Subscriptions are now available for Volume 63 of the Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society. For the first time, the BBIAS will be available on CD or in the usual print version. Subscriptions will be a maximum of $AU25.00.
Those interested in joining the ANZ branch of the IAS are welcome to contact Professor Andrew Lynch to make the arrangements. Payment will be required by September 6.
Shakespeare Jahrbuch
Call For Papers
2014 Volume: “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 hisplays and poems and provide the sources for their imagery. The language of money permeates the language of love, and merchants and moneylenders shape the plots of the plays. “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 of these changes. At the same time, early modern poetry and drama are bound up with economic networks, the underlying power relations of patronage and the corporate structure of London´s theaters. 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:
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 see our website for more information. Please send your manuscripts (of about 6,000 words) to the editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting (email: sabine.schuelting@fu-berlin.de), by 31 March 2013.
Renaissance Men in the Middle Temple
Middle Temple Hall and Birkbeck College, London
1-2 February, 2013
Confirmed keynote speakers:
The four Inns of Court were, according to Ben Jonson, ‘the noblest nurseries of humanity’. All highly influential in terms of their members’ legal, political and artistic roles, the Middle Temple proved a particularly fertile context. At the end of Elizabeth’s reign especially, the Middle Temple saw many of its members involved in the creation, reception and development of literature and performance. Most importantly, perhaps, the Inn was a training ground for men who came to transgress and challenge societal norms, and whose future careers were to influence disparate areas of life, before, during and after the Civil War: from Sir John Davies’ work on dance, John Marston’s contribution to drama or Robert Cotton’s influence as an antiquarian to, in later years, the political impact of Henry Ireton or Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon.
The early modern Inns of Court have been the subjects of much recent academic work. Last year’s publications of The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court, edited by Archer, Goldring and Knight, and a History of the Middle Temple, edited by Richard Havery, as well as the 2010 appearance of the Inns of Court REED volume, edited by Alan Nelson, have significantly added to our understanding of the Inns and their interactions with many aspects of early modern culture.
As new volumes open up areas for future academic research, this conference gives the opportunity for established scholars, early career researchers, and post-graduate students, whose interests centre on this area, to contribute current work which focuses on the role of the Inns more broadly or more particularly on the Middle Temple. Papers which look at their subject in an inter-disciplinary way will be very welcome.
We plan a combination of academic conference and performance over the two days (involving reconstruction of drama, dance and music) and we invite submissions for a 20-minute paper or a workshop, on an aspect of the Inns of Court between 1580 and 1670. While topics which draw on the wider Inns are welcome, preference will be given to those which focus on the Middle Temple. Subjects might include, but are not limited to, the following:
Please send an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief biographical paragraph (up to 150 words) to Jackie Watson, Birkbeck College, at jwatso05@mail.bbk.ac.uk by Friday 12 October. We would also welcome joint submissions of 2-3 abstracts that could form a panel.
Medieval Celtic Law Texts: a framework for scholarly, legal and social development
University of Sydney Celtic Studies
University of Sydney – Woolley Common Room (John Woolley Building A20)
25-26 October, 2012
Conference registration is now open:
The conference fee is $150 Australian dollars for regular participants and $75 dollars for students and unwaged participants. For copies of the programme and the registration form, please contact Merrin Marks: merrinmez(at)gmail.com. It would be greatly appreciated if all attendees could forward their registration form and payment to be received by 19 October.
Just a quick reminder that the final deadline for abstract submission for the 2013 ANZAMEMS Conference: Cultures in Translation is: September 1 2012.
—-
Cultures in Translation
Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melbourne
12-16 February 2013
ANZAMEMS Conference Website
The conference seeks to explore the many varieties of translation at work in medieval and early modern studies. We invite papers which deal with diversity and change in areas such as language, culture, religion, space. We are interested in exploring both how medieval and early modern cultures understood translation, and how modern scholars make disciplinary, linguistic and social translations in their work. We encourage papers on these themes (and others pertaining to medieval and early modern studies), and papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers are especially welcome.
Abstract Submission Dates
For early acceptance: May 1 2012
Final deadline: September 1 2012
For more details about the ANZAMEMS conference please see this post and visit the conference website.
Trade, Travel and Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean
Third Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Churchill College, University of Cambridge (UK)
8-10 July, 2013
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Abstract deadline: 1st December 2012
The Society for the Medieval Mediterranean is proud to announce our forthcoming third biennial conference, with the theme of ‘Trade, Travel and Transmission’. This three-day inter-disciplinary conference will bring scholars together to explore the interaction of the various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of the medieval Mediterranean, a region which had been commonly represented as divided by significant religious and cultural differences. The objective of the conference is to highlight the extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people, goods and ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring cultures and societies.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers in the fields of archaeology, art and architecture, codicology, ethnography, history (including the histories of science, medicine and cartography), languages, literature, music, philosophy and religion.
Submission on the following topics would be particularly welcome:
Please send abstracts of no longer than 250 words, together with a short CV (max. 2 sides of A4) to Dr Rebecca Bridgman (University of Cambridge, Vice-President of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean) at the following e-mail: smmconference2013@gmail.com
Submission must be received by 1st December.
The call for 2013 ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Associate Investigators is now open.
Call Opens: 15 August 2012
Call Closes: 30 September 2012
The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions has a core goal to provide small grant support to scholars as Associate Investigators (AIs) conducting research that focuses on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-1800, or explores the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia.
The ARC CHE has a core goal to provide small grant support to scholars as Associate Investigators (AIs) conducting research that focuses on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-1800, or explores the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia. Topics should fit within our project areas: Meanings, Change, Performance and Shaping the Modern. Applicants from any relevant discipline are welcome. CHE’s website (www.historyofemotions.org.au) offers examples of the range of research already being undertaken.
Eligible applicants will:
For full details and to apply go to: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/get-involved/associate-investigators.aspx
University of Wollongong
Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 2013
The Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme was established to support outstanding early career researchers to undertake full-time research. Successful applicants will have a highly competitive track record relative to opportunity, and will propose an innovative program of research with the potential to make a significant contribution to the University’s research profile and priority research areas.
The Fellowships being offered in 2013 are:
All Fellowships are eligible for up to $10K/annum for research costs.
Applications must include:
Please contact Eve Steinke on 4221 4728, eves@uow.edu.au, or Rochelle Waren on 4221 4726, rwaren@uow.edu.au, if you have any queries.
Applications close on Tuesday 16th of October.
View this listing online: http://www.uow.edu.au/research/rso/grants/vcfellowships/index.html
This will be of interest to any Australian based researcher, whose work involves the study of medieval or early modern Japan:
The National Library offers annual Japan Study Grants under the auspices of the Harold S. Williams Trust Fund. The Japan Study Grants were established to support interstate scholars and researchers whose work would benefit from access to the Japan-related collections of the National Library. Grants are offered for periods of up to four weeks commencing in January each year.
The closing date for applications is 30 September.
Who can apply?
Japan Study Grants are open to postgraduate students, academic researchers, teaching staff and independent scholars in any discipline, based outside the Australian Capital Territory or Queanbeyan who can demonstrate a need to use the Library’s Japanese or Japan-related collections for their research. Priority consideration will be given to applicants from centres where there are few or no library resources in the Japanese language. Japan Study Grants are open to adults of any age and citizenship but applicants must be resident in Australia.
What assistance is offered?
Grant holders will receive an honorarium of $1,000 per week to cover accommodation and living costs in Canberra, together with a return economy class air fare or equivalent for travel between the grant holder’s home within Australia to Canberra. They will be provided with a desk in the Asian Collections reading room, access to the book stacks and free photocopying. International travel will not be funded.
Selection criteria:
The principle selection criteria are:
Priority consideration will be given to candidates:
For further information about the Japan Study Grants and to access the application form, see the Japan Study Grants page at the National Library of Australia website: http://www.nla.gov.au/japanese/study-grants
The Middle Ages in the Modern World
University of St Andrews, UK
25-28 June, 2013
A multidisciplinary conference on the uses and abuses of the Middle Ages from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
Provisional Keynotes:
Medievalism – the reception and adaptation of the politics, history, art and literature of the Middle Ages – has burgeoned over the past decade, and is now coming of age as a subject of serious academic enquiry. This conference aims to take stock and develop directions for the future. We hope to address questions such as:
Medievalists and modernists in all areas of the sciences and humanities, librarians, artists, curators are invited to submit proposals for papers, panels, public talks, exhibits, posters, concerts etc. The conference will be held during the climactic period of the University of St Andrews’s 600th anniversary celebrations.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Early bird proposals are welcome now to mamo@st-andrews.ac.uk to assist planning, any time before 31 August 2012.
Organisers: Dr Chris Jones, School of English and Dr Bettina Bildhauer, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews.