Dr Clare Davidson will be presenting in the ACU 2025 Seminar Series on Monday 17 February at 1pm (AEDT).
Attendance is via Teams through this link.
See below flier for further details.
Dr Clare Davidson will be presenting in the ACU 2025 Seminar Series on Monday 17 February at 1pm (AEDT).
Attendance is via Teams through this link.
See below flier for further details.
The first talk in the seminar series Mediterranean Emotions: A Global Research Hotspot is taking place on 6th December at 8pm AEDT. The talk, entitled “Inebriated by a Barbaric Language I need to Possess Immediately: The Emotional Tribulations of a Grammarian Trying to Learn Arabic”, will be given by Prof. José María Pérez Fernández (University of Granada). See below flyer for abstract at speaker profile.
You can join online using this link or in person at the University of Florence (Aula Sapienza, Via San Gallo 10, Florence). You can find more information about MEEM by visiting their webpage.
The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame have opened applications for a funded opportunity for enrolled PhD students to attend the 2025 Rome Archive Seminar.
The seminar is designed to introduce Ph.D. students from across the humanities to the unique primary sources available in Rome. Working hands-on with materials in the city’s archives and libraries, students will be exposed to the rich potential of a wide range of sources produced from the Middle Ages to the present. Seminar meetings will be held at the Vatican Apostolic Library, the Biblioteca Nazionale, and the Archivio di Stato, and elsewhere. The seminar will also include a series of presentations by senior scholars who will discuss how they have collected and interpreted Roman primary sources in their own research.
The dates for the 2025 Seminar are June 2 to June 27 2025.
There are extraordinary and understudied materials in libraries and archives in the city for archeologists and classicists, art historians and historians, musicologists and students of theater and performance, historians of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, the early modern period and the world, specialists in the Near East and East Asia. The holdings of the Vatican Library alone include priceless manuscripts and documents from East Asia, the near East, and North Africa – as well as a vast collection of ancient, medieval and early modern texts in Greek and Latin, a unique resource for the history and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, of Christianity from its origins until recent times, of relations between Christians and Jews from antiquity onwards, and other subjects without number.
Previous seminar participants include students of art history, history, literature, political science, medieval studies, film studies, and musicology. Their areas of intellectual interest ranged from Byzantine art, papal humanism, hospitals, charity and pilgrimage, Persian embassies and the Chinese missions to art and science, fascist textile production, the history of sexuality, and politics and church in the postwar era. They have taken up primary sources like Anglo-Latin manuscripts, a Hebrew Arthurian legend, socioeconomic records of daily life, institutional records of church and state, art and material culture, films, and twentieth-century letters. Participants have come from Brown, Catholic University, Emory, Harvard, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, Syracuse, University of Chicago, University of Melbourne, University of Minnesota, University of Notre Dame, University of Texas Austin, University of Toronto, and others.
The professors in charge of the seminar this year are Paula Findlen (Stanford) and Heather Minor (Notre Dame). Please direct any questions about the seminar to Prof. Minor at hhydemin@nd.edu.
This seminar is made possible by generous support from Stanford University, the Princeton University Humanities Council, and from Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, the Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and the Center for Italian Studies.
We welcome applications from students from any discipline at any stage in their graduate education who have not done extensive research in Rome prior to the seminar. To be eligible to apply, you must be enrolled full-time in a Ph.D. program. The focus of your research need not be Rome but you should have an interest in developing that research through the use of primary sources located in the city. Each successful applicant will receive a stipend of up to $4,000 to defray travel costs, housing, and meals in Rome
Please send through Interfolio – http://apply.interfolio.com/152258 – the following documents: a CV, a statement of interest, the name of one referee and the email address of the referee. Please confirm with your referee directly that an Interfolio link arrives to upload your letter of reference.
The application deadline is October 31 2024. Review of applications will take place quickly after the deadline and applicants will be notified of the outcome no later than January.
For questions about the seminar, please contact Prof. Heather Minor at: hhydemin@nd.edu.
Join the Australian National University Centre for Early Modern Studies for a hybrid seminar with Professor Michelle O’Callaghan (University of Reading) on 3 September, 2024.
Making Poetry Collections by Hand and Creative Leisure
What can a focus on the work of the hand bring to the study of making poetry collections in early modern scribal cultures? Compiling poetry collections by hand depended on manual labour that required technical skills, was time-consuming, often intensive, and, in this sense, was work-like. In the case of those manuscripts compiled by the user, it was also work that was undertaken by choice, during leisure time, and, at some level, was satisfying. I am interested in how the category of productive leisure, which turns attention to the pleasurable work of the hand, can help to understand the kinds of making practised in scribal cultures in early modern England. The examples I will discuss were produced by scribes, working outside scriptoria and elite households, for whom penmanship was both work and recreation, and who make literary cultures beyond early modern London and the universities visible.
More details and bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/michelle-o-callaghan-making-poetry-collections-by-hand-and-productive-leisure
Women in Power, Powerful Women
Workshop
15 November 2024
University of Adelaide
Call for papers extended to 9 August 2024. See below flyer for further details.
The MEMS group at The University of Western Australia invites postgraduate students and ECRs to apply to present at an ANZAMEMS Seminar to be held on Tuesday 26 November 2024 (as part of the larger CHASS Congress). The seminar, “Intercultural encounters and materialities in the medieval and early modern period,” will explore the methodological and theoretical challenges in researching inter-cultural encounter histories for MEMS scholars.
Abstracts (ca 150 words) for seminar papers (20 mins duration) are now invited and must be received by 15 September 2024. A limited number of bursaries will be available. For further details, see the ANZAMEMS website.
The Paris Early Modern Seminar is proud to host the first seminar for the International Consortium of Centres for Early Modern Studies (ICCEMS).
This seminar will be led by Dr. Laetitia Sansonetti (Université Paris-Nanterre) and Prof. Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris-Cité), on the Brepols series “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Europe“.
Abstract
In this presentation, we would like to introduce the series we co-edit with Brepols publishers, “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Europe” (https://www.brepols.net/series/PEEMB). The aim of this series is to investigate polyglot practices in early modern English literary texts by crossing perspectives in a transdisciplinary approach. Volumes in the series analyse how an English linguistic, but also social and political, and more generally cultural, identity is built by means of contact and interaction with other languages, through borrowings and translations.
We will present briefly volume 1, which was published in 2022, volume 2, which will come out later this year, and volume 3, in preparation. We will then open a discussion with the group about what polyglossia means for us who work in early modern studies, how it can help us think the triangulation between languages, lands and nations in an era of commerce, colonisation and conflict, and in particular the place of English and England within the British Isles and beyond, put in geographical and linguistic perspective with other languages and nations, near and far.
About the Speakers
Laetitia Sansonetti is Senior Lecturer in English (Translation Studies) at Université Paris Nanterre and a junior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France. Her research bears on the reception of classical and continental texts in early modern England, language learning, poetry and rhetoric and questions of authorship and authority. Her current research project on translation and polyglossia in early modern England (https://tape1617.hypotheses.org/) is funded by a five-year grant from Institut Universitaire de France.
Ladan Niayesh is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Paris (ex-Paris Diderot) and a member of the LARCA research centre of the CNRS (UMR 8225). Her research focuses on Early Modern travel writing and travel drama, more specifically in connection to Muscovy and Persia. Her latest publications include Three Romances of Eastern Conquest (Manchester University Press, 2018) and Eastern Resonances (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), coedited with Claire Gallien. She currently coedits the Persian travels of the Sherley brothers with Kurosh Meshkat and Alasdair MacDonald for the Hakluyt Society.
This online seminar will take place on 16 May, 10am-11.30pm CEST (UTC +2). Register to attend.
The call for proposals for ANZAMEMS Seminars to be held in 2024 and 2025 is NOW OPEN.
The criteria and application form are to be found on the association webpage.
SHAPING IDEAS: CONVERSATIONS ON THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF GILES OF ROME
Dear Colleagues,
Please find here the announcement for the first session of the online seminar on Giles of Rome, 15 December at 8pm Paris time zone (NB this is 8am 16 December in NZ).
This is a multi-lingual online seminar intended to facilitate new discussions and raise new questions concerning the political thought, context and influence of Giles of Rome. The group will focus, in particular, on philological issues and questions of historical context.
Please register through the links in the below pdf. The organisers, Chris Jones and Frédérique Lachaud, can provide texts if the papers to read in advance of the seminar.
On Friday 3 November, the Flinders University History Seminar series is pleased to welcome Dr Hazel Freestone (Independent Scholar/ Cambridge). Dr Freestone’s paper is titled: ‘A Social Revolution? Married Clergy in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050–1200’ .
The session is online only via TEAMS at 9am ACDT (9.30am AEDT and 10.30pm in the UK). See the below flyer for further details.