Shakespeare in Italy’s 5th summer school is to be held this year at the British Institute in Florence from July 6 – 19. The summer school gives participants the rare opportunity to work with tutors who are leaders in their field in the UK theatre world. Royal Shakespeare Company and Globe directors Lucy Bailey and Chris Luscombe will lead work on Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet and acclaimed actor/director Philip Franks on The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Our course is practical, not academic, and it is open to all, the only proviso being that you speak English fluently. Last year in Pizzo Calabro the group ranged in age from 18 to 95. Everyone took part in putting scenes on their feet but in past years some people have wanted to participate from the comfort of their seats. Both approaches are welcome! 

The benefits are innumerable and people have a lot of fun as well as gaining great theatrical insight into the texts. Please see the PDF below for more details and contact shakespeareinitaly.eu@gmail.com with any questions.

A 5 per cent Early Bird discount on all bookings received with €400.00 deposit before February 15.

www.shakespeareinitaly.eu or phone +44 (0) 1273 285377 or +44 (0) 7493757302

LATIN SUMMER SCHOOL, 14-18 January 2019, Hobart

This is the twenty-fifth annual Hobart Latin Summer School. The emphasis is on reading Medieval and Ecclesiastical Latin, including patristics and poetry, both religious and secular.  Some prior experience highly recommended.  

GREEK SUMMER SCHOOL, 21-25 January 2019, Hobart

Continuing the work of the past two summers, we shall read excerpts from one of the Gospels and one of the Epistles. Beginners willing to work hard on basic grammar between now and January could join the course.

LATIN INTENSIVE RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP, 7-20 July 2019, Rome, Italy

Both a ‘boot camp’ for beginners and a rich reading party for the more advanced, but with free interchange between the two streams. The goal is to examine two millennia of Roman and Italian culture – art as well as literature – through the medium of the Latin Language which is common to the whole tradition. We shall reads pieces by the major writers of the Classical Canon and by their successors in Medieval and Renaissance times. Genres will include Epic Poetry, Oratory, Philosophy and History.

For more details including costs, see http://www.dawsoncentre.org/news/ or please contact David Daintree dccdain@gmail.com.

Dr David Daintree
Director, Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies

The Australian School of Celtic Learning has a range of study days and seminars coming up in Sydney and Canberra during August.

SYDNEY

Saturday 4 August
Lughnasadh study day

In the week of the Celtic festival of Lughnasadh, we will look first at historical events involving the Celts at this time of year, then turn our attention to the ancient Celtic seasonal festivals, discussing how they were marked at various points in history.  We discuss the traditions specific to Lughnasadh, which occurs at the beginning of Autumn in the northern hemisphere.  We will conclude the day by sharing some music and tales specific to Lughnasadh.
Schedule
10.00-11.30 – 4 August in Celtic history
11.45-1.00 – marking the Celtic seasons
2.00-3.15 – Lughnasadh traditions old-new
3.30-5.00 – Lughnasadh music and tales
Venue
Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
Cost
AU$95 ($65 student/unwaged) – please register in advance
includes morning and afternoon teas and booklet
Download Lughnasadh study day registration form

Saturday 25 August
Holy Islands – Iona seminar

At the centre of Saint Columba’s federation of monasteries and churches, the island of Iona was a centre of learning.  We will spend the morning with this beautiful island and its intriguing history.  In particular, we will discuss the complicated history of the church in Saint Columba’s time, and investigate the many early medieval and later artefacts associated with Iona.
Schedule
10.00-11.30 – Saint Columba and Iona
11.45-1.00 – stone crosses and artefacts
Venue
Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
Cost
AU$50 ($35 student/unwaged) – please register in advance
includes morning tea and booklet
Download Holy Islands – Iona registration form

Saturday 25 August
Holy Islands – Lindisfarne seminar

Established by monks from Iona at the invitation of the king of Northumbria, the tidal island of Lindisfarne came to be of central importance for Christianity in the north of England.  In this seminar, we will explore the background of Lindisfarne’s establishment and its role in the development of Christianity in England.  Lindisfarne is the place of origin for many important early medieval manuscripts including the Lindisfarne Gospels, and we will look closely at these manuscripts and other artefacts from Lindisfarne and the surrounding areas.
Schedule
2.00-3.30 – history and place
3.45-5.00 –  manuscripts and artefacts
Venue
Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
Cost
$50 ($35 student/unwaged) – please register in advance
includes afternoon tea and booklet
Download Holy Islands – Lindisfarne registration form

Holy Islands full day package
AU$95 ($65 student/unwaged)
Download Holy Islands registration form

CANBERRA

Sunday 12 August
Book of Kells Study Day

The Book of Kells is a beautiful, illuminated manuscript made around 750.  In this day-long event, we will consider the context of the church in Ireland and Scotland, and the relationship of the Book of Kells to Saint Columba.  We will spend time investigating the long traditions of Celtic art, and the materials, construction, decoration and content of the Book of Kells itself.  Join us for a look at the manuscript, its background and its decoration.  We will have many photographs of details from the manuscript and other objects.

Schedule
11.30-1.30 – Iona, Kells and Saint Columba
2.30-4.00 – the Book and its decoration
4.30-6.00 – artistic influences on the Book
Venue
Canberra Irish Club, 6 Parkinson Street Weston
Cost
AU$95 ($65 student/unwaged) – please register in advance
includes lunch, afternoon tea and booklet 

Sunday 2 September
Early Irish Law Study Day

The legal system of early Ireland is remarkable: it is the best-documented vernacular legal system in pre-modern Europe, and remained in use for over a millennium.  Careful attention was given to proving not only guilt and innocence, but intentionality and culpability based on a combination of factors.  A delicate balance of family and community responsibilities and entitlements compelled compliance, taking the place of a police force.  Join us to explore some of the most interesting, unexpected and ingenious aspects of early Irish law, and to trace its fascinating development.

Schedule
11.30-1.30 – early Irish law and society
2.30-4.00 – intentionality, culpability and other provisions
4.30-6.00 – intrusions by the church
Venue
Canberra Irish Club, 6 Parkinson Street Weston
Cost
AU$95 ($65 student/unwaged) – please register in advance
includes lunch, afternoon tea and booklet 

For more coming events in Sydney, Download Lughnasadh Term Sydney Event Calendar/Brochure

A Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Digital Humanities Workshop

Date: Saturday 16 June 2018

Venue: Collaborative Learning Studio, Arts 2.13, Arts Building, The University of Western Australia

Contact: Pam Bond (emotions@uwa.edu.au)

There are limited places remaining, so please email an expression of interest from the following website as soon as possible:

More info: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/digital-humanities-workshop

This workshop for postgraduates and ECRs provides an opportunity to explore and gain familiarity with some of the key techniques and methodologies of computational research in the humanities, with a focus on the needs of medievalists and early modernists. It is structured around a supportive lab-based environment, learning from scholars with ongoing digital humanities projects in the history of emotions.

Speakers:

Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on the application of 3D digital technologies for cultural heritage, the legacy of Rome in the high middle ages, and spolia and memory in cross-cultural contexts. Dr Nancarrow led the 2016 digital heritage project Emotions3D: Bringing Heritage to Life supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (1100-1800), and was a co-convenor of the AVRL augmented and virtual reality group. Her forthcoming monograph Ruins to Re-use will be published by Boydell and Brewer in 2019.

Dr Carly Osborn is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions based at The University of Adelaide, with a special interest in rituals, bodies, and emotions. Her recent publications include the edited collection Does Religion Cause Violence? Eds. Hodge, Cowdell, Fleming and Osborn (Bloomsbury 2017). She has won multiple awards including the South Australian Emerging Historian of the Year and The University of Adelaide Doctoral Research Medal. She will present on ‘The Vault, a digital computer game, available in full VR 3D, that explores the History of Emotions.

Dr James Smith is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub, working on a project entitled ‘Conduits of Faith: Deep Mapping Medieval Spiritual Waterscapes’. His first monograph is entitled Water in Medieval Intellectual Culture: Case-Studies from Twelfth-Century Monasticism (Brepols, 2018). James is also the editor of The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits (punctum books, 2017), and co-editor of a forthcoming themed collection of the Open Library of the Humanities on “New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies”.

Dr Deborah Thorpe is EU COFUND Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub Fellow, working on a project entitled ‘Old Hands: A Palaeographical Study of Ageing Medieval and Early Modern Scribes’. The research project works within the fields of the digital humanities, electronics and computer science, and promises a wider and more diverse understanding of medieval scribes.

Due to limited access to the technologies involved, this workshop will be limited to 20 participants. Applicants should submit an expression of interest in attending at this stage to emotions@uwa.edu.au.

Sponsored by a UWA Learning and Teaching Performance Initiative Grant (awarded to the late Prof. Philippa Maddern) and the UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Two upcoming study days from the Australian School of Celtic Learning www.celticlearning.com.au

Saturday 19 May: The Venerable Bede study day

The Venerable Bede wrote his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English People early in the eighth century. This, together with his other writings, is one of our main sources of information about the English and Celtic regions in the seventh and eighth centuries. In this study day, we will look at the world Bede lived in, from Anglo-Saxon and Celtic perspectives. We will explore his interests and writings in history, biography and science. We will discover more about the people he knew and the people he wrote about.

Schedule
9.30-11.00 – Celtic/Anglo-Saxon churches
11.30-1.00 – Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
1.30-3.00 – Bede’s Lives of saints
3.30-5.00 – Bede’s scientific works

Venue
Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney

Cost
AU$95     $65 student/unwaged
includes morning and afternoon teas, light lunch and booklet
Venerable Bede study day registration form

Saturday 2 June: The Book of Kells study day

The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript of the four Gospels in Latin, dating from around 750 CE. It is one of Ireland’s greatest treasures. In this lavishly illustrated study day, we will look at the background of the Book: where was it made, in what circumstances, and what happened to it? We will then examine the decoration of the Book, considering the different artistic influences on it, its place in the Insular manuscript tradition, the pigments and how they were made.

Schedule
9.30-11.00 – St Columba and the church
11.30-1.00 – Iona and Kells
1.30-3.00 – the Book of Kells
3.30-5.00 – artistic influences on the Book

Venue
Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney

Cost
AU$95     $65 student/unwaged
includes morning and afternoon teas, light lunch and booklet
Book of Kells study day registration form