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Sydney Screen Studies Network 2017 Program – Call For Papers

We are currently seeking proposals for our 2017 program: Intersections in Film and Media Studies. Sydney Screen Studies Network (SSSN) invites scholars working across film, television, video, and internet genres to explore the state of contemporary screen studies and screen culture. Developments in digital technologies, as well as rapid changes in production, distribution and consumption patterns, mean that ‘cinema’ is an increasingly fluid term that moves across platforms, genres, and textual boundaries. Screen culture is also an inescapable part of the contemporary media environment, with a plethora of media objects moving across a variety of screens, technologies, and devices. Cinema and screen studies likewise possess a fluidity that encourages interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration.

This program will explore the transitional nature of contemporary screen studies and the movement of scholarship, theory and ideas across its boundaries. The program is interested in three core areas of study:

  1. Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to screen media
  2. Intersections in screen media
  3. The value of a single-discipline approach

Potential seminar topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to screen media
  • Applying a single discipline to study a screen object not in that discipline (e.g. using film studies approaches to television or applying video games scholarship to YouTube)
  • Investigations of screen media interactions and crossovers (e.g. cinematic television, televisual YouTube)
  • In what ways are different screen-based media texts informing and shaping one another?
  • What are the boundaries of film/television/video/YouTube?
  • How are screen-based media texts being confined to specific mediums of distribution and consumption?
  • In response to the convergent media environment are texts adhering to particular media-specific conventions in order to delineate themselves?
  • Can we continue to define what is cinema? What is television? etc.
  • How are audiences of screen texts responding to the fluidity of screen media genres?

All seminar presentations will be considered for an edited special journal issue, pending  editorial approval. We particularly encourage postgraduate and early career researchers to apply.

Seminars will be held every alternate Wednesday in the teaching semester, from 5pm to 7pm (Room 327, Robert Webster Building, UNSW Kensington Campus).

Please send proposals including a title, an abstract (200 words), and a short biography to sydneyscreenstudies@gmail.com by Sunday 19 February, 2017.

For any queries or further information on the Sydney Screen Studies Network, please direct your questions to the above email address or visit sydneyscreenstudies.wordpress.com.

Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: 2017 Philosophy Summer School – Call For Applications

The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is proud to present the 2017 Philosophy Summer School Curriculum.

The Summer School has nine courses on offer. Substantial discounts apply for those doing multiple courses. All courses are available for distance enrolment.

When: 9 Jan – 17 Feb, 2017
Where: Kathleen Syme Centre, Faraday St, and somewhere else yet to be finalised (Either in Carlton in Parkville).
Courses: For a full list of courses and to enrol, please visit: http://mscp.org.au/courses/summer-school-2017. All courses are 10 hours in length. Fees start at $80.

Theatre, Masque, and Opera in England and Italy, 1580 to 1650 (Summer Research Seminar, 2017) – Call For Applications

Theatre, Masque, and Opera in England and Italy, 1580 to 1650: Performance Practices and Cognitive Ecologies
Summer Research Seminar, 2017
McGill University, Montréal, Québec
31 July – 23 August, 2017

Seminar leaders:

Sponsored by:

Doctoral students in their final year, recent PhDs, postdocs, and junior faculty focusing on scholarly work and/or performance are invited to apply to take part in the research seminar. Research projects should have to do with spoken theatre (broadly defined) or theatrical music (broadly defined), or both, in England or Italy, c. 1580 to 1650.

English theatre and Italian opera between c. 1580 and 1650 have a great deal in common. Both regions had significant traditions of court theatre (masque; intermedii and court opera); both saw the rise of commercial theatre (the London theatres; Venetian public opera); both engaged with issues of love, history and politics, religion, disguise, and conversion. Boy actors, castrati, and cross dressing raise fascinating gender issues. Professional training combined with theatrical conventions were required for professionals (actors, writers; singers, instrumentalists, composers) to put on shows with very limited rehearsal time. Significant bodies of scholarship on both traditions exist, but the researchers rarely engage with one another, and there is little comparative scholarly work.

Our summer research seminar will bring together scholars and performers who specialize in English theatre, and others who specialize in early Italian opera, to share their work and learn from each other. While we are open to a wide array of methodologies and interests, we will focus on the performance practices and cognitive ecologies of these two theatrical worlds. How did they create works and learn their parts? How did material supports (scripts, libretti, stages, theatres) affect what they could do (on and off stage) and what they couldn’t? What makes these traditions similar, and how are they different? Can theatre, masque and opera be seen as conversion machines, operating within distinct cognitive ecologies?

Montreal allows for interaction with other researchers, including faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students associated with McGill, IPLAI, the Schulich School of Music, and Early Modern Conversions. Activities during the seminar will include workshops on period performance practices in theatre and music (including theatrical gesture, staging practices, musical improvisation, and facsimiles of original performance materials).

Travel and accommodation will be provided by the Early Modern Conversions Project. At the end of the seminar, participants will participate in the annual team meeting of the Early Modern Conversions project, at McGill, 24-26 August. Seminar participants will have rooms at the Trylon Apartments for the duration of the seminar and team meeting. McGill offers rich resources for study including excellent libraries, access to early instruments, and a vibrant theatrical and musical scene.

Doctoral students in their final year, recent PhDs, postdocs, and junior faculty focusing on scholarly work and/or performance are invited to apply to take part. Candidates should send a cover letter, CV, brief research proposal, and article-length writing sample to conversions@mcgill.ca by 15 December, 2016. Two confidential letters of recommendation should be sent by e-mail to the same address by the same deadline; referees are asked to indicate the name of the candidate in the subject line. At least one referee should confirm time to completion for applicants who have not yet graduated.

ANZAMEMS 2017 PATS: “Marginalia and Markings” – Some Places Remaining, Apply ASAP

There are some places remaining at our Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS), to be held at the National Library of New Zealand on Saturday 11 February (see information below). If you are a Postgraduate Student or an ECR (up to two years’ standing), do apply asap. The remaining places will be filled on a rolling basis.

The topic of the PATS is “Marginalia and Markings: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Readers”, and it will be held at the National Library of New Zealand. The PATS will be held on the day following the ANZAMEMS conference in Wellington, on Saturday 11 February (9-5pm).

Because of the facilities and resources at the NLNZ, places at the PATS are strictly limited to 20.

Full information about the PATS can be found at the ANZAMEMS conference website: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/pats

ANZAMEMS 2017 PATS: “Marginalia and Markings: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Readers” – Applications Close on November 4

Just a quick reminder that the closing date for Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) applications is tomorrow, November 4.

The topic of the PATS is “Marginalia and Markings: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Readers”, and it will be held at the National Library of New Zealand. The PATS will be held on the day following the ANZAMEMS conference in Wellington, on Saturday 11 February (9-5pm).

Because of the facilities and resources at the NLNZ, places at the PATS are strictly limited to 20.

We are inviting postgraduate student applications for the PATS by Friday 4 November, at which point we will select the applicants to whom the PATS seems most helpful. Any places unallocated after this process will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Full information about the PATS can be found at the ANZAMEMS conference website: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/pats

ANZAMEMS PATS 2017: “Marginalia and Markings: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Readers” – Call for Applications

Marginalia and Markings: Reading Early Modern and Medieval Readers
The National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
Saturday 11 February, 2017

Presenters include: Professor Lorna Hutson (Oxford), Associate Professor Rosalind Smith (Newcastle, Australia), Dr Malcolm Mercer (Royal Armouries, Tower of London), Dr Anthony Tedeschi (National Library of New Zealand)

A Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) will be held on the day following the ANZAMEMS conference in Wellington, on Saturday 11 February (9-5pm).

This PATS workshop will maximise the presence of multiple international experts in Wellington for the ANZAMEMS biennial conference, and link their scholarship on marginalia and markings in early books to the special collections of the National Library of New Zealand. Each of the presenters has distinct expertise in working with marginalia and other reader markings in medieval and early modern manuscripts and printed books, and the National Library’s collections provide ample materials for hands-on examination and discussion by PATS participants.

This one-day workshop will take the form of speaker presentations in the morning, followed by student-focused workshop sessions in the afternoon. Numbers are strictly limited to 20 students.

Morning tea, afternoon tea, and lunch will be provided for all participants.

A strictly limited number of bursaries will be available to support postgraduate student attendance at the PATS. Applications for these bursaries can be submitted with your application for the PATS.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/pats

Applications close on Friday 4 November, 2016.

Creative Devices for Asking Good Questions of Humans, Animals and Things – Workshop @ Curtin University (WA)

Creative devices for asking good questions of humans, animals and things: A CCAT Postgraduate Workshop with Vinciane Despret (Université de Liège, Belgium)

Date: Friday 25 November, 2016
Time: 10:00am
Venue: Curtin University

This workshop will focus on the task of devising good research questions. It will be particularly suited to postgraduate students working in animal studies, philosophy of science, cultural theory, art practice, or the history of emotions. Space is limited to 10 participants. If you are interested please send a maximum 1 page research proposal (suitable for discussion among the group) by Friday 30 September, 2016 to Matthew.Chrulew@curtin.edu.au.

Vinciane Despret is Associate Professor in the philosophy department of the University of Liège. Her work is in the history and philosophy of human psychology and animal ethology. Her books translated into English are: Our Emotional Makeup: Ethnopsychology and Selfhood (2004), Women Who Make a Fuss: The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf (with Isabelle Stengers, 2014), and What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (2016). Her titles in French include Naissance d’une théorie éthologique (1996), Quand le loup habitera avec l’agneau (2002), Hans, le cheval qui savait compter (2004), Être bête (2007), Bêtes et Hommes (2007), Penser comme un rat (2009), and most recently, Au bonheur des morts: Récits de ceux qui restent (2015). A recent issue of Angelaki was devoted to her work.

Experimental Histories: Conference and Postgraduate Workshop

Experimental Histories: Performance, Colonialism and Affect
University of Tasmania
3-4 October, 2016

RSVP is ESSENTIAL due to limited places

Convenors: A/Prof Penny Edmonds (UTAS) and A/Prof Katrina Schlunke (USYD) (penny.edmonds@utas.edu.au and katrina.schlunke@sydney.edu.au)

In her perceptive examination of the encounter between history, performance and colonialism, American theorist Diana Taylor argues that performance transmits memories, makes political claims, and manifests a group’s sense of identity? Crucially, Taylor reminds us of the critical political and interventionist work of performance, especially those of Indigenous peoples, and associated artefacts and creative expressions which challenge us to look beyond traditional text-based sources, to ask: If we were to reorient the ways social memory and cultural identity?have traditionally been studied what would we know that we do not know now? Whose stories, memories, and struggles might become visible? (Diana Taylor, The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas, Duke U.P., 2003).

This two day symposium is concerned with looking again at how we have come to know the colonial past. To attempt to know the past ‘experimentally’ is to make way for the emerging archive of previously overlooked embodied and affective actions, objects, everyday experiences and performative challenges to the colonial that were ignored or already accounted for. This means making a space for the stories of the bodies, objects, animals, constructed heritage sites and environments that became entangled within colonialism. Such an approach requires a reconsideration of the ways in which the past is presented. This symposium will critically interrogate the ways that the past is re-imagined, interpreted, commemorated and/or subverted through affective performances of heritage and history. We seek to explore new forms of creative expression and writing that are reflective of the affective force of the emotional past, as well as new ways of performing and ‘playing’ the past that produce different pedagogical effects.

Experimental Histories: Postgraduate Workshop

Date: 5 October, 2016
Time: 1:30-4:30pm
Venue: Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania
RSVP: Essential as places are limited. HDR Students only please.
Cost: Free
Convenors: A/Prof Penny Edmonds (UTAS) and A/Prof Katrina Schlunke (USYD) (penny.edmonds@utas.edu.au and katrina.schlunke@sydney.edu.au)

In this workshop we will explore what is meant by an experimental history and how the concept and surrounding ideas might be useful in the organisation of your thesis projects at both a conceptual and writerly level. HDR students will be asked to consider the ways in which a range of diverse approaches to the past including histories of the present, genealogies, new historicism, history from below, popular and public histories, new museology, new materialism, re-enactment, artful histories, fictocriticism, and memory work have thrown up challenges to how we do research but have also provided an exciting new set of research tools. We will consider the particularities of the Australian context and offer a set of discussion points and writing exercises to explore this fascinating terrain.

Christopher Dawson Centre Annual Summer School in Latin: Late Medieval, Renaissance and Neo-Latin

Christopher Dawson Centre
Annual Summer School in Latin: Late Medieval, Renaissance and Neo-Latin
Jane Franklin Hall, 4 Elboden St, South Hobart
23-27 January, 2017

Latin is arguably the mother tongue of Europe. Its literature is immensely rich. In a sense it never died; original work continued to be written in Latin up to modern times. This course will offer a general introduction to literary and technical Latin written from the Late Medieval and Renaissance periods to the present day. We shall also look at passages of older material that remained highly influential in the later period (e.g. Scripture, Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder). There will be a strong emphasis on reading inscriptions and on palaeography, including an opportunity to handle original manuscripts.

Some prior knowledge of Latin is desirable, but beginners with experience of learning a foreign language might consider purchasing a self-instruction primer and working on the basics between now and the start of the course. Participants will never be embarrassed if their Latin is imperfect: the teaching method leaves the entire task of translation and exposition to the Lecturer. This approach has been useful to relative beginners as well as those who are more experienced.

Any Latin Primer designed for self-instruction can be used, but F. Kinchin Smith’s Teach Yourself Latin (out of print, but cheap copies are easily available from internet sites such as www.abebooks.com) is particularly good.

The Lecturer is Dr David Daintree who founded the Annual Latin Summer School in 1993.

The Programme

There will be four lectures a day on each of the five days, from Monday 23 to Friday 27, starting at 9.00 am. There will be only one lecture after lunch each day, to free up the afternoons for private study.

At this stage a daily programme has not been finalized. Dr Daintree would be happy to include material by request from participants.

The cost of the course is $350. Meals and accommodation are not included. Jane Franklin Hall may be able to offer inexpensive self-catering accommodation on site, but participants would need to arrange that directly with the college at office@jane.edu.au. Proceeds from this course go to the Christopher Dawson Centre (http://www.dawsoncentre.org).

To enrol and for further information contact dccdain@gmail.com.

Close Reading Live Cinema Productions of Henry V Masterclass @ The University of Queensland

“Look Ye How They Change”: Close Reading Live Cinema Productions of Henry V, A Masterclass by John Wyver (Illuminations/RSC/University of Westminster)

Date: Wednesday 7 September, 2016
Time: 10:30am-12:30pm (Morning tea served from 10am)
Venue: Room 471, Global Change Institute (Building 20), The University of Queensland, St Lucia
RSVP: Email uqche@uq.edu.au by Friday 2 September, 2016

All welcome, but spaces are limited.

Live cinema broadcasts and recordings released on DVD and online are significantly enhancing the availability of a range of productions of most of Shakespeare’s plays. But the critical discussion of the form to date has been undertaken largely in conceptual and contextual terms. My interest in this class is to develop close readings of a short passage from Henry V in the 2015 RSC and 2012 Shakespeare’s Globe ‘live’ productions, and to compare the treatment in these with the same passage in British television productions of the play from 1957, 1979 and The Hollow Crown series in 2012, as well as the well- known films directed by Laurence Olivier in 1944 and Kenneth Branagh in 1989. In doing so, I hope to start developing an understanding of the specific screen languages and poetics of live cinema productions.

John Wyver is a writer and producer with Illuminations, a Media Associate with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. He has produced and directed numerous performance lms and documentaries about the arts, and his work has been honoured with a BAFTA, an International Emmy and a Peabody Award. He has produced three performance films for television with the RSC: Macbeth (2000), with Antony Sher and Harriet Walter; Hamlet (2009), with David Tennant; and Julius Caesar (2012). He also produced Gloriana, a Film (1999), directed by Phyllida Lloyd, and Macbeth (2010), directed by Rupert Goold. In 2013, he produced the RSC’s first live-to-cinema broadcast, Richard II: Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, and is currently advising the RSC on its broadcasting strategy. He has written extensively on the history of documentary film, early television and digital culture, and at the University of Westminster is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project ‘Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television’. He is the author of Vision On: Film, Television and the Arts in Britain (2007). He blogs regularly at the Illuminations website, and tweets as @Illuminations.

It is recommended that participants attend the 2016 Lloyd Davis Memorial Public Lecture, “Being There: Shakespeare, Theatre Television, and Live Cinema”, which John Wyver will deliver on Tuesday 6 September, 6pm, in the Terrace Room of the Sir Llew Edwards Building, UQ St Lucia. To RSVP for the lecture, please email by Friday 2 September.