions in Europe, and explore their divergence and/or convergence.

We invite interested parties to submit a short abstract of no more than 200 words for papers on the following themes:

• Making Constitutions
• The development of ideas of law, representative institutions and constitutionalism in the Middle Ages
• The construction, importance, use and mythical status of foundational constitutional documents
• The global reach and influence of the English model of Parliaments and constitutionalism
• Building Parliaments
• The construction and development of Parliaments from Europe in the Middle Ages onwards
• Parliaments and their role in state formation and state building in all states and periods
• The history and historiography of Parliaments, and their place in political culture
  Studying Parliaments
• Round tables on various approaches to parliamentary history: oral history, prosopography and collective biography and digitised parliamentary sources.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words to Paul Seaward (pseaward@histparl.ac.uk) or Emma Peplow (epeplow@histparl.ac.uk) by 1st January 2015. Papers are welcomed in the languages of the Commission – English, French and German – but abstracts should be in English. Most papers will be restricted to 20 minutes. We also welcome submissions for panels.

Source de l’information : Institute of Historical Research

Gand
Mercredi 11 et jeudi 12 mars 2015

La 38e édition d’Archaeologia Mediaevalis se tiendra à Gand le mercredi 11 et le jeudi 12 mars 2015.

Ce colloque ne s’adresse pas uniquement aux archéologues mais également aux archéologues du bâti, aux archéopédologues, aux paléoanthropologues, aux spécialistes en paléoenvironnement, en céramique, etc…, toutes les disciplines qui mènent à une meilleure connaissance de notre passé matériel. Aussi, nous accueillons toute contribution permettant une étude extensive et intégrée du patrimoine archéologique. Comme l’an dernier, le premier jour sera une journée thématique. Les communications feront l’objet du programme du jeudi 12 mars.

Si vous désirez présenter une communication concernant vos travaux de l’année 2014, nous vous prions de nous renvoyer la fiche jointe en annexe complétée avant le 23 janvier 2015. Vu l’affluence grandissante des communications chaque année, les organisateurs vous confirmeront si votre communication ou poster a été acceptée.

Nous vous prions également de nous faire parvenir vos textes relatifs aux recherches et études archéologiques avant le 23 janvier 2015 à l’adresse courriel suivante : archaeomed@gmail.com. Ces textes doivent être de courts résumés relatifs aux sujets traités. Les références bibliographiques concernant 2014 seront envoyées séparément. Vos contributions devront être présentées en Word, intitulées « votre nom.doc » et dans le format suivant :

• Nom : Times New Roman, Majuscules, taille 12
• Titre (suivi de l’abréviation de la province entre parenthèses) : Times New Roman, gras, taille 12.
• Texte : Times New Roman, taille 12, aligné, maximum 8000 signes (espaces compris), pas de notes. La bibliographie sera intégrée dans le texte.
• Illustrations : maximum 3 illustrations, format Tiff ou JPEG. Les images ne seront pas intégrées dans le texte. Elles seront numérotées (« votre nom_figXX.jpeg » ou « votre nom_figXX.tiff ») et envoyées dans un dossier séparé.
• Légendes : les légendes seront envoyées dans un deuxième document Word intitulé « votre nom_legendes.doc ».

Après le 23 janvier 2015 nous ne pouvons plus garantir la prise en compte des articles dans la Chronique.

Conference 21-22 May 2015
Wrocław, Poland

In European historiography it is customary to see beginning of the Viking Age in the year 793, when a group of Norwegians came on their drakkar and plundered holy monastery on the island of Lindisfarne. Two years later similar event happened once more, this time on more grandious scale: Norwegian ships attacked several insular monasteries repeating previous success and opening the gate for the future similar activities in whole Europe.

Year 2015 will be 1219 years since these events happened, so even if it is not round number it is a good occasion for gathering on the conference about Scandinavians which were moving around making not only usual Viking stuff – plundering and killing – but, as we can see it now more clearly, introducing changes into societies they were encountering. In the conference we would like to summarise decades of research and try to give an answer to the question:

What kind of impact Vikings and their descendants had on Europe during the long Viking Age?

It is an important question as those hundred years of Scandinavian attacks and colonisation were a time when Europe was in the process of creation. Scandinavians were effective warriors, but also effective tradesmen, creators of states and talented artisans. In these capacities they influenced many societies at which they were appearing and where they left still visible traces.

The planned conference will concentrate on topics like political organizations, economics, crafts, language and art. Looking again at the topic of our conference it can be defined best as « from the Vikings to the Crusaders », but we do not want to repeat the title of the renowned exhibition and publication (1992). Over 22 years have passed since that event came out a lot of new information and studies resulting from archaeological research, especially in Central Europe.

We would like to make this conference to a meeting of scholars working not only with the “Viking Age” but with scholars interested in mentioned topics in their countries.

Deadline for registration of the paper is 1.04.2015

Organized by:
Centre for Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities
Institute of History of the University of Wrocław

Scientific Committee:
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Buko
Prof. Dr. Władysław Duczko
Prof. Dr. Sławomir Moździoch
Prof. Dr. Przemysław Wiszewski
Dr. Błażej Stanisławski

Organizing Committee:
Dr. Błażej Stanisławski
Anna Kubicka
Anna Czerepok
Joanna Orłowska
Olga Węglarz
Oskar Struzik
Tomasz Pełech
Konrad Szymański

Papers:
All speakers are requested to observe a 20 minute limit for presented papers. Presentations will be given as Power Point presentations.

Abstracts and registration:
Abstracts must be written in English and should be approximately 3000 characters in length (Title 200 characters).

Submission of abstracts: From 1 January to 1 April of 2015

The registration fee for speakers is 50 €.

All amounts are payable in Euro (€). All bank charges must be paid by the participants.

Registration fees can be paid on the bank account (PL 55 1240 1040 1111 0010 5540 0829) of the Centre for Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences

Once payment has been made, no refund will be given.

How to come:
The Organizing Committee cordially invite you to come to Wroclaw – the captivating city in the South-West Poland, the centre of science and culture. More information about the city at http://www.wroclaw.pl.

By car: The highway E 40 (A4)
By train: The connections with Warsaw, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Kiev, Lviv and via Warsaw with Moscow, more international and local connections of Polish railway at http://www.pkp.pl
By plane: Airport Wroclaw (www.airport.wroclaw.pl) – the connections (with cheap airlines: Wizzair and Ryanair, and LOT, Lufthansa and Qatar Airlines) with Warsaw and Germany, England, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and charter airlines with Turkey, Greece, Italy and Spain; and many air connections via air ports in Warsaw, Poznan, Katowice and Kraków

Accommodation:
Wroclaw is offering the different kinds of accommodation. More information at http://www.booking.com/city/pl/wroclaw.pl

Contact:
Dr. Błażej Stanisławski,
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences,
Więzienna St. 6, 50-118 Wrocław, Poland
Tel. +48 71 344 16 08, Fax +48 71 344 33 52
e-mail st-wski@wp.pl

Source de l’information : Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii. Polskiej Akademii Nauk