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The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference/Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference and the Folger Fellowships Program proudly announce the creation of a co-sponsored, short-term Fellowship. This Fellowship is designed to serve the members of the SCSC for whom the Folger's rich collections are essential. This is a two-month Fellowship for research on a topic appropriate to the collections.

The Fellow will be awarded a two-month Fellowship to be taken at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The award carries a stipend of $5000. Applicants must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application and must be a member in good standing of SCSC. Applicants must submit a cover letter, a 1,000-word description of your research project, and 4-page curriculum vitae. Three letters of support complete the application and may be sent via regular mail or as PDFs email to:conference@sixteenthcentury.org. Please do NOT send portfolio letters

The application deadline for 2012-13 short-term Fellowships is 1 March 2012.

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Donald J. Harreld

Exec. Dir., SCSC

Department of History

Brigham Young University

2130 JFSB

Provo, UT 84660.

International Colloquium "Vernacular Bible and Religious Reform"

Leuven, 29-30 November, 1 December 2012

Call for papers

The Focus of the Colloquium

In the religious developments in Northwest Europe, the Bible has often been instrumental, whether as a point of reference, as a stumbling block, or simply in and of itself. This was the case for the Devotio Moderna, biblical humanism, the Reformation and Catholic Reformation.

The trait d'union between these reform movements, in their respective relationships with the Bible, is that the Scriptures were made available in the vernacular. This cannot be considered in isolation from the relationship between the laity and Scripture: does the layperson have the right to read the Scriptures (in the vernacular)? Or is the emphasis rather on the pastor or the preacher as the intermediary between God's Word and the laity? In what sense was the layperson not just a passive recipient of the Scripture translation, but did he also exert a directional influence on the translation process?

Although the Bible had a more and more penetrating influence on all aspects of the culture and society in Northwest Europe, the scientific study of the Bible from the last decades of the sixteenth century on, also led to the de-sacralisation of the book, submitting itself in this way to the tendency toward secularisation in Europe. Pamphlets, among other things, played a crucial role in bringing the debate to a broader public.

In the Modern Era also, the tendencies indicated above continued to persist, and the question to what extent laity can and may read the Bible, continued to be asked. Attempts to adapt the text to the needs of the 'modern' reader, on the basis of the discoveries of biblical science, aroused and arouse without fail, resistance from a part of the Church community that insisted on the established Bible language, which was perceived as superior.

Organising Institutions

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (University of Leuven) (B), VU University Amsterdam (NL), Netherlands Bible Society (NL), Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek Emden (D). The conference takes place within the framework of Refo500.

Key-note speakers

include Andrew Gow (University of Alberta), Gigliola Fragnito (University di Parma) and Lourens de Vries (VU University Amsterdam).

Call for papers

The aim is to highlight the reciprocal influence that the vernacular Bible translations and religious reforms had on each other. We therefore invite the submission of paper proposals, for a lecture during the colloquium in the field of the following subjects:

-The position of a particular Bible translation in a particular era and community, and, in relation to this,the question of how this translation played a role in the call for reform.

-What can be said regarding the illustrations, their preceding history, the way in which they give expression to the changed religious and cultural circumstances, the anticipated public, and if possible, the 'confessional' colour of the translation in question?

-Translation poetics: the focus on the original language, original text or original culture, or focus on the target language, target text, or target culture? In this context, attention can be given to a stylistic/discourse-analytical appreciation of the Bible translation, with specific attention for the relationship to the development of standard languages, the rise of 'national' identities and the creation of (national) states.

-The reception of the translations: who actually received which translation, in which material form, and in which geographical region? Did it concern a clearly defined (confessional) group, or were certain editions read beyond the boundaries of various groups (or confessions)? How does this become evident from the prefaces, from the choice of 'source text', the option for a canon, the method employed in translating various delicate passages, the marginal glosses and other paratextual elements?

-Did translations incite (printed) controversies? Are there indications of (self)-censorship? Were translations treated for example with suspicion by the Inquisition and put on the Index? Were changes introduced in the reprints, and are these changes related to the reactions to the translations?

-In what sense did the discoveries of Bible study and the unavoidable de-sacralisation of the book, seep through to the public at large?

-Although the above sketched mechanisms and questions apply especially to the cultures of Northwest Europe, the question arises of what role the vernacular Bible played in the reforming initiatives in the Catholic cultures of South and Central Europe and even in the Byzantine cultures of East Europe. It is certainly the intention of this Colloquium that these comparative perspectives receive consideration

The time allotted for each lecture is 20 to 25 minutes. The conference language will be English (French and German are permitted). Please send a summary of 250-500 words before the 1st of February 2012 to Els Agten (els.agten@theo.kuleuven.be), together with information regarding your professional affiliation and a brief C.V. or a reference to your personal website. Graduate students are especially invited to present their research in PhD-sessions during the conference.

A selection of the contributions will be published in the international book series Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, published by Peeters Publishers in Leuven.

Organising Committee: Geert Claassens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/University of Leuven); August den Hollander (VU University Amsterdam); Wim François (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/University of Leuven); Herman Selderhuis (RefoRC); Anne Jaap van den Berg (Netherlands Bible Society); Klaas-Dieter Voß (Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek Emden).

12th International Congress for Luther Research: Luther as Teacher and Reformer of the University

The 12th International Congress for Luther Research will meet in Helsinki, capital of Finland, from 5th to 11th of August in 2012. The overall theme of the congress is Luther as Teacher and Reformer of the University. The University of Helsinki, founded by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1640, is privileged to host the congress. Lectures and seminars will take place in the city center, on the campus surrounding the main building of the university.

The congress plenaries consist of two successive lectures each morning, exploring themes of Luther as university reformer, Luther's relationship to humanism and use of philosophy, Luther's commentaries of Paul in light of the new exegetical research and the impact of Luther in posterity. In afternoon the work of the congress continues in seminars exploring a wide range of 31 different subtopics from Luther and his contemporaries to Lutheranism and postmodernity. The seminars offer a place for analysis and discussion of both historical Lutheranism and its systematical, cultural and philosophical significance in the modern world.

On Wednesday the congress program also features sessions of short presentations, which allow each congress participant to give a paper or a presentation for the wide array of scholars convened at the congress.

The congress excursion will be to the medieval town of Porvoo, the second the second oldest town in Finland (founded 1346), birthplace of the autonomy of the Grand Duchy of Finland and the bishop's seat of the Swedish speaking Porvoo diocese.

During the congress the National Library will feature an exhibition on the Reformation and its literary impact in Finland.

The registration is through the congress website at www.helsinki.fi/teol/pro/luther2012 with the early registration price of 240 euros valid until December 31, 2011. The registration is possible also in 2012, but for a somewhat higher price.

Looking forward to meet you in Helsinki, Yours sincerely

Risto Saarinen, Chair of the Local Preparation Committee

FRICK ART REFERENCE LIBRARY PHOTOARCHIVE RECORDS NOW ACCESSIBLE ONLINE

Scholars in multiple disciplines around the world have long heralded the Photoarchive of the Frick Art Reference Library as uniquely valuable to research that relates to object-oriented study of works of art. Without this repository of an estimated 1.2 million images of works created by more than 40,000 artists, curators, art dealers, and authors of monographic catalogues would be hard pressed to find visual documentation of unpublished art and the preparatory studies, versions, copies, or forgeries that relate to those and even to more famous works. In recent years, the Frick's Photoarchive has also played a key role in helping researchers compile provenance information about art looted during World War II. Lynn Nicholas, the highly respected author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (New York, 1994), recently noted that "to do provenance research, of course, one of the very first places to go is the Frick..." Until now, online access to these valuable resources has been limited to searches for the artists'files, the results of which indicate the amount of material the Photoarchive has for a given artist, but no specific information about individual works of art. For that, researchers had to visit the Library premises, and manually browse the photographs stored on file. The Frick Art Reference Library and its partners in the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)-the libraries of The Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum-are pleased to announce that through a complex process of data migration, all of the Photoarchive's research database 2 records created since 1996 (and all future records created both for the existing collection and for new acquisitions) may now be accessed via NYARC's online catalog Arcade ( http://arcade.nyarc.org ). These online records in Arcade offer detailed historical documentation for the works of art, including basic information about the artist, title, medium, dimensions, date, and owner of the work, as well as former attributions, provenance, variant titles, records of exhibition and condition history, and biographical information about portrait subjects. Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian Stephen Bury comments, For us the incorporation of the Photoarchive records in Arcade means that the richness of all of the Frick's research collections will be available to scholars everywhere and the image collection will be discoverable as easily as our other special collections of auction catalogues and exhibition ephemera through a single search in Arcade. We know that the road that will take us to full digitization of the archive is long (currently online access is possible to only 125,000 items in the archive, but the Frick is committed to the digital future of this exceptional resource). To cite a typical example of the advantages users will gain from the seamless searchabilty across text and image collections that the Frick now makes possible: locating the catalog of the Stroganoff sale at Lepke in 1931 now yields not only the publication, itself, but also the works of art listed documented as sold there by the Photoarchive, one of which was part of the Goudstikker collection that was recently restituted to the heirs. http://tinyurl.com/3spng5v In addition to global access to the historical documentation for works of art recorded in the Photoarchive, a new interface, the Frick Digital Image Archive ( http://images.frick.org ) has been created to link the images of 15,000 works of art captured during the Frick's photography expeditions throughout the United States from 1922 to 1967 to the documentation in Arcade. Researchers can retrieve images by keyword or field searching, display large preview images, download small jpeg image files, and link to the matching Arcade records. This image archive, which may be accessed via the Web site of The Frick Collection ( www.frick.org ), was made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Henry Luce Foundation. The NEH also designated the project as part of its "We the People" initiative to encourage and strengthen the teaching study and understanding of American history and culture. Through this two-year project, the Frick digitized 15,000 endangered negatives within the larger collection of 60,000 Library negatives and developed the interface to make the images freely available online. The negatives were the products of photography expeditions during the first half of the twentieth century to Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. In many cases 3 Frick Art Reference Library entrance at 10 East 71st Street; photo: Michael Bodycomb the images record early states of the works of art, prior to restoration or deterioration, and in some instances, they remain the only record of a work that has been subsequently lost or destroyed. Much of the documentation for these works is also uniquely recorded at the Frick because it was obtained from the owners (particularly true of the provenance and portrait subject information) or from scholars who consulted the images years after they were captured by the Library's photography team. During the course of the NEH project, Library staff updated the ownership and attribution information for nearly 1,500 works, relying on notations by researchers of the past and on the Inventories of American Paintings and Sculpture online database. Access to these images will complement the collection of 25,000 Frick Library negatives earlier digitized with the support of ARTstor and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation and available through subscription to ARTstor. With this new online access to the Frick Photoarchive research database records and the digital image archive, the Frick is now poised to incorporate a growing number of documented images from its visual resource holdings. These images complement other visual resources contributed by the NYARC partners, thereby ensuring that a broader community of researchers will have access to these unique collections.

ABOUT THE FRICK ART REFERENCE LIBRARY

The Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick as a memorial to her father, Henry Clay Frick (whose art and mansion were bequeathed to the public, later becoming The Frick Collection, one of the world's most treasured house museums). In founding the Library, she vowed to provide a curious and growing public of art researchers with resources as valuable to them as her father's art collection came to be to the world's art lovers. The mission of the Library was, and remains, to make available to a broad community of researchers materials for the study of art in the Western tradition from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century. With its emphasis on object-oriented research, the Library amassed a photoarchive that now boasts images of more than one million works of art, many of which are unpublished. The Library owns over 350,000 books, periodicals, online resources, and annotated auction and exhibition catalogues. The collection is unrivaled in the United States, and is one of the world's most valued art research centers and the most comprehensive resource on the history of collecting and patronage.

BASIC INFORMATION General Information Phone (Collection): (212) 288-0700 General Information Phone (Library): (212) 288 8700 Web site: www.frick.org E-mail: info@frick.org (general public inquires, press address given below) Where (Collection): 1 East 70th Street, near Fifth Avenue. Where (Library): 10 East 71st Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues Hours (Collection) open six days a week: 10am to 6pm on Tuesdays through Saturdays; 11am to 5pm on Sundays. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. Limited hours (11am to 5pm) on Lincoln's Birthday, Election Day, and Veterans Day. Hours (Library): 10:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday, and 9:30am to 1:00pm Saturdays. Closed Sundays, Holiday weekends, Saturdays in June and July, the month of August. Following its August closing, the Library will re-open to the public the day after Labor Day Admission (Collection): $18; senior citizens $15; students $10; "pay as you wish" on Sundays from 11am to 1pm. Admission (Library): use of the Library is free Subway: #6 local (on Lexington Avenue) to 68th Street station; Bus: M1, M2, M3, and M4 southbound on Fifth Avenue to 72nd Street and northbound on Madison Avenue to 70th Street; crosstown M72 stopping eastbound on Madison at 70th Street or westbound on Fifth Avenue at 72nd Street or 69th Street Collection Tour Information: included in the price of admission is an Acoustiguide Audio Tour of the permanent collection, provided by Acoustiguide. The tour is offered in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Museum Shop: the shop is open the same days as the Museum, closing fifteen minutes before the institution. Group Visits to the Collection: Please call (212) 288-0700 for details and to make reservations. Public Programs: A calendar of events is published regularly and is available upon request. #184, September 15, 2011 For further press information, please contact Heidi Rosenau, Head of Media Relations & Marketing, or Alexis Light, Manager of Media Relations & Marketing Media Relations Phone: (212) 547-6844 Fax: (212) 628-4417 E-mail address: mediarelations@frick.org PLEASE NOTE TO YOUR READERS: Children under ten are not admitted to the Collection

Netherlandish Culture of the Sixteenth Century

Interdisciplinary Conference

October 19-20, 2012, Toronto

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Victoria University in the University of Toronto

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Herman Roodenburg, Head of the Department of Dutch Ethnology at the Meertens Institute; Chair of Historical Anthropology of Europe at the Free University of Amsterdam

Peter Arnade, Professor of History, Chair, Department of History, California StateUniversity San Marcos

Whereas much attention has been paid to the Burgundian Low Countries of the fifteenth century and the so-called Golden Age of the seventeenth, the culture of the Netherlands in the century in between has long been neglected. Yet the past two decades have witnessed significant research on Netherlandish art, literature, and society of the sixteenth century. The period was famously marked by the twin flashpoints of iconoclasm and revolt, but it witnessed throughout a significant development in artistic, political, and literary culture. Among the issues that might be examined are the following:

Representations of cities, city life, and urbanism in art and literature

Low Countries society was first and foremost an urban society. Urban identity manifested itself in rituals, chronicles, literary texts, and images. We invite papers on the representations of cities and city life in literature and art with special attention to the messages and ambiguities they contain and to their complex relation to social reality

Public ritual, civic religion and political culture

Recent studies on the Burgundian-Habsburg period have developed the notion of a 'theatre state': political communication between court and subjects often took a very public and ritualized form. The key example is that of the joyous entry. Who took the initiative in the organisation of these civic rituals? Who contributed intellectually and artistically?

The arts as a chief cultural product

The Low Countries continued to be one of Europe's principal artistic regions in the sixteenth century, though now with significantly greater communication and exchange with other lands. Antwerp rose to an unparalleled position as a center of both religious and secular painting and of prints. Haarlem emerged with an important artistic culture at the century's end. Nor was success limited to the pictorial arts. Netherlandish carved altarpieces offered new aids in religious devotion, while classicizing tombs and epitaphs imprinted the presence of the nobility on the communal space of church and chapel. We welcome papers that examine the development of the arts and architecture during this period.

The construction of religious identities

The Reformation had a huge impact on Low Countries society, reaching the area early and spreading quickly. The political turmoil that led to the Dutch Revolt only enhanced this process. We invite papers on how religious identities were constructed in the Low Countries, on the impact of different media (printing press, preachers, theatre, etc.), and on the growing confessionalization that led eventually to a sharp cultural divide between the Spanish Low Countries and the Dutch Republic.

Other topics of interest include the following:

Court Culture Commercial culture, local and international Iconoclasm Erasmus, his Netherlandish circle, and his importance for the Low Countries Media, communication, and the diffusion of knowledge Netherlanders abroad: international relations and professional circuits Humanism, education, and the diffusion of knowledge Geography and travel Antiquity and its resonances

Those interested in participating should send an abstract of 150 words and a cv (maximum one page) to Ethan Matt Kavaler matt.kavaler@utoronto.ca and Anne-Laure Van Bruaene AnneLaure.VanBruaene@UGent.be by November 29, 2011.

Call For Papers

Memory before modernity. Memory cultures in Early Modern Europe. This conference will be held at Leiden University, The Netherlands, 20-22 June 2012.In the memory boom that has emerged in the humanities and social sciences since 1990, five major themes have captured most attention: (a) the relationship between politics and memory, (b) trauma and memories of violence, (c) the mediatization of memory (d) the transmission of memory and identity formation (e) the relationship between memory, history and other concepts of the past. Yet most case studies relating to these themes have been concerned with events and evidence post-1800; indeed, many theorists of memory allege that there is something intrinsically modern about them. The aim of this conference is to put this assumption to the test. On the website www.earlymodernmemory.org you will find the full text of our call and other information.

Call for Proposals
Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces
Milwaukee, Wisconsin  June 21-June 23, 2012

Attending to Early Modern Women, which has been held seven times at the University of Maryland since 1990, is moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, thanks to the generous support of the College of Letters and Science at UWM. The conference will retain its innovative format, using a workshop model for most of its sessions to promote dialogue, augmented by a keynote, and a plenary session on each of the four conference topics: communities, environments, exchanges, and pedagogies. It will be held at the UWM School of Continuing Education Conference Center in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, within easy walking distance of the lakeshore, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Amtrak station. Attendees will stay in the near-by and newly renovated Doubletree Hotel. The conference will run from Thursday June 21 through Saturday June 23, 2012, and attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a special pre-conference seminar on Wednesday June 20 at the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Detailed instructions on submitting workshop proposals may be found on the conference website:
www.atw2012.uwm.edu


Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces

How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner space of the body to the outer spaces of the cosmos? How do new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways in which we think, write, and teach about the early modern world? Taking as our inspiration the move of Attending to Early Modern Women from Maryland to Milwaukee, we will consider these issues in relationship to the following topics:

Communities
Women's actions in neighborhoods, villages, cities, states, and empires; family and kinship networks; establishing and breaching boundaries in sexual and gender expression; religious communities; exclusions, exiles, and expulsions.

Environments
Gendered landscapes and soundscapes; the body and its borders; built and invented realms and frontiers; cartographic spaces; gender and the new cosmology and anatomy.

Exchanges
Travel, migration, and displacement; imagined spatial crossings; new interdisciplinary connections; the circulation of manuscripts, books, objects, and ideas; consumerism and material culture; transnational and transoceanic links.

Pedagogies
Traveling new routes in teaching; the virtual spaces of technology and teaching; early modern women in the realm of museums and galleries for adults and children; issues in academic institutions and in publishing.

Detailed instructions on submitting workshop proposals may be found on the conference website:
www.atw2012.uwm.edu

For further information, please contact:

   Merry Wiesner-Hanks
   Chair of the Organizing Committee
   merrywh@uwm.edu