American Cusanus Society: long-range Kalamazoo planning

Contact: Chris Bellitto: cbellitt@kean.edu

 · Our goal is to continue to have three panels of three papers each at Kalamazoo every year.

I have taken on the role of planning ACS (and hopefully co-sponsored) sessions for Kalamazoo 2022-2024. Instead of thinking this through year-by-year, I’d like to gather your ideas for future panels. Please share this Call for Ideas as widely as you wish.

Some initial thoughts:

· Are there any upcoming anniversaries of events, documents, births/deaths, institutes/study centers?

· Is it time to do another “state of scholarship” roundtable?

· Is there a particular study or new translation/editing of documents on which to focus a panel: recently-published? Coming out soon?

Some potential partners

·      Our sister organizations in UK, Argentina, Japan, et al

·      International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

·      Gerson Society

·      Politicas

·      Episcopus

2022:

I. Ecclesiology, synods and councils, papal authority, and related issues given Pope Francis’ synod on synods Fall 2022

a. Richard Serina, Cusanus and Execrabilis

b. Chris Bellitto, Cusanus on correcting popes

II.           Topic 2

III.          Topic 3

2023:

I. A roundtable on editing collected volumes: How does an academic society spread word of its findings? (given our nearly three-decade record of publications)

- Co-sponsored with Brill

II. Topic 2

III. Topic 3

2024:

I.Topic 1

II. Topic 2

III. Topic 3

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CFP for American Cusanus Society and Jean Gerson Society for the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2019 - Deadline: Aug. 24, 2018

American Cusanus Society & Jean Gerson Society

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

54th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, MI

May 9-12, 2019

 

We invite proposals for papers on the theme:

Spirituality, Reform, and Humanism in Medieval Universities

 

In light of the massive historiographical attention paid in 2017 to the 500th commemoration of Martin Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses, much new scholarship has focused on Luther not so much as a modern man but a medieval monk.  Scholars of theology, history, art history, philosophy, spirituality, manuscript studies, educational curricula, and humanism have taken a renewed look at the medieval ethos out of which Luther—and several generations of reformers after him—emerged, especially from the setting of medieval universities across Europe.  Those universities, in turn, had benefitted from the increased contact with Islamic, Jewish, and eastern Greek thought after the Crusades and through attempts to unite the papacy within Roman Catholicism as well as with the estranged Greek east.  We envision three panels of three papers each that explore this renewed context particularly by linking together aspects of medieval reform that are typically separated:  spirituality, institutional reform, and humanistic studies in form and content.

Proposals must include the following:  the paper’s title, an abstract (150 words), the speaker’s name and complete contact information. Note that the Congress permits each person to submit only one paper proposal.

Send proposals to Donald Duclow – donduclow@gmail.com – no later than August 24.

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CFP - ACS Panels at RSA Conference, New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018

The American Cusanus Society (ACS) will sponsor up to three panels at the 2018 annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans, March 22nd-24th, 2018. We welcome interested scholars to propose papers on any theme relevant to Cusanus studies. This year we are considering the following possible themes:

  • Any theme relevant to the life, work, and times of Nicholas of Cusa
  • Dialogue and Dialogical Thought in Renaissance Platonism
  • The Reception of Cusanus in Early Modern Christianity
  • Neoplatonism and the Schools in the Renaissance

In addition, ACS is very pleased to be co-sponsoring panels with the John Donne Society on the theme: Nicholas of Cusa and John Donne: Dialogues of Possibility. Accordingly, this year we especially invite proposals that relate the life, work, and reception of Cusanus and Donne as they intersect in various ways. The following are meant only as illustrative themes; other suggestions are most welcome:

  • The reception of Nicholas of Cusa’s work in early modern England, through translations or mediated through other authors
  • Metaphysical poetry as a coincidentia oppositorum
  • Intersections between visionary and artistic expression (especially De visione dei)
  • Speculations on infinity
  • Early modern star-gazing
  • The theology and poetry of the Microcosm
  • The poetry of geometrical forms
  • Dialogues of the soul or about the soul

To propose a paper, submit a paper title, paper abstract (150 words), and CV to David Albertson (dalberts@usc.edu) by Monday, May 22nd. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes in length and should be delivered in English. Per RSA guidelines, all presenters must either (1) have a Ph.D. or other appropriate terminal degree; or (2) if an advanced doctoral candidate, present on their current dissertation research.

Members of the ACS Executive Committee will organize up to three panels based on submitted proposals, but may not be able to accommodate every submission. Note that in order to present a paper at RSA one must pay for an RSA membership for the conference year in question. Contributors to ACS panels at the RSA are also asked to become members of the American Cusanus Society for the year in question (see here for further information).

Please circulate this CFP widely to other individuals and groups that might be interested.

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CFP: American Cusanus Society sessions at 2017 Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, March 30-April 1

The American Cusanus Society (ACS) will sponsor several panels at the 2017 annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago, March 30-April 1. We welcome interested scholars to propose papers on any theme relevant to Cusanus studies. This year we are also considering the following  possible themes:

  • Any theme relevant to the life, work, and times of Nicholas of Cusa
  • The Language of Reform (possibly in coordination with Andrew Fleck and Mark Rankin, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto)
  • Dialogue and Dialogical Thought in Renaissance Platonism
  • The Reception of Cusanus in Early Modern Christianity
  • What is the Point? The Punctum in Renaissance Thought
  • Neoplatonism and the Schools in the Renaissance

To propose a paper, please submit a paper title, paper abstract (150 words), and CV to David Albertson (dalberts@usc.edu) by Wednesday May 18th.

Papers will be limited to 20 minutes in length and should be delivered in English. Per RSA guidelines, all  presenters must either (1) have a Ph.D. or other appropriate terminal degree; or (2) if an advanced doctoral candidate, present on their current dissertation research. Members of the ACS Executive Committee will organize two or more panels based on the submitted proposals, but may not be able to accommodate every submission. Note that in order to present a paper at RSA one must pay for an RSA membership for the conference year in question. Contributors to ACS panels at the RSA are also asked to  become members of the American Cusanus Society for the year in question (see http://www.americancusanussociety.org/membership/).

Please circulate this CFP widely to other individuals and groups that might be interested.

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