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.
22-24 February 2011 -- "Ecclesia disputans. Conflict management in pre-modern synods: between religion and politics" (Exzellenzkluster 'Religion and Politics,' WWU Muenster). Organizers are Professors Christoph Dartmann, Andreas Pietsch, and Sita Steckel. For more information, contact Sita Steckel at sita.steckel@gmx.net.
12-15 May 2011 -- "Forty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo". Call for abstracts! EPISCOPUS is sponsoring the following panels at the 2011 International Congress. Submission deadline is 15 September 2010; see the session proposal cfp at the ICMS website (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Sessions11.pdf). I. The Bishop at Work: Tasks, Trials, and Transformations of Diocesan Administration (co-sponsored with the International Society of Medieval Canon Law); II. From Regulars to Seculars: The Monk-Bishop in the Middle Ages; III. Image and Episcopacy: The Art of the Bishop
11-14 July 2011 -- "International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2011". Call for panel organisers! EPISCOPUS would like to sponsor sessions on the following topics: I. Non-aristocratic bishops; II. The Domesticated Prelate: Bishops as Husbands, Fathers, Sons and Nephews; III. How to get rid of an unwanted bishop; IV. Bishops and mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages. Please contact John Ott (ott@pdx.edu), Department of History, Portland State University, if you are interested. Panel proposal deadline is 30 September 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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