Monthly Archives: February 2012

University of Southern Queensland: The British World Conference – Call For Papers

The British World:
Religion, Memory, Culture and Society
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
July 2-July 5, 2012

Conference Website

Abstract Deadline:  April 12 2012
**Edit – abstract deadline has been extended until May 25th**

Plenaries:

Christopher Haigh (University of Oxford), Alison Wall (University of Oxford), Peter Goodall (University of Southern Queensland), Lynette Olson (University of Sydney), Helen Farley (Australian Digital Futures Institute)

Call for Papers:

Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican Historical Society of Australia. The conference seeks to increase scholarly understandings of the religious and cultural adjustments that accompanied British political change and expansion.

This conference is an exciting regional and international opportunity for the convergence of scholars in a range of disciplines, from history, religious studies, literature, e-pedagogies, education, post-colonialism, anthropology, legal studies, sociology and indigenous studies. This conference will provide a stimulating forum for the latest research in a range of disciplines.

Abstracts are welcome on any aspect of history and or place where the government, religion, people and cultures of the British Isles have been of influence. The time period is open and may extend from the medieval to the modern period

From a teaching perspective, the landscape in which we teach history has clearly changed over time. In recognition of such developments, under our ‘Precious Past and Digital Future’ stream, we invite papers which investigate the digital dimension of teaching history and religious studies. We especially welcome paper proposals from early career researchers and postgraduates.

Possible themes include (but are not limited to):

The British World

  • Empire and colonial reach
  • Music, art and architecture
  • Education and schooling
  • The English language and translation
  • Environmentalism and the Church
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Indigenous religion meets the British
  • The British Isles and the Church in literature
  • The Church and the law
  • Liturgical reform and Biblical Scholarship
  • Medieval and the early modern Church
  • Migration and transnationalism
  • Religious identity
  • Relations with extra-western religions 

Precious Past and Digital Future

  • Virtual worlds in history teaching
  • E-religion 
  • Images and texts in teaching 
  • E-pedagogy 
  • Writing and teaching history and religious studies

Abstracts of 250-300 words for a 20 minute paper should be sent to british.history@usq.edu.au by April 12 2012. Abstracts should be accompanied by a brief (100 word) CV of the presenter. **Edit – abstract deadline has been extended until May 25th**

Proceedings:

Prospective contributors are invited to submit a written version of their paper for review for inclusion in the conference proceedings, which will be e-published. For guidance on length, format and style, please see the editorial guidelines (doc 32 kb).

Contact details:

Please email us on: british.history@usq.edu.au

Written correspondence can be addressed to:

Dr Marcus Harmes
Faculty of Arts
Open Access College
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba QLD 4350

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) 2012 Conference – Call For Papers

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) Annual Conference
October 25-28, 2012
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati

Conference Website

Deadline for Abstract Submission: April 15, 2012

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) will hold its 2012 annual conference on October 25-28, 2012, at the at the National Historic Landmark hotel, the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, an Art Deco gem that opened in 1931 and is a located in the heart of downtown, near Fountain Square.

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC), founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660), actively encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. We also welcome proposals for roundtables sponsored by scholarly societies that are affiliated with the SCSC.

For those who are anniversary-minded, 2012 will, among other things, mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Fifth Lateran Council, Luther’s appointment to Wittenberg University, the births of Mercator, James V of Scotland, and Catherine Parr. It is also commemorates the unveiling of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling and in acknowledgment, Michelangelo scholar William Wallace, Washington University, will be a plenary speaker. 2012 is also the 450th anniversary of the first religious war in France, the births of Lope de Vega and Isabella Andreini and the deaths of Eleonora de Toledo, Jan van Scorel, and Peter Martyr Vermigli. It is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Accademia della Crusca’s Dizionario, as well as the birth of Anne Bradstreet and the deaths of Emperor Rudolph II and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Abstracts (up to 250 words in length) for papers and sessions may be submitted online at: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org

The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2012. Within four weeks after the deadline, the Program Committee will notify all those who submitted proposals.

If you experience any difficulty with our online submission process or have questions about how to submit a proposal please send an email message to: conference@sixteenthcentury.org

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) 2012 – Call for Expressions of Interest

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) 2012
Call for Expressions of Interest

ANZAMEMS PATS Website

Deadline: Friday 30 March 2012

ANZAMEMS is committed to supporting postgraduates in medieval and early modern studies benefitting from specialist postgraduate advanced training seminars (PATS) and other opportunities that can assist in their development as researchers. For this reason, a fixed sum of money will be made available each year by the ANZAMEMS committee to support one PATS a year, to be held either in Australia or NZ. The organisers of a PATS will be responsible for determining how much of those funds can be used on travel bursaries, to be awarded to postgraduates who are members of ANZAMEMS.

Expressions of interest are invited to host an ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar in the second half of 2012. A sub-committee of the ANZAMEMS Committee will review the applications.

PATS aim to support the academic development of postgraduates by:

  • Creating opportunities for training in skills not normally provided by University departments;
  • Bringing early researchers into direct contact with both national and international experts in the field of medieval and early modern research;
  • Creating an environment in which early researchers can approach experienced scholars as role models and mentors;
  • Creating opportunities for early researchers to meet, to network, and to collaborate with others in their field in universities throughout New Zealand and Australia.

The format for PATS is flexible but the seminars are generally 2 or more days in duration and are organised primarily as a series of ‘masterclasses’; that is, discussions and seminars led by senior academic staff working in the field.

It is also encouraged that part of the seminar include a workshop in which students are invited to talk about their own current research or future projects (preferably with reference to current post-doctoral schemes in Australia and New Zealand).

Applying to host a PATS 

Expressions of interest should include:

  • Proposed title / skill area to be addressed
  • Name(s) of local presenters
  • Name(s) of international presenters (if applicable)
  • Proposed venue(s)
  • Proposed budget
  • A draft day-by-day plan of the event

For further information please contact:
Peter Anstey: peter.anstey@otago.ac.nz or Claire McIlroy: claire.mcilroy@uwa.edu.au

Expressions of interest should be sent via email to Claire McIlroy: claire.mcilroy@uwa.edu.au

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Travel Bursary Funding 2012 – Call For Applications

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Travel Bursary Funding 2012

In 2012, as part of its commitment to support postgraduate research, ANZAMEMS is offering $5000 for a round of postgraduate travel bursaries. Bursaries of up to $500 will be awarded for the purpose of attending a conference and presenting a paper.

Eligibility:

  • Open to currently enrolled postgraduates, and ECRs, within 2 years of award and not in full-time employment. 
  • Applicants must be financial members of ANZAMEMS.

Application process – applicants should submit (max of 5 pages):

  • A brief CV
  • Proof of eligibility (i.e. proof of enrolment)
  • Details of the conference and proof of acceptance of the applicant’s paper
  • A brief statement outlining benefit of conference to research/career
  • A brief budget of costs associated with attending conference
  • A statement of other sources of funding available (if applicable).
  • Applications should be forwarded to Lesley O’Brien, the Assistant Treasurer, at lesley.obrien@uwa.edu.au, by 30 March 2012.

Selection process:

  • Funding round advertised via the ANZAMEMS mailing list: 15 February 2012.
  • Due date for applications: 30 March 2012. 
  • Announcement of successful applicants: 15 April 2012. 
  • A sub-committee of the ANZAMEMS committee of three members will assess the applications. 
  • The Assistant Treasurer will also be on the sub-committee to coordinate the application and selection processes, communicate with applicants, and arrange payment of prizes. 
  • Priority will not necessarily be given to greater distance travelled, but the sub-committee will reserve the right to award smaller bursaries where distance travelled is relatively short.

Conditions:

  • Successful applicants are required to submit a brief report (1 page) no longer than 2 months after the  conference to the ANZAMEMS committee.
  • Applicants are also encouraged to develop their conference paper to be submitted as an article to Parergon.
  • In case of non-attendance at the conference, the applicant will be required to reimburse the bursary to ANZAMEMS within a reasonable timeframe.

    2013 CEMERS conference (SUNY): Boccaccio at 700 – Call For Papers

    Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
    Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)
    Binghamton University, State University of New York
    April 26-27, 2013

    Conference Website

    Abstract deadline: September 15, 2012

    Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) stands on the threshold between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a time of rapid transition in the political, economic, artistic, and literary realms, all of which were touched in some way by his legacy. In the course of his lifetime, Boccaccio was a merchant-banker, courtier, scribe, philologist, mythographer, geographer, literary scholar, social critic, lecturer, cleric, and ambassador of the Florentine republic, as well as fiction-writer, biographer, and poet. Boccaccio’s corpus of Latin and Italian texts offers a summa of established (classical, Christian, romance) genres and discourses, and at the same time anticipates many of the formal and topical innovations that emerged in early modern literatures and that remain evident in contemporary narrative genres. His substantial correspondence offers a window on the changing worlds of fourteenth-century Europe.
    In honor of the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth, the 2013 CEMERS conference at Binghamton University (SUNY) will provide an interdisciplinary forum in which to rethink all aspects of this last (but not necessarily least) of Italy’s three crowning writers, in order to re-contextualize and revitalize his place in history, as well as in the literary pantheon. Scholars who work in the wide variety of fields relating to the biography and texts of Boccaccio, as well as the history of late Medieval Europe, are invited to submit papers or session proposals on his life and his literary career, as well as on his texts and their reception in medieval, early modern, and modern culture.
    Of particular interest are papers and sessions that address Boccaccio’s texts—both Latin and vernacular—and their relation to:
    • Italian and European Humanism
    • The Angevin court of Naples
    • Northern Italian politics and relations among city-states
    • The history of the Church and the religious orders
    • Medieval mercantile practices and global trade
    • The study of gender and sexualities
    • Medicine and magic
    • Manuscript illumination and the other visual arts
    • Dante and Petrarch
    • Renaissance theatre and chivalric epic
    • The novella tradition
    • The emergence of narrative realism in fiction
    • Global literature, music, and cinema
    We hope to receive proposals that explore the intertextual networks that provided sources for Boccaccio’s Latin and Italian texts, as well as their subsequent global itineraries. We also invite submissions for papers and sessions that approach the Boccaccio corpus as source-material for historical inquiry, whether cultural or social.
    Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length and may be delivered in English or Italian. Send abstracts and brief CVs by September 15, 2012, to cemers@binghamton.edu. 

    Inquiries may be directed to Professors Olivia Holmes (oholmes@binghamton.edu) or Dana Stewart (stewart@binghamton.edu). We anticipate publishing a volume of selected conference proceedings.

    Journal of Early Modern Studies: Special Issue – Heuristic and Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science – Call For Papers

    The Journal of Early Modern Studies is seeking contributions for its second issue (Spring 2013). It will be a special issue, devoted to the theme:

    Creative experiments: Heuristic and Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science

    Editor: Dana Jalobeanu

    Deadline: 1st of October 2012

    The past decade has seen a renewed interest in multiple aspects of early modern experimentation: in the cognitive, psychological and social aspects of experiments, in their heuristic and exploratory value and in the complex inter-relations between experience, observation and experiment. Meanwhile, comparatively little has been done towards a more detailed, contextual and specific study of what might be described, a bit anachronistically, as the methodology of early modern experimentation, i.e. the ways in which philosophers, naturalists, promoters of mixed mathematics and artisans put experiments together and reflected on the capacity of experiments to extend, refine and test hypotheses, on the limits of experimental activity and on the heuristic power of experimentation. So far, the sustained interest in the role played by experiments in early modern science has usually centered on ‘evidence’- related problems. This line of investigation favored examination of the experimental results but neglected the “methodology” that brought about the results in the first place. It has also neglected the more creative and exploratory roles that experiments could and did play in the works of sixteenth and seventeenth century explorers of nature.

    This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies aims to bring together articles devoted to the investigation of particular cases of early modern experiments or early modern discussions of experimental methodology. We aim to put together a selection of interesting and perhaps relevant case studies that would further what might prove to be an interesting line of research, namely the investigation of the heuristic, analogical and creative role of early modern experiments.

    JEMS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It is edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern Thought”, University of Bucharest, and published and distributed by Zeta Books. For further information on JEMS, please visit: http://www.zetabooks.com/journal-of-early-modern-studies.html.

    We are seeking for articles no longer than 10,000 words, in English or French, with an abstract and key-words in English. Please send your contribution by the 1st of October 2012 to: jems@zetabooks.com.

    KITLV post-doctoral fellowship: Medical History in Early-Modern Southeast Asia – Call For Applications

    KITLV post-doctoral fellowship
    Medical History in Early-Modern Southeast Asia

    Closing date for applications: 1 May 2012

    Research focus

    KITLV has established a scholarship for the study of Early-Modern Southeast Asia (EMSA), which is roughly defined as the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the Age of Modern Imperialism, around 1870. KITLV is looking for a historian, specialized in Southeast Asian medical history, who will participate in the KITLV project History of Health, Disease and Medicine in Southeast Asia, starting 1 July 2012.

    Terms and conditions

    • KITLV invites scholars who have obtained a PhD to apply for this Postdoc position.
    • The beneficiary of an EMSA scholarship is expected to conduct his/ her project primarily at KITLV, and to prepare a substantial publication.
    • The fellowship is tenable for three months for Dutch scholars or six months for non-Dutch scholars.
    • In principle, candidates from outside the Netherlands will be expected to reside in the Netherlands during a period of 4 to 6 months.

    Supervision will be provided by Prof. Peter Boomgaard, senior researcher KITLV.

    Grant

    The fellowship amounts to:

    • three months at € 3,000 (maximum gross salary) for Dutch scholars (appointment).
    • six months at € 2,500 (stipend) per month and an economy class return ticket for non-Dutch scholars to KITLV, Leiden, the Netherlands.

    All expenditure will have to be covered from this sum, including local transport, housing, insurance, and research costs. The fellow will be given research and office facilities at KITLV, will have access to the collections, and is expected to participate in the researchers’ seminars.

    Invitation to apply

    Applications for the 2012 scholarship should include:
    • A Curriculum Vitae
    • A brief (2-3 page) research proposal
    • A proposed timetable

    Closing date for application

    Applications should be sent before 1 May 2012 to Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt, Head of Research at KITLV (schultenordholt@kitlv.nl).

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    Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group – 2012 Programme

    The Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group programme of events for 2012 has been announced.

    For more details on all events, including the previously mentioned UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XVIIIth Annual Conference, and to become a member please see the PMRG website.

    Members PMRG enjoy a reduced rate for attending the annual symposium, and receive notices of upcoming lectures, workshops, performances, and other items of interest via the email mailing-list.

    Summer School – Shakespeare and Philosophy – Call For Applications

    Shakespeare and Philosophy
    A Seminar with Simon Critchley
    June 30- July 7, 2012
    Tilburg University
    Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Summer School Website

    Whether tragical, comical, historical or lyrical, the vast human panorama of Shakespeare’s work raises many of the deepest and most enduring philosophical questions: knowledge versus skepticism, reality versus appearance, traditional virtue versus modern moral expediency, self versus other, being versus non-being. From Hegel to Cavell, Shakespearean texts have proven themselves to be decisive ways in which philosophy has come to understand itself and have provided a unique space in which to inform, influence and indeed challenge forms of philosophical understanding.

    Following on from the success of last year’s summer school ‘On the Tragic and its Limits’, which dealt with Attic tragedy and its philosophical interpretation from Plato to Heidegger, our focus will be the way in which Shakespeare allows us to locate the emergence of modern drama and indeed the phenomenon of modernity. As the young Schelling writes, ‘If our world were ever lost, one could recreate it from the series of Shakespeare’s works’.

    Simon Critchley will give a series of lectures on Hamlet which will deal with various ‘outsider’ interpretations of the play, notably those of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Schmitt, Benjamin and Lacan as well as providing a close textual engagement with the play itself. Although Hamlet and the other tragedies will provide a primary focus for discussion, applications are welcomed on any aspect of Shakespeare’s work and its philosophical purport or its challenge to philosophy. Indeed, we are particularly interested in the ways in which Shakespeare’s comedies, historical plays and poetry raise philosophical questions that might place in question the alleged philosophical primacy of the tragedies and the category of the tragic. We also welcome interpretations of Shakespeare that touch on psychoanalytic, political, legal and ethical themes.

    Eligibility:
    The Summer School is open to graduate students in philosophy and related disciplines. Some applications from selected advanced undergraduates will be considered.

    Deadline:
    The deadline for applications is March 16th, 2012. Applicants will be informed whether their application has been successful by early April.

    Applications can be sent by email to Mark Theunissen (theunm57@newschool.edu) or by regular mail to:

    Simon Critchley
    Department of Philosophy
    The New School for Social Research
    6 E16th Street, Rm. 1118, New York, NY 10003


    Please note, applications must include:

    • Current CV (max. 2 pages) Please be sure that your CV contains the relevant contact information.
    • Statement of purpose outlining how your attendance at the Summer School would benefit both the Summer School and your own research (max. 1 page)
    • Abstract of the paper you would like to present at the Summer School (if you wish to present a paper). (max. 300 words)