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Back-to-School
Cookout
The CAMS back-to-school cookout for 2001 took place on
Saturday, August 25.
(See pictures)
This annual event gives us a chance to welcome new arrivals
to UNC and to socialize with other medievalists in an informal,
non-academic context. Everyone is invited, and friends and
families are welcome.
Last year's cookout (2000) was a great success as well,
with somewhere between forty and fifty people attending.
(Visit the online photo gallery.)
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Field
Trip to the Viking Exhibit at the Smithsonian
CAMS organized a road trip to see the exhibit Vikings:
The North Atlantic Saga at the Smithsonian Museum of
Natural History in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August
5, 2000.
Margaret Swezey (with assistance from Britt Mize) coordinated
the arrangements for this trip, which eight people participated
in.
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Biweekly
Discussion Group and Organizational Meeting
The biweekly discussion group and organizational meeting
is the central regular activity of CAMS. At each meeting,
participants discuss an article-length reading, made available
in advance, that pertains to the study of Europe or its
contact cultures during the period from 300 to 1500. Anyone
interested is welcome. Selection of the readings rotates
among discussion group participants, and anyone attending
at least his or her second meeting is offered a place on
the reading selection schedule.
These meetings are also the forum in which policies and
projects are discussed and decisions are made. Anyone attending
at least his or her second meeting has the right to vote.
Meetings are held every other week, and the meeting dates
alternate Mondays and Tuesdays (so that a regular evening
commitment on one of those days will not prevent anyone's
attendance at more than half of the meetings). Upcoming
meetings, along with complete information about times, places,
and readings, are included in the online
calendar page.
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Latin
Reading Group
This biweekly group began at an elementary level, using
the Wheelock grammar (5th or 6th edition); it would now
best be regarded as an intermediate group and might also
serve as a review sequence for those who already have some
background in Latin. New participants are welcome to join
the group at any time. Those who wish to drop in at intervals
are also welcome.
For the schedule of readings or other information, contact
the group's coordinator, Dr. Ted Leinbaugh.
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Old
English Reading Group
This weekly group is best for those who have some background
with Old English or another archaic Germanic language such
that they are competent to make their way through annotated
or glossed texts in Old English. New participants
are welcome.
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Middle
English Reading Group
This group meets weekly. The readings are selected by the
participants and reflect such factors as their study needs
for Ph.D. exams and the projected course offerings during
the next few semesters.
Anyone with basic reading competence in Middle English
is welcome to participate at any time.
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Old
French Reading Group
This group is currently inactive, but may be
started up again.
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Research
Tools Workshop Series
The Research Tools Workshops are a series of informal,
faculty-led seminars designed to train graduate student
and others in the use of some of the standard tools for
medieval research in various disciplines. Each one-time
workshop lasts for an hour or less and focuses on a resource
or set of resources which the faculty leader considers to
be of primary importance to medievalists. For upcoming workshops,
see the CAMS online
calendar of events.
Previous workshops include Prof. Dorothy Verkerk (Art)
on "The Index of Christian Art" (Sept. 14, 2000);
Prof. Richard Pfaff (History) on "Manuscript Cataloguing
in the English-Speaking World" (Oct. 11, 2000); Prof.
Siegfried Wenzel on "The Patrologia Latina Electronic
Database" (Oct. 24, 2000); Prof. Joseph Wittig (English)
on "The Glossa Ordinaria" (Nov. 8, 2000);
Maureen St. John-Breen, Tommy Nixon, and Cynthia Adams on
"UNC's Medieval Resources on Microfilm: Ask the Librarians"
(Mar. 29, 2001); and Maura Lafferty (Classics) on "Medieval
Latin Resources" (April 26, 2001).
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CAMS-Sponsored
Sessions at Kalamazoo, 2002
CAMS has been approved by the Medieval Studies Institute
at Western Michigan University to sponsor a session at the
International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 2-5,
2002: "History of the English Language," organized
by Britt Mize.
CAMS also sponsored two sessions at Kalamazoo in 2001,
and the programs of both of those sessions are reproduced
below.
CAMS
sessions in 2001:
Monsters,
Marvels, and Magic in Medieval Literature
Carolina Association
for Medieval Studies
Session
084, Thursday, May 3,
1:30 p.m.
Room 104, Valley I
Session organizer and presider: Debra E. Best, Northwestern
University
Michael P. Muth, Westminster
College
Monsters and the Book of Nature: The Place of Monsters in
Medieval Augustinian Metaphysics
Brian McFadden, Texas Tech
University
"They Go Far and Flee": Narrative Containment
and Resistance in the Old English Wonders of the East
Peter Larkin, University
of Texas at Austin
De ortu Waluuanii: Magic, Marvels, and Monsters in
the Greek Fire Digression
Kimberly S. Burton, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Putting the Magic Back into Medieval Romance: A Select Examination
of Fourteenth-Century Texts
History
of the English Language
Carolina Association for Medieval Studies
Session 445, Saturday, May 5, 1:30 p.m.
Room 1060, Fetzer
Session organizer and presider: Britt Mize, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melinda J. Menzer, Furman
University
The Great Vowel Shift Web Site: Its Provenance and Use
Valerie Allen, John Jay College,
City University of New York
Middle English Latin-without-Tears Texts: The Shape of the
Vernacular
Elise E. Morse-Gagne, University
of Pennsylvania
Distinguishing between Similar Forms: Southwestern þæge/thaie
Is Distinct from they
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SEMA
Road Show
This program gives the UNC graduate students and faculty
who are scheduled to present papers at the annual conference
of the Southeastern
Medieval Association (SEMA) an opportunity to read their
papers before a local audience and receive some feedback
prior to the conference.
The SEMA Road Show is a pre-conference local program modeled
on the traditional and successful Kalamazoo
Road Show. The program of the first SEMA Road Show,
which took place on September 23, 2000, is reproduced below.
Session 1, 10:00 AM, 104
Greenlaw: Middle English Literature
1. Britt Mize (English), "The Problem of Perspective
in Middle English Hagiography: Lives of St. Margaret"
2. Prof. Joseph Wittig (English), "Troilus and the Law
of Kind"
Session 2, 11:00 AM, 104
Greenlaw: The Early Middle Ages
3. George Demacopoulos (Religious Studies), "Gregory
I and the Asceticization of Pastoral Authority"
4. Bryan Carella (English), "Early Runic Divination in
Germania: the Case for Skepticism"
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"Reading
Literary Costume Imagery"
Noted medieval scholar Laura Hodges, formerly of California
State University at Bakersfield, the University of Maryland
European Division, and the University of Houston, and now
author of the well-received book Chaucer and Costume
(2000), gave this lecture and slide presentation on Wednesday,
November 22 to an audience of about twenty-five (a very
respectable turnout, considering the event's scheduling
immediately before the university's Thanksgiving break).
CAMS learned that Dr. Hodges would be visiting in the Chapel
Hill area, and she kindly agreed to do a lecture during
her stay here. The arrangements were made and the event
organized by Ken Thompson and Britt Mize.
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Get
Medieval
In fall 2001, CAMS, the Medieval Studies Program, and the
Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence co-sponsored
a three-event series, designed to appeal to an undergraduate
audience, entitled "Get Medieval."
On October 24, Michelle Oswell and Kevin Bartig, graduate
students in the Department of Music, spoke about and demonstrated
medieval musical instruments for an audience of about 50
people. The musical instrument demonstration led up to professional
storyteller and UNC alumna Chris Vinsonhaler's special Modern
English performance, to a harp accompaniment, of the 1000-year-old
epic poem Beowulf on October 25. Vinsonhaler's performance
was attended by in excess of 160 people. The series concluded
with a free screening and discussion of the 1999 film The
Thirteenth Warrior, a cinematic rendering of the Beowulf
story that combines its storyline with the 10th-century
Arabic travelogue of Ahmed ibn Fadlan. About 40 people attended
the film and discussion.
The event series was organized by Britt Mize. Full details
are available on the special Get
Medieval website, hosted by the Johnston Center for
Undergraduate Excellence.
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Bibliography
Project
The CAMS Bibliography Project solicits and publishes online
bibliographies of important materials related to medieval
studies. CAMS will provide web space for any party willing
to make such a bibliography publicly accessible via the
CAMS web site. Two online bibliographies associated with
this project are currently available for viewing.
One of these, the Reference
Bibliography for Indo-European Linguistics, was contributed
by Professor Craig Melchert and is now complete (though
it may be updated from time to time).
The other, the Annotated
Bibliography of Medieval England, continues to grow
and receives additions regularly. This bibliography is coordinated
by Audrey deLong. Submissions to the England bibliography
are welcome. These can be sent by email to ajdelong@email.unc.edu
and should include a full bibliographic citation, preferably
in Chicago Manual of Style format, and a Library
of Congress call number. Citations may be sent with or without
annotations, but contributors are especially encouraged
to provide annotations as well.
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Catalog
of Medieval Manuscript Facsimiles at UNC
This project, which is currently underway, will list the
facsimiles of medieval manuscripts and incunabula (to the
year 1500) in UNC's collections. The information that has
been compiled so far, along with a much fuller description
of the project, can be seen at www.unc.edu/~bmize/facsimiles.html.
For more information, contact Britt Mize bmize@email.unc.edu.
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Studies
in Philology
Online Database
An online database for the journal Studies in Philology,
volumes 51-98 (1954-2001), has been compiled and designed
by Britt Mize and is now publicly available. The database
sorts the journal's contents from this period by volume
or by author, and it also includes several special listings
(Texts and Studies issues, Extra Series issues, editions,
translations, bibliographical issues and articles, and biographical
issues and articles). The database will continue to be updated
through volume 100 (2003), thus completing a second 50-volume
cumulative resource that picks up where the printed cumulative
index of Studies in Philology left off after volume
50 (1953).
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Studies in Philology Online Database
Studies
in Philology, a quarterly publication of the UNC
Press currently under the editorship of Edward Donald Kennedy,
has been in continuous production since 1906. The online
database project was developed by CAMS as a service to Studies
in Philology.
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Using
Technology to Teach Medieval Texts, by Kathryn Wymer
This web site is intended by its compiler and designer,
Kathryn Wymer, to serve as a resource for instructors who
wish to use technology to enhance the teaching of medieval
texts. Rather than focusing primarily on the content of
such courses, the site will provide general strategies for
the incorporation of technology into teaching. The site
is still growing, and the list of resources it treats will
grow as well, but it is now available for public use.
Where tools related to individual texts are covered, the
site can still offer instructors strategies that can be
more generally applicable to the teaching of any medieval
text. Therefore, though it may include a lesson plan idea
for teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the intention
is that the ideas and strategies therein could easily be
translated into ideas for teaching other texts.
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Using
Technology to Teach Medieval Texts
Inquiries about Using Technology to Teach Medieval Texts,
including proposed additions, should be directed to Kathryn Wymer.
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The
Carolina Association for Medieval Studies Newsletter
The quarterly CAMS newsletter (two fall and two spring
issues) reports on medieval-related matters at UNC and in
the surrounding area. In addition to the printed version
that is distributed via surface mail, both current and back
issues are available in
an electronic format.
Submissions and ideas for the newsletter are welcome; these
should be directed to the CAMS publicity officer (currently
Austin Fairfield)
either by email or at the following address:
Carolina Association for Medieval Studies
Attn. Newsletter
Greenlaw Hall / CB# 3520
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
Funding for the CAMS newsletter has been provided by the
Curriculum in Medieval Studies.
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Mailing
List and Email Lists
A central element of the CAMS mission is to facilitate
communication among those on the UNC campus and elsewhere
in the area who have an interest in medieval studies. It
is very important that people be on the correct mailing
lists, or they will not receive the kinds of information
they want or should have. In the effort to help everyone
in this target group receive the information they need about
medieval-related matters, CAMS maintains a surface mailing
list and either administers or cooperates actively with
the administration of the relevant email lists. All of these
lists are described in the following paragraphs.
You can be added to the surface mailing list or to any
of the email lists described below by contacting the
CAMS clerk
who can in each case either subscribe you or submit a subscription
request for you. You can also subscribe to any of the email
lists yourself through the email
list subscription page of the CAMS website or by directly
contacting the appropriate list administrator.
The surface mailing list is used for the distribution of
the newsletter and some other written announcements originating
with CAMS. It is maintained to include four categories of
recipients: (1) those whose primary or secondary academic
concentrations pertain to the Middle Ages (defined as the
period from 300 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe or the Middle East;
(2) those who teach courses at UNC with significant subject
matter pertaining to the Middle Ages in Europe or the Middle
East; (3) those who are known to have published or publicly
presented academic research pertaining to the Middle Ages
in Europe or the Middle East; and (4) any others who wish
to receive medieval-related announcements or whose professional
position creates a need for their awareness of such information.
It is to everyone's advantage that all medieval-related
announcements, not just those originating with CAMS, be
distributed as widely as possible; to that end, our mailing
list is freely shared with the administrators of the Curriculum
in Medieval Studies.
There are three campus-wide email lists and one department-specific
email list pertaining to medieval studies at UNC. Because
each list has its own carefully defined function and subscriber
profile, this arrangement is not redundant and there is
no need for cross-posting among the lists. All of the email
lists are low-volume. The descriptions below reflect an
agreement among the list administrators concerning the function
of each list and the relationships among them.
The most general list, and the one that should always have
the largest number of subscribers (largely coinciding with
the surface mailing list described above), is medvlch.
This list is open to anyone who wishes to subscribe, and
it is administrated cooperatively by the CAMS clerk,
the Graduate Assistant to the Curriculum in Medieval
Studies, and the list's creator Joseph Wittig.
Its purpose is to distribute information of potential interest
to all who concern themselves with medieval studies as scholars,
teachers, or students. Event announcements and calls for
conference papers are examples of the type of information
that is appropriately disseminated through medvlch.
The organizational list of CAMS is cams, and it
is administered by the clerk.
This list is open to anyone who wishes to subscribe to it,
and it is used for announcements and other matters pertaining
to the operations of CAMS as an organization (such as summaries
of business meetings and project updates, for instance).
Though CAMS is designed to serve the entire medieval community
in the area, it is understood that not everyone might wish
to be involved in or aware of the organization's administrative
work, so the list of subscribers to cams will probably
always be a subset of the subscribers to medvlch.
The third campus-wide list, medgrad, is a restricted
list: only UNC graduate students who consider themselves
medievalists are eligible. Requests to subscribe to medgrad
must be approved by the list administrator.
This list is used only for confidential proceedings, such
as the election of graduate student representatives to the
Medieval Studies Committee, and for any other matters among
graduate students that may be inappropriate for posting
to medvlch or cams. The set of subscribers
to medgrad should always be a subset of subscribers
to medvlch.
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North
Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern
Studies is a regional graduate student conference founded
in the 1999-2000 academic year by UNC graduate students.
The 2002 Colloquium, on the topic "Authority and Authorities,"
was held at UNC on February 22-23. It was organized and
coordinated by Britt Mize and Michelle Oswell. Most of the
funding for the 2002 Colloquium was provided by UNC's Medieval
Studies Program. with generous assistance from Duke
University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
CAMS provided technological support, publicity, and other
committee assistance.
The complete programs for each past Colloquium are available
on the North Carolina Colloquium website.
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The
Bring It Home Lecture Series
The Bring It Home lecture series
is a major once-per-semester event featuring a panel of
two papers by UNC faculty members. The purpose of this series
is to spotlight UNC faculty who are doing exciting research
in medieval studies and to bring their work, which all too
often is read and heard globally but not locally, to a substantial
UNC and Triangle-area audience in a format designed to honor
the speakers. We believe that the Bring It Home series is
a significant service to the local medieval studies community
and to the intellectual community of the university as a
whole. Attendance at this event has ranged from 85 to 150
and averaged about 125.
For the archived programs of past Bring It Home lectures,
visit the Bring It Home website.
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Writing
Group
The writing group is a workshop-style meeting designed
to let graduate students to get some feedback and discussion
of their work-in-progress. Any medieval project is elegible:
papers for classes, conference papers, parts of dissertation
chapters, drafts of articles to be considered for publication,
and so on. Meetings occur approximately once a month, and
anyone interested in participating is welcome (no commitment
to regular participation is implied).
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Kalamazoo
Road Show
The Kalamazoo Road
Show offers both faculty and graduate students who are presenting
their work at the International
Congress on Medieval Studies (held each May at Western
Michigan University) a chance to read their papers before
a local audience prior to the conference. Presenters receive
some helpful pre-Congress responses to their ideas and delivery,
and those not attending the Congress themselves have a chance
to hear what their colleagues will be saying to the wider
world.
The 2001 Kalamazoo
Road Show was coordinated by Elizabeth Keim. The 2000 Kalamazoo
Road Show was coordinated by Josh Westgard, and its program
is reproduced below.
2000:
Session 1: Reception and
Translation
Saturday, April 29, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Student Union 213, UNC-CH
- George Demacopoulos (Religious Studies): "Reconsidering
Gregory I's Use of Augustine."
- Bryan Joseph Carella (English): "The Use of Scripture
in the Legatine Synod of 786."
- Britt Mize (English): "Translation and Narrative Technique
in the Old English Boethius: Two Irregularities
(and What They Could Mean)."
Session 2: Hagiography and
Preaching
Saturday, April 29, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Student Union 213, UNC-CH
- John R. Black (English): "Sainthood in Text and Image:
Variations in Medieval Representations of St. Guthlac
and St. Mary of Egypt."
- Holly Johnson (English): "English Good Friday Preaching
and the Vita Christi Tradition."
- Joshua A. Westgard (History): "Eadmer of Canterbury's
Breviloquium vitae sancti Wilfridi."
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CAMS
Medieval Feast
The CAMS Medieval Feast was a seven-course meal prepared
by professional cooks from actual 14th- and 15th-century
French and Italian recipes. Tickets were made available
at a fraction of the actual cost ($7 for UNC undergraduates,
$15 for others), and for logistical and financial reasons,
seating was limited to 30 diners.
The feast was coordinated by Elizabeth Keim;
preparation of the meal was directed by Benjamin Farrow.
Alice Blackwell, Kim Burton-Oakes, Jody Rowan, and Kathryn
Wymer served and otherwise assisted. The event was supported
by the Office
of Distinguished Scholarships and Intellectual Life
and hosted by the Johnston
Center for Undergraduate Excellence.
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"Monsters
and the Monstrous in Medieval Literature"
This panel discussion, presented by CAMS on April 12, 2000,
was a session in the third annual AGES/AEM Conference in
Literature. The discussion was organized and moderated by
Alice Blackwell;
the other panelists were Bryan Carella, Audrey deLong-Woodcock,
Britt Mize, and Kathryn Wymer.
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"The
Future of Medieval Studies"
This panel discussion, presented by CAMS in April 2001,
was a session in the fourth annual AGES/AEM Conference in
Literature. The discussion was organized and moderated by
Bryan Carella; the other panelists were Britt Mize and Kathryn
Wymer.
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