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AHA2018: The Scale of History – Call for papers

 

AHA2018: The Scale of History

Call for papers

Historians make choices about the scale of their inquiry. They set parameters for their projects – temporal, geographical, social, archival – which shape their research strategies, their potential audiences, and their interpretations and arguments. Do you write history on a grand or intimate scale? Or both? We welcome paper and panel proposals on any geographical area, time period, or field of history, especially those relating to the theme of scale.

The Australian Historical Association 2018 Conference will be held Monday 2 – Friday 6 July 2018, at The Australian National University, Canberra.

The full call for papers, and a pdf file of it for print purposes, is available on the conference website: http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/aha2018

CFP deadline: Wednesday 28 February 2018

 

Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2018 – Call for Papers

Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2018 – Call for Papers

Historians make choices about the scale of their inquiry. They set parameters for their projects – temporal, geographical, social, archival – which shape their research strategies, their potential audiences, and their interpretations and arguments.

We engage with scale in a variety of ways, including: big history, microhistory, global history, local history, deep history, planetary history, biography, emotions, digital history and big data, and document analysis.

Do you write history on a grand or intimate scale? Or both?

Join us at the 2018 AHA conference in Canberra to ponder these questions and more! We welcome paper and panel proposals on any geographical area, time period, or field of history, especially those relating to the theme of scale.

Reflecting the location of the conference in Canberra, we also invite papers on the theme History and the National Cultural Collections which promote engagement between historians and professionals in the GLAMs sector (galleries, libraries, archives, museums).

As is customary, AHA members and affiliated societies will organise various specialised streams. Check the conference website for further updates. http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/aha2018

Confirmed keynote speakers

Professor Clare Anderson University of Leicester

Professor Mark McKenna University of Sydney

Professor Lynette Russell Monash University (AHA presidential address)

 
Online submission of abstracts
Online submission of abstracts will open in November 2017 and close 28 February 2018.
 

Contacts
Convenor: Dr Samuel Furphy (ANU)
Administrator: Dr Karen Downing
Email: aha2018@anu.edu.au
Twitter: #OzHA2018
 

The Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians – Call for Papers

The Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians Colloque canadien des historiens de l’art du Moyen Âge

Call for Papers/Appel À communications

The 39th annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be hosted by The School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University (Ottawa), March 16-17, 2018. Papers are invited on any topic relating to the art, architecture and visual/material culture of the Middle Ages or its post-medieval revivals. Papers may be in English or French. Please submit a short abstract (250 words) and brief (onepage) C.V. by 11 December 2017 to Peter Coffman (peter.coffman@carleton.ca). Scholars at every stage of their careers are encouraged to submit proposals.

Le 39e Colloque annuel canadien des historiens de l’art médiéval sera organisé par l’École des études en art et culture à l’Université Carleton (Ottawa), du 16 au 17 mars 2018. Les communications sont invitées sur tout sujet relatif à l’art, à l’architecture et à la culture visuelle / matérielle du Moyen Âge ou à ses renaissances post-médiévales. Les interventions peuvent être en anglais ou en français. Veuillez soumettre un court résumé (250 mots) et un bref C.V. (une page) d’ici le 11 décembre 2017 à Peter Coffman (peter.coffman@carleton.ca). Tous les chercheurs et chercheuses qui sont à différentes étapes de leur carrière sont encouragés à participer.

Carleton University, March/Mars 16-17, 2018

peter.coffman@carleton.ca

The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages, II. Places, Spaces and Objects – Call for Papers

CFP – CALL FOR PAPERS THE MALADIES, MIRACLES AND MEDICINE OF THE MIDDLE AGES, II. PLACES, SPACES AND OBJECTS – THE GRADUATE CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF READING – FRIDAY 23. MARCH 2018

As medievalists, we access our period through the written records, sites, and items that survive in order to form a deeper understanding of the period, one that goes beyond the page or the ruinous buildings that remain today. Using a wide range of sources is particularly valuable when considering the miraculous and the medicinal. After all, it is not just the writings, but the spaces, places and objects of both healthcare and of the holy which can inform and shape our research, and than of understanding. Indeed, in many instances these two elements combine, as can be seen through the production of miracle cures, the monastic collections of medical treatises, and medieval hospitals and monastic infirmaries.

But, what can these sources tell us of miracles, of medicine, of maladies? How did the miraculous and the medicinal relate to and/or oppose each other? What can we learn of faith and the faithful, and of ill-health and healing? It is questions such as these which the second ‘Maladies, Miracles and Medicine’ conference considers by bringing together post-graduate and early-career researchers who work on all aspects of the healing and the holy. The conference welcomes papers on all aspects of this theme whether your interests lie in archaeology, art, literature, medicine and science, or miracles and theology (or a little bit of everything). Particular themes to consider are:

  • Pilgrims as ‘patients’ and miraculous medicine
  • Hospitals, hospices and infirmaries as places of cure and places of piety
  •  Objects of healing and/or objects of faith
  • Landscapes and locations of religion and remedy
  • The written word as place, space, or object of cure or of faith
  • Personal devotion and home-based healthcare

Proposals for twenty-minute papers fitting broadly into one of the above themes are welcomed from all post-graduate and early-career researchers before the deadline, 5. January 2018. Proposals of no more than 200 words, and further enquiries are to be sent to the organisers, Dr Ruth Salter and Frances Cook, via: gcms.reading@gmail.com. Please be aware that further details will be released closer to the date.

Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North – Call for Papers

2018 Call for Papers

We invite submissions to our 8th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, which will take place at the University of Iceland, on April 13-14th, 2018.

This student organized two-day event is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (MA and PhD level) of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit.

In accordance with the HÍ Student Conference‘s previous installments the theme of this year is left broadly open for any independent research related to medieval Scandinavia.

Participation at the conference is not restricted to those enrolled in the University of Iceland, and interested students from other universities are encouraged to submit. In the past years the conference has becoming increasingly international, and last year the conference was attended by speakers from ten universities, in eight countries.

Submission guidelines

If you wish to present a paper at the conference, please e-mail an abstract of 250-300 words to HIstudentconference@gmail.com before 5th of January 2018. The student conference committee reserves the right to make selections based on quality of written abstracts, adherence to submission guidelines, and timely submissions of abstracts.

The conference languages are Icelandic and English, and individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10 minute discussion time.

Further information can be found on the conference blog at histudentconference.wordpress.com. Please direct any further inquiries to the student conference committee via e-mail (see above).

 

Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
June 18–20, 2018
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

The Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 18–20, 2018) is a convenient summer venue for scholars from around the world to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.

The plenary speakers for this year will be Geoffrey Parker of The Ohio State University, and Carole Hillenbrand of the University of St Andrews.

The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On-campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned apartments as well as a luxurious boutique hotel. Inexpensive meal plans are available, and there is also a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance of campus.

While attending the Symposium participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library.

The Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.

The deadline for all submissions is December 31. Decisions will be made in January and the final program will be published in February.

For more information or to submit your proposal online go to: http://smrs.slu.edu

II Dialogues around Early Medieval Ages – Call for Papers

II DIALOGUES AROUND EARLY MEDIEVAL AGES (4TH-11ST CENTURIES):

«FALL AND RISE OF THE POWER STRUCTURES»

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE OF MADRID

For 8 and 9 March 2018 will take place the II Dialogues around Early Medieval Ages (4th-11st centuries): «Fall and rise of the power structures» in Geography and History Faculty of Complutense University of Madrid, seminar organized within the formative activities of the program of Doctorate in History and Archaeology – Medieval History investigation line of the above college.

Same as the previous edition, the objective of this colloquium is again specialists in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Ages can share their researches in a congress organized in discussion tables, for exchange common or divergent impressions (with a clear enriching end) about how, during the transition stage between ancient and medieval words, the different power structures wavered in the social, politic, economic, religious and cultural system.

So we call for participation proposals both those that are doing actually their thesis and recent PhDs, as well as all interest in the thematic independently of their academic grade; opened not only for Complutense attached, but to rest of national and international universities.

In correspondence, to this interuniversitary character, they have fit all versed in any brunch inside the Humanities (historians, art historians, philologists, philosophers, archaeologies, arabists, etc.).

We pretend this seminar would be a dialogue, discussion and debate space around the imbalances produced after the Western Roman Empire’s end and the promotion of Germanic and Islamic words, along with the multiple answers that different Mediterranean and European power groups yielded to that events, lest obtain a global outlook and observe continuity or rupture processes.

By last, we’ll stimulate dialogue and coexistence spaces articulated around social plans alien to academic area with the porpoise of cement a series of personal and professional relationship in a distended environment.

CALL FOR PAPERS.

  Have place all the proposals that adjusts to the thematic and chronologic framework, between commonly is known as Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (4th-11st centuries), both in Mediterranean and European ambit.
  Inside new interdisciplinary methodologies, they can take part specialists in History, Science and Technique, Art History, Philosophy, Philology, Literature, Archaeology and Geography, Anthropology and Sociology, Arabism and Islamism, Byzantinism, Theology, etc.
  Papers will impart individually, although the authority will be able to be collective.
  Advisably the language will be Spanish, in order to promote more fluid debates; however, a priori, any idiom will be good received.

To participate simply write an email to <dialogosaltaedadmediaucm@gmail.com> before 15 December 2017, sending a Word document indicating the proposal title, name and surname, university affiliation, these director/s (if they would be), a short curriculum of no more of one page, contact e-mail, the abstract of maximum 150 words in single space and three key words. Each intervention will take less than 20 minutes.

Anyone who want participate like assistant, must let known to the Organization sending an e-mail to <dialogosaltaedadmediaucm@gmail.com> indicating their name and surname, a contact e-mail and their desire of assist in person.

Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy

Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy

International Conference December 13-15, 2017

Monash University Prato Centre

This conference represents the first analysis of how diseased bodies were represented in Italy during the ‘long Renaissance’, from the early 1400s through ca. 1650. Many individual studies by historians of art and medicine address specific aspects of this subject, yet there has never been an attempt to define or explore the broader topic. Moreover, most studies interpret Renaissance images and text through the lens of current notions about disease. This conference avoids the pitfalls of retrospective diagnosis, and looks beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ by viewing ‘infirmity’ in Galenic humoural terms. Papers explore what infirmities were depicted in visual culture, in what context, why, and when. Specific examples consider the idealized body altered by disease, and the relationship between the depiction of infirmities through miracle cures and through medical treatment. Speakers also examine how and why these representations change across media and over time. Thus, certain types of diseased bodies appear often in votive images, but never in altarpieces or sculptures; representations of wounds and sores grow increasingly less graphic and frequent, but with notable exceptions. Finally, it explores how the development of greater knowledge of the workings and structure of the body in this period, through, for example, the growth of anatomy, was reflected in changing ideas and representations of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic meanings of infirmity and disease. The conference addresses the construction of the notion of disease, and aims to present a new paradigm for the field.

The event is open to all and free of charge, no reservation required. For additional information, please contact: infirmity2017@gmail.com

For more information, including the speakers and conference schedule, see http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/the-body-in-the-city/events/

 

Updated programme for the upcoming Law and Legal Agreements conference

Updated programme for the upcoming Law and Legal Agreements conference, 12-13 January 2018.

The registration link is here:: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/anglosaxon-norse-and-celtic/law-and-legal-agreements-6001250/law-and-legal-agreements-6001250 

The deadline for registration is 04 January 2018.

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The Emotional Worlds of Children and Young People Symposium

The Emotional Worlds of Children and Young People
Symposium
14-15 December 2017, University of Adelaide

An event from the University of Adelaide’s ‘Dis/Located Children’ network, this one-day symposium explores the worlds of children and young people as an affective space. It seeks to bring together scholars from any discipline that explore how children and young people’s worlds are produced, or how they themselves produce it, and the important role of emotion, care or affect in its making. This could include how CYP experience belonging or dislocation; how they feel cared for or care for others; how they understand, experience and display emotion over time and space; children and youth cultures; and families, environments and organisations who care for or provide space for CYP’s emotions. Emotion here is construed widely to include the affective dimensions of childcare and child-rearing, educational development, and support, as well as fun, play, engagement and relationships. Topics could include, but are not limited to:

  • CYP’s play and relationships
  • CYP’s experience of emotion, how it is shaped, and what is permitted
  • CYP’s emotional worlds, including online, in person, and outside of adult oversight
  • Institutional care
  • Schooling and emotion/care
  • CYP in the family
  • CYP’s experience of belonging
  • CYP and migration
  • Emotional abuse

300 word proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes duration (or panels of 3) are now invited. Please include a short c.150 word bio for each presenter and list any technological needs. Proposals are due by 7 November 2017. Please email word documents to: dislocatedchildren@gmail.com