Seafaring: Early Medieval Studies on the Islands of the North Atlantic
transformative networks, skills, theories, and methods for the future of the field

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
April 11-13, 2019

IONA: Seafaring is a three-day international conference on the islands of the North Atlantic that brings together scholars of early medieval Ireland, Britain, and Scandinavia to imagine cooperative, interdisciplinary futures for the study of North Atlantic archipelagos during the early medieval period. The conference will be held at Simon Fraser University at the downtown campus in Vancouver, BC, April 11-13, 2019.

Designed less around traditional conference presentations and more as a “workspace,” IONA: Seafaring is designed to provide time and space for nascent and developing work, intellectual risk-taking, collaboration and cooperation. In addition to workshops, seminars and labs, three plenary themes with speakers and workshops will shape the conference; our tentatively slated plenary speakers are indigenous studies/medieval studies with Abraham Anghik Ruben, an artist whose work fuses Inuit story and Old Norse myth; Nicola Griffiths, award-winning novelist of Hild (2013), set in seventh-century Britain; and Elaine Treharne, the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis whose work is in book history, text technologies and early English and Welsh literature. With its non-traditional formats and inclusive experimental approaches, IONA: Seafaring aims to forge reciprocal connections between artists and scholars in contemporary art and poetics, indigenous studies, and new media, broadening, complicating, and enriching those fields in counterpoint to academic work in early medieval North Atlantic studies. These kinds of networks between early medievalists, and between early medieval studies and other disciplines can give scholars foundations to build robust and productive new knowledge in the field and reshape its role in the contemporary academy, society, and politics.

We invite proposals for (at least) three kinds of sessions: seminars, labs, and workshops (not paper proposals at this stage). These sessions will meet for two days of the conference in order to foster extended discussion. These sessions will be designed to develop competencies and skills, enrich interdisciplinary and comparative methods, and widen geographic and temporal scope for early medievalists.

• Seminars will take up a specific focus on an issue, question, methodology, or problem and consist of a group of around 8 to 12 scholars, sharing work on the seminar’s focus. Organizers will circulate their own CFP for their seminar (but we at IONA will help!), and choose their own participants.
• Labs will put scholars into conversation to test out new theoretical engagements, methods, or approaches. An organizer might want to assign an instrumental text beforehand or ask participants to take on a particular kind of methodological or theoretical angle to produce a collaborative learning experience and opportunities for discovery. Organizer of a lab may want to select or solicit participants with a CFP of their own.
• Workshops will be run by an expert in a particular competency—e.g. early medieval palaeography or critical race theory or Old Norse—as a kind of bootcamp for scholars in the field. These could include active learning, a tutorial on a subject, or a masterclass in a particular skill.

For all three, organizers will have complete autonomy in organizing their session, from soliciting proposals to running the seminars. For all three of these kinds of sessions, organizers may wish to ask participants to pre-circulate materials. The conference is open to other types of session proposals as well.

To propose a seminar, workshop or lab, please send a 250-word proposal to Matt Hussey (mhussey@sfu.ca) by March 15, 2018.

The conference is subject to several grant applications, but the current plan is to make funding available to session organizers.
 

Crossing Boundaries: confessional, political and cultural interactions in early modern festivals and diplomatic encounters
 

Event Date: 
30 Apr 2018 to 01 May 2018
 Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Call for Papers:

In the early modern world, festivals and diplomatic ceremonial often involved the movement of individuals and courtly retinues across borders. They could therefore serve as sites of interaction between religious, political, linguistic, visual, musical, literary, theatrical or material cultures. Often these interactions were accompanied by underlying tensions, which could be made more or less explicit in the diverse ‘languages’ of festival, depending on their historical contexts and the objectives of organisers and participants. This interdisciplinary conference of the Society for European Festivals Research will combine papers by doctoral/ early-career colleagues and experienced scholars, and will focus on the period from approximately 1500 to 1750. Papers will be welcome relating to any region of Europe, or any other area of the early modern world with which Europeans came into contact.

If you wish to propose a paper for this conference of the Society for European Festivals Research, please email a brief abstract, not exceeding 300 words, to Richard Morris (richardmorris@cantab.net), adding a short cv, including current academic/museum/gallery affiliation. Papers will typically be 20 minutes in length. If current graduate students would preferto offer a shorter (10 minute) paper, they should state this when they submit their abstract.

Submission date for papers: 
23 Feb 2018

EUROPEAN SHAKESPEARE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
SHAKESPEARE AND EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHIES:
CENTRALITIES AND ELSEWHERES
9-12 July 2019
Roma Tre University

Conference announcement
Convenors: Prof. Maria Del Sapio Garbero and Prof. Maddalena Pennacchia

ESRA 2019 will have a special focus on processes of remapping, with consequences for early modern discourses on borders, nations, territories, the world. It will prompt discussions of the place held by such processes in the culture of the period, but it will also foreground the various ways in which they are relevant for current preoccupations and concerns.

As we know, early modern European geography was shattered by a series of disruptive events which resulted not just in a remapping of borders, nations, and world, but had a bearing in problematizing the very notion of space and the place human beings held in a changing order of the universe. Discoveries of new lands and new perimeters, originating from a thirst for knowledge, political ambition, wars, not to mention wars of religion and the reshuffled and transversal geographies designed by faith in post-Reformation Europe, were such as to redefine the sense of belonging, physically as well as mentally, and spiritually.

Questions related to this topic are at the core of Shakespeare’s figurations of multifaceted physical and mental landscapes. And the geographical turn of the past few decades has made us aware of the wide range of thematic, ideological, and theoretical issues related to it.

Our European contemporary geography, constantly redefined by new walls as well as the trespassing movement of massive flows of migrant human beings, invites us to interrogate anew the heuristic and ethical potential of that turn; it also encourages us to bring to the fore and reassess the pervasiveness and problematics of the experience of exile, displacement and dispossession in Shakespearean drama. Thus the topic should be found engaging and compelling by the ESRA community, now that our geopolitics and sense of belonging are being challenged and readjusted, daily, by the crises of human mobility.

All in all the chosen topic should provide ample scope for epistemological approaches as well as for discovering new proximities with the Souths of the world and between Northern and Mediterranean seas, daily crossed and redesigned by thousands of stories of outcasts and shipwrecks.

The topic should also be useful for discovering new contiguities between past and present. Ancient Rome, with its expanded geography, looms large on Shakespeare’s imagination. Rome was a world-wide stage on which to projectthe performances of the Elizabethans’ growing imperial ambitions, in a logic oftranslatio imperii, or of “cultural mobility” in the terms it is being re-conceptualized nowadays.But Rome was also a global stage on which to address issues as crucial as centre, periphery, edges, borders, landmarks, elsewheres, otherness, hybridity, cross-cultural encounters and dynamics.

Thus the topic suits productively the variety of Shakespeare’s geographies as well as the chosen Roman venue.

Potential topics to be addressed may include (but are not limited to):
1. Geographies of exclusion: centre and peripheries;
2. Narratives of migration and exile;
3. Cartographies of gender and race;
4. Vagrancy and hospitality;
5. Walls and border-crossings;
6. Europe and global Souths;
7. Wilderness, exoticism and liminal places;
8. Translation as geography;
9. Translating and re-translating Shakespeare;
10. Shakespearean migrations across media;
11. Displacing performance;
12. Conflicting geographies of the soul;
13. Geographies of the sacred;
14. Explorations and geographies of the self;
15. Wars of religions and reconfigured geographies;
16. Digital remappings of Shakespeare;
17. Mobile Shakespeare across genres;
18. Circulating books and translation;
19. Universal libraries and local libraries;
20. Translatio Imperii and Cultural Mobility;
21. World and National Shakespeares;
22. Sea-routes and cultural encounters;
23. Shipwrecked identities;
24. Local Shakespeare in performance in the digital space

Members of ESRA are invited to propose a panel and/or a seminar that they would be interested in convening. Proposals of 350-400 words (stating topic, relevance and approach) should be submitted by a panel convenor with the names of the participants (no more than four speakers); as for the seminars, we expect proposals of 250-300 words by 2 or 3 potential convenors from different countries for each seminar.

Please submit proposals by 31 May 2018 via the dedicated platform on the website of the Conference. Address available from the first week of February.

The conference organisers and the Board of ESRA will confirm their final choice of panels and seminars by the first week of July 2018. All convenors will be personally informed of the choices made and the list of seminars will be made available on the ESRA and the Conference websites.

Organising and advisory committee, ESRA 2019:
Prof. Maria Del Sapio Garbero (convenor) (Roma Tre University)
Prof. Maddalena Pennacchia (convenor) (Roma Tre University)
Prof. Maurizio Calbi (University of Palermo)
Dr. Lisanna Calvi (conference secretary) (University of Verona)

Winckelmann’s Victims.

The Classics: Norms, Exclusions and Prejudices.

Call for Papers

GHENT UNIVERSITY (BELGIUM), 20-22 SEPTEMBER 2018

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: MICHELLE WARREN (UNIVERSITY OF DARTMOUTH) – MARK VESSEY (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA) – IRENE ZWIEP (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

“Der einzige Weg für uns, groß, ja, wenn es möglich ist, unnachahmlich zu werden, is die Nachahmung der Alten.” Johannes Winckelmann

Classics played a major and fundamental role in the cultural history of Western Europe. Few would call this into question. Since the Carolingian period, notably ‘classical’ literature has served as a constant source and model of creativity and inspiration, by which the literary identity of Europe has been negotiated and (re-)defined. The tendency to return to the classics and resuscitate them remains sensible until today, as classical themes and stories are central to multiple contemporary literary works, both in ‘popular’ and ‘high’ culture. Think for instance of Rick Riordan’s fantastic tales about Percy Jackson or Colm Tóibín’s refined novels retelling the Oresteia.

At the same time, this orientation and fascination towards the classics throughout literary history has often —implicitly or explicitly— gone hand in hand with the cultivation of a certain normativity, regarding aesthetics, content, decency, theory, … Classical works, and the ideals that were projected on them, have frequently been considered as the standard against which the quality of a literary work should be measured. Whether a text was evaluated as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depended on the extent to which it could meet the ‘classical’ requirements. Probably the most famous example of someone advocating such a classical norm was the German art critic Johannes Winckelmann (1717-1768), whose death will be commemorated in 2018. His Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums may be considered as the embodiment of the idea that the classics should be the norm for aesthetic or even any evaluation, such as, in Western Europe, it has recurrently cropped up, to a greater or lesser degree, from the Early Middle Ages until modern times.

Almost inevitably, this normativity has implied, shaped and fed prejudices and thoughts of exclusion towards literary features and aesthetic characteristics that seemed to deviate from classical ideals. Throughout literary history, examples occur of literary works, styles and genres that were generally appreciated within their time or context of origin, yet whose quality was retrospectively called into question because they were said not to be in accordance with the classical norm as it prevailed at the moment of judgement. Sometimes, this has even applied to whole periods. The persistence of similar assessments up until today is telling for the impact classical normativity still exercises. Besides, literary texts, though clearly not created to conform to the ‘classical’ standard, have been ‘classicized’ during judgement, being forced by a critic to fit into a classical framework and celebrated for its so-called imitation of antiquity. Even the Classics themselves often had and have to obey to this process of ‘classicization’. Therefore, with a sense for drama, one could say that all these works, literary forms, periods, etc. have seriously ‘suffered’ from the prejudices born from classics-based normativity, being the ‘victims’ of Winckelmann-like ideas concerning ‘classical’ standards.

This conference aims to consider classical normativity with its including prejudices and exclusions as a case-study for cultural self-fashioning by way of European literature. It seeks to explore how the normative status ascribed to the classics and the ensuing prejudices have, from the Early Middle Ages to modern times, influenced and shaped thoughts and views of the literary identity of Western Europe. Therefore, we propose the following questions:

Ø What are the processes behind this normativity of the Classics? Is it possible to discern a conceptual continuum behind the time and again revival of the Classics as the norm for ‘good’ literature? Or, rather, are there clear conceptual and concrete divergences between succeeding periods of such ‘classical’ normativity?

Ø What are the links (conceptual, historical, aesthetic, political, …) between the normativity of the Classics and the excluded ones, both in synchronic and diachronic terms? How does literary normativity of the Classics imply literary prejudices and exclusions?

Ø How has normativity of the Classics with its prejudices and exclusions imposed an identity on European literature (and literary culture)?

Ø What does this normativity of the Classics with its prejudices and exclusions mean for the conceptualization of European literary history?

Besides these conceptual questions, we also welcome case studies that may illustrate both the concrete impact of classical normativity and concrete examples of prejudice and exclusion as resulting from this normativity. We think of topics such as

Ø  the Classics themselves as victims of retrospective ‘classical’ normativity
Ø  the exclusion of literary periods that are considered non- or even contra-classical (baroque,

medieval, …) and the clash with non-European literature
Ø  literary ‘renaissances’ and their implications
Ø  classical normativity and its impact on literatures obedient to political aims (fascism, populism,…)
Ø  literary appeal to the classics as a way of structuring and (re-)formulating society (‘higher’ liberal arts vs. ‘lower’ crafts and proficiencies, literary attitudes towards slavery, …)

We accept papers in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Please send an abstract of ca. 300 words and a five line biography to relics@ugent.be by 15 April 2018.

ORGANISATION: WIM VERBAAL, PAOLO FELICE SACCHI and TIM NOENS are members of the research group RELICS (Researchers of European Literary Identities, Cosmopolitanism and the Schools). This research group studies historical literatures and the dynamics that shape a common, European literary identity. It sees this literary identity as particularly negotiated through languages that reached a cosmopolitan status due to fixed schooling systems (Latin, Greek and Arabic), and in their interaction with vernacular literatures. From a diachronic perspective, we aim to seek unity within the ever more diverse, literary Europe, from the first to the eighteenth century, i.e. from the beginning of (institutionally organized) education in the cosmopolitan language to the rise of more national oriented education.

Call for Papers

GLOSSING CULTURAL CHANGE:
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATION, C. 600–1200 CE

National University of Ireland, Galway, 21–22 June 2018

Glossing, the practice of annotating manuscripts between the lines and/or in the margins, was a widespread cultural practice wherever books were being read, studied and taught. As an indication of this, the Network for the Study of Glossing (www.glossing.org) currently has 75 members with research interests in glossed manuscripts written in Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Greek, Egyptian, English, French, Hebrew, Hittite, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Sanskrit, Turkish, and Welsh.

This two-day conference aims to bring together specialists from a variety of fields to discuss aspects of glossing—in all its forms—from a comparative perspective. A particular focus will be on how glosses engage with and reflect the dynamics of contemporary cultural change, rather than acting merely as passive repositories of inherited tradition. Specific aspects of glossing could include any of the following:

1) Glossing as a revealer of reading practices: e.g. considering the relationship between Classical/cosmopolitan written languages and spoken vernaculars; or different approaches to reading/performing sacred and secular texts.

2) Glossing as a method of interpretation: both linguistic (translation) and cultural (e.g. mediating remote cultures and ideas).

3) Glossing as an instrument of textual authority: mandating how texts should be read and understood; creating and re-shaping canons.

4) Glossing as a vehicle for education: organisation of knowledge; delivery of a particular curriculum.

5) Glossing as an intellectual effort: scholarship for its own sake; the creation of new knowledge.

Papers should last 20 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for discussion.
(Direct comparison between traditions is not expected. This will be facilitated during the event.)

This event follows on from another held at the University of Frankfurt on 2–3 December 2016. We aim to publish a selection of papers from both conferences together in a single volume.

Please send a title and abstract (300 words max) to Pádraic Moran
(padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie) by 23 February 2018.

Some limited financial assistance will be available.

NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES ANNUAL MEETING
Providence, Rhode Island, October 25-28, 2018

 CALL FOR PAPERS 

Deadline: 30 March 2018

The NACBS and its affiliate, the Northeast Conference on British Studies, seek participation by scholars in all areas of British Studies for the 2018 meeting. We will meet in Providence, Rhode Island, from October 25-28, 2018. We solicit proposals for presentations on Britain, the British Empire, and the British world, including topics relating to component parts of Britain and on British influence (or vice versa) in Ireland, the Commonwealth, and former colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean (etc.) Our interests range from the medieval to the modern. We welcome participation by scholars from across the humanities and social sciences, from all parts of the globe (not just North America), and from all career stages and backgrounds. We reaffirm our commitment to British Studies broadly conceived, and welcome proposals that reflect the diversity of scholars and scholarship in the field.

We invite panel proposals that address selected themes, methodology, and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussions of topical and thematic interest, including conversations among authors of recent books, reflections on landmark scholarship, and discussions about professional practice.  We are particularly interested in submissions that have a broad chronological focus and/or interdisciplinary breadth.  Standard panels typically include three presenters speaking for 20 minutes each, a commentator, and a chair, while roundtables typically include four presenters speaking for 15 minutes each and a chair. We are open to other formats, though; please feel free to consult with the program committee chair.

We hope to secure as broad a range of participation as possible and will thus consider individual paper proposals in addition to the standard full panel proposals. Our preference is for panels that include both emerging and established scholars; we welcome the participation of junior scholars and Ph.D. candidates beyond the qualifying stage. To foster intellectual interchange, we ask applicants to compose panels that feature participation from multiple institutions. In an effort to allow a broader range of participants, no participant will be permitted to take part in more than one session in a substantial role. (That is, someone presenting or commenting on one panel cannot also present or comment on another, though individuals presenting or commenting on one panel may serve as chairs for other panels, if need be.) Submissions are welcome from participants in last year’s conference, though if the number of strong submissions exceeds the number of available spaces, selection decisions may take into account recent participation.

As complete panels are more likely to be accepted, we recommend that interested participants issue calls on H-Albion or social media (e.g., @TheNACBS on Twitter or on the NACBS Facebook page) to arrange a panel. If a full panel cannot be arranged by the deadline, however, please do submit the individual proposal and the program committee will try to build submissions into full panels as appropriate.

In addition to the panels, we will be sponsoring a poster session.  The posters will be exhibited throughout the conference, and there will be a scheduled time when presenters will be with their posters to allow for further discussion. 

The submission website is now open – submissions will close as of March 30 2018.

All submissions are electronic, and need to be completed in one sitting.   Before you start your submission, you should have the following information:

Names, affiliations and email addresses for all panel participants.  PLEASE NOTE: We create the program from the submission, so be sure that names, institutional titles, and paper titles are provided as they should appear on the program.  
A note whether data projection is necessary, desired, or unnecessary.
A brief summary CV for each participant, indicating education, current affiliations, and major publications.   (750 words maximum per CV.)
Title and Abstract for each paper or presentation.   Roundtables do not need titles for each presentation, but if you have them, that is fine.  If there is no title, there should still be an abstract – i.e. “X will speak about this subject through the lens of this period/approach/region etc.”
POSTERS: Those proposing posters should enter organizer information and first presenter information only.
All communication will be through the panel organizer, who will be responsible for ensuring that members of the panel receive the information they need.

All program presenters must be current members of the NACBS by September 28, one month before the conference, or risk being removed from the program.

Some financial assistance will become available for graduate students (up to $500) and for a limited number of under/unemployed members within ten years of their terminal degree ($300). Details of these travel grants and how to apply will be posted to www.nacbs.org and emailed to members after the program for the 2018 meeting is prepared.

The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders

Date: 14‒15 June 2018
Venue: University Club of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia
Enquiries: email Pam Bond at emotions@uwa.edu.au
Call for Papers Deadline: 2 February 2018

Conference Keynote Speakers

Professor Andrew Lynch, Director ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, UWA
Associate Professor Penny Edmonds, University of Tasmania
Professor John Sutton, Macquarie University

Public Lecture Speaker

Professor Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania
 

Call for papers

Scholarship on the history of emotions is now rich and varied, and informed by multiple disciplinary perspectives from the humanities. This conference celebrates the many achievements of humanities emotions research and looks to new horizons in which it can be applied, seeking contributions that lend themselves to discussion about future directions.

WHAT are the theoretical and methodological challenges and opportunities for this field? What cross- and interdisciplinary connections can humanities scholars make through history of emotions research? How does humanities emotions research inform discussions in education and training?

HOW have populations from the medieval to the present conceived of emotions in relation to nature and viewed the capacity of the non-human world to experience emotions or define those of humans? How have feeling cultures created new sociabilities with nature in the pre-industrial period or anthropocene age?

HOW has humanities emotions research informed developments of new technologies, from the emergence of print to smartphones and robots, or shifted meanings in cultural spheres such as art, performance and online community formation?

WHAT contribution can humanities emotions research make in understanding how people have adapted to changes in the world around them, from the emergence of new religious practices, encounters with previously unknown cultures or today’s post-global anxieties? How have past populations envisaged future emotional worlds and anticipated challenges and opportunities for the future? How and why do historical and contemporary populations look back with feeling to past ages? How do emotional experiences and ideas help us understand identities, communities and entities with rights and agency? What applications does humanities emotions research have in community dialogue, policy and public discourse?

The conference organisers invite proposals for a wide variety of individual or collaborative presentation forms, including 20-minute papers, panel sessions, interpretive performance or technological demonstrations, on the following (or related) themes that relate to breakthrough analyses of emotions and:

Innovative humanities methodologies for the emotions

• Emerging theorisations
• Interdisciplinarity
• Pedagogical developments

Emotional technologies: past, present and future

• Print cultures
• New media art and music
• Robotics
• Emoticons, smartphones and digital attachment

Emotions in worlds beyond

• Past futures
• Heritage
• Post-global realities
• Identity and community formation
• Rights and justice
• Public discourse

Emotions, the non-human and post-human

• Nature
• Animals
• Ecologies

Proposals for papers, panel presentations and innovative communication formats are all welcome. Please send a 250-word abstract, a presentation title, and a 100-word biography (only Word documents or rtf files accepted) to emotions@uwa.edu.au by 2 February 2018.

Bursaries

 
The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions is able to offer a limited number of bursaries to Honours students, Postgraduate students and unwaged Early Career Researchers whose paper have been accepted for presentation at the conference. The bursaries are intended to partially reimburse costs associated with attending the conference.

Bursaries of up to AUD500 for Australian applicants may be awarded, based on the following criteria:

The applicant is:

an Honours student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR a postgraduate student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR an unwaged early career researcher;
able to demonstrate particular need of funding assistance; AND
has submitted a paper proposal with the application.

Applicants will be informed of the committee’s decision by 2 March 2018.

About the Keynote Speakers 

Penny Edmonds is ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania, and an Associate Investigator of CHE. She has qualifications in history and heritage studies, including a PhD from The University of Melbourne, and has worked in national and international museums. Her research and teaching interests include colonial/ postcolonial and Australian and Pacific-region transnational histories, experimental histories, and thinking through the expressions of the past in performances, and visual and cultural heritage. Penny is co-editor of Australian Historical Studies journal, and co-editor of Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) with Tracey Banivanua Mar and Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, performance and commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim (Routledge, 2016) with Kate Darian-Smith. Penny was awarded the 2014 Academy of Social Sciences in Australian (ASSA) Paul Burke award for Panel C (History, Philosophy, Law, Political Sciences) for her ‘multi-disciplinary approach to settler colonialism’ and ‘theoretical depth and originality’. Her new book Settler Colonialism and (Re)conciliation: Frontier Violence, Affective Performances, and Imaginative Refoundings (Palgrave, 2016) traces the transnational, performative and affective life of reconciliation and its discontents in settler societies and was recently shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize (2017).

Andrew Lynch is Professor in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia, and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800). He has published widely on medieval literature and its modern afterlives from 1800 to the present, with an emphasis on representations of war, peace and emotions. Recent publications include Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) with Stephanie Downes and Katrina O’Loughlin, and Understanding Emotions in Early Europe (Brepols, 2015) with Michael Champion. He is also a General Editor of the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Emotions, and Co-Editor of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society.

Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Visiting Distinguished Professor at La Trobe University. He was founder, and until 2005, Director, of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He is the author or editor of 21 books on topics in philosophy, art, architecture and geography. His work is grounded in post-Kantian thought, especially the hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions, as well as in analytic philosophy of language and mind. He is currently working on topics including the ethics of place, the failing character of governance, the materiality of memory, the topological character of hermeneutics, the place of art, and the relation between place, boundary and surface.

John Sutton is Professor in Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, and an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders. His publications include Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind (Routledge, 2014) with Evelyn Tribble and Laurie Johnson; Review of Philosophy and Psychology, special issue, ‘Distributed Cognition and Memory Research’, with Kirk Michaelian (2013); and many articles and chapters on the philosophy of mind, memory, cognition, and the embodied mind. He is Co-Editor of the series Memory Studies (Palgrave Macmillan), and is on the editorial boards of Neuroethics, Memory Studies (Sage), Philosophical Psychology and New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Palgrave Macmillan).