Monthly Archives: July 2012

Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2014: “Money and Power” – Call For Papers

The 2014 volume of Shakespeare Jahrbuch will be a special issue devoted to “Money and Power”.

Karl Marx thought that “Shakespeare excellently depicted the real nature of money”. Indeed, money plays a central role in Shakespeare’s works: monetary transactions and the exchange of goods, bonds and loans, greed and expenditure, wealth and debt are themes of his plays and poems and provide the sources for their imagery. The language of money permeates the language of love; purses and coins circulate and merchants and moneylenders shape the plot: “To be or not to be” is determined by assets and economic transactions. The shepherd Corin in As You Like It is well aware that “he that wants money, means and content is without three good friends”, and yet wealth is not always a blessing in Shakespeare. His plays react to the economic upheavals in early modern times and they interrogate the inherent moral, religious and political implications. Early modern poetry and drama are simultaneously bound up in economic networks and the underlying power relations of patronage and the corporate structure of London’s theatres.

Analyzing the relationship between “money and power” in Shakespeare is particularly pertinent at a time when debt crises, the influence of financial markets and the divide between rich and poor dominate world politics.

The editorial board of Shakespeare Jahrbuch invites essays on the following topics:

  • Money and power in Shakespeare’s plays
  • Representations of poverty and wealth
  • The circulation of money and goods on the early modern stage
  • Shakespeare and the debate on usury
  • Money and love – monetary and affective economies
  • Shakespeare’s negotiation of early modern economic discourses
  • Shakespeare’s theatre as big business
  • Shakespeare in Political Economy
  • Shakespeare and the debt crisis

Shakespeare Jahrbuch, the Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society, is a peer-reviewed journal. It offers contributions in German and English, scholarly articles, an extensive section of book reviews, and reports on Shakespeare productions in the German-speaking world. It also documents the activities of the Shakespeare Society.

Papers to be published in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch should be formatted according to our style sheet.

Please send your manuscripts (of about 6,000 words) to the editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting (email: sabine.schuelting@fu-berlin.de), by 31 March 2013.

ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions: Early Career International Research Fellowships Program – Call For Applications

ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800): Early Career International Research Fellowships Program

As part of its international research collaboration, CHE will fund excellent international Early Career Researchers in the field to visit one or more of the Australian nodes for a period of two months, to work with members of the Centre on a research program of their choice Since the object of the Early Career International Research Fellowships is primarily to promote collaborative research, the Fellows will not be required to undertake any undergraduate teaching, but will be required to deliver at least one paper or lecture. The Fellow will be provided with a return airfare from their home to Australia, accommodation and a daily living allowance for their stay in Australia, and travel between Australian nodes of the Centre.

Intending applicants are eligible to apply if they:

  1. Hold a doctorate in a relevant field of study, gained in the period 2004-2012.
  2. Are based at a university outside Australia (note: this includes Australian citizens currently working at universities outside Australia).

CHE is now issuing a call for applications for Early Career International Research Fellowships, to be taken over the period 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2014. Applicants should provide:

An up-to-date academic CV of no more than 6-pages. Note: applicants’ research track records will be judged strictly relative to opportunity.

  1. A description, no longer than one A4 page, of the proposed research to be undertaken during the Fellowship, including a statement of how the research relates to the Centre’s overall research into the history of emotions in Europe 1100-1800, and the proposed outcomes of the research (e.g. draft of an article, perhaps jointly authored with one or more CHE member(s), development of further research interchange and collaboration activities, and so on). It is expected that CHE support would be acknowledged in any publication deriving from the Fellowship.
  2. The name(s) of CHE staff with whom the applicant wishes to collaborate, the preferred dates of the fellowship, and the preferred ‘home’ university for the duration of the visit.
  3. The names and contact details of two referees.

Applications should preferably be sent via email to: Dr Tanya Tuffrey, Centre Manager: tanya.tuffrey@uwa.edu.au
Or mailed to:
ARC CoE for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)
Faculty of Arts
University of Western Australia
M201 / 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009
Attention: Dr Tanya Tuffrey

Closing date: 20 August 2012

For further information on the Centre’s research programs and projects, please contact the Centre Director: Professor Philippa Maddern: philippa.maddern@uwa.edu.au.

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies – Call For Papers

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Call for Papers: General Issue
Volume 8, number 1 (2012)
Journal Website

Submission Deadline for Vol. 8, no. 1: 15 August 2012

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past. Published semiannually, the journal collects exceptional examples of work by graduate students on any theme, discipline, subject, and period of medieval studies. We also welcome book reviews of monographs published or re-released in the past five years that are of interest to medievalists.

Our upcoming issue will be published in the autumn of 2012, and we are now accepting submissions on any topic of medieval studies. Possible topics may be drawn from any discipline: history, art history, archaeology, literature, linguistics, music, theology, etc. Work from every interpretive angle is encouraged – memory, gender, historiography, medievalism, consilience, etc. Most importantly, we seek engaging, original work that contributes to our collective understanding of the medieval era.

Contributions should be in English and roughly 6,000 – 12,000 words, including all documentation and citational apparatus; book reviews are typically between 500-1,000 words but cannot exceed 2,000. All notes must be endnotes, and a bibliography must be included; submission guidelines can
be found on our website: www.hortulus-journal.com.

Contributions may be submitted to hortulus@hortulus-journal.com and are due August 15, 2012.

Queries about submissions or the journal more generally can also be sent to this address.

Tales After Tolkien: Medievalism and Twenty-First Century Fantasy Literature – Call For Papers

Tales After Tolkien: Medievalism and Twenty-First Century Fantasy Literature
Panel at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo
May 9-12, 2013 
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress

For a work of contemporary fantasy literature to be compared with those of J. R. R. Tolkien can be either compliment or condemnation; the juxtaposition might suggest a major, original contribution to the genre or imply a work is merely derivative. Yet if Tolkien had one of the first words on fantasy and medievalism he did not have the last. Author Steven Erikson recently described himself and other writers of epic fantasy as “post-Tolkien” in The New York Review of Science Fiction and lamented the tendency of some scholars to not realise that “we’ve moved on.”

This panel seeks papers which explore the ways in which twenty-first century fantasy literature deploys ‘the medieval’ with all its relics, forms and incarnations. Papers may or may not directly contrast and compare with Tolkien’s practice. The panel asks, for example, how contemporary trends in technology, society, politics, and culture intersect with and influence contemporary writers, readers, and critics in their re-imaginings of medieval material. Are there shifts in the genre as a whole? Tolkien drew largely on the European Middle Ages as do his imitators; is this changing as Eurocentric views become increasingly problematic and the world is ever more globalised? How do technological developments and the explosion of multi-media fantasy products including film, television and video-gaming engage with literature? How do representations of race, gender, and class intersect with medievalism in contemporary fantasy? Is the idea of an ‘authentic’ Middle Ages important? How do writers research the past and approach their sources? Papers which address these or any other topic related to the theme of the panel are invited. They might address short stories, novels, comics and graphic novels, series, authors and/or their oeuvres, or the genre as a whole, as well as adaptations for or from film, tv, gaming, and fandoms including fan-fiction.

Please send a 250-300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper, and a brief biography, to the organizer, Dr Helen Young by 1st September 2012.

Abstracts are best emailed to Helen.young@sydney.edu.au but may also be posted to Helen Young, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

ESRA Conference: Shakespeare and Myth – Call For Papers

European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference
“Shakespeare and Myth”
Montpellier, France
26-29 June, 2013

Conference Website

List of Seminars:

  1. Early Modern Nature: Shakespeare, Science and Myth
  2. The Early Modern Reception of Shakespeare in Print and Manuscript: The Rise of Shakespearean Cultural Capital?
  3. Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance
  4. “Myth” in Relation to Truth, fable, history, legend, folklore
  5. Myth, Romance and Historiography
  6. Mythical Performance and its Afterlife
  7. Mythologies of Childhood
  8. Protean Shakespeare: Adapting, Tradapting, Performing Early Modern Plays
  9. Shakespeare and Classical Mythology: European Perspectives
  10. Shakespeare, Myth and Asia
  11. Shakespeare and the Myth of the Feminine
  12. The Shakespeare Myth Reloaded: Demythologizing and Re-mythologizing Shakespeare Today
  13. Staging the Shakespeare Myths, 2000-2012
  14. Translating Myths and Mythologizing Translations

Please submit an abstract (200-300 words) and a brief bio (150 words) by 1 October 2012 to the convenors of the seminar you choose. Full details of all seminars and contact details for seminar convenors can be found on the website. All participants will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by 1 November 2012. The deadline for accepted seminar participants to send their completed paper is 1 April 2013. Information about plenaries, registration costs and other practical aspects will be given in due course.