Daily Archives: 26 July 2012

Two research fellowships – ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (University of Melbourne) – Call for Applications

Postdoctoral Fellow – ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
(Position No. 0029497) 
Level A
Salary: $59,646 – $80,939 p.a.
Superannuation Employer contribution of 17%
Full time fixed-term position available for 3 years.

In collaboration with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, the Centre seeks to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to contribute to research projects in the history of emotions (Europe,1100-1800). Working together with Professor Charles Zika and the Change Program of the Centre, the successful candidate will develop a project exploring the emotions created through practices of exclusion and rejection in early modern Europe. The project will explore the role played by such emotions as disgust, hate, fear and jealousy in rejecting, denouncing, excluding, vilifying and demonizing particular individuals and groups perceived as threats to the integrity, solidarity or ‘purity’ of community within Europe (excluding Iberia) in the period 1450 to 1700. It will especially focus on the religious language, images, symbolism and rituals that supported such practices, and served to drive historical change. The position will extend and complement a similar Centre project being conducted at the University of Adelaide, which focuses on Iberia.

In addition to publishing his or her own research in this area, the Fellow will collaborate in jointly-authored publications and be involved fully in the life of the Centre. The Fellow will also assist with the co-ordination of relevant symposia and engage in public outreach. There is an expectation that the postdoctoral fellow will be involved in some Honours/postgraduate supervision or teaching, but this is primarily a research-only position.

Benefits include 17% superannuation and generous leave provisions; generous funds for research travel; contribution to relocation expenses. These and other benefits will be specified in the offer of employment.

Online applications are preferred. Go to www.jobs.unimelb.edu.au and use the Job Search screen to find the position by title or number.

For more details and to view this listing online: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=825274&sReferrer=home&lApplicationSubSourceID=&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&sJobNo=0029497&lCategoryID=&sKeywords=0029497&lPayScaleID=&stp=AW&sLanguage=en

Contact for enquires only:
Professor Charles Zika,
Tel: +61 3 8344 5504
Email: c.zika@unimelb.edu.au

Senior Research Fellow/Principal Research Fellow – ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 
(Position No. 0029496) 
Senior Research Fellow – Level C or Principal Research Fellow – Level D
Salary: $104,370 – $120,344 p.a. – Level C or $125,670 – $138,449 p.a. – Level D (Level of appointment is subject to qualifications and experience).
Superannuation Employer contribution of 17%
Full-time fixed term position available for 4-5 years, to be agreed with the successful candidate.

In collaboration with the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne, the Centre seeks to appoint a Senior Research Fellow to a four- or five-year research appointment in one of its four research programs, “Shaping the Modern.” Working with the program convenor, Professor Stephanie Trigg, the successful candidate will develop a multi-disciplinary research project or projects that extend the Centre’s research in the period 1100-1800 into the modern era, with a special emphasis on Australia’s relationship with its European emotional past. In addition to publishing his or her own research, the Fellow will collaborate in jointly-authored publications and be involved fully in the life of the Centre, its networks and activities. He or she will assist with the co-ordination of relevant symposia and publications for the Centre’s Melbourne node, and be willing to engage in public outreach activities. The Fellow will also be expected to take on some research supervision of graduate students in the School of Culture and Communication or the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. Candidates should have experience of multi-disciplinary research, and some familiarity with the different theoretical approaches and research methods relevant to the history of emotions.
There may be opportunities to undertake a small amount of graduate-level teaching, but this is primarily a research-only position. Additional funding for travel and research support (approx. $16,000 p.a.) will also be available.

Online applications are preferred. Go to www.jobs.unimelb.edu.au and use the Job Search screen to find the position by title or number.

For more details and to view this listing online: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=825263&sReferrer=home&lApplicationSubSourceID=&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&sJobNo=0029496&lCategoryID=&sKeywords=0029496&lPayScaleID=&stp=AW&sLanguage=en

Contact for enquires only:
Professor Stephanie Trigg
Tel: +61 3 8344 5504
Email: sjtrigg@unimelb.edu.au

Australian Academy of the Humanities 43rd Annual Symposium

Challenging (the) Humanities
Australian Academy of the Humanities 43rd Annual Symposium
Parramatta campus of the University of Western Sydney
15-16 November 2012

Symposium website

The Australian Academy of the Humanities 43rd Annual Symposium will be held at the Parramatta campus of the University of Western Sydney, 15-16 November 2012. Convened by Professor Tony Bennett FAHA and hosted by the Institute for Culture and Society, the theme for this year’s symposium is ‘Challenging (the) Humanities’.

The humanities are currently presented with a rare combination of intellectual challenges: changing policy environments and priorities necessitate new styles of thought and intervention; the still-unfolding financial crises urges a rethink of the economy and the interdisciplinary issues at stake in its investigation; there is increasing emphasis on the role played by material forces – technologies and infrastructures – in organising social life; and new cross-disciplinary concerns have been prompted by post-humanist perspectives and the environmental challenges presented by the conception of the anthropocene.

The humanities have responded vigorously to these changing contexts. New paradigms for critical thought and its modes of social and political engagement have resulted in significant challenges to purely scientific, technocratic or economistic framings of policy challenges and solutions. Significant theoretical innovations and new research orientations have illuminated the role of ‘things’ in social life while also rethinking the concepts of matter and materialism. Humanities scholarship has brought new light to bear on the ways in which the human is always shaped by its relations to the non-human in its environmental, technical and animal forms. The increasingly prominent role of Indigenous perspectives in Australian intellectual life has prompted widespread recognition of the relevance of Indigenous knowledges to the practices of Australian universities.

The Academy’s 43rd Annual Symposium will debate the contemporary challenges that face the humanities and the challenging responses that these have elicited.

Speakers:

  • Professor Kay Anderson FASSA, University of Western Sydney
  • Associate Professor Susan Green, University of New South Wales
  • Dr Martijn Konings, University of Sydney
  • Professor Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Associate Professor Tess Lea, University of Sydney
  • Dr Jane Lydon, Monash University
  • Professor Stephen Muecke FAHA, University of New South Wales
  • Professor Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney
  • Associate Professor Christopher Otter, Ohio State University
  • Professor Paul Patton FAHA, University of New South Wales
  • Associate Professor Irene Watson, University of South Australia
  • Professor Gillian Whitlock FAHA, University of Queensland
  • Dr Asmi Wood, Australian National University

A draft programme of events can be found at the symposium website.