The Medici Archive Project is offering a new online educational program in Italian paleography and archival studies for the A.Y. 2015 – 2016. The course is comprised of two components: an online course, which is divided into three modules, and an onsite seminar in Florence.

Reflecting increased interest from scholars at every stage of their careers, but especially the needs of students attempting archival research in Italy for the first time, our new modular program will provide students with both a firm introduction to working in Italian archives and the confidence to read, understand, and use archival material as an integral part of their research.

The current offer is a redesign and expansion of our previous educational courses. For the first time, students can now pick and choose from diverse modules suited to their interests. Moreover, students will be taught using our new online teaching tool developed with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that allows students to collaborate online in the transcription of high quality digital reproductions of archival documents. The Fall semester will conclude with a standalone two-week seminar in Florence.

The syllabus can be found at: www.medici.org/educational-programs

Questions and queries should be addressed to: education@medici.org

Some financial aid may be available to successful applicants undertaking most or all of the four modules.

A free online series of courses that may be of interest to ANZAMEMS members. Thanks to Julie Hotchin for sending me the link to the free online courses:

The courses are on The Book: Histories Across Time and Space, and are offered by Harvard University through edX. In particular courses on The Medieval Book of Hours: Art and Devotion in the Middle Ages, and Books in the Medieval Liturgy, both offered by Jeffrey Hamburger, sound of particular relevance to many medievalists in our community. The courses are self-paced and commence on 1 September.

For full details on the courses mentioned above (as well as a few other relevant courses on offer that also commence on Sept. 1), please visit the links below:

Books in the Medieval Liturgy: https://www.edx.org/course/books-medieval-liturgy-harvardx-hum1-9x

The Medieval Book of Hours: Art and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages: https://www.edx.org/course/medieval-book-hours-art-devotion-later-harvardx-hum1-8x

Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript: https://www.edx.org/course/making-meaning-medieval-manuscript-harvardx-hum1-1x

The History of the Book in 17th and 18th Century Europe: https://www.edx.org/course/history-book-17th-18th-century-europe-harvardx-hum1-4x

Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive: https://www.edx.org/course/monasteries-schools-notaries-part-2-harvardx-hum1-7x

Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 2: Introduction to the Transitional Gothic Script: https://www.edx.org/course/monasteries-schools-notaries-part-2-harvardx-hum1-7x

Print and Manuscript in Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East (1450-1650): https://www.edx.org/course/print-manuscript-western-europe-asia-harvardx-hum1-3x

Scrolls in the Age of the Book: https://www.edx.org/course/scrolls-age-book-harvardx-hum1-2x

From Passions to Emotions – Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar | ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Date: Friday 25 September, 2015
Time: 9am – 4pm
Venue: Seminar Room 218, Fisher Library, The University of Sydney
More information: Gabriel Watts

Does your research focus on emotions, past or present? Ever wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the conceptual transformations that underpin the emergence of ‘emotions’ as a class of psychological phenomena?

This Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS), run by the Sydney Node of the Centre for the History of Emotions, will bring students together with established scholars to discuss the long conceptual history of emotions. The PATS will take place the day after the Centre for the History of Emotions’ ‘Methods Collaboratory’, CHE Postgraduate students in Sydney to attend the Collaboratory are strongly encouraged to apply.

The PATS will consist of four short workshops. Each workshop will focus on a major figure in the history of philosophy 1100 – 1800 (Aquinas, Montaigne, Descartes and Hume). Leading international and Australian historians of philosophy will facilitate the workshops, and students will have the opportunity to discuss their own research.

The philosophical focus of this PATS is intended to allow students from all disciplines situate their own research within a broad conceptual history of emotions.

Cost

There is no cost for this PATS, places are limited however to ensure the day is focused. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, please advise of any dietary requirements when applying.

Bursaries

Bursaries are available for students from outside the Sydney area. If you are intending to apply for a bursary please submit an application form plus a short academic reference before 22 August 2015. Applicants will hear back shortly after 22 August.

For full details of the program, and to download the application form, visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/from-passions-to-emotions-postgraduate-advanced-training-seminar.aspx

Applications are open for the London International Palaeography Summer School (LIPSS), running 15 – 19 June 2015.

The London Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in palaeography and manuscript studies, held at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London. Courses range from one to two days and are given by experts in their respective fields, from a wide variety of institutions.

Full-day course fee: £90
Half-day course fee: £55
Block bookings discounts and discounts for full-time MA/PhD students available.

Monday 15 June

Early Modern English Palaeography
Introduction to Greek Palaeography I
Introduction to the Insular System of Scripts to AD 900
Vernacular Editing: Chaucer and his Contemporaries

Tuesday 16 June

Approaches to the Art of Insular Manuscripts
European Palaeography to AD 900
How Medieval Manuscripts Were Made
Introduction to Greek Palaeography II
Reading and Editing Renaissance English Manuscripts I

Wednesday 17 June

Codicology and the Cataloguing of Manuscripts I
German Palaeography
Liturgical and Devotional Manuscripts I
Quills and Calligraphy
Reading and Editing Renaissance English Manuscripts II

Thursday 18 June

Codicology and Cataloguing of Medieval Manuscripts II
Intermediate Old English Palaeography
Introduction to Keyboard Music Manuscripts from 16th – 18th Centuries (half-day)
Introduction to Latin Palaeography
Latin Gospel Incipits, 7th – 9th Centuries
Liturgical and Devotional Manuscripts II

Friday 19 June

Intermediate Latin Palaeography
Middle English Palaeography
Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts: Palaeography After 1700 (half-day)
Writing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts: Folio Layouts in Context

Questions? Contact the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London at IESEvents@sas.ac.uk or +44 020 7862 8679

“Dark Materials In Literature and Criticism”
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Masterclass led by Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham)

Date: Friday, April 17, 2015
Time: 10:00 – 4:00pm (Sessions will be 10:30-12:30 & 2:00-4:00)
Venue: Room 471, Global Change Institute (Bldg 20), UQ St Lucia campus
RSVP: uqche@uq.edu.au, or (07) 3365-4913 by Friday 10 April

All welcome, but numbers are limited so please RSVP by the date indicated

Morning tea at 10:00am and lunch at 1:00pm is provided.

This forum for discussing the ways in which dark and recalcitrant aspects of human life feature in literature and criticism is intended to open up questions of literary-critical values, method, idiom and form, as well as to bring into focus some problematic but interesting ideas about sex, gender, ethics and religion and some of the ways they intersect.

Readings:

• Jonathan Dollimore, ‘Introduction to the Third Edition’, Radical Tragedy (2004), pp. xiv-xxxvii
• Ewan Fernie, from ‘The Possessed’, The Demonic: Literature and Experience (2012), pp. 218-52
• Kevin Hart, ‘Dark Retreat’, Young Rain (2009), pp. 70-79
• Kevin Hart, ‘Colloquies’, Morning Knowledge (2011), pp. 12-22

Ewan Fernie is Chair, Professor and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, where he co-convenes the pioneering MA in Shakespeare and Creativity and helps run the collaboration with the RSC at The Other Place. He is General Editor (with Simon Palfrey) of the Shakespeare Now! series, and his latest critical book is The Demonic: Literature and Experience. Fernie also writes creatively. He led the AHRC grant-winning project which culminated in Redcrosse: A New Poetic Liturgy for St George’s Day that was performed in major UK cathedrals and by the RSC, and published in 2012. He is currently completing a Macbeth novel (also with Palfrey), and beginning to develop a play with Katharine Craik and the RSC called Marina, as well as seeing through the press a volume of essays edited with Tobias Döring on Shakespeare and Thomas Mann. Fernie’s present critical project is a book entitled Shakespeare’s Freetown: Why the Plays Matter. But he also has a developing interest in the part played by Shakespeare in the nineteenth-century reformation of industrial Birmingham, and in particular in the work and life of the radical preacher and lecturer George Dawson.

SOAS University of London with funding from the Getty Foundation is launching a new research programme lasting two years that might be of interest to you entitled The Art of the Crusades: A Re-Evaluation.

Led by Professor Scott Redford of SOAS University of London, The Art of the Crusades: A Re-Evaluation is aimed at early career academics and higher level research students interested in exploring the possibilities of a new kind of integrationist approach to the art and archaeology of the mediaeval period in the eastern Mediterranean and Levant.

This approach will involve interrogating the material culture of the mediaeval period using diverse academic approaches, and seek to show the connections between the art and other material culture of the different peoples and religious groups of this region at the time.

We are looking for candidates from a wide variety of academic fields. This includes researchers into Crusader art, architecture and archaeology, but also Byzantinists, and researchers into the art and architecture of Islamic, Jewish and other religious and ethnic groups in the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region during the Middle Ages.

Those taking part will be asked to attend four fully-funded research field trips, two in 2015 and two in 2016, each lasting nine days. These research trips will be to Greece, Israel, Jordan and Turkey and on them participants will attend lectures by international and local experts, visit historical sites of interest and engage in seminars aimed at formulating a new way of looking at this kind of material from an integrationist perspective.

We are particularly keen to encourage researchers based in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, or with strong connections to it, to apply.

All air fares, accommodation and meals on the research trips will be paid for, and we welcome applications now for the first of these trips, to Turkey, in November 2015.

Further information and an application form can be found on the SOAS website at:

Further Information: www.soas.ac.uk/artofthecrusades

Application Form: http://www.jotformeu.com/form/50121286584352

Deadline for Applications: 15 March 2015. Spaces are limited and so early application is strongly advised.