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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.