Category Archives: Postgraduates

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Peer Support Group

The next cycle of the ANZAMEMS Peer Support Group will begin on Friday 21 February. 

The Peer Support Group is a writing and discussion space for postgraduate members of ANZAMEMS. The group will run online, via Zoom, and is open to postgraduate members at any stage from honours to PhD. Attendance across all sessions is not mandatory. This is an informal support group, and we welcome drop-ins as much as regular attendance. See our website for further information.

If you would like to participate or have any questions, please contact ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Representative (AUS) Jenny Davis Barnett at j.barnett@uq.edu.au.

PhD Scholarship in Medieval History – Flinders University

Flinders University is currently advertising a HDR scholarship opportunity as a part of Dr Matthew Firth’s Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship project ‘Contesting Conquests: Pre-Modern Attempts to Come to Terms with the Past’.

This scholarship is for a candidate wishing to pursue a PhD in history, with a relevant undergraduate or masters degree in history or a cognate discipline.

The larger project looks at how societies experience and remember the trauma of conquest and colonisation, taking an especial interest in England’s early medieval histories of invasion (pre-1066) and how these were received and transmitted in the historiography of the later Middle Ages and early modern period.

The scholarship opportunity is to conduct a PhD project that either:

  • examines the distinctive contributions to English historiography of twelfth-century historians. This HDR project would consider:
    • what social contexts and authorial interests encouraged the unprecedented volume of history writing that was produced in this period
    • what role these histories had in shaping common perceptions and subsequent accounts of England’s pre-Conquest past

OR

  • examines the links between narrative genres, such as hagiography, and traditions of history writing in the medieval or early modern period. This HDR project would consider:
    • the extent to which the chosen narrative genre can be (or was) considered a form of history writing
    • how these texts shaped narratives of England’s pre-Conquest past and can so be located within wider networks of medieval history writing 

The recipient of this scholarship will be able to design the scope of their project within these frameworks.

For further details, see the advertised opportunity.

Call for Committee Members – Cerae Journal

Cerae is looking for new committee members for Volume 12!

Ceræ is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early career researchers. We are united in our commitment to open access publishing, the innovative possibilities of the digital humanities, and to forging a strong community of medieval and early modern scholars.

A commitment to serving on the Ceræ committee is 15 months (one volume year with three overlapping months for handover), and has an averaged weekly time commitment of 1-5 hours, depending on the role and time of year.

Ceræ currently has openings for several new office holders for Volume 12:

  • Deputy Editor(s)
  • Deputy Book Reviews Editor
  • Social Media Manager
  • Fundraising Officer

The deadline for expressions of interest has been extended to 25 October 2024. Please email ceraejournal@gmail.com to nominate yourself for an office-holder position, or to express interest in joining as a general committee member.

For further details, see: https://ceraejournal.com/2024/10/02/call-for-committee-members-volume-twelve/

MA and PhD Programs at University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies

The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto is currently accepting applications to both the MA and PhD Programs for the 2025-2026 academic year. See below brochure about their graduate programming which includes information about funding packages, collaborative specialisation, and opportunities, that may be of interest.

More details can be found at:

https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/graduate/prospective-graduate-students

CFP: University of Sydney Humanities Postgraduate Conference

The University of Sydney Postgraduate Conference invite honours, postgraduate research students, and recently graduated scholars from the humanities and adjacent disciplines to come together to share their work, socialise and, in a world where the humanities appear to be increasingly under threat, to acknowledge the inherent value of their research.

The conference will take place on the 6th and 7th December; abstracts are due in by 6th October. Please see below flyer for further details.

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Peer Support Group

The first session of the ANZAMEMS Peer Support Group will be on Friday 9 August. The Peer Support Group is a writing and discussion space for postgraduate members of ANZAMEMS. The group will run online, via Zoom, and is open to postgraduate members at any stage from honours to PhD. Attendance across all sessions is not mandatory. This is an informal support group, and we welcome drop-ins as much as regular attendance. See our website for further information.

If you would like to participate or have any questions, please contact ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Representative (AUS) Jenny Davis Barnett at j.barnett@uq.edu.au

ANZAMEMS Reading Group, July session: Decolonisation, Race, and the Global Middle Ages

The next session of the 2024 ANZAMEMS ECR/Postgraduate reading group is scheduled for Tuesday, July 30. This will be a session on: Decolonisation, Race, and the Global Middle Ages. Please see the schedule below.

All readings and any updates to the schedule will be shared through the reading group’s Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF?usp=sharing.

Please register your attendance at https://www.trybooking.com/CTPIZ.

All ANZAMEMS members are welcome, especially postgraduates and ECRs!

Please contact the convenors with any queries: Alexandra Forsyth (University of Auckland), afor784@aucklanduni.ac.nz, and Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Peer Support Group

**Announcing the upcoming ANZAMEMS postgraduate Peer Support Group**

The Peer Support Group is a writing and discussion space for postgraduate members of ANZAMEMS.

The group will run quarterly through 2024 and 2025. Each ‘workshop’ will potentially consist of three elements: one writing day, a writing exchange via email, and a feedback session of around one hour.

The group will run online, via Zoom, and is open to postgraduate members at any stage from honours to PhD. The workshops will be scheduled to accommodate members in time zones spanning from Western Australia to Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Attendance across all sessions is not mandatory. This is an informal support group, and we welcome drop-ins as much as regular attendance.

The initiative is meant to create a safe space to discuss challenges and difficulties associated with postgraduate study and foster connections between medieval and early modern scholars across the community.

More information including specific dates and times will follow shortly.

If you would like to participate or have any questions, please contact ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Representative (AUS) Jenny Davis Barnett at j.barnett@uq.edu.au