{"id":2502,"date":"2014-09-23T02:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T02:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2019-08-13T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:13:12","slug":"2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-planning-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-planning-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Congress Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sessions and Events for the<br \/>\n50th International Congress on Medieval Studies<br \/>\n14-17 May 2015<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2508\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frowner-Frontal-view.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2508\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2508 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frowner-Frontal-view-274x300.png\" alt=\"Frowning Corbel Head on Le Pont Neuf, Paris. Photograpny by Ilya V. Sverdlov\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frowner-Frontal-view-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frowner-Frontal-view-137x150.png 137w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frowner-Frontal-view.png 654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skeptic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[<em>Published on 23 September 2014, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>With the completion of the Call for Papers and the reception of proposals for papers by 15 September 2014, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence plans its 5 sponsored and co-sponsored sessions for the next Congress.\u00a0\u00a0 Their programs now settle into place for notification to the Congress by the deadline of 1 October.\u00a0 Following that process, we will be able to announce the programs and, in time, publish abstracts of papers as their authors might wish.<\/p>\n<p>The next Congress will be the tenth year of our co-sponsorship with the <strong>Societas Magica<\/strong> and the second year of co-sponsorship with the <strong>Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/strong> at the University of Florida. \u00a0Our 2014 sessions with these organizations are reported and illustrated in our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-congress-accomplished\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2014 Congress Report<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This is the first year of co-sponsorship for the Reception also with the <strong>Index of Christian Art<\/strong> at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The prospective sessions and their aims are reported in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/call-for-papers-for-2015-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2015 Congress Call for Papers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 Sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Making It or Faking It:\u00a0 The Strange Truths of &#8216;False Witnesses&#8217; to Medieval Forms<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Predicting the Past:\u00a0 Dream Symbology in the Middle Ages<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2653\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Corbel-head-with-handlebar-mustache-on-Le-Pont-Neuf.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2653 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Corbel-head-with-handlebar-mustache-on-Le-Pont-Neuf-208x300.png\" alt=\"Corbel head with handlebar moustache on Le Pont Neuf, Paris, with photography by Ilya V. Svedlov\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Corbel-head-with-handlebar-mustache-on-Le-Pont-Neuf-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Corbel-head-with-handlebar-mustache-on-Le-Pont-Neuf-104x150.png 104w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Corbel-head-with-handlebar-mustache-on-Le-Pont-Neuf.png 353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Things Considered<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The &#8216;Good&#8217;, the &#8216;Bad&#8217;, and the &#8216;Ugly&#8217; Ruler:\u00a0 Ideal Kingship in the Middle Age<\/strong>s<br \/>\nCo-sponsored with the <a href=\"http:\/\/mems.center.ufl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Magic Sung, Spoken, Inscribed, and Printed<\/strong><br \/>\nCo-sponsored with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societasmagica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Societas Magica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Efficacious Words:\u00a0 Spoken and Inscribed<\/strong><br \/>\nCo-sponsored with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societasmagica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Societas Magica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other Events which we plan for the 2015 Congress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Business Meeting<\/strong> (All are welcome)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reception<\/strong> (All are welcome)<br \/>\nCo-sponsored with the <strong>Societas Magica<\/strong> and the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181205235950\/http:\/\/ica.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Index of Christian Art<\/a> at Princeton University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 2015 Reception takes inspiration from the Anniversary Reception, co-sponsored with the Societas Magica, at the 2014 Congress: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-anniversary-reception\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2014 Anniversary Reception<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please watch this space.\u00a0 We will post the programs for the sessions and, as the authors permit, the abstracts for the papers.\u00a0 This would be like our post for the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-congress-accomplished\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2014 Congress Report<\/strong><\/a>, illustrations included.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2504\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/5-Corbel-Heads-All-in-a-Row.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2504\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2504 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/5-Corbel-Heads-All-in-a-Row-1024x512.png\" alt=\"5 Corbel Heads in a Row on Le Pont Neuf, Paris\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/5-Corbel-Heads-All-in-a-Row-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/5-Corbel-Heads-All-in-a-Row-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/5-Corbel-Heads-All-in-a-Row-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/5-Corbel-Heads-All-in-a-Row.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five in a Row<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Photographs by Ilya V. Svedlov, reproduced by permission]<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sessions and Events for the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies 14-17 May 2015 [Published on 23 September 2014, with updates] With the completion of the Call for Papers and the reception of proposals for papers by 15 September 2014, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence plans its 5 sponsored and co-sponsored sessions for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[412,50,4,130,125],"tags":[48,127,413,414,415,416,417,418,420,419,421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}