Monthly Archives: July 2013

Shakespeare Bulletin: Conference and special issue on Derek Jarman and the Renaissance – Call For Papers

Conference and special issue: Early Modern Jarman and Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014 will mark the twentieth anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death on 19 February 1994. To commemorate the artist’s life-long engagement with early modern drama and culture in his films, set designs, art and writing, Shakespeare Bulletin will be supporting a symposium on Early Modern Jarman. Scheduled for 1 February 2014 at King’s College, London, the symposium is jointly organised by Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter) and Gordon McMullan (King’s College, London).

Expressions of interest for participation in the symposium should be sent to Pascale Aebischer at sbeditor@ex.ac.uk and Gordon McMullan at gordon.mcmullan@kcl.ac.uk by 8 November 2013. Proposals from PhD students working in all appropriate fields (early modern studies, film studies, art history, etc.) are especially welcome.

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin, guest edited by Catherine Silverstone, is linked to the symposium and dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ We invite submissions on topics including Jarman as artistic polymath and ‘Renaissance man;’ Jarman’s adaptations and appropriations of early modern texts, images and historical figures, especially in relation to sexuality, gender, desire, disability, illness/wellness, HIV/AIDS, injury and trauma, national identity, punk, activism and politics; relationships between ‘the Renaissance’ and ‘the present;’ ‘the Renaissance,’ tradition and heritage.

Proposals of up to 300 words for 6000-word essays should be sent to the special issue guest editor, Catherine Silverstone, c.silverstone@qmul.ac.uk, by 8 November 2013.

CSAA Intermezzo Symposia – Call for Expressions of Interest

As an initiative to provide opportunities for collegiality and the sharing of ideas, the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia is calling for Expressions of Interest from collectives of scholars to conduct short 1-­2 day ‘Intermezzo’ Symposia to discuss and workshop themes, ideas and projects in Cultural Studies and cognate Humanities discipline areas. These Intermezzo Symposia will typically be organised around geographically situated groups of scholars, and will focus on initiatives, projects and other matters relevant to Cultural Studies from the ‘local’ perspective.

The Intermezzo Symposia may be joint-­sponsored events, but should carry an explicit Cultural Studies concern and benefit members of the CSAA. The Intermezzo symposia carry two distinct purposes:

  1. To promote and engage collegiality amongst Cultural Studies scholars in the Australasian region 
  2. To provide the opportunity for new ideas, developments and emerging projects to be discussed in a supportive environment

 
The Intermezzo Symposia preface the role of the Cultural Studies collegiate by enabling the sharing of ideas in a supportive and democratic way. Intermezzo Symposia are concerned with promoting Cultural Studies scholarship, whilst at the same time provoking a reflexive stance for the consideration of where Cultural Studies scholarship is positioned currently within the Academy, and the ways in which it might continue to form.

The intent of the Intermezzo is detailed in the “Intermezzo Structure and Guidelines” document available here.

A bursary of up to AU$2000 each for 3 separate events is available in 2013, with further events to be funded in the first half of 2014.

The purpose of the Intermezzo is to generate and maintain collegiality – so, if you have a network of colleagues and would like to host an event to discuss and further a project, initiative or similar, we encourage you to forward an expression of interest.

Expressions of interest using the form contained in the “Intermezzo Structure and Guidelines” document should be sent to the President of the CSAA, Andrew Hickey (Andrew.Hickey@usq.edu.au) by CoB 16th August 2013.

Society for Medieval Archaeology: PG Colloquium 2013 – Call For Papers

Society for Medieval Archaeology
PG Colloquium 2013
Aberdeen University
7-8 November, 2013

Colloquium Website

The SMA Colloquium provides a platform for postgraduates and early career professionals to share their research. Previous colloquiums have been held in Birmingham, Cambridge and Cardiff, organised by a local committee and our SMA student representative.

Papers from across the medieval period (5th-16th centuries AD) and from all geographical areas are welcomed. However, to reflect Aberdeen’s focus on the archaeology of the North we are particularly interested in talks on medieval archaeology that focus on the Northern Europe, for example the northern Britain, the Baltic region, Scandinavia and the North Atlantic region, and the first day of the conference will be set aside for papers on this theme. Papers from subjects other than archaeology, but which have a broader medieval significance, will also be considered. Abstracts for posters are also encouraged.

Abstracts should be written concisely in English (no more than 150 words) and sent to medieval.archaeology@googlemail.com by Friday 6th September. Please include 5-10 keywords with paper abstracts. Please note that papers will be 20 minutes in length with a 10 minute discussion for each session.

Presentations will be restricted to postgraduates and early career professionals but we welcome posters from all medievalists.

NB: This conference will be held in English.

Australian Early Medieval Association: Tenth Annual Conference – Call For Papers

From Byzantium to Clontarf: Emotional, Intellectual and Spiritual Perceptions in the Construction and Reception of the Early Medieval Past
The 10th conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association (AEMA)
Macquarie University, Sydney
7–8 February, 2014

AEMA’s 10th conference spans the eight centuries from late antiquity through to the twelfth century, extending from the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in the East to Ireland in the West, and all areas in between. Impressions of the early medieval world over this period and region are based on sources that capture the emotional, intellectual, cultural or religious perceptions and biases of their creators.

2014 marks the 1000th anniversary of two important early medieval battles, Clontarf in the West and Kleidion in the East. Accounts of events, including battles like Clontarf and Kleidion are often highly subjective and emotionally charged, while modern cultural, intellectual, political, and religious sentiments can influence our reading of sources and our perceptions of events of the early medieval past. These events can then sometimes take on new meaning or symbolism for later audiences, just as perceptions of the battles of Clontarf and Kleidion and their aftermath have shifted over the last millennium.

This conference invites papers that address the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, or cultural aspects of written and non-written sources of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods (c. 400–1150). Priority will be given to papers which relate to the conference theme but submissions related to any aspect of the early medieval world will be considered. Papers on the reception of events of this period by non-contemporary writers and artists are also welcome, particularly the role played by emotion, intellect, politics, culture, or religion in framing the ways in which societies or individuals view their past.

Abstracts of 250-300 words for 20-minute papers should be sent to conference@aema.net.au by 1 September 2013. Limited financial assistance may be available for post-graduates and early career researchers travelling interstate for this conference.

For more information, please contact the convenors, Janet Wade and Nicole Moffatt, at conference@aema.net.au.

For more information see: www.aema.net.au.

Society for Renaissance Studies 6th Biennial Conference – Call For Papers

“Performative Spaces”
Society for Renaissance Studies 6th Biennial Conference
University of Southampton
13-15 July, 2014

Conference Website

The conference theme is ‘Performative Spaces’. We invite Renaissance scholars from the disciplines of archaeology, architecture, history of art, history, history of science and medicine, literature, music, philosophy and other fields to submit proposals for panels (90 mins), and individual papers (20 mins), that engage with ‘Performative Spaces’:

  • as liturgical or religious performances;
  • by addressing the ways objects were intended to tell stories;
  • as processions, rituals, and ceremonies;
  • as houses, and through building design;
  • by exploring diplomatic and political spaces;
  • as actual and textual musical and dramatic performances;
  • through artistic representation;
  • as anatomies or scientific experiments;
  • through clothing or furniture;
  • as seascapes/ landscapes;
  • through the use of new technologies such as podcasts, blogs, twitter;
  • by addressing public engagement and pedagogy.

In addition there is an ‘Open Strand’ which welcomes proposals for panels or papers on any aspect of Renaissance studies.

Plenary lectures will be given by Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown), Sharon Strocchia (Emory), Simon Thurley (English Heritage),and Greg Walker (Edinburgh) and there will be workshops on publishing and research funding and tours of historic buildings around the city.

Proposals (max. 400 words) are welcome from both established scholars and postgraduates and they should be sent by Friday 27 September 2013 to the conference organizers:

UTAS – Professor/Associate Professor of Digital Humanities – Call For Applications

The University of Tasmania is seeking to appoint a Professor / Associate Professor to lead research, teaching and creative practice in digital humanities. The appointee will strengthen research leadership on the Launceston campuses, consolidate and grow existing research culture and facilitate interdisciplinary research with staff in the humanities, social sciences and other faculties.

Candidates will have a PhD and an international reputation in a relevant humanities discipline with successful research collaborations using digital media, strong commitment to effective research training and demonstrated success in generating funding from a range of sources. Proven leadership and effective relationship management skills are considered essential.

The closing date for applications is 11 October, 2013.

For full details and to apply, please visit this link.

Re-evaluating the Senses, Gender, and Performativity in Early Modernity – Call For Papers

Submissions are now being sought for a themed issue of the Open Arts Journal, for publication in 2014, entitled:

“Touch Me, Touch Me Not: Re-evaluating the Senses, Gender, and Performativity in Early Modernity”.

The issue will be edited by Erin E. Benay (Case Western Reserve University) and Lisa M. Rafanelli (Manhattanville College).

In recent years, numerous conference sessions and symposia and several excellent anthologies have addressed the role of the senses in the genesis and reception of Renaissance art. Much of the important work to have emerged from these conversations concerns the revaluing of the visual reception of art in the period and has suggested the importance of touch, hearing, and even smell and taste in the multi-sensory experience of early modern art. Building on this rich dialogue, this volume aims to explore the way the senses were evoked in devotional contexts, where questions of the validity of sensory experience were particularly contentious.

To augment the scholarship published in recent anthologies (edited by Bacci and Melcher, Sanger and Kulbrandstad Walker, and de Boer and Göttler) we seek new essays that privilege issues of gender and redress the supremacy of sight often assumed of the ocularcentric Renaissance. Such papers might suggest the importance of touch, hearing, smell and taste in the somaesthetic experience of early modern beholders. As Geraldine Johnson has so eloquently proposed, by revisioning Michael Baxandall’s famous “period eye,” we might, in fact, arrive at a more aptly described “period body.”

The Open Arts Journal is a peer-reviewed publication; for more information please visit the website www.openartsjournal.org

Please submit a title, 400-word abstract, and brief CV to eeb50@case.edu and Lisa.Rafanelli@mville.edu no later than July 30, 2013.

Fire Stories – Call For Papers

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800, and The University of Melbourne invite present a conference entitled Fire Stories.

It will address emotional responses to fires in literature and history, looking particularly at how the fleeting destruction of a blaze is conveyed in narrative terms.  Participants will be invited to consider a dialogue between ancient and modern representations of fire (including the mythical) and the affective responses that they evoke. Speakers are also encouraged to address the role that fictional representations of burning landscapes or cityscapes can play in the aftermath of a major disaster.

For more details please visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/fire-stories.aspx

Please send abstracts to: fire-stories@unimelb.edu.au by no later than August 31st 2013.


Please note that the conference will incorporate a symposium to be convened by the Australian Centre, On Species: Narrative, Indigeneity, Ecology. This symposium will take place on Wednesday December 4 and a program will be released in due course.Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Ursula Heise (UCLA).

British Library – eBook Treasures

The British Library’s eBook Treasures series allows users to explore some of the British Library’s most treasured manuscripts in detail, together with text, video and audio interpretation. Developed with Armadillo Systems, eBook Treasures are viewable in full-screen high-definition, with realistic page-turning capabilities and, once downloaded, can be read offline. They can be read on the iPad, iPhone (3GS and 4) and iPod Touch (3rd and 4th generations). Additionally the series is now available as a Windows 8 app. It can be found in the Windows Store, under Books and Reference.

For more information about the series, including a full list of published titles, please visit: http://www.ebooktreasures.org

Professor Louis Charland – Psychiatry and the Passions lecture

University of Sydney Lecture
“Psychiatry and the Passions”, Professor Louis Charland (University of Western Ontario)

Date: July 12, 2013
Time: 11am-1pm
Venue: Rogers Room, Woolley Buildin, University of Sydney
Enquiries: Ursula Potter: ursula.potter@sydney.edu.au
Stephen Touyz: stephen.touyz@sydney.edu.au

Once a major posit of the psychopathology of affectivity, the passions have completely vanished from Western psychiatry. Yet there was a time when the passions reigned supreme, not only in the psychopathology of affectivity, but also in psychiatry generally. Indeed, many of the great pioneers of psychiatry, figures like Philippe Pinel, Sir Alexander Crichton, and Jean-Etienne Esquirol, believed that the passions played a fundamental role in the genesis and nature of mental illness. In this presentation, we examine medical highlights of the history of passion and emotion and then consider several arguments why the passions must be reinstated in Western psychiatry. The passions, it turns out, are not only central constituents of any adequate theory of long-term motivation, but also a precious example of why it is so important to resist the reductionist pressures of our current, predominantly cognitive, psychiatric culture.

Louis Charland is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, a joint appointment with the Faculty of Health Sciences and a cross appointment in the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Western Ontario. Professor Charland was previously a member of the Biomedical Ethics Unit and the Clinical Trials Research Group in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Montreal.