Vagantes 2005 conference at Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)

Vagantes 2005 (University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana March 3-5)

Vagantes is an interdisciplinary medieval graduate student conference. Papers will be presented on visual hermeneutics, the social implications of romance, ecclesiastical politics, the medieval Mediterranean, interfaith disputes, conversion, economics, and experimentation with literary genre conventions.

Paul Cobb, assistant professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and Steven Justice, associate professor of English at University of California at Berkeley, will give keynote addresses.

In an attempt to accommodate a graduate student’s budget, there is no conference fee, three meals will be provided, and the closing banquet costs only $15. Local transportation and a limited amount of free housing will be available. Please see http://www.vagantes.org for more details.

Register at: http://www.vagantes.org.

Send questions to Miranda Wilcox: mwilcox@nd.edu.

A translation of Thomas's Commentary on Job by Brian Mullady, OP

Wow. Fr Brian Mullady, OP, has been working on a translation of Thomas’s Commentary on Job (written in Orvieto, 1262-1265), and has placed it on his webpage. An on-line version is about half-way complete, but the translation of the whole commentary is complete, and is available as an MS Word document! See his webpage devoted to the project here.

Edith Stein Encounters Thomas Aquinas: Symposium at St. Mary's (Notre Dame)

If you’re in the South Bend, Indiana, area on February 19, you might want to swing by St. Mary’s College to attend a symposium on Edith Stein and Aquinas, featuring papers by Constance FitzGerald (“Edith Stein: Contemplative Scholar”) and Sarah Borden (“Edith Stein Encounters Thomas Aquinas”). More information can be found here.

A neat icon of St. Thomas

Nicholas Markell’s icon of Aquinas

(With thanks to Chris Kaczor). There’s this neat icon out there of St. Thomas by the artist, Nicholas Markell. The nice people over at Lasting Visions have a section devoted to the icons (and other religious art) by various artists. You can see the write-up for the icon on St. Thomas (a buy some icon cards, if you wish), here. In addition, there is a section devoted to images of members of the Dominican Order. What??? No Paul of Hungary?

Update on Monday, January 17, 2005 by Mark Johnson

No St. Peter Martyr???

Rutgers University post-doc in medieval history

A post-doctoral appointment in medieval history is available in the History Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, for the academic year, 2004-2005. The field is open. The appointment, which carries no expectations of promotion or permanence, is offered initially for one academic year. Renewal for a second year is possible but not guaranteed. Scholars at any stage in their careers are invited to apply. Candidates must have completed all requirements for the doctorate by August 31, 2005. Each semester, the recipient of the appointment will teach one undergraduate course in his/her general area of specialization, choosing subjects of the courses in consultation with the department’s director of undergraduate studies. The salary is in the range of $35,000.

Interested scholars should send letters of application, curricula vitarum, transcripts of graduate study (if their doctorates are recent or pending), and the names and addresses of three persons whom they are asking to write testimonial letters. Examples of written or published materials are also invited, though they cannot be returned.

Dossiers, including e-mail addresses, should be sent by regular mail to Professor Karl F. Morrison, Department of History, Rutgers University; 16 Seminary Place; New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1108.

The deadline for receipt of applications is March 15, 2005. Rutgers, an AA/EOE, has a strong commitment to diversity, inclusivity, and respect.

General enquiries may be sent to: kmorriso@ias.edu