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Calendar page for October, with a roundel miniature of a man sowing grain, from the Huth Hours, Netherlands (Bruges or Ghent?), c. 1480, Add MS 38126, f. 10v
There are several fantastic events in Medieval and Early Modern Studies coming up this month. Here are notices on just a couple:
Later this week, BABEL collects in Toronto for its 4th Biennial meeting. The meeting is October 9-11. This year the theme is “Off the Books: Making, Breaking, Binding, Burning, Leaving, Gathering.”
Just a few days later at the other end of the continent, The Huntington Library is hosting the fantastically titled “The Provocative Fifteenth Century.” (October 15-17).
Finally, on October 30 The Medieval and Early Modern Institute of The George Washington University is holding its first (of a yearly series, hopefully) “Futures of the Past” symposium.
Also, in the middle of the continent:
42nd Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 16-17 October 2015
Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri
Organized annually since 1974 by the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library and its journal “Manuscripta,” this two-day conference features papers on a wide variety of topics in medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies — paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, texts and transmission, library history, and more.
Guest Speaker:
Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) — “Manuscript Illumination: Art and Science”
Conference Sessions:
Representations of Representation
Spanish Manuscripts
Goings on at SIMS: New Projects, New Research
Intriguing Calendars
A Good Read: The Production of Vernacular Texts in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy and their Public
Work in Progress — Digital Humanities Projects in the Vatican Film Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Old Book, New Book: Refurbished Manuscripts in the Middle Ages
Conference Program and Registration Information
For further information, visit the conference webpage or contact vfl@slu.edu or 314-977-3090.
Excellent! Thank you, Kathy!