1)The 38th International Congress on Medieval
Studies
Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8-11 May 2003
The International
Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Medieval Institute and held
annually at Western Michigan University, is the pre-eminent event of its
type in the world. Each year some three thousand medievalists from
around the world travel to Western to participate in over 550 sessions
that are offered by scholars affiliated with some 172 scholarly academies,
associations, centers, or societies and that investigate one or another
aspect of medieval culture—broadly defined.
The Congress will
take place Thursday-Sunday, May 8-11, 2003, on the campus of Western Michigan
University under the sponsorship of the Medieval Institute. As in
recent years, formal sessions and related Congress programs will survey
the multiple aspects of our common discipline. These many and varied
opportunities for intellectual exchange will mark the current state of
research and suggest future directions, while giving both established scholars
and younger members of the profession an opportunity to present their work.
This year's activities
include our regular program of plenary lectures on Friday and Saturday
mornings, respectively: David Nirenberg (Johns Hopkins University), "The
Specter of Judaism in an Age of Mass Conversion: Spain, 1391-1492"; and
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University), "The French of England-A Question
of Cultural Traffic?"
2) Advance Notice: Call for Papers
Thirty-Ninth International
Congress on Medieval Studies, 6-9 May 2004
If you want to organize
a session(s): work through the appropriate organization and its representatives
for a place as a Sponsored Session. The deadline is 15 May.
If you want to give a paper: consult the July Call for Papers and determine
whether a Sponsored or a Special Session may be hospitable to a proposal.
Contact the organizer(s) as soon as you can, but no later than 15 September
2003. OR: submit your proposal directly to the Congress Committee, which
will attempt to match the proposed paper with similar offerings in a General
Session.
Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2003
The Medieval Institute
Western Michigan University
1903 W. Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5432 USA
Phone (269) 387-8745 or 387-8717 FAX (269)
387-8750
e-mail: mdvl_congres@wmich.edu
www: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress
3) Colloquium: Histories of Prescriptivism:
Alternative approaches to the study of English
1700-1900, University of
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3-5 July 2003
This colloquium arises
out of a collaboration between Joan Beal, Jane Hodson, and Richard-Steadman-Jones
(University of Sheffield, UK), and Carol Percy (University of Toronto,
Canada). We wish to consider how the standardization and codification
of English in the later modern period both marginalized and was manipulated
by authors who were in some way outside the mainstream of 'polite' British
society. Previous studies of English grammars in this period have
emphasized the role of grammars in catering for the social aspirations
of the bourgeois, maintaining the political status quo, and uniting the
British nation and Empire under the banner of a uniform standard.
This colloquium aims to challenge such a monolithic view of approaches
to language study in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating
that there were other, more radical approaches and agendas, whilst recognizing
that the end result was, in many cases 'prescriptive'. We aim to
explore the tension between 'radical' agendas and prescriptivism, and to
re-evaluate the prescriptive/descriptive dichotomy.
Call for papers
Papers are invited
on any 18th or 19th-century author whose work, or biography, marks them
as outside the mainstream in this way, by virtue of being 'radical' in
political attitudes, dissenting in religion, female, geographically distant
from London (either within, or outside the British Isles), or in any other
way.
Abstracts (maximum
400 words) should be submitted to j.c.beal@shef.ac.uk
by 30 April 2003. Those invited to submit papers will be required to circulate
a draft copy by mid-June, so that papers can be read by all those attending.
It is expected that a selection of papers will be published.
Papers already offered include:
Joan Beal on Thomas Spence
Karen Cajka on Dorothea DuBois
Martina Hacker on James Adam
Jane Hodson on Joseph Priestley
Richard Steadman-Jones on John Gilchrist
Carol Percy on Eleanor Fenn
The research collaboration leading to this
colloquium has been funded by the British Academy and the Association of
Commonwealth Universities (grant CADF 2001 - 20).
4)Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic
Ideas Colloquium 2003
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland,
28-31 August 2003
Trinity College
was founded in 1592. It is home to the famous Book of Kells, and
to the Dublin Philosophical Society, which was founded by Molyneux
in 1684 and still thrives here today. Trinity College is located
in the heart of the Dublin city centre, Ireland, where the Guinness really
does taste different.
Local attractions
include the historic Trinity library and the nearby Marsh's library and
Chester Beatty Library and there will be an opportunity to visit these
during the conference.
Programme
Abstracts
Registration
Registration information
will be placed on the website in late March 2003 and will also be circulated
to all speakers and to all Henry Sweet Society members.
Accommodation
will be provided on-site.
Alternative accommodation:
You may prefer to arrange accommodation yourself at a hostel, Bed and Breakfast,
or hotel. See http://irishhostels.irlguide.com/
- click on Dublin (which is listed under the heading "Leinster") to see
a list of Dublin hostels. Under the list of hostels, you will also find
links to Bed and Breakfast and to Hotel accommodation.
For all enquiries, please contact the conference
organizer:
Dr Nicola McLelland (nicolamc@tcd.ie)
Department of Germanic Studies
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland
5) IV Congreso Internacional Sociedad Española
de Historiografía Lingüística
Universidad de La Laguna,
Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España, 22-25 Octubre 2003
El IV Congreso Internacional
de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística
se celebrará en la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad
de La Laguna (Tenerife, Islas Canarias) entre los días 22 y 25 de
Octubre de 2003. La Sociedad Española de Historiografía
Lingüística (SEHL) ha promovido desde su nacimiento la celebración
de congresos internacionales con el objetivo de facilitar el encuentro
entre los socios y el intercambio de sus investigadores, así como
divulgar el conocimiento historiográfico de diferentes materias
desarrolladas preferentemente en el ámbito hispánico, como
Filología, Gramática, Retórica, Semántica,
Pragmática, etc. El I Congreso Internacional se celebró
en la Universidad de La Coruña en febrero de 1997, el segundo, en
la Universidad de León en marzo de 1999 y el tercero, en la Universidad
de Vigo en febrero de 2001.
6) XVIth International Colloquium of the Studienkreis
Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft
(SGdS), Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany, 4-6 March 2004
The XVIth International
Colloquium of the “Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft” (SGdS)
will be held at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 4 to 6 March 2004.
The organisers are Dr. Thorsten Fögen (Berlin) and Professor Dr. Peter
Schmitter (Seoul & Münster).
Information about
Berlin and the Humboldt University can be found on the Internet (http://www.berlin.de
and http://www.hu-berlin.de respectively).
Participants shall receive detailed information regarding directions to
the conference site, accommodation and cultural life in Berlin in due course.
There will be a general
section on the history of linguistics and a special section on “Historical
and cultural dimensions of technical texts and languages for special purposes”.
For the special section, papers from classical philologists are particularly
wel-come, but contributions focussing on the Middle Ages, the Renaissance
and the modern period are also much appreciated.
Conference languages
are, as usual, German, English, and French, but in exceptional cases it
will also be possible to give a paper in Italian.
Call for Papers
For the section on technical texts and languages
for special purposes, the following aspects may serve as guidelines for
choosing a topic for a paper, although they are by no means meant to be
exhaustive:
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On the development and diversification of the
genre “technical text”
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Morphological, syntactical, semantic, and pragmatic
characteristics of languages for special purposes and of technical texts
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Technical texts across languages and cultures
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The role of polemics in technical texts: self-presentation
and criticism of other authors
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Oral and written technical communication
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Commenting on technical “classics” (e.g., Hippocrates,
Vitruvius)
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Homogeneity and heterogeneity of technical literature
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Forms of citing and referring, in particular of
self-reference
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Text and illustration
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The use of formalised languages (e.g., mathematical
formulae) as an element of languages for special purposes
Participants who would
like to give a paper are kindly asked to submit title and abstract (around
250 words) via e-mail. Presentations will last 30 minutes, followed
by 15 minutes for discussion. The conference fee will be €
20, payable during the conference. Deadline for registration is 31
October 2003. Please send your registration (if applicable, together
with the title of your paper and abstract) to the following address:
Dr. Thorsten Fögen
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Institut für Klassische Philologie
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Phone: (++49-30) 2093-2507, Fax: (++49-30)
2093-2718
e-mail: : thorsten.foegen@rz.hu-berlin.de
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