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VIIth International Christine de Pizan Colloquium, Bologna, 22-26 September 2009
The VIIth International Christine de Pizan Colloquium will be held in Bologna from 22 to 26 September 2009. The work of the Colloquium will take place within the University, situated at the heart of the historic centre, and will explore the following avenues of research:
- The art of translation: colleagues are invited to reflect not only on the numerous translations of Christine de Pizan, from the first to the most recent, but also on Christine as translator and interpreter of Italian culture in France.
- Dreams, visions, prophecies: journeys to the Other World, prophetic utterance, political commentary.
- Colours and symbols: colleagues are invited to reflect on the links with art, customs and fashion of the time, and on the associated symbolical language.
- Christine and the city: Venice, Bologna, Paris.
- Christine and gender studies in Bologna.
- Feminine myth and memory.
For more information on the The VIIth International Christine de Pizan Colloquium see the Upcoming Events link.
Call for papers
44th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 7-10, 2009 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Session 1: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Christine de Pizan This session seeks to complement analysis of Christine de Pizan’s works with contributions from other disciplines – disciplines such as medicine, law, astronomy, philosophy, theology, history, art history, and political theory. Alternatively, papers may address how Christine’s knowledge of other disciplines (astrology, law, history, medicine, theology, etc.) influences her works. Session 2: Constructing Masculinity: Topics addressed in the session could include (but are by no means limited to): the inscribed male reader ("narratee") in Christine’s works; male characters (fictional, historical, allegorical) in Christine’s works; violence and masculinity; chivalry and masculinity; etc. Each session will contain three papers. Send abstracts of no more than 300 words by September 15 to: Benjamin M. Semple,
Gonzaga University, Department of Modern Languages, CG Box 44, Spokane, WA 99258
semple@calvin.gonzaga.edu
FAX: 1-509-313-5718
Book offer:
Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honour of Nancy Freeman Regalado edited by Eglal Doss-Quinby, Roberta L. Krueger & E. Jane Burns
20 b&w illus.; 344pp, 978 1 84384 112 8, March 2007, D.S.Brewer, (Gallica vol. 5), £60/$105 A fuller description of the book itself may be found at www.boydell.co.uk/43841126.htm
Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos by Douglas Kelly.
240pp, 978 1 84384 111 1, April 2007, D.S.Brewer, (Gallica vol. 4), £50/$85. A fuller description of the book itself may be found at www.boydell.co.uk/43841118.htm
Members of the Christine de Pizan Society can save 25% and pay just £45/$78.75 for Cultural Performances and £37.50/$63.75 for Changing Opinion plus £3.00 postage UK, £6.50 the rest of Europe and rest of the world. If in the UK or Europe, order on-line at www.boydell.co.uk/souk.htm, telephone 01394 610600, or e-mail trading@boydell.co.uk
If ordering in the USA or Canada, postage is $5.95 for the first title and $2 for each additional title. Please order on-line at http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/sous.htm telephone 585-275-0419, or e-mail boydell@boydell.usa.net
In both cases please be sure to quote reference no. 07051. Offer ends 31 July 2007.
THE CHARITY CANNON WILLARD SCHOLARSHIP
Leona Fisher has been awarded the first Charity Cannon Willard Fellowship to participate in the International Christine de Pizan Colloquium in Paris this July. The amount of the fellowship is $l,000 US.
Ms. Fisher holds a BA and MA in English from Brigham Young University, where she emphasized the study of medieval literature and languages. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside, studying with Professor John Ganim among others. The paper she will be giving this July, "Medieval Femininity Resexed: Christine’s Mutation of Fortune" will explore the unique and varied ways Christine represented herself as a woman in the Middle Ages.
Obituary: Charity Cannon Willard
Christine de Pizan scholars lost a preeminent and much loved member of the community when Charity Cannon Willard passed away after a brief illness on June 5, 2005, at the age of 90. Professor Willard's unsurpassed biography of Christine de Pizan, Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works, published in 1984, continues to introduce students and scholars to the fascinating story of the poet's life and works. Her editions of Christine's works include Le Livre de Paix, published in 1958 and Le Livre des trois vertus with Eric Hicks, published 1989. She also translated The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry with Sumner Willard in 1999. Her contributions to scholarship on Christine's works are legion. An international authority on Christine, Professor Willard was instrumental in establishing a place for the poet in the literary canon.
An exciting new project focused on Harley MS 4431 has recently received funding. Information at www.pizan.lib.ed.ac.uk
Obituary: Charity Cannon Willard
Christine de Pizan scholars lost a preeminent and much loved member of the community when Charity Cannon Willard passed away after a brief illness on June 5, 2005, at the age of 90. Professor Willard's unsurpassed biography of Christine de Pizan, Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works, published in 1984, continues to introduce students and scholars to the fascinating story of the poet's life and works. Her editions of Christine's works include Le Livre de Paix, published in 1958 and Le Livre des trois vertus with Eric Hicks, published 1989. She also translated The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry with Sumner Willard in 1999. Her contributions to scholarship on Christine's works are legion. An international authority on Christine, Professor Willard was instrumental in establishing a place for the poet in the literary canon.
An exciting new project focused on Harley MS 4431 has recently received funding. Information at www.pizan.lib.ed.ac.uk
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