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ANZAMEMS Conference Panel: Alchemical Knowledge: Production and Transfer – Call For Papers

ANZAMEMS 2017 Panel CFP: Alchemical Knowledge: Production and Transfer

In the past decades, alchemy has been finally established as a legitimate subject of scholarly interest. Instead of arguing for its acknowledgement as such, research can now focus on details and aspects that have not yet been fully explored. Alchemy was pursued in a variety of ways by a variety of practitioners belonging to different social groups in Europe and beyond.

Proposals are invited for a panel on late medieval and early modern alchemy with a special focus on the ways alchemical knowledge was produced and transferred between geographical regions, practitioners of various disciplines and social groups.

The panel will convene at the ANZAMEMS Eleventh Biennial Conference at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 7–10 February 2017.

Potential topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

  • Places of alchemical knowledge production: laboratory, households, purpose-built buildings, imaginary spaces
  • Material culture of alchemical experimentation: the tools of the alchemists
  • Transfer of knowledge between practitioners: humanists and artisans, princes and intellectual vagabonds
  • Knowledge transfer between geographical areas
  • From alchemical theory to practice, from bookish knowledge to hands-on experience
  • The transfer of medieval alchemical knowledge and its reception in the early modern period

If you would like to contribute a paper to this panel, please send the following to Dr. Dora Bobory, dora.bobory@gmail.com, by 1 August, 2016, with ‘Alchemical Knowledge’ in the subject line:

  1. Paper title
  2. Abstract (up to 150 words)
  3. Your name, affiliation, and email address
  4. A brief CV (2 pages maximum)
  5. An indication of AV requirements

ANZAMEMS 2017 – Applications for Bursaries and Prizes Now Open

Applications for the following ANZAMEMS 2017 conference related bursaries and prizes are now open.

For full information about each prize, including how to apply, please visit the Bursaries & Prizes page on the ANZAMEMS 2017 website: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/bursaries-prizes

    • The George Yule Prize [AUD$500, and a year’s free subscription to Parergon]

The George Yule Prize is awarded to the best essay written by a postgraduate. It is awarded biennially, at each ANZAMEMS conference.

    • The Kim Walker Travel Bursary [AUD$500]

The Kim Walker Travel Bursary is awarded in honour of Kim Walker, who taught in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington

    • ANZAMEMS Postgraduate / Recent Graduate Travel Bursaries

A limited number of open Postgraduate / Recent Graduate Bursaries may be provided, depending on donations received through the registration process.

    • Philippa Maddern Travel Bursaries [AUD$500 for applicants travelling from within New Zealand, AUD$750 for applicants from eastern Australia, and AUD$1,000 for applicants from Western Australia]

Generously funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800, the Philippa Maddern Travel Bursaries support postgraduates giving papers on topics related to the history of Emotions.

ANZAMEMS Conference 2017 – Reminder of Panel CFP [Various Deadlines]

A quick reminder about the following CFP for a number of panels which will be convened at the upcoming ANZAMEMS conference in Wellington, 7-10 February, 2017:

Late-Antiquity Panel

We welcome abstracts on most any aspect of late antiquity which we will group and then put forward to the programme committee.

Full CFP: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/panel-cfp-ascs-and-anzamems-jan-feb-2017

Abstract deadline: 15 June, 2016

Keeping it in the Family Panel

The panel will investigate the extended family in its widest sense – encompassing mistresses as well as wives, children – legitimate and illegitimate, apprentices, servants and slaves. Families who maintained a connection to their place of origin are as significant as those for whom the dislocation was permanent for, as Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks has shown, interactions and relationships between individuals who are mobile affect those within their network who are not and so even fixed locations can be ‘saturated with transnational relationships’.

Full CFP: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/panel-cfp-anzmames-2017-keeping-it-in-the-family

Abstract deadline: 30 July, 2016

Gender and Textual Mobility Panel

EMWRN invites proposals for papers engaging with gender and textual mobility.

Full CFP: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/panel-cfp-anzamems-2017-gender-and-textual-mobility/

Abstract deadline: 1 August, 2016

Mobility and Exchange in Medieval and Early Modern Afterlives Panel

Proposals are invited for papers for a panel engaging with ideas of mobility and exchange in medieval and early modern afterlives in television and cinema, children’s and young adult literature, comic books and graphic novels, computer gaming, new media and fandom, and other popular contemporary appropriations and re-imaginings.

Full CFP: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/panel-cfp-anzamems-2017-mobility-and-exchange-in-medieval-and-early-modern-afterlives

Abstract deadline: 5 August, 2016

Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize and the Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize – Applications Now Open

ANZAMEMS is delighted to announce that applications for our two new biennial publication prizes are now open.

ANZAMEMS invites submissions for the Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize and the Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize:


Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize

The Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize is awarded to an Early Career Researcher (ECR) for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published within the previous two years (2014–15).

Philippa Maddern (1952–2014) was Professor of History at The University of Western Australia, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, an ANZAMEMS stalwart, and an active member of the Association from its inception. Philippa contributed enormously to the development of medieval and early modern studies, both in Australia and globally. She gave great service as an office bearer of ANZAMEMS, serving in a range of capacities on the committee including many years as its Treasurer. Philippa was a great champion of researchers embarking on academic careers and ANZAMEMS is proud to establish a Publication Prize for Early Career Researchers in her honour.

Winners will receive A$1500 in prize money (or NZD equivalent), a travel bursary of A$500 to provide assistance in attending the ANZAMEMS Conference, a year’s membership of ANZAMEMS (including a subscription to Parergon), and a place at the ANZAMEMS Conference Dinner (at which the Prize is to be announced).

Full terms and conditions and the entry form for the Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize can be found on the ‘Bursaries and Prizes’ page at the ANZAMEMS website: http://anzamems.org/?page_id=8#PM

Submissions are due by: 5pm AWST, Thursday 1 September 2016.

 

Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize

The Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize will be awarded to a postgraduate student for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published within the previous two years (2014–15).

Patricia Crawford (1941–2009) was Professor Emerita of History at The University of Western Australia. A pioneering feminist historian, she is remembered as a leading scholar of early modern England whose work brought new depth to the study of women’s lives and thereby transformed understanding of the period. Trish was internationally recognised and served The University of Western Australia, her discipline, and ANZAMEMS with distinction. An active member of ANZAMEMS and the Parergon Editorial Committee, Trish was a scholar passionate about collaboration, and a mentor of extraordinary generosity, and ANZAMEMS is delighted to establish a Publication Prize for postgraduate students in her honour.

Winners will receive A$500 in prize money (or NZD equivalent), a travel bursary of A$500 to provide assistance in attending the ANZAMEMS Conference, a year’s membership of ANZAMEMS (including a subscription to Parergon), and a place at the ANZAMEMS Conference Dinner (at which the Prize is to be announced).

Full terms and conditions and the entry form for the Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize can be found on the ‘Bursaries and Prizes’ page at the ANZAMEMS website: http://anzamems.org/?page_id=8#PC

Submissions are due by: 5pm AWST, Thursday 1 September 2016.

 

Please direct all queries regarding the prizes to: info@anzamems.org

ANZAMEMS Conference Panel: Gender and Textual Mobility – Call For Applications

Call for Papers – Gender and Textual Mobility, ANZAMEMS 2017

The Early Modern Women’s Research Network (EMWRN) is convening panels on Gender and Textual Mobility at the upcoming ANZAMEMS conference in Wellington, 7-10 February, 2017.

This is the 11th biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and three keynote speakers have an interest in gender in the medieval and early modern world: Professor Lorna Hutson (English, St Andrews, sponsored by EMWRN), Professor Martha Howell (History, Columbia), and Dr Erin Griffey (Art History, Auckland).

EMWRN invites proposals for papers engaging with gender and textual mobility, for a dedicated stream of panels. Potential topics might include but are not limited to:

  • gender and textual transmission, including coteries, circles, and networks of readers, writers, and performers;
  • gendered histories of reading and writing, including markings, marginalia, excerpting and commonplacing;
  • women as writers and readers at the royal court, the country house, in the city, and in exile;
  • women as patrons, facilitators, interpreters, and transmitters of texts;
  • the mobility of genre(s), literary and non-literary, ‘high’ and ‘low’;
  • theories and practices of gender and editing, the archive and digital technologies.

We welcome proposals from PhD students and early career researchers.

Please send any enquiries and paper proposals by 1 August, 2016 to Trisha Pender, patricia.j.pender@newcastle.edu.au.

Proposals should include:

  1. Paper title
  2. Abstract (up to 150 words)
  3. Your name, affiliation, and email address
  4. A brief CV (2 pages maximum)
  5. An indication of AV requirements

ANZAMEMS Conference 2017: Announcing our Keynote Speakers

ANZAMEMS is delighted to announce the keynote speakers for our 2017 conference in Wellington, New Zealand. We look forward to welcoming Dr Erin Griffey, Professor Martha Howell, Professor Lorna Hutson, and Professor Cary Nederman to ANZAMEMS 2017, with thanks to our generous sponsors.

Dr Erin Griffey, Department of Art History, University of Auckland

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/egri016

Sponsored by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800

Professor Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History at Columbia University

http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Howell.html

Sponsored by the W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy, Massey University

Professor Lorna Hutson, Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/academicstaff/hutson/

Sponsored by the Early Modern Women’s Research Network, University of Newcastle, in partnership with the British Council of New Zealand

Professor Cary Nederman, Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University

http://tinyurl.com/gveebjk

Sponsored by the Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington

ANZAMEMS Member News: Chantelle Saville – PATS (2016) Report

Chantelle Saville, Doctoral Candidate, University of Auckland

In the words of Prof. Rodney Thomson: “The more you know about manuscripts before you start looking at them, the more you’ll find.” The Manuscript Book Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar was the perfect opportunity to gain some valuable palaeographical skills, fast. The course covered two intensive days during which Prof. Thomson introduced us to the history and technology of early book production. We learnt how to differentiate between Carolingian Minuscule, Gothic and Cursive hands, as well as important codicological information such as folio numbering systems and the forms of scribal abbreviation.

One of the privileges enjoyed on the course was the chance to examine and handle the manuscripts held at the Fisher Library (University of Sydney), including the glorious Spanish Historical Music Manuscripts. Prof. Margaret Manion provided us with a wonderful discussion of the decoration and illuminations in the collection, bringing the manuscripts to our desks and explaining features in detail. Because part of my doctoral dissertation involves collating and transcribing from four fourteenth-century manuscripts, the instruction provided during the course was hugely useful to me. Most exciting, however, was the opportunity to ask Prof. Thomson for advice regarding a couple of difficulties I had had when dealing with my own primary sources. He was able to answer my questions on the spot!

It was a real delight to speak to colleagues who share my passion for palaeography, and to hear about their research. Certainly, I have come away from the seminar with many fond memories and new friends. I’d like to thank Dr Nicholas Sparks and ANZAMEMS for enabling me to attend The Manuscript Book PATS by providing a bursary for travel and accommodation. With luck, sometime in the near future I will be able to share findings from my manuscript research with others at an ANZAMEMS conference or event.

ANZAMEMS / ASCS Conference Panels: Late-Antiquity – Call For Papers

TWO CONFERENCES, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND, Late January-early February, 2017

Late-Antiquity Panel(s) at:

The 38th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) Meeting (31 January to 3 February 2017)

AND/OR

The 11th Biennial Australian New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) Conference (7-10 February 2017)

Both to be hosted at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

In early 2017, Victoria University of Wellington will be hosting two separate conferences a few days apart, both of which will be hospitable to late antique and early medieval scholars.

Dr. Lisa Bailey (Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History and History/University of Auckland/lk.bailey@auckland.ac.nz) and Dr. Mark Masterson (Senior Lecturer of Classics/Victoria University of Wellington/Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz) would like to organize panels on Late Antiquity (broadly construed) at these conferences. We welcome abstracts for either conference or for both, from scholars in Australasia or beyond.

***NOTE: persons not from Australia or New Zealand do NOT have to be members of ASCS or ANZAMEMS to submit an abstract or to give a paper.

We welcome abstracts of 150-250 words on most any aspect of late antiquity which we will group and then put forward to the programme committee.

We would like abstracts by 15 June, 2016.

We welcome inquiries.

Please send questions and abstracts to Mark Masterson (Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz). Please specify which conference (ASCS or ANZAMEMS) your abstract is for.

See below for guidelines.

GUIDELINES FROM ASCS:

There is no particular theme for this conference (therefore Late-Antiquity broadly construed will do).

Offers of papers, posters, panels and archaeological reports should be accompanied by an abstract of 150-250 words.

The abstract should contain the following information:

  • a clear initial statement of purpose;
  • a brief explanation of the abstract’s relationship to the previous literature on the topic, including some brief citations of, or reference to, any important literature;
  • a summary of the argumentation;
  • some examples to be used in the argumentation (this step could be left out if the word limit is affected);
  • reference to works (maximum of 3) which are seminal to the argument. Short citations (author year pp) should be included in the abstract so that readers are clear on how these works have informed your argument. Full bibliographical details (which do not count in the word limit) of the works cited in the abstract should be supplied at the end of the abstract. If you think reference to other authors is not appropriate or necessary, you must add a brief paragraph to inform the committee as to why (e.g. the topic is completely new or it is the report of a season’s excavations).

The abstract should make it clear that the paper is suitable for oral presentation within the time limit (maximum time 20 minutes = less than 3000 words).

GUIDELINES FROM ANZAMEMS:

Our theme for ANZAMEMS 2017 is mobility and exchange. We encourage proposals for papers or panels addressing any aspect of this theme, including (but not limited to):

  • social, cultural, and intellectual exchange
  • the circulation of texts, ideas, and people
  • commercial and mercantile exchange
  • legal interchange
  • transport and transportation
  • rural and urban mobilities
  • pilgrimage, exploration, and migration
  • transglobal and trans-temporal medievalisms and early modernisms

PAPER PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE:

  • Paper title
  • Abstract (up to 150 words)
  • The name, affiliation, and email address of the presenter
  • An indication of AV requirements

ANZAMEMS Member News: Antonia St Demiana – PATS (2016) Report

Antonia St Demiana, Doctoral Candidate, Macquarie University

On February 9 and 10 at Sydney University’s Fisher Library, I was fortunate to be one of a select group of students and researchers to participate in a Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar supported by ANZAMEMS.

The focus of the two-day course was the Manuscript Book in which we learned about the various aspects of original western medieval manuscripts. The main features of the seminar were the lectures delivered by Professors Margaret Manion and Rod Thomson, whose direct experience with manuscripts and the libraries and museums which house them, provided us with vital information for our own work. There are many obstacles which young scholars may face when requesting access to materials such as manuscripts, and Margaret and Rod generously shared their knowledge with us in this regard.

One area which I found to be of particular relevance to my own study, were the lectures about the physical characteristics of manuscripts and the terminology used to describe them. I learned much about quires, foliation, parchments, ruling, and inks. Rod’s outline of how to catalogue and describe manuscripts was also invaluable to me. Although I am studying Coptic manuscripts, much of the terminology applies to both western and eastern books.

Another highlight of the PATS was the very rare privilege to handle the precious manuscripts in the Fisher Collection. We were free to hold the manuscripts and glance through their pages and it was wonderful to see real examples (not just photographs) of what Margaret and Rod were discussing.

I am very grateful ANZAMEMS for funding my flight to Sydney and for the opportunity to participate in the PATS on the Manuscript Book. Thanks also to the librarians at the Fisher Library and to Dr Nick Sparks for a very well organised seminar.

ANZAMEMS PATS 2016 # 2: Gender Matters

“Gender Matters”: A Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar | University of Western Australia (2016)

Date: Friday 7 October, 2016
Venue: University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
More info: http://conference.pmrg.org.au/gender-matters-postgraduate-advanced-training-seminar

“Gender Matters”: A Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar will take place on on Friday 7 October 2016 and precede the PMRG/CMEMS Conference ‘Gender Worlds, 500-1800: New Perspectives’, which will be held on 8 October 2016, at the University of Western Australia. For more details about the conference, please visit: http://conference.pmrg.org.au.

This one-day PATS, sponsored by ANZAMEMS, will include sessions on gender theories and methodologies by a panel of scholars, including Susan Broomhall, Andrew Lynch, Joanne McEwan, Stephanie Tarbin, Jacqueline Van Gent and Merry Wiesner-Hanks.

This is a free event, but places will be limited. Registration will open after 1 May, 2016.

A limited number of ANZAMEMS travel bursaries are available for postgraduate students and unfunded early career researchers to assist with travel and other costs associated with participating in the PATS. Please submit completed applications to Dr Joanne McEwan (joanne.mcewan@uwa.edu.au) by 1 May 2016. Application forms are available at the conference website: http://conference.pmrg.org.au/gender-matters-postgraduate-advanced-training-seminar.