NEWS

SELIM and the local organising committee invite members of the Society and all other scholars interested in medieval English language and literature to participate in its 32nd International Conference at the University of La Rioja on 14-16 September 2022. Information: https://www.selimsociety.com/annual-conference/.

It feels great to be able to announce that registration for the SELIM 2021 Seminar (29 Sept 2021, 11:00-14:30 CET, via Zoom) is open: https://www.selimsociety.com/annual-conference/. Lectures by Jeremy J. Smith, Álvaro Ibáñez Chacón, and Richard North on early English texts and 'the material turn', the Liber monstrorum, and the OE Rhyming Poem will be followed by Q&A sessions. An opportunity for the regathering of SELIM members and the welcoming of friends of the linguistic and literary world of medieval England.

The Society's journal has edited, sent to the printers and fully uploaded to https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.26.2021 its latest issue. Articles feature the OE soliloquies, ME religious poetry, charms, OE grammar, etc., with notes on OE Orosius, the Exeter Riddles and Beowulf as a graphic novel. Book reviews by Erik Wade, Andrew Breeze, Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre and Alison Killilea complete the set. Great summer news. Thanks, Jorge and rest of editors!

Some of the best contributions from SELIM 30 have now seen the light in a volume published by Peter Lang. The compilation tackles aspects of diachronic linguistics, literary and translatorial issues, paleography and codicology. Warm congratulations to editors Rodrigo Pérez Lorido, Carlos Prado Alonso and Paula Rodríguez-Puente.

The 11th International Conference for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology this year will be hosted by Univ Rioja, with the theme 'Historical Lexicography and Lexicology in the Digital Era.' Plenaries on Old Spanish, Old Norse, and Old English. The event is organised with our own Javier Martín Arista in the lead. Proposals for oral presentations and posters via nerthusproject by 17 March 2020. POSTPONED. Check website to join in 2021.

SELIM is pleased to announce its Student Bursary scheme for 2019-2020. Students whose papers have been accepted for inclusion in its forthcoming conference at Oxford can apply if they are members of the Society and do not have a stable source of income. Applications open from 1 February 2020. Further info at Activities.

The Society is now accepting applications for the 2020 course and event sponsorship programme. Applications are open for all SELIM members on a first-come-first-served-basis. The application deadline is 31 December 2019. See the Activites page for description of the grants available and terms and conditions.

For the first time in its history, SELIM will hold its annual conference outside of Spain. The University of Oxford will host the 32nd Conference of SELIM on September 24–26, 2020. The theme of the conference will be European Connections and Medieval English Studies.

The 2019 edition of the Old English Syntax and Semantics Symposium will be held at the University of La Rioja on November 8-9, 2019. Abstracts must be submitted completely anonymised and in PDF format, by September 30, 2019.

Susan Irvine (University College London), Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford), María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela), and Anke Bernau (University of Manchester) to deliver plenary sessions at the 31st Conference of SELIM, hosted by the University of Valladolid.

Professor Javier Martín Arista (Universidad de La Rioja) has been elected President of the Sociedad Española de Lengua Inglesa Medieval. Dr. Rafael Pascual (University of Oxford) is the new Secretary-Treasurer of the Society.