"Sacred Space, Sacred Memory: Bishop-Saints and their Cities" (Le Studium, Centre de Recherche sur les Mondes Antiques, l'Histoire de la Ville et de l'Alimentation, Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours). Conference organizers are soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Conference, and are inviting scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to offer their perspectives on issues coinciding with the Conference's theme. Ideally, papers will deal with different parts of Europe and address periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute paper should be emailed to Christine Bousquet (Christine.bousquet@univ-tours.fr) or to Yossi Maurey (ymaurey@mscc.huji.ac.il) no later than 30 January 2010. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (reduced for students and post-docs).
18-21 March 2010 -- "Medieval Academy of America 2010 Annual Meeting, Yale University, New Haven, CT" (Medieval Academy of America). Call for papers for the Session "Courtiers and Bishops - 1010" (C. Stephen Jaeger, session organizer). Paper abstracts on subjects ranging the Carolingian period to the twelfth century are welcome. Abstracts should be sent to Anders Winroth, Department of History, Yale University, preferably by email to anders.winroth@yale.edu, or, on paper in two copies, to Anders Winroth, Department of History, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven CT 06520-8324.
13-16 May 2010 -- "Forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies" (The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo). EPISCOPUS will sponsor three sessions, two with the Exzellenzcluster 'Religion und Politik' of the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Muenster: I. Bishops and their Men; II. Bishops and their Women; III. Bishops and the Papacy, 900-1100. Send abstracts to John S. Ott, Department of History, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA, or to ott@pdx.edu.
27-30 May 2010 -- "Saintly Bishops and Bishops' Saints" (Hagiotheca (Croatian Hagiography Association)). The deadline for paper proposals is 30 October 2009. Proposals should include an abstract (300 words maximum) and your current position and contact address, and be sent to hagiotheca@yahoo.com ; the contact person is Trpimir Vedriš.
12-15 July 2010 -- "International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2010 or 2011". Call for abstracts: "The Diocese of Lincoln and its Bishops." David Kennett (Stratford-upon-Avon College) is interested in organizing a panel to propose for the 2010 (or 2011) Leeds Congress. Please contact him directly at davidkennett@stratford.ac.uk if interested.
14-17 October 2010 -- "The Early Modern Bishop" (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference). Please send a title and 200 word abstract of the proposed presentation to both Jennifer Mara DeSilva (desilvaj@easternct.edu) and John Christopoulos (john.christopoulos@utoronto.ca). Please detail any AV requirements for your proposed presentation.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 March 2010.
Author Search (The International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online [IEMA]). Scholars interested in writing brief articles on bishops from any diocese within the geographical and chronological range (300-1500 C.E., covering Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East) should contact Dr. Blair Sullivan, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.)
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