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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY The Byzness, 11th December 2023 ==== 1. NEWS AND EVENTS

2. CALLS FOR PAPERS

3. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

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1. NEWS AND EVENTS

a. Conference Schedule. ‘Staging Early Christianities. Theatre, Performance and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World.' (Strand Campus of King's College London, 12th-14th December 2023).

We are pleased to share below the schedule for the conference 'Staging Early Christianities. Theatre, Performance and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World.' The conference will take place on the Strand Campus of King's College London from 12th-14th December 2023.

If you would like to join us in person, please email edward...@kcl.ac.uk for further information. We are keen to ensure that the conference is accessible to all who wish to attend, so we will provide a virtual option if we receive sufficient interest. Please do get in touch if that option would be of interest to you.

Warmly,

Edward Creedy

James Corke-Webster

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Tuesday 12th December

14:45 - 15:15 James Corke-Webster and Edward Creedy (King's College London): Welcome and Introduction

Panel I: Pauline Drama (15:15-16:25)

Bruce Longenecker (Baylor University): The Ineffectual Pedagogue, the Drama of Medea and Paul's Letter to the Galatians

Lyn Burnhope (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): The Home Church as 'Theatre' for Learning, Through Laughter and Tears

Panel II: The Theatre of Scripture (16:40-17:50)

Julia Mayo (University of Edinburgh): Evidence and Impact of Greek New Comedy Conventions in Acts 12

U-Wen Low (University of Birmingham): The Performative Elements of the Book of Revelation

Keynote I 18:00-19:00

Helen Bond (University of Edinburgh): Mark's Gospel and the Theatricality of Jesus' Death

Wednesday 13th December 2023

Panel III: Performing Christianities in the Second-Century 09:30-11:15

Briar Bennett-Flammer (McGill University): The Charlatan's Performance. Theatricality and Criticisms of Religious Experts in Lucian of Samosata and Clement of Alexandria

Edward Creedy (King's College London): Rethinking Clement's Euripides, An Alexandrian Tragedy

Eleni Bozia (University of Florida): Performative Mimesis. A Point of Contention or a Bridge Between Christianity and Greco-Roman Culture?

Panel IV: Performing Martyrdom 11:30-12:40

Sarah Parkhouse (University of Manchester): Identity and Mimesis in the Passion of Perpetua

Alice van den Bosch (University of Exeter): A Comedy of Martyrs? Gender and Performance in the Martyrdom of Saint Crispina

12:40-14:00 Lunch

Panel V: Drama, Mystery and Christian Performance 14:00-15:45

Stella Nenova (Université de Lille) ΔΡΑΜΑ ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΝ. The Theatrical Nature of the Mystery Ritual – Christian Sources for Pagan Performance

Andreas Prasinos (University of Athens): The Association of Ancient Greek Tragedy with the Divine Liturgy

Figen Geerts (New York University): "Together with One Voice." Paeanic Performance and the Making of Early Christian Communities

Panel VI: Drama in Augustine 16:00-17:10

Martina Carandino (University of Oxford): Augustine and Classical Theatre

Eduardo de Oliveira Correia (King's College London): Embodying the Psalms. Augustine's Ontological Critique of Drama and the Commentary on Psalm 51(50)

Keynote II 17:20-18:20

Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge): Tragic Traditions

18:20-19:20 Conference Reception

Thursday 14th December 2023

Panel VII: Performing Christian Late Antiquity 09:00-10:45

Emma Greensmith (University of Oxford): The Masque of Epic

Karl Dahm (Durham University): A Grotesque Spectacle. Heretical Deaths in Late Antique Memory Culture

Anna Lefteratou (University of Cambridge): Hopelessly Blind? The Christian Transformation of a Tragic Concept in Gregory of Nazianzus' Poetry

Panel VIII Creating Christian Theatricality in the Fourth and Fifth-Centuries 11:00-13:00

Natasha Puglisi (King's College London): A Snapshot of the Elaboration of the Commemoration of Saints in Chrysostom's Homily on Ioulianos

Benjamin De Vos (Ghent University): "Making a Scene", Peter as Director in the Recognitions

Luise Marion Frenkel (Universidade de São Paulo): The Music of Faith. Sung Statements of Faith in the Fourth and Fifth-Centuries

James Corke-Webster and Edward Creedy (King's College London): Final Remarks

b. Athanasios Vionis (University of Cyprus) - Byzantine Studies Lectures (NHRF) Survey ceramic assemblages as Byzantine household archaeology (December 18th, 2023, 18:00 EET National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48, V. Constantinou Av. 11635, Athens, or online at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NbwbTQQ3TTO2BS-UJ27RWQ)

c. Ewa Wipszycka Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. Upcoming lectures

14.XII - Eric Fournier (West Chester University), Anticipating disaster: Honorius, forbearance and the limits of religious coercion in late Roman North Africa

11.I - Dobrochna Zielińska (UW), Holy mothers of the Nile Valley. Indigenous traditions in transition during the late antique and early Byzantine period

18.I - Jim Walker (University of Zurich): Natural landscape and places of devotion intertwined: Merovingian Gaul under the lens

The full programme can be found at the seminar's website: http://lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl/content/harmonogram-schedule

2. CALLS FOR PAPERS

a. Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Showcase

The Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America is seeking presenters for the second edition of its Digital Humanities Showcase, scheduled to take place over Zoom on 30th January, 2024. We invite scholars in any field or discipline of global medieval studies who use innovative technologies in their study or teaching of the Middle Ages to share their work with a broad audience of medievalists. This virtual gathering will serve as a forum for scholars, both emerging and established, to gather and learn about, as well as celebrate, their achievements and work in the digital humanities, broadly conceived. Above all, the GSC’s Digital Humanities Showcase is meant to be fun and exciting, giving participants and presenters alike the chance to share ideas and connect. Presentations should be no more than ten minutes in length and explain the impact of the applied technologies on medieval studies. The content of the presentations should be accessible to scholars from all disciplines while also maintaining a high quality of research. If possible, we encourage presenters to include a demonstration of their technology, methodology, or approach.

Applications should include a 2-page CV as well as a brief abstract of no more than 200 words. Submissions should be sent to William Beattie at wbea...@nd.edu and g...@themedievalacademy.org by Friday, 15 December 2023. Selected speakers will be notified by the end of December.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

· Digital modelling of religious and secular spaces

· Virtual reconstructions of manuscripts

· New innovations in mapping

· Immersive technologies such as mixed- or virtual-reality headsets

· Sensory recreations—spaces, sounds, textures, tastes, etc.

· Classroom or research applications for technology

· X-ray, imaging, and other scientific analyses to research palimpsests, artworks, and manuscripts

· Examinations of medieval technologies through modern reconstructions and analyses

b. TELLING BYZANTINE HISTORY: CURRENT TRENDS AND NEW DIRECTIONS

Vienna, May 24-25, 2024

May 24: Central European University, Quellenstrasse 51, D002, 1100 Vienna

May 25: Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, Postgasse 9, Lecture Hall, 1010 Vienna

It is not particularly controversial to observe that the history of the Byzantine Empire has, for the most part, been told through a distinct lens. Despite its linguistic, cultural, and geographical variety, and its numerous social and political transformations, Byzantium has been constructed normatively as a Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian, and Constantinopolitan entity, through a hierarchical selection of perspectives and source material which have generated a received narrative that has come to form the bedrock of scholarship in the field of Byzantine Studies.

However, in the light of new seminal publications, namely J. Preiser-Kapeller’s Byzanz: Das Neue Rom und die Welt des Mittelalters (C.H.Beck, 2023), A. Kaldellis’ The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (OUP, 2023), M. Ivanova’s & B. Anderson’s Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? (PSUP, 2023), and P. Agapitos’ Byzantine Literature, AD 300–1500: A Narrative History (in preparation), it is clear that the way in which we tell Byzantine history is undergoing significant change. Through the application of new critical approaches including race and identity theory, gender studies, colonialism, multilingualism, environmental and global history; by reassessing source material and introducing understudied or neglected evidence in non-Greek languages, such as Arabic, Armenian, Latin, Georgian, Syriac, Slavic, amongst others; through re-evaluation of the historical form and function of narrative; and through the critical evaluation of the Eurocentric institutional framework of Byzantine Studies, scholarship is consciously giving thought to exploring new ways of telling Byzantine history and emphasising its applicability in the globalised postmodern age.

The 2nd International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference, co-organized by the University of Vienna and Central European University, aims to explore the question of how we tell Byzantine history today. We welcome submissions which seek to deconstruct old or propose new ways of telling Byzantine history, either through the novel use of sources, or through the application of methodological, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches which can provide new directions in the study of Byzantium.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

· Eurocentric vs global views on Byzantine history & literature

· (De)colonising Byzantium

· Byzantium in the Museum and in contemporary art and art history

· Byzantium in popular media

· The history of Byzantine Studies then and now – 19^th century till today

· Interpreting non-Constantinopolitan source-narratives of Byzantium

· Using marginalised narratives of Byzantium 

· Interpreting historical forms and functions of narration in a multi-lingual milieu.

Keynote speakers: Panagiotis Agapitos, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

We invite applications from graduate students at MA and PhD level. Those wishing to have their 20-minute paper considered should send an email to lewis...@univie.ac.at, aleksandar...@univie.ac.at, Milenkov...@phd.ceu.edu, or ozdemi...@phd.ceu.edu, with a paper title, a 200-word abstract, and an academic affiliation by March 1, 2024. Applicants will be notified by March 15. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

c. The Journal of North African Studies

The Journal of North African Studies provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars of and from North Africa. Its contents cover both country-based and regional themes, which range from historical inquiries to political, sociological, cultural, literary, anthropological, and economic studies. It is the first academic journal in English to analyze historic and current affairs of an important region of the Mediterranean basin linking the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

JNAS would like to invite research article submissions on Algeria, Mauritania, the Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt.

d. Les humanités numériques et l’Orient chrétien médiéval : nouveaux outils, nouvelles approches, nouvelles perspectives (Montpellier, 14-15 novembre 2024)

Please find attached a call for papers for the conference "Digital humanities and the medieval Christian East: new tools, new approaches, new perspectives", which will take place on 14-15 November 2024 at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. The call for proposals is also available on our website (http://www.aembyzantin.com/appel-a-communications-les-humanites-numeriques-et-lorient-chretien-medieval-nouveaux-outils-nouvelles-approches-nouvelles-perspectives/).

Proposals must be sent by 14 April 2024 to florian...@yahoo.com !

e. The Greek Bible Between Judaism and Christianity

The Greek Bible Between Judaism and Christianity

EABS Annual Conference Sofia

15–18 July 2024

The Septuagint originated as Jewish scripture, and in time it became the Christian Old Testament. This research unit explores the variegated reception of the Septuagint in Jewish and Christian communities. How did Jewish and Christian readers engage with, interpret, appropriate, question or transform the Greek versions of the Hebrew Bible to which they had access? How did cultural transformations, such as the emergence of Christianity and the gradual “parting of the ways”, affect the reception of the Septuagint? Was the Greek Bible and its interpretation primarily a locus of tension and discussion, or could it also foster dialogue between Jews and Christians? The research unit has two specific goals: firstly, to illustrate the multi-faceted reception history of the Septuagint and related versions, within both Judaism and Christianity; and, secondly, to stimulate a dialogue between Biblical Studies and other disciplines, such as Jewish Studies, Classics and Patristics.

Call for Papers 2024

For the 2024 Annual Conference, the research unit “The Greek Bible Between Judaism and Christianity” seeks proposals on the topic of The Greek Bible in Judaism. This session will attempt to trace the history of Jewish engagement with Greek biblical traditions from antiquity until the early modern period.

Papers on one of the following topics are especially welcome:

· the nature and extent of the “Kaige group” and its position within ancient Judaism

· the Jewish Minor Versions (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion and others)

· Philo and Josephus as readers and interpreters of the Septuagint

· evidence for the use of Greek-language exegesis in Rabbinic sources

· citations of the Greek Bible in Jewish inscriptions

· medieval Jewish-Greek translations of Biblical texts

· the Constantinople Pentateuch

The Call for Papers is open now until 20 January 2024 (https://eabs.net).

To know more about this call and session, please visit the following website: https://eabs.net/EABS/Research-Units/Research_Units/EABS_Research_Units/The_Greek_Bible_Between_Judaism_and_Christianity.aspx.

f. Justice in Byzantium

Call for Communications: The 55th Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies will be held at the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK), from 13th-15th April 2024. The topic is ‘Justice in Byzantium’.

Panels will cover aspects of social, civil, divine, and criminal justice, as well as concepts of revenge and unwritten/ written rules. Confirmed speakers include Daphne Penna, Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Carlos Machado, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Rosemary Morris, Anna Kelley, Lorena Atzeri, Mike Humphreys, Catherine Holmes, Robert Wiśniewski, Caroline Humfress, Peter Sarris, Matthijs Wibier, Simon Corcoran, Dan Reynolds, Shaun Tougher, and Maroula Perisanidi.

Those interested in presenting a Communication (15 mins max) should contact Laura Franco (laura....@libero.it) with a title and abstract by December 15th 2023. For any queries relating to the Symposium, please contact Anne Alwis (a.p....@kent.ac.uk). Once the conference website with booking details is live, a further email will be circulated.

g. Orality & Literacy in the Ancient World

The Fifteenth Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World will take place in Ada, Ohio (US) from 26 June – 30 June, 2024. Classicists, historians, students of comparative religion, the Hebrew Bible, early Christian and Rabbinic traditions, as well as scholars in other fields with an interest in oral cultures are cordially invited.

The conference will follow the same format as the previous conferences, held in Hobart (1994), Durban (1996), Wellington (1998), Columbia (2000), Melbourne (2002), Winnipeg (2004), Auckland (2006), Nijmegen (2008), Canberra (2010), Ann Arbor (2012), Atlanta (2014), Lausanne (2016), Austin (2019), and Jerusalem (2021). It is planned that the refereed proceedings will once again be published by E.J. Brill in the “Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World” series.

Location: Ada, Ohio, US (Ohio Northern University)

Dates: 26-30 June 2024

Theme: Special Grammar

Keynote: Rodrigo Verano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

The theme for the conference is “Special Grammar”. Albert Lord used the phrase “special grammar” to refer to the verbal art used by South Slavic guslari, Homeric bards, and other performers of oral traditions and he asserted that this special grammar was an adaptation of practices in everyday conversation (Lord, Singer of Tales, 35-36). However, Lord’s intuitive insight requires further exploration, especially concerning this adaptation of ordinary talk; therefore, the conference theme is to explore the relationship between the special grammar of oral traditions and literature with roots in oral tradition in relationship to everyday conversation by drawing from other disciplines (cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, philosophy of language, etc.).

Papers in response to this theme are invited on topics related to the ancient Mediterranean world or, for comparative purposes, other times, places, and cultures.

Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Anonymous abstracts of up to 350 words (not including bibliography) should be submitted as Word files by 31 December 2023. Please send abstracts to: r-pe...@onu.edu

h. Manuscripts, Scripts, Scribes. An International Workshop in Greek and Latin Palaeography, Codicology, and Diplomatic

The ‘Texts, Traditions, and Cultures of the Book’ research area of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale of Naples (SSM) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the international workshop ‘Manuscripts, Scripts, Scribes’.

The workshop will take place in Naples on the 6th and 7th of May 2024. The call is open to students and early-career researchers working in the fields of Greek and Latin Palaeography, Codicology, and Diplomatic. Proposals including a title, an abstract (max. 500 words), and a short biographical profile (max. 150 words) should be sent before the 15th of January to the following address: manoscrittiscr...@gmail.com (e-mail object: ‘MSS application’). Acceptance will be notified before the 15th of February.

The workshop has received the patronage of the Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti (AIPD), the Association Paléographique Internationale. Culture, Écriture, Société (APICES), the Consulta Universitaria dei Paleografi, Diplomatisti e Codicologi (CUPaDiC), the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of the Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, and the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT).

For further information, you can refer to the complete version of the call for papers, which is available in Italian, English, and French on this page:

https://www.academia.edu/108253921/SSM_2024_Manoscritti_Scritture_Scriventi_Call

i. FIFTH BYZANTINE COLLOQUIUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES. Fiction and Faction in Byzantine Literature. Sección de Filología medieval – Instituto de Filología clásica. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (3-5 April 2024)

Continuing the tradition of the Buenos Aires conferences, the topic of the fifth instalment is primarily narratological. We propose to tackle fiction, or the absence of fiction, in the Byzantine millennium. In particular, we will address the question whether there is indeed any tension between the narration of a ficta res and of events that ‘really happened’. This topic raises a number of issues, for example whether fiction is a productive category in our approach of Byzantine literature. The delineation itself of fiction can be problematized, as can the question if it should be defined by its relation to a referent. In this regard, it is of paramount importance to ask how the Byzantines themselves understood what we now would label as ‘fiction’, and how their perspective relates to that of classical Antiquity.

The Byzantine narrative appears in several genres, of which two have been studied more widely in the past few years: hagiography and the novel. The first of these was traditionally associated with non-fiction, although it abounds in fictional saints and non-historical events. The second one has more easily and more often been connected to fiction and to its so-called renaissance in the twelfth century. Parallel to those and other narratives, theoretical treatises on rhetoric were written as well as commentaries on earlier narratives: by authors such as Photios and Eustathios of Thessaloniki and by Michael Psellos (e.g. his comparison of Euripides and George of Pisidia). These works appear to have used some theory of narration as a touchstone, or at least an opinion on what should be narrated, in which way, etc. It is relevant to have these in mind when tackling specific Byzantine narratives today.

Three specific topics will be central in the conference:

1. Byzantine narratives that can be labelled as ‘fiction’ or ‘faction’, the well-known but problematic mixture of fact and fiction.

2. The interaction between more or less theoretical treatises, and actual narratives.

3. The possible tension between fictionalization and factualization.

This list is non-exclusive. Proposals on other relevant topics are also welcome, including

those that open up the topic to art and other non-written narratives from Byzantium.

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Have confirmed their attendance as keynote speakers:

Pablo Cavallero (UBA - CONICET)

Juan Signes Codoñer (Univ. Complutense de Madrid)

Stefano Valente (Universität Hamburg)

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We invite 20-minute papers on any topic pertinent to narrative in Byzantium in the widest sense. Submissions of English presentations are particularly welcome. Please submit your abstract by 31 January 2024 to tomas.f...@conicet.gov.ar, paloma...@gmail.com and reinhart....@kuleuven.be. Abstracts should count 1000 characters or less (excl. bibliographical references), and should clearly state the hypothesis, goals and (expected) conclusions of the presentation. Full papers will be expected by 15 March, 2024. (8 pp. Palatino Linotype 11; interlinear space 11⁄2, margins: 2 cm)

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Venue: in-person (Buenos Aires)

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Organizing committee: Prof. Tomás Fernández (Buenos Aires), Prof. Reinhart

Ceulemans (Leuven), Ms Paloma Cortez (Buenos Aires)

Organizational assistance: Daniel Gutiérrez, Pablo Fuentes

j. Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference: ‘Signs and Scripts’ (8-9 April 2024)

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference ‘Signs and Scripts’

Maison française d'Oxford, 8-9 April 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is: ‘Signs and Scripts’

The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We are delighted to announce this call for papers and invite proposals relating to all aspects of the broad topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Areas of interest may include but are not limited to:

· Semiotics and semantics

· Ways of (mis)reading

· Palaeography and codicology

· Spiritual / cosmological signs

· Codes and conduct

· Behavioural script

· Dramatic script; theatre

· Monuments; inscriptions

· Heraldry; signboards

· Graffiti and marginalia

· Scripts of the body; tattoos

· Textiles

We ask that all presenters attend in person with hybrid participation available for attendees who cannot travel to the event.

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes. A limited number of bursaries are available to help with travel costs, and we welcome applications from graduate students at any university.

Please send abstracts of 250 words to oxgra...@gmail.com by 17th December, 2023

l. "Sur les routes d’Arabie : itinéraires terrestres et maritimes, de l’Âge du Bronze à la Période Islamique"

L’association inter-universitaire Routes de l’Orient organise un colloque international en partenariat avec l’Institut du Monde Arabe et la société Archaïos intitulé « Sur les routes d’Arabie ; itinéraires terrestres et maritimes », qui se tiendra à l’Institut du Monde Arabe les 12, 13 et 14 décembre 2024.

Le colloque a pour objectif d’étudier les routes de la péninsule Arabique, qu’elles soient terrestres ou maritimes, et les échanges qu’elles ont favorisés via l’archéologie, les sciences historiques, philologiques et religieuses mais aussi les sciences de la vie.

Cette approche s’effectuera sur la longue durée, depuis l’âge du Bronze jusqu’à la période islamique. L’objectif de ce colloque est également d’étudier les réseaux d’échanges avec les régions frontalières telles que le sous-continent indien, la Corne de l’Afrique, l’Égypte mais également les empires du Proche-Orient ancien ainsi que les empires grec et romain.

Date limite de soumission des contributions : vendredi 17 Mai 2024

Pour plus d’informations :

https://cefrepa.cnrs.fr/fr/2023/11/28/colloque-international-appel-a-communication-sur-les-routes-darabie-itineraires-terrestres-et-maritimes/

m. Wheat, vines, and olive trees: transformations in the practice and representations of a Mediterranean triad

Dear all,

The journal Mutations en Méditerranée invites young researchers to send in their article proposals for its second issue, on the theme of the Mediterranean triad "Wheat, vines, and olive trees".

Wheat, vines, and olive trees: transformations in the practice and representations of a Mediterranean triad

Imagine Herodotus travelling around the Mediterranean today, more than 2400 years after his voyages. Would he be surprised to see citrus fruits dotting the horizon? Would he be astonished to be served tomatoes? In 1940, Lucien Febvre retraced the evolution of Mediterranean agriculture from this multi-secular perspective. At the time, he may have been dreaming of an ancient Mediterranean world made up of nothing but wheat, vines and olive trees, even though it was already a hub of global agricultural trade. By sharing “the same granaries, the same cellars, the same oil mills” (Braudel 1966, p. 229), the Mediterranean has witnessed the evolution of this agricultural and alimentary triad and how it is depicted, alongside the transformation of related practices. The dialectical relationship between the practices and depictions of this triad changed as a result of the climatic, demographic, political and technical upheavals that have marked and continue to transform this area. Wheat, vines and olive trees are thus seen as the first step in the study of transformations of social practices and representations in the Mediterranean, at different spatial and temporal scales of analysis.

This call for contributions seeks to develop reflections on this Mediterranean triad, focusing on three dimensions:

· the land and the relationship with the land, from a productive, dietary and demographic point of view;

· the appropriation and dispossession of land;

· artistic practices as well as historically documented representations and imaginary constructions.

These dimensions should demonstrate both the unification and the fragmentation of Mediterranean areas. This call for contributions is open to proposals from PhD students from all disciplines; multidisciplinary contributions will be particularly welcome.

Submission requirements

Proposals for contributions should be between 2500 and 5000 characters (including spaces, excluding bibliography). They must contain a title, keywords and the bibliography used. Consult editorial norms.

Proposals should be sent, in Word format (docx), to the following e-mail:

institut-somum-redaction-mem[at]univ-amu.fr

Please confirm your status and affiliation in the email.

Deadline for the submission of article proposals: January 8, 2024, 5pm

Mutations en Méditerranée (MeM) is a multidisciplinary digital journal founded by PhD students of the Institut Sociétés en Mutation en Méditerranée (SoMuM) of Aix-Marseille Université. It aims to open a publication space for young researchers. The journal publishes one online issue a year, with open access, and welcomes articles in French and English.

FULL CALL: https://www.revue-mem.com/343

n. 'Bodies and Boundaries' CfP | Bristol CMS PGR Conference 2024

Good morning,

I'm writing on behalf of the committee for the Centre for Medieval Studies postgraduate conference at Bristol University to advertise our call for papers. 

The theme of this year's conference is ‘Bodies and Boundaries’ and we welcome abstracts of c. 300 words from postgraduate students and early career researchers working in any and all relevant disciplines relating to the medieval period. Please find the CfP attached and direct abstracts or queries to this email cms-conferen...@bristol.ac.uk To stay updated, also follow us on Twitter @BristolCMS

The deadline for abstracts is 22nd of January 2024, with the conference scheduled to take place and in person on and online over Zoom on 11th – 12th April 2023.

Following the success of the 2023 ‘Identities, Communities and ‘Imagined Communities’’ Conference, we are delighted to invite you to the next installment of the longest-standing postgraduate conference in medieval studies: the 2024 ‘Bodies and Boundaries’ PGR Conference. This conference marks a significant milestone as we celebrate the 650th anniversary of Bristol’s royal charter which makes the subject of embodiment in medieval contexts a highly topical theme. Imagining how past people moved within Bristol, analysing the spatial and sensory dimensions of medieval Bristol and considering how those people may have understood their bodies and environments provides a fascinating lens through which we can comprehend the medieval experience. We welcome papers that consider bodies and boundaries across the Middle Ages, exploring theories and ideologies that underpin medieval embodiment. How did medieval individuals and communities comprehend the intricacies of their individual and collective bodies, and how did they draw the boundaries between them? How did people in the past view the complex boundary between the corporeal and the spiritual, material and immaterial? These are just some of the questions participants may consider for this conference.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Disability, race, and gendered bodies

• Senses and spaces

• Emotions, the soul and mind

• Borders and Boundaries

• Scribal culture

• Music, rituals and performances

• Landscapes and topography

• National Identities

• The visual body

• Monstrosity

• Migration and xenophobia

• Law and Custom

• The allegorical body

• Medicine and mortality

• The sacred, the clerical and the lay

• Legal and jurisdictional boundaries

• Material culture

• Human and non-human bodies

• Performative bodies

• The body politic

• Memory and objects of memory

Abstracts and enquiries : cms-conferen...@bristol.ac.uk

DEADLINE: 22 January 2024

We encourage abstracts from postgraduates and early-career researchers, exploring aspects and approaches to bodies and boundaries in all relevant disciplines pertaining to the medieval period, broadly construed c.500-c.1500. Abstracts are 300 words for 20-minute papers. This year’s conference will be a hybrid event, taking place both online and on the campus of the University of Bristol. Please indicate in your abstract whether you intend to participate in-person or online.

Thank you and very best wishes,

Abigail Weaver

3. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

a. Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2024–2025

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2024–2025 grant competition.

Mary Jaharis Center Co-Funding Grants promote Byzantine studies in North America. These grants provide co-funding to organize scholarly gatherings (e.g., workshops, seminars, small conferences) in North America that advance scholarship in Byzantine studies broadly conceived. We are particularly interested in supporting convenings that build diverse professional networks that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, propose creative approaches to fundamental topics in Byzantine studies, or explore new areas of research or methodologies.

Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grants are awarded to advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses, e.g., travel, photography/digital images, microfilm.

Mary Jaharis Center Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Grants are aimed at early career academics. Preference will be given to postdocs and assistant professors, though applications from non-tenure track faculty and associate and full professors will be considered. We encourage the submission of first-book projects.

Mary Jaharis Center Project Grants support discrete and highly focused professional projects aimed at the conservation, preservation, and documentation of Byzantine archaeological sites and monuments dated from 300 CE to 1500 CE primarily in Greece and Turkey. Projects may be small stand-alone projects or discrete components of larger projects. Eligible projects might include archeological investigation, excavation, or survey; documentation, recovery, and analysis of at risk materials (e.g., architecture, mosaics, paintings in situ); and preservation (i.e., preventive measures, e.g., shelters, fences, walkways, water management) or conservation (i.e., physical hands-on treatments) of sites, buildings, or objects.

The application deadline for all grants is February 1, 2024. For further information, please visit the Mary Jaharis Center website: https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjc...@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center, with any questions.

b. Two PhD and one post-doctoral positions, SNSF-Advanced Grant Research Project Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852), coordinated by Prof. Michele Bacci, University of Fribourg

Job Announcement: Postdoctoral or Senior researcher

Website: https://jobs.fr.ch/job/Fribourg%2C-CH-Post-doc-position-Sari/782792702/

Contact person: Prof. Michele Bacci, University of Fribourg, michel...@unifr.ch

The SNSF Advanced Grant Project Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852), coordinated by Prof. Michele Bacci (Chair of Medieval Art, University of Fribourg, Switzerland), offers a five-year part time (40-50%) Postdoctoral or Senior researcher position with focus on the network of Jewish holy sites in the Holy Land, as reflected in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish sources. The applicant will be responsible for:

• A specific research subproject aimed to providing a historical analysis of the sacred topographies associated with Jewish traditions in the Holy Land;

• The analysis of available textual, visual, and material evidence, database feeding;

• An active collaboration with the other team members;

• The organization of events and workshops and participation in scientific events.

Requested profile

• applicants should possess a PhD in history or literary studies with expertise in the analysis of premodern Hebrew texts;

• distinguished knowledge of cultural traditions associated with the Holy Land and/or expertise in the interdisciplinary study of religious materiality is required;

the application should consist of a cover letter and a detailed CV. The documents should be submitted before December 15th, 2023, via the website of the State of Fribourg (https://jobs.fr.ch/job/Fribourg%2C-CH-Post-doc-position-Sari/782792702/).

Activity rate: 40%-50%

Workplace: University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Submission deadline: 15.12.2023

Date of appointment: 01.02.2024 or to be determined

Aims of the Project

The present project aims to provide a methodological reassessment of and a new interpretive frame to the materiality of Palestinian loca sancta, their interaction with the surrounding environment, their interconnectedness in the frame of topographic networks meant to be experienced through physical movement, and more generally, the construction of sanctity through and in things and its sensory apprehension.

Subject and Objectives

The project deals with the dynamics by which the three “Abrahamic” – Jewish, Christian, and Islamic – traditions in the Holy Land gave shape to forms of religious experience strictly associated with specific geographic locations, i.e., worship-worthy sites invested with memorial qualities and deemed, more or less explicitly, to provide a direct, inherent and unmediated access to the supernatural, divine, or transcendental dimensions. The topic will be investigated by analysing the visual, spatial, sensorial, performative, and narrative strategies whereby site-bound holiness was located, evoked, staged, and perceived in the chronological frame of the post-Crusader period of Islamic (Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman) rule in Palestine, from Salah ad-Din’s reconquest of Jerusalem (1187) to the establishment of the so-called status quo by Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid in 1852. Its focus will be on a corpus of ca. 400 holy sites belonging to, and often shared by, different religious groups.

Methodology

The project relies on a teamwork combining the expertise of scholars with different training, academic age, and geographic origins. It is committed to simultaneously gather textual, visual, geographic, and material information about the holy sites and the topographic networks they were involved in. Typically, it raises questions as to: 1) the material features which were viewed in pre-modern times as indicators of a site’s exceptional status; 2) the narratives and legends worked out to legitimate the site’s exceptionality and the ways in which such narratives were communicated; 3) the site’s interaction with the natural environment around it; 4) the different kinds of hallowed matter offered to believers’ devotion; 5) the nature and material appearance of the main cultic foci, their setting in space and the framing, enshrining, lighting, veiling devices used to visualize their holiness; 6) the narrative, performative, emotional associations carried by holy sites and their cultic foci and the impact of their staging on their worshippers’ attitudes and devotional behaviour; 7) the social actors involved in the promotion of site-bound worship and the specific contexts in which the latter emerged; 8) the role played by ephemeral and permanent décors in shaping the experience of holy sites and the extent to which believers themselves contributed to their staging; 9) the latter’s transformations in time and space; 10) the extent to which specific sets of forms came to be associated with distinctive cult-phenomena; 11) the interconnectedness of the holy sites in the frame of wider topographic networks defined by pilgrimage routes and kinetic devotions; 12) the role played by the loca sancta as stopovers in the pilgrims’ embodied experience; 13) the impact of landscape’s evocativeness on the location of site-bound holiness; 14) the specific interaction between the pilgrims’ physical movement and their contemplation of Palestinian landscape as a sequence of mutually interrelated holy spots.

Outcomes

Apart from the golden open access publication of the research outcomes in the form of articles and multi-authored books, the team will be committed to the creation of an interactive map documenting the circuits of pilgrims and the topographic networks of the Holy Land. The latter will also integrate simulated 3D virtual reconstructions, or interactive panoramas, of the same routes.

Job Announcement: PhD position (1)

Website: https://jobs.fr.ch/job/Fribourg%2C-CH-PhD-Position-Sari/782792902/

Contact person: Prof. Michele Bacci, University of Fribourg, michel...@unifr.ch

The SNSF Advanced Grant Project Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852), coordinated by Prof. Michele Bacci (Chair of Medieval Art History, University of Fribourg, Switzerland), offers a four-year doctoral position with a focus on the multireligious holy sites in the Jerusalem. The specific topic which the doctoral student will deal with is “The Cenacle Complex on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion as a Multireligious Locus Sanctus”. She/he will be fully responsible for the designated subproject and maintain constant dialogue with the team members and the project’s PI. The doctoral student will be responsible for the specific research subproject aimed to providing a historical and art historical analysis of the Cenacle Complex, focusing on the dynamics whereby site-bound holiness came to be shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. Her/his specific tasks will include the examination of available textual, visual, and material evidence, database feeding, the writing of the thesis, active collaboration with the other team members, the organization of events and workshops and participation in scientific events.

Requested profile

• Applicants should have obtained a MA in art history, history, or literature, and possess linguistic competencies enabling access to sources written in Latin and major Western European languages;

• A good knowledge of the cultural traditions associated with the Holy Land, as well as familiarity with the historical analysis of holy sites and/or with Medieval and early modern pilgrims’ travelogues will be strongly appreciated;

• The application should consist of a cover letter and a detailed CV. The documents should be submitted before December 15th, 2023, via the website of the State of Fribourg (https://jobs.fr.ch/job/Fribourg%2C-CH-PhD-Position-Sari/782792902/).

Activity rate: 75%-80% (full-time position)

Workplace: University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Submission deadline: 15.12.2023

Date of appointment: 01.02.2024 or to be determined

For more information, see above announcement

Job Announcement: PhD position (2)

Website: https://jobs.fr.ch/job/Fribourg%2C-CH-PhD-Position-Sari/782793202/

Contact person: Prof. Michele Bacci, University of Fribourg, michel...@unifr.ch

The SNSF Advanced Grant Project Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852), coordinated by Prof. Michele Bacci (Chair of Medieval Art History, University of Fribourg, Switzerland), offers a four-year doctoral position with a focus on the multireligious holy sites in the Jerusalem. The specific topic which the doctoral student will deal with is “Cross-Religious Evocations of the Holy at the Tomb of Prophet Samuel in Nabi Samwil”. She/he will be fully responsible for the designated subproject and maintain constant dialogue with the team members and the project’s PI. The doctoral student will be responsible for the specific research subproject aimed to providing a historical and art historical analysis of the Tomb of Prophet Samuel, with focus on the dynamics whereby site-bound holiness came to be shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. Her/his specific tasks will include the examination of available textual, visual, and material evidence, database feeding, the writing of the thesis, active collaboration with the other team members, the organization of events and workshops and participation in scientific events.

Requested profile

• Applicants should have obtained a MA in art history, history, or literature, and possess linguistic competencies enabling access to sources written in Latin and major Western European languages;

Activity rate: 75%-80% (full-time position)

Workplace: University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Submission deadline: 15.12.2023

Date of appointment: 01.02.2024 or to be determined

For more information, see above announcement

c. Call for applications: 2024-2025 ANAMED Fellowship applications continue!

Currently Open Fellowships

· Max-Planck-Institut’s Kunsthistorisches Institut (KHI) – ANAMED Joint Fellowship

· KUDAR-ANAMED Joint Fellowship in Maritime Archaeology

· İAE – ANAMED Joint Fellowship

· ANAMED Regular Fellowship

Koç University invites applications for PhD, Post-Doctoral, and Senior research support at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED). A few Post-Doctoral or Senior applications for regular research support that qualify for collaborative research support involving Koç University faculty, centers, or facilities will be preferred. Additionally, several joint fellowships with specific application criteria are available as well.

Opportunities include a monthly stipend calculated by Koç University each year to cover most local expenses not covered by the fellowship, accommodation at ANAMED’s residential facility in the center of Beyoğlu-Istanbul, five meals per week, transportation to and from Türkiye, a modest research budget, health insurance, Residence permit, Museum Card, full access to the ANAMED Library and to lectures, symposia, and other activities at ANAMED and on the main Koç University campus.

All ANAMED fellows are expected to devote themselves full time to their research projects, to be active members of Koç University’s academic community, and, for full-year research support, to give three lectures on their work during the course of the year. Applications from scholars of all nationalities are encouraged, yet fellows must be proficient in English, the language of instruction at Koç University

For more information, see https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/fellowships/

d. Two post-doctoral positions: ECOMED. Les Économies méditerranéennes à la fin du Moyen Âge (ca. 1350- ca. 1500) : crises, reconstructions, restructurations (ANR-23-CE27-ECOMED; 2024-2028)

Chères et chers collègues, Chères et chers amis,

Le projet ECOMED. Les Économies méditerranéennes à la fin du Moyen Âge (ca. 1350- ca. 1500) : crises, reconstructions, restructurations (ANR-23-CE27-ECOMED; 2024-2028), dispose de deux contrats de recherche pour des docteurs, l'un en archéologie médiévale, l'autre en histoire médiévale, et ouvre à ce titre un concours de recrutement.

Je me permets de vous envoyer en pièce jointe les fiches de poste correspondant aux deux profils. L'annonce est aussi disponible ici : https://lamop.hypotheses.org/9615. Auriez-vous la gentillesse de les diffuser largement au sein de vos réseaux et auprès des personnes qui pourraient être intéressées ?

Il s'agit d'un concours totalement ouvert et nous cherchons avant tout deux personnes répondant aux attendus des deux profils. Il s'agit de deux contrats de 4 ans à pourvoir à partir d'avril 2024 payés aussi généreusement que nous le pouvons avec les financements ANR, en fonction de l'expérience des candidats. Les dossiers sont à retourner pour le 5 janvier et une audition est prévue à la fin de janvier 2024 (sur zoom).

Bien amicalement,

Cédric Quertier et Laurent Feller

Job Announcement: Post-doctoral position (1)

Research contract in medieval archaeology

Post-doctoral or category A contract (Research Engineer level) open only to contract staff (M/F) - Full time

Starting date: 1 April 2024

Duration of contract: 48 months

Place of work: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Orient et Méditerranée (UMR 8167)

Type of contract: Post-doctoral fixed-term contract (article L. 412-4 of the French Research Code) or category A fixed-term contract (Research Engineer level) open only to contract staff.

Remuneration: depending on the candidate's experience and the salary scales in force at Paris 1.

In accordance with its action plan for professional equality and the fight against discrimination, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne ensures strict compliance with professional equality for women and men in its recruitment, career development and training procedures, as well as the prevention of discrimination.

Job profile

This contract is part of the ECOMED project. Mediterranean Economies in the Late Middle Ages (ca. 1350- ca. 1500): crises, reconstructions, restructurations (ANR-23-CE27-ECOMED), funded by the French National Research Agency for the period 2024-2028. The ECOMED project is a winner of the ANR's 2023 generic call for projects (AAPG- PRC collaborative research project) and is supported by Casa de Velázquez (EHEHI, Madrid).It encompasses two research contracts, one in medieval archaeology and one medieval history (here), which will have to collaborate. It is coordinated by Cédric Quertier, a CNRS research fellow and member of the LAMOP laboratory (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris) and brings together some forty researchers from France (CNRS, univ. Paris 1 and AMU), Spain (CSIC, univ. Barcelona, Lérida, Saragossa), Italy (univ. Milan, Rome 2, Cagliari), England and Greece, specialising in the study of Mediterranean worlds from an intercultural perspective. The project is based on the observation of a divergence between the historiographies of Northern Europe and the Mediterranean regions. It aims to bring together and connect historical, archaeological and palaeo-environmental data to build a common frame of reference for the academic world interested in the economic transformations of the late Middle Ages. Over a period of 48 months, it will study aspects such as responses to environmental changes on both sides of the sea; the diversification and commercialisation of agricultural and craft production; the use of raw materials and the movement of goods; the adaptation of institutions and states, as well as the conflicts structuring the period and the area; it will also examine the place of the Mediterranean in the economy of the late Middle Ages. It aims at understanding how the economic dynamics of the Mediterranean at the end of the Middle Ages were redefined by changes both in the environment and in human activities, and by their constant interactions. To this end, the beneficiary of this research contract will contribute to building and filling a relational database focusing on the harvesting, consumption and marketing of living products (cereals, livestock products, wood, textile products). The products will be selected because of their wide distribution (at local, regional and Mediterranean levels), their marked environmental and spatial impact, and because they account for a significant proportion of economic activities. The person recruited will thus help to bring together the information available in the published literature relating to written, archaeological and palaeo-environmental data providing information on the economy and human activities.

Job description

The person recruited will be an integral part of the ECOMED project team, which he/she will strengthen and help to lead. He/she will be responsible for the following tasks, with the help of the program members:

- Collecting and contributing to bibliographical research (works, published sources, published data) in order to draw up an inventory of available sources of information;

- Contributing to the development of the database in conjunction with the members of the group;

- Collecting and entering information on living products (cereals, wood, livestock products, etc., whether raw or processed) from written (published or unpublished), archaeological and palaeo-environmental documents into the database, based on work already published;

- Helping to incorporate the information gathered into the program's databases (dedicated database, GIS, Zotero Group bibliography);

- Communicating, making available to group members and saving data in accordance with the ECOMED project's data management plan.

- Contributing to the material and scientific organisation of scientific events, in conjunction with the ECOMED project coordinators;

- Publication of data papers, interim articles and contribution to review studies.

Qualifications and skills

- Diploma required

The person recruited must have defended (at the latest at the time of taking up the post) a doctoral thesis in history, archaeology or another discipline in the humanities and social sciences in line with the scientific skills required above.

- Scientific skills

Scientific skills in environmental archaeology (palynology, anthracology, carpology, ichthyology, etc.) and an awareness of palaeoclimatic issues in their interaction with the production, marketing and consumption of products derived from living organisms will be considered an asset.

- Technical skills

The person recruited should have a good knowledge and experience of digital research tools, in particular relational databases and current spatial analysis tools (GIS).

- Interpersonal skills

Organised and methodical, the person recruited should be able to work independently but also have a good aptitude for teamwork. Experience of collective projects with local, national or European funding will be considered an asset.

- Language skills

Fluency in English is essential, particularly if knowledge of French, Italian or Spanish - which will be the languages of communication and drafting that the working group may use - is not sufficient.

Working environment and supervision

The history researcher recruited will be attached to the LAMOP. The LaMOP (UMR 8589 / CNRS - Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; https://lamop.pantheonsorbonne.fr), set up in 1998, is a unit specialising in the study of the history of the Middle Ages and whose research activities cover the whole of this period and the whole of the West (with researchers working in present-day France but also in the British Isles, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Germany). The laboratory is also characterised by its multidisciplinary approach to the Middle Ages. Its identity lies in a historical practice that combines the sciences of scholarship with the humanities and social sciences, all accompanied by a strong and well-established IT component. The laboratory's international dimension and the multiplicity of its foreign partners are intrinsically linked to the comparative approach to the issues it seeks to promote. Today, the LaMOP has some 72 researchers, lecturers and doctoral students (historians, archaeologists, Latinists), administrative and technical staff and associate members (see the unit directory). It is based in various locations, both at the Sorbonne and on the Condorcet Campus. Links with the Pôle Informatique de Recherche et d'Enseignement de l'Histoire (PIREH, https://recherche-pireh.pantheonsorbonne.fr/pireh) are possible.

The person recruited will work mainly under the responsibility of the coordinators for workpackage 1 "Typology and inventory of sources" and workpackage 2 "Environmental challenge and social resilience", Cédric Quertier (research fellow, CNRS, LAMOP UMR 8589) and Laurent Feller (professor emeritus, Paris 1, LAMOP). The person will also be in regular contact with the other members of the program, in particular Dominique Valérian (Professor, Paris 1, Orient et Méditerranée), Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi (Research Fellow, CNRS, Orient et Méditerranée) and Raúl Estangüi Gómez (CCHS, CSIC), Pauline Guéna (Research Fellow, CNRS, TELEMME), Mohamed Ouerfelli (MCF, AMU, IREMAM), coordinators for the French part of the ECOMED program consortium, as well as colleagues from the universities of Barcelona, Lérida, Saragossa, Cagliari, Milan and Rome 2.

Constraints and risks

The person recruited will be provided with an office on the LAMOP premises and a laptop equipped with the software needed to carry out the program. He/she will be subject to the rules inherent in the operation of these laboratories (internal regulations). For the duration of the contract, it will be essential for the researcher to be based in a major university center where he or she can carry out the necessary archival and bibliographic research, attend all the research group meetings (twice a year) and be available by videoconference for regular coordination meetings.

Apply at

Applications should be sent to cedric....@gmail.com or cedric....@univ-paris1.fr by 5 January at the latest.

The application file must include in a single PDF document:

1) a copy of an identity document ;

2) the doctoral diploma;

3) the thesis defence report or equivalent;

4) a letter of motivation (in French, Italian, Spanish or English) of no more than 3 pages / 10,000 characters (including spaces), stating the applicant's past research and experience and the way in which he or she will be involved in the ECOMED project;

5) a detailed CV (in French, Italian, Spanish or English), including the academic curriculum and any list of publications;

Applications will be examined by members of the project steering committee. If necessary, an interview will be organised by videoconference during the 4th or 5th week of January 2024. Contact: Cédric Quertier: cedric....@gmail.com; cedric....@univ-paris1.fr

Job Announcement: Post-doctoral position (2)

Research contract in medieval history

Post-doctoral or category A contract (Research Engineer level) open only to contract staff (M/F) - Full time

Starting date: 1 April 2024

Duration of contract: 48 months

Place of work: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, LAMOP (UMR 8589)

Type of contract: Post-doctoral fixed-term contract (article L. 412-4 of the French Research Code) or category A fixed-term contract (Research Engineer level) open only to contract staff.

Remuneration: depending on the candidate's experience and the salary scales in force at Paris 1. In accordance with its action plan for professional equality and the fight against discrimination, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne ensures strict compliance with professional equality for women and men in its recruitment, career development and training procedures, as well as the prevention of discrimination.

Job profile

This contract is part of the ECOMED project. Mediterranean Economies in the Late Middle Ages (ca. 1350- ca. 1500): crises, reconstructions, restructurations (ANR-23-CE27-ECOMED), funded by the French National Research Agency for the period 2024-2028. The ECOMED project is a winner of the ANR's 2023 generic call for projects (AAPG-PRC collaborative research project) and is supported by Casa de Velázquez (EHEHI, Madrid). It encompasses two research contracts, one in medieval archaeology and one medieval history (here), which will have to collaborate. It is coordinated by Cédric Quertier, a CNRS research fellow and member of the LAMOP laboratory (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris) and brings together some forty researchers from France (CNRS, univ. Paris 1 and AMU), Spain (CSIC, univ. Barcelona, Lérida, Saragossa), Italy (univ. Milan, Rome 2, Cagliari), England and Greece, specialising in the study of Mediterranean worlds from an intercultural perspective. The project is based on the observation of a divergence between the historiographies of Northern Europe and the Mediterranean regions. It aims to bring together and connect historical, archaeological and palaeo-environmental data to build a common frame of reference for the academic world interested in the economic transformations of the late Middle Ages. Over a period of 48 months, it will study aspects such as responses to environmental changes on both sides of the sea; the diversification and commercialisation of agricultural and craft production; the use of raw materials and the movement of goods; the adaptation of institutions and states, as well as the conflicts structuring the period and the area; it will also examine the place of the Mediterranean in the economy of the late Middle Ages. It aims at understanding how the economic dynamics of the Mediterranean at the end of the Middle Ages were redefined by changes both in the environment and in human activities, and by their constant interactions. To this end, the beneficiary of this research contract will contribute to building and filling a relational database focusing on the harvesting, consumption and marketing of living products (cereals, livestock products, wood, textile products). The products will be selected because of their wide distribution (at local, regional and Mediterranean levels), their marked environmental and spatial impact, and because they account for a significant proportion of economic activities. The person recruited will thus help to bring together the information available in the published literature relating to written, archaeological and palaeo-environmental data providing information on the economy and human activities.

Job description

- Collecting and contributing to bibliographical research (works, published sources, published data) in order to draw up an inventory of available sources of information;

- Contributing to the development of the database in conjunction with the members of the group;

- Collecting and entering information on living products (cereals, wood, livestock, products, etc., whether raw or processed) from written (published or unpublished), archaeological and palaeo-environmental documents into the database, based on work already published;

- Helping to incorporate the information gathered into the program's databases (dedicated database, GIS, Zotero Group bibliography);

- Communicating, making available to group members and saving data in accordance with the ECOMED project's data management plan.

- Contributing to the material and scientific organisation of scientific events, in conjunction with the ECOMED project coordinators;

- Publication of data papers, interim articles and contribution to review studies.

Qualifications and skills

- Diploma required

- Scientific skills

The post requires a good command of Latin. Mastery of vernacular languages of the late Middle Ages and the ability to understand works published in international literature (English, French, Italian, Spanish, etc.) will be considered an asset.

- Technical skills

The person recruited should have a good knowledge and experience of digital research tools, in particular relational databases and current spatial analysis tools (GIS).

- Interpersonal skills

- Language skills

Working environment and supervision

Constraints and risks

Apply at

Applications should be sent to cedric....@gmail.com or cedric....@univ-paris1.fr by 5 January at the latest.

The application file must include in a single PDF document:

1) a copy of an identity document ;

2) the doctoral diploma;

3) the thesis defence report or equivalent;

5) a detailed CV (in French, Italian, Spanish or English), including the academic curriculum and any list of publications;

e. AIA Colburn Fellowships, EXTENDED DEADLINE, for study at the ASCSA

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA (AIA) ANNA C. AND OLIVER C. COLBURN FELLOWSHIPS 2023-2024

Deadline: December 15, 2023 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

Purpose: To support studies undertaken at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece for no more than a year.

Eligibility: Applicant must be a United States citizen. Applicants must be current AIA members at the Graduate or Professional level. Applicants must be at the pre-doctoral stage or have received a PhD within five years of application. An applicant may not be a member of ASCSA during the year of application. At the conclusion of the fellowship tenure, each recipient must submit a report on the use of the stipend to the Chair of the AIA Fellowships Committee and the Director of the ASCSA. After the tenure of their fellowships, recipients are also expected to submit abstracts to the AIA Program Committee within two years, in order be considered for participation in the AIA Annual Meeting.

Terms: Two Fellowships of $8,500 each will be awarded in 2024 (one annual award subsequently). School fees, travel costs, housing, board, residence permit, and other living expenses are to be paid by the recipient from the fellowship. At the conclusion of the fellowship tenure, each recipient must submit a report on the use of the stipend to the Chair of the AIA Fellowships Committee and the Director of the ASCSA. After the tenure of their fellowships, recipients are also expected to submit abstracts to the AIA Program Committee within two years, in order be considered for participation in the AIA Annual Meeting. The ASCSA expects that copies of all publications that result from research conducted as a Fellow of the ASCSA be contributed to the Blegen Library of the School.

Application: Applicants no longer need to apply concurrently to the ASCSA for Associate Membership. Please note that all application materials submitted to the AIA, including transcripts and letters of recommendation, will be shared with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Admissions and Fellowships Committee for review. The ASCSA will review applications to determine eligibility for membership at the School independently of fellowship adjudication and will be in contact with applicants about offers of ASCSA membership. An offer of membership does not indicate receipt of a fellowship award. Consult the online application form on the AIA's website for necessary material for the application. Note that student applicants are required to submit academic transcripts (official or unofficial) as part of the online application, as well as two letters of reference.

For more information about the application and to apply, link here: https://www.archaeological.org/grant/colburn-fellowships/

The award will be announced in spring 2024.

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Ilia Curto Pelle

MPhil Candidate, Faculty of History

Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society

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