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Love: Art of Emotion 1400-1800 Exhibition @ NGV and Master Classes @ The University of Melbourne

Love: Art of Emotion 1400-1800
Opens 31 March, Runs until 18 June
NGV International, Melbourne

More info: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/love

Love: Art of Emotion 1400–1800
draws upon the NGV’s diverse permanent collection to explore the theme of love in art, and the changing representations of this complex emotion throughout the early modern period in Europe.

While popular conceptions of love tend frequently to focus upon romantic love, Love: Art of Emotion explores love’s varied manifestations across the realms of human experience, including familial relationships, religious devotion, friendship, altruism, patriotism, narcissism, materialism and nostalgia. The exhibition presents depictions of love’s many variations in painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, as well as non-representational and functional objects such as costume, furniture and religious artefacts.

Featuring more than 200 works from the NGV’s International Collection, some of which have never been displayed before, the exhibition demonstrates the balance between modest and grandiose, civic and domestic, micro and macro, from Vivarini’s grand-scale, much-celebrated painting The Garden of Love to tiny pieces of jewellery, worn against the body as love tokens or in memoriam. Through these diverse objects and images, the exhibition explores notions of public display and private emotion, ostentation and intimacy, of performance and of feeling.

The exhibition also considers love in relation to its associated emotions such as desire, wonder, ecstasy, affection, compassion, envy, melancholy, longing and hope, as well as the ways in which these combine and intersect. Bringing together a diverse array of works from the Medieval to the Romantic period, Love: Art of Emotion examines the shifting, multifaceted expressions of this rich and perennially relevant subject.

There will be a series of masterclasses associated with this exhibition. Information about these events can be found here: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/love2017

This exhibition is produced in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The National Gallery of Victoria and The University of Melbourne.

Ravello Literary Summer School – Call For Applications

Ravello Literary Summer School
Pastoral Visions: Exploring the Idea of Retreat in Literature, Art and Film
17–21 July, 2017

You’re invited to join us for a unique literary summer school experience in Ravello, Italy, to explore the pastoral and ideas of retreat in literature, art and film. Situated about 5 km from Amalfi, overlooking the coast, Ravello has inspired many writers, artists and musicians throughout history. There will be lectures from an international group of scholars, playreadings from Shakespeare, other readings from a range of texts from the classical to the contemporary, a poetry writing workshop for those interested in creative writing, excursions to the gardens of Villa Cimbrone and Villa Rufolo (with the opportunity for sketching), and a walk in the footsteps of E.M. Forster. Topics of sessions will include classical pastoral, exploring the work of Theocritus and Virgil, early modern and Shakespearean pastoral, the myth of the Mediterranean, the pastoral in modernism, and the pastoral in film. A detailed programme will be provided closer to the time.

No prior experience is necessary; students, general readers, scholars all welcome!

Convenors:

  • Dr Victoria Bladen (The University of Queensland, Australia)
  • Assoc Prof Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre University, Italy)

More information about the Convenors: http://victoriabladen.wixsite.com/shakespeareforall/about-the-convenors

Enquiries: victoria.bladen@uqconnect.edu.au or maddalena.pennacchia@uniroma3.it

Summer School in Latin (2017): Bracciano and Rome – Call for Applications

Summer School in Latin
Bracciano and Rome
8-22 July, 2017

THE COURSE

This two-week intensive course will guide participants through the basics of Latin to selected literature from the classical and medieval ages. We shall also read works in neo-Latin (Latin written in the Renaissance and since) and inscriptions from all periods, ancient and modern. The major emphasis will be on the Latin of the Middle Ages.

THE VENUES

Week one will be taught at the Villaggio Betania, run by the Nashville Dominican Sisters, in Bracciano, an attractive town about 30 kms from Rome. Week two will be spent at the Bernardi campus of the University of St Thomas, overlooking the Tiber in central Rome, and close to sites of extraordinary interest and beauty.

WHY LATIN?

Latin is arguably the mother-tongue of Europe. Its literature is immensely rich: original work continued to be written in the Latin language up to modern times. It is arguable that some knowledge of Latin is essential to the full appreciation of English literature written up to at the least the beginning of the twentieth century, because Latin was part of the intellectual equipment of most authors until that time. Students of history, philosophy and modern languages also recognize the value of increased familiarity with primary sources. Latin is a doorway that can lead you to wonderful delights.

PREREQUISITES?

There are no formal prerequisites. However beginners, especially those who have never studied a language other than English, are strongly urged to buy a self-instruction primer and work through the initial stages at least prior to the start of the course. On the other hand, already proficient readers of Latin have enjoyed our courses and derived benefit and pleasure from reading material from outside the standard curricula. The teaching method allows this versatility. All translation is done by the lecturer to ensure rapid and efficient coverage of material, and no participant is embarrassed by questioning. On the other hand questioning and discussion is encouraged: participants from a diversity of backgrounds have contributed wonderfully to the success of these schools.

COURSE CONTENT

We shall read only ‘real’ Latin. Scripture and basic liturgical texts will be included as introductory material due to their relative ease and familiarity. Patristic authors such as St Augustine will be examined. Other material covered: philosophical and theological Latin (Boethius, Aquinas); secular poetry (e.g. the Carmina Burana) and religious poetry including specimens of the great tradition of Latin hymnody (Ambrose, Venantius, sequences); narrative and history (Einhard, the Legenda Aurea); texts representing the continuation of the classical tradition. Other material can be included on request.

WHY ITALY?

What better place to learn Latin than in its heartland? Excursions to sites of particular interest in Rome and surrounding areas form a part of the course. We shall learn to interpret inscriptions that tell us so much yet escape the notice of ordinary visitors. Italian culture and language are intimately involved with Latin and the course will seek to clarify the linkage between the two.

THE LECTURER

David Daintree has taught intensive summer schools in Latin for over twenty years. His courses have been offered in Hobart, Sydney, Perth and New Zealand. With Dr Susanna Rizzo he established Campion College’s biennial Rome Summer School in 2012.

THE COST

The cost of the two-week programme will be 1,500 Euros for twin-share accommodation. Single accommodation will also be available on request. The cost includes accommodation, tuition, written materials and some meals – all meals at Bracciano and breakfast only at the Bernardi campus. It excludes air fares and airport transfers – participants should make their own arrangements to arrive in time for the course. Arrive Bracciano Saturday 8 July (own arrangements). We shall travel as a group by train to central Rome on Saturday 15 July. Check out Saturday 22 July.

FURTHER INFORMATION AND ENROLMENTS

Please contact Dr Daintree directly – dccdain@gmail.com

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.