\nWebEditor’s Note:
\nFollowing the conclusion of the Call for Papers<\/a> and the selection of our events for the 2015 Congress<\/a>, this Post announces the Programs of our Sessions and our other Activities there.\u00a0 The next Post about our 2015 Congress activities updates this Announcement with details of dates, times, and room assignments for our \u00a02015 Congress Schedules<\/a>.\u00a0 Further posts provide updates with the Abstracts of Papers<\/a> and then report the 2015 Congress Events with Programs<\/a>, along with a few revisions to the Program and with Posters for the Sessions as well as a Program Booklet<\/a> for one of them.]<\/p>\n
For the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/strong><\/a>, the Research Group has 2 sponsored and 3 co-sponsored Sessions. \u00a0As before, we co-sponsor Sessions<\/strong> with the Societas Magica<\/strong><\/a> (since 2006) and with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/strong><\/a> at the University of Florida (since 2014). \u00a0Our Business Meeting<\/strong> (open to all) will take place at Friday lunchtime. \u00a0Like last year, we sponsor a Reception<\/strong> \u2014 now with both the Societas Magica<\/strong> and the Index of Christian Art<\/strong><\/a> at Princeton University. \u00a0Here we announce the events, before the assignment of their dates and rooms.<\/p>\n The photographs of corbel heads from Le Pont Neuf in Paris are reproduced here by permission, for which we thank Ilya V. Svedlov<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Photography by Ilya V. Svedlov<\/p><\/div>\n Organizers: \u00a0Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) and Sarah M. Anderson (Princeton University)<\/p>\n Presider: \u00a0Sarah M. Anderson<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0David Ben\u00e9t\u00e9au (Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Seton Hall University), 2. \u00a0David Sorenson (Allen G. Berman, Numismatist) 3. \u00a0Mildred Budny *****<\/p>\n Organizer: \u00a0Valerio Cappozzo (Department of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi)<\/p>\n [This session resumes a theme explored in the session on ‘Dream Books’, co-sponsored with the Societas Magica, at the 2012 Congress<\/strong><\/a>.]<\/p>\n Presider: \u00a0Claire Fanger (Department of Religion, Rice University)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0Boyda Johnstone (Department of English, Fordham University) 2. \u00a0L\u00e1szl\u00f3 S\u00e1ndor Chardonnens (Department of English Language and Culture, Radboud University Nijmegen) 3. \u00a0Valerio Cappozzo Photography by Ilya V. Svedlov<\/p><\/div>\n ****<\/p>\n Photography by Ilya V. Svedlov<\/p><\/div>\n Session co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and Organizers: \u00a0Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) and Florin Curta (Department of History, University of Florida)<\/p>\n Presider: \u00a0Vlada Stankovic (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)<\/p>\n Presenters: 2. \u00a0Grischa Vercamer (Department of History and Cultural Studies, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany) 3. \u00a0Robert Anton\u00edn (Department of History, Ostravsk\u00e1 Univerzita, Czech Republic) 4. \u00a0Rebecca Huffman (Department of English, University of Michigan) *****<\/p>\n Organizer: \u00a0Frank Klaassen (College of Arts and Sciences, University of Saskatchewan)<\/p>\n Presider: \u00a0Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0Brett Lawrence Wisniewski (Department of Classics, New York University) 2. \u00a0John Haines (Faculty of Music and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) 3. \u00a0James Weldon (Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University) 4. Frank Klaassen *****<\/p>\n Organizer: Jason E. Roberts (Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin)<\/p>\n Presider: Marla Segol (Institute for Jewish Thought and Heritage, State University of New York at Buffalo)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. Lea T. Olsan (English and Foreign Languages Emerita, University of Louisiana at Monroe) 2. Alison Harthill (School of History, Archaeology, and Religion, Cardiff University) 3. Collin Brown (Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin) 4. Jason E. Roberts *****<\/p>\n NOTE: A third Session is Sponsored by the Societas Magica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Organizer: \u00a0Marla Segol (State University of New York at Buffalo)<\/p>\n Presider: \u00a0Frank Klaassen (University of Saskatchewan)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0Thomas B. de Mayo (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College), \u2018Inscribed and Spoken Magic in the Icelandic Sagas\u2019<\/p>\n 2. \u00a0Katherine Hindley (Yale University), ‘ “Let it Be Made Secretly\u201d: \u00a0The Efficacy of Unread Words in Medieval England\u2019<\/p>\n 3. \u00a0Claire Fanger (Rice University), \u2018The Matter of Prophecy: \u00a0Props, Practices, Representations\u2019<\/p>\n 4. \u00a0Marla Segol, ‘Body as Amulet in the Shiur Qomah<\/em>‘<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Two more Sessions are sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/strong> at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n Organizer: \u00a0Florin Curta (University of Florida)<\/p>\n Presider: \u00a0Florin Curta<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Societas Magica<\/strong>, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>, and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University<\/strong><\/p>\n The success of our Anniversary Reception<\/strong><\/a> co-sponsored with the Societas Magica last year led us to plan a similar event this year, now also with the Index of Christian Art, our co-sponsor frequently for events. Those events include several events in our 2014 Anniversary Year<\/p>\n Please join us for these activities at the Congress. \u00a0Watch this space for details and time and place assigned to these events when the Congress Schedule appears in February.<\/p>\n Information about the Congress as a whole appears on its website<\/strong><\/a>.I. Sponsored Sessions<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>1. Making It or Faking It: \u00a0The Strange Truths of \u2018False Witnesses\u2019 to Medieval Forms<\/h4>\n
\n\u2018Pseudo-Aristotle\u2019s Secret of Secrets<\/em>‘<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Semi-Official Counterfeiting: \u00a0\u201cFalse\u201d Coinage Produced within the French Mints, 1380\u20121422, and What It Tells Us\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2018The Truth Will Out: \u00a0Verity or Verisimilitude in Pre-Photographic Reproductions\u2019<\/p>\n2. Predicting the Past: \u00a0Dream Symbology in the Middle Ages<\/h4>\n
\n\u2018Possessed by Dreams: \u00a0Dream Interpretation Manuals in Late Medieval England\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Seeing is Believing: \u00a0Dream Symbols and their Perception in Medieval Alphabetical Dream Books\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2018A Dictionary for Dream Interpretation: \u00a0The Somniale Danielis<\/em> in Its Manuscript Sources\u2019<\/p>\n![\"5](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/5-Corbel-Heads-All-in-a-Row-300x150.png\")
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<\/a>II. Co-Sponsored Sessions<\/h3>\n
3. The \u2018Good\u2019, the \u2018Bad\u2019, and the \u2018Ugly\u2019 Ruler: \u00a0Ideal Kingship in the Middle Ages<\/h4>\n
\nThe Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida<\/p>\n
\n1. \u00a0Gerald Schwedler (Department of History, Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)
\n‘Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden<\/em>:
\nUsurpers\u2019 Deeds and Historians\u2019 Verdicts in Merovingian and Carolingian Chronicles’<\/p>\n
\n‘One Man’s Villain is Another Man’s Hero<\/em>:
\nConcepts Employed by Medieval Historians to Construct the Images of Central European Princes as Good or Bad’<\/p>\n
\n‘Wise as Solomon \/ Cruel as Rehoboam<\/em>:
\nAncient and Biblical Models for Portraying Good and Bad Rulers in Medieval Central Europe’<\/p>\n
\n‘In Search of Rule Models in Saint Erkenwald<\/em> (circa 1386) and Lydgate’s Saints Edmund and Fremund<\/em> (1433)’<\/p>\n4. Magic Sung, Spoken, Inscribed, and Printed<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Session co-sponsored by the Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Voces Magicae<\/em> in Greek Magical Papyri: \u00a0Performance, Literacy, and Authority\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Medieval Astrological Songs\u2019<\/p>\n
\n‘Magical Anxieties: \u00a0Problems with Magic in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIII.B.29\u2019<\/p>\n
\n‘How Print Changed Magic: \u00a0The Case of Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft<\/em>‘<\/p>\n5. Efficacious Words: Spoken and Inscribed<\/h4>\n
<\/a>Session co-sponsored by the Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Four Approaches to the Power of Words\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Magic, Prayer, and the Power of Words\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Mid uuorrdun endi mid uuercun<\/em>: The Introduction of Christian Holy Words into Germanic Folk Prayers and Charms\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2018The Power of God’s Name and the Problem of God’s Favor: A Diachronic Examination of the Tradition(s) of Solomonic Magic\u2019<\/p>\nMateriality and Magic<\/h4>\n
The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: New Advances in Avar Archaeology (I and II)<\/h4>\n
III. Business Meeting of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
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<\/a>The Meeting is scheduled for Friday lunchtime, 15 May. \u00a0The time and place will be listed in the Congress Program, and some refreshments will be provided. \u00a0All are welcome, including newcomers.<\/p>\nIV. Reception<\/h3>\n
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\nUpdates for our events will also appear on the Research Group’s Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Please visit us there, too.<\/p>\n