Abelard has become a popular specialised area of study in medieval history,
as this conference shows. I will help you do a search on the web to find the
letters he and Heloise exchanged. Otherwise, a fine new translation has been
published recently as their is a widespread new interest in the last few
years on a popular level.
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From: "Otfried Lieberknecht" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 3:30 AM
Subject: CFP (fwd): Pierre Abelard, Nantes, 3-4 Oct 2001
> International Conference
> Pierre Abelard
> 3 et 4 octobre 2001
> Université de Nantes, France
>
> Fist CALL TO PAPERS
>
> The University of Nantes is organizing a conference on the life and works
> of Peter Abelard, born in the village of Le Pallet, near Nantes. The
> University invites interested scholars to propose communications for the
> conference, which will be held in Nantes
> October 3-4, 2001.
>
> The conference will be organized into four half-day sessions; each session
> will begin with a plenary address to be followed by three or parallel
> sessions (with 3 participants each).
> Each of the two afternoons will also have a fourth session directed to a
> larger, non-specialized audience.
>
> Cultural and artistic activities are planned in conjunction with the
> conference.
>
> Nantes is seventh-largest city in France; its University serves 30,000
> students.
> Nantes is on the Loire river, 60 km from the Atlantic coast and 400 km
West
> of Paris.
> Paris is easily reached by car (4 hours), by high-speed trains (TGV; 2
> hours) which leave Paris Montparnasse Station hourly, or by plane from
> Charles De Gaule or Orly airports (50 minutes).
> There are also direct flights to Nantes from other European airports,
> including Lyon Satolas, Madrid Barajas, and London Gatwick.
>
> Themes to be addressed
>
> You are invited to submit a contribution on any of the following topics:
>
> --History of Education
> --History
> --Linguistics
> --Literature
> --Logic
> --Musicology
> --Ontology
> --Semiotics
> --Theology
>
> Official Languages: French and English
>
>
> Chairman
>
> Yann Tanguy, President de l'Universite de Nantes
>
> Scientific committee
>
> Jean Jolivet (Chairman)
>
> Jacques Arsac, Universite P. M. Curie, Paris, France
> Fabrizio Beggiato, Universite Tor Vergata, Rome, Italie
> Joel Biard, CNRS, Paris, France
> Jeffrey E. Brower, USA
> Michael Clanchy, University of London, U.K.
> Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
> Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Univ. degli Studi di Milano,
> Italia
> M. de Gandillac, Paris, France
> Lutz Geldsetzer, Université de Düsseldorf, Allemagne
> Kelvin Guilfoy, Murray Sate University, USA
> Claudio Leonardi, Florence, Italie
> D.E. Luscombe, University of Sheffield, U.K.
> John Marenbon, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K.
> Constant Mews, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
> Peter von Moos, Académie des sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
>
> Organizing committee
>
> Henri Habrias (Chairman)
>
> Michel Bailhache, Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France
> Dominique Billy, Faculté des Lettres, Nantes, France
> Henri Demangeau, Association Pierre Abélard, Le Pallet, France
> Maurice Liscouet, I.U.T., Nantes, France
> Michel Malherbes, Faculté des Lettres, Nantes, France
> Jean-Claude Pinson, Faculté des Lettres, Nantes, France
> John Tolan, , Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France et University of
> Wisconsin (USA)
> Francky Trichet, Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France
> Jean-Michel Vienne, Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France
>
>
>
>
> Calendar
> May 28, 2001 : Deadline for submission of articles
> June 30, 2001: Notification sent to authors
> September 3, 2001: Deadline for submission of final versions of articles
>
> Instructions to Authors:
>
> Please send a summary of your proposed article: 5000 words maximum
> (including bibliography), Times 12-point, 1 1/2 space. The first page
should
> contain: title, name and affiliation of author(s), name and full address
of
> main author (including postal address, e-mail, telephone number, and fax
> number), a synopsis about ten lines in length, and a list of key words,
> along with an indication of which theme(s) from the above list your
> contribution addresses.
>
> Please send your summary in two formats
> By e-mail, as an attached file (MS Word, RTF or PDF) to :
> [log in to unmask]
>
> By postal mail, three printed copies, to:
>
> Conference Abelard,
> H. Habrias I.U.T.
> 3 rue Marechal Joffre
> 44041 Nantes Cedex 1
> France
>
> Each proposal will be examined by two members of the organizational
> committee following a system of double-anonymity. Each article chosen
will
> be presented by one of its authors during the conference and will be
> published in the conference proceedings.
>
>
> The conference will take place at Nantes' downtown convention center, the
> Cité des Congrès (http://www.congres-nantes.fr).
>
>
> More information can be found at the conference web site:
> http://www.abelard.univ-nantes.fr/
>
>
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> = Maurice Liscouet tel : (33) 0240306059 =
> = IUT de Nantes =
> = Departement Informatique fax : (33) 0240306047 =
> = 3, rue du Marechal Joffre =
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