28.3043, Calls: History of Ling/Netherlands

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3043. Thu Jul 13 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3043, Calls: History of Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:23:42
From: Thijs Porck [m.h.porck at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Scholarly Correspondence on Medieval Germanic Language and Literature

 
Full Title: Scholarly Correspondence on Medieval Germanic Language and Literature 

Date: 17-Nov-2017 - 17-Nov-2017
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Thijs Porck
Meeting Email: m.h.porck at hum.leidenuniv.nl

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

On 17 November, 2017, a symposium will be held at Leiden University, entitled
‘Scholarly Correspondence on Medieval Germanic Language and Literature’. The
symposium aims to bring together scholars who are working with the
correspondence of prominent scholars of medieval Germanic language and
literature before 1945.


Call for Papers:

Scholarly correspondence is a treasure trove of information about the history
and development of the academic study of historical linguistics, philology and
literary studies. Letters of prominent scholars provide a
behind-the-scenes-look at how these scholars worked out the linguistic and
philological problems that today’s students of medieval Germanic language and
literature take for granted. Moreover, scholarly correspondence reveals how
academics collaborated in an age before e-mail and Google Docs. 

Paper proposals are welcome from scholars of all disciplines, including
literary studies, art history, history, archaeology and lexicography. The
topic range is limited to correspondence of scholars within the field of
medieval Germanic languages and literatures, ranging from Old English to Old
Norse, Old Saxon, Gothic, Old and Middle High German, Middle English and
Middle Dutch, including runology and manuscript studies.  

Possible topics/themes include but are not limited to:

- Editing scholarly correspondence
- The role of scholarly correspondence in the study of the development of the
academic study of (specific) medieval Germanic languages and literatures
- Scholarly correspondence in relation to: 

- academic publications
- scholarly collaboration
- academic careers
- the personal life of scholars
- gossip and conflicts
- academic integrity
 archives

Subsequent to the symposium, we aim to publish the contributions as a special
issue of the peer-reviewed journal Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren
Germanistik (published by Brill), with the goal of furthering interest in the
topic.

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Thijs Porck (Leiden
University; m.h.porck at hum.leidenuniv.nl) by 31 August, 2017. The language of
presentation at the symposium is English.




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