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April 26, 2022

Call for Papers: Workshop on ‘Constructing and performing hope in the premodern world’ April 13-14, 2023, Tampere University, Finland.

The aim of the workshop is to investigate how hope functioned in premodern societies, paying attention to how hope and futurity are structured in life strategies and how they are performed in the contexts of different cultural scripts.

Keynote Speakers: Stavroula Constantinou (University of Cyprus) & Jenni Kuuliala (Tampere University). Please submit the title of your presentation and a short abstract of ca. 300-500 words with a description of the theme, methodology, main questions, and sources by May 20, 2022.

April 13, 2022

UNI BA Lecture: Prof Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UK: CAN HERITAGE EVER BE DIVERSE?

You are invited to a guest lecture at UNI BA on "Heritage and Diversity" by Prof Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UK. The lecture's title is: CAN HERITAGE EVER BE DIVERSE? Thursday, 28 April 2022, 18:00 c.t. (CEST). The lecture is in English and can be attended online via Zoom.
March 30, 2022

A ‘Byzantine’ Map in Context: ‘Since You can See the Earth as a Whole, you Should Believe you are in the Sky’

By Dr Chiara D’Agostini

NetMAR examines medieval arts together with rituals with the intention of addressing their intersections. Does this approach also apply to the investigation of scientific subjects? Would NetMAR’s holistic approach fit to the subject of geography? By taking as a case study the reception of Ptolemy’s Geography in 13th-century Byzantium, this blog post will try to answer this question.
March 28, 2022

LOGO-DIMIA: Lecture by CeMAR Director Assoc. Prof. Stavroula Constantinou (6th lecture of the second cycle, March 09, 2022)

On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, the division of Greek and Latin Language and Literature of the Academy of Athens held the 6th lecture of the second cycle of LOGO-DIMIA. Watch here, the lecture by CeMAR Director, Assoc. Prof. S. Constantinou, entitled: "Milky Breasts A socio-ideological approach to the breastfeeding woman in antiquity and Byzantium"
March 24, 2022

New CML online seminars programme Spring 2022

Online via Zoom. The Centre for Medieval Literature (CML, SDU) is happy to present the programme for the online seminars in spring 2022. This spring the seminars will be the three keynotes at the conference Scale(s) of Literary History – Europe c. 500-1500 taking place in Rome. All are welcome to register for the online seminars and join these three exciting talks online via Zoom. To register please write to [email protected]. For the poster, click here!
March 24, 2022

New annual lecture series of the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas) at the University of Bamberg (UNI BA), on “The Iberian culture in the Middle Ages”

The annual lecture series of the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas) at the University of Bamberg (UNI BA) invites again to ten exciting interdisciplinary lectures that approach a medieval subject from a historical, philological, archaeological, and art historical perspective, dedicated to Iberian cultures of the Middle Ages and start on 02 May 2022. All lectures in German. For the poster, click here!
March 19, 2022

NetMAR reading group 24 March, 2022, 4-6pm CET

The #NetMAR Reading Group will be meeting again (online) this coming Thursday 24 March, from 4-6pm CET. The Reading Group, organised by our partners at the Centre for Medieval Literature runs under the theme of '#Arts & #Rituals in the #Middle #Ages and Beyond'. This week we'll be looking at T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (London, 1935)! Join us here!
March 18, 2022

Webinar: The Diamond Open Access Model: what impact on research?

Mar 28, 2022 01:00 PM in London

With escalating Article Processing Charges (APCs) under the Gold Open Access Model, attention has been turning to the Diamond Model, where scientific articles are not subject to APCs. Join a one-hour webinar, where an expert panel will explain and discuss these latest developments in Open Access publishing and what it means for researchers, research-intensive institutions, learned societies, libraries and other publishers.
February 28, 2022

Exploring Identity’s Third Space; or What Happens When a Medieval Hero Wears a Disguise in European Bridal-Quest Epics

By Janina Dillig

Storytelling often resorts to narrative patterns. This is especially true for narratives with an oral tradition, which we encounter frequently in medieval literature. Usually, the use of narrative patterns in medieval literature is understood as a byproduct of the process of memorization, but narrative patterns may also be understood as elements of ritualization in the art of storytelling.