Are you an active researcher and within 10 years of completing your highest qualification (usually a PhD)? If yes, then you may qualify for ECR (Early Career Researcher) membership of the Royal Society of New Zealand, which attracts a 50% rebate on the full subscription.

You can find out more and apply here: http://royalsociety.org.nz/join-and-support/members/individual-membership/#professional-member-early-career-researcher-ecr

ECR membership is a new category of RSNZ membership. In addition to the benefits of all individual members, ECR members will also belong to the RSNZ ECR Forum, a section of the Royal Society dedicated to engaging ECRs across all disciplines and fostering a collaborative, communicative, and respected community. ECR members can participate in all ECR events that RSNZ runs throughout the country. These events are targeted to the needs of ECRs, including communication, mentoring, networking skills, and career building. There will also be an emphasis on fostering relations between ECRs and Constituent Organisations, such as The New Zealand Historical Association (NZHA).

The Society for the History of Emotions welcomes members working in the field of the history of emotions across the world, including independent scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates.

It aims to:

• organise conferences, symposia and postgraduate training events to further knowledge of the history of emotions;
• provide global information, networking and collaborative opportunities for scholars of emotions;
• produce the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (EHCS).

The Council of the Society includes Jacqueline Van Gent (Convenor), Susan Broomhall, Ute Frevert, Piroska Nagy, Carly Osborn, Miri Rubin, Giovanni Tarantino, Stephanie Trigg and Paul Yachnin.

Emotions: History, Culture, Society

Emotions: History, Culture, Society is published under the auspices of the Society and edited by Katie Barclay and Andrew Lynch. Giovanni Tarantino is Reviews Editor. It has a distinguished Advisory Board. The first issue will appear in mid-2017.

EHCS is a bi-annual journal dedicated to understanding emotions in historical, social and cultural contexts, and to exploring the role of emotion in shaping human experience, societies, cultures and environments.

It will publish theoretically-informed work from a range of historical, cultural and social domains. It will embrace multidisciplinary approaches (both qualitative and quantitative) from history, art, literature, law, languages, music, politics, sociology, cognitive sciences, cultural studies, environmental humanities, religious studies, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and related disciplines.

For enquiries about EHCS, email editemotions@gmail.com.

Subscriptions

To join the Society for the History of Emotions and receive two issues of EHCS per year, visit: https://www.trybooking.com/214964

Membership plus online journal:

• $70 (standard)
• $45 (concession)

Membership plus printed journal and online version:

• $85 (standard)
• $60 (concession)

Enquiries: societyhistoryemotions@gmail.com

Book and Place
2016 Centre for the Book Annual Research Symposium
Centre for the Book, University of Otago, Dunedin
27-28 October, 2016

This year’s event will open with a public lecture on Thursday night (27 October, 2016), followed by a day of stimulating papers (Friday 28 October 2016). Thursday night’s lecture at the Dunedin Public Library will be given by Neville Peat, author of numerous books about Southern New Zealand (http://www.nevillepeatsnewzealand.com). Come listen to this well-known author reflect on his sense of book and place as he describes, in words and pictures, some of New Zealand’s most remote and precious areas and landmarks, and his ideas for an autobiography that explores an array of New Zealand islands spanning 8,500 kms of latitude, from the tropical to the frozen.

Friday will consist of panels of 20-min papers, with a plenary lecture by Dr. Ingrid Horrocks of Massey University after morning tea. Ingrid is one of the editors of the forthcoming Victoria University Press title, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as an online anthology about a particular place, Pukeahu (http://pukeahuanthology.org). The day will open with reflections by Professor Tony Ballantyne. The full program is available to download here: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/cfb/2016/09/08/2016-symposium-book-and-place-program-and-registration-info/2016-symposium-program/

We are also delighted that Nicky Page will be joining us. As Director to Dunedin’s City of Literature program, Nicky will have lots of thoughts about our topic and will also look forward to hearing the insights of others.

Thanks to support from the Department of English and Linguistics, the Division of the Humanities, and the Centre for Research on Colonial Cultures, we are delighted that there will be no charge for the symposium, though participants will need to bring or buy their own lunch. We will provide a reception following the evening lecture, and morning and afternoon tea.

We look forward to seeing you. We can accommodate 70 people in the Marjorie Barclay Theatre of the Otago Museum, so please ensure you register early to secure a place. To register, please send an email providing your name as you wish it to appear on your name tag and your email address to books@otago.ac.nz. You will also need to notify the Public Library that you wish to attend the Thursday evening lecture by going to the Library’s event site to let them know you are coming: http://www.dunedinlibraries.govt.nz/events/literary/adults/centre-for-the-book-stories-in-the-landscape-a-40-year-odyssey.

Spread the word and help save Humanities at the University of Otago:

“Some of you may have heard about the restructure of Humanities at the University of Otago. Owing to a decline in student numbers, the University is claiming the Division of Humanities has a budget shortage that must be balanced by cutting staff. A number of Departments within the Division are being targeted for staff redundancies by the end of the year. See here: https://www.odt.co.nz/…/humanities-division-cuts-focus-reve…

In the wake of the recent negative press coverage of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding of humanities research, the CEO of the ARC has made a statement endorsing the value of humanities research. You can read the statement online here: http://www.arc.gov.au/strong-value-humanities-research.

The Society for the History of Emotions (SHE) is a project of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800 (CHE). It is a professional association for scholars interested in emotions as historically and culturally-situated phenomena within past and present societies.

Its aims are:

• To understand the changing meanings and consequences of emotional concepts, expressions and regulation over time and space;
• To establish the history of emotions as a widely-used framework for understanding past societies and cultures;
• To organise conferences and similar events to further knowledge of the history of emotions;
• To produce a journal called Emotions: History, Culture, Society which will appear in two issues each year;
• To promote the interests of the Society for the History of Emotions, following the direction of its Council.

The Society welcomes members working in the field of the history of emotions across the world, including independent scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates. Membership information will soon be available through our website but in the meantime please email us at: societyhistoryemotions@gmail.com.

Current committee members consist of: Jacqueline Van Gent (Convenor); Giovanni Tarantino (Research Development Officer); Ute Frevert, Miri Rubin, Stephanie Trigg, Paul Yachnin (Ordinary Members); Andrew Lynch and Katie Barclay (Journal Editors).

Thanks to Sybil Jack for writing this short obituary of Jenny Wormald, who was the keynote speaker at the 1990 ANZAMRS (Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Renaissance Studies) Conference in Otago. As many of you are aware of, ANZAMRS and AHMEME (Australian Historians of Medieval and Early Modern Europe) merged in 1996 to form ANZAMEMS.

Jenny Wormald, born Jenny Brown in 1942, read history at Glasgow university and taught there until she was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Hilda’s College in 1985 where she stayed until she ‘retired’ in 2005. Thereafter she returned to Edinburgh to be an Honorary Fellow at the University. From the start of her career she was both brilliant and provocative — she subjected the accepted ideas and explanations of the medieval and early modern period to devastating criticism that forced her colleagues in Scottish history to re-examine and reconstruct their understanding of the period. In the last fifty years she may well have been the most influential historian of medieval and early modern Scotland and her contribution to the re-writing of its history both in her own work and in her editing of volumes of collected studies. She was an incisive speaker as ANZAMRS discovered when she came to the Otago conference in early 1990 as the keynote speaker — an appropriate one for a city established by Scots. She spoke on Mary Queen of Scots, whom she could not abide and attempted to demolish her romantic image. This unpopular approach, which led to considerable argument, saw her later modify her assumptions as she always held everyone should do.

Her students remembered her as a stimulating teacher who drew out reticent students and encouraged them to debate. Her friends and colleagues found her both supportive and helpful in matters of research and teaching. In her retirement she continued to work and to give lectures and papers at conferences — perhaps the last in August this year at the Scottish Legal History Group Annual Conference when she spoke on James VI and I — another person about whom she changed her mind.

She married Patrick Wormald, a distinguish historian of early English law, when he moved from Oxford to Glasgow in 1974 and they assisted one another to develop penetrating new ideas. She had two sons but domesticity did not impede her research and writing.

Ashgate Publishing Company was purchased by Informa (Taylor & Francis Publishing) in 2015. On November 24th, 2015, the North American office of the press in Burlington, Vermont will close, and Ashgate’s US staff members will cease to be reprsentatives of Ashgate.

The following petition appeals to Informa to stop a planned closure of the Ashgate office in the United States, and rumored closings of an office in Britain.

https://www.change.org/p/save-ashgate-publishing?recruiter=33081j5231.