Bourse post-doctorale – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, invites applications for the 2015-2016 Jimmy and Dee Haslam Postdoctoral Fellowship, a one-year fellowship to be held August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016 and renewable for one year. The Haslam Fellowship is open to untenured scholars in any field of late antique or early medieval studies in the period 300-1100 C.E. The Institute hopes to attract a scholar of outstanding potential with an innovative research plan, who will participate fully in the intellectual life of the Marco community throughout the academic year. During the course of the year, the Fellow will teach one graduate seminar in his or her field of expertise. The seminar will preferably use primary source materials. The Fellow receives a $1,750 travel stipend and is eligible to apply for additional travel and research funding through the Institute. Salary is $40,000 and includes full benefits.

Online application form, curriculum vitae, detailed research plan (2 single-spaced pages), and two letters of reference must be submitted by April 1, 2015. To apply, please visit the link: https://ut.taleo.net/careersection/ut_knoxville/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1500000049, which takes you to Marco’s specific posting at UT’s online application program. You will be able to complete the online form after creating a user account. The online application provides you with opportunities to upload your c.v. and research plan. Please ask referees to send recommendations under separate cover by email attachment (Word or pdf preferred) to Thomas E. Burman, Riggsby Director, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, at marco@utk.edu. Recommendations should also be received by April 1, 2015.

Information on the Marco Institute is available at http://marco.utk.edu. The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.

Appel à contribution – Telling stories in Byzantium

Call for papers

Telling stories in Byzantium

An experimental workshop on Byzantine narration
and recent developments within narratology

HOSTED BY Uppsala University, 26–28 November 2015

“Man is fond of fables, and in all stations of life takes pleasure in narratives”. This declaration, quoted from the scholia on Dionysius Thrax’s Technē grammatikē, appeals to the notion of story-telling as an anthropological universal in order to give grounds for the preoccupation of Byzantine secular education with poetic fictions and rhetorical fables. Mastering the art of delivering tales, true of false, was recognized as an advantageous skill in all spheres of human life and society, not least for actors in performative and textual culture. The surviving corpus of Byzantine oratory, progymnasmata, hagiography, historiography, novels, liturgy, dialogues and other less easily classifiable texts abound in inventive and complex applications of the art of storytelling. Since several decades, modern Byzantine studies have often turned to classical narratology for heuristic tools or rigorous methodologies to study the logic and principles of narrative representation in these texts. In recent years, however, this curiosity appears to have declined, or at least remained unconnected to the advancement of the state of the art of narratology since the 1970s and 80s. What (if anything) can scholars studying Byzantine narrative gain from engaging with present-day discussions within the diversified field of post-classical narratology on topics such as media studies and narratology, gender and narratology, cognitive approaches to narration, unreliable narration or “unnatural narratology”?

The aim of this workshop is to accommodate open-minded discussions and experimental studies of narrative representations from all periods of Byzantine literary history. Contributors are strongly encouraged to test unfamiliar methodologies and to theorize their practice. It is the first of three annual events hosted by Uppsala University within the collaborative research network “Texte et récit à Byzance”, in cooperation with Monde byzantin (UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée) and Centre d’Études Byzantines, Néo-Helléniques et Sud-Est Européennes,bÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, 1 June 2015. If you would like to propose a contribution, please send the title and a short abstract (not more than 250 words) to Ingela.Nilsson@lingfil.uu.se.

Confirmed guests
Charis Messis (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Margaret Mullett (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington)
Aglae Pizzone (Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet, Odense

Pour le fichier pdf, cliquez ici.

Dumbarton Oaks’ Holy Apostles Symposium

Advanced registration information for the Holy Apostles Symposium is being held on Friday, April 24, 2015 to Sunday, April 26. Please register online by clicking on the following link: http://goo.gl/forms/civwnyBcHO

Space for this event is limited, and registration will be handled on a first come, first served basis. For further information, including preliminary abstracts, please visit the event page or contact Seh Hee Koh, Program Coordinator in Byzantine Studies – Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, at byzantine@doaks.org.

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Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques entre l’Occident latin, Byzance et l’Orient islamique (XIe-XVIe s.)

Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques entre l’Occident latin, Byzance et l’Orient islamique (XIe-XVIe s.)

Colloque international
27-28 avril 2015
Université de Liège


Seconde rencontre scientifique de l’axe 2 du programme quinquennal (2012-2016) de l’IFAO et de l’équipe Islam médiéval de l’UMR 8167.

Responsables : Denise Aigle (EPHE, UMR 8167), Frédéric Bauden (univ. Liège), Nicolas Drocourt (univ. Nantes, CRHIA) et Stéphane Péquignot (EPHE, équipe SAPRAT)

Pour le programme, cliquez ici.

Appel à contribution – Second International Post-graduate Conference, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Second International Post-graduate Conference

The Land of Fertility. South-East Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest.
(To be held in the building of the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków on 12th – 13th June 2015.)

This year we would like to focus on the ancient city, its formation and development. It has been set to focus on the ancient city as a place where people live, as well as the urbanisation processes, relations between urban centres, urban ideology etc.

The presentations will be grouped into several sections according to their focus and should not exceed 20 minutes. The number of active participants is also limited. The conference committee reserves the right to select the contributions to be published in the Conference Proceedings.

Timeline:
Registrations for the conference: by 31st March 2015
Notification of acceptance: by 30th April 2015
Submission of the presentation file (supported by MS Office 2010) for the conference proceedings (required for the participation in the conference): 7th June 2015
Conference 12th – 13th June 2015

Registration:
Active applicants will submit the completed registration form: http://goo.gl/forms/eau6AYJzRC

Language of the conference:
English

Conference fee:
10 €

Other:
The organizers are not able to pay travel or accommodation expenses of the active participants. Nevertheless, we will be happy to provide assistance with accommodation, especially for the foreign participants.

Venue:
Kraków, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, 11 Gołęba str., 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Contact: crescent@uj.edu.pl