The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship has always advocated for a methodologically and demographically diverse medieval studies. Inclusivity, capaciousness, and variation are, we think, essential for the continuing intellectual vitality of the field. The IMCs recent failure to responsibly engage notions of Otherness and the resistance of the congress organizers, represented by Axel Mller, to implicate their own decision processes in the choosing of plenary speakers, is therefore dismaying to this body. In August 2016, nearly a year before the 2017 Congress, SMFS President Liz Herbert McAvoy wrote to the organizers of the IMC at Leeds to question their choice of overwhelmingly white, middle-aged, and male plenary speakers in a…
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GMS / SMFS Conference 2018. CFP: Gender, Identity, Iconography
GENDER AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES / SMFS CONFERENCE Gender, Identity, Iconography Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford 8th-10th January 2018 Plenary Speakers: Prof. Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford); Prof. Trish Skinner (Swansea University); Dr Alicia Spencer-Hall (Institute of Advanced Studies) ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The glittering beauty of the Alfred Jewel, the rich illustration of the Lindisfarne Gospels, the dominating Great West Window of York Minster, the intricate embroidery of the Bayeux Tapestry, the luminous Maest of Duccio, the opulent Oseberg ship burial, and the sophisticated imagery of the Ruthwell cross are all testament to the centrality of the visual to our understanding of a range of medieval cultures. Constructed…
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SMFS Foremothers Fellowship prize: new call
The 2018 SMFS Foremothers Fellowship The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship invites applications for the 2018 Foremothers Fellowship. Funded through the generous gift of royalties from the editors and authors of theOxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (Judith Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras), the grant provides $2,000 for a current doctoral candidate (at the time of the proposed project) to undertake a significant professional development initiative. The winner will be partnered with a senior medieval scholar whose guidance and association can assist the student in developing and executing the project. Such projects might include: Travel to a conference relevant to medieval feminist scholarship Travel to visit archives,…