Call for Applications:
13th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: “Transmission”
February 2-3, 2018
 

The thirteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday and Saturday, February 2-3, 2018, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), and is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

For this year’s workshop, we invite papers that explore the idea of “Transmission.” Few texts are preserved in their author’s own hand; most surviving manuscripts are copies of copies, each hand-made, and each differing to a greater or lesser degree, by design or accident, from the copy before it. The more successful or important or popular a work, the more copies were produced, and the more difference and variation exists among the surviving copies; but even a work that survives in only one copy may represent the end of a series, potentially a long one, of moments of textual reproduction. Texts may travel in groups or be tucked into solitary margins; they may gather in closely-knit families or diverge in significant and sometimes strange ways. Whatever hidden chances may have led to their survival, every manuscript has a story to tell about its origins, its readers, and its place as a link in the chain of transmission. How do we reconstruct these stories? Do the traditional tools of textual criticism reflect the reality of textual transmissions? What can a text tell us about its own history? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.

The workshop is open to scholars and graduate students in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more like a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a $500 honorarium for their participation.

The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies.

Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Roy Liuzza or the Marco Institute for more information.

How to Apply:

The deadline for applications is November 15, 2017.

Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.

Applications are now open!

State Library Victoria are thrilled to be hosting the 13th Australasian Rare Books Summer School from 29 January to 2 February 2018.

Immerse yourself in the world of rare books at one of three intensive courses presented by leading experts.

Applications are to be completed online by Thursday 30 November 2017.

All applications will be acknowledged upon receipt and all applicants will be notified of their selection or otherwise in December 2017.

For course outlines, costs and further information on how to apply, please visit our website 
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/live-learn/melbourne-australasian-rare-books-summer-school?utm_source=eflyer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rbss18

The MSCP Semester 2 Philosophy Evening School curriculum is now open for enrolment. This semester we have three courses on offer running from August to November in Parkville/Carlton. Multiple subjects are heavily discounted as always. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact admin at admin@mscp.org.au.

Full details and Enrolment: https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-semester-2-2017

MSCP Evening School Semester 2 2017

Bernard Stiegler: An Introduction
6.30-8.30pm 12 Tuesdays – starts Aug 15
Lecturer: Dr Daniel Ross

Modern Poetry II
6.30-8.30pm 8 Wednesdays – starts Aug 16
Lecturer: Dr Mark Hewson

Wittgenstein’s Philosophies
6.30-8.30pm 12 Thursdays – starts Aug 17
Lecturer: Dr David Rathbone

ARC Centre for the History of Emotions Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS): ‘Emotions and Place’
University Club of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia
Wednesday 13 June, 2018

Enquiries: email Pam Bond at emotions@uwa.edu.au

More info: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/emotions-and-place

Facilitated by Professor Susan Broomhall, ARC Future Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, UWA.

Featuring participation by Professor Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania.

This Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) will bring established scholars in this field together with postgraduates to explore issues between emotions, the non-human world, the environment, space and place.

Students and early career scholars will have the opportunity to discuss their own research.

This PATS is explicitly interdisciplinary and exploratory, and intended to allow students from many disciplines to encounter issues that transcend their own research field and to situate their own research in the interdisciplinary context.

Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Visiting Distinguished Professor at La Trobe University. He was founder and, until 2005, Director of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He is the author or editor of 21 books on topics in philosophy, art, architecture and geography. His work is grounded in post-Kantian thought, especially the hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions, as well as in analytic philosophy of language and mind. He is currently working on topics including the ethics of place, the failing character of governance, the materiality of memory, the topological character of hermeneutics, the place of art, and the relation between place, boundary and surface.

Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Digital Humanities Workshop

Sponsored by UWA Learning and Teaching Performance Initiative Grant and CMEMS
University Club of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia

Date: Saturday 16 June, 2018

More info: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/digital-humanities-workshop
This full-day 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 early career researcher in medieval studies at The University of Western Australia, examining digital visualisation in cultural heritage, spolia, and the legacy of Rome in the middle ages.
• Dr Michael Ovens is an early career researcher at The University of Western Australia, working on a series of collaborative projects related to the use of virtual reality in teaching and learning.
• 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’.
• 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’.

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.

The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: Winter School 2017

The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is proud to present the 2017 Philosophy Winter School Curriculum. We have six courses on offer. Substantial discounts apply for those doing multiple courses. All courses are available for distance enrolment.

https://mscp.org.au/courses/winter-school-2017

Where: Kathleen Syme Centre, Faraday St, Carlton; and 1888 Building, Grattan St, The University of Melbourne, Parkville.

Tues 6.30-8.30pm Starting 20 June
Hannah Arendt’s contemplative turn and The Life of the Mind
Lecturer: Dr Lenka Ucnik

Wed 6.30-8.30pm Starting 21 June
A Russian Nietzsche and a Russian Dostoevsky
Lecturer: Dr Valery Vinogradovs

10am-12noon 17-21 July
Heidegger, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
Lecturer: Dr Mark Hewson

12.30-2.30pm 17-21 July
Introduction to the Continental Philosophy of Music
Lecturer: Dr Rhonda Siu

3-5pm 17-21 July
Marie-José Mondzain: Image, Icon, Economy: the Byzantine Origins of the
Contemporary Imaginary
Lecturer: Robyn Adler

5.30-7.30pm 17-21 July
Deleuze and Guattari?s Political Philosophy
Lecturer: Dr Jon Roffe

Templa Winter School
Girona, Spain
18-19 December, 2017

Citizen Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: image, institutions, networks
Proposal by: Gerardo Boto, Vincent Debiais, Xènia Granero and Anabel Moreno.
TEMPLA. Institut de Recerca Històrica, Universitat de Girona
templa.templamedieval.com

TEMPLA is a permanent workshop of Medieval Studies composed of specialists from universities, museums and archives from different parts of Spain, Europe and in particular Catalonia. The members of this team share common interests as well as complementary areas of expertise. The impact of its research and interactions with experts from other disciplines are reflected in its specific research projects and academic activities, which in turn are disseminated in annually organised scientific meetings and resulting publications.

TEMPLA members actively seek to collaborate with different research groups and scientific institutions. They aim to facilitate exchanges among researchers and to stimulate scientific debates relating to visual programs and spatial organization from the Middle Ages. Particular attention is devoted to the liturgical influences and architectural scenery and to reflection on the social and academic status of research into Middle Ages art and culture.

THEMES AND OBJECTIVE:
With the aim of bringing together young researchers and exchanging ideas and hypotheses regarding new trends in medieval art history, TEMPLA is organizing a scientific training session in Girona (Spain) on 18 and 19 December 2017. This winter school will discuss the concept and expression of the “citizen cathedral” as it has developed in European bishoprics from medieval to modern times.

The cathedral is the most important building in a city, both for its symbolic value and visual presence as a defining element within the urban landscape. It is an indispensable part of a city’s
history due to its great influence on the city’s development and growth. In this regard, for numerous cathedrals, medieval citizens played a decisive role in their architectural genesis, in the definition of their spaces, in the decorative elements and in the activities that took place in their interiors or surroundings. The municipal government of the city, the guilds, the brotherhoods and wealthy families all contributed to these architectural works by promoting chapels, improvements of the urban environment, architectural reforms, or sculptural, pictorial and epigraphic programs, and participated in civic rituals, festivities and the worship of saints.

Gothic cathedrals were also intended to act as symbols and images of the expanding cities, thus generating a discourse of power not only for the citizens, but also for the municipal government and, occasionally, for rival dioceses. From the sixth century, the episcopal city was called civitas, thus inextricably entwining the building with the town. The cathedral was the city’s nerve centre in two ways: first, as a religious centre that welcomed the community by providing them with a
meeting place and by marking the patterns of their daily live; and second, as a social, political and economic centre in the urban environment where bishops and councils played an important role.

For this reason, the 2017 TEMPLA winter school aims to reflect on the civic-humanist dimension that defines the cathedral and on the links it establishes with the city and, therefore, with its
citizens. It will also focus on different groups and individuals and their use of the cathedral as a scenario for their activities of patronage, and on the discourse of power between the citizens and the civil and religious institutions.

SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE TEMPLA WINTER SCHOOL 2017:

• To analyse the relationship between the cathedral and citizens in terms of the different factors (institutional, economic, topographical, architectural, etc.) that help define the
  cathedral within the medieval city and the surrounding urban environment.
• To investigate the work of cathedral schools open to non-clerical citizens and the care received in hospitals by non-clerical residents or outsiders.
• To examine the written and visual documentation of the cathedral for traces of this relation and of these exchanges between the city and the individuals involved in cathedral life.
• To propose a definition for the concept of the “citizen cathedral” that takes into account the city vs. cathedral relationship.
• To use the previous points to establish new approaches and multidisciplinary research in the institutional and citizen environment of European cathedrals from the Middle Ages to the current day.

APPLICANTS AND PARTICIPATION:
This scientific meeting is intended to host a small number of participants: around 10 researchers will be invited to present their studies. Participants are expected to actively take part in the discussions of all presentations. All researchers should be able to benefit from input from other specialists. The presentations and debates can be held in Spanish, French, Italian or English.

Format: The debates will take place for a day and a half. The day before the conference, participants will have the opportunity to visit the city of Girona. Also, at the end of the conference, there will be a tour of some of the most outstanding enclaves of the city that reflect in situ their specificities and the role of citizens in the planning and development of the cathedral and its urban environment.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
TEMPLA WINTER SCHOOL is aimed at junior pre- and post-doctoral researchers in the field of art history, history and liturgical studies. The applicants must submit:

• a letter of motivation including their research interests,
• a one-page résumé,
• a document (up to 300 words) outlining their proposed presentation.
• These documents may be written in Spanish, French, Italian or English.
• The documents must be sent before 30 July 2017 to xenia.granero@urv.cat, anabel.moreno@udg.edu.

Candidates will receive a response by 1 September 2017. The selected researchers will have until 15 October to submit to the organizers a draft of the ideas they intend to present, the main images linked to their speech and a brief bibliography. This documentation will be used to make a dossier for the other attendees in order to facilitate the discussions and exchanges.

VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION:
The conference will take place in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Girona. The costs of accommodation and other common activities will be covered by the organizers. Participants must pay their own travel expenses.

Collaborators in the TEMPLA WINTER SCHOOL 2017:

• Financial support: Projecte RecerCaixa 2015: “LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITARIAN HERITAGE OF EUROPE: CATHEDRAL CITIES AS LIVING MEMORIES” [Acronim: ID_EURITAGE]
• Institut de Recerca Històrica Ud